Quotes by Sri M

“We can go anywhere but we carry our mind with us. We can’t escape from the mind. So, face it, examine it, look at it and handle it. It’s only then you get over it.”

“Anyone who has touched the amrita, even a drop of it, or half a drop of it, becomes so intoxicated and filled with the joy of Shivam, that nothing else is an attraction to him.”

“Let us not think that we cannot do much – let us say, ‘let us do something,’ And that ‘something’ should start in here, in the heart.”

“Inner growth is reflected and is shown by the way we act and behave with people who are close to us – when we reflect this, not what we wish to project.”

“A spiritual being is one who keeps doing his work, not worrying too much about the results. You need to have a goal, but if it doesn't work, move forward, don’t hang on to that.”

“Every day is a new day. It's not as if you have discovered, and you're finished, and it's gone. Every day there is an unveiling happening and it happens in different ways.”

“The human brain somehow seems to be wired for spiritual experience. Certain centers in the brain become active when you are in deep meditation. These are the centers that yoga and Vedanta have talked about.”

“Can there be knowledge of that which ‘Is’? When we try to understand this with our conditioned brain, we gain the insight that all things one gathers in one’s head are a memory. And if it is a memory, it is something in the past, and if it is something in the past, it cannot be the reality that is always the present.”

“In your relationship with the spiritual teacher, please be frank, truthful and clear. Don’t try to bluff, because it does not work. The teacher may not tell you so, but he knows and understands. So, be very frank.”

“Every day when you wake up in the morning, or go to bed at night, look at yourself and say, ‘where am I, what am I doing? How many falsities are still in my life? Am I really doing my sadhana sincerely?’ People say - I don’t have time. We have time for everything else. The fact is that urgency for sadhana has not arrived.”

“While we practice our sadhana, if we sometimes get some powers, see lights or hear sounds, do not think that God is going to come! There are many people who have many powers, but have not yet had the darshan of the Lord. It is not the same; it could also be separate. There may be someone who shows no capacity for the so-called ‘siddhis’, but might have had the darshan of the Lord.”

“Satsang is critical because you become the company you keep. If I live with people who talk about the Truth or want to find out what it is; who do japa and kirtan and bhajan, then I will become like them in due course. It may take time. If I continue to live with people who are planning which drink to have next, I will become like that. It is but natural.”

“Sai Baba of Shirdi would say ‘Allah Malik Hai,’ or ‘Ram, Ram’ when people went to him with their problems. No one could say whether he was a Muslim, Hindu, or a Christian. His basic message was to unite, to bring people together, because Allah and Ram to Him were the same, though we call God by different names.”

“When I wake up in the morning, the first thing that I recognise is that I exist. And then the world exists. I see everything around. But that first feeling that ‘I am’, that awareness that ‘I am consciousness’ bereft of ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’ in its pure form is what we mean by the ‘atman’.”

“Experiencing life through the sorrows and pleasures, the pains and happiness that the body and the mind go through, one evolves into a better and cleaner entity before it touches a level that cannot even be called human, but divine.”