Quotes by Sri M

“When the breath is slow, prana is slow. When prana is slow, the mind is slow. When Prana is very quiet then the mind becomes absolutely quiet. In that quietness comes the understanding of your real...”

“There is a very intimate link between Shvasa, the breath and Prana, the life energy. You cannot deal with Prana directly but you can deal with Shvasa. When you say Pranayama, you are dealing with t...”

“Shruti means that the  Vedas are heard and not written, studied and interpreted, So, when the rishi, the teacher said something and the student listened to it with an open mind, it registered immed...”

“The Yoga Shastras are those that are used to prepare the mind to understand the deeper mysteries of life.  Without them, the mind is too dull or insensitive to understand the deeper aspects of spir...”

“When the ordinary mind is not interfering in the observation, then you actually see what it is.  The Upanishads say That is all pervading. It means every unit everywhere is part of the whole, it’s ...”

“The full process of meditation is to disengage the mind from its engagement with the ordinary. Sri M's Quotes are now available in regional languages as well. To receive them every morning, please ...”

“Today, we have a frontal brain civilisation. The process of Yogic understanding is; apart from the ordinary and the limited centres of the brain we use for living, there are unlimited numbers of ce...”

“We actually don’t know what the world is. We look at only the impressions that the sense organs give us.  What we know is the image of objects we get before us through our limited sense organs. Sri...”

“We all begin with the thinking that we know everything. But unless we accept that ‘we don’t know,’ we may not find anything. Sri M's Quotes are now available in regional languages as well. To recei...”

“Non-violence means the attitude of not causing injury to anyone, it need not even be physical. Mind injuries are sometimes more powerful than physical injury. Sri M's Quotes are now available in re...”

“Yama-Niyamas are ground rules and regulations to be followed before you practice anything else. And the rule is very simple, moderation in all life-activities. Not too much or too little. Sri M's Q...”

“In the Yoga Sutras, Kaivalya Pada is when the mind of the Yogi, free of all distractions, all contradictions, all tensions, reaches a state of complete freedom, where it sees only one consciousness...”

“Through the practice of Yoga, one develops one pointedness. One develops a mind that is not distracted, and therefore one develops extraordinary energy and alertness. Sri M's Quotes are now availab...”

“The snake is a symbol of ancient wisdom. It’s a sign of the energy that moves in the human system and takes you to upper levels of consciousness and so on. Sri M's Quotes are now available in regio...”

“According to Yoga, it’s only when you have a tranquil, quiet and alert mind that it is possible to go beyond and touch That which is the source of thought, from where everything begins and in which...”