Quotes by Sri M

“The lotus grows best in muddy water but when it blooms it is pure and clean. Even if you put a drop of water on it, that does not stick but flows down. Live like that in the world; be pure, don't l...”

“Spiritual Truth or Spiritual Understanding is not an exclusive, hidden 'mumbo jumbo' behind the closed doors. It is as open and as beautiful as the Sun that shines.”

“All ideas of being trapped and wanting to break free are three-dimensional, built from imperfect data fed by the senses. Solutions begin to appear when one understands even a little bit that there ...”

“Stillness comes and when it comes, then you are in it. When it goes, nothing can be done about it. To understand that one cannot do anything about it, is humility and worship.”

“Let us not get caught in forms. There is no difference between form and no-form here. The energy is everywhere, the wind, the earth, the plants, in the growing and becoming of the plant. All this i...”

“The Ultimate Reality is the real guru. No personality is involved. meditate on the feet of the guru, the padukas. Keep the padukas inside your heart. Then you close your eyes and touch your heart w...”

“Without deep feeling nobody would even step into spiritual enquiry. Feeling is known in Sanskrit as bhava. Bhava matures as we progress in meditation and on the spiritual path that feeling, that on...”

“Bhakti, the highest state of bhava, is when you declare that ‘I am completely helpless, so please take over.’ It’s all in God’s hands. We realize that however much we think we can, we are truly hel...”

“Certain great sufis and bhaktas like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu have said that the bhava is even more important, more valuable and more enjoyable than the fulfilment of the bhava. One story is that Chait...”

“When a devotee who is totally absorbed in singing the names or the glories of God in whatever form they have selected, the meditation is automatic, because the mind is automatically diverted toward...”

“In bhakti yoga, when japa is to be done, one conceives of a lotus or a flower, or a light in the centre of one’s chest or heart, and then, one invites that form of God that one has selected, to com...”

“We cannot maintain silence. It comes and goes on its own. The moment you try to retain it, there is conflict. When it comes, enjoy it, live with it. When it goes, leave it. Don’t even try to hold i...”

“Early morning is good for meditation. The earlier the better because things are quiet and activity has not started yet. The only sounds you hear may be the birds chirping outside, which is nice. If...”

“There are serious people who look at the world and see how temporary things are. They begin to wonder, ‘Is there something beyond all this?’ Then they go to teachers, read books, read scriptures. T...”

“What I’m trying to say is that sometimes, what you think is ‘misfortune’ is actually fortune which comes in the garb of misfortune. Only then do you begin to think seriously, ‘Where am I going?’, ‘...”