Quotes by Sri M

“As you have to put energy in your own life in different ways, in the same way, you have to put in your own effort in the spiritual field too, to walk on the path.”

“Babaji, my Master used to say, 'it’s ok if other people are thinking various things about you, If you start believing what they are thinking about you, you are lost! You are sunk.'”

“The Buddhists say, 'one who has walked across or gone beyond' is called a 'Bodhi', one who has the ‘Bodh'. 'Gate gate para gate para sam gate bodhi svaha ' - May I also be like that ‘Bodhi'.”

“The spiritual path nearly always, except in cases of certain gifted individuals born with spiritual faculties, requires a guide.  Because we are largely walking on unexplored territory,  it's not a...”

“Swami Vivekananda said, 'Don't go and preach religion to a hungry man. Feed him first.  His religion, for the time being, is food.'”

“Don’t run away from the battle. You cannot run away anywhere.  Stay and fight it out but do it with love, affection and understanding.”

“When we are caught up with various things which we consider or think or imagine to be spiritual, then we usually miss the main path to the Real.”

“What we see is not real and therefore we need to touch something which is Real, and move from the unreal to the Real - Asatoma sadgamaya.”

“When Kabir Das wove, everyone thought he was weaving cloth.  Actually, he  was weaving from the warp of love and weft of devotion.”

“There is nothing wrong in maintaining a comfortable existence on this earth. But while you are here, try to understand that this is temporal,  it is here today and gone tomorrow.”

“Love is an all inclusive panacea for all ills. It means utter selflessness, not love for your own sake but love for the sake of love. This is very rare.”

“The Upanishad is the understanding of the Truth and meditation or sadhana is the practice by which you experience what you have understood. These are linked together.  ”

“The mind cannot be in a vacuum. So if you don’t want the mind to be occupied by the outside world with its distractions and disturbances, engage it in something within. The easiest and the best way...”

“This happiness which you seek is not something outside. It is right inside - you just have to turn, reverse your search and look within. ”

“Devotion is spontaneous. We can teach all the ways leading to it but what it is, can’t be taught. Suddenly, the seed sprouts; we don’t know how. It sprouts in different ways for different people.”