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Sri M met with the Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi in Bengaluru on 3rd April, 2015. At their meeting in Raj Bhavan, Bengaluru, Sri M briefed the Prime Minister on the Walk of Hope initiative, its ...
We have not changed. You see, the way of doing things has been polished and perfected. This is what intellectual life has taken us to. We have found medicines for diseases; but we haven’t found med...
Those who have transcended the external rites of religion should begin to look within to find the true essence. This is very essential because without the true essence, sometime or the other, the e...
In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge is mentioned as ‘vidya’ and has been divided into ‘Para-vidya’ and ‘Apara-vidya’. In ‘Apara vidya’, all the Vedas and Ved-angas like astronomy, grammar and so on...
We are either full of our own thoughts or our own prejudices. We are full of what others have taught us or what has been crammed into our brain. There is no space, it is filled to the brim.And if y...
Most of the time, we spend all our energies on worrying about the failure. If we could only just brush it out and retain our energies, we could move forward and look to fresher avenues. A mind that...
One must understand perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or allow the mind to settle down, to become still and not get caught up in the confusion of this or that or thi...
To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question, “Who am I?” have found that as they begin to enquire into the origin of the ‘I’, the little...
As one advances in ‘sadhana’, the primary thing one develops is compassion. There are people who do not even believe in God but they feel for others so much that they are ready to sacrifice their l...
Blankness is very frightful for us. This is so because the mind thinks it will lose its hold, that we will soon be free of it. It is the tendency of the mind to bind and when we are shaking ourselv...
Moksha means to be totally free. To be completely happy, without depending on anything in the outside world. It is ‘moksha’—not being ensnared by any desire. Therefore, the natural corollary to it ...
The central message is that, there is only One Supreme Being and that Supreme Being resides in the hearts of all. He is the ‘Antaryami’ - residing in the heart of all beings. By living a righteous ...