Sri M said...
When the mind expands, one of the qualities that arises is kindness, and wanting to share what you have experienced.
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When the mind expands, one of the qualities that arises is kindness, and wanting to share what you have experienced.
If you work for and serve those who are less privileged than you are, that’s the meditation that is required in the outside modern world.
It is the same antaryami who is in all human beings, and therefore when you serve somebody, it's worship.
What seva can you do? Those who are suffering, help them come out of it. And also tell them that ultimately to get free of this suffering, is to find the Truth.
The most important part of the Karmic theory is what you do now, is what you get later. You cannot go back to the past and tinker with it. If you put your attention into the present with full atten...
The title of this book, 'The Friend', suggested itself quite naturally, and is a reflection of Sri M’s own personality as well as his approach. He says, 'I have to make friends with someone before ...
Only when you put self-effort, does grace come.
You know it’s not the fear of death that normally makes us unhappy. Fear is that when I die, I will have to let go and leave all the things that I love, which I think are precious.
Sometimes you should sit quietly and say to yourself – when everything is lost, what is going to happen to me? Then when you learn to die while you’re still alive, death loses its sting.
Slowly when you begin to find out that you’re not just the body but could be something else, then you’ll see that slowly your attachment to the body begins to loosen itself.
If somebody is selling a shortcut, run away because you’ll lose your money and you’ll waste your time.
When you say Guru, it means a teacher in all ways; could be a small child who teaches you innocence of childhood, it could be a philosophical teacher who teaches you the Upanishads, they are all Gu...