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Every one of us, although we say we are looking for this or that, is looking for philosophy or welfare. What we are really looking for is happiness.

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There is this famous story derived from the couplet of Kabir Das, about the Kasturi Mriga. There is a kind of deer with a little pouch near its tail, in which Kasturi musk is produced. In the breed...

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One who’s on the spiritual journey should not cry over what he loses. What is lost may be the stepping-stone to the ultimate goal — communion with the Supreme Being.

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One of the greatest obstacles to Truth is sloth. Swami Vivekananda realized this and implemented its removal in his own life. He said one couldn’t meditate 24 hours a day; therefore, the next best ...

Journey with Sri M during Mambazhakkalam

It was the month of May- that time of the year when Summer makes himself most comfortable in the city of Chennai and continues to stay on for several months through the year, compelling its residen...

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Look at a river, it furrows through the sand, on both sides there are banks. It builds its own banks. Oh it floods sometimes but that does not mean that you can freeze it and hold it in one place. ...

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As you read the Upanishads, you will find in many places, that the seeker of the truth is addressed ‘Satya Kama’. It could be a name, but then Sanskrit is an ancient language and every name has a m...

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The experience of happiness is innate, not in the object that I enjoy. The object may although be necessary to excite it or bring it out. Therefore, Vedanta says: the source of all happiness is wit...

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"Sat-chit-ananda" is a three-syllable word— ‘Sat’, ‘Chitta’ and ‘Ananda’. ‘Sat’ meaning reality, ‘Chitta’ meaning consciousness and ‘Ananda’ means bliss (not ordinary happiness which has an end). T...

3-Part Video | Sri M on the Upanishads | The Hindu Temple in St Louis, 21st Aug 2017

Sri M gives a brief but fascinating satsang on the Upanishads, with thought provoking questions answered at the end. [symple_tabgroup][symple_tab title="Part 1"] [/symple_tab][symple_tab title="Par...

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The ‘One’ who is behind all thought and action is witness to everything — the unaffected witness to all that takes place. The ‘One’ cannot be reached by any of our known modes of communication.

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You cannot conceive of a mind without thought; so the mind in totality is actually a bundle of thoughts from the past to the present and projecting into the future.