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‘Dharana, dhyana, samadhi’—these are interlinked. Normally, when we say meditation we mean all the three. ‘Dharana’ means the capacity, technique or the practice by which one fixes one’s attention ...

Meditation # 3 | The Pursuit of Happiness – Part II - by Sri M

When it comes to happiness, the natural question would be: If it can’t be found outside oneself, can it be found within oneself? Is there some intrinsic happiness within us that can be tapped? Is t...

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There is nothing to fear, and to live with this understanding is called holistic living. Holistic living is to live with the understanding the blissful Supreme Being pervades the entire universe an...

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There’s another faculty that opens, the one that can help to understand things and that’s called the opening of the ‘Heart’. It is not the anatomical heart we are talking about. It is the opening o...

Videos | Q & A with Sri M | On Stillness

"Does being in stillness mean being blissful?" asks Sri M as he tries to broadly explain the difference. "When you say bliss, you have to be very careful", he says, "as normally what we call bliss,...

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How many people search for the Truth? Very few. Actually, in the Bhagvad Gita, there is a beautiful statement. Krishna says, “Among millions of people, one turns to the spiritual path. Among millio...

Manav Ekta | Importance of Compassion – by Sri M

Religions may differ in their intrinsic philosophy but all religions profess the same message – a human being should become compassionate, kind and loving.  The prayer of a Muslim mentions two word...

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It is interesting to note that the ‘bramharandra’— meaning the gateway to Brahman, the Supreme Being—when compared with present-day anatomy coincides with the center of the limbic system, where the...

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Your opinions, your perceptions, your ideas, your images, they are all relative. They are not absolute. But certainly, something exists and the sensory organs cannot find that which actually exists.

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The state where you remain alone in your true self, enjoying the bliss of your inner being, is called 'severance of connection with pain'. Only, in that state, can one sever one's connection with p...

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How much ever we may try, the brain is a very limited organism with limited inputs. All that the brain can think of, decide and conclude is from the information that it gets— the inputs. Now the in...

Meditation # 2 | The Pursuit of Happiness – Part I - by Sri M

What are we searching for? This is a question we ask so often today, and this question has been asked for centuries. What is it that human beings look for? We manage to keep ourselves occupied all ...