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Sri M said...

After midnight, a new day begins. Shiva finishes his dance of destruction, the Tandava Nritya. This dance of destruction is actually a very auspicious thing. It is not as terrible as it appears. It...

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"Chidananda roopam, shivoham shivoham", it means that Supreme reality, whose spark is inside me, is Supreme auspiciousness. I am of the real form of Shiva, an auspicious all-pervading reality. Shiv...

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The auspiciousness that we seek, the Shivam that we seek, is to be sought inward. And the destruction that takes place is our connection to the outward. This is the dance of Shiva.

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When we move towards what is, and not what is to be or what was before, that is called Shivam. Auspiciousness. The centre of everything, from where the whole dance of creation begins and ends.

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Shiva is beyond desire, beyond even the impulse of desire. When Shiva opens his third eye, his eyes are closed to the outside world and open to the inner world of love, compassion, goodness and sel...

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Anyone who has touched the amrita, even a drop of it, or half a drop of it, becomes so intoxicated and filled with the joy of Shivam, that nothing else is an attraction to him.

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When the mind is calm - beyond the tempest of its passions and desires - in that utter stillness the ‘Truth’ comes into being. One understands one’s true reality.

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Whenever a sincere student, a Satya Kama—one who searches for nothing but the ‘Truth’—sits in humility before a teacher, with his mind open and unprejudiced, ready to receive what is given—that lea...

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Self realization is basically to understand oneself and, in this process one has to break down innumerable illusions that we have created about ourselves, one by one.

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When the mind has completely emptied itself, has almost ceased to move and remains in its original state of no action and no movement, something takes place which we may call recognition of the ‘Re...

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According to Vedanta, to enquire is to keep your mind open, totally unprejudiced, and to slowly explore the issue.

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The true inner Self is the consciousness deep within us, which by its very nature is full of bliss.