Sri M said...
Don't be obsessed with failure. All people who have succeeded are those who have failed and continued and said we will somehow do it.
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Sri M said...
There is a kind of state between sleep and wakefulness which is so blissful that one does not want to come out of it. When you are experiencing it, it’s meditation.
Sri M said...
If the mind can be free of distractions, if the mind can become tranquil, then it is able to access that fullness in us which is actually a spark of the universal fullness; and it's also blissful. ...
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Sankhya philosophy says that the subtlest part of the food we eat goes to make the mind. We need proper nourishment, physical as well as mental. Mind needs to be nourished with the right kind of ...
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The symbol of Hippocrates - A stick with two winged wands with two snakes intertwined - is similar to the three main nadis. The winged wand is the ‘Sushumna’ and the other two are the ‘Ida’ and the...
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Meditation means many things to many people. For instance, you could be alone sitting on the beach, looking at the sea and the waves and see how they go up and down, crash down and move forward. Y...
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There are two very important things we pray and meditate for - protection from the vagaries of nature and protection from thoughts that disturb me. I may be in a fortified house but my mind needs ...
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All human beings are not born equal. Yes, all are born equal because they are born from a mother’s womb. But what about the 3 million years of genetic evolution? There has to be a difference. T...
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Revolution is necessary, this is the ‘churning,’ what Shankaracharya says is ‘shad’ shaking up in the Upanishads. Shaking up of the mind is revolution’. It’s not just physical movement.
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No matter how different one is externally, the inner spark is not different, it is from the same source. The commonality is the inner, not the outer.
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It doesn’t matter what your belief system is. If you need to survive in this world, you need to put in hard work.
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While it is a good thing to cultivate positive thoughts and to keep negative thoughts at bay while moving on this spiritual field, you must also understand that from the pure point of spiritual und...