Sri M said....
When we are faced with situations, we prefer to run away from them and not meet them. Stay where you are, face your situations – how do you react with others, how do others react to you.
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When we are faced with situations, we prefer to run away from them and not meet them. Stay where you are, face your situations – how do you react with others, how do others react to you.
Examine yourself in the morning when you wake up and in the evening before you go to sleep. And see – have I changed or am I the same or worse? Am I still angry when somebody else is happy?
No amount of bhajans or kirtans is of any use unless the heart changes, unless the heart starts to look outside oneself. If we can spend even half an hour for others, then we are moving forward.
Living in this world and experiencing life, I would say is the philosopher’s stone, which eventually can purify you from base metal to pure gold.
That Energy, That Power, That Absolute Being – which is the power in manifestation – is always Complete, and anything that is incomplete is not That. In the psychological sense – unlike individual ...
‘Krishna’ also means all-pervading. The root is ‘Kri’, to create, an action, movement, kriya. The word ‘Krish’ means action from the core of consciousness. In fact, according to the Gnostics, the w...
In the language of Yoga, our flute is the spine and it is usually full of muck. Kriya is one of the ways to clean it up. One cannot do anything more; only clean it up and wait! He will sing only wh...
Once the music is heard, thenceforth our problems are solved. We are onto a different world altogether. It’s also called ‘Shabd‘. Shabd need not mean only a word– it also means a sound. That is whe...
Happiness is the common thing that everybody seeks. When somebody commits suicide, it is generally because one wants to escape the unhappiness, the sorrow, the sadness – hoping when one escapes fro...
Whenever I think of preparing for a new day, leaving behind the old, I am reminded of the cry of John the Baptist, who declared, 'Voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye, the way of the L...
All our lives are based upon the understanding that, 'I am the body'. The ego which is the mind is built-up based on the fact that ‘I am this body only’; but there is more to it than just the body....
Music cannot be played if the flute is filled with muck. You have to empty it out. A flute has to be hollow; you can’t blow through a solid flute! So, all the muck has to go and when it is clean, h...