Sri M said...
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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Sri M said...
Sit down and meditate in your heart center and whenever such thoughts come, which are not related to the inner, try to keep them away. There are other thoughts which can take you to the spiritual. ...
Sri M said...
It is by itself a contradiction for the limited to seek the unlimited. When the limited understands its limitations; that is intelligence. That’s all, it need not be intellect. When the limited und...
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We all know we are the body. Slowly, we start thinking and we begin to realise that I cannot be the body because the body belongs to me and what belongs to me cannot be me….this is not me. Now it i...
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‘The taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching and a stage comes when they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher. One who is taught becomes the teacher be...
Sri M said...
Self-realization is to understand oneself and, in the process of understanding oneself, break down innumerable illusions that we have about ourselves.
Sri M said...
This (examination to know thyself) is possible only in the midst of society. You cannot really study your mind—that is ‘to know your Self’—in isolation. Sitting in a cave, there is no one with whom...
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The only way to study yourself, the only way to know yourself, the only way to realize yourself, to understand yourself as you are and not as you imagine you are, is by being a part of the society....
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So, I am here today, I work hard, I think happiness comes out of a solid bank balance. I have done everything. And then, what happens? Suddenly, destiny takes someone away from me who is most dear ...
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Again, in Gita, is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is karma yog...
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From my personal experience I would say that since the ‘Truth’, is in the present, an ever living experience, and not anything that can be gathered and stored in memory, memory being a thing of the...
Sri M said...
Very often, we tend to mistake tamas – tamo guna – for sattva. Sattva is goodness and calmness and quietness. Tamo guna is not goodness and calmness and quietness but laziness, sloth and pretending...