Sri M said ...
Thinking itself is ‘mind’. When there are thoughts, automatically there is the mind. Therefore, it implies that where there is no thought there is no mind, from the ordinary sense of th...
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Sri M said ...
The advantage of meditating early in the morning is that you have not yet started your day, so, the distractions of the day do not exist. Second, that is the only time you are not caught up in anyt...
Sri M said ...
If we can stay with sorrow – sometimes something may happen. We may blow up with intense sorrow but that blowing up is very good blowing up. Why don’t we blow up all the artificial barriers that we...
Sri M said ...
Of course, the master tests your patience. Therefore, knock persistently but wait patiently. Then your heart will be filled with supreme bliss and you will work for the good of mankind.
Sri M said ...
When the artificial barrier disappears, all that remains is the field in which so many thoughts appear and disappear. As I watch the appearing and disappearing of thoughts perfectly aware that I, t...
Sri M said ...
The Upanishads are not a doctrine but are in the form of open discussion between teacher and disciple. The teacher does not pretend to know everything. When young men would go to a Rishi, he would ...
Sri M said ...
Consciousness also means Sakshi, the witness. The all pervading consciousness is also the witness to all that happens. It appears to participate but does not participate. Find that witness in yours...
Sri M said ...
You are the consciousness which is the witness of all the drama, watching in amusement as the ego plays its games, dons different masks at different times and ends up identifying itself with the ro...
Sri M said ...
Nama Japa is the easiest way to keep continuous remembrance of the Divine in today's world. Some prefer the abstract way of engaging the mind in nothingness, but that is not easy to do.
Sri M said ...
Visualize your desires in complete detail and you are sure to attain them, but never visualise harm to others, for that will arrest your own spiritual development and pull you down the ladder of sp...
Sri M said ...
Step firmly upon the path. Have no fear. Fearlessness is close to 'Truth'.
Sri M said ...
Remember! There is no technique to reach the Truth, for you are yourself the Truth. Techniques are there to still the mind so that it understands the truth that the mind cannot reach the Self and s...