Sri M said...
No known modes of enquiry, no instruments of perception like the five senses, nor even the mind with its vast imagination can reach that abode of Supreme Reality. It’s none other than our own intim...
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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.
Sri M said...
Although some technique has been described in Dhyana yoga, the crux of the matter is one should go within, try to understand and experience the inner self. Then, one comes face to face with the tru...
Sri M said...
The Vedantic question is why not go back? That is, retrace our steps and go back to the source or the reservoir of all happiness, which is within us.
Sri M said...
The center around which thought orbits is called the ‘mind of the mind’— the witness of all that is happening within.
Sri M said...
Nivrutti Marga and Pravartti Marga - Pravratti means the mind is outgoing, also known as extrovert. It operates outside, through the senses. All the experiences of this world are gained through Pra...
Sri M said...
So, you see, by giving up the miserable little self, one is not lost. On the other hand, the Greater Self is gained. How can one become unconscious when the fountainhead of consciousness is that ve...
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.
Sri M said…
There is this famous story derived from the couplet of Kabir Das, about the Kasturi Mriga. There is a kind of deer with a little pouch near its tail, in which Kasturi musk is produced. In the breed...
Sri M said...
As you read the Upanishads, you will find in many places, that the seeker of the truth is addressed ‘Satya Kama’. It could be a name, but then Sanskrit is an ancient language and every name has a m...
Sri M said...
So, all this fear of what will happen if I let go of my petty little self, with its petty little world (mainly of my own creation) is meaningless. It is merely the ignorant little ego trying to mak...
Sri M said...
The experience of happiness is innate, not in the object that I enjoy. The object may although be necessary to excite it or bring it out. Therefore, Vedanta says: the source of all happiness is wit...