Sri M said...
In spiritual matters, you start with the understanding that there is something beyond the ordinary mind. And it cannot be known through study. Soaking in the atmosphere in places where the rishis h...
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In spiritual matters, you start with the understanding that there is something beyond the ordinary mind. And it cannot be known through study. Soaking in the atmosphere in places where the rishis h...
The result of dharana and dhyana is samadhi. Samadhi is an altered state of consciousness wherein a person who meditates upon whatever he is meditating upon, merges with the object of meditation. T...
If the world were a complete obstruction to the attainment of spiritual fulfillment, the Supreme Lord would not have created it at all. The very fact that the world exists around us and also in us ...
Samadhi is when you are meditating upon the Supreme Being and there is no individual meditator but only the Supreme Being. In the sankhya parlance, the atman merges with the paramatman. In Vedantic...
Sri M speaks - "If I start my spiritual journey saying, 'I know', then I cannot start anything, because what I know maybe completely wrong. But if I say, "I don't know, I should keep an open mind, ...
"We carry so many things in our head; it' such a dead weight. Drop it! Including our learning, our knowledge, be simple like a child and experience the freedom." - Sri M narrates Zen stories on Fre...
The Lord says, ‘If it is difficult for you to serve and purify yourself to the state of attaining the capacity to meditate, simply surrender yourself to me. Your mind is automatically controlled. G...
Sri M speaks about the importance of solitude and silencing the mind in the spiritual path, followed by Q&A on Day 4 of Satsang in the Alps, on 20th July 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLSot...
We are all in some activity or the other, nobody can remain without doing anything; The Lord says, ‘Dedicate that to me. Think that I am the agent and I am the enjoyer’. Gradually you will get puri...
‘Yogo bhoga yatey‘– yoga through bhoga. Again this is not a license for bhoga, bhoga means enjoyment. What the rishis meant was while you enjoy, realize that the enjoyment is not coming from that o...
Sri M says - "It is a good thing to know who you are 'now', before you go to find out who or what you are 'actually'. Firstly, we need to watch our selves carefully, how do we behave, have we becom...
Instead of trying to be free from the beginning, enjoy with the purpose that you want to be free of it ultimately. How does one do this, by dedicating everything to the Supreme Being. Whenever you ...