Sri M said...
Sometimes, there may be a mad man – looking absolutely crazy, sitting in one corner in the bus stand or in the street somewhere – who may not show any powers but he could very easily be an advanced...
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Sometimes, there may be a mad man – looking absolutely crazy, sitting in one corner in the bus stand or in the street somewhere – who may not show any powers but he could very easily be an advanced...
If both ‘Shraddha’ and ‘Saburi’ are there, then there is definitely no problem in Sadhana. What happens often is that, when there is ‘Shraddha’, there is not enough ‘Saburi’ and, sometimes, ‘Saburi...
‘Shraddha’ means absolute one-pointed attention. It has been translated as ‘Faith’ also. It actually means absolute, one-pointed attention; complete attention on your goal. This is ‘Shraddha’.
The Riverview Retreat, located on a farm in Taighat village, near Panchgani, came into being around a year ago. For the past nine years this space has been opened for all, on the day of Ram Navami....
Amongst the Sufis, there is a saying, which they attribute to Prophet Mohammed: ‘man arafa nafsahu faqad arafa rabbahu’ which means, he who knoweth his Self, knoweth his Lord.
Sometimes, what you think is misfortune is actually ‘fortune’, which comes in the garb of misfortune. Only then, you begin to think seriously, “Where am I going?” “What am I doing?” So, that’s anot...
The movement is from the unreal to the Real. For that, as mentioned in the Viveka Chudamani and other ancient texts like the Upanishads and Gita, the first thing to understand is that there is noth...
Vedanta also says that the real substance of the universe is the same everywhere—within you and outside you. And that substance cannot even be found by the mind. Then, if it cannot be found by the ...
Vedanta says: “Yes, the object exists, of course, but it may not be a cube or a globe or a cone or a rectangle or what you think it is because whatever you think, it is always the result of your re...
We have not changed. You see, the way of doing things has been polished and perfected. This is what intellectual life has taken us to. We have found medicines for diseases; but we haven’t found med...
For a spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular sect. It is an individual and personal effort. There is no need to be affiliated to anything but to be free from it all. Nobody becomes...
Sri M speaks on the relationship between the teacher and the taught, a very important and essential part of one's spiritual progress, if one needs to have spiritual progress. https://www.youtube.co...