Quotes

Sri M said ...

Mindfulness is outside, and mindfulness is also inside, and if both these can be integrated, then it’s a stepping stone to go beyond, beyond the ordinary mind.  

November 23, 2025

Sri M said ...

A person who is mindful is usually a gentle person, because the mind has settled down. You cannot even goad such a mind to get angry with somebody, it’s not possible, because the person sees that t...

November 22, 2025

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Words can cause a great deal of problems. Sometimes you can hit somebody, you can slap somebody, and it may be forgotten in a day or two, but if you use words which hurt the person, he or she might...

November 21, 2025

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Samadhi is when you are so absorbed in whatever you are looking at, that you totally forgetyourself. There is no you. There is only that. 

November 20, 2025

Sri M said ...

Dhyana comes from the root dhi, which means ‘to meditate’. When dharana becomes continuous, like when you pour oil from a vessel, then that dhara, dharana, becomes dhyana. If you are seriously inte...

November 19, 2025

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Dharana means to be able to fix your attention on something exclusively without being distracted or disturbed by anything else. This comes through training and only through training, because our mi...

November 18, 2025

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Meditation is a word used in English which means many things to many people. If you go back to the Indian sources, the word meditation is actually split into three. There is dharana, there is dhyan...

November 17, 2025

Sri M said ...

When you get up from your daily meditations, thank everything and everybody with utter humility.

November 16, 2025

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Thoughts are like ripples that disturb the calm surface of the mind and distort the reflections. When they disappear, the surface becomes clean, and the undistorted reflection of the ‘Sacred One’ i...

November 15, 2025

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There is no technique to reach the ‘Truth’, for you are yourself the ‘Truth’. There are techniques to still the mind so that it understands the truth that the mind cannot reach the ‘Self ’ and sett...

November 14, 2025

Sri M said ...

The ‘Self ’ is ever free, ever blissful. It is and was never bound; therefore, there is no question of making it free. It is always free. It manifests itself as the ‘I’, the consciousness, the ‘I’ ...

November 13, 2025

Sri M said ...

If someone promises salvation for all at once, take care; you are about to be hoodwinked. If someone guarantees to lead you to Supreme Bliss in a certain number of days, again, be on guard. No huma...

November 12, 2025