Quotes

Sri M said...

If I say I know everything, then there is no movement, research, or inquiry.  It is what we don’t know that inspires us to seek and move forward.

September 21, 2021

Sri M said...

That which does not move’ – is that which is absolutely still like the eye of the cyclone, total motion but in the middle, there is no movement – absolute calmness. And, it is from that calmness th...

September 20, 2021

Sri M said...

Don’t run away from the battle. Stay there. You cannot run anywhere. So, stay on and fight it out – but with love, affection, and understanding.

September 19, 2021

Sri M said...

Examine yourself in the morning when you wake up and in the evening before you go to sleep. And see – have I changed or am I the same or worse? Am I still angry when somebody else is happy?

September 18, 2021

Sri M said...

A spiritual teacher sometimes provides opportunities and situations, either deliberately or as they happen. He does not encourage people to run away from situations but to pause and remain.  It is ...

September 17, 2021

Sri M said...

Perhaps the only way to get the mind free from the trappings of the material world is to live in the midst of it, get guidance from the teacher, and come to terms with the world so that one may tra...

September 16, 2021

Sri M said...

The Guru teaches you how to reach this freedom, how to swim towards it, how to enjoy it, how to discover this ocean within you, that the ocean is you. But you don’t know it.  

September 15, 2021

Sri M said....

Break free from all bondage, realize that your true self is ever free and never bound!  This was the clarion call of the great and ancient Upanishadic teaching - Moksha, Moksha, Moksha!

September 14, 2021

Sri M said...

Vedanta is not intellectual acrobatics. You can stand on your head. You can study all the scriptures. You can know them by heart. But, unless and until, the quality of mind improves, one cannot fin...

September 13, 2021

Sri M said...

Be a bhakta - devotee more than anything else because through bhakti all jnana - wisdom will dawn.

September 12, 2021

Sri M said...

As your feelings become more and more subtle, deeper centers of the human mind open up to form a link to that which is beyond the ordinary mind.

September 11, 2021

Sri M said...

I can physically run away from my situation. But my mind follows me, wherever I go. I can’t change that. So the teaching of the Gita is, don’t run away because you carry your mind with you. Stay wh...

September 10, 2021