Quotes

Sri M said ...

On the spiritual path, it's not so easy to fit in but then you can't totally break free from the world. You stay with it until you become really mature in your spiritual field. Then you have to do ...

March 26, 2025

Sri M said ...

Everybody is swimming along the stream. The moment you start a spiritual practice, the moment you turn in another direction, swim against the stream, it becomes a tussle. There is no way out except...

March 25, 2025

Sri M said ...

While I advocate that you try to remain with a happy attitude of mind, don't neglect the fact that this cannot be sustained until we find the inner happiness which is in us. When that is found, the...

March 24, 2025

Sri M said ...

We all want to be happy in some way. The only permanent ananda available to us is that which is real is within, as opposed to that which is here today and gone tomorrow. 

March 23, 2025

Sri M said ...

What is the way to convert tamoguna into sattva? Action. Do some work, so that the tamas is converted into rajas and, when rajas (action) is oriented towards the good of others, then it takes you i...

March 22, 2025

Sri M said ...

Everybody has a little bit of tamas, rajas, and sattva, the proportion being different in each person. The main problem is when, especially those on the spiritual path, begin to mistake tamas for s...

March 21, 2025

Sri M said ...

It's not easy to sit down and meditate when your mind is full of crude, selfish, and self-centred emotions. One way to break that is to help the unfortunate. 

March 20, 2025

Sri M said ...

You cannot meditate or be spiritual all twenty-four hours. So, what do you do with the rest of the time? You need to initiate some action which is good for others because then you shed the dross of...

March 19, 2025

Sri M said ...

Nature has this very peculiar habit: when you run behind something, it runs away from you. When you say — I’m okay, if it comes, then it comes.  

March 18, 2025

Sri M said ...

When is it divine will? There are some good things which divine will can make happen, but since we are not attuned to it, we consider it as — what is this stuff, why is God troubling me so much! It...

March 17, 2025

Sri M said ...

All things that have come out of the void, go back into the void.  

March 15, 2025

Sri M said ...

When the Kurukshketra battle takes place within, you have to face it, you cannot run.  While doing it, watch yourself carefully and see what is your motive. Why am I doing this and in that process ...

March 14, 2025