Quotes

Sri M said ...

Jyotisham is a Vedanga. It  means astronomy, science of the stars, Jyot - of the lighted objects. Astrology is a small part of Jyotisha.  

March 13, 2025

Sri M said ...

The spiritual journey is not a search for power. It’s a search for peace, happiness and quietude. Because you are spiritually on a higher level, you may have some power, that is different. But if y...

March 12, 2025

Sri M said ...

If one learns to live within oneself, without being dependent on any external factor then one is free. 

March 11, 2025

Sri M said ...

The whole principle of life is - something coming in and something going out. Nobody can stop it, and no amount of anything can help to get out. So to accept it and be, this is the sign of going de...

March 10, 2025

Sri M said ...

If the mind is made up of thoughts and thoughts are always vibrating, constantly in motion;  that movement of thought or the waves of thoughts are known as vrittis. The stopping of the vrittis, com...

March 09, 2025

Sri M said ...

The Buddhists say, ‘One who has walked across’ - paraa gati – ‘one who has gone beyond’, such a person is called ‘Bodhi’, one who has the ‘bodh’.  ‘Gate Gate Pāragate Pārasamgate Bodhi Svāhā’ -  ‘M...

March 08, 2025

Sri M said ...

Good and evil, famous and notorious, darkness and light, positive and negative, all are in the Supreme Being and yet in its essential essence the Supreme Godhead is not affected by the opposites.

March 07, 2025

Sri M said ...

The only true Apara-vidya, which leads to Vijnana, is the non-verbal transcendental experience of the Supreme Truth.  It takes place when the mind becomes absolutely still, having discovered the us...

March 06, 2025

Sri M said ...

When we say control your thoughts during meditation, it is impossible to control and make them disappear.  Because the moment you try to make thoughts disappear, you are thinking.

March 05, 2025

Sri M said ...

When dharana becomes effortless and quiet, it naturally goes into dhyana. In that dhyana state even ‘I’ does not exist. 

March 04, 2025

Sri M said ...

Supreme Brahman is present everywhere not in any particular place.

March 03, 2025

Sri M said ...

Because our puny little brains cannot understand the plan of life. We think our plan is the best plan. Well, it is not or it may not be.

March 02, 2025