Quotes

Sri M said...

In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge there, is mentioned as Vidya and has been divided into Para-vidya and Apara-vidya. In Apar vidya are included all the Vedas and Ved-angas like astronomy, grammer...

December 25, 2017

Sri M said...

The Bhagwad Gita, translated literally would mean The Divine Song, Geetam. Indeed from the point of view of the sincere seeker of ‘Truth’, of spiritual fulfillment, it is a song of hope in the mids...

December 23, 2017

Sri M said...

The movement is from the unreal to the Real. For that, as it is said in the Viveka Chudamani and many other ancient texts – the Upanishads, Gita – the first thing to understand is that there is not...

December 22, 2017

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Great literature, sublime poetry, exquisite works of art – they have been inspired by love and compassion. It is unselfish love for humanity which is the culmination and the highest point that love...

December 21, 2017

Sri M said...

Vedanta also says that the real substance of the universe, is the same everywhere. In you and outside you. And that substance cannot even be found by the mind. Then, if it cannot be found by the mi...

December 20, 2017

Sri M said...

Your opinions, your perceptions, your ideas, your images, they are all relative. They are not absolute. But certainly, some thing exists and that which actually exists cannot be found by the sensor...

December 19, 2017

Sri M said...

Perception is always relative, it’s comparative. You can only compare. There is no absolute perception.

December 18, 2017

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Blankness is very fearful for us. Because the mind thinks it will lose hold, that we will very soon be free of it. It is the tendency of the mind to bind and when we are shaking ourselves out of it...

December 16, 2017

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It also the reason why Shiva is also called ‘Pashupathi’. Pashu means all the instincts which we have as animals. This is the noose that pulls that animal and makes it do exactly what he wants. Thi...

December 15, 2017

Sri M said...

In the deeper sense of the term, the consciousness which is the ground from which all the thoughts arise, that is the real you. So to get back there you have to allow the thoughts to quieten down.

December 14, 2017

Sri M said...

Now, the rishis and the yogis who have gone into this subject practically have said there is something called mind, but there is no language, there is thought which has no language and that is the ...

December 13, 2017

Sri M said...

The moment we begin to glimpse or even understand that we are the ocean and all thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it. That is our primordial state. That is the gap between thoughts.

December 12, 2017