Quotes

Sri M said...

Love is a many-splendoured entity. Physical love or spiritual love has the same source, although it manifests at different degrees. You cut across all barriers. Who cares for personal consequences?...

November 27, 2017

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Vedanta says, ‘when the mind understands, its inability to reach out and find it, finally rests or lets go; surrenders; becomes still and quiet naturally, not forcibly – then, when the mind and the...

November 25, 2017

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‘What is!’, nobody knows or nobody can know because the senses, the sensory organs or the sensory instruments which are used to know an object are themselves imperfect and relative and, therefore, ...

November 24, 2017

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Can the Truth be found through the mind? Vedanta says ‘Well! All that the mind can do is conceive of it or try to conceive it. It can have an idea, a faint idea of it. Beyond that, even the mind fa...

November 23, 2017

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Vedanta says ‘yes the object exists, of course, but it may not be a cube or a globe or a cone or a rectangle or what you think it is because whatever you think, it is always the result of your rela...

November 22, 2017

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Suppose our instrument of perception, in this case the eye, is made like a telescope or a microscope, our view of the universe would be entirely different. The cube that you see before you will be ...

November 21, 2017

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Look carefully, observantly, at the outside world, the physical world, the substance, setting aside all other preconceived ideas about it that we have, at what we think is substance, according to t...

November 20, 2017

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The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something which is very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what’s happening. First is the experience of great bliss; the second is the actu...

November 18, 2017

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So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because most other people are thinking about something else. They are thinking about the world; they are thinking about different things – s...

November 17, 2017

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‘Viveka’ means ‘intelligence’ – reasoning and trying to understand, what is permanent, and what is not permanent. And ‘Vichara’ is ‘thinking about it’ – if this is not permanent, then what is perma...

November 16, 2017

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The Mahanirvana Tantra says, ‘Anantam Anandam Brahma’, which means ‘that Anandam which has no Antah, no end, is Brahman. And that comes about only when the thoughts have ceased, which means, the wh...

November 15, 2017

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In Vedanta, what the Vedantist does, is to examine the world around him and find out that it is impermanent. He says, ” This world is impermanent because today it’s here and tomorrow it is gone. Al...

November 14, 2017