Quotes

Sri M said...

People have this feeling that, if you have to be enlightened, it has to be exotic. Something has to be different. It cannot be the same. It must be something extraordinary. Then only enlightenment ...

May 01, 2017

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The neighbour was watching Mullah Nasiruddin down on his knees. The neighbour asked, ''What have you lost Mullah?’’ ''My key'', said Nasiruddin. After a few minutes of searching, the neighbour said...

April 29, 2017

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False perceptions can be easily read by someone who has seen originals. It doesn't mean he speaks about it. People do not know where to look when they are seeking enlightenment. As a result, it is ...

April 28, 2017

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One day, Ramana Maharishi, discovered who he was with a stroke of inspiration. How does one discover that by simply sitting and saying, ''Who am I? Who am I?’' How is that possible? You could as we...

April 27, 2017

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Many 'schools' continue to operate long after their actual dynamics is exhausted. They become mere centres of repeating a progressively weakened doctrine. The name of the teaching may remain the sa...

April 26, 2017

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Internal experience cannot be transmitted through repetitiousness. It has to be constantly refreshed from the source. When you have an internal experience for the first time, since it is so marvelo...

April 25, 2017

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The sun shines on all of us. Since it is the truth, you don't have to go into a dark room to figure that out. It shines equally on everyone. For a person sitting in the shade, it may not be falling...

April 24, 2017

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An average person thinks in certain set patterns and he cannot break that pattern. If a man is sitting here and talking, he must be a great teacher. Actually, he may not be. Or, if a man speaks wel...

April 22, 2017

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There are many other things you have to figure out. One is the water. The other is the boat. “Nav karo meri paar” – there is this prevalent imagery of the boat crossing the water - ‘bhavasagara’. S...

April 21, 2017

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“Urdhva-moolam adhah-sakham, asvathaam prahur avyayam, chandamsi yasya parnani, yas tam veda sa veda-vit”. This is about an upside-down ashvatha tree - peepul tree whose roots are high up and branc...

April 20, 2017

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Superficially, most of the Nasiruddin stories are seen as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in teahouses, in caravans, in the inns, in homes and on the radio waves of Asia. But, it is inher...

April 19, 2017

Sri M said...

I quote another Sufi teacher called Hakim of Sinai, from a book called ‘The Walled Garden of Truth’: “When you arrive at the sea, you do not talk of the tributaries”. Ramakrishna Paramahansa put it...

April 18, 2017