Quotes

Sri M said...

When the heart unconditionally, without any worry of the consequences, surrenders itself at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord to think of nothing other than the Supreme Being, that is Bhakti. The ...

April 17, 2017

Sri M said...

The Sufis also sang about love. In fact, there is a beautiful Sufi poem. It’s about love; it’s about losing oneself in the love of the Supreme. The great Sufi, Hazrat Shah Niyaz, said: Aql ke madra...

April 15, 2017

Sri M said...

All the great Bhakti poets wrote about love. Kabir, Tulsi, and Meerabai were ready to give up their lives just for a brief vision of the Lord, to hold him tight in their embrace.

April 14, 2017

Sri M said...

What is Bhakti? A love that is completely surrendering, not for our sake but for the one we love. It’s completely selfless - Love! Bhakti! Ishq! It is a known fact in spiritual circles that spiritu...

April 13, 2017

Sri M said...

When a person is on the spiritual journey, he should not cry over what he loses. What he loses may be the stepping-stone to what he is going to gain, which is communion with the Supreme Being. This...

April 12, 2017

Sri M said...

This one-pointed attention to the Supreme Lord, this all-consuming love for the Lord is expressed by the great Sufi, Jalaluddin Rumi in his epic Masnavi. He says, "All else do thou turn out from th...

April 11, 2017

Sri M said...

The mind is evolving, and therefore, many a time, the higher intelligence guides our evolution. I am supposing that we believe there is a higher intelligence. If you don’t, that’s alright. Then the...

April 10, 2017

Sri M said...

Jalaluddin Rumi, the great mystic poet, said, “I was a mineral, I became a plant. From plant, I became an animal; from animal, I became a man; from man, perhaps I shall evolve into angels, or who k...

April 08, 2017

Sri M said...

Man has evolved from an amoeba to this present state. Physically, yes! But are we going to be unscientific and say, this is the end of man’s evolution? But what if man is still evolving in his cons...

April 07, 2017

Sri M said...

At a particular stage of one’s life, or one’s spiritual journey, when we do not get what we thought is necessary for us, it may not be what we actually need for our higher evolution. We may want it...

April 06, 2017

Sri M said...

When we are on the path of spiritual progress, or even when we are not, very often we don’t get what we want; or at least if not very often, many a time we don’t get what we want. This makes us dep...

April 05, 2017

Sri M said...

When Kabirdas settled down in Kashi and began giving spiritual discourses, fanatical Hindus and Muslims soon turned against him for his teachings were different from theirs. Their hostility towards...

April 04, 2017