Quotes

Sri M said...

One thing to remember is that the Gita is the first—the most ancient of the scriptures to have examined the question of how to approach the truth. This is the first scripture to declare that there ...

November 26, 2016

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How many people search for the Truth? Very few. Actually, in the Bhagvad Gita, there is a beautiful statement. Krishna says, “Among millions of people, one turns to the spiritual path. Among millio...

November 25, 2016

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There’s another faculty that opens, the one that can help to understand things and that’s called the opening of the ‘Heart’. It is not the anatomical heart we are talking about. It is the opening o...

November 24, 2016

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Your opinions, your perceptions, your ideas, your images, they are all relative. They are not absolute. But certainly, something exists and the sensory organs cannot find that which actually exists.

November 23, 2016

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It is interesting to note that the ‘bramharandra’— meaning the gateway to Brahman, the Supreme Being—when compared with present-day anatomy coincides with the center of the limbic system, where the...

November 22, 2016

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The state where you remain alone in your true self, enjoying the bliss of your inner being, is called ‘severance of connection with pain’. Only, in that state, can one sever one’s connection with p...

November 21, 2016

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The state where you remain alone in your true self, enjoying the bliss of your inner being, is called ‘severance of connection with pain’. Only, in that state, can one sever one’s connection with p...

November 20, 2016

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How much ever we may try, the brain is a very limited organism with limited inputs. All that the brain can think of, decide and conclude is from the information that it gets— the inputs. Now the in...

November 19, 2016

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

November 17, 2016

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Don’t carry your anger, hatred and poisonous feelings against others, from one day to the next. When you go to sleep, you should leave it and get up fresh in the morning. And say, “It’s okay. Yeste...

November 16, 2016

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The movement is from the unreal to the Real. For that, as mentioned in the Viveka Chudamani and other ancient texts like the Upanishads and Gita, the first thing to understand is that there is noth...

November 15, 2016

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To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question, “Who am I?” have found that as they begin to enquire into the origin of the ‘I’, the little...

November 14, 2016