Quotes

Sri M said...

There is a beautiful word in Sanskrit for completeness – ‘Poorna’. Upanishads mentions ‘Poorna’ – which means fulfillment, fullness, completeness. This is the essential characteristic of one’s bein...

May 11, 2016

Sri M said...

Every little thing is full of joy. The dew drop you find on the grass in the morning, the breeze that blows in quietly bringing in the perfume of the jasmine, the smell of the earth after the first...

May 10, 2016

Sri M said...

The Upanishads and the Vedas suggest that there is a way to find lasting happiness within, which is independent of all external things. The great sages who have experienced it are on record saying ...

May 09, 2016

Sri M said...

I am not saying that we should not enjoy the little joys that we find in life day-to-day. Please do it. We should because that’s the greatest, most wonderful thing that the world can offer us. Thes...

May 07, 2016

Sri M said...

We don’t find real happiness because we are not satisfied ever with anything that we have. Maybe there is satisfaction for a short time but, in the long run, we are still looking, searching, someti...

May 06, 2016

Sri M said...

What is love really, in that sense of the term? It is separation. When your beloved is with you, then what is love? When your beloved is not there, and the mind pines with longing, it is called lov...

May 05, 2016

Sri M said...

Everybody says, ‘I have surrendered.’ Nobody has truly surrendered. To surrender, really, is not easy. If I surrender, it means to firstly consider what am I surrendering to? Who am I surrendering ...

May 04, 2016

Sri M said...

First, I must say, ‘I cannot understand’. Then, what happens here is the same thing comes into the picture – that ‘stillness’, that ‘emptiness’ – because I am not doing anything; because I have giv...

May 03, 2016

Sri M said...

All the knowledge I have gathered is confined to my mind and my brain, which can conk off at any time. You know it. One part of the brain malfunctions and one function is immediately impaired. I do...

May 02, 2016

Sri M said...

When we go to a temple, we see the image there. I go down there, and I worship. I bow my head down and I fall flat worshipping. After that, I come out. What do I do next? I see a human being – a go...

April 30, 2016

Sri M said...

When Jesus said, ‘Empty yourself’, I think what he meant was that we are mentally constipated. It is all the stuff that is ingested and is not being expelled. So, what he meant to say is, ‘Take it ...

April 27, 2016

Sri M said...

For most of us, when we sit down and try to meditate, the mind wanders mainly because we are attracted to something or we are repulsed by something. If this had been settled in some way by understa...

April 26, 2016