Quotes

Sri M said...

If both ‘Shraddha’ and ‘Saburi’ are there, then there is definitely no problem in Sadhana. What happens often is that, when there is ‘Shraddha’, there is not enough ‘Saburi’ and, sometimes, ‘Saburi...

April 11, 2016

Sri M said...

‘Shraddha’ means absolute one-pointed attention. It has been translated as ‘Faith’ also. It actually means absolute, one-pointed attention; complete attention on your goal. This is ‘Shraddha’.

April 10, 2016

Sri M said...

Amongst the Sufis, there is a saying, which they attribute to Prophet Mohammed: ‘man arafa nafsahu faqad arafa rabbahu’ which means, he who knoweth his Self, knoweth his Lord.

April 09, 2016

Sri M said...

Sometimes, what you think is misfortune is actually ‘fortune’, which comes in the garb of misfortune. Only then, you begin to think seriously, “Where am I going?” “What am I doing?” So, that’s anot...

April 08, 2016

Sri M said...

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...

April 07, 2016

Sri M said...

Vedanta also says that the real substance of the universe is the same everywhere—within you and outside you. And that substance cannot even be found by the mind. Then, if it cannot be found by the ...

April 06, 2016

Sri M said...

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 re...

April 05, 2016

Sri M said...

We have not changed. You see, the way of doing things has been polished and perfected. This is what intellectual life has taken us to. We have found medicines for diseases; but we haven’t found med...

April 04, 2016

Sri M said...

For a spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular sect. It is an individual and personal effort. There is no need to be affiliated to anything but to be free from it all. Nobody becomes...

April 03, 2016

Sri M said...

We are like the ocean and all our thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it. This is our primordial state. This is the gap between thoughts.

April 02, 2016

Sri M said...

Since ‘It’ is infinite, whatever you seek cannot be confined to anything finite; and therefore, you cannot worship it exclusively from one point alone since it is multidimensional and therefore, ca...

April 01, 2016

Sri M said...

In sleep, you are not even aware of your own existence. If you are not aware of your own existence, then where is your problem? The world may turn upside down but you don’t care. That’s why everybo...

March 31, 2016