Quotes

Sri M said...

No known modes of enquiry, no instruments of perception like the five senses, nor even the mind with its vast imagination can reach that abode of Supreme Reality. It’s none other than our own intim...

March 06, 2016

Sri M said...

Look carefully and observantly at the outside world—the physical world, the substance as we know it—setting aside all other preconceived ideas we have about it. Look at what we think is substance, ...

March 05, 2016

Sri M said...

The deity is the media through which you reach the Absolute. The Absolute is not Brahma the creator, but the Para Brahman. The root ‘braha’ means to expand continuously. Something, which is always ...

March 04, 2016

Sri M said...

The highest function of the intelligence, according to the Upanishads, is to realise its limitations. When it has realised its limitations, it just keeps quiet. It knows, “I’m very useful in this, ...

March 03, 2016

Sri M said...

I look at this world and I see, through ordinary common sense, that it is not permanent. It is not permanent, it is temporary and what is temporary cannot be real. Everything is getting destroyed. ...

March 02, 2016

Sri M said...

In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge is mentioned as ‘vidya’ and has been divided into ‘Para-vidya’ and ‘Apara-vidya’. In ‘Apara vidya’, all the Vedas and Ved-angas like astronomy, grammar and so on...

March 01, 2016

Sri M said...

I am talking about what we think and how we act. If these two things can go together, then meditation begins. To not bring about this dichotomy in one’s life, one has to be eternally watchful. It m...

February 29, 2016

Sri M said...

One must understand perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or allow the mind to settle down, to become still and not get caught up in the confusion of this or that or thi...

February 28, 2016

Sri M said...

The center at the navel is known as the ‘Manipura Chakra’. When the heat of ‘Kundalini Yoga’ practice emanates from the ‘Manipura Chakra’, then the ‘Kundalini’ rises further up, from solid to liqui...

February 27, 2016

Sri M said...

Kakasaheb Dixit, a close associate of Shirdi Sai Baba, was sitting in meditation and he saw Vittala in a vision. In the noon, when he went for his dear Baba’s darshan, Sai Baba asked him point blan...

February 26, 2016

Sri M said...

This is a very serious question. Is a Guru necessary to attain freedom? Does the Guru induce freedom? If the Guru is inducing freedom, it cannot be freedom. It can only be something similar to free...

February 25, 2016

Sri M said...

So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because other people are thinking about something else in the vicinity. They are thinking about the world; they are thinking about different...

February 24, 2016