Quotes

Sri M said...

Based on what I have learnt from my experience, suddenly everything grinds to a halt and there is a blank; my suggestion is that, don’t try to escape or run away from it. That is our primordial sta...

February 11, 2016

Sri M said...

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...

February 10, 2016

Sri M said...

When the mind is absolutely still, when it is no longer engaged in what we call ‘worship’—where every worship has a worshipper and the worshipped, or the thinker and the thing thought of—when the o...

February 09, 2016

Sri M said...

Those who have transcended the external rites of religion should begin to look within to find the true essence. This is very essential because without the true essence, sometime or the other, the e...

February 08, 2016

Sri M said...

One has to carefully and vigilantly watch one’s self as one actually is, before proceeding to explore the possibilities of finding the Truth. This also means one needs a great deal of attention, wh...

February 06, 2016

Sri M said...

Self-realization is to understand oneself and, in the process of understanding oneself, break down innumerable illusions that we have about ourselves.

February 05, 2016

Sri M said...

The most important kind of meditation is when a human being, one day, realises that the whole circus that is going on around him, this whole world that he has built up around him, has suddenly coll...

February 04, 2016

Sri M said...

This (examination to know thyself) is possible only in the midst of society. You cannot really study your mind—that is ‘to know your Self’—in isolation. Sitting in a cave, there is no one with whom...

February 03, 2016

Sri M said...

Words are very powerful! If somebody doesn’t know the language, they won’t understand a word, they won’t know what you are saying. The moment they know the language, they will react according to th...

February 02, 2016

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“The first step is to understand your self, your strengths, your weaknesses, what you actually are. And not start with super-imposing the idea that I am Great, I am Blissful, I am this being and th...

February 01, 2016

Sri M said...

The whole theory of Maya does not mean that the world is an illusion. The world is a reality, but the theory of Maya says the world is only relatively real and, therefore, not absolutely real. It i...

January 31, 2016

Sri M said...

Whenever a Satya Kama—one who searches for nothing but the Truth—sits in humility before a teacher, with his mind unbiased and open, ready to receive that is given, the teaching or learning involve...

January 30, 2016