Quotes

Sri M said...

Have patience in the face of criticism. Even when greatly agitated, try to be patient. Things will take care of themselves. We can never say when the Grace of God comes, so we cannot be impatient. ...

December 09, 2015

Sri M said...

If it is difficult for you to do service and purify yourself to the state of attaining the capacity to meditate, simply surrender yourself to me. Then, your mind is automatically controlled to give...

December 08, 2015

Sri M said...

When Kabir Das wove, everyone thought he is weaving cloth. Actually, he was weaving the warp and weft of love and devotion.

December 07, 2015

Sri M said...

The confluence—the sangam of the Varuna river and the Asi rivers — is known as the holy city of Varanasi. The rivers are symbolic of the ‘ida’ and ‘pingala’ meeting at the ‘brumadhya’ or the ‘ajna ...

December 06, 2015

Sri M said...

You must remember, when you go into a cave, you can leave everything behind but you can’t leave your mind. And yes! The problem is indeed the mind, not anything else around you.

December 05, 2015

Sri M said...

In fact, the very teaching of Buddha was freedom from sorrow for all mankind. Without having sorrow, how do you get free of it? One can’t even think of being free from sorrow if they don’t know wha...

December 04, 2015

Sri M said...

Swami Vivekananda explained it beautifully; he said: “We are hypnotized by the false happiness that the world seems to give us. We have to de-hypnotise ourselves and come back to our senses.”

December 03, 2015

Sri M said...

‘Let go’ does not mean you should throw everything away and go to the forest. It means, develop the quality of ‘letting go’. Then, there is absolute peace, rejoice!

December 02, 2015

Sri M said...

Our entire life is ‘sadhana’ — how we approach it, how we manage it, how we are moving towards our goal. This is ‘sadhana’.

December 01, 2015

Sri M said...

We all are actually ‘pashu’, although we think we are ‘manushya’. Deep down, we are all ‘pashu’ and Shiva is the Lord who presides over us. So, he is called ‘Pashupathi’.

November 30, 2015

Sri M said...

The ultimate ‘ananda’ which is pursued by the yogis is not just sensory enjoyment. Even the ‘ananda’ of enjoying the body, which is full of bliss, that is also a sort of sensory but little subtle. ...

November 29, 2015

Sri M said...

When we speak of our thoughts during meditation, it is impossible to control them and make them disappear. The moment you try to make them disappear, you are thinking.

November 28, 2015