Quotes

Sri M said...

Kaivalya comes from the root word Kevalam, which means only one. In Kaivalya, the yogi realizes that there is only one Purusha, spiritual being, (nothing to do with gender). What appears as distinc...

December 06, 2024

Sri M said...

The practical meaning of Self-Realization is to know your own self as you are, not project that I am a spark of the Supreme Being. We don't really know. So first you have to study yourself.

December 05, 2024

Sri M said...

A beautiful statement in Kenopanishad, yanmanasā na manute yenāhurmano matam |tadeva brahma tvaṃ viddhi nedaṃ yadidamupāsate ||  That means that which even the mind cannot understand. So through kn...

December 04, 2024

Sri M said...

Richness need not mean the bank balance. Richness is to do with the mind. How rich it is.

December 03, 2024

Sri M said...

Music is a link from the world of language and its contradictions, to the world of unity of the heart where you don't require any discrimination in any language. So the root of this knowledge, this...

December 02, 2024

Sri M said..

It's only when something difficult happens and when some sorrow strikes that the mind begins to think about higher things. Otherwise, you are always hunky-dory. Nobody thinks. 

December 01, 2024

Sri M said...

Universal love is beyond the mind and the brain. When we are so overwhelmed that the mind refuses to work, then you are absorbed in that. This can happen through being so selfless that the self doe...

November 30, 2024

Sri M said...

All the rational framework that we set up is based on the inputs or the data collected through our five senses. Nobody has more than that. These instruments of perception, the panchendriyas are ver...

November 29, 2024

Sri M said...

The most intelligent person very soon discovers the limitations of the intellect. The average intelligent man does not discover it. He is very proud of his intelligence. But a person who is truly i...

November 28, 2024

Sri M said...

These are only two ways by which Bhakti, devotion can happen. It happens spontaneously. You get this overwhelming feeling that the joy is in the Lord and in nothing else or when you are in contact ...

November 27, 2024

Sri M said...

Where one is totally absorbed in That and one knows that any amount of intellectual understanding is not going to help,  heart to heart connection is required. This what you call Bhakti and it cann...

November 26, 2024

Sri M said...

If we can even start practicing letting go in daily life, and not simply sit down every day and say Aham Brahmasmi, Tattvam Asi, you are actually moving towards the Truth of Vedanta.

November 25, 2024