Quotes

Sri M said...

My Master (Babaji) once told me a story about three people who went to Himalayas to meditate. They went up the snow-clad Himalayas, sat down and meditated. After a year, one of them opened his eyes...

July 13, 2015

Sri M said...

In the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is ‘karma...

July 12, 2015

Sri M said...

If one understands that one is not the body but rather the inner-self that is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow. But, unless sorrow comes, one does not realize th...

July 11, 2015

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The ‘taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching. A stage comes where they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher in turn. One who is taught becomes the teac...

July 10, 2015

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From the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have made the duties of a human being so that we may stay togethe...

July 09, 2015

Sri M said…

The ‘sadhak’ has to be very careful. I’m not trying to frighten anybody away from the spiritual path. The Upanishads have described the spiritual path as ‘Shurasya dhaara’—meaning it’s like walking...

July 08, 2015

Sri M said...

The spiritual path nearly always, except in cases of certain gifted individuals who have been born with spiritual faculties, requires a guide because we are largely walking on unexplored territory....

July 07, 2015

Sri M said...

The few, who with their great devotion and good deeds become recipients of divine grace, free themselves from likes and dislikes, the opposites of attachment and aversion. They, with their purified...

July 06, 2015

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 ...

July 05, 2015

Sri M said...

To understand, while we are OK that we still have to go beyond; that we have to find lasting peace; that we have to find the Real which is the Immortal Self and to understand that THAT is much more...

July 04, 2015

Sri M said...

From the unreal feeling, the unreal understanding, the unreal imagination that I am the body, may I be lifted to a plane where I may begin to understand that I am the Reality. May the Reality dawn ...

July 03, 2015

Sri M said...

‘Govinda’ is the Supreme Being; Krishna is also called ‘Govinda’ because he had complete control over the cows with him. Now ‘Go’ also means the senses and one who has complete control over the sen...

July 02, 2015