Quotes

Sri M said...

A coiled snake has been the symbol of Kundalini for hundreds of years. It is so because it is also the symbol of wisdom. It is the symbol that you find on the headdress of pharaohs, for instance, o...

June 06, 2015

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All things spiritual boil down to your relationships in day-to-day life. Otherwise, we can just sit at home and meditate for hours, and be the same person when we come out. It does not work.

June 05, 2015

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In Vedanta, what the Vedantist does, is to examine the world around him and find out that it is impermanent. He says, "This world is impermanent because today it’s here and tomorrow it is gone. All...

June 04, 2015

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Great literature, sublime poetry, and exquisite works of art—they have been inspired by love and compassion. It is unselfish love for humanity, which is the culmination and the highest point that l...

June 03, 2015

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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, ...

June 02, 2015

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We think, that with our rational brain, we can solve everything! This is one of the problems faced by man when he reads the scriptures. He feels, that with his intellect, he can explain everything....

June 01, 2015

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Suppose, you have examined and found that there are a lot of things to be improved in yourself. The first step is to try moving in the positive direction; the other step is to do your ‘Sadhana’ ser...

May 31, 2015

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One thing to remember is that the Gita is the first—the most ancient of the scriptures to have examined the question of how to approach the truth. This is the first scripture to declare that there ...

May 30, 2015

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‘Dharana, dhyana, samadhi’—these are interlinked. Normally, when we say meditation we mean all the three. ‘Dharana’ means the capacity, technique or the practice by which one fixes one’s attention ...

May 29, 2015

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There is nothing to fear, and to live with this understanding is called holistic living. Holistic living is to live with the understanding the blissful Supreme Being pervades the entire universe an...

May 28, 2015

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There’s another faculty that opens, the one that can help to understand things and that’s called the opening of the ‘Heart’. It is not the anatomical heart we are talking about. It is the opening o...

May 27, 2015

Sri M said...

How many people search for the Truth? Very few. Actually, in the Bhagvad Gita, there is a beautiful statement. Krishna says, “Among millions of people, one turns to the spiritual path. Among millio...

May 26, 2015