Quotes

Sri M said...

It is interesting to note that the ‘bramharandra’— meaning the gateway to Brahman, the Supreme Being—when compared with present-day anatomy coincides with the center of the limbic system, where the...

May 25, 2015

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Your opinions, your perceptions, your ideas, your images, they are all relative. They are not absolute. But certainly, something exists and the sensory organs cannot find that which actually exists.

May 24, 2015

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The state where you remain alone in your true self, enjoying the bliss of your inner being, is called 'severance of connection with pain'. Only, in that state, can one sever one's connection with p...

May 23, 2015

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How much ever we may try, the brain is a very limited organism with limited inputs. All that the brain can think of, decide and conclude is from the information that it gets— the inputs. Now the in...

May 22, 2015

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The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what’s happening. First is the experience of great bliss; the second is the actual experi...

May 21, 2015

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The aim of the spiritual teaching in ancient India was to discover the unconditional ever-free self in all human beings. To break free from all bondage and all psychological bondage. To realize tha...

May 20, 2015

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Don’t carry your anger, hatred and poisonous feelings against others, from one day to the next. When you go to sleep, you should leave it and get up fresh in the morning. And say, “It’s okay. Yeste...

May 19, 2015

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All our lives are based upon the understanding that, “I am the body’. The ego, which is the mind, is built-up based on the understanding that ‘I am this body’. But there are many aspects of you, wh...

May 18, 2015

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Consciousness is that from which thought arises but normally, it is haphazard. When you have the discipline to practice and go deep within to find the consciousness, from which the thought arises, ...

May 17, 2015

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The movement is from the unreal to the Real. For that, as mentioned in the Viveka Chudamani and other ancient texts like the Upanishads and Gita, the first thing to understand is that there is noth...

May 16, 2015

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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...

May 15, 2015

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Greed transfers itself even into the so-called spiritual system. I call this ‘spiritual materialism’. I don’t think real teachers are for sale. You can give them millions of dollars but I don’t thi...

May 14, 2015