When you churn your mind in meditation, which means, when you delve deeper and deeper into the layers of your mind, the first thing that comes out
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No known modes of enquiry, no instruments of perception like the five senses, nor even the mind with its vast imagination
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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
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The deity is the media through which you reach the Absolute. The Absolute is not Brahma the creator, but the Para Brahman.
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The highest function of the intelligence, according to the Upanishads, is to realise its limitations. When it has realised its limitations, it just keeps quiet.
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I look at this world and I see, through ordinary common sense, that it is not permanent. It is not permanent, it is temporary
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In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge is mentioned as ‘vidya’ and has been divided into ‘Para-vidya’ and ‘Apara-vidya’. In ‘Apara vidya’,
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I am talking about what we think and how we act. If these two things can go together, then meditation begins.
MoreVideos | Talks by Sri M | An Introduction to Sthithaprajna
A ‘Sthithaprajna’ is one whose state of mind has become balanced, is steady and unruffled and yet active.
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One must understand perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or allow the mind to settle down
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The center at the navel is known as the ‘Manipura Chakra’. When the heat of ‘Kundalini Yoga’ practice emanates from the ‘Manipura Chakra’
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Kakasaheb Dixit, a close associate of Shirdi Sai Baba, was sitting in meditation and he saw Vittala in a vision. At noon, when he went for his dear Baba’s darshan,
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This is a very serious question. Is a Guru necessary to attain freedom? Does the Guru induce freedom? If the Guru is inducing freedom,
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So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because other people are thinking about something else in the vicinity.
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There is this famous story derived from the couplet of Kabir Das, about the Kasturi Mriga. There is a kind of deer with a little pouch
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