Sri M’s Words

In the bhakti tradition there are several layers of bhakti. Starting with ordinary bhakti, going to the temple; ‘God I need a promotion, please help me’. That’s also bhakti because human beings need things.

The Guru says “Look my dear fellow you are a lion, you are not a goat. You are not this little pond of stagnant dirty water that stands there, you are the ocean.

Shiva can be Shankara, as you see in form, or Shiva can be the absolute Supreme Brahman who is also called Som. In Kashmir Shaivism, Shiva has no image, He is the Supreme Being.

The very fact that we are on a journey, to a new place which we haven’t seen and somebody, let’s say, who has seen the place before, has given you certain instructions – pack a few sweaters, have your bags ready, keep your shoes, so that you know what you have to carry with you.

So we should remember that there are no permanent solutions. First accept this fact then understand that permanent solution lies within because within us is divinity.

The mind that always jumps around like a monkey? How do I make it calm and still so that I can go deep into the reservoir of all peace and energy and creativity? How do I do it?

In the core of your consciousness is a spark of the divine. If you are going towards that, it also creates situations for you. so , why should you wander around in other places?

The function of a spiritual teacher as has been taught by my Master is not to distribute lollipops. So everybody sucks on the lollipops and sits happily thinking this is the world.

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 together as a society.

Mere social reforms however, cannot do much as we have seen in the past. What is required is the reformation and change, which is the natural outcome of the individual’s spiritual experience of inner unity,

Srimad Bhagavad Gita is a beautiful book. It means Song of the Lord. It is one of the Upanishads, perhaps the only Upanishad, which was taught in the battlefield and not in the forest. We are all in the battlefield of life; it is not that we are separate from this metaphor. There are so many situations before us. What do we usually do? Either we jump into it with great violence, or we try to run away from it; retire from it, and feel dejected. However, there is a middle path to this, and that is what Krishna describes in the Gita.