Sri M said...
Remove all conditioning and remain in that One essential state. This is the aim of the Vedantic teaching.
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Remove all conditioning and remain in that One essential state. This is the aim of the Vedantic teaching.
Do your duties but don’t neglect your spiritual journey. Keep up your duties seriously, so that when you are mature enough, you are freed from it.
When the river flows, it makes its own boundaries. Nobody makes a boundary for a river.
Put your effort into what you do. Don't get frustrated, if it does not work immediately. Move forward, study yourself and see that every failure offers an opportunity to move forward, not only in s...
Put your mind and effort into whatever you strive for. If the results don't come, that means somewhere along the line something is not okay. Don't say it is destiny.
Karma yoga - do your work to perfection as much as you can. Don't worry if the results will be good. You have no control over it anyway so, what is the use of spending sleepless nights.
A distracted mind is the cause for loss of energy. When the mind is calm, energy is gathered. Now this energy can be used for constructive activity- Service before Self.
When all the distractions are gone, the mind becomes calm, quiet, tranquil and one-pointed. You require such a sharp mind, to break and penetrate through the appearance to find the reality. This is...
If you go by the traditional understanding, meditation means dhyana. Before dhyana there is dharana and then there is samadhi. So, when you say dhyana, it merges into samadhi; that's what meditatio...
Truth is now and everywhere. We need to just take out the weeds, one by one.
The mind itself does not exist as a separate entity. It exists as a separate entity as long as it has the ‘I’. When the vrittis are gone, there is no separate entity. It's only consciousness.
If it is the truth, it cannot be defined, memorized and felt here now. Why, because the truth is something that can't be defined. It is all pervading.