Sri M said...
Only when you put self-effort, does grace come.
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Only when you put self-effort, does grace come.
You know it’s not the fear of death that normally makes us unhappy. Fear is that when I die, I will have to let go and leave all the things that I love, which I think are precious.
Sometimes you should sit quietly and say to yourself – when everything is lost, what is going to happen to me? Then when you learn to die while you’re still alive, death loses its sting.
Slowly when you begin to find out that you’re not just the body but could be something else, then you’ll see that slowly your attachment to the body begins to loosen itself.
If somebody is selling a shortcut, run away because you’ll lose your money and you’ll waste your time.
When you say Guru, it means a teacher in all ways; could be a small child who teaches you innocence of childhood, it could be a philosophical teacher who teaches you the Upanishads, they are all Gu...
Love is that you give with no expectations of ever receiving anything back.
Don’t ever let yourself be discouraged by any circumstance, move ahead and you’ll overcome it.
Your body dies but inside you is a spark of the Brahman, which is deathless and immortal. Turn yourself into that and the fear of death will be no more because that (thing) spark doesn’t die.
In the middle of the darkness look for a stream of light
The whole process of life is to go back to that completeness
When you practice the techniques taught through the spiritual texts, you will come to a stage where your mind is no more limited to the brain but is multidimensional.