Sri M said...
While personal understanding and guidance are essential, it is also important that one’s aspiration for spiritual knowledge is profound.
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Sri M said....
If your search for the Truth is serious, then the right kind of guidance will come in some way. You have to remain sincere.
Sri M said....
Each one of us, with our limitations, needs to understand the fact of how we are related to this world, and how, while we are still in this world, can free ourselves from it.
Sri M said...
Spiritual life is not merely sitting down and enjoying as if you were having a drink in the bar. Spiritual growth is coming to terms with reality, having an awareness of where we are, what we are d...
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Once one is established in this silence, then no noise can disturb you. Silence is not the absence of sound. As long as the chatter of the mind remains, there is no solitude. In the depths of your ...
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What happens in solitude? We are face-to-face with ourselves, where one sits for long hours and does absolutely nothing. For example - sit and look at the lake. The closer we are to trees and natur...
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If we have one mind, a change in one part should affect the other. So, if we change ourselves, that change will affect all.
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Peace is a state of mind that emerges from within. If I am not peaceful with myself, then I cannot bring peace anywhere. Why? Because there is conflict in our minds always. We are constantly pulled...
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The main idea is to watch ourselves diligently in our dealings with the world and see if we are changing, turning more human. We cannot run away from the world, right? So, the first thing is to see...
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If we are making spiritual progress, don’t judge by how many visions or kind of lights one sees. What we have to look at is how one behaves. Have I become less selfish? Has my world narrowed down o...
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Knowing oneself starts with knowing oneself in the midst of people, not alone. In seclusion, I don’t see how I am. We should first know who we are and where we stand. To know thyself means knowing ...
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In a pilgrimage when people come together, there is always a sharing and an emergence of our inner workings – we get to see the beginning of what we actually are