Sri M said ...
A retreat is meant for implementation. By implementation I mean the practice of sadhana and the other is the practice of certain principles that are conducive to the practice of sadhana.
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A retreat is meant for implementation. By implementation I mean the practice of sadhana and the other is the practice of certain principles that are conducive to the practice of sadhana.
Thoughts are like ripples that disturb the calm surface of the mind and distort the reflections. When they disappear, the surface becomes clean, and the undistorted reflection of the 'Sacred One' i...
One of the greatest qualities of human beings is the quality of love because there is no logic to it. For love people do things which are unimaginable. It is a feeling, a compulsive feeling. It is ...
As long as there is a division between the seer and the seen, there is duality. The real seer, after having understood the Brahman, has nothing to see, because the seer itself is what is in the seen.
The whole purpose of Sadhana, is how to zero in, how to go into the essence of this being, which is not anywhere outside, but within us.
Every little thing is full of joy. The dew drop you find on the grass in the morning, the breeze that blows in quietly bringing in the perfume of the jasmine, the smell of the earth after the first...
The Upanishad says, if you want to understand that Supreme reality which pervades everywhere, let go, move from your own centre, expand and let everyone be a part of you.
There are dimensions of the mind which operate beyond our ordinary logical, rational thinking. If we can voluntarily extricate ourselves from our day to day thinking, sometimes perhaps from the con...
The core of our being is the heart, not the heart that pumps blood but when the mind is quiet and everything is clear and clean without any bad thoughts about others, in that settled state we can f...
It is okay to worship the divine with a form but to ultimately feel it, you need to involve your heart.
Live intelligently and wisely, not giving to excesses, purifying your mind, doing your work honestly and at the same time trying to turn inwards and look within, knowing well that the satisfaction ...
Purna from which the whole world has come and which we seek, is right inside us in our true essence. It is that which the Upanishad calls the Supreme Reality, living in the depths of our consciousn...