Sri M said...
You can start meditation by reading a book or by listening to somebody or just sitting down and looking at the river flowing by. When I was wandering in the Himalayas with my Babaji, one of the med...
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Sri M said...
The process by which one-pointed attention is developed – I am deliberately not using the word concentration here because concentration is that you strain and try to fix your attention on something...
Sri M said...
I’d say when I use the word meditation it includes the word introspection. You can’t meditate without introspection. Now when I say introspection, it means to give complete attention to something –...
Sri M said...
As you go deeper and deeper into your Sadhana – whatever be the Sadhana that’s taught to you personally by your teacher – you’ll find that you’re becoming not only happier but also kinder, more car...
Sri M said...
If you have done one good deed and sat down and meditated, that day’s meditation is 100 times better than when you have caused harm to somebody.
Sri M said...
It is only when you are complete that you can give. When you are not complete, what will you give to others?
Sri M said...
Most of what we call kindness that takes place or is expressed is only when we are not threatened or when we don’t feel that something is going to be taken away from us or that our rights are being...
Sri M said...
If you really feel happy by doing good to others, by recognizing the divine spark in others, then you are already an advanced soul who needs very little of any other kind of meditation. But, if you...
Sri M said...
The true ‘Sadhak’ not only meditates in the way his Guru has taught him to, depending on his needs. He also begins to function in the world with the understanding – although weak in the beginning –...
Sri M said...
Meditation, the search for happiness, is successful and most effective only when the mind begins to change. That is essentially Sadhana and meditation, not merely the mechanical practice of sitting...
Sri M said...
All Sadhana is not mere meditation. Sadhana has to be complimented by one’s activity in the outside world – how one deals with other human beings and so on. That’s also an essential part of Sadhana...
Sri M said...
If you are fulfilled, if you are happy within yourself, if you are independent of anything external and still exude happiness, then you don’t have to do Sadhana. There is no necessity for doing Sad...