Sri M said...
The best thing is to do your duties than not doing so. But don’t neglect your spiritual journey; keep to it seriously, so that when you are mature enough, then you are out of it, even if you don’t ...
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The best thing is to do your duties than not doing so. But don’t neglect your spiritual journey; keep to it seriously, so that when you are mature enough, then you are out of it, even if you don’t ...
I don’t believe that one can find the teacher. In my experience, and in that of various others, I have seen that it is not possible to find a teacher. So then, what happens? It’s that the teacher f...
The Absolute Energy, when in manifestation, when moving, is called Shakti. When it is not moving, and is in Absolute Rest, it is called Shiv. Here, we are not talking about the personality Shankara...
‘Bhaja Govinda’, on one hand, means ‘to chant the name of Govinda’. Now ‘bhajan’ is not just chanting, it also means to completely absorb oneself in something. Why is it called ‘bhajan’ when songs ...
In that effortless state, when you realize that everything is. That you are not going anywhere. Everything is as it is without movement. You can’t even describe this.
The highest function of the intellect is to understand its limitations in the spiritual field; understanding its limitation is possible only if you have a really good intelligence. A good intellige...
When the mind becomes quiet, which is the aim of all forms of meditation, one comes face to face with one’s consciousness. This consciousness resides in all human beings, irrespective of caste, cre...
Based on what I have learnt from my experience, suddenly everything grinds to a halt and there is a blank; my suggestion is that, don’t try to escape or run away from it. That is our primordial sta...
To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question, “Who am I?” have found that as they begin to enquire into the origin of the ‘I’, the little...
When the mind is absolutely still, when it is no longer engaged in what we call ‘worship’—where every worship has a worshipper and the worshipped, or the thinker and the thing thought of—when the o...
Those who have transcended the external rites of religion should begin to look within to find the true essence. This is very essential because without the true essence, sometime or the other, the e...
One has to carefully and vigilantly watch one’s self as one actually is, before proceeding to explore the possibilities of finding the Truth. This also means one needs a great deal of attention, wh...