Quotes by Sri M

“When you get up from your daily meditations, thank everything and everybody with utter humility.”

“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...”

“There is no technique to reach the ‘Truth’, for you are yourself the ‘Truth’. There are techniques to still the mind so that it understands the truth that the mind cannot reach the ‘Self ’ and sett...”

“The ‘Self ’ is ever free, ever blissful. It is and was never bound; therefore, there is no question of making it free. It is always free. It manifests itself as the ‘I’, the consciousness, the ‘I’ ...”

“If someone promises salvation for all at once, take care; you are about to be hoodwinked. If someone guarantees to lead you to Supreme Bliss in a certain number of days, again, be on guard. No huma...”

“Sorrows and shortcomings, the cares of this world, are certainly there, but who doesn’t have them? Now you, the traveler on the path, should know that they are lessons for you, and that after each ...”

“You are the consciousness which is the witness of all the drama, watching in amusement as the ego plays its games, dons different masks at different times and ends up identifying itself with the ro...”

“The key principle of the teaching is that we are in our true essence complete and full. It’s because we haven’t recognised this that we are looking for it outside.”

“The most important function of the Guru is to act as a well-polished mirror so that we see ourselves as we are, with all our imperfections.  The teacher reflects what is going on in us. Sometimes t...”

“Following the teachings is more important than worshipping the Teacher. ”

“All things about spiritual matters boil down to your day to day relationships.  We can sit at home and meditate for hours but when we come out and (we have not changed for the better) are still the...”

“When one has reached the Sun, the spiritual Sun that is eternal and fearless, one does not have to come back into this world of sorrow. That is the final goal.”

“When one has reached the Sun, the spiritual Sun that is eternal and fearless, one does not have to come back into this world of sorrow. That is the final goal.  ”

“According to Vedanta that feeling of being dependent on what is around you, the feeling that you are bound and that you have to get out of it, is part of the great illusion of the mind called the M...”

“In ancient India, the young aspirant, brahmachari went to the masters, the Rishis, seeking not wealth, health, or position, but pure and unconditioned freedom.  And this pure, unconditioned, unboun...”