“Great yogis, great rishis, great scientists, the ‘great’ in all fields, are those who are not satisfied believing the conditioned mind. They know that this is a prejudice and try hard to break thro...”
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Quotes by Sri M
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“The more something is done only for oneself, I can say it is wrong. The more something is done for others and of that a little bit is for oneself, then I can say it is the right way. That is the o...”
“Moving up and down the spine is Mukhya Prana, the Supreme energy. In yogic terms, it is the movement of the aspiration, thought, concentration and energy towards the higher side or the lower side. ...”
“Does freedom happen in stages? I would say, It’s like the wheel; the network of illusion is gradually lifted as one goes deeper and deeper into understanding one’s own self, one’s own mind.”
“Very often, we tend to mistake tamas – Tamo guna – for sattva. Sattva is goodness and calmness and quietness. Tamo guna is not goodness and calmness and quietness but laziness, sloth, and pretend...”
“If all my mind is concentrated on seeking the Truth, then I am what in the Upanishads is called Satya Kama. That means I have no kaama other than seeking satya.”
“The Supreme Being is the connecting link between all beings, worlds, and galaxies, passing through them all like a thread holding the beads together in a rosary.”
“A Kshatriya is a person who has won over his animal instincts – he is called the greatest conqueror.”
“When we say control your thoughts during meditation, it is impossible to do that and make them disappear. Because the moment you try to make thoughts disappear, you are ‘thinking’.”
“Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. That does not mean that when you speak the truth you have to be blunt. There are sweet ways of speaking the truth. ”
“You have a slate and you write on it. Every time you write on it, if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off. So in matters of inner exploration, the most important thing is to ke...”
“Remove all the conditions that are there and remain in that One essential state. ”
“If we can voluntarily extricate ourselves from the conditioning thoughts that are in our minds and open up for receiving what is beyond the three-dimensional world and the ordinary way of thinking,...”
“All things about spiritual matters boil down to your relationships, day to day. We can sit at home and meditate for hours but when we come out and we are still the same, it does not work.”
“In matters beyond the rational mind, realization takes place only when this mind becomes absolutely still. To find that out, we need a rational mind!”