Quotes by Sri M

“Yogi means one who can live in this world intelligently. A Karma Yogi is one who can navigate himself in this world where sometimes the currents are rough and sometimes they are smooth.”

“Can we live without depending on what others say? Who cares what others say. Let’s do what we have to do. Because otherwise you can’t move forward in this world.”

“Instead of competition and wondering and wasting time on what happens if the other guy does better than me, fix your attention on what you are doing. It’ll turn out to be good.”

“Do your work to perfection. Don’t worry about what other people are evaluating.”

“  What is it that we seek? Why are we constantly seeking to better one thing after another? Because, we are hoping that ‘if I add something I might become happier’. But, we know, we can see in...”

“What bars us from finding ‘That’ is too much knowledge, too much ego, too much feeling that ‘I know’. Nobody is ready to say ‘I don’t know’. In fact, in the present circumstances, there are more gu...”

“Sometimes things happen more through understanding and contact, than through words.”

“The only way to deal with it on a permanent basis is to come face to face with sadness. When you come face to face with it, you will see that it has lost its sting. Then, sadness becomes your frien...”

“If you don’t like to enjoy sadness, sometimes you need to survive. So it’s good to sweep it under the rug for some time.  But always pick up the rug and see where it is so that you can deal with it...”

“The root of sadness is that we are not complete, that we are missing something. We feel empty, we feel rejected, therefore we feel dejected. We feel loss of trust all around. We thought ‘this is li...”

“What we usually do when we are sad is to bring on some entertainment so that we are free of it. But that is like sweeping the sadness under the rug. Well, it might be required sometimes, like when ...”

“Sadness comes to every human being at some point. We don’t know when it comes or how. It could be that we are deprived of something. It could be because we don’t know where to go. It could be becau...”

“The fact is that we are separated, and we are looking for it. The puny brain can never find the ‘why’ until it reaches the goal. When it does reach the goal and finds the ‘why’, it cannot explain t...”

“If you have already spiritually advanced during many births and have come to a stage where you need just a little bit of a turn, then, the Guru will choose you. Until then, don’t put your brain int...”

“Nobody is perfect. As long as you have a human body some imperfections will be there.”