Quotes by Sri M

“Outwardly we can bring about a response. We can help the poor to become better. All that is social work. But we believe that ultimately one would get the sense of equality only when there is a spir...”

“When I wake up in the morning – the first thing that I recognise is that I exist. And then the world exists –I see everything around. But that first feeling that ‘I am’ –that awareness that ‘I am c...”

“We say 'God created man in his own image'. Our idea is that, 'Man creates God in his own image.'  For example – When you say ‘divine justice’, you automatically postulate a judge.”

“Swami Vivekananda said, 'All the Gods that you see are only pictures created by people who don’t know, who have not seen them. But there are living Gods, human beings we can see face-to-face.' Serv...”

“Outwardly we can bring about a response. We can help the poor to become better. All that is social work. But we believe that ultimately one would get the sense of equality only when there is a spir...”

“Greed transfers itself even into the so-called spiritual system. I call this ‘spiritual materialism’. I don’t think real teachers are for sale. You can give a teacher millions of dollars. I don’t t...”

“Through the practice of mysticism, whether it is Sufi, Yogic or Buddhist one, can awaken the centers that become active when you are in deep meditation. Only when these centers are awakened is ther...”

“The human brain somehow seems to be wired for spiritual experience. Certain centers in the brain become active when you are in deep meditation. These are the centers thatyoga and Vedanta have talke...”

“Experiencing life through the sorrows and the pleasures, the pains and the happiness that the body and the mind go through, one evolves into a better and cleaner entity before it touches a level th...”

“When the mind becomes quiet and silent, the aim of all forms of meditation – one comes face-to-face with one’s consciousness. This is a part of all human beings irrespective of caste, creed, religi...”

“The Upanishad says that Supreme Truth or Reality is not a thing in the past – it is right Here and Now! Because it is right here, all our acquired knowledge cannot be applied to that Supreme Being....”

“What I am saying is that there is nothing to fear. To live with this understanding is what is called holistic living. It is to live with the understanding that the entire universe is pervaded by th...”

“The world is such a funny place – you try to chase something and it always seems to run away from you…you leave it and it tries to follow you! It happens. Vishwamitra goes off to the forest for tap...”

“‘That which does not move’ – is that which is absolutely still like the eye of the cyclone, total motion but in the middle there is no movement – absolute calmness. And, it is from that calmness th...”

“Plato has said it brilliantly. He says ‘there are two eternal things in this universe– one ‘Is’ and is never becoming and the other ‘is not’ but is ever becoming’. That ‘becoming’ is what is known ...”