Quotes by Sri M

“I think most people who jump from brahmacharya into sanyaasa directly get into trouble after a while. They have not experienced situations that test the learning they have acquired during their bra...”

“My master used to say ‘When you are alone in a cave, you can say to yourself - I have controlled my emotions, I am not jealous, I am not angry!, and so on. But the fact remains – the reality is tha...”

“When you go to a cave leaving everything, you can leave the whole thing behind but remember you take your mind with you. Yes! The problem is the mind and not the materials things around you.”

“What is that one attains in the grihastha period which is different from the brahmacharya period? Once you are married you have one more person in your life; you cannot take independent and exclusi...”

“From grihastha, when your responsibilities are mostly wound up, you are free to spend more time in retirement in a quiet place, free from the troubles of everyday phone calls and so on, contemplati...”

“After the brahmacharya period, when one has studied to the best extent possible depending on the individual’s background and capacity, one goes to the next stage called grihastha. One has a family ...”

“Brahmacharya is the period I would say of studentship, where one spends all of his time learning, supported by others so there is no worry about sustenance. One is also a celibate as he is not marr...”

“I personally don’t think giving up the world completely, shaving your head to renounce the world and walking away is the right way in progressing on the spiritual path. There have been examples of ...”

“At places like Badri and Kedar, it is best to spend time in meditation and japa. The best Satsang is to do meditation and japa, visit temples or go to holy places. It’s not a very good idea to spea...”

“It is possible for someone to lead a life like a normal human being in the material world and at the same time keep the spiritual aspirations intact, and work in a way as to attain the aim of spiri...”

“It is possible to live in this world and reach one’s spiritual fulfillment at the same time, provided, we know the rules and regulations and the traffic signals to watch out for; where we can overs...”

“In spiritual matters, you start with the understanding that there is something beyond the ordinary mind. And it cannot be known through study. Soaking in the atmosphere in places where the rishis h...”

“The result of dharana and dhyana is samadhi. Samadhi is an altered state of consciousness wherein a person who meditates upon whatever he is meditating upon, merges with the object of meditation. T...”

“If the world were a complete obstruction to the attainment of spiritual fulfillment, the Supreme Lord would not have created it at all. The very fact that the world exists around us and also in us ...”

“Samadhi is when you are meditating upon the Supreme Being and there is no individual meditator but only the Supreme Being. In the sankhya parlance, the atman merges with the paramatman. In Vedantic...”