Quotes by Sri M

“The Lord says, ‘If it is difficult for you to serve and purify yourself to the state of attaining the capacity to meditate, simply surrender yourself to me. Your mind is automatically controlled. G...”

“We are all in some activity or the other, nobody can remain without doing anything; The Lord says, ‘Dedicate that to me. Think that I am the agent and I am the enjoyer’. Gradually you will get puri...”

“‘Yogo bhoga yatey‘– yoga through bhoga. Again this is not a license for bhoga, bhoga means enjoyment. What the rishis meant was while you enjoy, realize that the enjoyment is not coming from that o...”

“Instead of trying to be free from the beginning, enjoy with the purpose that you want to be free of it ultimately. How does one do this, by dedicating everything to the Supreme Being. Whenever you ...”

“Fixing the attention – one pointed attention either on an idea, an object, on a sound, on a thought or even an idol but one pointed with no other thought intruding is called dharana.”

“Human becomes divine, man becomes superman and the ordinary is transformed to the extraordinary by the magic touch of the supreme energy. When the atman merges with the supreme paramatman, when fin...”

“The Soundarya Lahiri, the Lalita Sahasranama and other tantric texts contain certain bijaksharas or seed sounds that actually have no meaning by themselves but are vibrations that awaken the Kundal...”

“Each of the chakras starting from the mooladhara to the sahasraara have their associated sounds known as the bijaksharas – seed sounds. When the yogi fixes his attention on a chakra and continuousl...”

“The Bhagavat says that wherever there is a manifestation of goodness, energy, power, position, status and knowledge – especially knowledge, that is automatically a manifestation of the Supreme Bein...”

“Don’t carry your anger and hatred, stupidity and poisonous feelings against others from one day to the next. When we go to sleep, can we leave it there and get up fresh in the morning and say, ‘Tha...”

“Pranayama – usually when we say pranayama people think it has something to do with either slow or fast breathing or something to do with the breath. Actually the word pranayama means the knowledge ...”

“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. Otherwise you can neither read it, nor is there space to write anything...”

“The agni tattva, vis-a-vis the mind is actually the fire that burns within. Physically it is the digestive fire. It is the fire, the aspiration to transform oneself from crude to subtle. Agni ye sw...”

“Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. Speak the truth; More than speaking the truth, think the truth. That does not mean that when you speak the truth you have to be blunt. Ther...”

“Krishna says that if you would only fix your attention on ‘me’; He speaks not as a human being but as the manifestation of the Supreme Being. ‘If you fix your attention on me with complete faith an...”