Quotes by Sri M

“Let Go! The Upanishads have a beautiful saying “Tena tyaktena bhunjitha” – Let go and rejoice! Normally when you say rejoice, we have ideas of accumulating things. Here it is a completely reverse p...”

“The practice of yoga is the way of finding that happiness which is our true identity. We discover that we are not what we think we are, but something entirely different. Swami Vivekananda explained...”

“Remove all the conditions that are there and remain in that One essential state. This is the aim of the Vedantic teaching. One discovers that one is not this body nor the mind but the inner self, t...”

“Upanishad means that which is taught by the teacher to the student through which he moves closer to The Truth. Upanishad is not in the words, it is in what is transferred between the teacher and th...”

“When I enjoy something sweet, fresh jalebis for example, although the enjoyment wells up when my tongue touches the jalebi, it is not in the jalebi or the tongue, it’s in me; a certain enjoyment we...”

“One of the meanings of Upa is to move closer to the Truth, Ni means to sit at a lower level than a teacher and shad means to sit down. When I sit down to study with my teacher, I sit down with the ...”

“Krishna says - You should be able to control your senses. You should learn to cultivate tranquility and balance of mind in any situation, good or bad; and above all, have the welfare of all living ...”

“Babaji used to say, ‘The seeds have been planted, they have been sown but no seed will become a tree and bear fruit in three days, it takes its own time’. So sow the seed, keep the climate clear, w...”

“In self-defense in Kalaripayattu they say, ‘never do anything when you are angry’ because all your calculations may go wrong. So let your anger go, cool down, and then perform your action.”

“When you enter the meditation hall, leave your shoes outside along with your ego; don’t bring it in. Go inside like a new-born child who is free, you have no enemies, you don’t hate anybody, at lea...”

“My Master used to say. “When you sit down to meditate, if you have someone you don’t like, think of that person standing before you. Bow down to that person mentally and say that you are a spark of...”

“Intelligence has to realize that from a point, it’s function is over and allow something else to take over. That instrument of perception that takes over is known as intuition, Jnana Drishti. You w...”

“Great yogis, great rishis, great scientists, the ‘great’ in all fields, are those who are not satisfied believing the conditioning of the mind. They know that this is basically a prejudice and try ...”

“The whole science of meditation is a way to go beyond or go deeper than the surface of the mind, explore the deeper recesses and come up with greater abilities and greater understanding. So much so...”

“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,...”