Quotes by Sri M

“Naama Smarana is one of the easiest and the best – you don’t even need to ask anybody to do Naama Smarana. Along with that you should also take care of other aspects of one’s life, little disciplin...”

“There is this great Buddhist chant of the Mahayanas, which says, ‘At some point or the other, in our endless cycle of rebirths, every individual on this earth must have been our mother! Therefore I...”

“The best thing is – better than not doing your duties is to do your duties. But don’t neglect your spiritual journey; keep that up seriously, so that when you are mature enough, you are out of it. ...”

“Don’t think that the spiritual teacher should be like this….if he’s not like this, then he is not a spiritual teacher. This is not true because there may be many reasons for which a spiritual Maste...”

“The root sorrow is the wrong identity. One thinks one is the body. And being body oriented, one gets all the sorrows. One experiences sorrows because anything that happens to the body and anything ...”

“I am saying if that desire or intense desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind, that mind need not be an extraordinary intellectual or any such thing. It can be just an ordinary person...”

“Actually, if you are a practitioner of yoga or sadhana, your attention becomes very, very good. You are able to concentrate fully on whatever activity that you are doing. If your complete concentra...”

“Most of the time we spend all our energies on worrying about failure. If we could only just brush it out and retain our energies – we could move forward and look at fresher avenues.  A mind which i...”

“Praying is a beautiful psychological exercise where you deep down want to come out of the circumstances which are limiting your progress.  And not finding that in the present conditioned mind,  try...”

“Freedom is our birth right. Our true self, the atman is free; it does not need to be freed from anything. It is free because it is complete, ‘poorna’. ‘Poornamadah’ that completeness is actually yo...”

“Those who have transcended the external rites of religion, they should begin to look within to find the true essence. This is very essential because without the true essence, sometime or the other,...”

“The highest function of the intelligence, according to the Upanishads is to realise its limitations and when it realises its limitations it just keeps quiet. It knows, ‘I’m very useful in this and ...”

“Most of the activities of the world that we perform, based on the assumption that we are the body, bind us down to the earth. Karma Yoga is the theory or teaching which says, that if you can act kn...”

“If one understands that one is not the body but the inner self which is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow. But unless and until some kind of sorrow comes, one doe...”

“Suppose I decide that the sorrow and the problems of the world are too much for me, and I run away to the Himalayas or somewhere else, I still can’t run away from my mind. I can physically run away...”