Quotes by Sri M

“The path which has been described by all the important teachers, unfortunately, happens to be narrow – not because of any narrowness in thinking but because the other paths are so wide and inviting...”

“For a spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular section. It is an individual, personal affair. There is no need to be affiliated to anything – but be free from it. As far as spiritual...”

“When I am clear, when I have not a single thought touching my mind, when I can control what thought I want, that is not fantasizing. Fantasizing automatically means replacing reality with something...”

“The few who with their great devotion and good deeds who become recipients of divine grace, free themselves from likes and dislikes, the opposites of attachment and aversion, and with their purifie...”

“If you read from any of the Upanishads and commentaries of Shankara and others, you find what they are trying to say is that while the intellect is a very powerful and useful weapon for us I mean a...”

“If you think of one thought at a time, when one thought is gone, before the other comes, there is something. If it is not thought, it has to be something else. That something else is the consciousn...”

“‘From the unreal feeling or from the unreal understanding or unreal imagination, that I am the body, may I be lifted to a plane where I may begin to understand that I am the Reality. May the realit...”

“Intellect is essential but intellect has its limitations – it cannot take us to the inner. When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay. Keep them ...”

“One thing you must remember. Is that the Gita is the first, the most ancient of the scriptures which have examined this question of how to approach the truth. This is the first scripture to declare...”

“What happens is since the mind is always in motion, one cannot clearly see the reflection of one’s true self on it. Like the pool or the pond which has so many ripples on it. Suppose you drop a sto...”

“The first chapter is Arjuna Vishada Yoga. It begins with the sorrow of Arjuna. This is a very very important thing to understand. Unless sorrow in some form comes about, one will not turn around an...”

“‘We’ are saying that the next stage after aesthetics is spiritual evolution. There, you have put things in order; here you have to put your mind in order. You should know where this picture, in the...”

“My Babaji – my Master – used to say, ‘as long as other people are thinking various things about you, its ok. If you start believing what they are thinking about you, you are lost! You are sunk.’”

“To understand, while we are OK – that we still have to go beyond; that we have to find lasting peace; that we have to find the Real which is the Immortal Self – and to understand that ‘that’ is muc...”

“In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge there, is mentioned as Vidya and has been divided into Para-vidya and Apara-vidya. In Apar vidya are included all the Vedas and Ved-angas like astronomy, grammer...”