Quotes by Sri M

“Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. That does not mean that when you speak the truth you have to be blunt. There are sweet ways of speaking the truth.  ”

“I decided, ‘I am walking on this path, it’s a lonely path’. Like Jesus Christ said, 'It’s a straight and narrow path’. So, let’s stick to it and not get side-tracked.”

“Sit down and meditate in your heart center and whenever such thoughts come which are not related to the inner, try to keep them away.  ”

“If you have faith in an infinite Supreme Being, put all your heart into what you want to do or achieve.  ”

“The true Self is already purified. There is nothing to purify. It's the mind that covers it that needs to be purified.”

“The Gita says that he who has conquered his mind, which means he does not let the desperate, dejected mind take hold, and who has succeeded, through practice (abhyasa), in keeping a positive mind m...”

“Questions never end. When you figure out that questions are part of the movement of the mind, and when everything is still, there is nothing left to ask. This is something that has to happen on its...”

“The best sign of your progress in your meditation is something very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what's happening. First is the experience of great bliss; the second is the actual experienc...”

“There is happiness and complete fulfillment available to every human being within oneself and independent of anything outside. The search just has to be reversed to look within.”

“In the Yoga Vasistha, Vasistha says to Rama, “A person who thinks everything is destined and doesn't put in any self-effort is equivalent to a donkey.” We always say it’s destiny when there is some...”

“The experience of happiness is innate, not in the object that l enjoy. The object may although be necessary to excite it or bring it out. Therefore, Vedanta says -  the source of all happiness is w...”

“Shraddha has several meanings but one of the meanings is complete attention - total one-pointed attention.”

“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, ‘Th...”

“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 anyth...”

“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 explaine...”