Quotes by Sri M

“The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something which is very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what’s happening. First is the experience of great bliss; the second is the actu...”

“So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because most other people are thinking about something else. They are thinking about the world; they are thinking about different things – s...”

“‘Viveka’ means ‘intelligence’ – reasoning and trying to understand, what is permanent, and what is not permanent. And ‘Vichara’ is ‘thinking about it’ – if this is not permanent, then what is perma...”

“The Mahanirvana Tantra says, ‘Anantam Anandam Brahma’, which means ‘that Anandam which has no Antah, no end, is Brahman. And that comes about only when the thoughts have ceased, which means, the wh...”

“In Vedanta, what the Vedantist does, is to examine the world around him and find out that it is impermanent. He says, ” This world is impermanent because today it’s here and tomorrow it is gone. Al...”

“Have you opened your window and by accident, suddenly noticed a full moon – a beautiful night – and for a few seconds, you forget everything except the moon? You did not exist for the time being, t...”

“Sometimes, what you think is misfortune is ‘fortune’ which comes in the garb of misfortune. Only then, you begin to think seriously, “Where am I going?” ” What am I doing?” So, that’s another reaso...”

“So, all this fear of what will happen if I let go of my petty little self with its petty little world (mainly of my own creation) is meaningless. It is merely the ignorant little ego trying to make...”

“When I’m enjoying something, even then there is a hidden element of unhappiness there, because I’m afraid that the thing which I am enjoying might go off at any moment. If I have common sense, I mu...”

“To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question “Who am I?” have discovered that, as they begin to enquire into the origin of the ‘I’, the l...”

“So you see by giving up the miserable little self, one is not lost. On the other hand, the Greater self is gained. How can one become unconscious when the fountainhead of conscious- ness is that ve...”

“When one becomes aware of the mind which looks for happiness outside, when deep within lies the treasure trove, then and only then does the little self begin to disappear and one becomes more and m...”

“(It is) in that utter stillness the ‘Truth’ comes into being. One understands one’s true reality. It is as if all the impurities, or all the agitations, or all the modifications of the mind have be...”

“When one understands perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or to allow the mind to settle down….to become still and not caught up in the confusion of this or that or thi...”

“When the mind is absolutely still….when it is no longer engaged in what we call ‘worship’….which means every worship has a worshipper and the thing worshipped, or the thinker and the thing thought ...”