Quotes by Sri M

“According to Vedanta, the entire Cosmos is a complete seamless, continuous unity, the one which contains within itself, in not manifest, but potential form, millions of actualisations of the univer...”

“A single understanding of something is a great detriment to the understanding of one’s self and the universe because the single vision becomes the fanatical vision. It has to move, change; it has t...”

“Self realisation is to understand oneself and in the process of understanding oneself, one has to break down innumerable illusions that we have created about ourselves.”

“Divine Love is to be understood through ordinary love. If you have a rough idea about ordinary Love, expand it to a thousand times and there you have divine Love, but selfless, utterly selfless and...”

“When a person is on the spiritual journey, he/she should not cry over what he/she loses because what he/she loses may be the stepping stone to what is going to be gained, which is communion with th...”

“A teacher should be a polished mirror – so that when you look you see your actual reflection, not some kind of a distorted image. If you see your real picture then only one can change- when one doe...”

“Whenever, a sincere student, a Satya Kama, one who searches for nothing but the Truth, sits in humility before a teacher, with his mind open and unprejudiced ready to receive that which is given, t...”

“The Upanishads go further: ‘nothing that you worship here is the ‘Supreme Being’! This is what the Keno Upanishad says: Yen manasa na manuta yena ahur mano matan tadeva Brahma twam viddhi nedam yad...”

“When the mind has almost ceased to move, when the mind remains in its original state of no action and no movement, absolutely still, then, something takes place, which we may call the understanding...”

“The moment I go deep into that, my capacity to break the bonds of what has been given to me from the past expands. I learn to break the fetters one by one. When I have gone deeper and deeper into t...”

“Your question, whether you need a teacher ? Yes. You would need a teacher. For anything you need a teacher. But the teacher should not become more important than the teaching. That is the danger al...”

“First practice kindness. Even if it is an imitation, it doesn’t matter. Imitating a practitioner of kindness is always better than a fellow who is cruel. Practice kindness to all living beings, as ...”

“One of the great obstacles, impurities to Truth is sloth. Swami Vivekananda realized it, and implemented it. He said – you fellows cannot meditate 24 hours a day, therefore work. It prevents you fr...”

“Spiritual practice is not something diverse from our day to day life. Not as if I can do whatever I like in my life, and then sit down one day, everyday in the morning and visualize the light comin...”

“Now beginning to do your sadhana seriously – I am trying to stress this – is two things. One is, actually sitting down and doing your sadhana; the other is, examine your life and see how you behave...”