Quotes by Sri M

“In ‘Grahastha’, when your responsibilities are wound up and the children have become self-reliant, you are free to spend time in retirement in a quiet place, free from the troubles of everyday phon...”

“The ‘Agni tattva’ vis-a-vis the mind is actually the fire that burns within. Physically, it is the digestive fire. It is the aspiration to transform oneself from crude to subtle. ‘Agni ye swaha’ me...”

“You must remember, when you go into a cave, you can leave everything behind but you can’t leave your mind. And yes, the problem is indeed the mind, not anything else around you.”

“In ancient India, the young aspirant, the neophyte known as the ‘Brahmachari’ went to the Rishis, seeking neither wealth, nor health, nor position but pure and unconditioned freedom. This pure, unc...”

“From my personal experience, I would say that the Truth is in the present, an ever-living experience, and not anything that can be gathered and stored in memory, because memory is a thing of the pa...”

“We think, that with our rational brain, we can solve everything! This is one of the problems faced by man when he reads the scriptures. He feels, that with his intellect, he can explain everything....”

“The whole science of meditation is a way to go beyond or to go deeper into the mind, explore the deeper recesses to come up with greater abilities and understanding so much so that the mind realize...”

“What it is that we would attain in the ‘Grahastha’ phase that is different from the ‘Brahmacharya’ phase? Once you are married, you cannot take independent exclusive decisions because you have one ...”

“In this material world, earning one’s living and going through all the travails of worldly existence is a very necessary step to learning about spiritual consciousness and evolving to higher levels...”

“In fact, the very teaching of Buddha was freedom from sorrow for all mankind. Without having sorrow, how do you get free of it? One can’t even think of being free from sorrow if they don’t know wha...”

“In the Rig Veda, it says ‘Sa Esa Vaisvaanaro Visvarupah’. This is HE, the ‘Vaisvanaara’ fire, assuming every form. HE is the life and fire who arises every day. Now ‘Vaisvanaara’ is supposed to be ...”

“The real ‘Soma’ is that which the yogi feels when his consciousness ascends to the highest center in the human body. The ‘Soma’ intoxicates you so much that you don’t need to go to a bar ever! Shiv...”

“The result of ‘Dharana’ and ‘Dhyana’ is Samadhi’. ‘Samadhi’ is an altered state of consciousness wherein a person who meditates upon whatever he is meditating merges with the object of meditation. ...”

“A spiritual teacher provides opportunities and situations, either deliberately or as they happen. He teaches you not to run away from these situations, but rather stay in the situation and wait it ...”

“If we can at sometime voluntarily extricate ourselves from the conditioning thoughts in our mind, and open our mind to receiving what’s beyond the three-dimensional world, beyond our ordinary way o...”