Quotes by Sri M

“Don’t carry your anger, hatred and poisonous feelings against others, from one day to the next. When you go to sleep, you should leave it and get up fresh in the morning. And say, “It’s okay. Yeste...”

“The movement is from the unreal to the Real. For that, as mentioned in the Viveka Chudamani and other ancient texts like the Upanishads and Gita, the first thing to understand is that there is noth...”

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

“All our lives are based upon the understanding that, “I am the body’. The ego, which is the mind, is built-up based on the understanding that ‘I am this body’. But there are many aspects of you, wh...”

“The aim of the spiritual teaching in ancient India was to discover the unconditional ever-free self in all human beings. To break free from all bondage and all psychological bondage. To realize tha...”

“Greed transfers itself even into the so-called spiritual system. I call this ‘spiritual materialism’. I don’t think real teachers are for sale. You can give them millions of dollars but I don’t thi...”

“Imagination or visualization is a divine capacity given to the human mind by which it can visualize and create reality out of its visualizations. This is because it derives its capacity to create f...”

“Have patience in the face of criticism. Even when greatly agitated, try to be patient. Things will take care of themselves. We can never say when the Grace of God comes, so we cannot be impatient. ...”

“You think you are this little pool of stagnant water that stands in the way with no movement whatsoever. The Guru says, “Look, my dear fellow, you are a lion, you are not a goat. You aren’t this li...”

“From ancient times, meditation has been defined as one-pointedness. One-pointedness means the mind is not allowed to be scattered around or dissipate in different directions, rather it is brought t...”

“Alchemy is actually the metaphoric expression of purifying the mind and soul. The base metal, which is the gross mind, can be purified and made very subtle and pure. Then, the same mind becomes gold.”

“The path that 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 t...”

“Most of the activities of the world that we perform, based on the assumption that we are the body, binds us down to the earth. Karma Yoga is the theory or teaching that says that if you can act kno...”

“Arjuna attempted to run away from sorrow and hide. Krishna said, “Face it! There is no way you can get rid of it. Understand its reason. If you understand the reason, then you can be free of it for...”

“In the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is ‘karma...”