Quotes by Sri M

“You can sit in a cave for fifteen years, meditate and think you are free of anger, jealousy and everything. But what will you be jealous of in a cave, who will you get angry with ? There is nobody....”

“This (examination to know thyself) is possible only in the midst of society. You cannot really study your mind—that is ‘to know your Self’—in isolation. Sitting in a cave, there is no one with whom...”

“One has to carefully and vigilantly watch one’s self as one actually is, before proceeding to explore the possibilities of finding the Truth. This also means one needs a great deal of attention, wh...”

“Your question is whether you need a teacher. Yes, you need a teacher. To learn anything, you need a teacher. But the teacher should not become more important than the teaching. There is a danger in...”

“Amongst the Sufis, there is a saying, which they attribute to Prophet Mohammed: ‘man arafa nafsahu faqad arafa rabbahu’ which means, he who knoweth his Self, knoweth his Lord.”

“I am talking about what we think and how we act. If these two things can go together, then meditation begins. To not bring about this dichotomy in one’s life, one has to be eternally watchful. It m...”

“An old proverb says: Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all thy ways, acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths, for thou have little understanding.”

“When a spiritual teacher puts his disciples to the test, even the most exalted amongst them can fail. It is very difficult for a disciple to pass the master’s test. Therefore, be prepared to examin...”

“I am saying, deep down in our minds if we would only be ready to peel off the outer layers of dust that have gathered; if only we are ready to reframe our thinking; if only we are ready to look at ...”

“Life moves. The problem is we would like to freeze it and hold on to it. It is not possible. You can freeze it for a while seemingly, but it will break its dam and begin to flow again.”

“One of the deep-rooted illusions, which we all have, is the belief that we are going to exist forever. The Keno Upanishad says the probable reason why we think so is—deep in our subconscious, we kn...”

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

“The Vedantin searching for the truth comes across a certain set of conclusions and says: “Now this cannot be, it is not this. I am looking for the ultimate truth and this cannot be that.” It is rel...”

“The whole theory of Maya does not mean that the world is an illusion. The world is a reality, but the theory of Maya says the world is only relatively real and, therefore, not absolutely real. It i...”

“When it comes to enquiry, or going within and finding oneself, one has to discard a number of misunderstandings and illusions not only inside but also those of the outside world—the world which we ...”