Quotes by Sri M

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

“'Gyana' means knowledge. ‘Vignana’, according to Bhagwad Gita, is that knowledge which when understood leaves nothing more to be understood.”

“Consciousness is that from which thought arises but normally, it is haphazard. When you have the discipline to practice and go deep within to find the consciousness from which the thought arises, t...”

“We all know we are the body, we think and then we begin to realise slowly that “I cannot be the body because the body belongs to me and what belongs to me cannot be I. This is not I. Now it is I, n...”

“The ‘taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching. A stage comes where they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher in turn. One who is taught becomes the teac...”

“As you sit and watch the thoughts, as in thought watching thought, one thought comes up which then becomes a chain. Here, use your thought itself as a weapon, think that you, with your mind, have m...”

“Vedanta says: when the mind understands its inability to reach out and find it, it finally rests or lets go; it surrenders, becomes still and quiet naturally, not forcibly. Then, when the mind and ...”

“Blankness is very frightful for us. This is so because the mind thinks it will lose its hold, that we will soon be free of it. It is the tendency of the mind to bind and when we are shaking ourselv...”

“‘Viveka’ means ‘intelligence’; the reasoning and effort to understand what is permanent and what is not. And ‘Vichara’ is ‘thinking about it’; if this is not permanent, then what is permanent? Or t...”

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

“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...”

“When you churn your mind in meditation, which means, when you delve deeper and deeper into the layers of your mind, the first thing that comes out is not Amrit. The first thing that comes out is po...”

“No known modes of enquiry, no instruments of perception like the five senses, nor even the mind with its vast imagination can reach that abode of Supreme Reality. It’s none other than our own intim...”

“Look carefully and observantly at the outside world—the physical world, the substance as we know it—setting aside all other preconceived ideas we have about it. Look at what we think is substance, ...”

“The deity is the media through which you reach the Absolute. The Absolute is not Brahma the creator, but the Para Brahman. The root ‘braha’ means to expand continuously. Something, which is always ...”