“The essence of spiritual practice is that you understand and face that you yourself can use your mind to degrade your mind or raise it up. So, what is the greatest raising up of the mind? When, at ...”
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Quotes by Sri M
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“If you work and surrender the fruits of your actions to the Lord, then, such a person is working, but doing detached work. Such a person quickly moves towards the path of meditation because the mi...”
“Sanyasa is not for the lazy. A true sanyasin is one who lives in this world, and acts without worrying too much about the results of the action. ”
“Most of the activities of the world that we perform, based on the assumption that we are the body, bind us down to the Earth. Karma Yoga is the theory or teaching which says, that if you can act kn...”
“Like the frog that lives on Earth and water, the one who has understood the Truth, whose mind is anchored to the Spirit, can live in this world also. ”
“The actual aim of understanding the Gita is to go beyond all construction, words, and all conditioning until the Supreme Brahman is face to face with you. ”
“It doesn’t matter what your belief is. If you need to survive in this world, you need to put in hard work. ”
“All our thought processes are made up of language. Music is something which cuts across all barriers. ”
“Knowing oneself starts with knowing oneself in the midst of people, not alone. In seclusion, I don’t see how I am. We should first know who we are and where we stand. To know thyself means knowing...”
“Bhakti cannot be cultivated. It either happens, or it does not happen. It’s only with grace, we cannot say anything. We can do puja etc and, all that is fine. When the heart becomes tender, it happ...”
“The wisest man very soon discovers the limitations of the intellect. The Upanishads declare, yanmanasā na manute yenāhurmano matam, that which even the mind cannot understand, that is the Supreme R...”
“In para bhakti, all that the devotee asks for is the darshan of the Lord. Even separation sometimes is enjoyed. ”
“Gita is not something to be read as a theoretical text. While you need to do that, it should be looked at as a sadhana, a practice by which you free yourself.”
“Any approach to the spiritual usually starts when one goes through pain, obstacles to our advancement, when we want something, we don't get it. Then we begin to think, is life just this much or is ...”
“‘Letting go’ means not being stuck to the dream world that we have created for ourselves, and to be able to let go of it at any instant is not easy. It's a long journey and we go through many obsta...”