Quotes by Sri M

“We all are actually ‘pashu’, although we think we are ‘manushya’. Deep down, we are all ‘pashu’ and Shiva is the Lord who presides over us. So, he is called ‘Pashupathi’.”

“The ultimate ‘ananda’ which is pursued by the yogis is not just sensory enjoyment. Even the ‘ananda’ of enjoying the body, which is full of bliss, that is also a sort of sensory but little subtle. ...”

“When we speak of our thoughts during meditation, it is impossible to control them and make them disappear. The moment you try to make them disappear, you are thinking.”

“We are like the ocean and all our thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it. This is our primordial state. This is the gap between thoughts.”

“If you think of the thought process, you will realize when one thought is gone there is a gap before the next one rises. If this gap is not thought, it has to be something else. That something else...”

“Now, the rishis and yogis who have gone into this subject have said that there is something called the mind, but there is no language to it. There is thought which has no language and that is the c...”

“Thinking itself is the mind. When there are thoughts, automatically there is the mind. Therefore, it’s implied where there is no thought there is no mind, in the ordinary sense of the term.”

“Best ‘satsang’ is to do meditation and ‘japa’, visit temples and holy places. But the mind still asks questions; so we have to try and answer those questions intellectually.”

“Based on what I have learnt from my experience, suddenly everything grinds to a halt and there is a blank; my suggestion is that, don’t try to escape or run away from it. That is our primordial sta...”

“Vedanta says: “Yes, the object exists, of course, but it may not be a cube or a globe or a cone or a rectangle or what you think it is because whatever you think, it is always the result of your re...”

“Perception is always relative. It’s comparative. You can only compare. There is no absolute perception.”

“It is, in that utter stillness, the Truth comes into being. One understands one’s true reality. It is as if all the impurities, or all the agitations, or all the modifications of the mind have been...”

“Suppose our instrument of perception, in this case the eye, is made like a telescope or a microscope, our view of the universe would be entirely different. The cube that you see before you will be ...”

“The most important kind of meditation is when a human being, one day, realises that the whole circus that is going on around him, this whole world that he has built up around him, has suddenly coll...”

“The entire teaching of the body of scriptures called ‘Upanishad’ is regarding the kind of knowledge communicated into a mind, which is absolutely silent, absolutely quiet, so that it discovers the ...”