Quotes by Sri M

“Since ‘It’ is infinite, whatever you seek cannot be confined to anything finite; and therefore, you cannot worship it exclusively from one point alone since it is multidimensional and therefore, ca...”

“When the mind has completely emptied itself, when the mind has ceased to move, when the mind remains in its original state of no action and movement, absolutely still, then something takes place wh...”

“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.”

“The movement of life, the ever-expanding quality of life is Brahman. The Supreme Reality, which, if you break your illusions and look at freely, is part of you just as much as you are part of it. I...”

“We like to think of something the way we prefer it to be and not as it actually is. And, what is it actually? Essentially, everything is in a flux. Everything is constantly changing and moving; the...”

“You can enjoy the whole phenomenon of how hope works, how illusion comes and how it is all one big drama. Vedanta says—we are searching for this drama’s director, who has all these actors lined up,...”

“One of the greatest illusions that a human has is the hope that everything is everlasting; that, we are going to be like this forever, even in simple things.”

“The most important thing to understand: one who worships or respects or longs for anything other than the Truth cannot reach the Truth.”

“Vedanta rejects the myth that reality is external to the human mind and acknowledges consciousness as the source of the entire Cosmos.”

“We want to be happy; we desire all that brings happiness. The only problem is we think it is going to be permanent. Although life’s experience speaks otherwise, we tend to believe that life is one ...”

“Praying is a beautiful psychological exercise. Here, you want to come out of the circumstances that limit your progress. But upon finding that the mind with its present conditioned capacity cannot ...”

“How much ever we may try, the brain is a very limited organism with limited inputs. All that the brain can think of, decide and conclude is from the information that it gets— the inputs. Now the in...”

“What does a human worship most - Desire? Enjoyment? Wealth? These are the things that man worships - pride, prestige, respect, wealth, lust and power. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. One need n...”

“Mantra is a technique and it is not the goal. The goal is the deep state you get in. So when you have gone into the deep state, where even chanting of the mantra is an effort, you will think, ‘let ...”

“Very often, we tend to mistake ‘tamas’ or ‘tamo guna’ for ‘sattva’. ‘Sattva is goodness, calmness and quietness. ‘Tamo guna’ is laziness and sloth pretending to be good.”