Quotes by Sri M

“If the world were a complete obstruction to the attainment of spiritual fulfillment, the Supreme Being would not have created the world at all. The very fact that the world exists around us and als...”

“Whatever you are doing, he says, “Dedicate that to me. Think that I am the agent and I am the enjoyer”. Gradually, you will get purified enough and be lifted out of that activity. Although, this is...”

“If you can put your mind into an idea that you want to achieve, visualizing it completely as if it is actually there, doing that constantly using the technique by which it can be done, then believe...”

“You should be able to control your senses. You should learn to cultivate tranquility and balance of mind in the midst of circumstances, whether good or bad; and above all, have the welfare of all l...”

“The world is such a funny place. You try to go behind something and it always runs away from you; you leave it and it tries to follow you! Vishwamitra goes off to the forest for ‘Tapasya’ and Menak...”

“The message Shirdi Sai Baba wanted to convey was the total unity of all religions. So, he did a very strange thing. While living in a broken mosque, he had this everyday ritual of lighting a lamp o...”

“We can go away anywhere but we carry our mind with us. We can’t escape from the mind. According to the Gita and also people who have walked this path, the only solution is to face it. Examine it. L...”

“Examine yourself in the morning when you wake up and in the evening before you go to sleep. Ask yourself – have I changed or am I the same or worse? Am I still angry when somebody else is happy?”

“Whatever be the situations, look at them carefully and try to work out how best you can handle them. To handle them, ‘Sadhana’ is a very important part of your daily life. Without it, you cannot ha...”

“Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. Speak the truth; more than speaking the truth, think the truth. It does not mean that when you speak the truth, you have to be blunt; there...”

“Let Go! Upanishads have a beautiful saying ‘Tena tyaktena bhunjitha.’ Let go and rejoice! Normally when you say rejoice, our idea is that we have to gather things together. Here it is a completely ...”

“‘That which does not move’ is like the eye of the cyclone —total motion amidst which there is nothing but absolute calmness. It is from this calmness that everything is sucked in because it’s a vac...”

“Mula’ which means ‘root’; ‘Adhara’ means ‘foundation’, support’. So, if you translate the word, it would mean ‘root support’ or ‘root foundation’. This means that the Energy, after doing all its wo...”

“Remove all the conditions that are there and remain in one essential state and this is the aim of the vedantic teaching. One discovers that One is not this body or the mind but the inner self, the ...”

“The Vedantin would say that absolute faith comes out of the understanding that the intellect is limited. The Bhakta would say that absolute faith comes out of a feeling that he cannot explain to yo...”