Quotes by Sri M

“There is nothing to fear, and to live with this understanding is called holistic living. Holistic living is to live with the understanding the blissful Supreme Being pervades the entire universe an...”

“There’s another faculty that opens, the one that can help to understand things and that’s called the opening of the ‘Heart’. It is not the anatomical heart we are talking about. It is the opening o...”

“How many people search for the Truth? Very few. Actually, in the Bhagvad Gita, there is a beautiful statement. Krishna says, “Among millions of people, one turns to the spiritual path. Among millio...”

“It is interesting to note that the ‘bramharandra’— meaning the gateway to Brahman, the Supreme Being—when compared with present-day anatomy coincides with the center of the limbic system, where the...”

“Your opinions, your perceptions, your ideas, your images, they are all relative. They are not absolute. But certainly, something exists and the sensory organs cannot find that which actually exists.”

“The state where you remain alone in your true self, enjoying the bliss of your inner being, is called 'severance of connection with pain'. Only, in that state, can one sever one's connection with p...”

“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...”

“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...”

“The aim of the spiritual teaching in ancient India was to discover the unconditional ever-free self in all human beings. To break free from all bondage and all psychological bondage. To realize tha...”

“Don’t carry your anger, hatred and poisonous feelings against others, from one day to the next. When you go to sleep, you should leave it and get up fresh in the morning. And say, “It’s okay. Yeste...”

“All our lives are based upon the understanding that, “I am the body’. The ego, which is the mind, is built-up based on the understanding that ‘I am this body’. But there are many aspects of you, wh...”

“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, ...”

“The movement is from the unreal to the Real. For that, as mentioned in the Viveka Chudamani and other ancient texts like the Upanishads and Gita, the first thing to understand is that there is noth...”

“To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question, “Who am I?” have found that as they begin to enquire into the origin of the ‘I’, the little...”

“Greed transfers itself even into the so-called spiritual system. I call this ‘spiritual materialism’. I don’t think real teachers are for sale. You can give them millions of dollars but I don’t thi...”