“Can our ‘sundown’ be the name of God? Can we listen to that music which moves our hearts and opens the doors to extra sensory perceptions? I am not talking about powers. There are centers in the hu...”
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Quotes by Sri M
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“Naama Smarana is one of the easiest and the best. Along with that you should also take care of other aspects of life, little disciplines that one should follow. The most important root discipline f...”
“The Divine can never sleep. In the Quran, there is a beautiful verse – ‘He’ is called ‘the Sleepless One’ because if he falls asleep, the whole world will collapse.”
“How can our brain be absolutely quiet? Only when there are no distractions whatsoever, no contradictions pulling on either side. When the brain is absolutely calm, then there is something which is ...”
“When the mind is absolutely quiet and tranquil, it becomes the tarmac from which you can take off to regions which are outside of our ordinary brain. ”
“The science of yoga is that which can deliberately change your brain’s chemical composition. Once it has changed, you can probably explore and go beyond it. It's to free yourself from the limitatio...”
“No new thing has been found without somebody asking — is this possible? Even scientific discoveries have happened because some people were sceptical about what they thought was real and said — no, ...”
“It's the nature of the world that it protects you as long as you are not mature, like a baby in the womb. And once you are mature, the same muscles push you out. So, don't worry. Thank the world fo...”
“On the spiritual path, it's not so easy to fit in but then you can't totally break free from the world. You stay with it until you become really mature in your spiritual field. Then you have to do ...”
“Everybody is swimming along the stream. The moment you start a spiritual practice, the moment you turn in another direction, swim against the stream, it becomes a tussle. There is no way out except...”
“While I advocate that you try to remain with a happy attitude of mind, don't neglect the fact that this cannot be sustained until we find the inner happiness which is in us. When that is found, the...”
“We all want to be happy in some way. The only permanent ananda available to us is that which is real is within, as opposed to that which is here today and gone tomorrow. ”
“What is the way to convert tamoguna into sattva? Action. Do some work, so that the tamas is converted into rajas and, when rajas (action) is oriented towards the good of others, then it takes you i...”
“Everybody has a little bit of tamas, rajas, and sattva, the proportion being different in each person. The main problem is when, especially those on the spiritual path, begin to mistake tamas for s...”
“It's not easy to sit down and meditate when your mind is full of crude, selfish, and self-centred emotions. One way to break that is to help the unfortunate. ”