Quotes by Sri M

“In matters of inner exploration, the most important thing is to keep your slate clean.”

“During meditation, it is impossible to control your thoughts and make them disappear. Because the moment you try to make them disappear, you are thinking.”

“Does freedom happen in stages? I would say, it's like the wheel; the network of illusion is gradually lifted as one goes deeper and deeper into understanding one's own self, one's own mind.”

“To enquire about the Absolute, you should have freedom from the very beginning. It doesn't come at the end. If you can enquire in freedom, then you will end up in freedom. If you enquire in bondage...”

“Nirvana is not a state where you are in a trance all the time. Nirvana is when you are free while you are eating, drinking, talking, but you don't have any pretensions, when you don't have anything...”

“It is when the inner being becomes happy, that the world becomes full of joy for us. Every little thing, though previously unnoticed, begins to impart a superior joy.”

“Everything that exists in this world is constantly in motion. What is here today is not here tomorrow. Nothing that keeps changing and is temporary can be real. Reality is permanent, eternal. The o...”

“There is no human being who can live without an attachment. However, when you get more attached to your inner reality, you get more detached from the outer realities. The inner becomes more importa...”

“As long as ‘I am' there, there is no That. When That is there, ‘I am' is not. Therefore, there are no 'two' anymore but only one.”

“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 l', the little, limited I', with which most people identify the...”

“The source from which a teaching comes can be different. The essence of the teaching is more important. ”

“The spiritual path happens to be narrow, not because of any narrowness in thinking but because the other paths are so wide and inviting that it is very tempting to go off on those paths, so much so...”

“You cannot get rid of sorrow unless you face it. If you understand the reason, then you can be free of it forever.”

“Having sexual energy is not a bad thing. It means you are healthy. Sadhana is meant to turn that energy into spiritual energy. The Tejas that you have, should be turned into ojas.”

“Sri Vidya is a mantra shastra that teaches you the Beejaksharas meant to awaken the Shakti inside you,  the all-pervading Shakti, which also is in us. This is Sri Vidya. It should be learnt from a ...”