“Smarana means continuously remembering the Name. Not chanting only, but remembering. Japa is chanting. Smarana is remembering. Naamsmarana is remembering a particularly short name or a mantra by wh...”
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Quotes by Sri M
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“Sadhana means spiritual practice. To become a Yogi, you don't have to change your clothes or your hairstyle. You don't have to wear Rudrakshas. None of these things are required for the practice of...”
“A sadhak who turns within to find the truth, which is his own Self, need not neglect the world or run away from it. This search for happiness, or for one’s identity or consciousness, is not reserve...”
“The Upanishads say that purna - fulfilment, fullness, and completeness - is the essential characteristic of one’s true being, which is one’s own consciousness, free of all distractions, and is call...”
“When you begin to help others wholeheartedly, without looking for profit or loss, then you are no longer thinking only of yourself, you are moving out of your selfishness and your mind is expanding...”
“It’s only when the inner being becomes full of joy that the world becomes full of joy. ”
“The philosophy of yoga says that the ordinary mind, which is always caught up in tensions, ups and downs, success and failure, cannot find the Truth. The mind has to settle down, and yoga is the to...”
“For understanding of the Supreme Brahman, you are required to change your mind, and make it ready for it. The ordinary mind cannot understand this concept, because it is beyond the understanding of...”
“The Upanishad declares that one who is most intelligent, very soon discovers the limitations of his intellect. Because, what the Upanishad is talking about, is something which is beyond even the un...”
“If Truth is infinite, if those who have touched it have said it is infinite, there must be infinite ways of finding it. Therefore, in all the 18 chapters of the Gita, different ways have been presc...”
“Thoughts can condition you and make you think that 'you cannot do something,' and thoughts can also be conditioned to say, 'Yes, I can do it!”
“Yoga is not just physical exercise, but according to the Bhagavad Gita every approach to life is Yoga.”
“The mind is fickle and difficult to control; it is always moving and turbulent, but we can bring it under control through effort, dispassion, and spiritual practice. Through constant practice of me...”
“When it comes to how to make the mind one pointed and free it from agitations that constantly assail it, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali say there is only one way : 'Nairantarya Deergha Kale Abhyaasa,...”
“The great Kabir Das said many hundred years ago, 'kal karey so aaj kar, aaj karey so ab' meaning, 'What you are to do tomorrow, do it today, and what you should do today, do it right now!!' Postpon...”