Sri M said

Sri M said....

As far as the spiritual progress is concerned, you cannot leave your brain in cold storage, shut it up, and say, "Now, I am spiritual". There is much more toit. Spiritual life is about coming to terms with reality - where we are, what we are doing, how we are moving, and so on.

 Sri M said....

The earliest verse of the Rig Veda talks about creation and says - 'perhaps he knows or perhaps he knows not'. Each one of us, with our limitations, needs to understand what we are, how we are related to this world, and how - while still in this world - we will be able to free ourselves from it.

 Sri M said :

When you go to a cave, you don't go alone. You take your mind with you. There are two fellows there, you and your mind, constantly tussling within the cave. When that incessant tussle stops and there is no conflict left, you begin to discover there is a mind, other than the brain, that keeps bothering you all the time. But this must be discovered.

 Sri M said... .

This completeness that we are seeking - which the  Upanishad  says and many people have found - can't be found outside of one's self. When the mind becomes quiet and settles down having understood that satisfaction cannot be found anywhere else and that completeness we are seeking can be found in this completeness here. This is the search we are on.

Sri M said... .

When they say 'Maya', what they mean is that it is not permanent. Please make a distinction between permanent and not existing. The whole theory of illusion means what you think will exist forever and is real, may not exist after ten minutes. Therefore it's not real. But while it exists, it's very real.

Sri M said....

Many hundred years ago, the great Kabir Das divulged the secret of implementing a resolution: 'kal karey so aaj kar, aaj karey so ab…', meaning 'What you are supposed to do tomorrow, do it today; and what you need to do today, do it now!' Postponing things always ends in failure.

Sri M said....

Can there be knowledge of that which 'Is'? When we try to understand this with our conditioned brain, we gain the insight that all things one gathers in one's head are a memory. And if it is a memory, it is something in the past, and if it is something in the past, it cannot be the reality that is always the present.

Sri M said...

A mind that has no distractions can have effortless one-pointed attention. When the eye of intuition or the eye of one-pointedness opens, then you can see the light.

Sri M said....

No matter what happens, don't bother. You may suffer reverses, and you may get into trouble. Stick to your spiritual path, if you are serious.

Sri M said : 

Being alone actually means experiencing the feeling of all being one. I like to speak that word – alone. All one. It's like the whole universe is part of you when you are alone.