Mountain Retreat Yoga Sangha

“You are the consciousness which is the witness of all the drama, watching in amusement as the ego plays its games, dons different masks at different times and ends up identifying itself with the roles it plays. The real you is that ever-blissful, unchanging, blessed consciousness.” ~ Sri M

“Of course, the master tests your patience. Therefore, knock persistently but wait patiently. Then your heart will be filled with supreme bliss and you will work for the good of mankind.” ~ Sri M

“Step firmly upon the path. Have no fear. Fearlessness is close to ‘Truth’.’ ~ Sri M

“Remember! There is no technique to reach the ‘Truth’, for you are yourself the ‘Truth’. Techniques are there to still the mind so that it understands the truth that the mind cannot reach the ‘Self’ and settles perfectly, so that the ‘Self ’ – the ever-blissful ‘Self ’ – alone shines forth.” ~ Sri M

“Thoughts are like ripples that disturb the calm surface of the mind and distort the reflections. When they disappear, the surface becomes clean, and the undistorted reflection of the ‘Sacred One’ is glimpsed, however briefly.” ~ Sri M

“As you calmly observe your breath, and as the breathing pattern becomes so slow and soft that you can hardly feel it, stop even watching the breath, and fix your attention only on the lotus that blooms in your heart. Abandon even the ‘So Hum’. Just sit there, feeling the blissful presence of the Lord, who is bliss itself, filling your heart with the nectar of joy. You are yourself that joy.” ~ Sri M

“Don’t mistake the technique for the goal. Go on meditating deeper and deeper until the mind is stripped bare and you find your own dear ‘Self ’, the radiant, unpolluted, indestructible, pure consciousness, the unalloyed bliss. May the master guide you in this supreme adventure.” ~ Sri M

“If you are a sincere aspirant, if your only goal in life is to meet your beloved ‘Self ’, if you constantly meditate and pray for guidance, the master shall surely come – if so required. You may or may not recognise him but he guides you silently. The true master is the Lord Himself who takes on various forms to guide the devotee.” ~ Sri M

“On the other hand, Brahman, the Ultimate Reality, is never a memory, never a thing of the past. It is the living present, the eternal, immediate present and, therefore, can never be comprehended by knowledge, which has only the past as reference.” ~Sri M

‪“The Upanishad says if you want to understand the Supreme Reality that pervades everywhere, you need to ‘let go’ and move away from your own ‘small’ centre. Expand, let everyone be a part of you.”~ Sri M‬

When you become aware of your breathing under all circumstances, not just when you meditate, you will notice then, that your mind becomes settled and you go deeper into the inner layers. This is called awareness of breath, mindfulness, watchfulness.” ~ Sri M‬

‪“When one finds that true happiness is within and not outside, one gives more importance to the inner journey than the outer, then one finds satisfaction in oneself.”~ Sri M‬

‪“We should be mindful of the outside world and how we interact with it and then mindful of what happens within. Both have to go together, which is why in yoga there are yama, niyama - rules and regulations to be followed in daily life.”~ Sri M‬

‪“Human beings have divinity within and when anybody seeks that treasure, he or she becomes a bhakta. To find the Truth without any bhava or bhakti, is not possible. You can learn all the Upanishads, you can practise yoga, Kriya yoga, breathe up and down but if the heart has not melted, nothing can happen.” ~ Sri M‬

‪“Someone who has touched the core of one’s being becomes a tranquil and blissful person. But if you still jealous, angry or irritated, then you have not touched it.” ~Sri M‬

“When all the movement of the mind which is all the time moving and reaching out ends, then what is left? The seeker and his true essence, which is without any effort. Then the seeker is the sought. There is no difference.” ~ Sri M‬

‪“The supreme truth is not something that can be obtained by acquiring more of what is normally called knowledge." ~ Sri M‬

‪“Nirvana need not, according to me, be 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 to hide, or you are not insecure in any way. You are free. That is the beginning of freedom. The goal is important but the journey is as important as the goal.”~ Sri M‬

‪“Shraddha has several meanings but one of the meanings is complete attention - total one-pointed attention.” ~ Sri M‬

“If we can voluntarily extricate ourselves from the conditioning thoughts that are in our minds and open up for receiving what is beyond the three dimensional world and the ordinary way of thinking, perhaps we can tap the infinite potential that is even now, waiting for us inside our own minds.” ~ Sri M

‪“In matters beyond the rational mind, realisation takes place only when this mind becomes absolutely still. To find that out, we need a rational mind!” ~ Sri M‬

“In this material world – earning one’s living, going through all the problems and travails of worldly, mundane existence is a necessary step in learning about spiritual consciousness and evolution to higher levels.” ~ Sri M

‪“The rishis–seeing how people are constantly unhappy; seeking all the time and not getting the ultimate fulfillment – discovered that there is happiness, a complete fulfilment available to every human being within oneself and independent of anything outside. The search just has to be reversed to look within!” ~ Sri M

“Great yogis, great rishis, great scientists, the ‘great’ in all fields, are those who are not satisfied believing the conditioning of the mind. They know that this is basically a prejudice and try hard to break through, come out of their shell and soar to great heights in whichever field they are involved in.” ~ Sri M

“Questions never end. When you figure out that questions are part of the movement of the mind, and everything is still, there is nothing left to ask. This is something that has to happen on its own; it’s not something that can be imposed on anybody.” ~ Sri M

“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 experience of your Being. It’s not just a little sensation but an expansion throughout the Being in all ways, and not merely a physical expansion. It’s an expansion in all forms, in all ways.” ~ Sri M

By meditative state, I mean that the mind breaks free from petty concerns that constantly make it chatter and settles down quietly into a wider expanse. “ ~Sri M‬

“The experience of happiness is innate, not in the object that I enjoy. The object may although be necessary to excite it or bring it out. Therefore, Vedanta says: the source of all happiness is within us. When you are in contact with certain objects, this innate happiness is aroused within us.” ~ Sri M

“The word AUM is a threefold word, although when vocalised, it is a single sound. It can be divided into three sections: ‘a’, ‘u’, and ‘m’. The Upanishads and Vedas have given various meanings to these three sounds. One of the frequently encountered interpretations is that ‘a’ represents creation, ‘u’ preservation, and ‘m’ destruction or the transformation of something old into something new.” ~ Sri M

There’s no need to abandon anything. Money is a major energy in the world. Just give up exclusivity. Have. Share. Give. The world belongs to ALL.” ~ Sri M

“A Beej Akshara is a seed letter and a very powerful sound, a very powerful mantra. AUM or Pranava is the greatest of all Beej Aksharas.”~ Sri M