Surapaneni Sri Quotes

Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life. ~ Sri Chinmoy

The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you ... ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Each must discover his own way in life, and that way lies in his heart. Let him delve deeply into the depths of his being; his true centre is not far from there. ~ Nilakanta Sri Ram

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Your life is your own lesson. Right or wrong you have to deal with it by yourself."

Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka
All rights are reserved @ 2018 - Ravi Sathasivam ~ Ravi Sathaivam / Sri Lanka

When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment ... ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The wave uniting with its depth is yoga. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion that simplicity is almost tantamount to stupidity. But simplicity and stupidity are like the North Pole and the South Pole. One can be as simple as a child and, at the same time, one can have boundless knowledge, light and wisdom. ~ Sri Chinmoy

To me, Sri Chinmoy is a source of higher power and an uplifting example of right attitude. He understands the human impulse to transcend one's present limited state of being, and his life exemplifies this. ~ Frank Zane

If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Lovers of God possess intense concentration. In prayer their attention rivets itself so completely onto God that nothing can tear it away. Even a suggestion of the divine may draw them into a higher state of consciousness. Occasionally this can be somewhat inconvenient. Sri Ramakrishna once went to see a religious drama produced by his disciple. The curtain went up and a character started singing the praises of the Lord. Sri Ramakrishna immediately began to enter the supreme state of consciousness. The stage faded; the actors and actresses faded. As only a great mystic can, he uttered a protest: "I come here, Lord, to see a play staged by my disciple, and you send me into ecstasy. I won't let it happen!" And he started saying over and over, "Money... money...money," so as to keep some awareness of the temporal world. ~ Eknath Easwaran

In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Of all the medicines
In the inner life,
A smile is by far
The best medecine. ~ Sri Chinmoy

The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner spirit and the logic of nature's process. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love. ~ Sri Chinmoy

In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Guilt is non-acceptance. Repentance is acceptance. ~ Sri Amma Bhagwan.