Sri M’s Words

In matters of inner exploration, the most important thing is to keep your slate clean. If you have a slate, and you write on it and if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off.

If this becomes the height of devotion, it’s not different from Vedanta where all that the Yogi, aspirant desires is the supreme reality, nothing else, everything else is illusion for him.

In the Bible, you will find this – lay treasures in your heart, where thieves cannot break in and steal.

There are a number of Yoga text books. Yoga teachings which have come from the Nath sampradhaya the most popular one, which of course is much later than the Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali is the Hatha Yoga Pradipika.

The Ramayana was composed by sage Valmiki. So, I will tell you this story in a nutshell. May Sri Rama protect us.

I think, in the present millennium, in the present time that we are passing through, the teachings of text books like the Soundarya Lahari, purported to be written by Adi Shankaracharya, are very important because we need to balance the heart and the head to move forward.

We are saying from the research done by the ancient sages they have come to this understanding that consciousness is all pervading; consciousness is purna – complete.

Since it is Janmashtami time, I’m going to tell you a story on Krishna and the path of devotion. There was a little boy whose mother was very poor and didn’t know who the father was. So, the mother wanted to send him to a paathshala.

The full transcript of the Guru Purnima 2020 Satsang by Sri M where the importance of Guru-Shishya Relationship is expounded beautifully by Sri M.

Patanjali wrote the earliest codified versions, edited the understanding of what Yoga is, and defined it as yogas chitta vritti nirodha.