Sri M's Words
Finding Happiness in the Battlefield of Life – The Bhagavad Gita Way
Srimad Bhagavad Gita is a beautiful book. It means Song of the Lord. It is one of the Upanishads, perhaps the only Upanishad, which was taught in the battlefield and not in the forest. We are all in the battlefield of life; it is not that we are separate from this metaphor. There are so many situations before us. What do we usually do? Either we jump into it with great violence, or we try to run away from it; retire from it, and feel dejected. However, there is a middle path to this, and that is what Krishna describes in the Gita.
What Yoga Can Do
When the vrittis are gone, there is no separate entity, it’s only consciousness. This is the meaning of yoga in Yoga Vasishta and also in the ultimate sense.
Keep your Slate Clean
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.
Lifelong Devotion
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.
“Fill your heart with kindness and compassion ” – Sri M
In the Bible, you will find this – lay treasures in your heart, where thieves cannot break in and steal.
“Keep a Positive Mind” – Sri M
Positive mind is very important to activate the cells of the body to produce positive hormones in the system. When the positive hormones begin to course through your blood stream then the resilience of your cells also goes up.
Aim of Yoga
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 Spiritual Journey
So sometimes the goal may not be far away. It is right here. In the beginning it would appear as if it’s there; oh I haven’t reached it yet. Keep trying!
The Story of Sri Rama
The Ramayana was composed by sage Valmiki. So, I will tell you this story in a nutshell. May Sri Rama protect us.
An Ode to the Devi
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.
“Consciousness: What does it mean?”
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.
Krishna and the Path of Devotion
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.
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