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VOL.4  NOVEMBER 2023

If meditation and sadhana do not bring about compassion, your practice is wasted, says Sri M.

My guru would make me meditate for long hours every day. But he always warned: If you meditate for 13 hours a day for 13 years, but you can’t hear the cry of a hungry child next door, you can throw your 13 years of meditation out of the window.

You should be honest. You cannot gain anything materially through kindness. But you gain satisfaction. 

Since inception, the hospital has been holding free health camps to assess health needs of the rural poor and finding out the best means to address them.Just within the previous month, six camps were conducted benefitting 322 people from all walks of life. 

The past two months have seen the blossoming and nurturing of key partnerships to take the message of sustainable living into wider swathes of the country 

Yoga practice, in order to yield desired results, requires consistent and dedicated effort for a length of time. Here are some tips to help make a well thought out practice plan to make the most out of your Yoga practice both on and off the mat.

by Sri M

He appears out of nowhere in a sleepy little neighbourhood in suburban Kerala. He calls himself Shunya, the zero. Who is he? A lunatic? A dark magician? A fraud? Or an avadhuta, an enlightened soul?

Saami—as they call him—settles into a small cottage in the backyard of the local toddy shop. Here he spins parables, blesses, curses, drinks endless glasses of black tea and lives in total freedom. On rare occasions, he plays soul-stirring melodies on his old, bamboo-reed flute.

Then, just as mysteriously as he arrived, Shunya vanishes, setting the path for a new avadhuta, a new era.

This first novel by Sri M is a meditation on the void which collapses the wall between reality and make-believe, the limited and the infinite. With its spare storytelling and profound wisdom, it leads us into the realm of ‘shunya’, the nothingness of profound and lasting peace, the beginning and end of all things.

 

Available in English, Marathi, Bengali and Kannada, available on Magenta Press, Amazon, Flipkart and all leading book stores.

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