Sri M - The Journey Continues: A Sequel to Apprentice to a Himalayan Master

The Journey Continues

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My Param Guru Sri Guru Babaji

My Guru Sri Maheshwaranath Babaji

Sri Sadashiva Brahmendra

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Swami Nityananda

Swami Satchidananda

Contents

Sri M: A Profile

SRI M WAS BORN in Trivandrum Kerala in 1949. At the age of nine he had a strange encounter in the backyard of his house. Under the jackfruit tree he saw a matted-haired yogi. The yogi blessed him saying you will get to know our connection in time and walked away.

After this incident the mind of the young boy, born of Deccani Muslim parents, turned towards Vedanta and the great Indian tradition of yoga that led to deep contemplation. Meeting many known and unknown sages and yogis as if by design, Sri M at the age of 19 left home and went off to the Himalayas. There, at the Vyasa Guha beyond Badrinath, he met the great yogi Sri Maheshwaranath Babaji belonging to the Nath sampradaya .

As an apprentice to this great being, his mind underwent a profound transformation. Travelling with this bare-footed yogi, he had many wonderful experiences. A detailed account of his almost unbelievable experiences from childhood to the present can be found in Sri Ms autobiography, Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master: A yogis Autobiography .

On the instructions of his master, he returned to the plains and lived incognito for a long time. Meanwhile, he got married and has two children who are themselves grownup and married now.

Sri M wears no grand robes, has no special hair style, is often found wearing jeans and T-shirt or dhothi and white shirt. He lives in Madanapalle, travels around the world conducting retreats and giving talks on yoga, Upanishads, Sufi teachings in short, inner core of the religious traditions of most religions including the Jewish, the Christian, Buddhist and so on.

He calls himself a practising yogi.

Sri M heads the Satsang Foundation which runs the Satsang Vidyalaya a free school for the underprivileged and an IICICSC boarding school called Peepal Grove School, a rural school in a remote village 20 kms from Madanapalle and a Swasthya Kendra a free medical service for the poor.

The Satsang Foundation has recently initiated the MYTHRI programme involving large scale re-forestation and is in the process of setting up a modern hospital to cater to the needy on the outskirts of Bangalore.

Editor

Another Journey Begins

I STARTED MY autobiography Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master with the words Let the journey begin. The last chapter was titled The journey continues.

So, completing the autobiography was not the end of the journey and now we begin another journey together into new vistas. A unique and, in many instances, an unbelievably strange journey.

You may dismiss it as fiction or due to my unusually fertile imagination or just plain lies or conclude that I have finally gone bonkers. Be that as it may, if you find the journey interesting and contributing in some way to opening up your mind to newer ways of perception or even bringing up a thought like yeah, perhaps there are more unknown vistas to which consciousness can expand than the so-called rational brain can think of, I have done my job.

Bear in mind friends, that the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and some yogis have even called the solid world we swear by an illusion, a construct of the mind.

There is no strict chronological order though. Each chapter is complete by itself and can be read independently. So dear reader, Sangacchadvam Lets walk together once more.

Sri M

1. Babaji and an Extra-ordinary Photography Session

M y guru Maheshwarnath Babaji was not an ordinary man and possessed powers that the average human being cannot comprehend. At twenty and a half years of age, I was aware of that, having spent over a year wandering with him in the Himalayas. The more I watched him at close quarters, the more I marvelled at the wisdom and superhuman capacities of this enigma in human form. Whenever asked, he always said, There are no miracles. Many laws of nature are still unknown to most of humanity. When someone who knows these laws operates them, and does something, then those who dont know think they are witnessing a miracle.

I shall now relate one such instance and pen down the deeply significant dialogue that followed the event.

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I had been living with Babaji for over a year. We were staying in Rishikesh, on the other side of the Ganga, in a solitary cave. As you walk across the present Ram Jhula and cross the Ganga, the path towards the left leads to Laxman Jhula, and the one on the right, after passing through the bazaar and crossing Gita Bhavan and Parmarth Niketan on the left, continues to a wooded area. Turn left and you enter the forest that leads to Mouni Babas cave and beyond to Neelkanth. Further, on the right, on the banks of the Ganga are two caves.