Day 41 – 22 February 2025
On the morning of the seventh day of the Yoga Vasistha Retreat, Sri M explained the three essential qualities in human beings – sattva, rajas, and tamas, saying that while each being had proportions of all qualities, it was only when the movement from tamas or inertia to sattva or purity happened through rajas or activity that the impulse for enlightenment strengthened and there was movement towards attaining the highest goal.
Explaining how beings got caught up in the world illusion through taking a fancy to an idea and building an entire universe around it through the story of a mendicant and his various incarnations in the text, Sri M then elaborated to give some practical examples of what could be done to smoothen the path.
He advised that since the text was a difficult one to understand, everyone could read two pages a day after they went home, internalise it, meditate on it and also do pranayama focusing on the point between inhalation and exhalation just when the breath stopped before exhaling thus stilling the recalcitrant mind. He also said the text prescribed the chanting of Om like all other important Vedic texts and led the chant at the close of the day.
Sri M presided over the daily annadaanam seva, honoring sadhus, and seeing to it that none of the 500 plus people, including the pilgrims, went hungry. During the evening Dhuni Puja several visitors queued up to meet Sri M and offer their pranams as bhajans and soulful reed music resounded in the Yagnashala.
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