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"With this verse you are entering into an intense spiritual discipline." Thus concludes the commentary of the first verse of Atmopadesa Satakam, the One Hundred Verses of Self Instruction of Narayana Guru, the best known of his major works. Epitomizing the essence of Guru-disciple transmission, That Alone: The Core of Wisdom recounts 100 darsanas presenting the meaning of Atmopadesa Satakam to group of disciples. The power of the Hundred Verses is ...
At the turn of the twentieth century a wise teacher from south India described the culmination of Yoga in a very alluring manner: "when mind, the bumble bee, sips the honey-like sweetness of one’s own bliss, fluttering ceases and it is drawn into union." This poetic description given by Narayana Guru echoes and elaborates the definition of Yoga given in one of the foundation texts of Yoga, the Bhagavad Gita (VI:23): "Yoga is disaffiliation from ...