Thursday Satsang via Zoom and In-Person Viewing at TMC
October 16, 2025
Miscellaneous Mystical Musings…including Swami Sarvapriyananda’s
discussion of FIVE PARABLES OF VEDANTA with Michael Smith
Everyone is Welcome!
5:30-6:45 p.m.: In-Person Gentle Hatha Yoga with Michael Snodgrass
7:oo-7:30 p.m.: Guided Meditation with Swami Ma Radha Bharati
7:30-8:30 p.m.: Miscellaneous Mystical Musings, including Swami Sarvapriyananda’s lecture on FIVE PARABLES OF VEDANTA with Michael Smith
8:30 p.m.: Evening Chants
8:40 p.m.: Tea and Snacks
Join us on Thursday, October 21, for a wonderful night of readings and contemplation with Michael Smith. Michael will read passages from his favorite books in the Tradition, accompanied by interesting stories of his own experiences.
Michael is a child’s of the 1960s, where an entire generation was intent on breaking out of the “paradigm paralysis” of conventional, status quo thinking — the collective “default mode network.” All the great teachings, such as those in the YOGA VASISHTHA, try to do this.
If you have seen Swami Sarvapriyananda’s FIVE PARABLES OF VEDANTA,that’s the way he’d like to go. He will talk about adhyropa apavada, which is the Vedantic dismantling of a misconception.
Adhyropa apavada is most beautifully taught through little jewel-like stories, folk tales, parables, metaphorical images, and even jokes!
All of the great spiritual teachers have had a vast storehouse of such stories. Many are classics which many people have not heard, or are stories who have been forgotten — It will be a night of the oldies-but-goodies!
In this presentation, there will also be many diagrams and pictures and photos and symbols that he’d like to show. Michael doesn’t have any expertise in anything like Power Point etc, so he’ll just show them on the screen — and hopefully they will show up okay on the screen and on the Vimeo recordings.
Michael Smith has been practicing & teaching yoga for over 50 years and is currently a curriculum coordinator for the International Himalayan Yoga Teachers Association. He has also been certified by the Himalayan Institute Teachers Association and the Behram Guard School of Yoga Meditation (an Iyengar-based Hatha Yoga School). He was a public school teacher for 35 years and also a professor of Comparative Religion at North Hennepin Community College. He has edited and/or illustrated several books on yoga and has lectured widely on stress management (the topic of his Masters Thesis) and also on holistic health. His main work has been to transcribe and to get the teachings of Swami Rama, Swami Veda and the Himalayan teachers out to as many people as possible.
To support the work of The Meditation Center and register you can donate here or make a general donation by clicking on the “donate” button on the “Support TMC” website page.
Or donate through PayPal.
Note: There is parking available for TMC visitors in the St. Boniface lot across the street from the Center.
