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Later years[edit]
After spending three years in the Himalayas as a wandering yogi with his master, Sri M claims that he
was asked by his master to go back and prepare for his life mission. He returned from the Himalayas
and travelled all over India, meeting many spiritual gurus such as Neem Karoli Baba, Lakshman
Joo and J. Krishnamurti. He also spent a considerable amount of time in the Ramakrishna Mission and
the Krishnamurti Foundation. While he was associated with the Krishnamurti Foundation, he met his
future wife Sunanda Sanadi, with whom he now has two grown-up children.[13] He started his teaching
phase some years after his Master died.[citation needed]
He now heads the Satsang Foundation, which runs two schools in Andhra Pradesh: the Peepal Grove
School and the Satsang Vidyalaya. The Peepal Grove School, which is a boarding school, was
inaugurated by the former President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in 2006. Satsang Vidyalaya is a free
school meant for children in the Madanapalle area where Sri M himself lives. He also writes in Speaking
Tree, a spiritual forum run by The Times of India.[14]
A documentary film called The Modern Mystic: Sri M of Madnapalle[15] was made by director Raja
Choudhury in 2011.
In 2015, Sri M undertook a long journey on foot (padayatra) called "Walk of Hope" from Kanyakumari to
Kashmir, covering 7500 kilometres. The walk began on 12 January 2015, marking the birth anniversary
of the saint Swami Vivekananda, who had himself undertaken a similar journey more than a century
ago.[16][circular reference] With a group of dedicated fellow travellers, Sri M walked through 11 Indian states. He
considered the Walk of Hope an exercise to restore the innate spirituality of the nation.[17] The padayatra
ended in Srinagar, Kashmir on 29 April 2016.[18]
In April 2017, Sri M published the second part of his autobiography. The Journey
Continues[19] surpasses the earlier volume in apparently miraculous incidents (in the introduction Sri M
speculates that his readers might believe he "had finally gone bonkers"); here Sri M recounts in detail
many of his previous lives over a period that spans more than 2000 years, during which he (or she,
since in several lives M apparently was a woman) was associated with numerous saints of India.[20]