Sadhana FAQ
Question 1: How should an earnest seeker guide one’s thoughts, words and actions? How should the seeker live one’s daily life so that the attainment of Jnana can happen without many obstacles?
It is essential for the earnest seeker to have a perfect alignment of thoughts, words and actions.
By practice of selfless performance of one’s own karma, with unshakeable faith in the Shastras, powered by meditation, one’s mind will become crystal clear. Then one becomes eligible to attain knowledge
General Guidelines
- Get up early in the morning around 4:30 AM.
- Start meditating on your Ishtha Devata or Guru.
- Meditation itself is awareness. The more you become aware, the more you penetrate inside. It is going inwards, consciously deepening inside. Experience for yourself.
- Become more and more aware - you won’t need anyone else’s answer. The answer is within you only.
- Desires and Anger are the greatest obstacles in this path. Don’t allow desires and anger to dominate your life.
- More the desires, more is the agony. If the desires are fulfilled, you will feel bored. If they are not fulfilled, you will feel cheated, as if the whole of existence is conspiring against you. You will feel exploited, and rejected. In short, you will not feel at home. The whole problem arises because of innumerable desires and expectations. Drop your desires. Then you will have learned how to live. After this, everything that happens fulfills you, whatsoever it is. In short, whatever you get in a proper way, be satisfied with that.
- Similarly with anger. Our anger must be like a signature on water. When you are angry, observe yourself and soon you will see a change. The moment the observer in you becomes active, anger has already become cool, and the heat is also lost. You can laugh it out.
- Anger is active sadness. Sadness is inactive anger. Anger is a passive sorrow waiting for someone to provoke it. One gives rise to another. Even by a hint of provocation, you can catch fire and you do things which you will regret later. You might say, “I did it in spite of knowing the consequences,” but by then it is often becomes too late for repentance.
- Try to unburden yourself from these two stupendous enemies of the universe - desire and anger. By laughing it out, suddenly everything becomes cool and beautiful. An inner conditioning is created. The whole existence is transformed into a friend. By watching in utter quietude, distance yourself from your negative qualities. A moment will come when suddenly, in a flash, you will understand that you are not joined to any negative quality like anger at all. The mistaken identity is broken by the Grace of the Guru. The whole psychological system cools down and anger becomes compassion.
- Watch in your inner sky ……… This will work.