Are you doing your 'Sadhana' ... Or Just 'Seva' ?

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us are more interested in Sadhana. Some of us devote more time to Seva. Some of

course do neither ... In spiritual life, to get development, there should be

equilibrium, or balance, between sattvic and rajasic qualities. Once you

give more importance to the rajas guna, your sattvic

guna will be less. After a few years, you are a very good Seva worker (in the

ashram or elsewhere), but you are a very bad in spiritual life, you have no

development. BABA is teaching both .... but we are accepting the second

one. Why? Because the forces of mind are manifesting as avidya, or

ignorance, this is called maya. Although we have interest, still consciously or

unconsciously we are slipping away from sattvic and gravitating toward rajasic.

That which is real, we are not giving importance to that, this is avidya. The

unreal, we are thinking it is real. I sincerely feel ....that 'Sadhana' is

more important and real compared with 'Seva'. When we think seva is more

important than sadhana, because of avidya, spiritual life is

spoiled. Why again? Simple .....just think deeply ... When you give one guna

more importance (sleeping, eating food, taking bath), you are more tamasic. If

you are exceeding

eight hours in spiritual practice (meditating, study, self contemplation) you

are more sattvic and you will progress in spiritual life. So ...if you work

more than 8 hours seva, you are spoiling your spiritual life. You are not in an

ashram or on this holy planet ..in a sacred HUMAN birth .... just to live a

life. Most of the persons I have seen in the ashram they have told me that

they cannot practice, they are just

living to live their life in the ashram. They feel happy, they eat nice sattvic

food, they have some Bhajans and meet good people. They just want to live a

good life in a good atmosphere like the ashram. But, if you want to be more

serious in spiritual life – give 8 hours to sadhana minimum. If you are not

doing eight hours sadhana you are not a true devotee. This should be very clear

As Swami himself has clearly enunciated

in his July 22, 2002 discourse : When you make efforts to melt ‘butter’

completely, the ‘foul smell’ will gradually subside. When man performs Sadhana

the foul smell of evil propensities emanate from him during the process. He

should continue with his

Sadhana and overcome those evil tendencies. As he performs Sadhana more and

more, all evil tendencies in him will evaporate like water. Ultimately, his

Sadhana will yield the desired result just like pure ghee is obtained on

heating butter. Hence ...Practice Sadhana FULL TIME ....AND do Seva ...with

sincere devotion ...without any exclusions and alibis (like lack of will / time

et al) based on human failities ! We should not jus DESIRE ...but DESERVE to

EARN BABA's GRACE! How ? ..via SADHANA

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RAM RAM

Thank you & God bless.

Om Sri Sai Ram

Sarvathah paanipaadam Tat sarvatokshi siromukham Sarvathah sruthimalloke Sarvamavritya thishthathi

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US IS SADHANA. With love and Sai blessings, SASE.