How Can We Learn to Dance with Siva?

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mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">transformation and the many yogas.

12.0pt">To progress on the path, we study the Vedas, other scriptures and our

guru's teachings and make every effort to apply these philosophical truths to

daily experience. We strive to understand the mind in its fourfold nature:

Chitta (consciousness); Manas (instinctive mind);

Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Buddhi

(intellectual mind); and Ahamkara (ego or I-maker). We perform japa, meditation

and yoga each day. Such spiritual discipline is known as sadhana.

Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">It is the

mystical, mental, physical and devotional exercise that enables us to dance

with Siva by

mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">bringing inner

advancement, changes in perception and improvements in character.

12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> Sadhana allows us to live in the refined

and cultured soul nature, rather than in the outer,instinctive or intellectual

spheres. For consistent progress, sadhana should be performed regularly,

without fail, at the same time each day, preferably in the early hours before

dawn. The most important

sadhanas are the challenges and practices given by one's guru. The Vedas

caution, "The Self cannot be attained by the weak, nor by the careless, nor

through

12.0pt"> aimless disciplines. But if one who knows strives by right means, his

soul enters the abode of God." Aum Namah Sivaya.'

----------Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Arial">Sivaya Namah

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