Guest guest Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Dear friends, Saadhana to me means : Practices that help access our inner spiritual domain. Spiritual domain is more subtler, vaster, all pervasive, more powerful than the outward 'material'domain; in fact, the latter is held by the former.By accessing the spiritual domain we reap peace, efficiency, energy and prosperity. Saadhana always emphasizes experiential than merely verbal or intellectual. Applying to the context of present discussion here, I feel that our decline started when we started loosing touch with our effort to experience our inner nature and come out with it to lead life of fulfillment. Instead, we indulge in mechanical repetition of rituals and verbal debates rather than experience and hence, we became weak! If we access our inner divinity, right thoughts/intuition and action would come and we can face any challenge and defeat any forces that debilitate us. Regards, M.S. Thimmappa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Please refer to Ramana Maharshi's Upadesasaram stanza 3 Iswararptham neechayakrutam........... Chitha sodhakam Mukthi sadakam All actions done in the name of God, purifies ones mind and leads to liberation This is sadhana. Ego driven work is not sadhana, Clear ? In His Grace, Chandru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 HARE RAM , HARE KRISHAN > That which brings us closer to the Spirit, the Existence, the One > Truth, is Sadhna. > > It maybe done by fighting terrorists or protesting peacefully, helping > society or living in the jungles, by marrying or staying celibate. > > The means do not matter, as long as we reach closer to the Spirit. Nor > do our actions matter. As we have said previously, it is not actions > but the conciousness they are done in that matters. > EXCELLENT SIR JI THNAKS A LOT HARE RAM , HARE RAM ,RAM RAM, HARE HARE , HARE KRISHAN , HARE KRISHAN , KRISHAN KRISHAN , HARE HARE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 There has been two trends discernible among the staunch followers of Hinduism. One school espouses toleration and pacifism. They say that Hinduism is basically a tolerant religion and accepts within its fold all forms of worship and faiths. Gandhi is a famous name associated with this idea and the Congress party and all the other so called secular parties follow this idea. The Second school of thought, represented by the Sarkar group has been virulent in its opposition to any idea that gives room for Non-Hindu religions such freedoms like conversion etc. This second school which was not so popular, according to my perception, in the after-math of Gandhi's assassination has slowly emerged as a potent group representing the Hindu sentiments which feels threatened the other religions in India on the Hindus. The popular Hindu sentiment which was docile and tolerant is no longer quiet. It is restive. Much of the anti-Christian riots in Gujarat, Orissa and Karnataka/Kerala indicates a movement or a backlash against the senseless missionary zeal at conversion. While as an individual I am against any organised violence against any group, I am able to look at these developments in the proper perspective. As a devout member of a Hindu community, I am conscious of my duty to defend the faith. There is no use blaming God for our ills. We have to fight. Our fight should be two-fold. All the street-fights must stop, for it is abhorrent and barbaric. The State must be egged on to do the right things to stomp terrorism and conversion at once. We may even orgnise 'satyagraha' to force the State to consolidate its efforts in this regard. Even if the State fails to do the needful, the Hindus should collectively start a movement against the evil of conversion and terrorism. If we indulge in violence, it will be counter-productive and there will be bigger conflagration in which all of which will be engulfed. We need to win them back and not scare and threaten them for what they did. I heard the news report that there is a movement for re-conversion. I think that is a good news. Such efforts should be replicated and strengthened everywhere. Terrorism is an evil which should be fought ruthlessly. When Ashwathama threatened to use Padmashthra, to avenge his father's killing, Lord Krishna told Arjuna to use his own armoury to counter it. I think Indian government should act tough and learn a lesson or two from the US and UK in anti-terror measures. As individuals, we ought not to panic. We need not unduly grieve over the dead and gone. A yogi need not worry about death. Let us face death and defeat the designs of the marauders.  Thimmappa M.S. <thimmappams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 , ulaganathan p <apunathan wrote: > > There has been two trends discernible among the staunch followers Thanks dear apunathan, Dr. thimmappa and others for this wonderful inputs. Can we say " Our whole life is a Sadhna ? " love Aum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 Respected Aum ji, I think that the whole Journey of a Soul right from the beginning (Separation from the Supreme Soul) till the end (Merging into the Supreme Soul) is a part of Sadhana. Relating it to just one life term is like narrowing down it's scope. With Regards, Prabhat --- On Fri, 19/9/08, aumji <no_reply > wrote: aumji <no_reply > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 Hari Om! Life's journey is a means of working out the karma. Sadhana is a conscious effort at self-realisation. Self realisation is achieved slowly as you climb in the ladder of your sadhana, jettisoning the bag of karma one after the other. I believe even in the absence 'sadhana', one would be able to work out karma. As you get knocks and punches in the life, your karma will show a diminishing balance. How else do you explain the birth and death of an infant, unless it is for working out the balance of its karma? Death for some one comes as a blessing and respite, given by God, in the soul's long journey of karma, in the same way, sleep comes every night after a day's hard labour. For a yogi, there is no question of losing himself in sleep. He enters into sleep quite consiously. Thirumoolar, the first yogi-poet in Tamil said - 'thoongamal thoongi chugam peruvathu ekkalam', meaning- ' When are you going to attain the state of bliss where you will be wakeful even as you are asleep?' Even when 'his days are numbered', his steps are measured. Sadhana, of course, makes a short work of the long course the journey otherwise takes. A sadhak seeks to burn out the karma with self awareness. A sadhak considers every step as a sadhana. Hari Om Tat Sat ulaganthan p aumji <no_reply > Friday, 19 September, 2008 1:31:52 PM Re: What is Sadhna ? @ s.com, ulaganathan p <apunathan@. ..> wrote: > > There has been two trends discernible among the staunch followers Thanks dear apunathan, Dr. thimmappa and others for this wonderful inputs. Can we say " Our whole life is a Sadhna ? " love Aum Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help./l/in//mail/mail/tools/tools-08.html/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 " Sadhna is a process of Expansion " ....Exapansion of these three aspects that every living being is undergoing, knowingly or unknowingly: * Intensity of Actions (called sometimes as Karma Yoga) * Clarity of Thoughts (called sometimes as Gyan Yoga) * Purity of Intentions (called sometimes as Bhakti Yoga) Regards, Anupam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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