What is Sadhna ?

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.

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

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

September 18, 2008

There has been two trends discernible among the staunch followers of Hinduism.

OneÂ school espouses toleration and pacifism. TheyÂ say that Hinduism is

basically a tolerant religion and accepts within its fold all forms of worship

and faiths. Gandhi is a famous nameÂ associated with this ideaÂ 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 suchÂ

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

threatenedÂ 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.

Â

Thimmappa M.S. <thimmappams

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

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 >

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 outÂ 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 itsÂ 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 areÂ 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.