Saturday, January 9, 2016

SRCM Sahaj Marg on Cleanliness: By Victor Kannan

The proverb “Cleanliness is next to Godliness” is well known in Judeo-Christian cultures, and its teaching and supporting belief systems have had a profound impact on our lives. In the casteistic culture of old India, too, cleanliness was observed to an almost inhuman degree. Traces of the same were evident in the old Talmudic Jewish tradition, with their very strict bathing, grooming and dressing practices associated with piety and devotion. These attitudes may have arisen out of a narrowly focused understanding of these scriptural values.

The practice of Sahaj Marg challenges individuals to look within themselves and find this idea of separateness from God as the main reason for suffering. The separateness can result from many things. One is a simple sense of ‘I’-ness: of thinking ourselves to be separate from God. It does not matter if we do this egotistically or ignorantly. It could result from our thinking of desires, whereby we stray away from the thoughts of devotion and remembrance of the Lord as a potential of our consciousness. Another reason is the set of impressions these desires and their actions leave behind. These layers form our personality and bring us farther and farther away from our potential of godliness. So, in Sahaj Marg we undertake this practice of cleaning.

This is one of the unique features of Sahaj Marg. First to recognize, without any prejudice, that we have formed impressions that hide our true divine nature. Hence, they are hiding our godliness. Then we accept the need to clean these impressions. These impressions are cleaned daily by our evening practice and by SRCM preceptors and the Master, using their will and yogic transmission.

Kamlesh D Patel, the current President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission (www.srcm.org) and the Spiritual Master of Sahaj Marg and successor of Chariji Maharaj, says, “When complexities are removed, we become simple, and when impurities are removed we become pure.” If God is defined as simple, and is pure, through this practice we can reach, experience, and exist in the height of simple and pure consciousness akin to Godliness.


So, in Sahaj Marg too we can say with confidence, Cleanliness is next to Godliness! If we think of Godliness as an aim of existence, then all the need for limited belief systems also drops off.  The simplicity and purity of one’s psychological, emotional and intellectual existences are the states of being of joy, peace and bliss.

32 comments:

  1. Quite informative!! Cleanliness becomes even more important in today's world as Godliness is becoming further away. Masters of Sahajmarg are doing this noble work of helping humanity achieve this goal in their life times.

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  2. Great post. Well said by Chariji Maharaj “When complexities are removed, we become simple, and when impurities are removed we become pure.”

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  3. Very apt for those who want to make their life pure and simple. Wonderful practice and support from the Master's of Sahaj Marg to move towards that goal.

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  4. Very apt for those who want to make their life pure and simple. Wonderful practice and support from the Master's of Sahaj Marg to move towards that goal.

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  5. I have been a lucky beneficiary of cleaning process...completely washed in and out so many times. Indeed Sahaj Marc's unique speciality

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  6. Our Masters emphasised on cleaning. This play very important in life to be simple and be natural.

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  7. Good thoughts...nice compilation.

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  8. effective cleaning is vitally important in sahaj marg practice. My experience is when cleaning is proper my meditation is deeper. But if I have missed my cleaning my meditation, my emotional and mental condition all are adversely affected

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    1. In sahaj marg cleaning process is unique and very much effective.

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  9. As Rev. Master Chariji Maharaj mentioned, the mere remembrance of God will remove so many impressions, so is the Cleaning process which is very unique in Sahaj Marg system. If we put the will(= interest), this process removes all the stuff that we have accumulated knowingly/unknowingly thereby enabling our morning Meditation to invoke His Grace...

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  10. Sahaj marg has unique feature of cleaning as one of the basic element of practice. This is cleaning of the complexities and impurities in our system.

    When complexities are removed thru cleaning then what is left in us is only SIMPLICITY. And when impurity is removed then what is left is PURITY. So cleaning in Sahaj Marg practice facilitates creating in us the condition of PURITY & SIMPLICITY which are attributes of Godly qualities or Divine virtues. Hence cleaning takes us towàrds the God.

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  11. Good post. How to achieve Purity is explained in simple way.

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  12. Very important concept shared........great!!!

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  13. "Cleaning" a very important aspect for spiritual evolution. Without that no evolution. Nice sadhana given by our great masters of sahaj marg

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  14. The bhog of samskaras is not possible in one life. Moreover, we pile on more impressions in our life. Do it is this unique technique is cleaning in Sahaj Marg which help us clean our impressions and attain that state of Divine Consciousness.

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  16. The bhog of samskaras is not possible in one life. Moreover, we pile on more impressions in our life. So it is this unique technique of cleaning in Sahaj Marg which help us clean our impressions and attain that state of Divine Consciousness.

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  17. The bhog of samskaras is not possible in one life. Moreover, we pile on more impressions in our life. So it is this unique technique of cleaning in Sahaj Marg which help us clean our impressions and attain that state of Divine Consciousness.

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  19. Very simple and thought provoking, especially the part..'this idea of separateness from God as the main reason for suffering. The separateness can result from many things. One is a simple sense of ‘I’-ness: of thinking ourselves to be separate from God. It does not matter if we do this egotistically or ignorantly.' This is idea goes beyond the traditional concept is desires are root cause of miseries.

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  20. Dear brothers and sisters,we are welcoming to SAHAJMARG meditation with HERATFULNESS RELAXATION TECHNIC..Hope all might have read the article presented by Br.Victor Kannan.As an aspirant of sahajmarg meditation and its uniqueness of other sadhana,very well know about cleaning.When i started this system,i was not very keen about the cleaning method.But subsequently,with the consultation of prefects and attending bhandaras,and also with Masters speeches ,could understand the importance of cleaning.We all know that,we all come with left over samskaras.When we stared growing these samskaras or KARMA also adding one after another and become impure.How to remove this? not possible with the normal human being.Once it is accumulated,we will be landing in to so much of tension,lack of concentration,laziness,anger,fear and some kind mental stress etc.So, to overcome this type of matters,we may have to control our mind through different ways.But,with my own personal experiece,i could overcome all these things,by practicing SAHAJMARG meditation.Here we give more importance for the CLEANING.wITH OUT CLEANING,THERE CANNOT BE EXPERIENCED GOOD MEDITATION.This we can experienced only by practice.This is one of the uniqueness of sajmarg meditation.How to do the cleaning,we have to use our strong will to wipe out,with the help of divine Master.Pl,remember,Meditation is having,but cleaning is doing with our will power.with Masters blessing to one and all

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  21. Beautifully expressed means of enhancing our lives through the removal of complexities and impurities which entrap us and hide our true Selves.... such an exciting and rewarding journey .... what an opportunity we have!

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