Monday, March 28, 2016

Sadhana and Service in Sahaj Marg

By Victor Kannan (SRCM Preceptor)

Sadhana (Spiritual Practice) and Service are the two pillars of one’s existence. Practice and Service are integral parts of one’s duty and purpose of life here on earth.  Service without Sadhana cannot be sustained in quality or maturity and sadhana without service will lack the depth and perspective of universal brotherhood, one of the cornerstones of Sahaj Marg.

A balanced existence in Sadhana and Service, is essential. Once the goal is determined, direction is set, flight has to take place to reach that destination in the shortest period of time. No amount of service will benefit if it is not supported by dedicated sadhana.

We are given unprecedented opportunity to serve at various levels. Service gives us recognition and satisfaction.  Unless such service is performed devoid of ego and the need for recognition, these opportunities could pose a challenge to overcome, if we are to continue our march on spiritual path.

So, how to develop a depth in us that we not only serve but also produce lasting and desired results. This is possible only if we meditate and meditate more. On weekends and holidays we should meditate more often. After retirement we should meditate often. If we are teenagers, we should meditate more during vacations. Home Makers can meditate at noon and Heartfulness participants can meditate in the meditation rooms provided during break times.

Babuji Maharaj says the heart region is important to traverse as fast as one can. Then one can enjoy the spiritual practice even more.  So, we double up our efforts and by his grace, traverse the heart region faster, the Sahaj Marg system becomes a lot more enjoyable. Our bhogs reduce and we are slowly released from the clutches of duality.

So, let us make this very important habit to start the day with meditation, begin the evening after cleaning and end the day with night prayer. We are living in unprecedented times for spiritual growth and our efforts will bear exponential benefits.

Many of us are churning a lot in Heartfulness, totally inspired and empowered to participate in the movement. The initial enthusiasm wanes due to lack of results. This feeling of disillusionment will be substantially less if we practiced thoroughly and regularly, and it would also in some way help us to produce superior results, as our better condition due to more sincere sadhana could engender better outcomes as we do work.

So, Service and Sadhana will have to go hand in hand.

At times, we lack time to do justice to both. To gain time, there is absolutely no other way but to increase simplicity of our lives and circumstances by desiring less. In this too, Sadhana will help

So, focusing on Sadhana begins a virtuous cycle possible. Sadhana gives more time for Sadhana! Sadhana also gives better results in service.




17 comments:

  1. The importance of the balance explained in simply and effective way.
    Thank you Brother

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  2. Thank you Kannan bhai for bringing forward this topic.

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  3. Parthasarathi NarayanaMarch 28, 2016 at 7:52 PM

    Thanks for posting this, it is really helpful, especially on gaining time it is explained very nicely.

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  4. Educative and explained in simple terms.
    Thank you
    Kannan

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  5. Educative and explained in simple terms.
    Thank you
    Kannan

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  6. It is really motivating us to do our Abhyasi sincerely. Thanks Brother.

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  8. It is really motivating us to do our Abhyas sincerely. Thanks Brother.

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  9. Thanks Brother. Good Article.

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  10. the aspect of us becoming very efficient after we do sadhana is really true... this helps us in gaining time.. additionally if we get involved in His service, as if by magic things start happening much more efficiently... thanx brother for writing abt this ..

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  11. the aspect of us becoming very efficient after we do sadhana is really true... this helps us in gaining time.. additionally if we get involved in His service, as if by magic things start happening much more efficiently... thanx brother for writing abt this ..

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  12. Thank you brother for the post

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  13. Thank you very much brother ! Very helpful article to awaken us to importance of sadhana and service.

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  14. 'Service and Sadhana will have to go hand in hand.' Absolutely right ,brother. Thanks.

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