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Sadhana 

 

         Spiritually serious people call their devotions “sadhana”.  Sadhana is the name given to those spiritual practices which one uses on a daily basis.  It may consist of chanting, meditation, prayer, performance of ritual, spiritual reading, or yoga.  The Chinese Energy Arts, such as Nei Gong and Chi Gong, are also legitimate sadhana exercises. 

 

         It is essential that sadhana be designed by the individual, and reflect his current spiritual interests.  We all do pretty much the same things, but we don’t all do them in the same sequence.  People vary widely in what they are ready for now -- I might be very eager for a given practice, but you might have already done that in a near term incarnation and be ready for something else now.  Additionally, there are great differences in soul age -- how many incarnations the given soul has had. 

 

         A practice of sadhana begins with a five-minute commitment.  Every morning, during my devotions, I will practice this.  After a long time, you might decide to let that practice go, or you may decide to keep it at the same level, or to expand it a bit -- add an increment of time when you feel ready, and allow the practice to grow as it seems to want to.  When a spiritual practice or technique catches our interest, we bring that into our sadhana and begin pursuing it. 

 

         What you should keep is what you like, and what has a measurable effect on you, that is, it is useful, and you can produce effect with it.  A spiritual practice that you respond to, and that has a real effect -- one that works for you, probably belongs in your personal spiritual kit-bag. 

 

         A truly spiritually serious sadhana -- the spiritual big leagues -- is two hours daily.  This is for treaders of the spiritual path as a walk of life.  I wouldn’t try to force yourself into that; it is much better to find the level that seems right for you.  Growth from life to life is not a horse race, and it does not proceed at a regular pace.  “It’s fun to grow, if you don’t go, ‘way too fast, or ‘way too slow.” 

 

         You should always leave enough slack in your sadhana to be able to experiment with a new five-minute commitment or two.  This website offers a compendium of 5-minute-commitment sadhana practices, which might be perused by the beginner or by those already established in sadhana who are ready for a new practice, or for something to vary their current spirituality.  Follow the blue-line click places at the beginning of this section. 

 

 

 

 

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