Friday, April 12, 2013

(Apr 12, 2013) Sadhana (Handwritten message from Swami Krishnananda)


Sadhana
From Divine Life Society Publication “Interior Pilgrimage” by Swami Krishnananda



Sadhana is not any kind of bodily action that is out-worldly directed but is rather a state of mind, a condition of thinking, a consciousness in which one lives. All actions are symbols of an inward mood or motivation in a given direction.  The majority of sadhakas are likely to be lost in a wilderness of erratic thoughts and confused ideologies due to a lack of any sustained background of a final ideal in life to rest upon.  Spirituality is not a way of living minus connection with the world, nor is it a thinking of things of the world.  Sadhana is a subtle ‘golden mean’ of an intelligent blend of the outward and the inward, or, rather, matter and consciousness, the world and oneself, the object and the subject, the Universe and God. – Swami Krishnananda

Continue to read:
Twenty-One Important Hints on Sadhana” by Swami Krishnananda
Satsanga and Svadhyaya” by Swami Sivananda

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