Why does one need sadhana
The very word “sadhana” or perseverance has come from
the word ‘’ sadha or karma” (action).
One needs devotion in action to get success. When one’s degree of devotion
increases, his success comes to him quickly. One can fulfil his ambition only
by devotion to action. One can achieve both material and spiritual success
through “sadhana”. The first one
makes one materially rich and the second one makes one spiritually rich.
However, in both the cases, one can cultivate human qualities. One’s divine
power becomes more sharpened by sadhana; because, it is the only root to get
peace of mind. One can major his existing ability through this and can grow it
by sadhana too. One can discover and cultivate eternal peace in him and reform
himself. “sadhana” makes one
conscious about self and about the universe and can connect one to every soul
honestly.
Once, a man becomes
conscious, he can open his inner eyes, can see his insight, can assess himself
from a very close angle and can purify his mind. One can make “upasana” through his sadhana. Upasana
makes one strong, determined and helps for achieving his goal quickly, but
steadly. Sadhana and upasana are almost identical in nature.
Sadhana is of three kinds.
Sadhana by action, sadhana by upasana and sadhana by gyana. That means one can
make sadhana through “karma margo”,
“bhakti margo’’ and ‘’gyana margo’’. Karma margo is based on physical labour,
bhakti margo is based on devotion and gyana margo is based on cultivation of
knowledge. One should remember that through karma margo, one can purify his
body externally and through bhakti margo, one can purify his mind. However,
when they combined, one becomes stable and can concentrate in doing something
constructive. On the other hand, through gyana margo, one can realize the
unseen divine force logically and can satisfy himself about the existence of a
real force that causes everything in this universe; because accordind to ‘Nyaya
Prabesha’ of ‘Dinanga Charya’, cause follows the effect and
there is an effect in a cause. Hence, both are complementary to each
other. We call it “karana” and “karjya”. Hence, above all, we can conclude, through
these above three kinds of sadhana, one can be a “Sthitaprangya”, and
can treat every situation of life equally. Therefore, he is only the “sadhaka” or a real gyani.
The Geeta says-
“ Vidyavinayesampanne brahmano
gavi hastini,
Shuni
chaiva shwapake cha punditah
samadarshinah” .
Now let us discuss the
quality of a sadhaka. Sadhana and sadhaka are
complementary to each other because both of them rise together and fall
together. A sadhaka always focuses on his ambition only. He realizes
that, without a definite ambition, life becomes mechanical and he becomes a
machine without feelings and sensation and cannot evaluate his achievements
even. He cannot coordinate his mind (mana), intellect (budhi) and
body (sarira). He cannot sharpen his judgement capacity even. Hence, a sadhaka
must focus on three keys of success. Regularity, sincerity, and patience.
Because, by these three keys he can open his chamber of discipline for sadhana.
Thus, he can go away from shadow of spirituality and can cultivate true
spiritualism by two basic principles of sadhana; i.e service and
contribution to others without self. Even if a sadhaka dies during his sadhana,
he can reassume his service where he had left it in his previous birth.
Again, a sadhka never
becomes impatient and unstable even in adversity. Adversity is a challenge for
him that generates additional courage and energy to fight with his obstacles.
It strengthens his will power and finally brings success, if not in the present
birth, the next. Hence, we can say, adversity means, an “Additional
distinguished valuable energy to reproduce super initiation to treat the
young”.
A sadhaka can treat
four conditions of life equally. That is ‘jagrata’ (stage of awakening),
‘swapna’ (dream), ‘susupti’ (stage of sleeping) and ‘dhyana’
(concentration). He can combine them too. Then he can realize ‘’Oam”. By combining them together, he can make ‘pranaba’, and ‘upasana’,
which we call ‘shabdabrahma’ (a unique tune of the universe) that made
possible the entire creation. A sadhaka believes in his ‘karma’
only and he considers ‘karmaphala’ as the ‘prasada’ or ‘bhoga’
of his sadhana. Because, sadhana is his ‘God’.
Nothing is bad for him and
good for him. Good and bad are just a mind-set or experience that can reform
him internally. It expands him too, enhances divinity in him, makes him
determined to go ahead, builds his confidence, strengthens his love and makes
him pure and peace loving. Ultimately, he can realize happiness, pleasure and
satisfaction that follows one another perpetually. Ambition for him is a cause
of benevolence and relation for him is selfless.
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