Re: "Express" Sadhana?
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté c.smith
Originally Posted by
c.smith
Hari Om!
Am looking for ideas on how to shorten my sadhana while on the road for work.
So, may I humbly request suggestions? Additionally, what do you consider to be the most important part of your sadhana - perhaps the part that you "couldn't live without"?
I understand your point and have been in this situation. I thought about the answer to this conundrum in a slightly different manner. Lets see if it is of any value to you.
I did not shorten my sādhana but lengthened it. How can that be? I took the intent that every thing I did was an extension of my sādhana - a practice.
What is one thing I did? Breath and breathing. In and of-itself breathing is a upāya¹. If we pay no attention to it , it is just breath, the same found in paśu¹. I used my work hours to be a practice of the best right action I could select. My hours of attention, detail, as the application of awareness. Application of fairness, kindness, etc.
Action during one's day stabilise pure consciousness within the nervous system - so why not use it as a technique ? These are the words of kṛṣṇa-ji - chapter 3, 8th śloka, niyataṁ kuru karma tvaṁ¹ - do your allotted/prescribed duty. Hence my intent was to make best use of this duty for my sādhana.
Then I did not feel any pinch - as if I was shortening something that is so dear to me (sādhana) . I still do this today - practice of breath and the best choice of actions ( and a few more things, we can leave for another post).
praṇām
- upāya - technique; that by which one reaches one's aim
- paśu - any tethered animal , singly or collectively 'a herd' ; a domestic animal
- More on breath as a technique within this HDF string of conversations: http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2323
- niyataṁkuru karma tvaṁ
- niyataṁ - fixed , established , settled , sure , regular , invariable , positive ; disciplined , self-governed
- kuru - here it is being used as doer; this would is very robust and can take us all the way the ancestor of both pāṇḍu and dhṛtarāṣṭra, not to mention the battlefield kurukṣetra.
- karma - is karman which is act , action , performance, business
- tvaṁ - your, thy
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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