साधना - spiritual practice

साधना

Sadhana - spiritual practice

The method one adopts in order to obtain one’s specific goal is called Sadhana.  It is also an ego-transcending practice.  It is a disciplined surrendering of the ego in your Spiritual journey.  It also means a vehicle or a way towards movement or growth.

For achieving any kind of goal in your life you need to have a dedicated methodology to pursue that goal.  It is only through constant effort and concentration in the direction of goal relentlessly you will be able to achieve what you intended to in your life.  Only practice makes a man perfect and nothing else.  Coming to know through reading or hearing about particular thing or concept is knowledge and experiencing it through constant practice in your day to day life is knowing.  You will only become a professional when you have had a practical experience and exposure in that particular concept.  It is only after getting in depth information and knowing inside out of the whole thing practically you will get confidence in your self in that concept or system.

In life, everything is evolved through a process and you need to have patience for the process to get evolved and understand its methodology and try to implement the same concept to understand anything in life.  Nature is the best teacher and none can become better than that.  For a person who is eager, everyday is an opportunity to know and learn as long as he is alive on this earth.  Natures schooling does not end with your adolescence it continues till your demise.  Nature continues to exist eternally but natures creations enters and exits cyclically.  Nature is a life long schooling process and never ending.  There is so much to learn that one life is not enough to know everything.  What we come to know throughout our life is just a glimpse of what we can know about nature.  Our life span is limited so we come to know only a limited things and it is always in abundance which is unknown.  

We are born as innocent or an empty slate, unknown in unknown place. The process of knowing starts once our sensory organs evolve to its optimum level as per their design and program.  First we use our eyes to observe and absorb everything around us and we store everything throughout our life everything we had seen through our eyes, heard through our ears, smelled through our nose, felt through touch in our data server the mind first.  Later on we try to dissect that and try to know and understand what we had stored in our mind.  Conceptualization starts in the mind.  The mind processes the information and comes up with clear and concise definitions regarding those data stored in your brain.  The abstract idea or concept about something is conceptualization.  It is interpreting about the information of something or phenomenon stored in our brain and forming an opinion about it.

Spirituality is a path or a Sadhana, a spiritual practice where in you try to undertake a journey in life to understand about your own self of what you are, why you are, and what is your purpose. It is a path towards introspection, to examine ones own thoughts and feelings.  It is a process to look inwards inside of you to know your true self.  It is a self examination of our inner essence of what we really are.  It is a process to know your subjectivity thoroughly.

The process of knowing about life starts from us, knowing about ourselves first.  We are all made of elements of the world outside of us which is present everywhere around us.  We are combination effect or output of natures creation.  Unless you know your own self it is impossible to know the world outside of your self.  You are a reflection of the world outside of your self or vice versa.  It is much easier to know micro thing, that is you, than the macro thing, the world outside of you.  You are part of the whole ecosystem, so understanding about your self first will form a base from which you can know all else.  You need a blank approach, that is you have to keep aside whatever you had learnt up until know because that will be an obstacle and cause hinderance to know the concept of life and living.  You need to have a "I do not know" approach to understand about your self and life as a whole.

Do Sadhana and embrace Spirituality 

and know your true self and all else thereon

and celebrate your existence