What does Sadhna do?

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Sadhna is presumed to be translated as practice

or technique. Some say it is a device to allow the

soul to remember itself and its true

nature.<br><br>But sadhna does not give you anything that you do not

already have. The wave is not separate from the ocean.

Instead, it undoes. It unravels the confusion and bondage

of egoistic existence. It undoes the damage caused

by believing that you must provide for yourself.

<br><br>Narada muni, in the narada bhakti sutra, hints that

people who seek happiness through selfish desire do not

ask for too much, they settle for far too little.

Yesterday as i was going to the library to study for an

exam i must take, i saw a bumpersticker that read,

"How does it feel to WANT??" It struck me deeply,

well, it feels like %@# . Wanting means we must

arrange for ourselves and our own needs. It is exhausting

to want. And even when our needs are met we then

experience worry. We worry how to protect our acquisition

from loss.<br><br>Narada Muni said that "spiritual

devotion (bhakti)is developed by relenquishing objects and

attachments." (Verse 35) This sadhna is not asceticism. To the

yogi, it is the worldly minded that performs the most

difficult austerity. The worldly settles for a few shreds

of brief happiness in the face of surrendeing to God

and a kingdom of riches. <br><br>om tat

sat<br><br>>:*)