Anyone got the results? (Committment - Samaya - Warmth of Practice)

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Samaya is the Vajrayana term. It means stream of commitment. As we know the

mind changes constantly, so we practice a sadhana for a length of time and

during that time our mind changes. So we have to make sure we feel

increasing warmth of practice meaning we get more and more results. Just as

an opium addict must take more to keep feeling the high so also we must

increase the efforts behind our practice steadily to increase its warmth.

But a skillful practitioner may increase warmth of practice through other

means besides just those described by the corpus of the tantra. For instance

any charity, any other worship andy other pujas, homams, and good works all

go to the steady flow of increase of merit which will increase the strength

of ones flow of practice. As ones merit increases so the Devata increase in

interest. This is all a way of saying that the happy mind is the steady mind

which feels the most benefit from worship. It is the mind we want to

cultivate and all good purposes of ours increase our steady happiness which

can increase our Samadhi if we are so engaged. So merit of any sort is to be

always cultivated as this will increase the response of the devata during

our sadhana. At any rate, when we commit to do a sadhana we commit to its

completion not merely the completion of the actions, that is, if we were

earnest in our intention, and so to that end we can speed the process up in

various skillful ways through also working on obtaining the happy mind born

of meritorious deeds.