Guest guest Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Sadumaa said : >What do we do with skills that are in > demand by the world...when all we (I) want to do is Sadhana? Swamiji > talks of the efficient ones, so are we then to do the work that > supplies our material needs the quickest, so that more time can be > set aside for sadhana and Seva? Or do we accept the invitations of > the world and travel the long and difficult path of karma yoga as our > sadhana and our Seva? > Om Dear Sadumaa, Thank you for asking this question. When I thought this over, I remembered Swamiji's advice - First find my goal in life. Then organize my life around that goal. The goal would also help me discriminate on the right action. Is this karma taking me closer to or further away from my goal ? Also, my personal outlook is this - while it is easy to say that everything is God and I should see God in everyone and all the actions that I perform, I am not always mature enough to do so. So in my case , I benefit from setting aside exclusive time for sadhana and seva as opposed to thinking everything I do as sadhana or seva. Jai Maa Nanda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 why not do both? consider this as a possibility, nanda. everything we do could be considered sadhana ... not watching tv! but the things we have to do for GOOD, either by god or karma. i must breath. i must eat. i must care for others. this falls within the economy of existence. when regarded as sadhana it becomes such. when regarded as egoic obligation it also becomes such. i play a video game. this falls into the realm of the unecessary, my own limitations, i might or might not indulge that depending on my maturity. i set aside more and more time for quietude and devotion. this is the advance guard of sadhana. with more of the aspirant's time spent in quiet devotions, bhav spills out into the daily life until it too becomes sacred. it has happened with others, why not me? i have no idea what people are capable of. of course a lazy or ill-intentioned person might say everything i do is sadhana and it's only fancy talk. i'm not sure what one would gain by that, but then again, i don't get out much either! personally i tend to say my life is sadhana because there is virtually none of what we conventionally call "fun." but that does not bother me a bit. what people call fun is mostly suffering. spiritual work is where the real fun is. because we are getting closer and closer to something infinitely mysterious. words fail. saying one's life is sadhana could be a way of saying: "this life for god, as much as i can make it so." of course it could be something else as well. we get to determine that. we can measure sadhana by the hour or not. it is a funny thing. i believe that if one never meditates or does not do so regularly, one is subject to all sorts of self-deceptions. the mind has to be cleaned up like any other channel or device. that's a fact. spiritual power is accumulated isn't it? we don't know when it starts, if it is over lifetimes, or through the individual's many personal processes and advancements. so it is very hard to judge. maybe only a guru can do that. , "Nanda" <chandimaakijai> wrote: > > > Sadumaa said : > >What do we do with skills that are in > > demand by the world...when all we (I) want to do is Sadhana? > Swamiji > > talks of the efficient ones, so are we then to do the work that > > supplies our material needs the quickest, so that more time can be > > set aside for sadhana and Seva? Or do we accept the invitations of > > the world and travel the long and difficult path of karma yoga as > our > > sadhana and our Seva? > > Om > > Dear Sadumaa, > Thank you for asking this question. > > When I thought this over, I remembered Swamiji's advice - First find > my goal in life. Then organize my life around that goal. > > The goal would also help me discriminate on the right action. Is > this karma taking me closer to or further away from my goal ? > > Also, my personal outlook is this - while it is easy to say that > everything is God and I should see God in everyone and all the > actions that I perform, I am not always mature enough to do so. So > in my case , I benefit from setting aside exclusive time for sadhana > and seva as opposed to thinking everything I do as sadhana or seva. > > Jai Maa > Nanda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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