Sādhanā

they created a whole culture of devotion, of indifference.

They discovered things that Sadhakas, the Sadhanas who have done that for many, many years, just couldn't get out of pure devotion.

Uninvitedness.

To become uninvited means

And Vivekananda says it so beautifully, not in context of Gita.

In some other context he says, "Sadhana is for e- spiritual evolution, and evolution is going from one level of truth to the next level of truth-"

True

"... till you reach the absolute truth." Right? What seems very true today, tomorrow is different.

So, however, Nachiketa rejects everything and he rejects even the Svargaloka or Brahmaloka and he asks for only the Atma.

So, that's how, because he already had, you know, as a Brahmachari, he already had the Sadhana, Chattishthira, Sampatti.

So, he already had probably the qualifications and he he's very clear that what he wants so that's the uh so that that's how the first valley or the first subsection of the first chapter ends okay So in the second Vali, it starts off with the Guru Shishya Shastra Mahima.

So basically the glories of Guru Shishya and Shastram Yama Dharma Raja starts off with that.

And he writes, and he's very good.

And he wrote a very good book called Sadhana, which basically collects several dozen different ways that people relate to a higher power and how they communicate with that higher power, which may give you some ideas if you're struggling to connect.

During the day, It says we continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear.

But before that, it says we've entered the world of the spirit.

hearing the Mahavakya, Manana, reflection on that and Nididhyasana, sustained contemplation.

As the three stages of Sadhana, the Parvadehiga Buddhi Samyuga may be understood as the carried forward Shravana Manana Samskara.

The Buddhi that has already heard, reflected upon and partially contemplated the truth of Aham Brahmasmi carries these samskara of prior hearing and reflection into the new life.

Not only that, in the new life especially when he is born in the Deematan Yoginankule, the child will hear the Mahavakya teachings of the Upanishad teachings

It's a philosophy of practice and that it is discovered in action, in practice.

And the sadhana pada is where we really get into that with more depth.

Sadhana, again, it means spiritual practice.

And after learning some of the essence of that practice and the obstacles to that practice, and we get to the heart, the ashtanga yoga of the eight limbs, of yoga, yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, the harana, the hyana, samadhi.

And then there are five yamas and five niyamas.

And we've talked about Kriya before.

Kriya Yoga is the first verse of the second chapter in the Yoga Sutra.

The beginning of the Sadhanapada starts with Tapasvaryaya Ishvara Pranidhana Kriya Yoga.

Bhakti is three kind.

Sadhana bhakti, bhava bhakti and prema bhakti.

This bhava bhakti is almost prema bhakti because if love make appear, then s, you know, then automatically go prema.

Spiritual feeling appear, lati appear, then auto- generally speaking, automatically go prema bhakti.

But it's still that we give some effort, that it's not going, uh, not naturally.

Or I...

Could you say? Sadhana.

What is sadhana?

Terms and conditions apply.

Sadhana is... essentially to use your emotional intelligence.

When we say emotional intelligence, today it has been identified in the world.

For a long time, we thought that intelligence was summarized

And some were 20 minutes of simply keeping a promise to myself.

And that promise is that maybe like the greatest lesson that Sadhana has given me.

And that's that transformation isn't always found in the extraordinary moment.

So often it's found in the returning again, again, again, again.