Importance of Sadhana – japa , hearing , reading and Seva
by HG Vamsi Vadan pr
1. we have tendency to give more importance to the things which give more result , but everything depends upon substance ,
a. in building if foundation is not stong then building will collapse
2. in dev life if foundation is not strong , then when difficulties comes then it will become very difficult to sustain in devotional life
3. HHSachinandan mah says that root of tree has to grow very deep then it can sustain in storms
4. root is strongly laid when we give great importance to reading ,hearing ,chanting .
5. in kaliyuga ,yuga dharma is chanting of HolyName
6. chanting becomes ritualistic when we take it for granted , somehow finishing it, not understanding its importance
7. chanting in conditioned state may be austerity , but take great care to perform this wonderful sacrifice to perform chanting
8. if some one does as ritual then he will not benefit much.
9. RG says , just like jaundice patient .
10. medicine for jaundice patient is to continue to take the medicine
11. how one should take this medicine ::;daily ,regualraly , in very regulated manner with great attention ------then this material desease will go away
12. forgetfulness of
13. in order to come out of this condition
a. like a person bitten by snake is cured by chanting of mantra
14. we are in unconscious condition, to come out of this condition is chanting of Hare Krishna mantra and to revive our true nature and eternal constitutional position
a. so we need to do it with great attention
15. to the degree we pay great attention to chanting
16. most important is attentive hearing .
17. Haridas thakur even in old condition and even after LCM told him but he wanted to chant his rounds
18. while chanting , if we are in-attentive is like when we invite a person to our house , then we don’t pay attention to him and go away , so guest will feel dejected and disgusted ,
19. when we are in-attentive then we have more important plans than Lord , it is disrespecting the Lord.
20. so if we want to get out of this medicine we take this chanting very seriously
21. attentively hearing each syllable when we are chanting . otherwise we will be chanting some other mantra
22. Hearing and reading --------------
23. sastras which are given to us by the Lord ,it is very essential that we read them
24. SP very much wanted that to read the sastras scrutinizing ,
25. if intelligence is not strong then we will be guided by mind , then mind will dwell on the though of sense gratification , and it will take us in wrong direction .
26.so one must know that how much attentive we should be to control this mind ,
27. like a hunter is very attentive to keep the animal under control ,
28. at every moment there is touge of war between mind and intelligence .who wins will depend upon who is more strong .
29. one reason is why a person sleeps during chanting and class when mind has taken him for ride all over places.
30. mind is like unchaste wife , mind takes help of various anarths to murder the intelligence , then mind takes over and it goes in completely wrong direction
31. uncontrolled mind is like uncontrolled elephant who can destroy whole garden
32. in practice of dev life a moment inattention can cause havoc ,
33. with the strong intelligence one can control the mind
34. the way to make intelligence strong by study of sastras , then intelligence can discriminate what is right and what is wrong .
35. what are results if one is not careful in these basic principle of reading ,hearing ,chanting .
a. one will fall pray to illicit activities .
b. one goes further away ,
c. it becomes difficult to practice dev life
d. one determination and faith goes away
e. previous material desire crops again
f. one commits offenses to vaishanavas
36. one’s foundation is weak ,one very easily becomes pray to maya .one looses enthusiasm to practice over a period of time .
37. anischita bhajan kriya --- bhajan kriya becomes not fixed .
38. but enthusiasm has to remain then one has to understand philosophically why we are doing and what we are doing
39. problem of being on mental platform , is accepting and rejecting.one day it will be nice and one day it will be not nice
40. if steady enthusiasm has to be there then one has to be firmly fixed in the basic principles ,that why I am practicing the devotional life
41. visaya sangara --- constant struggle of mind and senses are pulling towards sense objects but with intelligence one understand that sense gratification is bad , but because one has not developed higher taste then fall pray to sense gratification
42. how does higher taste develops , to the degree one is attentive in hearing ,chanting ,and in every aspect of devotional life ,to that degree one can develop the higher taste .
43. to practice the dev life life long , there is no retirement ,
44. in dev life it we are waiting when this dev life will end it means we are on very gross platform ,
45. when the boy and girl out of some so called love then time flies ,
46. if we are wanting to develop the love for the supreme lord then how can we expect this activity of dev life to end , it means that we have not develop the love for
47. the very fact that we ar thinking this activity of chanting ,class will end it means that we have not develop the love for the supreme lord
48. if we want to do the acitivity of dev life then we need to develop the higher taste ,otherwise everyday it is same mantra , same philosophy ,
49. if we have material consciousness then we will think that this acticivity is monotonus
50. this higher taste can be developed to the degree we are attentive in these chanting .hearing , and to that degree we will be able to practice
51. because we don’t have this taste so there are various services , to purify our senses by assisting in preaching mission , by performing the various activities in dev life ,we purify the senses then we will be able to develop the taste
52. so we need proper balance between sadhana and services.
53. Q&A---in order to understand our own deficiencies and mistakes mercy of the Lord is required , when Lord sees the devotee sincere then he can understand his own deficiencies , it requires purification to see our own shortcomings , when process of purification begins then one realizes that I have this anarths , and it become more prominent , as one dev advances then smallest of anarths becomes very prominent for him , then one can very effectively work on the anarthas ,
a. Smallest of offense one purified dev considers it big mistake like BSS taking vow of not eating the mango , and madhavendra puri cursed himself for eating sweeet rice before it was offered
b. How seriously we practice
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