Sadhana - the most Essential Practice

When you come out of the examination hall, you know whether you will pass or fail, for you can yourself judge how well you have answered – is it not? So too, in your daily life, each of you can judge and ascertain the success or failure of your Sadhana (Spiritual Effort).

Sadhana is the most essential practice for you. No age is too early for this. Just as you tend the body with food and drink at regular intervals, you must also tend to the needs of the inner Soul by regular japam and dhyanam (contemplation and meditation) and the cultivation of virtues. Holy Company, Good Attitude and Sacred Thoughts are all very essential for the growth and the health of your inner personality. Your body is the mansion (Bhavanam) of the Lord of the Universe (Bhuvaneshwara).

Baba (thought for the day)

 

Meditation is the way to go beyond the mind and be in touch with our higher self, and that was always my aim and if we don't meditate, we are only in the mind and cannot get out of it and don't learn to discriminate. How can we discriminate if we don't have the experience of it?

There are enough reasons to go for it. It seems also important to know that our soul can only be fed with food that is permanent and real. It means if we try to be happy on the relative level, we look for it on the wrong place. The hunger of the soul cannot be appeased on that level, but that always happens that we look for it on the wrong level and that is called Maya, illusion. 
That is another reason why we should meditate. It has to be permantely present, otherwise, it is not real. And we find it in the the relationship to divinity, that is always good and non-changing in its nature, and only on that level we find real human values.
It is not about possessions, that level is changing, sometimes more, sometimes less. The Upanishads tell us that our real happiness is on the level of belonging. But we have to realize to whom we belong and afterwards it is about duty to get work and duty together.

The higher self is divine, it is part of our duty to do sadhana, meditation. Whatever, the worldly level is also there, but it is not the right food for the soul. In God, in divinity, we find the right level and that is where we should belong, to uplift life on a level of human values. That can satisfy our nature, because they are not constantly changing.

 

Baba calls it Sadhana, meditation, spiritual practice, contemplation etc. the most essential practice. Meditation helps to calm down the mind and afterwards we are able to discriminate between real and not real values.

And no age is too early for this.

I tried to get my daughter into it in an early age, but whatever I said, it resulted in the opposite, that is kind of funny.

My sadhana was based at that time on not being the body, therefore, I spoke to her about not being the body, not this and not that, and it resulted in the opposite. She understood that we are not the body and focused on the body to make the best out of it, because it is passing by.

She is focused on beauty, hours in front of the mirror to look good, a bit too much as it seems. I didn't expect that when talking about the reality that we are not the body. It turned into the opposite.

It was my sadhana, I mentioned also love, but somehow it didn't work out as I hoped.

If she is no the body, therefore, she should enjoy it when she is young. Maybe she is right, I don't know, but she is focused only on the body and meditation she never went into.
And the mess she is leaving behind she is still putting on me, that has not much changed. It didn't work out well, I guess it is also Tamas.

Strange to get aware of the memories of the parent's house and how it felt in her age. I had left already and was not living at home anymore. It was difficult and I didn't understand what had happened in the past and why I didn't understand my mother anymore, I guess that was also due to Tamas.

She had passed a difficult time with father, was constantly talking about it, we had to listen.
Afterwards, she was proud of what 'they' had done, said, we would never be able to do that. That was like a joke, felt like, 'what is she talking about?' 
She went through that with us - actually, she had no memory of it, in her mind it was only him and we were the problem, he had managed to turn it upside down. Or was it upside down because she spoke about it with us? That seemed to be a constant problem.

It was kind of offending to hear that we were never able to do that, what was she talking about? It somehow was turned upside down.

I had left and I was no more living with them.
It never stoped to be a problem to her until he died. 

 

If I look at our situation, a Baba Lila, with my ex it was not possible. It was just no possible. Already when we met, he warned him that in this room he would not get the right answer. He said 'room', no answer at all, it was like running against a wall, because I had to get answers.

It has to be Sathva only, only Sathva knows truth.

It seems the reflection of my parent's house. Like my mother and her being - after all - proud (precipice) of having passed the test, finally - and I would tell, like she did, that others would never be able to do that, when in reality it is only possible..., because of the others being there. That is the level, upside down.

 

When you come out of the examination hall, you know whether you will pass or fail, for you can yourself judge how well you have answered – is it not?

 

She thought she did it with him. It seems topsy-turvy and it ended in her seeing the problem in us. Upside down is Tamas.

It seems to destroy discrimination, to make blind and we were the problem, the problem was somewhere else.

We were no problem, because we had left the house and lived most of time with a spiritual master.

And when we had a problem and we wrote her, she was not even able to answer. That topsy-turvy reality went on all her life, she was used to it.

I was sorry with her, but it was not possible to make her get aware of the upside down non-sense in it. She was too old, the inside voice said she was too old.

It had never been possible to make her see how it felt to me.

Afterwards, when he came in the house, I was upset at him, because I had to listen to that a constant problem and tried to help her and afterwards, she was at his side and it all had changed and I was the problem, because I said something. That is how they solved conflicts. 

 

With meditation the mind calmed down and went in the observer, I tried to keep out of that stuff and to just watch.
During the time living in their house writing Baba helped to stay out of it. That meant no easy solution for them to solve conflicts, if we managed to not get into it. That means they were again not happy about it, because the conflict went on. We could do what we wanted, it was never okay. In reality the problem was in the marriage and the inner voice said that he should have had another wife.

And my mother proud of it... strange world. It was upside down, Tamas, makes out of a virtue a vice and a vice a virtue, but it needs to be realized as Tamas.

I guess behind was the father turning it around to his favour, whatever arranged him best. It was not about truth, but about something else.  

 

Sadhana is the most essential practice for you. No age is too early for this. Just as you tend the body with food and drink at regular intervals, you must also tend to the needs of the inner Soul by regular japam and dhyanam (contemplation and meditation) and the cultivation of virtues. Holy Company, Good Attitude and Sacred Thoughts are all very essential for the growth and the health of your inner personality. Your body is the mansion (Bhavanam) of the Lord of the Universe (Bhuvaneshwara).

 

Meditation helped to stay out of it and to get aware of it. In the mean time we understand it, as it seems. And it is mostly due to Tamas that it is difficult, because it is upside down.