PRACTICE/SADHANA

I just began reading the Fall, 2011 issue of my Integral Yoga Magazine.  On the inside of the front cover was this wisdom from Sri Swami Satchidananda, (who took Mahasamadhi, the soul's conscious final exit from the body, in August, 2004), on spiritual practice.  He said it so much better than I, but I thought it fit with my last blog post.

Spiritual practice is not what you are doing, but what you are thinking.  Remember that.  If you could understand the meaning of sadhana you would know how to do it.  You don't have to change your activities and say, "this is sadhana but this is not."  Everything becomes a spiritual practice.  We should transform all our activities into this kind of sadhana.  That means:  "I am doing everything as a meditation, as an offering, as a prayer to serve God through this service to humanity."  


And later on page 7, "...enjoy the practices....However hard, difficult or painful something is, you can still enjoy it.  Think of people who climb Mt. Everest...they invest a lot of time, energy and effort.  They risk their lives, yet they enjoy the challenge...."


So there it is.  Enjoy and maybe be inspired.