Understanding Sadhana

It’s an ancient concept prevalent in India. It’s the art and science of repeated practice after invoking the blessings of the higher powers.

This concept is losing ground in our current age with AI and the quick fix of everything. Sadhana negates superficiality. It takes us into deeper contemplation of discovering our true image from the time of our birth. It has benefits even in our current age because it is connected with our very self and our yearning to be our higher self throughout our lives.

I have experienced a remarkable recovery from extensive injuries sustained from an accidental fall caused by a party who tried different ways and means of restraining my financial freedom. A confused mind creates confusion all around when that mind is strong and given free reign. Unchecked this party then started planning ways to end my life by brainwashing and coercing innocent minds.Long story short, in 2013 I embarked on an extraordinary journey of supernatural healing that became available to me from the higher powers.While I lived through it despite encountering close death, I suffered from extensive chronic injuries.I came across Kriya Yoga accidentally after more than a decade of suffering and encountered the benefits of practising ‘sadhana’ in my energization exercise almost daily practice.

Through this unexpected detour in my life journey, I came back to the word and the concept of ‘Sadhana’ which was paramount in my ancestral family teaching passed over generations but distorted when other forms of worldviews crept into our family.My father would pass on the remnant of this divine truth by reminding us that ‘practice makes perfect.’He believed that you must keep on repeating verbally or in the form of practical application what you learned in order to gain success.

One becomes a good singer or an athlete through ‘sadhana,’ through constant practice that leads one to the higher powers for excellence. To me, Sadhana involves first and foremost the surrender of self to the higher powers before attempting anything new in life.Then follows building in the self determination and discipline for focused attention while engaging in the new activity.The singer or the athlete then dedicates his or her entire life to such an activity which then becomes one’s life calling.  This is very different from earning for survival, which is also most necessary for survival and meeting one’s daily needs.

Through Sadhana I managed quite well as a single parent by concentrating on bringing up my children rather than building up my career.For me it had to be one or the other.I simply didn’t have the skills necessary to balance both sides of the scale.Through Sadhana I also succeeded in improving my health steadily with little or no money to spend on costly medical expenses.I simply didn’t have it for various reasons, and it is then that I stepped into the miracle zone being raised to a higher level of awareness.In this zone, I experienced divine love to the uttermost and started experiencing the support that the universe was extending to me in the adverse situations that I repeatedly fell into.

The fruits of ‘sadhana’ are well understood in the western context with the maxim, practice makes one perfect!The power of repetition in learning something new or concentrated daily practice is sadhana.

Daily deep meditation involves touching the divine as well as soul searching regularly in a fast paced world.  Soul searching and making attempts at improving self are essential parts of self cleansing.  

“O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.” Psalm 92:5

Make the concept of Sadhana part and parcel of your life, as this ancient concept will open doorways of greater wisdom and insight in your daily living.Its benefits are multifarious.Practising Kriya Yoga almost daily is now my present Sadhana, and I am now in a season that I have greater peace regarding how I spend each day in deep gratitude for my God-given life, which I cherish so much!