Message #15324

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Sometimes i read your posts and smile. I'm trying to figure out why. Sometimes I just laugh like now. I think we get in a Web of words sometimes. Of course music can be a form of sadhana and yes I sing Yogananda's chants Ammas' chants and other spiritual chants and songs  before meditating. Yes music comes thru this vehicle for a spiritual purpose... to inspire and to remind... to show the beauty of this creation and what can come from other places as well. Sometime I might tell you about that also. It has been shown to me that even the music that comes thru this vehicle comes from higher spirits that help us in this venture.

Having said all that... i have a certain discipline I go thru in my sadhana. It involves, the energization exercises, yoga asanas, the mantra, om technique, the kriyas and the iam technique. This is my routine. Music is a way I have made a living for years. Sometimes I hear people say; oh yea I meditate when I golf or go fishing. I just smile as I am doing now. Don't let any one fool you. When someone's heart slows down... When their metabolism slows down. When they are not nodding out. Where their breath slows down.... then we see some of the signs of real meditation. All these other things we do..sure it is important to be in that witnessing consciousness... sure it is important to offer them to a higher source and to remember who and what we are serving... so in this sense everything we do can be part of our sadhana.

Yet really we have learned from the great ones what we have to do to reach into the depths of our being. This takes following that spiritual sadhana the gurus have given us and this is where we have come to... you me and some others here. We must follow that sadhana our Masters have given us. It is a daily routine that is slowly eating up our karma and revealing higher and higher states of consciousness and realization.