Just like in the material realm you mastered so many skills, whether you
became a graduate, a postgraduate, whether you became a painter, or a dancer, a
writer. Whatever required focused and repeated practice.
Similarly, if you wish to move ahead in your spiritual practice, the first step will be to assign some
time from your daily schedule for your personal sadhana.
What is the necessity of this sadhana?
The necessity is that we are living in a world full of distractions.
You may desire to think of God,
but in the meantime your child your son your daughter will intervene and tug your mind away
so the best of intentions
does not translate into actions.
In order to bring that about
for some time in the day
you need to block out the world.
That is the personal sadhana.
"sanskrit verse"
The Bhagavad Gita says, do your sadhana in isolation.
Where the mobile phones, the pagers, the whatsapp, etc. cannot reach you.
That is the isolation.
You know that was the concept behind going for a holy pilgrimage in the
earlier days people would leave everything away and for 15 days they
would go to Badrikashram. The world could not get to them.
But now the situation has changed because you can go there in a helicopter
and even there you will have a hotel with the TV blaring at you.
So the purpose is not served and if you strive and do it properly you can get the benefit of the
Badrikashram yatra while sitting in your house itself.
Jagadguru Shri Kripaluji Maharaj says,
"couplet"
You are going on the four dham yatra
the same Badrinarayan Bhagavan is sitting in your heart.
So learn the art of how to meet God in the
in the confines of your own home.
How do you do that? Take out some time in the day.
I give this example of milk and water.
Consider milk to be like your mind and
water to be like the world
now if you take the milk to the water and pour it in
the water will dilute the milk.
If you take your mind to the world
your mind will become wordly
but instead for some time you keep the milk away from the water
and in isolation transform it into yogurt
now churn the yogurt and extract the butter.
This butter can challenge the water, Mr. Water I will sit on your head and
float you can do nothing to me as long as I was milk
you would dilute me. But now I have enhanced my concentration I have become
far stronger in my personality by staying away from you for a little while
now that I am butter I am immiscible.
How did this transformation and the personality of milk take place?
By keeping it away from water for a little while it became possible.
Similarly, for a little while every day keep your mind away from everything worldly.
This is the ekant sadhana.
If 50 people are sitting with the intention of sadhana that will also be called isolation.
Because the world is not getting at you there.
Now in that isolation solidify the absorption of your mind in God.
Once you have achieved that, then when you go about doing your worldly duties you will find that you
are retaining the divine consciousness, the spiritual perspective, the sublime
and noble thoughts, it will come naturally to you.