Just changed a little bit of my practice.
Pranayama cleans the mind, kind of like cleaning the temple. But it is not enough if the mind is left empty. One has to install the idol of God in the temple. Pranayama is the 4th step in Pathanjali Yoga. So, I'm going to do the Pathanjali Yoga instead of merely the Pranayama. The mantra I will be using for it is Maam Yekam Sharanam Vraja. The good thing about having this mantra is that not only does it form a part of Pathanjali Yoga but is also a way of Sharanam. Yoga is centrifugal while Sharanam is centripetal. By balancing these two, the object can be put into perpetual circular motion...kind of like launching a geo-stationary satellite around the earth...in spiritual terms, this is liberation.
So I will be doing the 4 Yogas with implicit Sharanam...Pathanjali (including Pranayama and using the Sharanam mantra), Jnana (a Bhagavad Gita verse a day), Karma (saying Krishna Unakke Preethi before starting on the work thereby dedicating the fruits of the work to Krishna) and Bhakthi (listening to Mahalakshmi Ashtothram and Vishnu Sahasranam). This will cover what is said as a conclusion in the Bhagavad Gita verses 18:65 & 18:66.
So there it is...the prescription that I need to follow. It cannot get any simpler than this for me.
A small correction...
ReplyDeleteNow as part of my Karma Yoga spiritual practice, I make it a point to do daily a hour of volunteer work and say Krishna Unakke Preethi before eating or drinking.
This spiritual practice, that of working non-profit for 1 hour daily, brings about a shift in attitude or consciousness. This will bring in me a shift from the vicious cycle of procrastination to the virtuous cycle of professionalism. To explain in Hindu technical terms, every karma not only gives a phala but also leaves behind a vasana. It is this vasana that leads to formation of habits. Habits die hard and to reverse the gear is very difficult. One way where this great difficulty is overcome is by mantra japas, what is today known as affirmations. It's like doing some warm-up exercises to build the momentum before a game.
One can achieve this same shift by deciding to donate to charity a small percentage of their earnings, for example 10%. If someone is working professionally for 40 hours/week, he or she is already doing a service and need not do anything extra.
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