Sunday, April 24, 2011

Ladder of Bhakti

Doing each action as an offering in a Puja-prayer to the divine is Karma Yoga. Taking what comes as Prasaad. Today Swamiji explained Karma Phal so well - he said Karma Phal is a technical term which means drop the worries and anxieties for the future. Keep your mind in the present, action is done in the present. If the mind is free from worries, anxieties then it is calmer and more focused and less dissipated to act. Worrying about the future takes away so much energy of the mind. When Vasanas are 80% then drop the worries. They become 60% then do Karma Yoga, then mind and Vasanas get more purified. Then 40% do Abyasa, practise to again and again bring back the wandering mind, I think for that Pranayama and focus on breath is good. Then when 20% Vasanas are there mind can be purified through meditation, contemplation. Then the Bhagavad Gita 12th chapter explains that knowledge is more important than abyasa, meditation more important than knowledge and renouncing the fruits of action more important than meditation. Peace immediately follows. This is the ladder of Bhakti.

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