Being Self-aware moment to moment is an art that enables us to avoid identification with the mind and sensory impressions and live in peace, plenitude and freedom!
By dwelling (as firmly and deeply as possible) in inner silence we avoid identification with mental and emotional formations (desires, emotions, lust, likes, dislikes, etc.), we can manage them and let them go or make them subside and through prayer and the power of the mantra eliminate (diminish) their energy.
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"The water to purify your heart is the name of God.""Of utmost importance is to increase the repetition of God's Name (japa) daily. In this way, your heart and mind will be purified, and only then will you find (realize) God within you." ~ Haidakhan Babaji
The 'secret' to a plentiful life, a life of harmony, happiness and contentment is to have a sattvic mind free from desires and ego and to live in every moment in conscious contact with our true Self (Consciousness).
Whenever an emotion or an impulse arises in you, you can contemplate the following questions:
To whom this arises?
Am I this emotion (or impulse) or is it something that happens in me?
With this you will be very attentive, you will connect with the inner silence and fully aware of the emotion and distancing yourself from the emotional reaction and thus avoid or stop identifying with it.
With this inner state you can realize that:
- you are not that emotional or impulsive reaction,
- it is only a mechanical compulsive reaction of the lower nature, and
- is only agitating your mind and distracting you from inner peace and bliss by a mere meaningless energetic puppetry.
Once you realize this, the emotion or impulse loses its importance and the charm it exerts on you and diminishes.
However, if the emotion persists, is very alluring, and you find it difficult to disidentify from it, you can also ask yourself:
What do I prefer, to experience, this ephemeral emotional disturbance or to be free, in peace and plenitude?
This contemplation makes you remember the freedom you long for and feel happiness, which results in letting go of the emotion or impulse.
The more attentive and in deep contact with the inner silence we are, the easier it will be to notice the emotion as soon as it arises and the easier it will be to avoid identification with it and let it go.
We can maintain a high level of alertness and Self-awarenes by repeating a mantra, the name of God or an affirmation of our true Self.
I strongly recommend concluding this process by praying for Divine Mother to eliminate the emotional energy and fill you with peace, love and light!
Later at home you can dedicate some time to investigate thoroughly the emotions, impulses and the associated situation to know and understand them in depth and utilize some method for further eliminating their energy.
You can use for their elimination prayer along with affirmations and visualizations, EFT, the Healing Code, cleanse the energetic channels, chakras and subtle bodies and elimination in the 49 subconscious levels.
The PRESENT or the NOW is timeless and unchanging, always the same and the source of life and all phenomena, that’s why it is always fresh.
The PRESENT (the present moment) does not belong to time (which is a creation of the mind).
👉 The True Nature of the Present Moment
The timeless NOW or PRESENT is not a temporal moment, a tiny fraction of time or an event, but the UNMOVING, UNCHANGING BASE upon which CHANGING EVENTS occur.
👉 Being & Consciousness
That is, the PRESENT (I repeat: not a time indicator, but a timeless present moment) is simultaneously BEING and CONSCIOUSNESS
– it is in fact the ETERNAL LIVING GOD. That’s why it is always fresh, whole, and beautiful.
👉 Freedom from the Matrix
The moment one realizes that they ARE the PRESENT, they are freed from the Matrix.
> "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free." Jesus Christ
👉 The True Identity
The Truth is that you are not the body, the persona, the vital energy, or the mind,
but the TIMELESS PRESENT,
that is FORMLESS, TIMELESS, IMMORTAL, 🌞 LIGHT – CONSCIOUSNESS
Atman at Babaji's Ashram Haidakhan Vishva Mhadam India
GOAL SETTINGIN SPIRITUAL SADHANA by
Nityananda Atman
FREEDOM, HAPPINESS and COMPLETENESS, are characteristics of our True
Nature or Consciousness. We can experience them only when our mind is calm and
focused in the center of our existence or consciousness, which is eternal,
unchanging and the source of peace and bliss.
Mind introverted focused in its center (consciousness) enable us to be in
contact with the eternal source of life (God, Spirit, Consciousness), stops the
identification and attachment to the external forms and objects.
This has as result to experience freedom, peace, happiness and fulfillment.
Mind extroverted focused on external objects and forms causes identification
and attachment to the external forms and objects, compulsive and mechanical
thinking and negative emotions.
This has as result to experience bondage, pain, and suffering, with small
breaks of pleasure, and fleeting moments of happiness.
With the aid of spiritual practices (sadhana) the mind becomes introverted and
stays firmly focused in its center, the consciousness. When all egoic energies
are totally destroyed the abidance of the mind in consciousness becomes
effortless and without a break, this state is called Liberation. If we want to
be established in our center and live a higher spiritual life it is necessary
to organize our daily living properly and follow a well organized daily
schedule of spiritual practices.
In order to bear fruits the spiritual practices the practitioner is necessary
to have some basic virtues such as perseverance, patience, endurance in
hardships and adversity, courage, firm determination, faith ( in himself , in
the scriptures and the Masters ). In addition, as I have said the aspirant
should do his practices systematically. It is necessary to draw a well-
organized program in which will set specific goals and objectives, which will
try to achieve by practicing with consistency and zeal.
It is important to be understood that apart from the daily program it is very
important the setting of specific goals and objectives. It has been shown that
when practice has been associated with the achievement of specific goals is
much more effective than the practice which is poorly organized and lacks of
goals.
Atman at Sivananda room Rishikesh India
Swami Sivananda since 1935 (when the science of learning had not yet advanced), found
through his personal experience that is of great importance the implement of a well-
organized daily program, the maintenance of a personal diary and the setting of
goals. All the above will enable the aspirant to move decisively to his
spiritual journey and achieve self-realization. There are many obstacles and
difficulties in the spiritual path therefore it is required a very well
organized and honest effort to achieve the final goal which is
self-realization. The experience and the guidance of those who already have
achieved self-realization make our journey easier and help us to save time and
energy and march on with more confidence towards self-realization.
Read at the end of the essay the instructions of Swami Sivananda about how we can organize our daily sadhana WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF PRACTICING WITH GOALS?
It is important for us to know the benefits of setting goals in our daily
practice, because this knowledge will motivate us to set goals and try to
achieve them with enthusiasm. Later on when we will get our personal results we
will know from firsthand the value of setting goals and we continue to practice
with goals with more joy and satisfaction.
The advantages of setting goals:
1. Create greater motivation and interest.
2. It helps us to be more methodical and effective.
3. It helps to have results more quick.
4. It helps us to evaluate our effort and progress.
5. Motivate us to increase our effort and stick with our plan.
6. It helps us find our weaknesses.
7. We become more creative finding new ways and methods to accomplish our
goals.
8. It helps us to be more focused to what is important.
When we set goals we must always remember to
"Keep it simple"
"Be flexible"
"Be open minded"
"Enjoy every moment of your practice" "Focus on present"
PLANNING THE PROGRAM In the beginning we plan a program of daily practice which we must follow with
regularity and steadiness. We can make changes if we think it is necessary.
The program must be proportional to our needs and capacities.
We must be attentive and see if we can fulfill this program with regularity.
The first 2-3 weeks we must note if the program flows. We must observe how
things go and reflect on them in order to determine if the program is fulfilled
and if not, what impede us to fulfill the program.
We must determine if the obstacles are external or internal (our mental or
emotional weaknesses). When we determine the nature of the obstacles we must do
the appropriate changes in pour program or we must eliminate our mental and
emotional weaknesses which impede us to fulfill it regularly.
Every once we must examine and evaluate the program. We must determine if it is
appropriate for us and help us achieve the goals we have set. If not we must do
some changes. If we do not know what to do or we have doubts we must ask for
help. Spiritual teachers, advanced spiritual aspirants and books can help us to
do what is necessary. Prayer can help us a lot.
Program and goal setting
Together with the program we set specific goals (with schedule) which we try to
achieve with the means and the practices of our choice.
The goals we set can be relative to the program itself or the capacities and
the qualities we want to develop (some examples: to apply without a break the
program for one month. To increase the time of concentration or to increase the
time of pranayama or the session time of meditation. To develop patience,
tranquility, dispassion, truthfulness etc.)
Setting goals according the time:
Short-term goals (the goals of the day or week)
Medium-term goals (monthly, quarterly)
Long-term goals (semester, annual)
The final goal is Self realization
HOW WE SET THE GOALS:
Write down your goals (this one is very important!)
Follow measure and common sense
Keep the process of setting goals simple.
Evaluate the current level of the skills you want to develop.
Set realistic goals regarding the level and time available. Set goals
corresponded amount and difficulty to your level. Make goals moderately
difficult.
Increase the amount and difficulty of goals gradually (step by step).
Set goals for quantity the quality and stability.
Set specific measurable goals, not abstract. Define exactly what you want to achieve.
Use numbers detailing how often, how many, how much.
Be flexible and make modifications or change the goal if it is needed.
Do not set too many short-term goals. Many people get bogged down by working on
too many goals at once.
Do not set unrealistic goals out of reach of your level and time.
Also, remember to be flexible. Sometimes goals need to be modified, especially
if you are new at goal-setting. Changing goals is not a sign of failure; it
merely helps you become more specific about what you need to do now,
considering information you didn’t have at the time you originally set your
goals.
TYPES OF GOALS
1. Relative to the program
2. Relative to the development of practices
3. Relative the development of capacities and virtues
4. Relative to the elimination of defects and the abandonment of harmful habits
EXAMPLES
1. EXAMPLES relative to the program
Sleeping and waking fixed time in order the program to flow.
Doing meditation with the same ritual, in the same place, same time
Doing meditation steadily every day morning and evening without to fail to do the practice more than 2
times a week
2. EXAMPLES relative to the the development of practices (quantity and
quality)
To extend the duration of pranayama within 6 months from 10’ to 20’ minutes and
the duration of meditation from 30’ to 45’.
To stay completely motionless during meditation
To increase the ability to concentrate without distractions
To increase the control of senses and mind.
3. EXAMPLES relative the development of virtues. We develop virtues such as: patience, compassion, truthfulness, sincerity, kindness,
acceptance, dispassion, discernment, etc. 4. EXAMPLES relative to the elimination harmful habits and egoic tendencies: We eliminate defects such as: fear, jealousy, envy, anger, impatience, gluttony, lasciviousness, guilty, etc. We try to
eliminate step by step the expression of each egoic tendency of its all particulars expressions .
We eliminate harmful habits such as:
watching a lot tv, smoking, drinking alcohol, sleeping too much, gossiping, talking to much, criticizing, cheating, telling lies, watching films of violence, porn, horror, lousy, etc..
When for some reason we don't remain steady in our practice to achieve the above goals, we are looking for the cause
that creates this lack of consistency and I try to find solutions..
When something doesn’t go as we wish, it is not helpful at all to react emotionally
(with guilt, sadness etc. )this is also a play of the ego which wants to stop our
progress towards happiness and freedom)). If it happens so we do practices in
order to eliminate these undesirable emotional reactions. With sobriety we note
what is not working with the program and we make the appropriate changes.
Use Your “SMARTS”
Time-management consultant Hyrum W. Smith created this acronym to help people
remember some of the most important aspects of effective goal-setting. Keep
these things in mind as you create each of your goals:
S = Specific
For example we set as goal to increase the time of japa nama or meditation. We
decide to increase the time every month. We will do for example 3 minutes more
than the previous one. This is a specific goal and measurable.
M = Measurable – Quantify goals.
Use numbers detailing how often and how much I will do a practice. For example
how often I will do pranayama, (every day) how many pranayamas each session or
how much time I will do, -15 minutes.
A = Action-Oriented – Goals should imply actions that you need to take.
For example if we want to eliminate a bad habit or a defect (anger) we must
decide the practices which we apply with sincerity and enthusiasm in order to
achieve the elimination of this defect. R = Realistic – Make your goals moderately difficult, but reachable.
It is not appropriate to increase the time of pranayama immediately -for
example from 10 minutes a day to 45 minutes. It is highly recommended to
increase the amount of practice step by step. We can increase the time of
pranayama from 10 minutes to 15 minutes or from 30 repetitions to 40 repetitions.
T = Timely – Create goals that you can reach in a reasonable time.
For example we set as a goal to increase the time of meditation at the end of
the year from 40 minutes to 1 hour.
S = Self-Determined – Set your own goals, ones that are meaningful to you.
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The three important formulas of Swami Sivananda
Swami Sivananda among so many other instructions that gave to us in order to facilitate our
journey towards Self-realization, he suggested three important formulas, considering them of paramount
importance for any aspirant who wants to move successfully the path of
Self-realization or liberation.
Swami Sivananda says:By keeping a spiritual diary you can then and there rectify your
mistakes. You can do more Sadhana and evolve quickly. There is no other
best friend and faithful teacher or Guru than your diary. It will teach
you the value of time. At the end of every month calculate the total
number of hours you spent in Japa, study of religious books, Pranayama,
Asanas, sleep, etc. Then you will be able to know how much time You are
spending for religious purposes. You have got every chance to increase
the period of Japa, meditation, etc., gradually. If you maintain a daily
diary properly, without any fault in any of the items, you will not
like to waste even a single minute unnecessarily. Then alone will you
understand the value of time and how it slips away. to keep a spiritual
diary.
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