Post by prisnidd on Mar 27, 2013 6:08:29 GMT -5
The bhakti yoga process is really scientific how it progresses from the level of the gross body, to the subtle body and finally to the soul.
In the beginning we do things on the gross level, with our physical body, like deity worship, temple service and so on. Activitiers that purifies our gross body but also the mind. We have to let our mind (psyche) get purified at that stege, and deal with things like mental hangup, fobias, depression and so on.
When the mind is purified enough (but not completely) we take the sadhana to the next level. We form our siddha-deha and start to do pure mental sadhana.
That will further purify the mind, but primarely work hard on purifying the soul (which goes on concurrently on all levels). We can't make mental sadhana if the gross body and brain are troubling us grossly, and we can't do it either before most problems of the mind are taken care od (anartha-nivritti).
After some time of mental sadhana, we finally go the step towards sadhana only in the soul. Our mental siddha-deha gets replaced by a suitle body in the soul, with which we continue or sadhana. At this level we can dissolve even the mental ego, since we don't need it anymore. At the final time the subtle body disappears, since it has no function anymore, and we get situated in our final spiritual body (at time of death)
If we fail to understand this stepwise sadhana process, and do not purify ourselves enough, we will either get stuck, or fail horribly when it all backfires on us.
To do mental sadhana we cannot have the mind troubled with gross hangups. They need to be purified and removed. Here we can also see how the statement that we need to be fully purified of anarthas first before starting fits in. At that stage we will still have mental anarthas, but no gross. The mental anarthas gets purified only when we do mental sadhana, and go away only by that.
If we keep some gross anarthas as dear even when doing sadhana bhakti, at some point they will become dominant and still be strong, they will overpower us with falldown as result, just as we have seen in iskcon so many times, where devotees fall down due to primarely sexual desire. It is also possible that we might be clever in hiding anarthas, and instead we fall down in insanity.
Proper execution of sadhana, as carefully given to us by Prabhupada, will do so we avoid such disasters. Never change a thing unless we know it is not directly part of the sadhana process, when we instead can make adjustments to time and circumstances.
Adhikari (eligibility) for raganuga bhakti is given as a list of symptoms of anarthas. We can check ourselves against that list to see where we are. We should not try to be cheatingly over-intelligent of getting rid of the symptoms without dealing with the anarthas, in case we will fail later, maybe even spectacularly (officially disgracefully).
In the beginning we do things on the gross level, with our physical body, like deity worship, temple service and so on. Activitiers that purifies our gross body but also the mind. We have to let our mind (psyche) get purified at that stege, and deal with things like mental hangup, fobias, depression and so on.
When the mind is purified enough (but not completely) we take the sadhana to the next level. We form our siddha-deha and start to do pure mental sadhana.
That will further purify the mind, but primarely work hard on purifying the soul (which goes on concurrently on all levels). We can't make mental sadhana if the gross body and brain are troubling us grossly, and we can't do it either before most problems of the mind are taken care od (anartha-nivritti).
After some time of mental sadhana, we finally go the step towards sadhana only in the soul. Our mental siddha-deha gets replaced by a suitle body in the soul, with which we continue or sadhana. At this level we can dissolve even the mental ego, since we don't need it anymore. At the final time the subtle body disappears, since it has no function anymore, and we get situated in our final spiritual body (at time of death)
If we fail to understand this stepwise sadhana process, and do not purify ourselves enough, we will either get stuck, or fail horribly when it all backfires on us.
To do mental sadhana we cannot have the mind troubled with gross hangups. They need to be purified and removed. Here we can also see how the statement that we need to be fully purified of anarthas first before starting fits in. At that stage we will still have mental anarthas, but no gross. The mental anarthas gets purified only when we do mental sadhana, and go away only by that.
If we keep some gross anarthas as dear even when doing sadhana bhakti, at some point they will become dominant and still be strong, they will overpower us with falldown as result, just as we have seen in iskcon so many times, where devotees fall down due to primarely sexual desire. It is also possible that we might be clever in hiding anarthas, and instead we fall down in insanity.
Proper execution of sadhana, as carefully given to us by Prabhupada, will do so we avoid such disasters. Never change a thing unless we know it is not directly part of the sadhana process, when we instead can make adjustments to time and circumstances.
Adhikari (eligibility) for raganuga bhakti is given as a list of symptoms of anarthas. We can check ourselves against that list to see where we are. We should not try to be cheatingly over-intelligent of getting rid of the symptoms without dealing with the anarthas, in case we will fail later, maybe even spectacularly (officially disgracefully).