Swami Veda Bharati
Five Pillars of Sadhana
Although there are many possible supports or "pillars" to your sadhana, this article will concentrate on these five:
- STILLNESS
- SILENCE
- FASTING
- CELIBACY
- CONQUEST OF SLEEP
THE ENERGY THAT HEALS
OM! —
aprayante mamangani
vak prana shaksho shotra mato makam
indriyani te sarvami
sarvam Brahmo Upanishadam
ma ham Brahma nirakuriyam
ma ma Brahman nirakarot
anirakaramastu anirakaranamastu
yasman irate yo Upanishad su dharma
se mayu sanchute mayu Shantih OM!
The Energy That Heals: I am.
From within you also there arises a voice which is wordless but proclaims,
“I am. I who am the Energy.
I who am the Shakti of all universes, of all comoses, of all sentiences.
I am the Beloved Consort of the Lord.
I am That.”
Shakambhari Devi, the Bearer of the Green
1. This is to continue the magazine that I have been preparing for you from time to time.
The first part of this magazine cassette is a composition I wrote recently in Sanskrit. Now, as I have said earlier, languages are jealous and not really translatable. Nor can I convey to you the diction or the power of the words. (Part of the original is spoken.)
Now I will give you the narrative. Nothing very profound this time, I'm afraid.
This requires some explanations beforehand about some allusions. For example, the tradition has it that the Vedas, the ancient scriptures are nothing but the breath of God. God breathed into the souls of this first manasa putras, his mental offspring, the rshis, the first prophetic sages who were born jivan mukta, born liberated, living liberated, therefore abandoning the bodies liberated. And we are all offspring of them. That all words are offspring of the archetypal word. All languages are children of the words revealed by God as His breath into the highly-realized souls. There is a vast linguistic theory of Sanskrit language and its tradition of philosophy into which I cannot go at this time. I am just giving a few allusions that occur in this composition.