Words on the Way - Muz Murray Mantra Yoga Master

achieving Self-realisation.
Root: Sidh, sadhati—to attain, accomplish, succeed.
One who follows a spiritual sadhana is a sådhaka.
Quotes:
a) “Transform your desire into aspiration; transform your passion
into dispassion. This is the purpose of all Sadhana.” 1
b) “Sadhana is not doing, but being. Withdrawing attention from
external objects both of the world and of the mind, and clinging to
the first person, ‘I’, alone is sadhana.” 2
c) “Nowadays householders want a magic pill from the hands of
Sannyasins for their spiritual upliftment. They do not want to do
any sadhana. Everyone should tread each step of the spiritual
ladder himself.” 3
Other:
Bib:
Refs:
1 Song of Silence — Chandra Swami Udasin (Seeker’s Trust, Domet, U.P. 1997). p.374.
2 Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi —in The Mountain Path journal (Jayanti 2005)
3
Science of Yoga Vol.3, Ethical Teachings—Swami Sivananda (Sivananda pres, Durban, 1971)
Sådhanacatu‚†aya (sar-dhan-nah-chat-tus
tus-tayah)
Var:
Sense: ‘The fourfold scriptural requirement for the practice
towards advaitic experience’ (the state of non-duality).
According to Çhånkåråchårya in his Brahmas¨tra Bhå‚hya, the
four requirements are: 1) Discernment between the eternal and the
ephemeral, 2) disinterest for enjoyment of the rewards [of rites and
duties] in this life and hereafter, 3) plus the group of qualities
conducive [to Self-knowledge], such as control of mind and
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