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ATTITUDES FOR PROPER SADHANA
himself is expressing. I think that is the attitude, then we get a balanced condition.
SOME IMPORTANT POINTS TO BE KEPT IN MIND FOR EFFECTIVE SADHANA
1. The mind is generally in a state of unsettledness with so many thoughts and feelings and every sadhaka has to come to a state of settledness in the thought of his meditation.
2. For this, the main thing to understand is the dynamics of mental states.
3. The unsettledness of the mind which is otherwise called Kshipta state of mind is the beginning of sadhana.
4. ThegoalistoarriveatsettlednessorSamadhan.
5. But the mind which was given an object of meditation namely that of Divine light, in most cases only struggles itself with very many thoughts and getting tired enters into a state of torpidity or
Moodatva.
6. Most of the sadhakas confuse this with calmness or
settledness.
7. Instead the sadhaka should endeavor to get into a
state of atleast Vikshipta, i.e. thinking about certain 105
