{"id":1118,"date":"2025-07-26T00:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:33:32","slug":"60-guidances-for-your-sadhana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/featured\/60-guidances-for-your-sadhana\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Guidances for Your Sadhana"},"content":{"rendered":"

The initial stages in Sadhana will be one of ups and downs. Obstacles and unfavourable circumstances are God sent chances to make you more steady and strong in will.<\/em> – Swami Sivananda<\/p>\n

60 Guidances for Your Sadhana –
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1. Reduce your wants and desires to the utmost minimum.<\/p>\n

2. Adapt yourself to all circumstances.<\/p>\n

3. Never be attached to anything or anybody.<\/p>\n

4. Share what you have with others.<\/p>\n

5. Be ever ready to serve all. Lose no opportunity. Serve with Atma Bhava.<\/p>\n

6. Entertain Akarta and Sakshi Bhava.<\/p>\n

7. Speak measured words. Speak sweet words.<\/p>\n

8. Have a burning thirst for God Realisation.<\/p>\n

9. Renounce all your belongings and surrender yourself to God.<\/p>\n

10. Spiritual path is a sharp edged razor path. A Guru is absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n

11. Have great patience and perseverance.<\/p>\n

12. Never leave your practice Abhyasa, even for a day.<\/p>\n

13. The Guru will only guide you. Tread the path yourself.<\/p>\n

14. Life is short. Time of death is uncertain. Apply yourself seriously to Yogic Sadhana.<\/p>\n

15. Maintain a daily spiritual diary and record correctly your progress and failures. Stick to resolves posted in your diary.<\/p>\n

16. Do not complain that there is no time for Sadhana. Reduce sleep and extensive talks. Do your personal practice during the hours of Brahmamuhurta.<\/p>\n

17. Let the thought of God protect you from the web of the material World.<\/p>\n

18. Forget the feeling that you are a “so and so” male or a “so and so” female by doing vigorous Brahma Chintana.<\/p>\n

19. Never postpone anything for tomorrow. Do it today.<\/p>\n

20. Do not boast or make a show of your abilities. Be simple and humble.<\/p>\n

21. Be cheerful always. Give up worldly worries.<\/p>\n

22. Be indifferent to things that do not concern you.<\/p>\n

23. Avoid the company of people and their discussions.<\/p>\n

24. Be alone for a few hours daily.<\/p>\n

25. Give up greediness, jealousy and hoarding.<\/p>\n

26. Control your emotions by discernment and dispassion – Vairagya.<\/p>\n

27. Maintain equilibrium of your mind, always.<\/p>\n

28. Think twice before you speak and thrice before you act.<\/p>\n

29. Give up back biting, criticizing and fault finding. Witness any of your reactions.<\/p>\n

30. Study your faults, weaknesses and correct them. See only good in others. Praise the virtues of others.<\/p>\n

31. Forgive & forget the harm done by others. Do good to those who hate you.<\/p>\n

32. Shun lust, anger, egoism. Moha\/Attachment and Lobha\/Greed are both a venomous cobra.<\/p>\n

33. Be prepared to suffer any amount of pain.<\/p>\n

34. Have a set of maxims always with you to induce Vairagya.<\/p>\n

35. Treat sensual enjoyment as poison. Sensual enjoyment cannot give you satisfaction.<\/p>\n

36. Preserve your Virya carefully. Always sleep separately.<\/p>\n

37. Revere females as the Mother Divine. Prostrate before all.<\/p>\n

38. See God in every face, in every thing.<\/p>\n

39. Take to Sankirtan, Satsanga and prayer when the mind is overpowered by lower instincts.<\/p>\n

40. Face obstacles indifferently and boldly.<\/p>\n

41. Care not for criticism when you are on the right path. Yield not to flattery.<\/p>\n

42. Respect rogues and scoundrels. Serve them. Find the good in all beings.<\/p>\n

43. Admit your faults plainly.<\/p>\n

44. Take care of your health. Do not neglect daily Asanas and exercises.<\/p>\n

45. Be active and nimble always.<\/p>\n

46. Develop your heart by giving. Be extraordinarily charitable. Give more than expected.<\/p>\n

47. Desires multiply misery. Develop contentment with what you are given.<\/p>\n

48. Control the senses, one by one.<\/p>\n

49. Develop Brahmakara Vritti – Divine thoughts.<\/p>\n

50. Witness all your thoughts. Keep them pure, loving and sublime.<\/p>\n

51. Do not lose temper when anybody insults, taunts or rebukes you. It is a mere play of words and a variety of sounds.<\/p>\n

52. Rest your mind in God. Live in Truth.<\/p>\n

53. Be up and following the path of perfection.<\/p>\n

54. Have a definite aim in your life and proceed diligently and carefully.<\/p>\n

55. Benefits of Mouna\/Silence are incalculable. Never give up Mouna.<\/p>\n

56. Four important means for passion to enter the mind are sound, touch, sight and thoughts. Be vigilant!<\/p>\n

57. Have intimate connection with none but God. Mix little with others.<\/p>\n

58. Be moderate with every thing and in every action.<\/p>\n

59. Every day witness, have self analysis and introspection. Witness the amount of your growth.<\/p>\n

60. Give up curiosities in spiritual path. Conserve your energy and concentrate. Think little of food, body and relatives. Think more of Atman. You must realize in this very birth itself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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