sevaka v0.11: Devotion

I am reorienting my sadhana as I mentioned in v0.9 and v0.10 and simplifying my practice to:

1. Memorization of the Hanuman Chalisa, Yoga Sutras and Bhagavad Gita
2. Study of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda

Everything else is a subgroup of these two things. I am going way out of the primary sources and reading secondary sources. The primary sources are where the power lies, the secondaries are just clarifications. To simplify, I am focusing my energies on the primary texts and will slowly add the secondaries to clarify any holes in my understanding.

Memorization of Hanuman Chalisa, Yoga Sutras and Bhagavad Gita will be a primary practice that I will go through while also learning them in the original and Sanskrit. This will require me to learn Devanagari so I can say what I have read in Sanskrit. The issue I am facing is that I am not sufficiently devotional and building my devotion is what I need so that when I am not meditating or am away from my meditation mat I can still have God in my heart instead of instantly forgetting. By memorizing some of the core texts I can take the devotion wherever I go.

All of these words are to say that I have greatly simplified my sadhana to a few things with a focus on depth. Summed up it is the following:

• “Yogas citta vritti nirodah” Yoga Sutras 1.2
• “O Arjuna! As the ignorant men work with attachment to action, so should the wise act without attachment, for the welfare of the world.” Bhagavad Gita 3.25
• “Hail, Hail, Hail, Shri Hanuman, Lord of senses. Let your victory over the evil be firm and final. Bless me in the capacity as my supreme guru.” Hanuman Chalisa