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Sadhana

Shiva, Hanuman, and Bhairava

All life is yoga. -Sri Aurobindo

The Sadhana is a combination of Hatha, Japa and Strength. Hatha is how we wake up and get started with the day by inducing flexibility and mental awareness. Japa is done multiple times a day to recharge the mind and reconnect with the divine with a focus on concentration. Lastly, while not necessarily a traditional Sadhana we do strength training to improve our muscular strength using a technique called starting strength. While our divinities are shown as strong and forceful when looking at an average Indian that does not show. We need both internal strength and outward strength.

Further, we keep to a pretty strict schedule Routine. This routine can be made your own, but in general it is pretty important to have a strict routine that means you perform the same things around the same time everyday.

The goal of the Sadhana is to focus on both internal and external strength. We need energy in the brain, but also strength to carry out our seva. The Sadhana does not focus on a philosophical path but just practice and action. So the performance of the action is a major part. We don’t necessarily need to think philosophy while doing the action.

Routine​

This is not a rigid routine, but a general outline. The svadhyaya time is also used for seva work if we have other tasks to do. But the goal is not to work all the time but to have focused amount of time where we execute on tasks quickly and efficiently. So this is why the time seems a bit more constrained.

TimeYoga
7:00-9:00Saucha
9:00-10:00Japa
10:00-3:00Seva
3:00-4:00Japa
4:00-8:00Saucha
8:00-9:00Bala
9:00-11:00Svadhyaya
11:00-7:00

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