The Qualifications for a Student of Yoga : 5.

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Part-5.

Once you commence Sadhana, the next important thing you should bear in mind is that you should not give it up.

Perseverance is of the utmost importance.

All process in this universe are gradual.

They have got stages.

If you want to go through all the stages of Sadhana and attain the goal, you must have patience and perseverance.

Therefore, you should have to always persevere, exert and plod on till the goal is reached.


There is another important point that in spiritual Sadhana you should not merely be contented with the positive forces.

There are active forces that oppose the Sadhak, that actually assail him and pull him down.

Herein comes the necessity of the fourth important weapon—that is fortitude.

While persevering man has to have a little courage, not to be easily shaken by the obstacles that assail him.

He will have to brave the storm and proceed in spite of the difficulties and adverse conditions, trying to cow him down, to push him off from the path of Sadhana.

It is with this fortitude he refuses to be discouraged and relying upon the inner Self he proceeds with the Sadhana, and ultimately he attains the ideal for which he has taken this birth upon earth; and while going through the process he will have to see that he keeps in mind the necessity of giving minute attention to all the small details upon the path, because in every process all such small details of the process are to be attended to, very carefully.

If any small detail is left out, thinking that it is a superfluous, he will find that ultimately he has lost his valuable time and labour. This delays progress. It is the conglomeration of small things that go to achieve high ideals.


Therefore, with firm faith, practical application, perseverance, careful attention to even small details and fortitude in trials, you must set foot and proceed on the path of Sadhana.

Raise aloft that banner of the Divine Life.

Feel all humanity to be one and spread the message of man’s divinity, the message of brotherhood and cosmic love, to every home and broadcast them to all.

Ever assert your divinity every moment of your life.

Ever strive to live in the consciousness that you are essentially divine and you have been given this human birth only to recognise your essential divine nature.

END.

Next : Why Meditate?

Swami Sivananda
To be continued....


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