Nitai Bhakti

This is all what Shreela Dhruva Maharaja achieved by simply three months of KUMBHAKA smarana or holding his breath and meditating on the Lord: 1. He attained the direct audience of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Ajita, who cannot be seen or conquered by anyone. 2. He attained perfect physical and mental health and stillness for 36,000 years 3. He attained complete mastery in Yoga. 4. He attained perfect concentr…

This is the most smarana inducing mudra. Hands are touching below and on their inner edges too.

Try just one round of the Kumbhaka and see for yourself how much your meditation, absorption, relish, memory, efficiency, focus, productivity, etc. in all your practices and services throughout the day increase. Don’t take my word for it.

Chale vāte chalaṁ chittaṁ, niścale niścalaṁ bhavet | yogī sthāṇutvam āpnoti tato vāyuṁ nirodhayet ||Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā 2.2|| — “As long as the breath moves, so will the mental noise. In the same way, when breath is stopped, the mental noise will be gone too. One should therefore sit and hold the breath.” Āvatsarārdham-abhyāsam pratyahaṃ yaḥ samācharet | sarva-roga-vinirmukto vatsarān mṛtyu-jid bhavet ||Kumbhak Pa…

Vacho vegam: Be silent in smarana but when and if you want to speak, speak only the direct plain facts, truth, and feelings honestly and concisely with detachment without getting too much mentally involved in it and if it is an unpalatable truth still say it but in in a very respectful and loving way. Hide the truth and lose the relationship forever because some day how you truly feel will come out, however much you …

Dear gurudeva, how to discriminate when to be silent and when to speak? Bhaktiratna Sadhu Maharaj: With those whom we have to interact a lot especially by talking during the day, we should be very honest and direct in a very sweet way. Not hide how we feel. If we hide what we feel about them, it is the greatest disservice to oneself and them too. If they don't like the truth or they take it in a wrong way, even thou…

Vacho vegam: Be silent in smarana but when and if you want to speak, speak only the direct plain facts, truth, and feelings honestly and concisely with detachment without getting too much mentally involved in it and if it is an unpalatable truth still say it but in in a very respectful and loving way. Hide the truth and lose the relationship forever because some day how you truly feel will come out, however much you …

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How to approach a sadhu A sadhu is always in smarana and, in many cases, is unorthodox. So whatever comes out of the sadhu’s mouth or presence is mukha-prasad. But some who come to see the sadhu are not open-minded. They will deeply wholeheartedly accept only that mukha-prasad which they consider spiritual, or evaluate it according to their self-defined parameters of spirituality. Even if they had met Shiva, they m…

Engrossed can be in two ways dear Manjari dasi. One is engrossed in seeing/feeling there while being here, that is not ideal. The second is first and foremost you are actually completely engrossed in being there and then you build on that foundation of your awareness there and from there only you feel and see, not that you are sitting here and just engrossed in seeing/feeling from here.

Your pure roopa smarana of the Dhamavasis and the Lord, the bridge between your nama smarana and guna-leela smarana, begins when you start feeling you are actually there in the spiritual world, instead of feeling that you are here and thinking of the spiritual world.