About Spiritual Practices

I think sad­hana (spir­i­tual prac­tice) needs to vary from per­son to per­son. I don’t have a one size fits all pro­gram. I make my japa chant­ing require­ments minimal–at least one round of each mantra the per­son in ini­ti­tated in daily. I like the idea of bha­jans (songs) in the native lan­guage. I need some poets and musi­cians to work with.

Every­thing is Krishna and Krishna’s ener­gies. He is every­where, in every­one and every­thing. Yet every­one and every­thing is not Krishna. When I have sur­ren­dered my life to Radha Krishna and am moti­vated by love in all I do and work for the good of all walk­ing in the pres­ence of Radha Krishna liv­ing in the tran­scen­den­tal Vrind­a­ban wher­ever I may be, then every­thing I do becomes spiritual.

So far as sex­ual prac­tices, that’s also a very per­sonal, indi­vid­u­al­is­tic path. I believe it is best done in a com­mited, lov­ing rela­tion­ship. They can also be done indi­vid­u­ally or by any two con­sent­ing adults. How­ever, mar­riage vows need to be respected.

I don’t know much about saha­jiyas really except what I read recently on GR and other places on the net. While I like the basic premise of fol­low­ing the nat­ural, easy way, I dis­agree with the prac­tice of hav­ing sex with oth­ers spouses. I have stud­ied and prac­ticed some tantric and Kama Sutra techniques.

Now I have my own very infor­mal meth­ods. Keep­ing the sex­ual (kun­dalini) energy flow­ing and active is impor­tant. Gaz­ing at the part­ner is very effec­tive for break­ing through and see­ing the real per­son. Chant­ing the holy names and mantras increases the spir­i­tual effect. Being lov­ing and nur­tur­ing and delay­ing organ­ism helps.

I don’t think it’s good to imag­ine our­selves to be the Divine Cou­ple in what­ever form. We are not them. We are their ser­vants. We pray that their love may be man­i­fested through our love, but not that we become them.

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