{"id":72175,"date":"2025-03-23T01:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T20:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=72175"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:30:38","slug":"a-consideration-of-impediments-in-bhajana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/a-consideration-of-impediments-in-bhajana\/","title":{"rendered":"A Consideration of Impediments in Bhajana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a><\/a>A Consideration of Impediments in Bhajana<\/span><\/h2>\n

Bhajane pratibandhaka vicara<\/span><\/p>\n

Observing one’s perfect ekadasa-bhava, one should meditate on one’s bhava with sincere determination.<\/span><\/p>\n

Engaged in this smarana, there is an important consideration: one should always meditate on what is most suitable.<\/span><\/p>\n

If one performs smarana on things that are not suitable, perfection will never be achieved even if one practices for many yugas.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a>The stage of Apana-dasa<\/span><\/h2>\n

Apana-dasa<\/span><\/p>\n

As one rigorously engages in one’s sadhana and smarana practice, one will reach the purest stage of apana-dasa.<\/span><\/p>\n

By constantly meditating on one’s pure bhava, the worldly conceptions that bind one to Maya will soon go far away.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a>The conditioned Jiva eventually reaches Bhava<\/span><\/h2>\n

Baddha-jiva ye krame bhava prapta hana<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jiva who is tied to matter forgets his state of perfection. Mentally identifying with matter, he becomes absorbed in the material body.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this stage, if one listens to Krishna-lila, the desire to attain the abundance of one’s perfect state emerges.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, one constantly meditates on one’s bhava-tattva[1]<\/a>, and so as that bhava increases, the wrong ideas vanish.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> The nature of one’s bhava.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a section of the book \u201cHarinama Cintamani (English)\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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