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Chapter Six: If You’re Already Spiritual, Why Practice?

 

   

 

Part Two: Spiritual Practice Makes Perfect

 

 

6   Chapter Six: If You’re Already Spiritual, Why Practice?     (Read the full chapter)

        

 

 

             

 

 

   

 

6a   Intro

          

 

 

 

   

6b   Growing Through Spiritual Practices

           

 

 

Video Adjunct:

In this short clip, I share an experience with my Guru at the ashram that blessed my practice of Sanskrit chanting in a way that led to many powerful and beautiful experiences of sharing chanting with friends and with the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

6b1   Clarifying what you want

            

 

 

        

 

 

 

   

 

6b2   Applying steady effort

             

 

 

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

6c   Finding What Practices are Right for You

           

 

 

             

 

 

 

 

   

6c1   Discovering the techniques

            

 

 

         

 

 

   

 

6c2   Letting your practices flow

             

 

 

Video Adjunct:

This three-and-a-half minute video shares my recitation of the beginning of an Vedic text, Shri Rudram, that was composed around 1000 BC. Shri Rudram offers salutations to the Divine in everything that exists in this world, good and bad, and then requests a long list of blessings in an affirmation style that affirms these blessings to have already been bestowed. My experience of the practice of chanting such Sanskrit texts is of a special flow that comes together when a modern aspirant connects with these ancient mantras. This recitation was part of a sacred music concert at the Sun Valley Opera House, and the flow continued when some Brahman Priests from India discovered this western woman chanting their ancient text and shared the video with a positive response tens of thousands of times on YouTube, Facebook, and in other communications.

 

 

 

 

Video Adjunct:

As a good lesson of how letting your practices flow may first require some challenging tests where those practices may feel full of obstacles, here is a four-and-a-half minute sharing of how I first tried to chant Shri Rudram with little success, until with persistence and Grace, the practice turned into a beautiful flow.

 

 

 

 

 

6c3   Doing practices for body, mind, and spirit

            

 

 

 

   

6c4   Strengthening your willpower

              

 

 

               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

6c5   Practicing being happy