Patience
The Adiveda Weekly #46
Hari Aum Sadhakas,
This week's blog reflects on the significance of patience, emphasizing its essentiality for all Sadhakas. It highlights that expertise cannot be achieved overnight, requiring diligent practice and patience. Nature serves as a valuable teacher, exhibiting deliberate actions performed at the right time. Spiritual and personal growth, which surpasses physical growth, demands infinite patience as does the need for unwavering faith and patience in the pursuit of spirituality. There are many challenges faced by individuals practicing patience in a fast-paced world, stressing the importance of patience for overall well-being and mental health. The role of patience in listening and stress management is emphasized, along with the need to surrender to a higher power and cultivate detachment. The embodiments of patience, Devi Shailaputri and Nandi, are also mentioned as sources of inspiration, with the idea that true devotion involves patiently awaiting the divine call.
-Adiveda Team
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The Sanatana Dharma
Patience is the ability to wait without becoming annoyed, upset, or angry. It requires exercising self-control instead of worrying and complaining. In the fast-paced world we live in, it is very difficult to be patient. "Once we're born, the race is on!"
Both faith in what one is doing and patience are essential to achieve the desired results in anything. Even mundane tasks, if rushed, can lead to undesirable outcomes. In Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the 5th "Yama" is "kshama" or patience. The 16th chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita also emphasizes patience as an essential quality for spiritual seekers. Shirdi Sai Baba always emphasizes the two qualities of "sraddha and saburi" - faith and patience.
Reflection of the Week
Spirituality is an inner growth that is even more important than physical growth. Therefore, infinite patience must be practiced. All spirituality is an unfolding of the bud within oneself. The time it takes will depend on the individual, similar to how different plants flower and fade at their own pace. For most people, it takes years of diligent practice with unwavering faith in the right path before the flower of spirituality begins to bloom. Even after blooming, there is no room for complacency or relaxation. "Total vigilance is the price of freedom." Just as the army guarding our boundaries cannot afford to relax for a minute, we can never know when the ego, our number one enemy, will take the opportunity to overcome us in our half-asleep state and claim victory.
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Impatience causes stress and can negatively affect physical and mental health. Practicing patience can lead to fewer headaches, acne breakouts, ulcers, and reflux. Patient individuals experience fewer negative emotions, as they are better equipped to handle stressful and challenging moments, promoting overall mental well-being. Flexibility and patience are closely linked, as practicing patience involves internalizing emotions and considering the bigger picture.
Mantra of the Week
Important dates this week
Vinayaka Chaturthi on May 23, 2023, Tuesday
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