Do not overdo karma yoga at the expense of your own spiritual sadhana.
Everything has to be in harmony. There is no point at all in toiling from morning till night and neglecting one’s own spiritual sadhana due to exhaustion after work. That is why I decided to renounce karma yoga after 27 years of intense practice. I will only do my solitary sadhana in a deserted place, for which I have hardly had time due to the strenuous karma yoga of cleaning toilets, washing dishes in the kitchen, and other work in the ashram. I believe now that I have really become a swami I have the right to meditate more at the expense of my workload. I will therefore occupy a deserted place on the grounds of the ashram in Střílky, where I will practice intensive spiritual sadhana on the principle of solitary anushtana during the seminars, as required from yogis by, for example, Bhagavad Gita. I believe that the ultimate Goal of human birth is moksha (Enlightenment), not service to the world. There are several Yoga Paths: karma yoga, bhakti yoga, raja yoga and jnana yoga. But I am a born raja yogi and jnana yogi, as my name “Gyaneshwarpuri” suggests. All my life, I have been subconsciously inclined towards hermitage-based solitude. There is no point in suppressing this in me at all, for it is the higher yogic disposition of my life and soul. Hence I renounce all the lower paths, recommended mainly for householders and secular yogis, i.e., karma yoga and even bhakti yoga. I am only attracted to the hermitage-based life of spiritual discipline, which I believe is one of the prerequisites for a successful jnana yoga sometime in the future. So, for now, I will mainly discipline myself. In all respects, I worship my Master Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, who, in my opinion, is first of all a true gyana yogi, that is, a sage of yoga and the Spiritual Journey to Godhead, who understands me well.
© Swami Gyaneshwarpuri
E-mail: yoga@gyaneshwarpuri.cz
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