Spiritual progress means progress in the process of becoming one with God. God is without personality defects and is full of virtues. It is essential to put in efforts towards the removal of personality defects and increase virtues if one wants to unite with God.
Personality defect removal is the process in which the personality defects in a person are removed and replaced with impressions of good qualities in his mind. We will try to understand in detail about the importance of the process of personality defect removal.
The various steps of vyashti sadhana are chanting, company of truth, service unto the truth, sacrifice for truth, love for others, personality defect removal, ego removal, and efforts for awakening devotion and spiritual emotion! We will try to understand the various steps of vyashti sadhana.
Satsang is the company of Truth. Sat means God (Aboslute Truth) or Brahmatatva and sang means company! It is impossible to get the company of God directly; hence the company of saints who are the manifest form of God, is the best Satsang.
It is said that chanting God’s Name continuously keeps us in communion with God and can liberate us from the bondage of life and death. We will now to understand about the efforts required to increase chanting both quantitatively and qualitatively.
The spiritual practice of chanting is very simple. It helps in alleviating physical and psychological ailments, increasing concentration, reducing sorrow, nullifying sins, and is useful even after death. Let us understand the various methods so as to make our chanting increasingly better.
Japa means ‘Jakarojanmavicchedakah pakaropapanashakah’, meaning ‘Japa is that which releases us from the vicious cycle of birth and death after destroying sins’. Let us understand benefits of chanting (Naamjap).
We come across several “Do’s and Don’ts” at several places and occasions in our daily lives that help us in the outside world. Similarly, it is also important to know what should be done and what should be avoided during the course of our spiritual practice.
A very important principle of spiritual practice is doing it according to ones spiritual level. What is spiritual level? It means authority. Here, the word authority should not be taken in worldly terms but in spiritual terms.
The important principle in spirituality is ‘There are as many paths in spiritual practice as the number of individuals!’. If every individual practices spirituality according to his/ her nature, spiritual progress will be faster.