{"id":1978,"date":"2009-04-11T13:23:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T07:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2009-04-11T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T07:53:44","slug":"consistency-in-sadhanathe-key-to-devotional-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/sweet_motivations\/consistency-in-sadhanathe-key-to-devotional-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Consistency in sadhana&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;the key to devotional success."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/consistency_quote_39.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979  aligncenter\" title=\"consistency_quote_39\" src=\"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/consistency_quote_39.jpg\" alt=\"consistency_quote_39\" width=\"425\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/consistency_quote_39.jpg 425w, https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/consistency_quote_39-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"red_blue\">Improving and making progress in the path of bhakti is simply about creating or losing a habit. Still, somewhere <!--more-->along the way, it\u2019s become an event. Devotees really really work hard in the beginning &#8211; strive to keep the 4 regulative principles, fight against the family and the world at large (well, i did !), wake up at 3-00 am and take cold shower for Mangal Arati, and waht not &#8211;\u00a0 and then stop almost everything that got\u00a0us into being labeled as &#8220;Vaishnavs&#8221;. Once i reached &#8216;x&#8217; number of rounds, and finally settled in the regulative principles, i became complacent, lost all enthu, and now i&#8217;m wondering what became of me. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"red_blue\">For permanent change, habits need to stick around for the long run. In what way would\u00a0i like to be excellent in sadhana? What do\u00a0the high-level devotees &#8211; for example &#8211; Prankrishna Baba or Binod Baba \u00a0who are excellent in this way do on a regular basis? Can\u00a0i do just one of those small things today? Of course one act does not build a foundation, but at least \u00a0it does get me started. i can start waking up earlier, complete my sadhana on one-aasan, ignore the zillion bells ringing during manra-smaran and yogpeeth, not speak in the middle of chanting one round&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"red_blue\">With repetition and time, that one action will seem more normal. Once it becomes a habit, by Radharani&#8217;s mercy, it becomes part of who i am, and the transformation is complete. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Improving and making progress in the path of bhakti is simply about creating or losing a habit. Still, somewhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[226,225],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweet_motivations","tag-consistency","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}