Sadhana Panchakam composed by Adi Shankaracharya, consisting of 5 verses of 40 steps leading you towards salvation.
00:00 Introduction
✅40 Instructions for Spiritual Progress🔻
01. 03:40 Study the Vedas daily
02. 05:29 Perform duties ordained by the Vedas to the best of your ability
03. 10:31 Dedicate all the actions/duties as worship of the Lord
04. 11:08 Turn your mind away from desires
05. 11:58 Cleanse yourself completely of sin
06. 13:09 Reflect upon inherent limitation of worldly pleasures
07. 14:37 Strive to discover your true Self
08. 15:53 Quickly escape from attachment to your home
09. 18:33 Seek the company of wise men
10. 20:30 Cultivate steady devotion to the Lord
11. 23:00 Cultivate the qualities such as sama, dama etc…
12. 23:24 Give up desire prompted activities
13. 24:44 Approach a truly wise teacher
14. 25:17 Serve the Sandals (padhuka) of teacher daily
15. 26:10 Ask the teacher to unfold knowledge of Brahman
16. 27:16 Listen properly to the mahavakyas of the Upanishads
17. 28:05 Analyze the meaning of the mahavakyas
18. 29:17 Embrace the vision of the scriptures
19. 29:48 Avoid perverse arguments
20. 30:09 Follow the reasoning used in the scriptures
21. 30:50 Meditate on the truth, "I am brahman."
22. 31:03 Give up pride at all times
23. 31:48 Give up the identification with Body
24. 32:36 Give up the tendency to argue with wise men
25. 33:13 Treat the disease of hunger
26. 33:36 Daily take the medicine of food obtained as Bhiksa
27. 34:30 Have no craving for delicious food
28. 34:57 Be content with whatever is obtained as a result of Prarabdha
29. 35:31 Endure all pairs of opposites – like heat and cold
30. 36:23 Do not engage in useless talk
31. 36:56 Maintain an attitude of happy indifference
32. 37:19 Overlook public sympathy and censure
33. 37:51 Sit for meditation in a solitary place
34. 38:49 Concentrate mind on the Brahman
35. 39:27 Realise and see the all-pervading Self everywhere
36. 40:09 Recognise that the finite universe is a projection of the Self
37. 40:39 Conquer the effects of the deeds done in earlier lives (Sanchita)
38. 41:04 Through wisdom be detached from future reactions (Agami)
39. 41:46 Experience and exhaust the fruits of present actions (Prarabdha)
40. 42:17 Thereafter, live absorbed in the Bhava, “I am Brahman”
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