If you are a Harry Potter ⚡ fan, you know – a Portkey is a magical object to instantly bring anyone touching it to a specific location. Portkey is an everyday object, so as not to draw attention.
So my question to you is –
Is Sadhana App – a portkey, or a diamond in plain sight?
Well, it appears to me to be the case, and hence thought of sharing what I have found out. Like many, I thought it is an app to help me do regular yagna, japa, nithya karma and sadhana. While it is true that these are the functionality present in the app, it is only when I spoke to an advanced mantra sadhak, who wants to remain anonymous, that there are deeper insights that I understood.
I must also mention that this person is not initiated by Swami ji, and has another Guru. He benefited immensely from the Sadhana app in just 1 month, and this just opened my eyes. This led me to speak with 2 more sadhaks and I am sharing a summary of what I learnt.
While I am not competent enough in understanding the stage of a sadhak, since he has awakened one of the mantras in the past, I believe him to be an advanced sadhak. He is someone who has only done manasic puja, and understands that path, and for him Sadhana app was a boon.
Here is what I have learnt from this discussion, and I am sharing it with you all –
One needs to have complete conviction in the power of Manasic Puja for one to benefit from it. It is in general true for almost all devotional practices, but more importantly in Manasic Puja. It is inherent in the human condition to feel the need for doing something physically with total involvement of all the five senses,like a physical yagna, or abhishekam. Then the mind feels satisfied that the devotional sentiment has been expressed appropriately.
A 5 min yagna in an app could be equal to a 30 min yagna or more in the real world, depending on the set up time, procuring the needed raw materials and the physical effort involved. One thing to keep in mind is that everything that is present in the physical world, first arose as a mental blueprint in the mind which later actualized into physicality. Manasic puja bypasses the physical dimension entirely and engages one’s pranic shakthi (life energy), directly in a subtler realm. The many benefits of manasic puja have been discussed by Swamiji in several of his discourses.
Manasic puja can be a faster way of unlocking the benefits of mantra sadhana, if we believe in it fully. To restate it slightly differently, to harness the power of your mind, it needs to be one pointed in its effort. Doubts and skepticism have their proper place in society, however when it comes to manasic pujas, these can be a source for dissipating ones focus away from the goal and thereby reducing the overall impact of the practice. If you believe and trust Swami ji completely, you will see a huge benefit quickly. Faith is at the center of realizing the benefit.
And here is a video (starting from 18:15), where Swami ji speaks about the benefit of manasic puja.
Every single mantra in the app has been awakened by Swami ji, and what more it is available in his voice in most cases. Nothing extra is needed to unlock it. So chanting the mantra is like being initiated by Swami ji and having his energy help you progress. One is bringing Swami ji in your living space, and the awakened energy is helping.
Swami ji has done the visualization for us, and we need to ensure we maintain the quality of our bhaav while doing the Puja.
The app is not merely a teaching tool, but an awakened place. Another point to note is that Swamiji has mentioned that he had spent an enormous effort creating the specs for each of the temples that have been visualized in the App. The reason for this I believe is that when we perform a puja to our deity of choice in a particular vedic temple, it will generate within us the same energetic vibrations as we would experience if we were to visit those temples and perform our puja in the physical world.
While the app is very simple, it also requires us to click for making a Yagna offering or Abhishekam. This ensures that we are not merely a passive bystander watching a puja being performed but an active participant who is completely involved in making the offerings. If we don’t click, that offering disappears and we are not able to offer it. This in essence is what gets us the same benefits of performing the same puja in the physical world.
Don’t worry if it sounds too simple, just understand that it has been made that easy, but with similar benefits, so there is no excuse for us to not do our daily practices or take up Sadhanas in a more active way.
We are seeing a sense of urgency in reviving the Sanatana Dharma, given what is happening around us. It is with this sense of urgency and the critical stage we are in that the app has been provided in an open manner to be available to all.
When the Sri Vidya Sadhana comes up live in app, we will see how it is offered. But, we expect it to be like the current sadhana’s. It would be quite a shift if this Sadhana which has been kept often private and secret is offered in open to all.
We need such drastic steps given where we are in history. We would see these dots connect later on when we look backwards, and it may not be obvious to us looking forward.
While there are spirituality based apps from other Spiritual Gurus, none so far (at-least to my knowledge), has condensed the power of Yagna/Abhishekam/Mantra Sadhana so powerfully.
We all know he is one of the most advanced practitioner who has realized so many Mantras, and had a vision of Divine. Further, he is also extremely strong in his skills to build a beautiful product. He is the only person who could have built this app, and hence I believe the work of revival of ancient practices through this app, is one of the core missions for Swami ji on this planet.
Further in If Truth be Told, Bhairavi Ma shares “Many esoteric sciences have disappeared and you have to bring them to life”. We know all her predictions were true. I believe Sadhana app is part of the grand scheme of things that Swami ji will transform this world with.
In summary, let us experience the transformative power of sadhana directly with the aid of this app.
