Gyani Baile & Dolly Baile

10. Saadhana (Spiritual Discipline)
Until wisdom enlightens us we need Saadhana. By Saadhana we can
correct our faults and mould our excellence, ensure peace for ourselves,
for society, for the country and for the world. Success in Saadhana
depends on self control and sense control. In Saadhana inner silence is
important. Do not project on the mind irrelevant details and pollute it with
fumes of envy, greed and anger. Do not agitate it with non-stop dialogue.
There are several spiritual disciplines one can engage in, scriptures
advice that the criteria in selecting the most suited path of Saadhana
should be based on interest, individual nature and individual goal.
In the meditation Baba told her "ask children to give me 5 minutes a
day". In regards to this subject she was lead to the book that got her the
following in Sathya Sai Baba's words "You have the great responsibility
of motherhood and the duty of educating your children into strong and
good citizens. Along with the University degree, they must acquire
spiritual training through spiritual discipline to bring out the beauty of
character and of conduct, which in turn will stand them in good stead later
in life." She was asked to do her dharma as a parent and put the children
to a simple 5 minute a day spiritual discipline.
Prior to her experiences, she enjoyed her worldly pleasures and its
humdrum. She equated the peace and calmness to not have anything to do
problem, and that meant boredom and not something to go after and seek
voluntarily. Similarly, 'joy' to her meant having fun in life. Exploring the
world was the field she thought should be considered available for
enjoyment. By that definition we always came up with more things to do
than the time available, and, doing meditation, bhajans, reading scriptures
never made it to our 'to do' list. After getting a flavor of the inner peace, a
longer lasting joy and an overall harmony in life, she wonders how did
she do without it for so long. We don't know how it works but her peace,
joy and harmony is rubbing off on the rest of us also.
It seems that among prescribed virtues surrender, dissolving ego,
equanimity and selfless love play a major role in bringing peace, joy and
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