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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

The Most Potent Spiritual Practice

Are you fainthearted at life’s turning points?

How do you react to changes or junctures in life? Are you fearful, anxious and often not at your best? Or are you able to move forward consciously? Everyone has times when they may feel fainthearted.  Discover a powerful, yet simple, yoga practice that will help you stay strong, centered and moving forward even in life’s most difficult challenges.

Essential Life Skills, Karma, Helpful Qualities

Reverence

Reverence:  a feeling or attitude of deep respect, love and awe, as for something sacred.  This will conquer faintheartedness and often the failure that happens as a result. Now, an attitude is not occasional thoughts, or even frequent thoughts. It’s your manner, your way of thinking and feeling and acting. It’s your overall attitude. So, to say it again, the most potent practice is the cultivation of a reverent attitude toward the entire creation. 

  • At life’s junctures, you may ask:  Am I too fainthearted?
  • Bhagavad Gita 11:43 — The most potent amongst the spiritual practices is the cultivation of a reverent attitude towards the entire creation 
  • Reverence, a feeling or attitude of deep respect, love and awe, will conquer faintheartedness
  • One way to develop reverence is the idea and practice of pronam, my soul bows to your soul
  • Faintheartness is in back of many character problems. People are fainthearted, so they withhold themselves
  • The great-hearted give and hold nothing back

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