BRAHMACHARIYA - Personal Challenges for Chapter One

BRAHMACHARIYA - Personal Challenges for Chapter One


when completed Discipline

1. Visit a Ganesha temple or shrine and sit before the Deity for twenty minutes or more. Strive to tune into His comforting, motherly shakti. Open yourself to His love.


2. Write down your personal goals in life. Keep a copy for yourself, and send a copy to the devas through the homa at Kadavul Hindu Temple with a note asking them to help you fulfill these aspirations.


3. Lift your arm and feel energy, as explained in lesson 1. Then feel the same energy within your spine.


4. On two occasions consciously work to place yourself in an inner plane school by reading your lessons before sleep. In the morning, see if you can recall the results.


5. Visit your guru, or if you don't have a guru, visit any holy person. Before your visit, consciously empty your mind of preconceptions. Try to become an empty vessel, ready to receive the grace and blessings the soul has for you.


6. Once you have prepared yourself, take the brahmachariya vrata.


Source: Saivite Virtue