So sadhana (spiritual practice), remembrance, is the key word. That is why sadhana is so important to continuously and correctly do sadhana, correctly. What is the correct way of doing sadhana?
Bring the Divine form in your mind and in your heart. Doing roopdhyan (meditation on the Divine form), remembering the Divine love, the Divine pastimes, the Divine glories, the Divine beauty of the Divine beloved Lord. Chant His glories, listen to His Divine pastimes, etc.
Shravan (hearing Divine knowledge and pastimes) and kirtan bhakti (devotional singing and chanting) are the greatest helpers to get our sumiran bhakti (constant Divine remembrance) strong. That’s the aim, to get Sumiran strong. The remembrance, through the roopdhyan, and the roopdhyan, may become so very easy to us with this practice of sadhana. So of course, sadhana practice needs an atmosphere like this. A separate time has to be dedicated. It’s not that you just do sadhana when you are talking, walking, and going to work. No, you need to allot time. There is karm sannyas sadhana (renunciation-based spiritual practice while performing actions). That is known as karm sannyas sadhana.
Karm sannyas sadhana is extremely important because the moment you start to practice your sadhana in the correct manner, by having your mind practice the sadhana, that is the only thing that you’ve got to remember.
Who is going to practice sadhana? Not your body, not your tongue, not your senses - your mind. The mind needs to be attached. That attachment needs to be built by continuously longing and yearning for the darshan (Divine vision), for the love, for the seva (loving service) of the Lord, doing roopdhyan.
If we correctly practice sadhana with the mind, then the purification of our hearts and minds will naturally start to happen.
