Primary Principles of Sadhana And Their Perversions - Sri Swami Sivananda
======================================================================================== Thursday 14, May 2026, 05:30. Primary Principles of Sadhana And Their Perversions: Sri Swami Sivananda This article is a chapter from the book Sadhana. ========================================================================================= The path of the spiritual aspirant verily lies through a bewildering jungle of difficulties and dilemmas of problems and paradoxes. One of such vexing paradoxes is that your mind is both your best friend as also your bitter enemy. Mind becomes a true friend only after being gradually trained to be so. Mind begins to be really helpful after the aspirant has progressed sufficiently in spiritual Sadhana. Until then it should be regarded as a troublesome and treacherous enemy inside us. It is extremely diplomatic, cunning and crooked. It is an arch-deceiver. One of the master-strokes of the mind’s artfulness is to make the aspirant feel and smugly imagine that...