What is sadhana? Sadhana is the method or means used to achieve competency or mastery in a particular thing.

Siddhi is the manifested competency or mastery of anything so undertaken Siddiya/Siddihiyi is a person who has achieved mastery in a particular thing or things Sadakha is the student or learner who is undertaking the sadhana

Generally the term is used to describe religious learning, but has been often mistranslated as magic (sadhana) and magician (sadhaka). It can be these but can equally well be applied to any undertaking. For example if I wanted to learn the guitar, I would undertake sdjhana of guitar. Whatever methods I may use to learn the guitar would be my sadhana, and I would be a sadakha of guitar. When I have achieved competency or mastery of guitar, the abilities so manifested would be the siddhi of guitar and I would be siddiyah of guitar.

Sadhana, in its greater or religious sense is used to indicate the methods or means used whereby \ sadakha achieves mastery over the various carnal-material appetites and can control these. The siddiyah can use these siddhi to his own or others benefit, or equally to his own or others harm, depending upon the choice made. To use siddhi in a harmful or selfish way will degrade the progress of the sadaka and will in future lives cause him to be born into a lower consciousness where he will have to deal with the effects of what he has done and to experience these effects in order tom gain understanding. This is karma in this sense. Having achieved mastery over the carnal-material appetites, the siddya is then ready to begin yoga. What is yoga? Yoga is best translated as process. It is the process by which, having achieved and manifesting control of the carnal material appetites (this is evidence through conduct, speech and thought). the siddiya can begin the process of achieving Liberation. What is Liberation? Liberation in this sense is liberation from the cycle of birth-death-rebirth into this physical carnal material work and freedom from attachment to the carnal material desire which has trapped the jivatma (entity) here i9n Maya. There are a number of different yogas or process which can be chosen. When the sadkha/siddiya is ready, he will discuss this with the guru and a suitable yoga will be selected according to the appropriateness of the yoga for the jivatma and the competency of the jivatma to perform the yoga. This is adhikara (what is fitting or appropriate for an individual).

The choice of yoga will be determined by the sadhana performed by the individual to achieve siddiya and by consideration of the individuals state of consciousness. These will determine what is DHIKARA FOR THE JIVATMA. There are it said 144 yogas, although many of these are not fully developed and many are3 part of other yogas. It may be said that there are 7 great systems, these according to the chakras will use the siddhi of those chakras to allow the sadhaka to progress on the path to moksha (liberation) and in each process the jivatma learns freedom from attachment and desire for the carnal-material world. Achievement of yoga results in the Bliss of divine union, experienced however briefly here on earth when the energies are raised though the spinal column from the 1st centre and join together in the 6th. This results in the release of the divine nectar which cleanses the whole body and as the energy 9kundalini) returns to the 1st centre she re-creates all that she has destroyed when going up. The body is re-made from within and purified. Assiduous practice in raising the energy and keeping it I the 6th centre is desirable in order that at the end of physical life the yoga will choose when to leave it and will be able to place his consciousness into the 6th centre in order to open the door to the sahasrara. The consciousness will then realise union tiyh shiva-shakti according to whichever of the heavens it has attained. The entity will then exist in a state of bliss in the presence of the One (Brahman). It can be seen then that sadhaka is the mastery and control over the carnal-material appetites in preparation for yoga and that yoga is the process of achieving Liberation from the carnal-material appetites and the physical world. This transcends Maya, the limiting power of consciousness and allows the jivatma to enter Samadhi. The jivatma id then free to choose whether to enter again into the material world to continue the journey to complete the annihilation of the self and total re absorption in Shiva-Shakti (Brahman) Each entity must eventually complete this journey, mastering each level of consciousness by sadhana and yoga. The carnal-material plane is the quickest although the most difficult way to do it., since in the physical world the jivatma experiences the dualism of this and that and is not aware of the presence of Brahma and so experience this world as a place in which he is separate from everything else. In other planes the awareness of the presence of Brahman is inherent. What is there before the jivatma becomes sadaka? Ignorance. This is the condition of being trapped in and believing in the dualistic reality of the world and experiencing it in this way. It is the state of having no knowledge or desire for Shiva Shakti or the release from this condition. It is a state of enslavement wherein the jivatma is a slave to his animalistic material carnal desires and appetites and sees nothing else. At worst it is a state of compete selfishness where anything beyond satisfaction of the self is shunned and ridiculed. If the jivatma continues in this way over repeated lifetimes it ultimately leads to the dissolution of the entity. The spirit withdraws from the souls and this together with the mental and physical bodies are broken up into their component parts to be reincarnated at the lowest level of life after they have been purged in the planetary planes.

The conscious desire to know, to experience, to understand, to be better than we are, is the very beginning of sadhana. It may take many many lakhs of lifetimes to achieve siddhi, and many more to become siddiya in any one thing. Therefore when during a lifetime siddhi is manifested or sidyiya is achieved, it is the cumulative process resulting from many lifetimes of assiduous application. In some lifetimes we progress in others we fall back. We gain and we lose within lifetimes. Just as with learning anything, we do not always apply ourselves 100% all the time. The choice is however, always our own.