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INTRODUCTION
Practitioners come to the sādhană camps empty-handed and return with their hands full. We may also say that they come to the sådhanā camps with their hands full and return empty-handed. Both the statements are correct. Practitioners join the camp after having emptied themselves of all that is to be relinquished and return full of spiritual strength. Spiritual exertion is a means of emptying the mind and also of providing a lot of energy to the participant. That which is unwholesome has to be discarded and that which is wholesome has to be preserved and enriched.
Every participant in the camp for exercises in prêkşā meditation must wholeheartedly adopt the following guiding principles of prèkşă meditation. They should recite these loudly :
1. I present myself for exercises in prèkşă meditation. 2. I have adopted the path prescribed for prèkşā medi
tation or spiritual sādhanā. 3. I accept the merits of insight. 4. I accept the merits of spiritual experiences. Bhāva
kriyā, the psychic counterpart of material action, is the beginning of perceptive meditation.
It means three things :
1. To live in the present moment. 2. To do things wakefully, and 3. To remain constantly self-watchful.
Most of our life is spent in involvement in our past deeds and in worries regarding the future. Ninety percent of our lives is covered by the awareness of the past and
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