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‖ sadhana Indian Philos.|ˈsaːdənaː|
Also sadhan and with capital initial.
[Skr. sādhanā dedication to an aim; sādhana means to the goal, etc., f. sādh to succeed, attain.]
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1898K. L. Sarkar Hindu System of Relig. Sci. & Art vii. 137 Worship and prayer (Sadhana and Upashana) are in the main of two kinds. Ibid. 138 Some leaders of those sects in which sakama sadhana (selfish prayer) prevails, are more or less driven to give preference to that blank conclusion of Rationalism called Nirvan Mukti (merger in the Infinite One.) 1909S. Tattavabhúshan Philos. of Bráhmaism i. 2 Bráhmaism..presents itself to us in three aspects,—(1) as a creed, (2) as a system of Sádhan or spiritual culture, and (3) as a scheme of social reform. 1921C. Eliot Hinduism & Buddhism II. xxxii. 282 Siddhi is produced by Sâdhana, or that method of training the physical and psychic faculties which realizes their potentialities... It is part of Sâdhana to arouse..energy and make it mount from the lower to the higher centres. 1932N. K. Brahma Philos. of Hindu Sādhanā ii. 13 The term ‘Sādhanā’ is a current Bengali expression... Its literal meaning is ‘that by which something is performed’ or more precisely ‘means to an end’. In the sphere of religion, it is always used to indicate the essential preliminary discipline that leads to the attainment of the spiritual experience which is regarded as the summum bonum... Sādhanā includes all the religious practices and ceremonies that are helpful to the realisation of spiritual experience. 1941K. G. Mashruwala Practical Non-Violence 48 Violence is born of a narrow conception of ‘I’ and ‘Mine’. The search and discipline of non-violence (the Sadhana of Ahimsa) consists in a constant and progressive widening of that conception. 1958V. Raghavan in W. T. de Bary et al. Sources of Indian Tradition xiii. 303 As Indian philosophy aims at experiencing the Truth, all the schools include disciplines (Sādhanas), practical means for the attainment of the spiritual goal. 1968Indian Music Jrnl. V. 33 After seven years of Sādhanā..[he] was appointed the principal teacher of Lahore branch. 1972P. Holroyde Indian Music vii. 252 The artistic search through feeling out the sādhana of the musical art is, as a result, inward and contemplative. |