Sādhana: The Discipline of Practice

Mapping the Path

Sādhana Pāda outlines the discipline required to support this inward journey.

Here, yoga is presented not as posture alone, but as kriyā yoga, which is a process of purification, preparation, and regulation involving:

• committed effort

• self-study

• orientation beyond egoism

Before one is entrusted with subtle capacities of mind or perception, ethical and perceptual clarity must be established. This is why the yamas appear before advanced techniques. They are not moral rules imposed from outside; they are safeguards that protect practitioners from the misuse of clarity and power, whether intentional or unconscious.

History and lived experience show us what happens when insight arises without purification: gifts are misused, identity inflates, and harm occurs… even when intentions seem good.

Without understanding how quickly the attachment and misidentification (we can this ego) can appropriate insight, one may mistake capacity for realization. The presence of power does not indicate truth. True realization does not create harm.

The Discipline of Committed Practice reminds us that purification of mind, body, and breath is not optional… it is foundational.