Sahaj Sadhna

Sahaja Sadhana is one of Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedis most important works, as it provides a clear and accurate understanding of his primary topicthe medieval period. According to Kabir, a being bound by Maya considers this world to be false. He calls yogis who think so ignorant. True spiritual practice is not to escape the world or to perform the rituals of yoga and tantra to attain salvation. True spiritual practice involves experiencing the divine within and outside of oneself through action. This thought of Kabir and his contemporary saints and devotees was not a one-off product; rather, it is grounded in a long tradition of earlier sects that influenced the ideologies of medieval Shaivites, Buddhists, and Nathpanthis, which is thoroughly examined in this book. In other words, Acharya Dwivedi has thoroughly analyzed the gradual evolution of Indian spiritual consciousness and its various methods of spiritual practice. Kabir calls the scientific, cohesive form that human empirical knowledge acquired through comparative study and experiments, Sahaj Sadhana, meaning the cohesive, scientific form of the spiritual world. In fact, Sahaj Sadhana is an important step in the Herculean effort undertaken by Acharya Dwivedi to truly understand the true nature of the most important consciousness of the medieval periodthe Bhakti movement.