Dear Students and Friends we offer you a note from Sri Dharma Mittra on
developing a home practice:
Find a corner in your house, a little place. If you have a bigger house, find little
room where you should do only your practices and nothing else; your meditation, your
practice. Have the picture of someone you believe, a guru, someone that you really
believe in and respect, that you feel like God manifests through them. Before each
practice, light incense in the house to purify the astral plane. Keep your
refrigerator free from animals, from meat, chicken, everything that involves
yourself in cruelty. Then your house will be blessed indeed. Before every practice
you should bow and ask guidance. Do your meditation in that room. Do your exercise,
surrendering all the fruits to the Lord. If you pray to the Lord don't ask
anything back; just appreciate His power, His beauty, that's all. Don't force yourself
to much, do everything naturally. If you feel like not doing exercise today,
do meditation. If don't feel like meditating today, do pranayama. Or just sing for
the Lord. There are so many kinds of yoga; bhakti yoga, jnana yoga, kundalini yoga.
Do little, very little, but everyday. That is better then spending three hours one day
and then spending three or four days without doing anything. So just do two minutes,
but everyday. Then you will really succeed.