Tulasi Vanam

Activities and habits that help in increasing sattva guna & reducing the dominance of rajoguna and tamoguna:

Food

  • Vegetarian diet
  • Cutting out tamasika foods
  • Food regulation (what is eaten, how much, and when, not eating out)
  • Consuming prasada

Daily habits 

  • Early sleeping/early waking (brahmamahurat)
  • Daily exercise
  • Pranayam
  • Personal cleanliness
  • Early morning cold water bathing 
  • Pausing between activities
  • Reading and learning
  • Observing menstruation related restrictions (for women)

Sacred Rituals & Activities

  • Daily worship of Bhagavan
  • Spending 1 hr daily in puja room/area
  • Observing rules and rituals of our respective varna
  • Observing fasts like Ekadashi
  • Teertha yatras & bathing in sacred teerthas
  • Visiting sattvika temples
  • Daana
  • Offering seva at temples
  • Gau seva
  • Brahmana seva

Attitude

  • Refraining from using expletives
  • Thanking ancestors/kula devta/ishta devata, & doing prarthna for dharma (vs only for personal wants)
  • Respect for elders
  • Abstaining from consuming foul content
  • Avoiding verbal abuse and company of people with such habits
  • Reducing habit of condemning others

Remembering Bhagavan

  • Japa/bhajan
  • Meditation
  • Chanting of sacred texts in praise of Bhagavan.
  • Listening to puranas and consuming dharmic content
  • Sants and Gurus – listening to discourses of Guru
  • Having the darshan of and spending time with Guru and sants.

It is a great list we all can take tips from and attempt applying what is conducive to us.


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