Start a New Habit Today!
Vaisesika Das: Most of one’s progress in life and work come from the kind of habits one develops.
Dostoyevsky wrote: “The second half of a man’s life is made up of the habits he acquired during the first half.”
Fortunately, as humans, we can develop new habits at any time in our lives. And just one new good habit can turn one’s life in a positive direction.
To improve the quality of your life, start a new habit today.
Decide on something very small and achievable, commit to it in writing, and start doing it.
Next, employ the principle of abhyasa – repetition and practice.
Keep up your practice and over several weeks or months you’ll begin to feel a difference as your new good habit develops.
In the process of bhakti yoga, keeping good habits while performing japa meditation are extremely beneficial.
Here is a japa practice recommended by Srila Prabhupada that is worth developing into a habit:
“As soon as the mind wanders, we should immediately drag it back to concentrate on Krishna. While chanting, our mind sometimes wanders far away, but when we become conscious of this, we should immediately bring the mind back to hear the sound vibration of ‘Hare Krishna.’ That is called yoga-abhyasa, the practice of yoga. We should not allow our mind to wander elsewhere. We should simply chant and hear the Hare Krishna mantra, for that is the best yoga system.”