Not a moment to lose

One must attain permanence in BrAhmic bliss quickly. There is no time to waste. As the body ages it becomes less suitable to support the mind in yoga. The mind has to be strengthened quickly to become immune to the body's fluctuations in terms of health and strength.

For this the deha vAsanA (I am the body) and aham vAsanA (I am individuated) have to be annihilated.

Constantly see the body as composed of guNas. See it as a superimposition of Power on Consciousness. Mind fluctuates if tied to body's fluctuations. Mind's fluctuations also affect the body, which is but the gross manifestation of mind.

By fixing the mind on Brahman, the body's journey is improved although by law (dharma) it will perish. Same for mind. It too must perish. But let its vAsanAs perish before it loses strength so it does not embody again. So there is not an instant to be lost in intensifying sAdhanA. The mind must be honest with itself. The mind that thinks it has attained and is not honest with itself is on a dangerous path. If even the least doubt of non-attainment persists, then there is no time to lose. Those who think they can take it easy for now and attain later, or who think they have already attained but are actually still caught in samsAra, are seriously deluded.

SAdhanA never hurt anyone. The permanent state of BrAhmic bliss is continuous sAdhanA. There is a great danger in thinking that just because the state is effortless that it can be attained easily. Great effort is needed for all embodied ones. Slacking off effort by thinking 'this leads to the effortless state' is nothing but folly. Think of the sAdhanA of Ramana and RAmakRShNa. Are your vAsanAs any less than theirs? Then why do you think your sAdhanA should be any less rigorous than theirs?

Softness of mind is a dangerous obstacle. ShankarAcArya calls this cittasya lAlanam. This is hard to comprehend for householders and samsAris. Particularly in Kali Yuga, many of minimal practice may pretend to have attained the brAhmi state. One should turn inward and not be affected or deluded by these illusions.