Talk:Sādhanā

message: This article seems very POV and makes a lot of claims without giving any reference. The only link that was on the page was a link to a commercial site selling malas.  This is why I added the POV check template as well as the unreferenced template and the cleanup since the whole tone of this article seems inappropriate for an encyclopedia.  At the very least other views should be included.TheRingess 07:13, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Not POV

message: Who wrote the portion on Tantric Sadhana? It's grossly wrong.
There are three apaya's directly related to tantric sadhana, that are extremely vast.
Also, Sadhana ties into saktipata which is extremely vast as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.70.218.24 (talk) 14:02, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tantric Sadhana 

message: Sādhanā, the "practicing which leads to a goal"? Is this it? I feel an explanation on the etymology would have its place in the article body, to avoid my type of confusion with the spelling of this word. For your reference, the full Monier-Williams venerable and venerated dictionary is on wiktionary.</br>
साधनपाद - Sādhana Pāda
sa
    sa mfn. (fr. √san) procuring, bestowing (only ifc
sā
    sā (weak form of √san), giving, bestowing, granting (cf. ap-, aśva-sā &c.)
adhana
    a-dhana mfn. destitute of wealth
or dhana
    dhána n. the prize of a contest or the contest itself (lit. a running match, race, or the thing raced for
    • hitáṃ dhânam, a proposed prize or contest
    • dhanaṃ-√ji, to win the prize or the fight) RV.
sādhana
    sā́dhana mf(ī or ā) jn. leading straight to a goal, guiding well, furthering RV</br>
    effective, efficient, productive of (comp.) MBh. Kāv. &c</br>
    procuring Kāv</br>
Sādhanī or sādhanā is the practicing/exercising (that which procures or leads to a goal, that which is effective) itself, in the nominative form. Correct? What does "mf(ī or ā) jn." exactly mean? Forgive my ignorance, just seeking to know. Wakari07 (talk) 16:16, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Sādhanā in Sanskrit

message: Is there really such a word in Skt. as sādhanā? Looks like http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb/ and http://spokensanskrit.de/ know a word "sādhana", but not sādhanā. – Greg Pandatshang (talk) 00:21, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Greg Pandatshang  has it. साधना (sAdhanA).--Redtigerxyz  Talk  13:28, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That is incorrect. Both are words, but the name here is sādhana, not sādhanā (which is a feminized version of the original word). Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 21:00, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  sādhanā or sādhana? 

message: An admin needs to delete the redirect page sādhana and retitle this page as sādhana. The proper spelling of this page is sādhana but I cannot move it myself because of a redirect page someone made based on the incorrect spelling. Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 20:59, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: "Sadhana" is most common in English, based on a quick Google Books search. So the article should be at sadhana but with the IAST (sādhana) mentioned in the lead. Agree "sādhanā" is made up. Dāsānudāsa (talk) 07:46, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need an administrator to delete the 'sādhana' page so this page can be retitled as 'sādhana.' 

message: Right now, the definition of sadhana that we have here is somewhat skewed towards the transcendentalist/dualist view, in that sadhana is represented as a practice that aims to detach the practitioner from the world--the very first image is of a guy performing physical penance in a waterfall. But that's not all there is to it: there are types of nondual/Tantric sadhana out there that don't really focus on detachment or removing worldliness, but rather cultivating one's mind so that it can be more present in the world and to learn and find enlightenment through the senses (rather than deadening them). So, we do need to broaden the definition of "sadhana" here so that it can encompass those forms, too. Snowgrouse (talk) 10:01, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have any sources in mind that can support this? I'm happy to help improve this article. Whitestar12 (talk) 00:18, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need a broader definition