Sadhana or self- discipline means an endeavour to exercise a voluntary control over personal traits. The deities being invoked are in fact symbolical representations of one?s own inherent divine attributes and ethical self. When these characterstics are in a dormant state, man suffers from unhappiness and deprivations. But as soon as they are recognized, accentuated and activated, the individual begins to sense his extra- ordinary potential of csontrol over senssory and extra- sensory elements of the world. A human being is basically omnipotent( a living kalpavrikcha). God has bestowed him with many capasities- with everything required by him. The human existance is in fact a repository of innumerale potentialities. Their number is infinite like the deposites of precious stones and minarals buried deep in the earth and lying in the abyssal depths if the ocean. However, not unlike the wealth of these deposits, the supra- normal talents of man are nit within the reach of all and sundry. A persistent endeavour is required to unearth them. Those who are unable to gather sufficient enterprise do not gain anything. On the otherhand, who make an effort, are reward in each and every field of life. This very endeavour is known as sadhana or self discipline. Evidently, ivocation of a deity has only one objective, ie. To active one?s inherint potentiallities, make one self adequently competent and imbibe a high level of morality in character. As matter of fact, the inherent divine attributes of man have been metaphysically referred to as theinfluential deities who have been personified with a particular form, means of conveyance, weapony, ornamentation etc. according to their specific characterstics.
