Issue No. 213 • February 22, 2004
Editor: Mr. Pruthviraj Purushottam Hajare

Articles

Messages to Seekers

Need For Spirituality

Saints’ Blessings
to the Sanatan


Clarification of Doubts

Did You Know?

Practical Guidance

Spiritual Practice for Awakening Spiritual Emotion

Children's Corner

Activities Worldwide

Religious Festivals

Implied Meanings

Spiritual Practice for Destroying Ego

Spiritual Experiences

Experiment of the
Subtle Dimension


Saints' Quotes
 

Messages to Seekers
For week ending February 21, 2004
February 25, 2004 is Manifestation Day (Prakat din).
Do chanting (Naamjapa) as described below

    Sri Durga Devi commenced communication with Sri Ram Rushi on February 25, 2003. This day is being taken as the manifestation day of Sri Durga Devi. From this day onwards, Sri Durga devi, through Sri Ram Rushi, has been giving invaluable spiritual teachings that have never been available in any book before.

Time*
Chant (Naamjapa)
Method of chanting
7 to 8 a.m.
‘Om namaha Shivaya’ +
‘Om Sri Durgadevyai namaha’
Alternate one after the other
3 to 4 p.m.
‘Om Gan Ganpataye namaha’ +
'Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya'
Alternate three after three
9 to 10 p.m.
‘Om Sri Durgadevyai namaha’ +
‘Om Hum Hanumate namaha’
Alternate one after the other

*IMPORTANT: Times indicated are India Standard Time (IST). For maximum benefit, one should try to chant during these times. To determine the time in India, one can use WorldTimeserver.com.

Place stress upon the bold and underlined letters in the above table to activate the Marak aspect of that deity

    Download the correct tune for this chants from our website here. There is a separate section for these special chants.

    Seekers who have been advised to chant 5 hours (or more) should consider the above 3 hours as a part of the total five hours (or more). For the remaining 2 hours, one should do one’s main distressing energy chant (individual chant). Seekers who have been advised 2 hours of chanting should chant for 3 hours on this day.

District sevaks (chiefs) should plan for all seekers

    All seekers should chant during the time slots given above. District sevaks should plan seekers’ chanting and satseva. Make sure not even one seeker misses the chanting. Sri Durgadevi is giving divine energy (shakti) in the form of blessings through this chanting so that all seekers’ spiritual progress occurs. Hence, we should use our willful action and use that shakti for ourselves. Let us pay gratitude at Sri Durgadevi’s holy feet for giving the shakti in the form of blessings and let us pray at Her holy feet that "Let Your grace be there upon all seekers like this. "

Seekers should note the following while chanting

While chanting, if we talk to someone or go for water or toilet, etc., at least 5 minutes are wasted. Sri Durgadevi does not consider these lost 5 minutes in the chanting hours. Hence, if the chanting occurs less even by 5 minutes, then Sri Durgadevi does not consider the chanting as done. Therefore, seekers should cover the lost minutes and chant that many minutes more.
Also, even if one does 3 hours of chanting, it does not mean that the chanting was done with spiritual emotion (bhav) all the time. Therefore while planning the above chanting, plan to do each chant 15 minutes more for each seeker.
Seekers, think of the following, while repeating (chanting*) The Lord’s Name before giving auto-suggestions for removal of personality defects
1. Due to your personality defects, you are unable to behave properly with your co-seeker and thus you are deprived of his / her love.
2. Due to a few of your personality defects, your other personality defects are also surfacing.
3. Your learning attitude has suffered due to your personality defects.
4. You cannot achieve spiritual growth unless your personality defects are removed.
5. You get furious with the distressing energies. Do you get equally furious about personality defects you find in yourself?
6. The mantriks (practitioners of mantra) in Bhuvlok can enter your body, taking advantage of your personality defects. This leaves you unable to enjoy either your spiritual life or worldly life.
7. You are unable to repeat the Holy Name of God, thanks to your personality defects.
8. Your personality defects also render you useless to perform Guru's satseva efficiently.
9. Are you aware of the fact that your personality defects are taking you away from your Guru?
10. Your Guru's 'Samashti' (social) works suffers heavily due to your personality defects. In other words, this makes you not grateful to Guru, but ungrateful to Him.

   In our worldly life, how do we behave with the person who inflicts large-scale indignities on us? Do we feel equally furious about the enemy within us called personality defects? Let us ponder this.

The arrangement of deities in the picture strip of
the seven deities published by the Sanatan

    The Sanatan explains the science of Spirituality behind the arrangement of deities in the temple-room at one’s home. It states that Lord Ganesh should be placed in the center and the female deities should be placed on His left side and the male deities on the right side. However, many seekers are surprised and puzzled that the same arrangement is not found in the picture strip of seven deities that is kept for sale by Sanatan. The reason for that is as follows.

     If the numbers of the female deities and the male deities are the same (i.e., three female deities and three male deities), placing Lord Ganesh’s picture in the center is proper and balancing. The seven main deities have six male deities and one female deity. Considering this, it is not possible to place the picture of Lord Ganesh in the center. The order of the setting of the deities in the picture strip of seven deities is done considering the color combination as well as the vibrations created by the overall picture.

In Sanatan’s work culture the ‘Chief in charge’
translates as the more responsible ‘Sevak (worker for God)’

    Many seekers are responsible for varied satsevas, at different levels in the varied fields of Sanatan. They are referred to as the ‘Chief/in charge’. Normally, in worldly affairs, the chief/in-charge person is termed as the one who gives orders to his subordinates and who always thinks about how to get the work done from them without caring for their difficulties. In Sanatan’s work culture, however, the ‘Chief’ means the more responsible seeker.

     In the epic Ramayan, Bharat carried out his duties and ruled over the kingdom of Ayodhya as a ‘servitor of Lord Rama’, when Lord Ram was the actual King of Ayodhya Who was exiled for a period of 14 years. The chief seekers should also develop the same attitude towards their responsibilities and satsevas as a Guru’s servitor / God’s servitor. These seekers should feel that they have taken up the responsibility of the satseva and they are primarily responsible to complete the satseva to perfection. Hence, seekers should be mindful of the fact that Chief of District means servitor of District, Chief of Center means Servitor of Center, Chief of Satsang means Servitor of Satsang and Chief of Report means Servitor of Report and they should be referred to by these nomenclatures only.

Do not throw litter out from a moving vehicle

    While travelling in a vehicle, some passengers have the habit of throwing out trash from moving vehicles. This makes the roads and the area filthy; besides, it is also unhygienic. Hence, one should abstain from throwing out waste from a moving vehicle and should stop the vehicle and only put the waste in the garbage. If it is not possible to stop the vehicle, the trash should be collected in a plastic bag or a paper bag and put it in the garbage when the vehicle does stop.

* Constant remembrance or repetition of The Lord’s Name (Seekers at the initial stage should chant the Name of the Kuldevata or the divine principle as per their religion; refer to Issue 3, Clarification of Doubts section for a list of the Names of The Lord to repeat in various religions. Seekers in the advanced stage of spiritual practice can refer to Issue 124, Message to Seekers section to determine the Name appropriate for them to repeat.)

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