Importance of developing an ‘attitude of spiritual practice’

    Many times when seekers are initially assigned some satseva they do it in a regular and timely manner. However, after a period of time, they start becoming lax. This is because when someone first asks us to do something as spiritual practice, we start doing so properly. If they fail to remind us, we fail to act accordingly. Such seekers have not developed the ‘attitude of spiritual practice’ (attitude of a seeker or ‘sadhakatva’). When we start performing spiritual practice at the attitude level, we perform it in a responsible manner. Once we develop this attitude, we can continue to perform spiritual practice in any part of the world (without being dependent on anybody).

How to benefit from divine energy

    We are able to benefit from divine energy when we perform spiritual activities like repeating (chanting*) The Lord’s Name, performing arati and visiting temples with concentration, spiritual emotion and oneness with the activity. During these activities, if we are restless, full of thoughts, then we will not be able to benefit from or absorb the spiritual energy. If we chant with concentration and spiritual emotion then the spiritual energy absorbed during the chanting session should last within us till the next chanting session.