A new diary has been prepared for monitoring seekers’ daily satseva efforts. This proves useful because it is easier to review seekers’ efforts at repeating (chanting*) The Lord’s Name, satseva, personal work, satsang, auto-suggestion and other related matters. With the format, it has become easy to study the efficiency of seekers. For the purpose of review, seekers should form and work in pairs and review of each other’s diary, and hence efforts, on a daily basis. The table of the diary is as follows :

    Note: An additional column may be provided for ‘Time taken for sateva’ and ‘Total time’. After every satseva, the time may be filled in.

    Seekers from the Subtle Department prescribe certain repetition (chanting) of The Lord’s Name to some seekers for specific purposes, such as to avoid attack on the Ashram or some seekers are told to do the repetitions as a remedy for another seeker who is suffering from severe trouble caused by distressing energies. If the seekers happen to experience distress either at the time of repeating (chanting) The Lord’s Name as prescribed by the Subtle Department, or after doing so, they should immediately bring the matter to the notice of Subtle Department.

    In the Sanatan Centers where aarti is performed both in the morning and evening, seekers who have been prescribed to only do a half an hour of repetition (chanting) of The Lord’s Name per day, should be present at the aarti both the times.

    In fact, the deities are subtly present at the time of the aarti. One would get immense benefit from the sattvikta caused from the presence of the deities, and it would help enhance one’s spiritual emotion (bhav). Seekers who oversee center activities should ensure the attendance of such seekers at the aartis.

    The internal cleansing drive is coming to an end insofar as it concerns the old complaints. Under the drive, some seekers who previously oversaw center activities have been changed, with the satseva reassigned to new seekers. In the event that seekers have any complaints about them or face any difficulties in their satseva, they should inform Dr. Prakash Ghali who is presently on tour in Raigad district. His tour of Raigad district is from April 10 through 12, 2004.

    Seekers from these districts should hand over their complaints in writing to the following local seekers :

    Shri Ramesh Shinde (contact no. 32752711) or Shri Rajan Shinde (contact no. 32752577) can also be contacted.

* Though the tour of Thane and Mumbai is now completed, and that of Raigad will conclude on April 12, 2004, the difficulties of seekers still can be solved with prior planning.

    Henceforth we are required to give the following praise at the end of the aarti that is performed in the Sanatan’s centers:

“Param Pujya Bhakatraj Maharaj ki Jai”
“Prabhu Shri Ramachandra Maharaj ki Jai”
“Bajrangabali Hanuman ki Jai”
“Sri Durgadevi ki Jai”

    It is not necessary to give praise in respect for other deities or saints. Seekers in charge of publicity should monitor that the praise as given above is taking place after the aarti in their respective Sanatan centers.

    *The entire aarti without the above modification can be downloaded here.

   Each seeker should try to do satseva and repeating (chanting) of The Lord’s Name without committing the ten mistakes. Doing satseva or repeating (chanting) The Lord’s Name while making mistakes is like filling water in a tank with holes. Every mistake is equivalent to a hole in the tank. Unless the holes are plugged, the water cannot be stored in the tank.

    Our repetition (chanting) of The Lord’s Name and satseva will reach the God only if we make sincere efforts to do it flawlessly and devoid of the ten mistakes. Even if we make just one mistake, we have to suffer for it as per the law of karma (the theory of you-reap-as-you-sow, i.e., one will get the fruits of one’s own actions – good or bad). Therefore, each one should pay attention to whether one is making the following ten mistakes or not: