Gratitude
    O Sri Krushna, whatever activities we seekers have done during the past half an hour, are all the results of Your Grace and Blessings. We are grateful at Your Holy Feet as You only have provided us this opportunity to do satseva.

Prayer
    O Sri Krushna, let the satseva given to us due to Your Grace and Blessings occur as per H. H. Gurudev’s expectations. While doing satseva let our mistakes be realized by us well in time and let them get corrected. Let our feeling of devotion and fighting spirit (kshatravrutti) increase. Let a protection sheath get created from Your Name around us. Let Your grace be always upon all of us seekers. This is the prayer at Your holy feet.

    We have been collectively chanting ‘Om Gan Ganpataye namaha’ (3 times) alternating with ‘Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya’ (3 times) for overcoming the distressing energies’ problem and to get energy. In addition, we also did Sri Durgadevi’s collective chanting for 1/3 of total collective chanting hours. Now, in order to reduce the severity of the distress and to get energy in large amounts, instead of Sri Durgadevi’s collective chanting for 1/3 of the total time, do Lord Krushna’s collective chanting effective June 10, 2004.

    That is, if the collective chanting is done for a total of two hours, then do ‘Om Gan Ganpataye namaha’ (3 times) alternating with ‘Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya’ (3 times) collectively for 1 hour and 20 minutes, and remaining 40 minutes do collective chanting of ‘Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya’. When the time of collective chanting is increased or decreased depending on one’s distress, adjust the time for Lord Krushna’s collective chanting accordingly. While doing this collective chanting pray to Lord Krushna ‘Let a protective sheath be created around (utter your name).’ Also, if one cannot do this collective chanting one should do 3- 6 rounds (malas) of ‘‘Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya’ at home.

    Kindly do individual and collective chanting as given below: (Those seekers who have been advised less than five hours of chanting should decide the amount of individual and collective chanting as below.)

    (Note: Those seekers who have been advised half hour or 1 hour chanting should give importance to individual chanting only.)

Format of Satsang

    For example, if the bhav satsang wwas being conducted from 10 a.m. to 12.05 p.m.:

    Click here for a detailed example of the format and conducting of the bhav satsang.

* If one is not doing any spiritual practice currently, one can begin with the simple, but powerful spiritual practice of chanting or constant remembrance of God's Name as per one's religion. (Seekers at the initial stage should chant the Name of the Family Deity (Kuldevata) or the divine principle as per their religion; refer to Issue 3 Clarification of Doubts section for a list of chants for various religions. Seekers in the advanced stage of spiritual practice can refer to Issue 124, Message to Seekers section to determine the chant appropriate for them.) If one is already doing some spiritual practice, one can complement it with chanting.