Some seekers pray to God for the removal of Personality Defects with the spiritual emotion that God is the doer of everything. God expects us to make efforts. For meeting efforts with success, seekers must pray in addition to making the efforts expected from us. For example, in the methods for Personality Defect Removal, give auto-suggestions, take care not to repeat the same mistake twice, write down mistakes in the chart and on the board maintained for the same, talk about mistakes in satsangs and take atonement for mistakes that are committed repeatedly, etc.

    Mantriks (practitioners of mantra) from the 6th and 7th levels of hell are now troubling Sanatan organization seekers. The nature of the distress faced by seekers is being published in the daily and weekly Sanatan Prabhat through pictures. By the grace of God, Mrs. Anjali Gadgil received information on the chanting* to be done for combating the trouble of distressing energies. On the basis of that information, seekers find it easy to fight with the mantriks. Mantriks are trying to find new ways to harass seekers. To fight against them, seekers should study their methods of creating trouble and accordingly try to overcome the trouble with fighting spirit (kshatravrutti).

    Two seekers from the Miraj (India) ashram had thought, ‘Now, the mantrik has left us. We don’t have negative energy trouble so there is no need for us to sit down for the spiritual treatment of removing the mantrik in us’. They were not happy doing any kind of satseva. Since they were not able to decide what type of satseva would give them happiness, they were feeling restless. When they told His Holiness Dr. Jayant Athavale about this, He said it was due to the distressing energy trouble. To discourage seekers from fighting against the mantriks, mantriks are creating a covering around seekers’ mind and intellect and putting such thoughts of not having any kind of trouble in their minds. As a remedy to this problem, seekers should chant ‘Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya’ when there is no indication of negative energy trouble, and in case they feel the trouble, they should chant the name obtained in the experiment of seven names.

*If one is not currently doing any spiritual practice, one can begin with the simple, but powerful spiritual practice of chanting or constantly remembering God's Name according to one's religion. Chanting also acts as a useful complement to any spiritual path one may be already following. It is a practice recommended for the current times by Holy texts and Saints of all religions.

• Seekers in the initial stages of spiritual practice (less than one year) can repeat The Name of the Lord as per their religion (refer to Issue 3 Clarification of Doubts section for details).

• Seekers who have been doing regular spiritual practice for over a year or so can determine the appropriate chant for them from the experiment given in Issue 124, Message to Seekers section.