While doing spiritual practice, seekers get various types of good or bad spiritual experiences. Under bad experiences, they experience black covering, feel pressure, heaviness of head, queasiness, dizziness, drowsiness, have bad thoughts or feel depressed, etc., and under good experiences, they experience goose bumps, improvement in the quality of chanting, get tears, feel divine consciousness (chaitanya), get fragrance, see light, etc. These experiences are quite common and have been published in our periodicals on a number of occasions. We have also included such spiritual experiences in our volumes. Henceforth, seekers should send spiritual experiences that are new and unique/unusual in nature and need not waste time in writing and sending spiritual experiences that are not. This instruction does not mean that these spiritual experiences are inferior in nature, as it is only related to publishing them. However, they can be narrated in satsangs.

    Seekers from various districts send articles or their spiritual experiences related to distressing energy troubles or good spiritual experiences, in writing or by e-mail. Later, they are published in daily newspapers or books after editing and proofreading. The number of seekers looking after editing and proofreading is limited and this requires a lot of their time. Publishing such spiritual experiences, therefore, remains pending and as a result, they are not published in a timely manner. Therefore, if all seekers ensure that their written matter has no grammatical errors, this will help the concerned seekers to save their time and the experiences can be published in a timely manner. If possible, both the good and the bad spiritual experiences published earlier can be studied from the editing point of view. If your spiritual experiences are sent after proper editing and proofreading, the same can be published in papers or books immediately, after a final check.

   During their menses, women should not enter temples. On the fourth day of the period, after a bath, they can enter the temple premises (but not the sanctuary). On the fifth day, after a bath, they can enter the temple sanctuary. The above rule applies to even those women who have bleeding for only two or three days. Women who have menses for more than five days, should go to the temple only after the bleeding has completely stopped.

    In the series of books titled “Why does religion say so?” which has published divine knowledge acquired from the God-principle, two volumes titled ‘Ritualistic worship (puja) and the science behind it’ and ‘A few religious and social rituals and the science behind them’ have been published. Divine knowledge is eternal. The flow of knowledge, with respect to every subject (for example, Bhaktiyoga – Path of devotion) under “Why does the religion say so?”, is continuously growing. To avoid printing bulky books, it has been decided to classify and publish this knowledge into small books. Accordingly, two books earlier published on ‘Bhaktiyoga’ have also been divided into a few parts. Out of the same, the first part on the ‘importance of materials/items used in ritualistic worship’ will be published shortly. The title of the first volume is “University of Spiritual Science – Textbook, Part 3, Spiritual Science at Under-graduation level (Knowledge acquired directly from the Divine Source), Volume 29 : Bhaktiyoga-1’

   Gurupurnima is the day for expressing gratitude to the Guru. The daily ‘Sanatan Prabhat’ will be publishing two special issues on the occasion. The first special issue will be on the unity of all sects. The Sanatan organization has so far, at various levels, attempted for such unity. Seekers can send their experiences, good or bad, spiritual or otherwise, received while establishing contacts with people (leaders) of other sects to: Shri Sanjay Palshetkar, Editorial Department, Devad Ashram. These experiences will be published in the previously mentioned special issue. All rights for publishing of such experiences will lie with the Editorial Department.

*If one is not currently doing any spiritual practice, or to complement one's current 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.