Notes 19 Oct

 NAMACHIVAAYAM 🌙

Abhyasi  spoke about following.

1. *A friend in need is a friend indeed.* You can see **Master as your true friend** — call Him affectionately like *Balanna* or *Balappa*.

2. Whenever a problem arises, **just remember the Master**.

3. You remember the Master **because you love Him without expectations**. This unconditional love will allow Master’s energy to flow through us. 

4. The energy gives stillness in the mind removing fear,anxieties and worries.

5. The hindi song *"Yeh Dosti hum nahin todenge"* — symbolizes the unbreakable bond between you and the Master.

Master then delivered a discourse, offering insights into the following:

1) As long as you are in mouna mantapa, try to remain  in silence and speak with low voice.

2) Spiritual practice is to free you from  materialistic life.

3) The progress in spirituality can be measured by how much you are freed from bondages.

4) Learn to **perceive everything as nothing** — detachment is key

5)  The body should be used for only spiritual practice.

6) Be **serious and sincere** in spirituality. 

7) Interest in materialistic life should gradually reduce. Just as a rehabilitation centre helps a person lose interest in alcohol, spirituality helps one lose attachment to the material world.

8) If you are able to experience that you do not want even peace, it means that you have achieved mukti.

9) Never harm anyone. Even if others do bad , you should not retaliate.

10)  The only requirement for Mukti is your Mental Purity.

11) Spiritual discipline- I will not do any bad deeds (Self discipline)

Institution discipline- I will follow all the instructions of the institution.

12) Even arguments are considered as "Paapa karma (sinful acts)"

13) Even if you are in the streets, you will not be affected if you have purity. The purity will give protection. Protection means the sorrow of being in the street will not be there in the mind.

14)  In spirituality, **changing one’s name** symbolizes forgetting **past traits** and beginning a new life (Dwijanma). One has to forget the past after practicing spirituality. (Ex:- Names like Atmananda. Brahmananda etc are given after entering into spiritual practice ).

15) One cannot enter into spiritual practice without viveka.

16) If you truly have a perception that I have nothing to do in this world, it means that you have attained Mukti.

17) Your interest towards materialistic life should gradually reduce while practicing spirituality.

18) If you are affected by what is happening in this materialistic world, it means that there are impurities in you.

19) Highest positive quality is Tolerance

20) One has to come to Master to dissolve the mind.

21) Helping others is a duty of every human being.

22) On sundays you are spiritual. Remaining 6 days, you must strive to be  materialistically spiritual person.

23) The punya karmas are created to encourage bad people to do good things. 

24) Positive persons will not worry about losing materialistic benefits/things.

25) Spirituality grants freedom.

26) We need body and mind to enjoy things. But after death, without body ,  mind can’t enjoy . There will be suffering . This is called as "Naraka".

27) Our only goal should be to attain attain Mukti.  All the activities should be supporting to this goal.