Some Important Points About Satsangh

Group sittings should be held, the minimum requirement being once a week. If you can have two, all the better. Generally we follow the pattern of having one sitting on Wednesday evenings and the main sittings on Sunday mornings.

It is our bounden duty to attend the weekly satsangh. It should be made a regular habit that if we do not attend, we cannot sleep, we cannot eat and we cannot digest the food.

I would like to say that those who are not present in the weekly satsangh, do not remain under the Master's vision but go out of it. Hence, whoever wants to be under the Master's vision has to necessarily attend the weekly satsangh.

1. New entrants should be allowed to sit in the group satsanghs only after taking three initial sittings.
2. Abhyasis should come to satsangh for their individual spiritual development and not for meeting their friends, clients etc.
3. Abhyasis must not make noise, must not have political discussions or any other gossip when they come for satsangh.
4. Abhyasis must maintain discipline when they come for satsangh. There are men, women, you have to sit line by line. You cannot have pillars or you cannot sit under the fan. You sit where there is space when you come. If you have any medical problem, go and sit first, otherwise you must sit line by line. Do not wait for volunteers to tell you how to sit in a satsangh.
5. Abhyasis must come for satsangh at least 10 minutes before the sitting begins. They should sit in a meditative mood and prepare themselves for receiving what the Master gives.
6. After the Satsangh is over, abhyasis should contemplate for about five minutes as to their condition and what they have experienced during meditation. They should note it down in their diaries immediately.
7. Book reading after group meditation is part of Satsangh. Hence abhyasis should continue to sit in the place of meditation and listen carefully to whatever is being read.
8. Abhyasis must develop affection with satsanghi brethren, and sweetness and elegance in day-to-day talk and behaviour.
9. Behaviour towards brethren of the satsangh should be pleasing and conducive to their progress. Direct opposition is very bad.

INDIVIDUAL SITTINGS: Abhyasis should receive at least two individual sittings per month face to face with the Preceptor for the purpose of thorough cleaning.

Where there are no preceptors in a centre, and if they are unable to go to the preceptor for individual sittings, then they are advised to sit in meditation on Fridays at 9:00 p.m.