GREETINGS

Hari Ohm Swamiji. First of all let me thank God for the spiritual guidance given through you, through your speeches and this excellent discussion forum. Not sure whether you are remembering me, I have attended your recent Gita speech series in Singapore. I (and my wife) have started doing meditation in accordance with the training you gave us. My question is related to this (practise of meditation). I feel like the effectiveness of the meditation is degrading a bit with time. This is because the brain/ mind is getting ‘by hearted’ of the steps (pranayaman, japam, dhyanam) to be followed and it has a tendency to rush through the steps. In other words it is becoming more like a ‘procedure’ than actually experiencing it. Mind may deviate and then I have to bring it back forcefully (I had the same issue earlier, when I practiced japam). Guess that I have to do more practice to improve on this, but I would like to check with you whether you have an advise to overcome this problem. One more question- We plan our vacation for Dec’12 so that we can attend the Bhagavatha Sapthaham at Aattukal Devi temple, Tvpm (Dec10-17, as you mentioned after the speech). Just wanted to check whether this program is confirmed as of now.