PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS TO ASPIRANTS:
Master gave the following instructions for those who follow the line of Yoga/discipleship:
1) Keep a separate notebook to be used as your spiritual diary. It should be of ruled paper and bound in an orange-red cover. This colour is used as a signal to indicate to the Masters and their disciples that you are ready to receive instructions and practise them in daily life. The book should be carried with you throughout the day and at the same time it should not be kept open for anyone to go through it. Any attempt to show and popularise should be avoided. The attempt to keep it a secret should be passive and should not gain prominence.
2) Have a separate room for meditation and study. Once fixed, try to keep the place unchanged. If a change is inevitable indicate it mentally to your unknown Master on the previous day itself. The room should not be used for any purpose other than meditation and study.
3) Be ready for meditation at least 5 minutes before the time of meditation. The time for meditation should always be the same. 5 minutes before such time is essential. Keep a photo of a Master or a deity at a particular place in the room. North or east are recommended. Keep an incense lighted before the altar. Sandalwood incense is preferable.
4) Keep the body at ease without tension to any nerve. You can sit in any posture convenient to your constitution. Exactly at the appointed hour invoke the Master or the deity, folding your hands in Namaskarams mudra. The mudra indicates joining of the two palms in a gesture of salutation, which indicates self-surrender to one's Higher Self, or Guru, or God.
5) Close your eyes, place your palms upon your knees keep observing within. If thoughts emerge observe them. When you observe, the emerged thought dissolves. If you do not observe it, it leads you astray. The initial step is therefore to observe the thoughts. When observation is active, thoughts are not active. The mind slowly becomes blank, in the sense, the rate of production of thoughts is reduced and the mind quietens.
6) To such quiet mind, slowly endure to think of a white lotus in between your eyebrows and inside your head.
7) In case you receive any thoughts of instruction or of enlightenment, make note of them in simple words in the orange book that you carry. If sentences are heard, or seen written, you may also make note of them after the meditation. This should be the daily morning meditational practice.
8) Carry the diary with you, throughout the day, for any possible instruction coming to you from your higher mind, which needs to be made note of, lest it might escape.
9) You may now get into your daily routine, keeping the following suggestions.
10) Keep the mind free from any programme, though you follow the programme strictly.
11) Do not mentally involve your mind into the presence of anyone or any problem.
12) Do not avoid the physical presence of others.
13) Engage others in sprightly conversations, keeping yourself as an observer without being involved.
14) Be alone mentally in the physical presence of others. Do not entertain loneliness.
15) Do not engage in excessive discussions. If discussions and arguments happen around you, keep a mental cut-off until the discussion is over.
16) Learn to sympathize with the others' viewpoint. Do not disagree brutally.
17) Listen to what others need but not to what others talk.
18) Be uncompromising in essentials, liberal in none-essentials and charitable in all motives.
19) Never compare and contrast gurus and their work. Never evaluate or find fault of the work of any Master.
20) Learn to overcome the faultfinding nature in you.
21) Do not advise unasked. Do not keep away from advising when asked. Do not advise in matters, which you do not know clearly.
22) Keep the body properly nourished. Food should be more qualitative and less quantitative. Keep away from strong-smelling food.
23) Have a complete head bath at least once in a day.
24) Wash face, hands and feet as many times as possible. Take plenty of water.
25) Avoid heavy dinners and congregational foods. At the same time, do not be antisocial.
26) Avoid medicating unless it is absolutely necessary. Try to adjust health conditions by making appropriate adjustments to food, rest and sleep.
27) Emotional balance is to be practised consciously.
28) Train yourself to spend time, money and energy meaningfully.
29) Know that you are accountable in terms of hours of usefulness.
30) Account your expenditure. It is a matter of personal discipline to keep accounts relating to expenses made.
31) Try to eliminate expenditure for luxury for indulgence and all that, which results in waste. Economic discipline, unless learnt, binds you with economic difficulties.
32) Economy of speech is to be maintained. At the same time, maintain good humour and merry conversations. Do not lash your tongue at others.
33) Learn to smile. This gives expansion to your soul and the soul of others. Do not smile in the presence of the irresponsible. It promotes further irresponsibility to them.
34) Attracting through smiles is a pious art. Use it. Do not misuse it.
35) Do not make false promises.
Such are the practical instructions of the Master for those who wish to lead a life of a disciple. His work of teaching and healing was mostly the work of Light and Sound. On completion of 50 years of life, his followers organised a Golden Jubilee celebrations. A unique souvenir was brought out on the life and works of Master E.K. On that occasion his followers ardently asked the Master to give out an invocation for their use. The Master closed himself in his chamber at Radhamadavam for 10 min utes and brought out with his own hand an invocation for the benefit of the aspirants. The invocation is as under:
