Daaji reached the meditation hall around 5.30 pm. A family with their newborn was waiting for Daaji on the other side of the car. Daaji got out of the car, called the couple to him, and took the little baby into his hands. He then went into the meditation hall to conduct the meditation session. While entering the hall, Daaji asked to make them sit inside the office as it was rather hot outside.

Daaji then conducted the meditation from 5.32 pm to 6.01 pm. After the meditation session, Daaji then went back to the office and met many people before he left for home. On the way back home, Anil Kumar SG who leads the NGO Samunnati and coordinates several rural and organisational projects of Heartfulness, joined Daaji in his car. After a short discussion with him, Daaji then came to record a video message for Shankarananda Kalakshetra, who, in collaboration with Brhat Culture Creatives LLP, has been at the forefront of presenting two unique cultural festivals. Ramayana Kalpavrksam, Bharata Uvaca - ‘A Civilization Speaks’. 

Daaji invited a few members of the West Bengal group for dinner, including Ajay Bhatter and Rishabh Kothari with their families. After the dinner, Daaji came to the comfort dorm area to meet all the practitioners from the large group of West Bengal who had lovingly gathered to meet him. He seemed to be in better health but still looked weary. He conducted the meditation session from 8.44 pm to 9.03 pm and then answered a few questions. 

Q: The first question is, how do you develop restlessness towards reaching the goal? 

Daaji: The question is very simple, but the answer is not very simple. It's very difficult to answer such questions that inquire about the process of developing something. Because in order to develop this one, it requires a sense of urgency in the heart. 

The Guru and God are always restless to merge with us. The resistance is on our side, as we are so busy enjoying our own freedom and developing resistance. So unless we develop interest and curiosity towards the idea of what a goal is, there is no point in asking such questions. 

When we begin thinking of the goal, even before we settle down on the process of inquiry, life’s problems overtake us, and we keep chasing them one after the other, thereby having no time left to give serious thought to the goal. Then, when we get into some serious trouble, we are reminded of the goal of life. If we do not develop a certain curiosity, we remain disinterested in the goal. Then how can you have restlessness? Just as in the case of the cleaning process, we sit with the intention that through this process, which I am going to undertake, I will become purer and simpler. Likewise, when we sit for meditation in the morning, we can begin with the idea that I want to be a little more peaceful and joyful. I want to become a better human being. Let us start with small goals like that.

It is not easy to think of God, as few of us have any idea what God is all about.  

We begin only with the supposition that there is God and things like that, but who has the real conviction that such a thing exists? So let's begin our spiritual practice with a simple thing. We can say, “God, I don't even know if you are there or not, but if you are there, I'd like to become like you.”. 

To become restless, I recommend you read these two chapters, the first and second chapters, from Voice Real, written by Babuji Maharaj. His first chapter is called My Pain. That will somehow trigger some level of pain in you as well. And he says, in that chapter that “the purpose of my writing is to create restlessness in your heart.”.  We read, but we often don't do anything about it.

Q: Sometimes I have an idea but do not know if I should act upon it. Then the idea gets executed by someone else, as it would seem that it was time for it to be manifested. So next time such ideas come, how can we know it is time to act on them?

Daaji: It is better to act than not act. If an idea comes and it repeats itself a few times, then do it. This was also a suggestion by Babuji Maharaj. He used to give advice to abhyasis and preceptors alike. Sometimes, an abhyasi feels like taking a sitting, and due to something that comes up, the idea vanishes. If you don't act on it then the thought will keep on recurring. And the same thing happens with preceptors when they think of working on an abhyasi, and their face comes up in the preceptor’s mind. Then go ahead and when your heart says something, just do it. 

It has also happened to me many times that if some things descend and you should write them down, new things are revealed. But if you don't write it down, nothing new descends again. Until that idea is crystallized, the new one doesn’t make its appearance. 

Q.: My parents are lovely people, but they do not understand meditation at all. What to do in such circumstances to bring to their minds the importance of meditation?

Daaji: Serve them. Serve them as much as you can. Press their feet if you can, if you have time, massage their feet; do Heartfulness polarity on them; and help them go to sleep. Such services will help a lot. When they feel the effect of your inner state, they will feel like meditating.

Daaji then said goodbye to all the abhyasis from West Bengal, saying that they were welcome to keep visiting Kanha whenever they felt inclined to do so.

After the session, Abhishek Sinha Roy, the television producer for Nagorik Television from West Bengal, asked Daaji if he could come and get his autograph on the Spiritual Anatomy book. Daaji signed his book, and this gave wings to the others, who then sprang up from their places, milling around him in good cheer. Daaji left after a while, looking like he had had a very long day indeed.