When you examine your mind, you will find voices there, holding sway, not one but many counsellors, with their contrariness causing confusion. For example, no sooner have you planned to come to Puttaparthi to take the Darshan of Swami, these counsellors start playing their game. One voice advises you to start only after ascertaining whether Swami is actually present there. Another voice suggests that you can put through a call to ‘so-and-so’ and discover whether Swami is at Bangalore or at Puttaparthi. A third lays before you alternative routes and means of transport, and causes a good deal of headache. This is the Sangam, around the Jangam, the Sangam (group) of voices that play around the spirit of fight, trying to distract it.

Another voice might intervene and say, ‘O! Considering all the wrongs done, all the faults committed, it is very doubtful, if Swami will grant you an ‘interview’. In the wake of this Voice, another will begin its argument of assurance. It will comfort, saying, ‘No! Swami is the very embodiment of compassion. He will certainly pardon all errors.’  This principle that guides and guards you along the spiritual path is the Lingam (symbol of the formless), that is in the centre of the Sangam, clustering round the Jangam.

The Lingam is in the very core of the heart of man, as the sole purveyor of bliss, power and illumination. Cultivate the vision directed inward, so that the Lingam might grant you these three. The mind will then be illumined with the cool comforting Light of Love, Wisdom. That is why the mind has as its presiding deity the Moon---Chandrama manaso jatah. Hence, the celebration of the Day of Thankfulness for all Gurus (spiritual preceptors) and the Prime Guru, Veda-vyasa, is done on the Full Moon Day.

Unless you cleanse the mind with Love, the Full Moon of spiritual wisdom cannot shine therein. The recital of the Name, the observance of vows and vigils, of fasts and festivals, may scintillate on the inner sky of the mind, as stars stud the sky; but, until the Lamp of Love is lit, the darkness will not vanish. (SSS Vol.12)