Got some mental clarity about how I, as single spiritual aspirant, should handle health challenges; Sensitive parts coded; Current main goals

Last updated on 2 Oct. 2025

Over the past several months, I think I have got some mental clarity on the big and very confusing issue that has been quite dominant in my life since my health emergencies of early 2022. That issue is about what is the best approach for me as a single spiritual aspirant, to handle health challenges and associated financial burden. BTW my health issues are quite under control now with regular medication and lifestyle control but there are many limitations these health issues have introduced in my life as compared to my life before 2022.

This 'mental clarity' is, as of now, only at my thinking and mental preparation level and has been stable over past several months. But I really do not know whether they will stand the tests of any additional real life major health challenges in future. Nonetheless, earlier on, after early 2022 challenges, I did not have even this mental clarity, and had got into a lot of major confusion about what is the right way for me to handle such issues. So I think this 'mental clarity' is a good achievement. I am quite happy about it 😊.

However, some of this 'mental clarity' about how I, as a single spiritual aspirant, should handle health challenges and the associated financial burden is super-sensitive from a regular worldly life perspective. Therefore, I cannot write about it openly. But I have an urge to share some of these sensitive aspects in this post in a coded way, and so I am following that urge. The My current main goals section below has some points about these sensitive aspects, but in code. My apologies to readers for the coded parts.

I would also like to say that the main source of this 'mental clarity' on how to handle these difficult and confusing issues was contemplation on the lives of the two great spiritual icons who have inspired me in the aspect of the minimalist lifestyle I follow in my spiritual journey - Shirdi Sai Baba and Ramana Maharshi. Contemplation on some aspects of the life of Lord Rama has also helped me in this matter.

My current main goals

1. Develop ADIGS/ADITIS capability and increase DIGS/DITIS stamina (long session duration when needed). DIGS stands for Dissolve In/Into God Sadhana (spiritual practice) and DITIS stands for Dissolve In This/The I (Awareness-I) Sadhana. ADIGS/ADITIS adds the word Anytime at the beginning of the terms.
• In a previous post in July this year, I mentioned that I have become steady with Dissolve into awareness-I / Dissolve in God meditation method and am quite satisfied with it. I think now I can say I have become more steady or very steady with it. The section 'Method 2: Dissolve into awareness-I / Dissolve into God' in another previous post covers details of the method I use. 
• When the above meditation session is good, I get into what I think I could call a Dissolve Sadhana (spiritual practice) zone. The pathway into the Dissolve Sadhana zone can be through Dissolve In/Into God Sadhana (DIGS) OR Dissolve Into I (Awareness-I) Sadhana. In the latter case, the prompt I usually use is 'This alone is the lasting truth ... Go deep in this I. Dissolve in this I' or a small variation of the latter part, '... Go deep in the I. Dissolve in the I'. So I would like to modify its name slightly to: Dissolve In This/The I Sadhana (DITIS).
• Once I am in the Dissolve Sadhana zone, how I got into it whether through DIGS or DITIS, typically does not matter. I mean, the Dissolve Sadhana zone is the same for both the methods. 
• I now want to be able to get into the Dissolve Sadhana zone anytime I want. 
• As of now, after a good night's sleep, usually I can easily get into a Dissolve in/into God meditation sadhana (DIGS) OR Dissolve In This/The I Sadhana (DITIS) session. But once I get into some regular worldly activity including software development activity, I find it quite hard to snap out of that and get quickly into a DIGS/DITIS session. So I want to develop an 'Anytime' capability for these DIGS/DITIS sessions. In other words, I now want to be able to get into a DIGS/DITIS session and then into the Dissolve Sadhana zone, anytime I want. 
• Also, on some days when I focus mainly on spiritual sadhana, I would like to have long DIGS/DITIS sessions.
2. Continue regular prayer to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba including Om Sai Ram Namasmarana. Note that as part of this regular prayer, I express my gratitude to Bhagavan for all that He has done for me.
3. Regularly remember Shirdi Sai Baba and Ramana Maharshi ascetic and simple lifestyle as inspiration for leading Like Monk In a Cave (LMIC) life.
4. My bodily life should be of benefit to at least one person. That gives meaning and motivation for my bodily life.
5. Continue software development activity. This is important from viewpoint of making small contribution to society/worldly life. ... When required, do it with attitude of LMIC WTD and when needed, interspersed with CTD. [Sorry about WTD and CTD being coded.]
6. Slowly and steadily develop ABRTCBG attitude and approaches like PPV/SK and JS. [Sorry about ABRTCBG, PPV, SK and JS being coded.]

Note that the DIGS/DITIS sessions and Dissolve Sadhana zone/state, by themselves, give me a lot of satisfaction. Therefore, many times my DIGS/DITIS sessions are focused just on being in that Dissolve Sadhana zone/state and I do not bring in any other goals like wanting to go beyond this body.

[I use the term 'Dissolve  Sadhana' zone/state instead of 'Dissolve' state as Dissolve implies achieving dissolution in/into God/Awareness-I which I have not achieved. The state I have achieved is more of a very peaceful, content and largely thoughtless state but where I still need to make some mental effort to continue to be in that state. I mean, I have not completely lost myself into that state such that there is no 'I' and no mental effort then, which is what I believe some mystics have achieved. So I think 'Dissolve Sadhana' state which implies that some sadhana or spiritual effort is still involved, is more appropriate.]

About DIGS/DITIS and attempts to go beyond this body

At times, I have a DIGS/DITIS session with some focus on attempts to go beyond this body. At such times, the prompts that I have used in the recent past (not as a rythmic chant but more as prose statements) are:

(Go deep in the I.)

Dissolve in the I.

Dissolve into God.

Go beyond this body.

...

Dissolve. Dissolve.

Dissolve and go beyond.