THE GLORY OF
SHIRDI SAI
Third Year of Publication
Published as
Bi-Weekly
Issue 16 / 2005
Please visit our Web site: http://www.saidarbar.org
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THIS
ISSUE CONTAINS
1. FOUNDATION STONES FOR THE SPIRITUAL
LIFE
2. SAI’S NEWS FROM TIME MACHINE
3. SAI’S BOOK WORLD
4. FOOT STEPS OF HOLY FEET
5. SAIBANISA OFFERS PRANAMS TO …..
6.
SAI IN DREAMS
7.
QUINTESSENCE OF SRI SAIBABA'S PHILOSOPHY
8.
DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES
9.
SPIRITUAL GEMS FROM SAI SATCHARITRA
10.
SAI WITH CHILDREN
11.
ARTICLES FROM SAI DEVOTEES
12.
LETTERS FROM SAI DEVOTEES
13.
TELUGU SECTION
14.
SANATANA DHARMA&SRI SHIRDI SAIBABA
15.
SANATANA DHARMA – NEWS FROM ABROAD
16.
FROM SAI ORGANISATIONS
17.
EDITORIAL.
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1. FOUNDATION STONES FOR THE SPIRITUAL
LIFE:
Rajeswari Kasturi, Saidarbar –
From
the Satsanghs of Saibanisaji
http://www.angelfire.com/celeb2/saidarbar/pages/S3500055.htm
51. You should know that the Goddess
Death is not having partiality towards rich or poor, healthy or non healthy,
educated or uneducated. She treats everybody with the same coin.
52. You should know that one day after
your death the body is going to become ash and mix with the earth. Still you
are taking care of the body by giving medicines to prolong the life. Similar
way after the death, the soul needs peace for that when you alive, you should
chant the name of Lord.
53. Some of the beautiful flowers which
give fragrance will contain harmful bacteria. In the similar way some persons
in the aristocratic families will have bad qualities. So you should beware of
such persons.
54. In the name of penance you can
conquer hungry and thirst. But the day when you conquer the desires and
attachments towards your kith and kin, you will be the real yogi (saint).
55. You will water the coconut tree for
first two or three years, but afterwards it will give sweet water for it’s
lifelong. In the similar way, when you receive help from the society, it is
your bound duty to reciprocate the same.
56. The greatest quality in the life is
“You serve others without anticipating any returns”.
57. You look to the road side tree which
receives the hot sun light and gives the shadow to the travelers. In the
similar way, you should live for others.
58. A fool will dig for water after his
hut is under fire, you should not be such a person. You should think about the
God while you are in good health.
59. You should know that the society
will recognize the good persons and in the similar way it will shun the bad
quality persons.
60. You know that very well if you do
not do the charities in this life, you will be a beggar in your next life.
After knowing this also if you are not performing charities in this life, you
should prepare to hold the begging bowl in the next life.
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2. SAI'S NEWS FROM THE TIME MACHINE:
August 1918: BABA offered Hemadri Pant a
glass of buttermilk and said, " Drink it all, you
won't get such opportunity again.
August 1929: Composer of
"SAGUNOPASANA" Arati Book, Shri K.A.Bhishma passed away at Mohra in
Nagpur District.
August 1982: Swami SaiSharananandaji
(WamanRao Patel) passed away at Ahmedabad (Aged 93 years).
August 1984: Administration of SHIRDI
SAMSTHAN handed over to the Board of Trustees by the court and Executive
officer appointed for day to day administration.
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3. SAI’S BOOK WORLD
Book: SAI IN DREAMS - E-BOOK
Author’s Name: SaiBanisa
Publisher: Indiainabook
E-mail: vijishvanya@gmail.com
Price: $6 (Six US Dollars) pay by Credit
Card / Pay Pal / Check
You can obtain the copy from Web: http://www.ebeacon.indiainabook.com/
BLURB:
It is a fact that people from all walks
of life and traditions believe in dreams. Obviously, dreams have a very
important role to play in our day to day lives. On the spiritual plane, many devotees/disciples
are guided; messages of actions and will are instructed for implementation by
their Sadhgurus through dreams even after attaining Mahasamadhi (leaving the
physical body).
Samardha Sadhguru Shiridi Sai Baba, in
one of HIS eleven assurances has prophesied while in flesh and blood that HIS
mortal remains shall speak and guide the devotees from the tomb. The Three
hundred and odd dreams of SAIBANSIA put before you are a testimony the fact.
This Book is dedicated to one and all
who believe that God is above all.
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Acknowledgement of receipt of books will be
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Book(s) sent to Saidarbar will be
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4. FOOT STEPS OF THE HOLY FEET –9
EXPERIENCES OF SAI.BA.NI.SA WITH SHIRDI
SAI
The chapter No.46 of 'Sai Satcharitra'
highlights one of the many assurances given by Baba to his devotees. On
acceptance of an individual as a devotee Sai constantly follows him, stands by
him, where ever he is, no matter even if he is thousands of miles away or across
the seven seas. As a staunch devotee of Sai I fully endorse the popular belief
and I am placing before you an incident that has taken place in my life.
Kindly recall and refresh your memories
with the contents of my First Experience with Sai where in I mentioned about
the details regarding my visit to
I completed my official assignment in
Changwan and was preparing for return journey to
BOW TO SAI PEACE TO ALL
To be Continued…
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5. SAIBANISA OFFERS PRANAMS TO “JANABAI”
Janabai was
born in the
Janabai's
poetry suggests a life of endless servant labor in the household, but one that
was constantly revived and supported by her intimacy with the divine.
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6. SAI IN
DREAMS:
These are the dream sequences and
messages as received by SAIBANISA from our beloved GURU LORD SAINATH OF
SHIRIDI. In Anticipation that this feature will help in one’s spiritual growth
are hereby compiled from his personal Diary and presented to SAIBANDHUS.
Translated and presented by RAGHU RAMAN
SATULURY.
Dated:
I gave a deep
thinking towards my life and prayed Sai to give me a direction for a peaceful
life. He has shown me a beautiful scene and opened my eyes.
There was an
advertisement on Babool Tooth Paste appearing in a local TV channel. A happy
family was shown with all smiles writ on their faces and speaking for the usage
of the branded paste and to be a happy family like theirs. In reality, they all
do not belong to the same family as each one is a paid actor and lives in that
role for that moment. On the similar lines, the members of your family (wife and
children) are all drawn together by ‘Runanabandham’ .We also act and try to
live those roles as assigned to us.
Each one of us in a family owes something or other
towards each other.
Dated:
Tonight I had
a content full dream. It was a School spread over a vast area. The building did
not have any doors or windows. Every thing was kept open to all. The school
remained opened through out the day. There were no restrictions on age of the
pupil. It was meant for imparting spiritual education to all. The Guru was not
visible to the eye. I could infer from the dream that there were no barriers
with respect to age, sex or religion, set to join the spiritual stream.
Towards the
end Sai gave beautiful advice Money earned in excess is a source of mental
agony and tensions. Money begotten by illegal means weakens the sensitive
fabric and health of the society. Wealth earned by fair means and sufficient to
meet the requirements is only the recommended practice to be followed.
Think constantly as to how to amass spiritual wealth
for that is the real wealth.
Dated:
My prayer to
Sai before bed was as to how one should stay away from the thoughts of making
easy and quick buck in life. It was the sight of a well-crowded vegetable
market. Al sorts of vegetables and fruit were seen placed in their respective
allocated containers in an orderly manner. There was a wall by the side. A goat
was seen on the wall and was in a fix whether to jump down or not, so that it
can eat the fresh greens and tasty vegetables. If it decides to jump down it is
sure to break its legs. So it chooses to get down the stairs on the other side
and preferred to walk away. At the end a message was given which went to say
that desire for ill - gotten wealth is like cancer, which will ultimately ruin
us.
Do not fall prey to easy money.
To be
continued…..
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7. QUINTESSENCE OF SRI SAIBABA'S
PHILOSOPHY:
(By Late Sri Bharam UmamaheswaraRao)
"Shashi": shashi_31@yahoo.com
17.
Religion
Religion is the virtuous force which
establishes us in the Self. Religion is the link that binds us to mystic force
which enables us to know the Divine. All religions, each in its own way, aim at
this central Realization of Divine in the Self, otherwise called God. From
manhood to Godhood is the course of religious evolution. Sri Sai Baba says:
“Sit for a while calmly. Think deeply in silence. Enquire within you, ‘Who am
I? What am I? Whence and what for? Why should I live in this world? What is my
duty and destiny?’
Can we answer these questions? We feel
perplexed. We cannot find the origin of life and its goal. The span of life
that we live in this world has a mission. It has a mystic entrance and exit.
In the life when the inner light
blossoms, there is no significance attached to these man made differences.
Sai Baba says: ‘The humanity is like a
garland of varied blossoms, string on a single thread of luminous
Self-Consciousness. If the collective life of humanity sprouts out from the
seed of inner harmony, then there shall be no egoism born of ignorance. If your
mind is limited, so shall be your life also. Hence you are unable to overcome
the narrow preferences.
Religion is a binding force and brings
together the physical, vital, mental and psychic planes in tune with the
intrinsic soul in the heart. This self-realization is the essence of all
religions.
To be continued…..
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8. DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES:
"L.V.S.Satyanarayana" : lvs_satya@hotmail.com
Sai
ram
We are really enjoying the write ups coming in
the "The Glory of Shirdi Sai".
Let me tell about me first, My name is LVS Satyanrayana working in
Yesterday (
L V
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"Venkateswara Rao Uppala" venkateshuppala@yahoo.com
Experience
with BABA
Dear Sai devotees;
I would like to narrate my two wonderful
experiences with BABA.
I live in
1. Two years back, after completion of
my Satcharitra Parayan, on our way to
Suddenly, one old lady, appearing very
poor, wearing an old saree and carrying an old plastic mesh bag, approached us
and told us that her daughter needs to undergo major procedure and she is in
need of some money.
I immediately took out my wallet and
asked her how much she needed. She said you can give whatever amount you feel
like. I had sixty dollars, I gave her forty dollars
and asked if she wanted more. She said no, was very happy and wished us good.
Later she said she wanted to give me something in return, even though I was
refusing to accept, she pulled out an old used pink blouse with her trembling
hands from her bag and gave it to me saying it was for my daughter who was 5 years
old then. Afterwards she went back into the temple.
It appeared normal at that time. But
later, when I started thinking deep, I realized, it was not NORMAL. I did not
remember to have seen her in the temple. It is a small temple and there were
few devotees, probably twenty that day. Even if she was present somewhere else,
I have not seen any Indian homeless people in
Sorry for thinking she was homeless, she
may not be homeless, but then she definitely might have had a family to take
care of her in
All these doubts made me believe that it
was BABA himself who asked me for dakshina!
I feel bad for not realizing that it was
HIM and not prostrating at that time.
I am preserving this wonderful gift of
BABA and whenever I remember this incident, I feel so elated.
To be continued…
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9.
SPIRITUAL GEMS FROM SAI SATCHARITRA
Venkateswaraswamy
Swarna" swamysv@rediffmail.com
& swamymain@yahoo.com
Sai Ram. In the last article, we saw that Baba gave a long
discourse to the rich (but stingy) man, who was pulled to Sai's darbar for
giving the Brahma Jnan to all of us. Let us now see the main points of Baba's
discourse. Sai Ram.
Qualifications for Brahma-Jnana or Self-Realization
All persons do not see or realize the Brahma in their life-time.
Certain qualifications are absolutely necessary. (1) Mumuksha or intense desire
to get free. He, who thinks that he is bound and that he should get free from
bondage and works earnestly and resolutely to that end; and who does not care
for any other things, is qualified for the spiritual life.
Sai Ram. In Telugu, there is a beautiful saying, "Kami gaka
moksha kami gadu" which means the same thing that is unless one is caught
up in the prison of desires; one doesn't get the desire for freedom. It is the
mind that is bound by desires and it is the same mind that desires to become
free of those desires. Desires, which are simple and which do not trouble the
mind, if not fulfilled, are not problem. However, addictions (desires, so
strongly rooted that if not fulfilled, they cause intense turmoil) are the
problem. Lord Sri Krishna, in His Gita also cautions His worthy disciple Sri
Arjuna about the Six internal enemies of a man, the
leader being
birth, desire for liberation, and the company
of Saints. In Chapter 8 of Satcharita also, we have seen Shri Hemnadpant,
expounding on the purpose of taking a human birth and at several places, Shri
Hemadpant asserts and assures the reader that the best way of getting free from
the coils of desire is to surrender to the Feet of a Sadguru. And Sadguru Sai
has assured and has shown time and again that Sraddha and Saburi are the two
coins, beyond which He doesn't need any thing else.
All Saints are one in emphasising the need of a focussed
approach for spiritual progress. Initially, there will be hurdles and slips
because of the strong pull of the Vaasanas (desires). These deep-rooted desires
need to be pulled out in the light of Jnana and the attachments (me and mine)
should be burnt (like the turban of Tatya), as explained in Chapter 6 of
Satcharita. The horses of senses should be handed over to the Intellect (which
is strenghtened by the Sadguru's grace), so that the chariot of this body, mind
and ego reaches the destination of Vishnu-pada, from which there is no rebirth.
In His immortal work, Sri Bhaja Govinda Stotram, Sri Adi Sankara also prays on
behalf of all of us, "Punarapi jananam, punarapi maranam, punarapi janani jathare
sayanam, iha samsare bahu dustare, krupaya pare pahi murare, Bhaja
Govindam..."
Sai Ram. Let us continue with this wonderful chapter in the
coming weeks.
To be Continued…….
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10.
SAI WITH CHILDREN:
http://www.saidarbar.org/HTML/portraits/7.jpg
Smt. Madhu Gopal Ravada, Saidarbar,
Hello Children! I am Madhu aunty. Do you
know Baba use to play with children and used to tell stories to them? I felt
children visiting Saidarbar should be entertained with good stories. Baba told
before He took His Maha Samadhi that He is Muralidhar and would like to play in
Booty Wada (Samadhi Mandir) with His devotees. So far you have enjoyed Krishna
Leelas. Baba has also established his identity with Lord Sri Rama. Now I will
take you through our epic Ramayan. Tell your parents to read the Glory of
Shirdi Sai – Bi-weekly E-magazine and narrate Ramayan from this magazine.
FALL OF MEGHANAD:
Hanuman the brilliant servant and
devotee of Rama flew to Garuda, the vulture King, and brought him to the rescue
of Rama and Lakshmana. Garuda set the two brothers free from the snake-noose.
Rama and Lakshmana were again fit for the battle. On his way to palace Meghanad
received the news that Rama and Lakshmana were free from the effect of
snake-noose weapon. Raging with fury he returned to the battle filed. He
started a merciless and terrific destruction of Rama’s army. He, then, turned
towards Lakshmana and used Lord Brahma’s divine weapon on him. Lakshmana became
unconscious and fell down on the ground. Now Meghanad was confident that
Lakshmana would surely die. No medicine could bring him back to consciousness.
With the rise of sun, the next morning, Lakshmana would breathe his last; and
Rama would become mad and die in sorrow of his brother. Thus thinking, Meghanad
and his army returned jubilant.
Seeing Lakshmana’s condition Rama became
impatient and started wailing. Vibhishana told that only Ravana’s royal
physician Sushena could save Lakshmana’s life. Hanuman was sent to fetch
Sushena. Sushena came, saw Lakshmana and said, “Only a
herb that grows on Gandhamardan mountain can save Lakshmana’s life, if it is
administered before day-break”. Hanuman said that he would bring the herb. He
flew at great speed. He reached the Gandhamardana mountain
to find the entire hill aglow. He could not distinguish the herb, so he
uprooted the entire mountain and brought it back to Rama’s camp. The herb was
immediately administered to Lakshmana and he came back to his senses.
Vibhishana, then, saw smoke rising
towards the sky. He ran to Rama and told that Meghanad was carrying out sacred
rituals for victory over enemy. He said, “If he completes his worship, no one
in the three worlds can defeat or kill him in the battle filed”. Lakshmana
asked Vibhishana to lead him to the place where Meghanad was busy in worship.
Vibhishina led Lakshmana who was followed by Hanuman also. Reaching there they
found unarmed Meghanad absorbed deeply in prayers. They surrounded him and
Lakshmana beheaded Meghanad.
To be Continued……
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11. ARTICLES
FROM SAI DEVOTEES:
"Sankaraiah
Dubagunta" sainama@yahoo.com
LAKSHMI
NARAYANA TEMPLE
We know
Baba Sai got several Temples repaired at Shirdi from Dakshina amount, sometimes
through destined devotees. Ofcourse His abode was a dilapidated structure,
which He named Dwarakamai, also got repaired in 1911. The experience narrated
by Doma Venkata Swamy Gupta's father in law in Sai Sudha of March'1945 issue is
given below.
"When
Baba was in the flesh, this gentleman accompanied his master the Late
Gummadalli Lakshmi Narayana of Secunderabad to Shirdi and both took darshan of
Baba many times. GL was an ordinary merchant not very rich at that time. On one
occasion Baba told him "You have to build a
D.Sankaraiah.
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12. LETTERS FROM SAIDEVOTEES:
Deva Premal & Miten mdp@MitenDevaPremal.com
Hindudevotional songs.
Namaste friends,
I have visited your website http://www.saidarbar.org and read your newsletter “The Glory of Shirdi
Sai”and came away veryinspired. Thank you for doing this good work.
And for sure I will let you know when we
sing songs on Lord Sainath of
Shirdi. Wishing you love, peace and harmony,
Deva
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Devotees
speak about Sai in Dreams:
"Syam Sundar : sai_syam@hotmail.com
To me each dream sequence of Sri
Saibanisji is an example of
Sadgurui Sai Baba's message in setting us in the path of
Saism. This
reading gave me the wonderful feeling of going
through the pages of Sri SaiSatcharitra.
Syamasundar Davuluri
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I read through the E-Book and in my
humble opinion it truly reflects the essence of SAI Leelas. A
pure characterization of Sai teachings with practical applications.
Rajat Bhakhri,
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"BADRI NARASIMHAN" s_badri@hotmail.com
Saibanisa’s dream experience is an “Urn”
that contains Baba’s
blessings and teachings. My prayers and best
wishes to you all for putting all your sincere
efforts in promoting Shri Sai’s Philosophy.
BadriNarasimhan
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"Subhadra Kakarlapudi" : subhadrakakarlapudi@yahoo.com
Lord Sai appearing in Saibanisa's dreams and
giving
messages are instructions to his devotes for
their
Spiritual guidance. I am glad to know these messages
are available in e-book form.
S.kakarlapudi
You can obtain the copy from Web: http://www.ebeacon.indiainabook.com/
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13. TELUGU
SECTION:
Please
visit:
http://68.88.118.16/telugupages/Misc/ShiridiSai/shirdisai.htm
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14. SANATANA DHARMA & SRI SHIRDI SAIBABA
Saibanisa-Gopalarao Ravada—Saidarbar
Hyderabad –
SRI MAHA BHAGAVATHAM—SRI SHIRDI SAI
SATCHARITA
Synopsis
Sai on innumerable occasions has said
that, I am not God but I am
only a humble servant of God. There are also
instances of his having said
that I am the universal mother, Parabrahmah,
and the Ruler of the
Universe. In parlance, these words were uttered
by Lord Sri
Krishna himself
On numerous occasions and practically
demonstrated in different
Contexts in the most reverned Epic Maha Bhagavath.
Some of the miracles performed by Lord Sri Hari in Maha Bhagavath
were also performed by Saianth. To quote in
the words of Hemadhripanth, no difference between him and Lord Sri Hari,
Sainath performed once again all the miracles that Lord Sri Hari did in Sri
Bhagavath. I, read the Holy Maha
Bahgavath many a times to draw similarities between the two great works of our
times and made efforts to arrive at some conclusions which go beyond to
establish doubt that Sainath was indeed God incarnated, to serve Humanity.
Lord Sri Hari said that Saints are the
representatives of God who
Come in to the World with a mission to
cleanse the World and to free it from
The social evils, and to guide people
when ever there is an unbalance in
The dispensation of justice and
adherence to dharma is lost. Today it gives me pleasure to share some of my
thoughts on the topic 'Sai in Bhagavatham'. When young Baba arrived in Shiridi,
Mahalsapathi has welcomed him by addressing him as - 'Aao Sai'. The word Sai is
not new as we find instances where Lord's names in Hindu mythology are followed
by the word Sai (for example: Sesha Sai, Vatapathra Sai etc). The literal
definition of Sai in any standard dictionary read as: A South American monkey,
thereby indirectly indicating that the word Sai originates from the period of
the Ape man if we go by the logic of reasoning. I would now like to narrate the
incidents taken from Sai Satcharitra and compare with those drawn from Maha
Bhagavatham for information and presentation to the readers.
Naradha, a staunch devotee of Sriman
Narayan, also known as Brahma
Manasa-Putra,
can aptly be compared with Sri.Dasa Guna Maharaj mentioned in Sai
Satcharitra.The real name of Dasaguna is Ganesh Sahasrabuddhe, was a police
constable during the year 1894.Dasaguna came to Shiridi on a patrolling duty
along with Nanasaheb Chandorkar. He was
Instantaneously attracted towards
Shiridi Sai.He was gifted with the natural talent of composing good poetry and
singing. He resigned from the job and established
an Ashram and started Sai Thathva Prachar.-Dissemination of Sai Philosophy. He
has never accepted any charities or gifts.
Lord Sri Krishna comes to the rescue of
princess Utthara, wife of Abhimanyu, saves the foetus in her womb when attacked
by Brahmastra, a divine weapon released by Aswaddhama.
Sapatnekar was under the impression that his
son died due to anger from Baba. Sai uttered to those around that "this
man is under false notion that I have killed his son. Will I ever do such
things"? He is crying sitting in this place Dwarakamayi. I shall see that
the same child is again put back in to his wife’s womb. the
author of "Sai Satcharitra"- 'Sai appears every where in Bhagavatham
as one goes through the book carefully'.
Perhaps to establish that there exists
To be Continued……
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15. SANATANA DHARMA – NEWS FROM ABROAD
www.hicad.us
The Dharma Summit 2005 will be held on
August 13, 14 and 15 at
www.murugantemple.org
CARAPICHAIMA, TRINIDAD, July 22, 2005:
In memory of all the gurus of all traditions, Enlightenment Day will be
celebrated on Sunday, July 31, at the Dattatreya Yogan Centre, Orange Field
Road, Carapichaima starting at 7 p.m. Enlightenment Day will honour the wealth
of wisdom of all the great spiritualities of the world. Visiting Indian Swami
Shri Brahmavairaagyi, of
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16. FROM SAI ORGANISATIONS:
