THE GLORY OF SHIRDI SAI
Fifth Year of Publication
Published as Bi-Weekly
Issue 23/2007
DIWALI SPECIAL ISSUE
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GURUR-BRAHMA, GURUR-VISHNUH; GURU-DEVO MAHESWARAHA;
GURUR-SAKSHATH PARAM BRAHMA; THASMAI SREE GURAVE
NAMAHA:
Sairam. You can watch Live Web casting
from Shirdi Sai Samadhi Mandir from following Link:
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THIS
SPECIAL ISSUE CONTAINS:
1. FROM THE
SATSANGHS OF SAIBANISA JI
2.
SAI'S NEWS FROM TIME MACHINE
3. SAI IN DREAMS
4. QUINTESSENCE OF SRI SAIBABA'S PHILOSOPHY
5. SANATANA
DHARMA &SHRI SHIRDI SAIBABA
6.
DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES
7. SAI WITH CHILDREN
8. SPIRITUAL GEMS
FROM SAI SATCHARITRA
9. ARTICLES FROM SAI
DEVOTEES
10.
LETTERS FROM SAI DEVOTEES
11. TELUGU SECTION
12. SAI'S BOOK WORLD
13. EDITORIAL.
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1. FROM THE SATSANGHS OF
SAIBANISA JI
http://www.angelfire.com/celeb2/saidarbar/pages/S3500055.htm
Compiled by:
Sai Sevak
Smt. Rajeswari Kasturi, Saidarbar –
Shirdi Sai's
Philosophy in the words of Saibanisaji
The lament and cry about their
sufferings, entirely misunderstanding the significance their present acts have
upon their following lives and the relation their suffering have to the acts of
their previous lives. They rethink only of present desire and present
suffering.
To us fortunately, the knowledge
of the Sai's teachings has come, we should seek to
believe in them and wish to be born in the Sai's Pure land. Knowing Sai's
teachings, we should not follow others into greedy and sinful ways, nor should
we keep the Sai's teachings to ourselves alone, but
should practice the teachings and pass them on to others.
To those who have faith, He
offers the opportunity to become one with Him. As this Sai
is the all- inclusive body of equality, whoever thinks of Sai,
Sai thinks of him and enters his mind freely.
This means that, when a person
thinks of Sai, he has Sai's
mind in all its pure and happy and peaceful
perfection. In other words, his mind is a Sai-mind
Lokah Samastah
Sukhino Bhavantu
To be continued…
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2. SAI'S NEWS FROM THE TIME
MACHINE:
Nov2, 1909: KakaSaheb
Dixit, fist arrived at Shirdi
(Aged 45 years)
Nov6, 1960: Shirdi
Sansthan's administration was taken
over by the City
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3. SAI IN DREAMS:
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These are the dream sequences and messages as received by SaiBaNiSaji
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.
MAY-1995:
Today Sai
visually explained the inner meanings of Comfort and happiness. Both in reality
are relative terms with bearing on the state of mind and can mean differently
to different people-
Happiness comes to parents when
others shower praises on achievements of their children.
To some comfort is experienced
after participation in a marriage, followed by a sumptuous and tasty dinner.
Comfort is experiencing while
happiness is a feeling.
Sai has shown me with a
visual describing the difference between obstacles and state of dejection. Both
are again relative terms.
- Melancholy is
experienced by heart when lifetime savings are looted.
- Helplessness and dejection are
writ on the face on separation from the near and dear ones, unable to have the
last glimpse even, in spite of rushing fast to the graveyard.
Time is the only heal for all
untoward happenings in life.
I prayed Baba to comment on the
present state of match making in marriages. Baba in the form of an unknown
person said-
Never enter in to marriage
alliance unless the antecedents and credentials of the groom are fully
verified, if need be through some mediators. Also never
believe the middlemen to avoid later problems. Otherwise
one may have to live cursing the fate and god for all the lapses on his part.
The human effort should be put in to the best in matters of this nature.
To be continued…..
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4. QUINTESSENCE OF SRI SAIBABA'S PHILOSOPHY:
(By Late Sri Bharam UmamaheswaraRao)
"Shashi":
shashi_31@yahoo.com
30. Efficacy of Prayer and
Worship
The act of bowing, bending is to
give up his individuality and deny himself before he can win the joy of grace.
The folded palms, kept upright on
the chest with the prescribed attitude "Namaskara"
has this significance. When folder, the five fingers of one hand representing
the 5 senses of action (Karmendriyas) and the 5
fingers of the other hand representing the 5 senses of Jnanendriyas,
join together and kept in contact, the oneness of that and you (Tat and Twam) is emphasis and demonstrated. The namaskara
is the Mudra of Aham Brahmaasmi, the Jivatma and paramatma join together.
Joss Sticks (Agarabatthi)
covers with 5 sheats (Pancha Koshas). Prior to
lighting, we place the joss sticks in straight position. This shows the outer
sheath of this stick is 'Ahamkara'. When we light the
joss stick, the light of knowledge and wisdom is kindled
in the Jiva, i.e., the impurities start to burn. Then
the ego is completely annihilated. The ash comes from
the stick indicates the detachment, purity. In other words, burning of a joss
stick symbolizes the process of reducing our impurities, the desires and ego to
ashes.
The meaning of giving Arati is – we pray God to make our life as pure and
transparent as camphor and it consumes itself in the fire and scatter warmth of
love to all around us and at the end of it, let there be nothing left of us (as
camphor leaves no ash), to render us liable to enjoy pleasure and pain.
To be continued…..
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5. SANATANA DHARMA &SHRI SHIRDI
SAIBABA.
Diwali,, is a major Indian
festival that is very significant in Hinduism and Jainism. Known as the
"Festival of Lights," it symbolizes the victory of good over evil,
and lamps (called diyas or kandils)
are lit as a sign of celebration and hope for
humankind. The lights also represent the time when Rama
came back from the forest, and all his village lit lamps to welcome him back
home. Celebrations focus on lights and lamps, particularly traditional dīpa or deeya (earthen lamp,
as illustrated). Fireworks are associated with the festival. Diwali is a colloquial name used in
Diwali is
celebrated for five consecutive days at the end of Hindu month of Kartika (purminata) or Ashwayuja (amanta). It usually
occurs in October/November, and is one of the most popular and eagerly awaited
festivals in
Diwali is celebrated in
various parts of the world, in countries such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Suriname,
Canada,
Guyana,
Mauritius, Fiji, Japan,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Nepal,
Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago , Thailand,
Australia, much of Africa,
and the United States.[2]
With more and more Indians and Sri Lankans now
migrating to various parts of the world, the number of countries where Diwali is celebrated has been gradually increasing. While
in some countries it is celebrated mainly by Indian
expatriates, in others it has become part of the general local culture.
NEWS
On
A Report on SaiDarbarUSA
Annual Day 2007 Celebration
Jai Sai Ram.
Fourth Annual Day of SaiDarbarUSA was celebrated by jubilant devotees in Greater
Philadelphia area on
This was the
first year for SaiDarbarUSA to perform Palki Utsav. Palki Utsav commenced with Dhoop Arti, Aakar
Vachan, Ghoshna Lalkar and Palki
songs. Palki went around Chinmaya Kedar (
http://picasaweb.google.com/arvimur/4thAnnualDay
Later Swamiji
recognized all the participating kids with mementos and certificates.
Best Regards,
Badri Narasimhan
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VELLORE, INDIA, October 11, 2007:
One of the biggest Hindu shrines in southern India, the Sri Puram Golden Temple a grand golden temple built by a
spiritual organization in Tamil Nadu , the
consecration (kumbhabhishekam) was performed on
August 24, 2007, presence of over 30,000 devotees. The Mahalakshmi
temple, located on a sprawling 100 acres of land at Sripuram,
near Vellore, about 125 km from Chennai, has been
constructed by Vellore-based Sri Narayani
Peetam, headed by spiritual leader Sri Sakthi Amma Sri Puram Golden Temple stands for unconditional love for the entire
humanity," says Amma,.
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Badri Narasimhan:
saibadris@yahoo.com
On
Air service between
Mumbai-Shirdi to take off soon
Mumbai, Oct 18: Devotees of
Sai Baba, who have been facing problems of long
distance travel, can now just board a copter from the city and reach Shirdi within 45 minutes. Private carrier Jagson airlines on Thursday announced their new commercial
venture of providing a to-and-fro 26-seater helicopter service between Mumbai
and Shirdi on a daily basis from next week.The fare for the chopper flight is fixed at Rs 3,000."Talks for a regular airport at Shirdi are on. Keeping in mind the changing scenario of the
holy place, the air services will benefit a lot of people," Minister for
Energy, Technical and Medical Education, Dilip Walse-Patil, who inaugurated the services, said.
Chairman of Jagson, J P Gupta, said that Mumbai was aflush
with devotees of Sai Baba and considering that most
film personalities visited the shrine to offer prayers on several occasions,
the airline started the services. Bureau Report
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6. DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES:
"Ramchand
Chugani”: rgcjp@yahoo.com
Thu,
The Healer Par
Excellence RSS
Courtest-Ram Chugani
Shirdi Sai
Baba
Spiritual Experiences
Dr.K Sudhakar
of Hyderabad was a confirmed diabetic patient since 18 years and was under
treatment for the same. In 1990, he had an abscess on his right foot, which did
not heal in spite of antibiotic injections and application of ointments.
There is no disease greater than a sinful body, and no doctor greater than Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi.
He was admitted
in hospital and finally it was decided that his foot had to be amputated lest
gangrene might develop and spread to the upper portion of his leg. The writer
who had recorded all the facts of this article, in his usual daily meditation
got a message from Sri Sai Baba, in which the profile
of the patient was shown, with the advice that he
would not be cured in the hospital and therefore he should immediately go home.
Baba also prescribed a mixer of Bilwapatris, Tulasipatra and Sharadaparta
juice being applied on the wound. Upon hearing this,
the patient got discharged and followed Baba"s medicine. Miraculously his wound got completely healed in two weeks!
The writer himself had once
suffered a heart attack and was admitted in the
hospital, in May 1998. The doctors after all the tests diagnosed that all the three valves i.e. Aortic, Mistral and Pulmonary, were not
functioning and due to this there was no sufficient blood circulation to the
heart. At this juncture a by-pass surgery was not
possible. A list of medicines to be taken daily had
been prescribed.
Later in one of the messages,
Baba said that the diagnosis of the doctors had been wrong and that it was Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
and prescribed some medicine for this disease!
Sri V Narayana
Rao of
The next day the fever subsided.
The cure for this disease was the mantra 'Sai Ram',
recited by the patient. There are innumerable miracles performed by Baba even
after His Mahasamadhi. These experiences of devotees
confirm that Sri Sai Baba is still living with us and
guiding us in every affair. There is no disease greater than a sinful body, and
no doctor greater than Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi.
(Sharing with Sai
Love)
Ram.Chugani
Ram Chugani
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7. SAI WITH CHILDREN:
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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. Now I want to tell the stories what
heard in my child hood.
The Broken Pot
A water bearer in
At the end of the long walk from
the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two
years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering
only one and a half pots full of water to his house.
Of course, the perfect pot was
proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made.
But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own
imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it
had been made to do.
After two years of what it
perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the
stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. I have
been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes
water to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of my flaws, you have
to do a lot of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts,"
the pot said.
The bearer said to the pot,
"Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but
not on the other pot's side? That's because I have
always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the
path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them.
For two years
I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without
you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the
house."
The Moral: Each of us has our
own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our
lives together so very interesting and rewarding.
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8. SPIRITUAL GEMS
FROM SAI SATCHARITRA
. "Swamy"
swamymain@yahoo.com
Sai Ram. Let us continue
with the Spiritual Gems from the chapter 25 of Shri Sai Satcharitra. Sai Ram.
We have already seen how Baba
disapproved of Anna's efforts to get into cotton speculation and how He
disapproved Anna's efforts in trying to make Baba a partner in that. Now let us
see how He protected His devotee from other losses too. Sai
Ram.
SSS: (2) Grain-Dealing
Then he thought of trading in
grain, rice, wheat and other groceries. Baba read also this thought and said to
him, "You will be buying at five seers and selling at seven seers a
rupee". So this business was also given up. The
rice in the prices of grains was kept up for some time, and Baba's prophecy
seemed to be falsified, but in a month or two there was abundant rain
everywhere and the prices suddenly fell down; and, therefore, those who stored
grains suffered a severe loss. Damu Anna was saved from this fate. Needless to say that the cotton speculation which was conducted by the broker with the help of
another merchant also collapsed with a severe loss to the adventurers.
After seeing that Baba had saved him from two severe losses in cotton and grain
speculations, Damu Anna's faith in Baba grew strong
and he remained a true devotee of Baba till His
passing away and even now.
SSG: Sai Ram. For faith to become strong and to stay strong, some
miracles etc. like the above are needed. Baba was aware of that and encouraged
the faith to develop by helping the devotee on the spiritual path. Sai Ram.
S.V.Swamy,
Author, Editor, Proof-Reader and Book Reviewer
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9. ARTICLES FROM SAI DEVOTEES:
"raghammudi ramchandrakiran"
ramchandrakiran@yahoo.com
sai tere
dar pe aaya
hoon khali haath,
ummeed tu
hai,ki tu hai sada bhakton
key saath,
mitt jayen
sabhi vaasanayen bhari swarth,
kripa karo
baba, sab jag key Naath.
jab-jab jag mey papi badey
baba avatar ley aat,
treta mey
ram,dwapar mey krishna-paarth,
kaliyug mey
venkateswar swami saath lakshmi maat,
kripa karo
baba, sab jag key naath.
icchaa mey
rahoon teri hey anand daat,
karey gar tera naam smaran
din aur raat,
anubhav karen
tujhey aur terey gyarah baat,
kripa karo
baba sab, jag key naath.
om sairam
R.Ramchandra kiran
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10. LETTERS FROM SAIDEVOTEES:
Ramchand Chugani
rgcjp@yahoo.com
Thu,
SaiRam,
Greetings to you from
We are very grateful to you for
the Shirdi Baba's magazine, and true stories which are very thrilling to read and share with many
devotees.
What ever you are
doing it is Blessings of ShirdiBaba to you and your
family. May you continue to be a channel of God's blessings, as I feel it is
His work assigned to you.
Please continue to send us
these stories.
With Love and Respects,
Ram.Chugani
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BABA IS WITH YOU. That is why you are blessed with
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Blessing to you all.
N.Angamuthu
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12. SAI'S BOOK WORLD: (HINDI)
Title: Sri Sai Baba Ashtottarasata Namavalih
Author: Ms. Zarine Taraporewala
Shri Sai
Baba Sansthan D M Sukthankar
Shri Sai
Baba Sansthan Shirdi
Rahata - 423 109
Ahmednagar Dt.
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Title: God's Rainbow &
other short stories
Author: Ms. Zarine Taraporewala
Meher Dhun
Endowment, Nata Shahi
69
Mumbai - 400 025
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Title: Ambrosia In Shirdi
Author: Ms. Vinny Chitluri
Vinny Chitluri
304-Bhagchand Apts
Shirdi - 423 109
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13. EDITORIAL.
Things impressed me from this
magazine:
To those who have faith, He
offers the opportunity to become one with Him. As this Sai
is the all- inclusive body of equality, whoever thinks of Sai,
Sai thinks of him and enters his mind freely.
we pray God to make our life as
pure and transparent as camphor and it consumes itself in the fire and scatter
warmth of love to all around us and at the end of it, let there be nothing left
of us (as camphor leaves no ash), to render us liable to enjoy pleasure and
pain.
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