THE GLORY OF
SHIRDI SAI
Fifth Year of Publication
Published as Bi-Weekly
Issue 25/2007
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GURUR-BRAHMA,
GURUR-VISHNUH; GURU-DEVO MAHESWARAHA;
GURUR-SAKSHATH PARAM
BRAHMA; THASMAI SREE GURAVE NAMAHA:
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THIS 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.
LETTERS FROM SAI DEVOTEES
10.
TELUGU SECTION
11. SAI'S BOOK WORLD
12. EDITORIAL.
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From RaghuRaman Satulury - Editor
Dear Sai devotee,
On 25th of December2007, "SAIDARBAR" -
The continuous overseeing of all the Saidarbar
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Pray Lord Shirdi Sainath to shower HIS blessings on all.
Sai Sevak Raghu
Raman Satulury
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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
A man who chases
after fame and wealth and love affairs is like a child who licks honey from the
blade of a knife. While, he tastes the sweetness of honey, he has to risk
hurting his tongue. He is like a man who is carrying a torch of flame against a
strong wind; the flame will certainly burn his hands and face.
It would be foolish
for a man to put out his eyes for fear of being tempted
by beautiful forms. The mind is master and so longer is under control, the
weaker desires will be overpowered.
Health, happiness to
family and peace to everyone around, comes only when one exercises discipline
and mind control. A man with perfect mind control can find way to
enlightenment. All the wisdom and virtues will naturally come to him.
Lokah Samastah
Sukhino Bhavantu
To be continued…
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2. SAI'S NEWS FROM
THE TIME MACHINE:
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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:
I prayed Lord Sainath to educate
me on the care to be taken in leading normal life. Sai presented with a visual-
I was cycling through a road full of potholes. I got
down, walked for a while holding the bicycle and again started once the path
was seen plain. Then I came across a river. I got into a boat and had a short
nap during the boat ride, situation appeared satisfactory till
then. Suddenly I found water entering into the boat. I took out my dinner plate
and with its help started pouring the water back into the river, thus continued
journey as guided by the wind direction.
Exit roads are there for every difficult situation.
I prayed Baba to show me a way to live peacefully in the
company of my family. I was shown with the visuals-
- I was sitting in the midst of my relatives, encircled
by a revolving ring
of light. They were all whispering that my Guru presented it.
- My kith and kin are living quite far off and visiting
me once in a while,
Traveling by air and talking to me on telephone
occasionally.
- I was building a house with sweet honey as one of the
ingredients rather
Than using only sand and cement for bonding.
- I planted good banana trees as barrier wall between we
brothers so that
both the families can enjoy the fruit equally.
Think good and do good for
better results.
I prayed Baba to rid me of the mental torture I am subjected to from my near and dear ones. Sai presented me with a visual as an unknown person and
said-
Avarice and jealousy amongst friends and relatives is as
common as a wild growth of vegetation in a clean pond of water. However man being a social animal, cannot live alone by himself just
as water needed for survival. Some of the associated troubles have to be faced for living in the society.
Jealousy is a common whether expressed or unexpressed
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
We must lead a moderate, simple, dignified, clean and
noble life having faith in God and perform Nitya Pooja. God’s force is ever peaceful, calm, serene,
blissful, truthful and splendid. If we worship God daily, we will get peace and
delight from Him. The whole world is a vast kingdom ruled by God’s grace. So
all our actions must be done as an offering to God.
Then our every action shall be inspired and fulfilled by
God’s will. Regular worship to God transforms, purifies, elevates and
glorifies our life and also it widens our Soul,
elevates our mind, purifies our life, identifies our heart with the hearts of
others and immortalizes us.
When we sit in pooja, we must
be very careful and see that our mind is not to be polluted.
As long as there are bad thoughts in us, our mind will not be purified and we don’t get concentration. If we get sensual desires
destroyed, then only we can get benefit by performing Pooja.
We can also visualize the Atma-Jyothi, that is already present in us.
Devotion leads to perfection as well as occult and Divine potencies, as well as immortality and fullness and
happiness. Imperfection leads to desire. Bhakti leads
to perfection and stimulates desirelessness. When one
is having Bhakti, one will not have any sense of want
or desire or grief or hatred. He will have no selfish attachments and worldly
desires. We will have exuberant joy and peace and
Self-Realization. Spirit of renunciation and Self control
is the essence of Bhakti. He should do his duties in
a sprit of detachment and without a thirst for the fruit of his actions.
Devotion is the opposite of desire.
To be continued…..
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5. SANATANA DHARMA &SHRI SHIRDI
SAIBABA.
Life after life I cast those who are malicious, hateful,
cruel, and degraded into the wombs of those with similar demonic natures. Birth
after birth they find themselves with demonic tendencies. Degraded in this way,
Arjuna, they fail to reach me and fall lower still.
There are three gates to this self-destructive hell:
lust, anger, and greed. Renounce these three. Those who escape from these three
gates of darkness, Arjuna, seek what is best and
attain life's supreme goal. Others disregard the teachings of the scriptures.
Driven by selfish desire, they miss the goal of life, miss even happiness and success.
-Bhagavad Gita
16:19-23
Free from desire, He neither praises the peaceful
Nor blames the wicked.
The same in joy and sorrow, He is always happy.
He sees there is nothing to do.
-Ashtavakra Gita 18:82
NEWS
Diwali Celebrated in
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6. DEVOTEES
EXPERIENCES:
Experiences of Devotees reading Satcharitra,
Baba’s stories
I started Sai Satcharitra on Thursday. And today
is the 7th day. This morning as I was reading Satcharitra
at work for sometime, a thought crossed my mind that I should have Baba’s
picture in my office cube. Since I had 2 photo frames
at home, I thought I would get the smaller one and put it on my desk. But, the smaller frame also seemed too big for me as I
didn't want to display my religious inclinations at work. I wanted something
smaller and compact, which I did not have with me. After lunch when I came back
to work, I thought I would read the book for a while. And
when I opened the book. a small pocket size picture of
Sai Baba fell out of the book onto my desk. I am not
sure who put it there or where it came from, but it presented itself at the
right moment.
I dint see the picture in the book even though I was
reading it for the past
6 days. I was surprised and excited at the same time as to how
this happened. As I was thinking about it this morning
itself. For me it is nothing less than a miracle. Even now, if I think
about that incident I really feel elated and pleased that Baba is with me all
the time to protect me and save me from trouble! Samartha
Sadguru. Shri Sainath Maharaj
ki jai!
Kiran
(SHARING WITH LOVE)
RAM.CHUGANI
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7. 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. Now I
want to tell the stories what heard in my child hood.
The story of the Monkey and the crocodile
Once
upon a time there lived a monkey named Red-face on a
tree by the side of the sea. The tree was an apple tree and the fruits it bore
were sweet as nectar. Once a crocodile named Ugly-Mug swam ashore and Red-face
threw apples at him and asked him to taste them. Ugly-Mug started coming everyday
ashore and eat the fruits thrown by Red-face and soon they became good friends.
Ugly-Mug used to take some fruits to his home to his wife.
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His
wife was a greedy lady and asked him as to where he
got the nectar filled apples. Ugly-Mug told about his friend the monkey. The lady was greedy and pleaded with her husband that she would
like to eat the monkey's heart, as a person who gave such tasty fruits must
have a heart filled with nectar. Ugly-Mug was angered and did not agree to
deceive his friend. But she then insisted on not
eating anything till he brought her his friend's heart. Out of desperation,
Ugly-mug started making plans for killing his friend.
.
He
came back to Red-face and entreated him with an invitation to his house for
supper stating that his wife would be thrilled to have him home and also that
she was very anxious to meet such a nice friend. Poor
Red-face believed the story but was asking his friend as to how he could cross
the sea to reach the house of the crocodile on the other side. Ugly-mug
then offered to carry him on his back and the monkey agreed.
.
In
the middle of the sea, Ugly-mug took the crocodile deep into the ocean to kill
the monkey. The monkey was frightened and asked the crocodile why he was doing
this. Ugly-mug told him that his wife wanted to eat the monkey's heart filled
with nectar. Red-face immediately asked it to take him back to the tree as he
told him that he had left his other heart which was
full of nectar back at the tree. The foolish crocodile then swam back to the
tree and the terrified monkey jumped up the tree never to return. Upon being asked as to why she was not returning, the monkey
answered to the crocodile that he had only one heart and he had been fooled and
scolded his friend for misusing his friendship.
.
The
crocodile was ashamed at what happened and asked the monkey if he could make
any amends. And he was also scared that his wife would
not let him back in because he had returned without the monkey's heart. Just then he heard that a huge he-crocodile had occupied the
house of his. The monkey advised him to fight the he-crocodile
and drive him out of his home and gain his wife's confidence. His advice
the crocodile followed and he was back happy with his wife.
MORAL:
Wit is superior to brute force.
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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.
SSS: Prayer
Hemadpant closes this Chapter with a prayer. "Oh Sai Sad-guru, the wish fulfilling tree of the Bhaktas, Let us never forget and lose sight of Your Feet;
we have been troubled with the ins and outs (births and deaths) in this samsar; now free us from this cycle of births and deaths.
Restrain us from the outgoing of our senses to their objects
and introvert us and bring us face to face with the Atma
(Self). As long as this outgoing tendency of the senses and the mind is not
checked, there is no prospect of self-realisation.
Neither son, nor wife nor friend will be of any use in the end. It is only You,
Who will give us salvation and happiness. Destroy completely
our tendency for discussions and other evil matters, let out tongue get a
passion for chanting Your name. Drive out our thoughts, good or otherwise and
make us forget our bodies and houses, and do away with our egoism. Make us ever
remember Your name and forget all other things. Remove
the restlessness of our mind, and make it steady and
calm. If you just clasp us, the darkness of night of our ignorance will vanish
and we shall live happily in Your light. That You made us drink the nectar of Your Leelas
and awakened us from our slumber is due to Your grace and our store of merits
in past births".
SSG: Sai Ram. We also join in the above prayer and bow to Sai Sadguru. Sai
Ram.
SSS: Note :- In this connection
the following extract from Damu Anna's statement mentioned
above, is worth perusal, (Page 76).
"Once when I sat at His Feet along with many others,
I had two questions in my mind and He gave answers to both.
(1) There are so many crowding to Sai
Baba. Do they all get benefit from Him?
To this, He replied orally - "Look at the mango tree
in blossom. If all the flowers brought fruit, what a
splendid crop it would be. But do they? Most
fall off (either as flowers or as unripe fruits) by wind etc. Very few
remain".
SSG: Sai Ram. But even that short interaction
with a Sadguru will not go in waste. They will
progress slowly but steadily in their path in future. Sai
Ram.
SSS: (2) The second question was about myself.
If Baba were to pass away, how hopelessly a drift I would be and how am I to
fare then? To this Baba answered that He would be with me when and wherever I
thought of Him. That promise He had kept up before 1918 and has been keeping it
up even after 1918. He is still with me. He is still guiding me. This was about
1910-11, when brothers separated from me and my sister died, and there was a
theft and police enquiry, all of which incidents upset me very much.
When my sister died, my mind was much upset. I did not
care for life and enjoyments. When I went to Baba, He pacified me with His Upadesh and made me eat a feast of Pooran
Poli at Appa Kulkarni's house and get pasted
with sandal.
There was a theft in my house. A thirty
year's friend of mine stole my wife's jewel-box, including her
auspicious Nathi (nose-ring). I wept before Baba's
photo. The next day, the man returned the jewel-box and prayed for pardon.
SSG: Sai Ram. He always said that He was not limited
by His body and if we keep His assurance given above that even after His
leaving the physical body His tomb and His bones will be discussing our welfare
should be sufficient for us. There are other incidents where He showed His
freedom from the limitations of space and time. Sai
Ram.
Bow to Shri Sai
- Peace be to all
S.V.Swamy
Author, Editor and Book Reviewer
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9. LETTERS FROM
SAIDEVOTEES:
Thu,
Sairam,
I would like to appreciate the way Efficacy of Prayer and Worship is explained by Shri Shashi.
It’s worth knowing as well the acts of 5 fingers at
the time of prayer. Keep writing/updating good article like this in The
Glory of Shirdi Sai Issue.
Sairam
Venkat.
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Sai Ram,
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Anyhow is heartening to see the latest issue.
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On
OM SAI RAM
It's very important for the devotees who are employed.
They want to read the SAI SAYINGS but don't have the
time in the morning because of office hours. In office
they can open this and read.
Neeraj Gupta
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Sai baba ki
aap per anant kripa hai jo aapko aisa avsar prabhu
ne diya ki
aap sai karya
mai lage.
Jai Sai Ram
Arvind bhawsar
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11. SAI'S BOOK WORLD:
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12. EDITORIAL.
Things impressed me
from this magazine:
The whole world is a
vast kingdom ruled by God’s grace. So all our actions must be
done as an offering to God. Then our every action shall
be inspired and fulfilled by God’s will.
Bhakti leads to perfection and stimulates desirelessness.
When one is having Bhakti, one will not have any
sense of want or desire or grief or hatred. He will have no selfish attachments
and worldly desires.
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