THE GLORY OF SHIRDI SAI
Sixth Year of Publication
Published as Bi-Weekly
Issue 02/ 2008
17-01-2008
Saidarbar Wishes you all A Very
Happy Pongal.
The Glory of Shirdi Sai enters Sixth year from 01-01-2008.
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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.
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
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Compiled by:
Sai Sevak Smt. Rajeswari Kasturi,
Saidarbar - Hyderabad.
Shirdi Sai's Philosophy in the
words of Saibanisaji
Neither
dwell in the past nor dream about the future instead focus the mind on the
present passing moment.
We
should associate ourselves with those who are sympathetic, helpful, and capable
of passing on good advice in the hour of need. They should also be
willing to share our happiness and sufferings
Om Shantih Shantih Shantihi
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
To be continued…..
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2. SAI'S NEWS FROM THE TIME
MACHINE:
January 1919: Nana Saheb Nimonkar
(Shankarrao Raghunath Deshpande an elderly cousin of Shyama) passed away at
Pune.
January 20, 1941 : Damu Anna (Damodar
Savalaram Rasane) of Ahmednagar passed away (aged 89 years).
January 1, 1946: Sri B.V.Deo passed away (Composer of Chapter
53rd of Shri Sai Satcharitra in Marathi language).
January 14, 1980: H.H.Radhakrishna Swamiji passed away at
Bangalore. (Aged 74 years).
January 1991: Size of "Shri Sai Leela Magazine"
enlarged and converted in to a Bi-monthly magazine.
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3. SAI IN DREAMS:
http://www.ettitudemedia.com
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.
JULY-1995:
06-07-1995
Yesterday was the day of Gurupurnima .
I prayed Baba to describe its significance. Baba appeared as a Buddhist monk
and said-
On this day, worship Guru and introduce Guru to the like- minded
people and collectively worship him. Do not feel hurt even if some one not
having belief in the institution of Guru insults ignorantly the whole process.
Do not criticize other faiths and pay no heed to others engaged
in passing loose comments on others beliefs.
Traditionally, Guru is on the highest pedestal of life.
07-07-1995
Yesterday before going to bed, I prayed Baba to show me a way in
order to keep me away from those who caused me agony. Sri Sai said in the form
of visuals-
One experiences unpleasantness when materialistic benefits are
aspired from others and desires are left unfulfilled. Eliminate the root cause
by eliminating wants and resorting to self-dependence. It is a common site to
see people and livestock migrating to riverbeds when ponds in their villages go
dry. Better to take recourse in Sai for experiencing the cool comfort even in the
midst of summer.
Wants and desires are never ending and boundless.
10-07-1995
Yesterday, I prayed Baba to tell me something about the human
bondages. Baba Said in the form of visual-
Bonds of love are not limited only to wife and children. Many
incidents in life take place due to past links coming across in some form or
other. We befriend only with a few in a train travel, we might engage mingling
freely with only a few from the big lot in our work atmosphere. All these
things happen due to some invisible bonds happening behind the curtain. Move
friendly with all people and even animals.
Every encounter has a hidden agenda unknown to us.
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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
Baba says: Pray God always to relieve you from the sleep of
ignorance into dawn of wisdom.
Baba says: Worship Me at all times, and I shall present you
Brahmatwam. Try to cut off yourselves from worldly ties. Have total control on
Indriyas, when you worship Me.
If we worship Baba with determination, He is the giver of fruits
of all deeds i.e., Sarva Karma Phala Data. We must know that Baba is beyond old
age and death. Those who worship Sai Baba with single pointed devotion shall
attain Parabhrama Stithi. Those who are devoted to Baba with pure heart,
they will merge in Sai Baba after their death.
Without concentration, if we do Pooja or Archana, or bhajan, it
is useless. Those who worship Baba with firm mind with concentration attain
Supreme State.
If we worship with faith, we will see Jnana-jyothi. Jnana-jyothi
comes only thru Samadhi Nistha and not otherwise. Those who concentrate their
mind on Baba in Pooja will get Supreme State.
We must have intense faith and stabilize it. Worship Baba with
intense devotion and faith, then all our desires will be fulfilled.
To be continued.
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5. SANATANA DHARMA &SHRI SHIRDI SAIBABA.
By standing on his own, A man finds
happiness.
By standing on his own, A man finds
freedom.
By standing on his own, He goes beyond the world.
By standing on his own, He finds the end of the way.
-Ashtavakra Gita 18:50
When you
live without discrimination, Desire arises.
When desire
persists, Feelings of preference arise,
Of
liking and disliking. They are the root and branches of the
world.
-Ashtavakra Gita
16:7
NEWS
Jan 14, 2008 8:30 AM
Jai Sai Ram
The members of SaiDarbar USA were very
fortunate to hear from Sri Saibanisa- Gopal Rao Ravadaji on 12th Jan 2008. Saibanisaji
spoke about Gruhastha Dharma within Sanatana Dharma and related this to the
teachings of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba. He spoke in detail about the Brahmcharyam,
Gruhastha, Vanaprastha and Sanyasa Ashrams and mentioned the responsibilities
of husband and wife in each and every step of life. Saibanisaji also gave
several references from the Shri Sai Satcharitam in relation to these topics.
The speech was heard by about 20 members and on behalf of SaiDarbarUSA members
we would like to thank Saibanisaji for
his valuable time for enlightening us on the values of life.
This bi-weekly Satsang was very special
and all of the members celebrated the festival of Sankranti/Pongal together.
Sai Sevak Sri Vijay Aggarwal Visit to Saidarbar
Hyderabad.
On 10-01-2008, Thursday, Saisevak Sri Vijay Agarwal from USA
visited Saidarbar. Sri Vijay Agarwal is the brain behind the very famous 3D
Format of
Our Bi-weekly magazine-The Glory of
Shirdi Sai.
Saibanisaji welcomed Sri Agarwal and briefly explained the
activities of Saidarbar Saibanisaji honored the guest with Shawl and Saisevak
Srinivasa Rao Kasturi presented a Bouquet to mark the occasion.
Sri Agarwal has shown keen interest in knowing the process of
the magazine finding way to reach thousands of devotees across the Globe.
He felt very happy and expressed that it as his fortune to be associated with
Saidarbar movement
Smt. MadhuGopal Ravada and Saibanisa GopalaRao Ravada extended
Baba’s blessings to Sri Agrwal and family.
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SABARIMALA, INDIA, December 31, 2007: The Lord Ayyappa temple
was opened for the Makaravilakku festival on Sunday evening, marking the second
phase of the two-month-long pilgrimage season to the hill shrine. Makara
Jyothi, the most auspicious occasion of the festival when pilgrims sight a
divine light at Ponnambalamedu, the distant hills opposite the temple, falls on
January 14.
Devaswom Minister G. Sudhakaran held a review meeting with
concerned officials at Pampa to evaluate the facilities being extended to
Ayyappa devotees with tens of millions of them expected to throng the temple in
the coming 15 days and create an action plan.
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6. DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES:
Thu, December 27, 2007 11:14 pm
I would like to share a few experiences that Baba has blessed me
in life. I was a student of Architecture and used to stay in the hostel during
my years of study. Many a times I used to fall ill as I did not take proper
food. Once I had fallen severely ill with weakness. This had prolonged for
almost a weeks time and it had started to affect my studies, work and peace of
mind.
One day I was so tired of being sick that the whole day I
kept complaining to God that He has not given me good food and I was tired of
being in the hostel. That day I went with a friend of mine for dinner. Suddenly
he told me that he would take me to a new restaurant where I could get some
homely food. So I went along with him. It was a very small restaurant with
chairs kept outside. Also there were not many people. We sat down and my friend
ordered for the usual rich food. I was craving for some home food. So I slowly
asked if I could just get some simple meal. The waiter smiled and said yes. He
brought an empty thali for me. My friends food had
arrived.
I waited for my simple food. Usually in a thali meal the food is
brought on the plate and we can ask for more when we finish. Just imagine my
surprise when the waiter brought a casserole full of rice and bowls full of hot
Sambhar and vegetables and placed them in front of me. I was so surprised at
this treatment when the waiter just said, "Eat as much as you
want"!!! I was too shocked and just thought of how I was blaming God for
not giving me proper food to eat earlier in the day. I thanked Baba and had a good
meal. After meals my friend and I used to visit a shop near my hostel where we
used to but fresh fruits. The shopkeeper was an old man who used to keep
account of each and every penny. U could never bargain with him. As usual we
went to the fruit shop after the lovely meal Baba had given. That day there
were some rose apples in the shop.
I have my drink of tender coconut water and casually asked the
shop keeper how much the rose apples cost. He told me the price which I thought
was too much so I declined the offer. This was when Baba gave me another
surprise. When I told the shopkeeper that I did not want the fruit, he simply
smiled at me and placed two rose apples in my hands and said, "Take them,
they are for you, You don’t have to pay." I was
too shocked for words because this shopkeeper had never given anybody anything
for free. I was very stunned. I accepted to fruits with a smile and narrated
the incidents to my friends. This was one of the many incidents that made me realize
that Baba was there for me and is there for everyone of us. He loves us and we
should never give up faith in him.
OM SHREE SAINATHAYA NAMAH
Pallavi prakash
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7. SAI WITH CHILDREN:
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Smt. Madhu Gopal
Ravada, Saidarbar, Hyderabad.
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 DONKEY AND THE TIGER:
A Washer man, named Vilas, lived in the old city of Hastinapur.
He was a mean and cunning person and had a donkey for carrying the huge loads
of clothes to and from the washing ghats. The poor donkey was given nothing to
eat and barely survived on the scraps found on the roads.
Vilas realized that this could not continue for long as
the donkey would die of hunger and malnutrition. He started thinking of ways
and means to feed the animal without spending any money.
In the end he hit on a plan which was the ' if he covered the
animal with a tiger skin in the night, people would take it to be a real tiger
and be afraid of it. The donkey could then enter the fields with standing crops
and have its fill of cereals'.
It happened exactly in the manner he had planned. Every night he
would camouflage the donkey with a tiger's skin and release it from its tether.
The donkey would enter the nearby corn field and have its fill of the choicest
ones. The farmers thinking it to be a tiger ran away out of fear leaving the
donkey undisturbed.
This continued for quite some time until the farmers were fed up
this recurring loss. They then laid traps and called hunters to kill the
disguised animal.
One of the hunters hid himself in the cornfield by covering
himself with a mud-streaked cloth. However the shape of his silhoute made him
appear like another donkey to the animal.
Pleased to see one of his tribe the donkey started braying
aloud' Hee-haw, Hee-haw' brayed the donkey thus giving himself away.
The hunters hidden in other fields all stood up with surprise
and shot arrows at the donkey covered with tiger skin. Soon the animal lay dead
and when the tiger skin was removed the farmers came to know of the trick
Vilas, the washer man, had played, as they all knew it to be his donkey.
They caught hold of him too and beat him black and blue. It was
only after he agreed to pay them for their damages that they let him off. Thus
he lost all his savings.
LESSON: ' You can make a fool out of someone some times. You can
not make a fool out of someone all the time'.
Bye children meet you in the next issue
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8. SPIRITUAL GEMS
FROM SAI SATCHARITRA
Dec 4, 2007 11:28 AM
Spiritual Gems from Sri Sai Satcharitra - chapter 26
SSS: Now let us turn to the stories of this Chapter.
SSS: Mr. Ambadekar
Mr. Gopal Narayan Ambadekar of Poona was a devotee of Baba. He
served for ten years in the Abkari department in the Thane District and in
Javhar state, from where he had to retire. He tried to get some other job, but
he did not succeed. He was overtaken by other calamities and his condition grew
from bad to worse. He passed 7 years in this condition, visiting Shirdi every
year and placing his grievance before Baba.
In 1916 his plight became worst and be decided to commit suicide
in Shirdi. So he came there with his wife and stayed for two months. One night
while sitting in a bullock cart in front of Dixit's Wada, he resolved to end
his life by throwing himself into a well close by. He proposed to do one way
but Baba wished to do something else. A few paces from this place, there was a
hotel and its proprietor Mr. Sagun, a devotee of Baba, came out and accosted
him thus - "Did you ever read this Akkalkotkar Maharaj's life?"
Ambadekar took that book from Sagun and began to read it. Casually, or we may
say providentially he came across a story which was to this effect. - During
the life time of Akkalkotkar Maharaj a certain devotee suffered very much from
an incurable disease and when he could endure the agony and pain no longer be
became desperate and to end his miseries threw himself one night into a well.
Immediately the Maharaj came there and took him out with his own hands and
advised him thus - "You must enjoy the fruit - good or bad - of your past
actions; if the enjoyment be incomplete, suicide won't
help you. You have to take another birth and suffer again; so instead of
killing yourself, why not suffer for some time and finish up your store of the
fruit of your past deeds and be done with it once and for all?"
Reading this appropriate and timely story, Ambadekar was much
surprised, and moved. Had he not got Baba's hint through the story, he would
have been no more. On seeing Baba's all-prevasiveness and benevolence, his faith
in Him was confirmed, and he became a staunch devotee. His father was a devotee
of Akkalkotkar Maharaj and Sai Baba wanted him to walk into his father's
footsteps and continue his devotion to Him. He then got Sai Baba's blessings
and his prospects began to improve. He studied astrology and gained proficiency
in it and thereby improved his lot. He was able to earn sufficient money and
passed his after-life in ease and comfort.
SSG: Sai Ram. Again, we are reminded that Sai is One with all Gods and Gurus. Also,
that we have to accept everything that happens in life as His prasad and
surrender to Him totally. Sai Ram.
Bow to Shri Sai - Peace be to all
S.V.Swamy
Author, Editor and Book Reviewer
www..freewebs.com/swamyreviews
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9.
ARTICLES FROM SAI DEVOTEES:
This
blog is dedicated to Shri Shirdi Sai baba
http://www.debu7366.blogspot.com/
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Sai ka laadla" saikalaadla@yahoo.com
In Quest of Guru and God
The Sansara [visible world] by the allegory of Ashvattha
[Banyan] tree, which has,
in the phraseology of Shri Bhagwad Gita, roots above and
branches below. Its
branches are spread downwards and upwards, and
are nourished by the Gunas
[qualities], and its sprouts are the
objects of the senses. Its root, leading to
actions are extended downwards to this world of
men. Its form cannot be known in
this world, nor its end, its beginning, nor
its support. After cutting this
Ashvattha tree of strong roots with the sharp weapon of non-attachment,
one should
seek the path beyond treading, which there
is no return.
For traversing this path, the help of a good guide [Guru]
is absolutely necessary.
However, learned a man may be, or however deep his study of
Vedas and Vedantas
[sacred literature] may be, he cannot
go to his destination safely. If the guide
be there to help him, and show him the right way he would
avoid the pitfalls and
the wild beasts on the journey and everything will be
smooth-sailing.
Sri Sai Baba's experience in this matter, which He gave
out Himself, is really
wonderful, which when attended to, will give you
faith, devotion and salvation.
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10. LETTERS FROM SAIDEVOTEES:
Jan 2, 2008 8:47 PM
Sai Ram
Hearty Congratulations on Five Successful Years of Publication!
Wish Sri Sai should bless the publishers with many more
successful years of this EXCELLENT SERVICE.
RammohanRao
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Jan 3, 2008 6:42 PM
Om Sai Ram!
We all at SHRI SHIRDI SAI BABA SANSTHAN, CANADA (Toronto) would
like to extend our heartiest congratulations to "Saidarbar" which has
completed its full ten years and has successfully entered into the 11th
year. Also, would like to thank and congratulate the entire support group
for extending their love thru the newsletter. We remain humble and pray
in the lotus feet of Baba to bestow His choicest blessings on all and who
render their selfless service in His Lotus Feet.
Baba Bless You Ever!
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Jan 4, 2008 1:53 PM
Saibanisa's discourses in English.
Om Sai Ram
.May Saibaba's blessings and grace always shower upon all of us.
I have wanted to hear the discourses for a long time now but because of my
inability to understand Telugu- this had not been possible. But I am really
glad to know that now these sacred discourses will be translated into English
and thus will be understood by millions of Sai devotees
world wide. Thank you so much for accepting my request. I am eagerly waiting
for the Guru Pournima festival 2008 now.
My Regards and best wishes to the entire Saidarbar team,
Sai bhakt,
Deepa H
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Magazine in the 3d page turning NEW FORMAT
On Jan 3, 2008 8:36 AM,
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Viji Rajan.
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Jai Sai Ram,
This site is very beautiful I think beautiful is a very small word for this.
Its make word more Clean n Clear. Sai Baba Bless all of us.
HAPPY NEW YEAR N GOD MAY FULFILL UR ALL WISHES.
Sai Daughter,
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On Jan 10, 2008 11:56 PM
SaiRam,
Really enjoyable. Baba always shows his presence and his leela. Thank you very
much for this. Pray Baba to do more like this
Saisampath.
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On Jan 10, 2008 10:35 AM,
Sai Ram,
This good reading material and thanks for the same.
Mangala
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On Jan 10, 2008 11:35 AM,
SaiRam,
Thanks, I had requested couple of weeks ago to hear online music link. Today
when I was reading this newsletter I was pleased. Thanks for this arrangement.
Regards
Suresh Kumar
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WORLD: (HINDI)
Title: Shirdi Ke Sai Baba
Author: Rakesh Shastri
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New Delhi 110 007
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Title: Ishwar Aahe Nahi Ka Mahantosh
Author: V. B. Kher
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Bandoop Post, Mumbai - 400 045
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13. EDITORIAL:
Things impressed
me from this magazine:
Baba says: Pray God always to relieve you from the sleep of
ignorance into dawn of wisdom.
By standing on his own, A man finds
happiness.
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