THIS PAGE IS MAINTAINED BY SRI N.SIVANANDAM, COIMBATORE, INDIA
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vasuki_mahal@yahoo.com &essgee@eth.netABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sri. N. Sivanandam is native of Coimbatore city in south Indian State of Tamilnadu. Baba attracted him during the middle of nineties towards His spiritual Empire. Professionally he is a corporate member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a reputed body of international chemical engineers based at New York, USA. He had completed his post graduate studies in Sociology in Annamalai University, India. He served over two decades for petroleum and petrochemical industries in India and abroad. Now he is deeply involved in Sai Prachar and publishing articles of Sai philosophy in the virtual world for the benefit of Sai devotees throughout the world.
Presently he is working to create awareness on Sai spiritualism among local poor and downtrodden people by publishing Tamil language periodical on Sai Baba’s life and messages. It is his humble opinion - in order to save the humanity against all their miseries, we must take Baba’s message to all people irrespective of caste, creed, race, wealth, territorial boundaries. Each one must have a thorough understanding of Sri Sai Satcharitra and live a life as prescribed by Baba, without any deviation. By all possible ways and means we must motivate people to construct one Baba Mandir every 5 kilometer radius wherever possible.
Baba alone save us from the evils of this Kali yuga and there is no way out except to seek His mercy by totally surrendering to His Lotus Feet.
The author humbly request readers to kindly visit his weblog http://shirdisaibaba.blogspot.com
and read more articles on Shri Shirdi Sai Baba.
WE NEED BABA’S DIRECTIONS
Beloved Sairam,
One day a traveler in a remote country town, realized that he was on the
wrong road, came to a halt in a village. Calling one of the villagers to the
car window, he said, "Friend, I need help. I'm lost."
The villager looked at him for a moment. "Do you know where you are?" he
asked.
"Yes," said the traveler. "I saw the name of your town as I entered."
The man nodded his head, "Do you know where you want to be?"
"Yes," the traveler replied.
"You're not lost," he said, "you just need directions."
Many of us are in the same position as that traveler. We know where we are sometimes disappointed, dissatisfied and experiencing a little or no peace of mind. And we know where we want to be.
Like the traveler, we are not lost- we just need directions. Baba narrated the condition of such persons in Sri Sai Satcharitra, chapter 35, " ... but he took on needless anxieties and burdens and wandered hither and thither, thus losing his peace of mind. Sometimes, he dropped the burdens and at other times carried them again. His mind knew no steadiness. On seeing his state, I took pity on him" and Baba assured him "There is no difficulty. The guide will take you straight to your destination. (SSS Ch.2)"
With Baba, it doesn't take much to find the high road to success, but to reach it, you need an agenda for the present, let us consider Baba’s agenda, "Make Me the sole object of your thoughts and actions and you will, no doubt, attain Paramartha (the spiritual goal of life). (SSS Ch. 18, 19). And Baba’s directions for us is "Leave off all cleverness, and always remember "Sai" "Sai". If you did that, all your shackles would be removed and you would be free. (SSS Ch. 10)"
Still you need some other directions, "There are many ways leading there; there is one way from here (Shirdi) also. (SSS Ch.2)" It is up to you to choose which direction to follow.
Om Sai Sri Sai Jaya Jaya Sai
Ever yours
At the Feet of the Master
Sivanandam