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SHRI C.B. SATPATHY'S MESSAGE
……“So far so good, but
does it prove the end of the role of the Sadguru in relation
to the souls that He had drawn towards Himself from far and
near and with whom He had ‘Rinanubandha’, a karmic relationship
established during many past lives? Although, many religious
and spiritual people hold the view that a master after leaving
his human body cannot help the disciples yet in the case of
Sri Sainath the experience of the disciples has been quite
different. I have had the opportunity of knowing some of the
devotees of Baba who had been with Him before His departure.
I have spoken with some of them and also got their experiences
recorded through some ardent devotees. All of them categorically
confirmed that many unexplainable and miraculous events with
relation to Baba are still happening around their existence
as used to be earlier when Baba was there in His physical
body at Shirdi.
Most of the books written
on Baba’s life history and devotee’s experience undoubtedly
establish the happening of certain miracles experienced by
Sai devotees, not only before the departure of Baba but even
today. Earlier, there were thousands of devotees mostly confined
to Maharashtra. But, today the increase in the number of Sai
devotees is an astounding phenomenon which is difficult to
explain, but more difficult to deny. More than a thousand
temples of Sri Sai have come up in India and hundreds are
in the process of construction at various stages. Where it
is not possible for devotees to build Baba’s temples separately,
small and big statues have been installed inside precincts
of temple complexes housing other deities.
The activities concerning
Sri Sainath today are so multi-dimensional and widespread,
all over the country and abroad, that one cannot comprehend
their total effect in the lives of the devotees and on the
religious spiritual life of India and other places. The researchers
on Baba in India and other countries, who have written a number
of books on Him, need to take up thorough research on this
aspect.
This logically brings
to mind one question - if after His departure, the spirit
of Sri Sai is not active, then how are all these happening?
Can it be believed to be a mere chance occurrence or is there
a bigger or subtler law of nature, which is manifesting through
these activities. Any sensitive mind with some amount of understanding
of the spiritual history of the world will surely perceive
the reality of a quietly emerging Sai movement. This movement
is based on the principles of humanism, universalism, tolerance
and mutual co-operation of the highest order. These are principles
on the basis of which any civilized society exists and any
religion continues. We are all waiting for “dawning the Age
of Sai” who, I believe, is the “Incarnation of the Age”. In
this decade the world will see the emergence of international
Sai movement and hundreds of temples will be built in a number
of countries. History indicates that the role of the incarnations
has been more pronounced after they had left their gross body.
The world needs someone
to lead it and bring about unity among the strife-ridden and
mutually intolerant religious, social and racial groups. Sri
Sai preached and practiced the unity of the highest order
based on the principles of love and tolerance in the 19th
century and the early part of the 20th century. In this millennium
it will lead the world in the path of peace and progress.”…….
FROM
"LIFE OF SAI BABA" BY NARASIMHA SWAMI
……“Daivi
hi Eshaa Gunamayee Mama Maya Duratyaya
Mameva Ye Prapadyante Mayam Etam Tarantite.
that is, This three fold Guna constituting My Maya is hard
indeed for anyone to cross. But he who takes refuge and surrenders
Tan, Man Dan to Me Iswara crosses this Maya. So, Niranjan
is one who has crossed the three-fold Maya who has identified
himself with Iswara and is possessed of Ashtaiswarya divine
powers that can bear every responsibility of another soul
without regard to place, time, or extent of time, that is,
whether it is generations or centuries. One may be aghast
at the idea that any responsibility can be undertaken indefinitely
or for centuries. But Baba, being a Niranjan expressly undertook
such responsibility. When Mahlasapathy was afraid that the
Muslims would come and beat him for worshipping Baba with
sandal paste after he left the Mosque premises, Baba assured
him that neither those nor any other persons could molest
him either in this life or in any future lives of his. Baba
told the Bandra youth, who prayed to him that he should be
always with him in future lives, that he had already been
along with him in previous lives and had been looking after
him, and that for the three more lives that were necessary
for him to be born to work out his remaining karma, Baba would
be reborn and be with him. Similar assurances were given for
indefinite periods to M.B. Rege. One reading the Gospel of
Sai Baba would notice that Baba referred to ten thousand years
back, saying ‘I was here ten thousand years ago’. He told
Shama that for 72 janmas or births he had been with him and
that he had never touched him at all till then. That is, he
recalls events of 72 janmas, and knows he has been protecting
his devotee all these janmas that is, over 2,000 years. Especially
in this janma when Shama, an almost illiterate and helpless
villager was obliged to depend entirely upon Baba, Baba looked
after all his interests and provided him and his children
also with means of subsistence, with comforts, with safety,
and position as he provided so many others. When G.G. Narke
was introduced to Baba, Baba declared that he had known him
for 30 janmas. If a janma is roughly taken to be even 30 years,
this takes us nearly a thousand years back. Hence, to give
an undertaking which appears to be indefinite in point of
time is nothing for a Niranjana. The undertaking is also unconditional
and indefinite in respect of the sort of attacks that may
befall a sishya. Sri Rama said,
Sakrudeva Prapannaya
Tava Asmi Iticha Yachate
Abhayam Sarva Bhutebhyo Dadami Etat Vratam Mama.
this means, If a person once surrenders and takes refuge
with me saying, I am yours, I undertake to protect him from
all creatures. This is my vow. Sri Rama does not limit either
the time or the nature of the attack upon his dependants seeking
protection. Similarly Baba, who is nothing but Sai Rama, gave
undertakings indefinite in point of time, persons, or things,
attacking devotees or the place. As far as we are able to
see, both Ayodhya Rama and Shirdi Sai Rama kept up the promises
that they made. See how Baba protected Gowri and the coward
Basappa, birth after birth.”……
TOPIC OF DISCUSSION
Relevance of Sai
in Today’s Society
With my Sastang Pranam to Sadguru Sri Sai
Baba I feel that today’s society very much needs Sai awareness,
Sai’s blessings, Sai Margdarshan and over and above Sai Kripa
to cope up with the all evils that are prevailing. Whenever
we do something wrong, knowingly or unknowingly, we should
seek the pardon of Baba who is so kind that he always forgives
our wrong doings and treats us as His children. All our achievements
in today’s competitive era depend on the blessings of Baba.
Whenever we feel stress, pressure, tension, Ashant Mann, Baba’s
Chintan leads us to the peace. Baba’s thoughts are our guiding
factor, his darshan is the source of peace in our life and
Baba is the purpose of our life. His Chintan can develop so
much creativity in us that we may automatically move towards
the Sat Path. As the child goes to its mother whenever he/she
needs any thing, in the same way we have to approach our Baba
whenever we need anything, without any second thought in our
mind. He is so kind and He has always assured, even in his
11 Vachans, that he will run to help His Bhakta whenever His
Bhakta prays whole heartedly.
In today’s society all
types of evil are present be it crime, corruption, moral deterioration,
selfishness, rudeness towards mankind or evil thoughts. It
is Baba only who can lead our Uddhar or put us on the Right
path. And then take us towards the Moksha from the bonds of
the Moh-Maya of the human birth. There is no question of relevance.
It is the only way for today’s society that we go to the Sharan
of the Baba. As is the saying “better late than never” whenever
we get the chance we must move towards Baba in whatever way
we like because ultimately all the ways lead us towards Baba
if we keep Him honestly and whole heartedly in our mind. Jai
Sai Ram!!
P. K. Das, Ahmedabad
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DEVOTEE'S EXPERIENCE
A great experience
of Sai's miracle in our life
This is the greatest experience I have faced
in my life - The Blessing & Miracle of Shirdi Sai, The
Great.
My husband and I were
going for a walk one early morning around 5 am a few years
back and it was pitch dark with very few lights on the street.
Suddenly one bike came and two men were on it with face covered
and only their eyes could be seen. They got down from the
bike and asked for an address. We said we do not know and
started walking. They followed us and one guy held a sharpened
knife on my throat. He wanted to take my chain. My husband
held my hand tight and was about to run. I was in panic and
words were not coming out of my mouth. Then suddenly my husband
started shouting at the top of his voice 'SAIRAM, SAIRAM,
SAIRAM, SAIRAM' They just stood stunned for a fraction of
a second. Due to the noise made by my husband, the lights
were switched on in one house. The two guys then started the
bike and ran away. I was shaking with fear. The inmates of
that house took us inside and to our greatest surprise we
could see Sai Baba in the front room with the wordings 'WHY
FEAR WHEN I AM HERE.’ I started crying with joy. They gave
us milk and gave Sai's udhi and then we came back home.
Chandrika, Chennai
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DEVOTEES' FORUM
Maya or Reality? Life is an imagination and body is an image,
millions are awake for actions, but one in a million for effective
intellectual exertion only one in a hundreds of millions to
a divine life. Shirdi Sai can be counted as one in billions
who is a great dispeller of darkness.
Mind is
slave to the body. We worship the body. Finally the body wears
away. At that time we realise the power of mind. The journey
was to discover the self, but we have been cheating ourselves
and cheating others, glorifying the self called ego. The death
of ego is the birth of divinity. It has no beginning, no end.
It is eternal. In our finite body the eternity hid, and mind
limited itself to mind body nexus of limited consciousness.
We searched the mountains, sea, everywhere, in search of the
divine. But where was divine? In the cave shaped heart. The
heart is the reality, mind is transience phase, cosmic consciousness
is the quest. Shirdi Sai the blessed had realised and made
devotees know that he was one in many and many in one, the
Best.
Jagannathan Padmanabhan,
USA
Pranams to Shirdi Baba.
This world is Mayaajaalena
Mohitam. Only those who have experienced this in their own
life can understand the influence of maya in everyday life.
The moment the desired will and target in mind is attained,
we say God has helped. The moment the expected advantages
fail to get accomplished, dejection is the result.
It is at this moment,
the Great Guru comes to instill in us the righteous path.
Eeswara Prerana Aajnaa. None lives inactive.
Willingly or unwillingly/unwittingly,
everyone does something. When the mind sets out on its journey
in absolute surrender to reach the great Guru (like Arjuna
before Lord Krishna) and pleads for instructions about the
righteous path and actions, which He deems fit to be taken
in the battlefield (of life) then there dawns in his mind
a spark of intuition leading him to initiate action. The results
of such directions will be fair, just and pleasing to one
and all.
T R Meenakshinatha
Iyer, Trivandrum
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READER'S REFLECTION
Thank you so much for sending me Heritage of Shirdi Sai
magazine. It came just in time when I needed it. It is so
beautiful in every way. The pictures add extra beauty to the
magazine. The cover is sooooo sweet, Baba's blessing Hand
and His Lotus Feet on a real peacock feather!
Wow! Hats off to the great and wonderful idea!
At His Divine Lotus Feet, a lotus
Neeraja, USA
My heartfelt
thanks to you all for starting this magazine and helping me
feel closer to Sai community and thereby Lord Sai. I know
I have miles to go before I can call myself a true Sai devotee;
Your magazine is helping me in this endeavour.
Shilpa B. Roy,
Mumbai
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NEWS
OF SHIRDI SAI ACTIVITIES
SHIRDI SAI BABA
SANSTHAN, CANADA
Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan,
Canada holds Satsang on Thursdays and third Sunday of every
month at Gur Mandir, 207 Queen’s Plate, Toronto (Etobicoke).
For other Details call 416-294-4804 or visit http://www.shirdisainath.org/
THE RESOURCE CENTRE
Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan,
Canada is pleased to announce the establishment of it's first
Resource Centre in Woodbridge, Toronto. All visits are by
appointment only. Shri Sai Satcharita is available in all
languages. The Resource Centre is open Monday to Friday between
10:00 am - 5:00 pm. Location: Maple Crest Private School -
28 Roytech Rd. Woodbridge, On L4L 8E4 Ph: 905 - 652-6666.
For other Details call 416-294-4804 or visit http://www.shirdisainath.org/
SHIRDI SAI MANDIR, TORONTO, CANADA
The Shirdi Sai Mandir located at 2721 Markham Road, Toronto,
Ontario, M1X 1L5 (Intersection of Markham and Nashdene) is
open through out the day on Saturday, Sunday and holidays
and in the morning and evenings on all weekdays. Baba's Kakad
Aarti, Abhishek Puja, Madhyan Aarti, Dhoop Aarti, Satcharita
Reading and Shej Aarti are performed every day. Bhajans and
Sai Naam Sankirtan in the evening on Thursday and Saturday.
For information regarding the daily schedule, temple activities
and events please visit Mandir's website: http://www.theshirdisaimandir.com/
or send an email to info@theshirdisaimandir.com
or call 647-444-4724.
SHIRDI SAI PARIVAR
VANCOUVER
Shirdi Sai parivar in
Vancouver holds Satsang on Thursday (6.30-7.30pm)and Sai abhishek
and aarti first Sunday of every month at 8571, 118A St, Delta,
V4C 6L2. For further details contact (604) 592 4182 or email,sai_ish@hotmail.com.
SHRI SHIRDI SAI
SANSTHAN LOS ANGELES
By the grace of our Shirdi
Sai we are happy to announce the inauguration of Shri Shirdi
Sai Temple in LA region in the city of Montebello. We need
the support of all Sai Devotees. For more information please
email krishna@shirdisaila.org
SHIRDI SAI CENTER,
BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
Location: 897-B E. Kifer
Rd, Sunnyvale, CA - 94086
Daily timings and activities:
Weekdays:
6:15 am – 7:40 am: Abhishekam and Kakad Arathi at 6:30 am
11.45 am – 12:30 pm: Madhyan Arathi at 12:00 pm
6:00 pm – 9:30 pm: Dhoop Arathi at 6:30 pm and Shej Arathi
at 8:30 pm
Weekends:
6:15 am – 7:40 am: Kakad Arathi at 6:30 am
11:00 am – 9:30 pm: Madhyan Arathi at 12:00 pm, Dhoop Arathi
at 6:30 pm and Shej Arathi at 8:30 pm
Every Thursday:
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm: Shirdi Sai Bhajans
For more information please
call 408-705-7904 / 408-564-6704 or send email to saibandhu@yahoo.com
or visit our website at http://www.Shirdisaiparivaar.org
SHRI SHIRDI SAI
SAMAJ MALAYSIA
No.744-1, Tingkat 1,
Jln. Sentul Selatan, Sentul, 51000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This is a new Shirdi Baba center in malaysia. We conduct weekly
prayers/arathi at the following times:
Friday - 7pm - 10.30pm
Sunday - Noon - 2.30pm
Our official centre website
is http://saisamaj.blogspot.com
For more information, please email hyperkinetix@gmail.com
PERSATUAN SHIRDI SAI BABA SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
This is to inform all of you that we have a Shirdi Sai Baba
Temple in Malaysia. Here we have daily prayers and special
prayers on thursday mornings 9.00am and bhajans and satsang
from 8 pm onwards. Also breakfast, lunch and dinner, cooked
by our seva-group is provided to all devotees. other than
that first thursday of the month we have talk on spirituality,
second thursday on health, third thursday satsang on Sai Satcharitra,
fourth thursday talk on general topics, by experts in the
respective fields. Lot of charitable activities are conducted
by our Centre,like sponsoring immediate services to childrens\'
homes, old-folks homes, sick and needy, etc. etc.
If
any devotee, from Malaysia or Singapore likes to join our
Centre, please contact Mr.SP Kannan at Mobile -012-2739486;
usha - 006122392911; Res: 03-33717540. Our Centre address
is : Persatuan Shirdi Sai Baba Selangor, No.2574, Jalan Seruling
59, Taman Klang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.Thank you and Sai
Ram.
SHIRDI SAI TEMPLE
SINGAPORE
The dream of having a
full fledged exclusive Shirdi Sai Temple in Singapore, will
soon come true. Thanks to the efforts of a Sai devotee in
making this happen. The Shirdi Sai Baba Centre in Singapore
is now live with the 3rd floor function hall, Sri Vadapathira
Kaliamman temple, being secured and converted to a full fledged
exclusive Shirdi Sai worship centre. The Centre will be devoted
to celebrating the life & teachings of Shirdi Sai Baba
only. For more information visit our website http://www.saisansthan.com
SHIRDI SAI BABA
SANSTHAN, AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
The bhajan and puja are
currently being held at Mt Roskill War Memorial Hall, 13 May
Road, Mt Roskill, Auckland.
Bhajans Every Thursday
Venue Mt Roskill War Memorial Hall, 13 May Road, Mt Roskill,
Auckland
7.00 pm - 7.50 pm Sai
Bhajans,
7.50 pm - 8.10 pm Pravachan and Sai Ashtotharam
8.10 pm - 8.30 pm Shej Aarthi
8.30 pm - 9.00 pm Prasad distribution.
Meditation and Parayana Center: Every Saturday
Venue 16 Mt Roskill Rd, Mt Roskill, Auckland.
From 6 pm to 8 pm
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