Sai Service Newsletter - 18

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SAI SERVICE Newsletter – 18

Issue 08-08-2002, 2002

 

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This Thursday's Message: (Baba said)

 

I will not allow my devotee to be lost.

I will account to God for all those that have been given to me.

 

a. Baba's Talk with Devotees

 

CONSERVATISM, DO NOT CHANGE IMAGES

 

Once Kavle Patil with his Mamladdar, B.V. Dev went to Baba and

through Shama wanted to know from Baba whether in a temple newly

built by Kavle he should reinstall the old image or bring in a new

image from Vani, has directed by his own Guru.

 

Shama: Baba. Kavle Patil wants to know what he is to install in his

newly built temple.

 

Baba: Let him place only the ancient stones that his family has been

worshipping from old time and no new image.

 

Shama: What objection is there to a new image from Vani?

 

Baba: Act as you please Shama. Install it or don't.

 

Shama: Please say definitely whether the Vani image can be or should

not be installed.

 

Baba: If he wants that image, let him break off its arms and legs and

then install and worship it. Do not question me again and again. I

once went with a companion from village to village. He wanted to buy

a cow. I said, "Don't". But he did buy it and brought it to a

village. There an epidemic broke out and many died.

 

Shama, later in the day: Baba, what harm will arise if the image is

brought?

 

Baba: Let him worship the old stones and introduce nothing new.

 

Shama: What is the harm in introducing the new?

 

Baba: (Angrily): I am speaking with my mouth and not through anything

else.

 

 

Kavle Patil had no faith in Baba, but great faith in his own guru and

so brought the Vani image to the guru's village. There plague broke

out and many died. The guru (who had already received Rs.300 or

Rs.400) more over sent a message to the Patil that unless he gave a

registered gift of his land to the guru, the latter would curse him

to immediate death. The Patil woke up, discovered the unselfishness

and wisdom of Baba and wickedness of his own guru and installed only

his own hereditary images.

 

b. Divine Dews from our God

 

 If My stories are listened to, all diseases will get rid of. So,

hear My stories with respect, and think and meditate on them,

assimilate them. This is the way of happiness and contentment. (SSS

Ch.III)

 

 If anyone does any evil unto you, do not retaliate. (SSS Ch.X)

 

 If you spread your palms with devotion before Me, I am immediately=

 

with you, day and night. (SSS Ch.XV)

 

 Where there is greed there is no room for thought or meditation of=

 

the Brahma. (SSS Ch.XVI & XVII)

 

 The teachings of a Guru are of no use to a man who is full of

egoism and who always thinks about the sense-object. (SSS Ch.XVI &

XVII)

 

 His Will be done and He will show us the way, and satisfy our

heart's desires. (SSS Ch.XVIII & XIX)

 

c. Weekly Article:

 

DIVINE GRACE TO DEVOTEES – ABDUL RAHIM RANGARI

 

Abdul Rahim Shamsuddin Rangari lived at Thana and went to see Baba in

1913. His wife was suffering from some disease. Her throat and cheek

were swollen and she could not eat. Medical help gave no relief. So,

he went on the advice of a local pleader to Baba for the cure of his

wife. When the journey began, she was unable to eat anything at all.

But as they went on to Igatpuri, she was able to take tea and at

Nasik something more. Her condition had greatly improved by the time

she approached Shirdi. At Shirdi they went into the Mosque and bowed

to Baba. Baba asked him, `Why are you coming? What have you come

for?' He said, `My wife had a swelling in the throat.' Baba said,

`ask her to come up. Then the lady went up the steps and bowed to

Baba.' Baba touched her head and said, `Khuda Acha karega,' that is,

god will bless. then Rangari gave Rs. 1-4-0 and Baba accepted it and

gave him udhi. after staying there for two hours, and finding that

her swelling was fast subsiding. Rangari and his wife left without

Baba's permission. But he had to pay penalty for it. The tonga by

which he went broke in the middle of the journey at 10 o'clock in the

night. There were no conveyance available there. He, his wife and

child, could not walk up the many miles that would take them to any

village. It was a lonely road and the weather also was very

inclement. So, he was repenting going away without Baba's permission,

and he did not know what to do. He was wondering what would happen.

At midnight, he heard the rumble of a carriage, and a voice crying

out, `Thanawala, Thanawala'. that was the voice of the driver, and

the tonga came nearer. Rangari said, `I am the Thanawala.' The

`tongawala' said, `Baba has sent me to you.' Baba knew of the cart

breakage, and so he said, `Baba has sent me to fetch you.' It was 2

a.m. when they reached Shirdi. Baba said, `You went away without

permission. so, you have fared in this way.' Rangari begged pardon,

and Baba said, `Wait. in the morning.' Baba after returning from his

bhiksha, gave some bread and vegetables solid food. Then Baba said,

`You may go.' He looked for a tonga, and could not find any, and came

back to Baba. Baba said, `You go now; see there is a tonga.' He

turned and looked, and found a tonga. how suddenly it happened to be

there, he could not say.

 

Publisher's Note:

 

THE SOLE PURPOSE of this newsletter is to present Sai messages and

other spiritual messages to the interested devotees on Thursdays.

Feel free to forward this newsletter to your interested associates.

 

In this newsletter, wherever the sources of the articles not

mentioned, please consider these items are taken from H H Pujyasri B

V Narasimha Swamiji's books.

 

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