Guest guest Posted February 8, 2002 Report Share Posted February 8, 2002 "Sarah Edwards" < Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:06:16 -0000 I’m taken by the daffodils, this wonderful spectacle of daffodils. It’s a bit dreary on the Welsh borders in early February and everyone is waiting for the daffodils. In our town the daffodils are a spectacle also lining the river as they do every year. A bit more in the ordinary rather than out of the ordinary as this story shares, but I’ll never be able to see the one without the other coming to mind now. I hope you don’t mind my repeating a section of a poem I usually put out for the Birthday but this segment is more suited to now and a bit later at Easter if daffodils are our focus. Accompanying this, additional to the Name of the Week, is a poem modeled on the meaning of the Suprabhatam to be found in the beginning of the Kasturi book, ‘Garland of 108 Precious Gems’, which I'm including here as Swami is just back in Puttaparthy and our thoughts will be wandering there. >From ‘A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS’ It was Good Friday, just before Easter in England. It was unusually sunny all through The yellow daffodils, yellow broom and yellow forsythia in full bloom With magnolia and pear blossom. SUPRABHATAM - Song of Spiritual Dawn Awake Lord Awake Awake O Son of Easwaramma Dawn is breaking in the East The day’s tasks await Your touch to make them pure Awake Awake Lord Awake Awake in me so I may be Aware of every moment dedicated to You I’m nothing without You Awake My mind turns now to where You are come so I may see My mind turns to Your form in Puttaparthi Where You are building a model of how the Divine would have us be Lord of Compassion awake in me Awake Lord – Your splendour radiates over the entire world If I’m thinking about this I can feel it If I make myself chant this most beautiful of songs I remember I must always jog into being this wakefulness Awake Lord in me Awake I can place myself with You in my mind I can picture the valley full of peace On the banks of the Chithravathi river Awake Lord in my mind Awake I can sense there are many anxious for Your Darshan, Your Presence The radiance of the sunshine of this thought is spreading in me Wake me into knowing I’m worthy too Awake Lord in my longings Awake I can hear singing in my mind so loud The chanting and the happiness entrance my soul For I hear the singing of Your Name in my heart Awake Lord in my heart Awake I can smell the fragrance of the flowers around Your feet The colours, the beauty surround me inside Can You feel the depth of my yearning – Awake Awake Lord of my aspirations Awake I can see now the learned are come to find solace For their hungry minds They recite the mantras with such diligence Won’t You respond with Your omniscience – Awake Awake Lord of my thoughts Awake I hear stories and more stories all the time And I can see everyone waiting for still more stories from You Awake – we can’t have enough of Your Presence Awake Lord of my being Awake Will my heart ever look like a lotus to You If I sing the holy hymns and hold flower garlands in my hands Have I a chance of appealing to You I’m told whoever recites this awakening hymn Will attain the highest abode This place it is said is always resplendent As it is the home of supreme wisdom and intelligence Divine teacher won’t You grant us all this is auspicious As You recognise it Bestower of wisdom, Lord of Puttaparthi too My Lord, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Fill us with everything that is You Translation in the book .... O, son of Eawaramba! O, resplendent majestic One! Dawn is breaking in the East. The daily tasks of Divinity, which you have undertaken, have to be accomplished; therefore, Awake O Sathya Sai, Lord! Awake, Awake, O Lord of Parthi (Puttaparthy) where He was manifested Himself and from where His splendor radiates over the entire world, and of all mankind (jagathee), Awake, O Lord of Compassion! So that the World may attain Fortune (mangala) In the vast mansion so full of peace (Prashanthi Nilayam) on the bank of the Chitravathi river, those anxious to serve Thee are waiting for Thy Darshan. The radiance of the Sun is spreading, illumining the worlds. 'Sri Sathya Sai Bhagawan Thava Suprabhatam' - O Sathya Sai Bhagawan, we pray for a glorious Daybreak, blessed by Thy Wakefulness Persons who are engaged in singing aloud Thy Name and who are happy when they do so, because then they taste the nectar of devotion, have come. May Thy benign Darshan shower Thy Grace on them. We pray for a glorious Daybreak, blessed by Thy Wakefulness. Bringing holy flowers with captivating colours and fragrance, for worshipping Thy Feet in the form prescribed by the scriptures. Thy Devotees are coming in, with great yearning and enthusiasm. We pray for a glorious Daybreak blessed by Thy Wakefulness Learned persons from other countries, moved by the yearning to have Thy Darshan, have come; they are having great delight in reciting constantly the mantras of the Vedas to glorify You. We pray for a glorious Daybreak, blessed by Thy Wakefulness Hearing Thy marvelous Story and Thy Fame that has reached the farthest horizons, earnest seekers of Reality have come to this place and are waiting. We pray for Glorious Daybreak, blessed by Thy Wakefulness Women devotees in purity equal to Sita and Sathi (Parvati) and with hearts opening out like lotuses, are singing Thy Glory though holy hymns, holding excellent flower garlands in their hands. We pray for a glorious Daybreak, blessed by Thy Wakefulness. Suprabhaathamidam punyam Ye' pathanthi dine dine The' visanthi param dhaama Jnana vijnaana sobhithaah Mangalam Gurudevaaya Mangalam Jnaanadaayine Mangalam Parthivaasaaya Mangalam Sathya Saayine Whoever daily recites this Wakening Hymn will attain the Highest Abode, resplendent with the supreme Intelligence as well as the supreme Wisdom. May the Divine Guru be auspicious to us; may the Bestower of Wisdom be auspicious to us; may the Lord who manifested in Parthi be auspicious to us; may Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba be auspicious to us. Sai Ram, Sarah Attachment: (image/jpeg) Swami looks to you.jpg [not stored] Attachment: (image/jpeg) Birthday photo.jpg [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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