NEW YEAR 2009 WITH SWAMI IN PRASANTHI NILAYAM...

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hope your new year had a good start ...Praying to Swami to give you all that you need no.. lets keep it this way.. give you all that you deserve and all that He wants you to give..

have a blessed year

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1ST JANUARY 2009:

Om Sairam dearest Sai Family,

wishing each and every BODY a very holy new year,

even though in our Sai Family, there is nothing like

NEW as every second, every day every year is NEW and

we always look forward to give it a worthy offering

to our beloved Lord at the end of the day,where in we many

times successfully fail to do so.

 

It was yet another such a NEW day and we all celebrated

the dawn of 2009 in a grand way. Swami, out of His

immense mercy allowed the celebrations to take place

in HIs immediate presence. New year day is always special

every where. Even though, in India almost every state has

their own new year day, like in Andhra Pradesh it is UGADI,

There is also Tamil new year and if you go bit far there is

Chinese new year also. But universally,January first has

some speciality and on this day all of us tend to get into festive mood.

It is a special day for the former students of Sri Sathya University

it is a re union with older friends, with the college, and more

importantly a re union with the Chancellor of the world who

also was a chancellor to their college.

Many students look forward to this day to come here, perform

before Swami and also recharge thier spiritual batteries.

What a perfect way to start a new year. Just a day before

the new year I had to go to Bangalore for a day. I saw large

hoardings inviting to join the new year party in various

resorts, star hotels etc with a fee which was in thousands.The

news papers were full of such advertisements.. I

was really shocked to see such kind of advertisements and Iam

very sure, the 3 "W"s which Swami says to avoid, Wine, Women and Wealth were the dominant characters in such parties.I really prayed Swami for all of us to give us good intellect and be wise enough to stay away from such unethical events and India,to whom Swami always addresses as the teacher of the world,is definitely not a place for such so called Parties.. I was praying the day should not come where in, they would advertise to spend the HOLY Shivarathri night in such

a fashion because every thing today is getting commercial.

Back to Puttaparthi, the Sai Kulwanth hall was packed including the lane way to have darshan of our beloved Lord on the new year day. Swami,made us wait long and it was infact a very long wait. Probably, Swami was sending the message that Patience is all that a spiritual aspirant needs and our long patience bore a sweet fruit, when Swami out of His immense mercy, blessed us with His divine darshan and it was so sweet to see Swami in a big Mobile throne and Swami was clad in pure white robe a treat to the eyes on a new year day. Swami was welcomed into the hall with Prasanthi brass band leading and boys chanting veda. Swami after coming in the middle of the hall took a right turn towards the dias and then took a left turn towards the East Prasanthi,after moving among the students Swami was wheeled into the verandah and on to the dias.

Swami's students were waiting with a dance and songs programme and the students rendered some beautiful songs and also some dance and the programme went on till 11:30am a good opportunity for thousands to walk into the ashram see Swami, pray for good luck and prosperity in the new year.

AFTERNOON DARSHAN.

Like in the morning, it was another PATIENCE game in the afternoon as well.Swami came just after 5pm and this time in a maroon red robe, the kind of robe which He usually wears during the convocations. Swami took a full round in the hall this time, blessing all with His divine darshan and Swami came on the dias.

This afternoon it was another beautiful and sweet session with Swami allowing the boys to sing before Him. THe hall came into life and there were some hair raising times, when the students rendered songs like, Humko tumse pyar kitna and Tu Pyar ka Sagar Hain.. Swami was very happy and deeply touched with the kind of devotion the songs were rendered and the lines in those songs are enough to melt any one's heart.

It was 6:15pm and all of a sudden Swami calls two boys and after the song Swami had a sweet surprise in the form of a divine discourse. The mike was kept ready and Prof.Anil Kumar stood next to Swami and in no time it was pindrop silence in the hall, waiting for the Sweet Lord to start the most memorable session of the day.

Swami started His divine discourse with a sweet verse, I have heard Him sing this sweet verse during Sankranthi and some times during Visu and this is how the discourse went...

EXCERPTS FROM THE DISCOURSE (its all based on memory and a first

hand account and not an official release.. any short comings are deeply regreted)

Dinakarudu Santhudai toche, dinamulu intha kuruchalayyenu,

(Sun is looking calm and serene, the days have become shorter)

chali gali churuku heche,Polamu landu kaapulu, vedi vennelalona, gonthulethi padamulan pada todigiri,

(cool wind breeze has become blowing more and more, the farmers are singing in the fields)

Mirapa pandlaku kumkuma merupu dalche

(the chillies are shining red like kumkum)

Mana grihambuna dhana dhanyambulanu nimpa

to fill our houses with food grains and wealth

sarasu ralaina Sankranthi Pandugoche...

the charming festival of Sankranthi has arrived.

Sankranthi is important festival. the whole house is busy with some work or other assigned to every member of the house. This is the season when grains and pulses are available in plenty. This is the festival where the son in law is pampered in his in law's house. He is fed with sumptous food.Sankranthi is celebrated with gaity and happiness. During this festival very well dressed

ox are brought into the village and made to perform dance. In those days there was also a depiction of Sita Rama wedding by the Haridasu who used to master these oxes. one ox would be dressed and named as Rama and other ox named as Sita. The Haridasu would say to Sita, Rama is very dark, not so wealthy and do you want to marry Rama to which Sita (the ox dressed named after Sita ) would say NO. It was all in the part of Sankranthi celebrations those days. Animals behaved and obeyed much better than humans.

You all say NA DEHAM. Any one with little knowledge of Sanskrit would know what NA means. NA means NOT. Which means Iam NOT the Deham (body).For man there is nothing like worries, happiness, sorrow. Its all your making.where has the anger come from. It came from you. You should practice ceiling on desires. Atma has no problems.It is only the I (EGO). When you strike a line against the I it becomes DIVINE.

Alexander the great went to Russia. After conquering the world he came to India. While crossing the river Sindu which is in Kashmir, he had a heart attack. There were thousands with him. Top doctors followed him. Every one

examined him and they said, he won't live long. He thought what for is all the wealth when it can't save my life. He asked his men to keep both his hands up when he taken to the burial. Let the whole world know, Alexander the great who conquered the whole world, didnt take even a fist full of mud with him when he died.

Body is like a water buble. Only atma is permanent. God is in you. He listens to all your prayers. Mind is very unstable.Dont follow the mind. Mind is like a mad monkey. Just now you sang, ours is the bond of love. NEVER give up this bond of love.

 

 

RAMA'S BIRTH PLACE:

Turning attention to the most controversial happening of Rama's birthplace, for which hindus and muslims are fighting for quite some time now..Swami said,Many people come and ask me , you tell us which is Rama's birthplace.I told them Rama's birthplace is Mother Kausalya's womb. They go by Physical place.only people who don't have any work to do, lazy people indulge in such an enquiry. Do you search for your self? Same way you ask where is God?

He is everywhere. First you know your self. then you go find the rest of world. Divinity teaches unity.

Swami then said about the photos being circulated which were drawn by Ravi Varma. Ravi Varma never saw God. He just heard the holy scriptures like Ramayana, Mahabharata and drew all the photos of God with imagination. No one can give the real pictures of Rama and Krishna.

Swami also said not to run after money, positions which are temporary. Rather do nama smarana and get all your wishes fulfilled.

The discourse went for close to an hour and at the end Swami ended in a lighter note. Swami asked the audience, Is any one having any doubts? to which there was an obvious silence and Swami continued, after telling all the things to you for that long if you say you still have doubts then you are definitely foolish. With a smile Swami continued...not just foolish double, multiple foolish and the whole crowd burst into laughter..

Swami then asked for the bhajans to commense and prasadam in a special packet bearing Swami's college photo with a small packet of Vibhuti,

a nice photo, a packet of cashew and a special sweet of this area pootha rekulu as they call in telugu was distributed to all including those standing outside the hall..

Thus ended a beautiful day and more importantly the first day of the year 2009. A year which every one of us are looking forward to...a year which we hope will bring peace and tranquility among people, among nations and a victory over the wicked. I met one brother who said, hopefully the GOLDEN AGE will start this year. I think the Golden Age is already there but only thing is we should be in receptive mode to make it a reality.. Swami is there always to guide us, help us, save us and there is only one option before us andthat is to be his beloveds...

 

On a personal note, it was on this day January the first in 1980 when I was just 14 days old, it seems my mother took me to darshan and in those days,it was very easy to speak to Swami and my mother showed me to Swami and said, Swami.. ladka huva hain (it is a baby boy), to which Swami replied bahut hi pyara bacha hain (it is a LOVELY baby). He might have said in a casual way but when I think of those words he does mean that we all are embodments of LOVe, and it is only love that can win God's Love and I heard Swami saying many times, no matter you were the king of a big empire or a beggar on the pavement,what matters at the end is how much love you shared with your fellow men and how much happiness you shared with the world.Iam no where close to His expectations and I pray to Swami and hopefully, I will live upto His expectations and share more Sai love with my brothers and

sisters and I pray the same for every one.. Let us dip in the ocean of love and let us give uphatred and live like HUMANS and that is what Swami wants form us..

With pranams at the Lotus feet of our beloved Lord,

R.Satish Naik

Jai Sai Ramsatish NaikBrahmanapalli Thanda villageNear PuttaparthiAnantapur Andhra PradeshIndia 515134MOB:9440857872

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