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THE GLORY OF SHIRDI SAI

Sixth Year of Publication

Published as Bi-Weekly

Issue 03/ 2008

31-01-2008

 

The Glory of Shirdi Sai enters Sixth year from 01-01-2008.

 

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GURUR-BRAHMA, GURUR-VISHNUH; GURU-DEVO MAHESWARAHA;

 

GURUR-SAKSHATH PARAM BRAHMA; THASMAI SREE GURAVE NAMAHA:

 

 

Sairam. You can watch Live Web casting from Shirdi Sai Samadhi Mandir from

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THIS ISSUE CONTAINS:

 

1. FROM THE SATSANGHS OF SAIBANISA JI

2. SAI'S NEWS FROM TIME MACHINE

3. SAI IN DREAMS

4. QUINTESSENCE OF SRI SAIBABA'S PHILOSOPHY

5. SANATANA DHARMA & SHRI SHIRDI SAIBABA

6. DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES

7. SAI WITH CHILDREN

8 ARTICLES FROM SAI DEVOTEES

9. LETTERS FROM SAI DEVOTEES

10. TELUGU SECTION

11. SAI'S BOOK WORLD

12. EDITORIAL.

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1. FROM THE SATSANGHS OF SAIBANISA JI

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Compiled by:

Sai Sevak Smt. Rajeswari Kasturi, Saidarbar - Hyderabad.

Shirdi Sai's Philosophy in the words of Saibanisaji

 

 

 

When moon sets, people say that the moon has disappeared; and when the moon

rises, they say that the moon has appeared. In fact, the moon shines

continuously in the sky. Our Sai is exactly like moon. He neither appears nor

disappears; He only seems to do so out of love for the people so that He may

teach them.

 

People call one phase of the moon a full moon, they call another phase a

crescent moon; in reality, the moon is always perfectly round, neither waxing

nor waning. Sai is precisely like the moon. In the eyes of men, Sai may seem to

change in appearance, but, in truth, Sai does not change.

 

The moon appears every where, over a crowded city, a sleepy village, a

mountain, or a river. It is seen in the depths of pond, in a jug of water, in a

drop of dew hanging on a leaf. If a man walks hundreds of miles the moon goes

with him. Sai is like a moon in following people of this world in all their

changing circumstances, manifesting various appearances; but in Essence He does

not undergo any change.

 

To be continued

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2. SAI'S NEWS FROM THE TIME MACHINE:

 

January 1, 1946: Sri B.V.Deo passed away (Composer of Chapter 53rd of Shri

Sai Satcharitra in Marathi language).

 

January 3, 1912: Megha fed some Brahmins on completion of his Gayatri

Purascharana. Dadasaheb Khaparde attended it in Sathewada.

 

January 19, 1912: Megha died in Shirdi at about 04:00 hrs. Baba lamented

loudly and followed the funeral procession for some distance. Baba showered

flowers on Megha's body.

 

January 20, 1912: Bapusaheb Jog started performing Baba's Pooja and Arati

after Megha's death. He continued this till Baba's Maha Samadhi.

 

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3. SAI IN DREAMS:

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These are the dream sequences and messages as received by SaiBaNiSaji From our

beloved GURU LORD SAINATH OF SHIRIDI. In Anticipation that this feature will

help in one's spiritual growth are hereby compiled from his personal Diary and

presented to SAIBANDHUS.

 

Translated and presented by RAGHU RAMAN SATULURY.

 

JULY-1995:

 

12-07-1995

 

Yesterday’s prayer to Sai was to give me a message on spiritualism. Baba

appeared in the form of my Schoolteacher and said-

 

-Read forever my Satcharita, tell my stories to others and lead a pious Life.

 

-Reward given to your teacher shall reach me.

 

-I disapprove saints in not doing any work and engaging themselves in

preaching ideals. I would rather appreciate a labourer who is indirectly

educating that work is worship.

 

Spread the message to practice before preaching others.

 

24-07-1995

 

I prayed Baba to tell me some thing about spiritualism. Baba has shown me with

a visual-

 

Some people enter a garden and engage in plucking flowers, but the plant does

not understand why and for what purpose the flowers would be used.

 

A tree or plant grown with divine grace for a definite mission will give

flowers like Sai to the people. When its flowers are plucked, God continuously

monitors to keep a watch whether HIS purpose is met or not.

 

Saints are the messengers of God with a definite mission and purpose.

 

26-07-1995

 

Before retiring to bed, I prayed Baba to give me lessons on how to advance on

the spiritual path while leading a commoner’s life. Sai has shown a visual-

 

In normal life, practice to offer food to others before you commence to eat,

otherwise the thought of me and mine (self), will eclipse the mind.

 

Spiritualism should be tasted first so that sense of belonging vanishes and

one realizes that everything is only God’s creation and doing. It should be

digested first before imparting to others around.

 

Spiritualism should be absorbed first before imparting to others.

 

 

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4. QUINTESSENCE OF SRI SAIBABA'S PHILOSOPHY:

(By Late Sri Bharam UmamaheswaraRao)

" Shashi " : shashi_31

 

30. Efficacy of Prayer and Worship

 

Baba’s Aarti at Shirdi and Pooja, on ordinary days, were started in 1909, but

for sometime, there was no celebration of Guru-Poornima, by special worship of

Baba, on that day. Baba Himself sent for Dada Kelkar on Guru Poornima day and

said –“Do you know that to-day is Guru Poornima? Bring your materials for

worship and do your Guru Pooja”.

Then Guru pooja was started from 1909 and it is continuing even after Baba’s

Samadhi.

Baba was being worshipped by a number of Hindus with flowers etc.

Mahalsapathi applied sandal paste to Baba’s neck. One day Mahalsapathi had a

vision of Baba with sandal paste on Baba’s forehead. Thereafter Mahalsapathi was

regularly applying sandal wood paste on Baba’s forehead.

Initially, individual worship was first neither systematic nor organized. But

K. G. Bhishma, a good songster, drew up the ritual, for Sai Baba’s worship, and

he brought a set of Aratis i.e. ritualistic verses for use by individuals at

Shirdi and these were sent by Baba to Nana Saheb Chandorkar and were approved by

Him. They were largely in use and tended to develop the worship of Baba on the

customary lines of worship in well known temples.

To be continued.

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5. SANATANA DHARMA & SHRI SHIRDI SAIBABA.

 

Those who see all creatures in themselves

And themselves in all creatures know no fear.

 

How can the multiplicity of life

Delude the one who sees its unity?

 

-Isha Upanishad

 

 

Like bubbles in the sea, All the worlds arise in you.

 

Know you are the Self. Know you are one. Let yourself dissolve.

 

You see the world. But like the snake in the rope, It is not really there.

 

You are pure. Let yourself dissolve.

 

-Ashtavakra Gita 5:2-3

 

 

NEWS

 

Lanka Unveils " Trail of Ramayana " Tour Package

 

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/002200801172042.htm

 

 

NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 17, 2008: With an eye on its " primary source

market " , Sri Lanka Tourism officials have identified 50 sites associated with

the Hindu epic Ramayana to attract more pilgrim travellers from India to the

island nation.

 

" Following the Trail of Ramayana " is a Touristic circuit based on research

findings that link the sites to Lord Ram, Sita and the demon king Ravana, SLT

director-general S. Kalaiselvam told reporters on Thursday while unveiling the

ambitious thematic program. " Currently we are taking steps to develop and

restore all sites to facilitate foreign and local visitors the opportunity to

witness and experience the sacredness of these sites, " he said.

 

The programme includes places like Seethaeliya, Ram Bodha, Ussangoda and

Roomassala and special temples in areas where Ravana is believed to have held

Sita captive. Kalaiselvam said the " Ramayana epic is a very special feature in

the bond that we have with India and we are trying to offer opportunity to our

friends here to visit Sri Lanka to explore, absorb and enjoy the various places

of significance present in the epic " .

 

Ayyappa Temple Opens for Makara Vilakku Festival

 

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SABARIMALA, INDIA, December 31, 2007: The Lord Ayyappa temple was opened for

the Makaravilakku festival on Sunday evening, marking the second phase of the

two-month-long pilgrimage season to the hill shrine. Makara Jyothi, the most

auspicious occasion of the festival when pilgrims sight a divine light at

Ponnambalamedu, the distant hills opposite the temple, falls on January 14.

 

Devaswom Minister G. Sudhakaran held a review meeting with concerned officials

at Pampa to evaluate the facilities being extended to Ayyappa devotees with tens

of millions of them expected to throng the temple in the coming 15 days and

create an action plan.

 

Hinduism Today Launches YouTube Channel With Festival Video

 

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KAUAI, HAWAII, January 2, 2008: Hinduism Today Magazine is proud to announce

its presence on YouTube. Visit Hinduism Today's YouTube channel

 

http://www.youtube.com/hinduismtodayvideos

 

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6. DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES:

kchirag

Wed, January 16, 2008 9:31 pm

 

Om Sai Ram, Shri Sai Sai Sai.

 

My name is Chirag and I would really love to share my experience of our Sai

Baba and His miracles in my life that has happened recently. To start off I was

not a Bhakt of Sai Baba before but my friend told me to start praying to him

with complete faith and devotion. I was having problems with my wife for about 4

months. She stopped talking to me coz of some misunderstanding and things like

that, I tried a lot to clear things out and get things back to normal but she

just would not listen to me or would want to talk to me. I was totally lost and

devastated in life coz I never had expected this. Then my friend asked me to

start praying to Sai Baba with complete faith and devotion which I started and

also started reading the Sai Sat Charitra and started learning so much from Sai

Baba and his leelas that I changed many things in my life and started following

my Sai Baba’s words. I had heard that one who reads Sai Sat Charitra (all 50

Chapters) in one week’s time; the

devotee’s wishes are fulfilled by Sai Baba. Along with this I also started Sai

Baba’s Sai Vrat, and also this vrat has got miraculous effects if it is done

with complete faith and devotion and completed the vrat on the 9th Thursday with

due formalities according to the vrat book, your wishes are for sure to be

answered by Sai Baba.

 

Friends, I did everything possible for Sai Baba and to get my wish fulfilled

and solve my problems with my wife and get back things like before smooth and

normal. After I completed my vrat with due formalities, Sai Baba answered my

prayers and my wife called me and we cleared everything out and things are fine

now between us.

 

Trust Sai Baba totally and with full heart he will answer your prayers for

sure. But like we all know we need complete faith and patience and devotion

towards him.

 

Friends, when I started reading the Sai Sat Charitra. I really started feeling

so good and happy from inside that before I had stopped going out with friends

or to enjoy and all. But as I kept reading Sai Baba’s Leelas, I learned so much

from Him and changed my thinking towards life and friends and people. I started

going out and started to enjoy again even though things weren’t solved with my

wife. But I had complete faith and trust in my Sai Baba and left everything to

him. I have experienced Baba’s Bliss every time I read his Sai Sat Charitra or

pray to him whenever I feel like. Some of small miracles by Sai Baba for me was

that, while reading Sai Sat Charitra, there are chapters telling about His Udi

and its efficaciousness, in my mind I was asking Sai Baba if I cud also get His

Udi somehow (as I live in Canada, there is no Sai Baba Mandir here). I had just

happened to go to my friend’s place and she had just got back from Mumbai, I

started telling her about Sai Baba

and everything I started for Him, here the best thing happened, she told me

that she had been to Shirdi and had got Udi and she offered me some which I

totally and very happily took it from her. After coming back home, I prayed to

Sai Baba and thanked him so much for getting me the Udi.

 

Trust me friends, I have become one of the most devout person of Sai Baba and

will serve him through out my life and talk to him whenever I feel like it.

 

I love Sai Baba from bottom of my heart and will always love him. I have also

told my friends about my experiences with Sai Baba and I am so happy that they

have also started to believe my Sai Baba.

 

I just wanted to share my experience with all of you and I feel so good and

happy that Sai Baba has accepted me as his devotee.

 

Thank you

Chirag

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7. SAI WITH CHILDREN:

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Smt. Madhu Gopal Ravada, Saidarbar, Hyderabad.

Hello Children! I am Madhu aunty. Do you know Baba use to play with children

and used to tell stories to them? I felt children visiting Saidarbar should be

entertained with good stories. Now I want to tell the stories what heard in my

child hood.

 

THE BLUE JACKAL

 

A hungry jackal came out of the forest in search of food. He saw a village

nearby and decided to do some scavenging there but as he reached the periphery,

he was spotted by a pack of dogs. The dogs ran to catch it and seeing the

danger, the jackal dashed towards the forest. Suddenly it froze; there was great

danger in that direction too as he saw a pair of wolves bounding towards him.

 

He turned somersault and again made a dash towards the village. He was face to

face with death on both sides, so he jumped into a small stream and crossed over

like lightening. He ran on in the dark night, stumbling over unknown obstacles

until he finally fell into a huge vat of blue dye.

 

With barely his nostrils above the liquid to breathe, he hid in the vat the

whole night until the dogs, unable to find him, gave up the chase and went away.

Shivering from fright and damp, he crawled out and lay exhausted near a bonfire

to dry and warm. He lay there until dawn when in the early morning light, he

noticed his colour. His whole body had been coloured a bright blue and he looked

exotic, as if from another world.

 

Being a very clever animal, he decided to exploit this change and went back to

the jungle. He strutted before the other jackals and with a spiritual look said

I had gone to the Temple of 'VanDevi'. She was pleased with my devotion and

blessed me. To distinguish me from your commoners, she turned me blue. " The

other jackals looked and listened in awe. They bowed their heads and pronounced

him king. Hailing his majesty and following him in a procession, they informed

the other animals in the forest of this great transformation.

 

All the animals gathered together and decided that this creature be crowned

king of the forest. Thus in the span of few hours, the jackal became " Master of

the Jungle " with the tiger, bear and others becoming his courtiers and

bodyguard. This elevation brought a sudden change in his attitude too. He

started treating the other jackals with disdain making them very unhappy and

miserable. After a few days of this mal treatment at the hand of one of their

own kind, they planned to take revenge by exposing him.

 

An old one advised " It is a natural trait in us whenever some of us start

howling, all the others join in this call. We shall do this tonight all of a

sudden, when he sleeps. When he hears us, it will be but natural for him to join

in the howl without thinking. This will reveal his identity to others. " They

acted according to plan and at midnight, when the blue jackal slept soundly,

they started howling. As the sound reached a crescendo, the blue jackal woke

with a start and without a second thought joined in the howl, thus exposing him

self.

 

The tiger which lay nearby was very angry at being duped by a mere jackal and

made to serve him. He pounced on him and tore him apart. Thus the jackal paid

for this trickery with his life.

 

Lesson: 'Fraud and Forgery ends ultimately in penalty.'

Bye children meet you in the next issue

 

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8. ARTICLES FROM SAI DEVOTEES:

View the Video of Shri Saibanisa Gopala Rao Ravada ji's discourses in English

from the below link

 

http://www.debu7366.blogspot.com/

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" Sai ka laadla " saikalaadla

The way of Deliverance

Really this Jiva [human soul] transcends the three qualities, viz., Sattwa,

Rajas and Tamas, but being deluded by Maya, he forgets his nature which is

existence-knowledge-bliss, and thinks that, he is the doer and enjoyer; and

thus, entangles himself in endless miseries and does not know the way of

deliverance. The only way of deliverance is the loving devotion towards the

Guru's feet. The great Player, or Actor, Lord Sai, has delighted His Bhaktas and

transformed them into Himself [His nature].

 

We regard Shirdi Sri Sai Baba as an Incarnation Of God for reasons already

stated, but He always said that, He was a obedient servant of God. Though, an

Incarnation, He showed the people the way, how to behave satisfactorily and

carry out the duties of their respective stations [Varnas] in this life. He

never emulated others in any way, nor asked others to have something, done for

Him, Who saw the Lord in all movable and immovable things of this world,

humility was the most proper thing. None, He disregarded or disrespected, for He

saw Narayan [Lord] in all beings, He never said " I am God; " but that, He was a

humble servant and He always remembered Him, and always uttered, " Allah Malik "

[God is the Sole Proprietor or Owner.]

 

We do not know the various kinds of saints, how they behave, what they do and

eat etc. We only know that, by God's grace they manifest themselves in this

world, to liberate the ignorant and bound souls. If there be any store of merits

on our account, we get a desire or interest, in listening to the stories and

Leela's of the saints, otherwise not.

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9. LETTERS FROM SAIDEVOTEES:

 

nirmalagopal_y

date Jan 19, 2008 7:06 PM

 

Dear Sir,

 

E- magazine detailed is praise worthy and very useful to all of us. Thank you

very much

 

NirmalaGopal

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valsala.sivadasan

Dec 31, 2007 10:27 AM

 

JAI SAI RAM,

 

Dear all Sai Pariwar,

 

Wishing you & your all Sai Pariwar members of Shri Saibabji”a very very happy

& prosperous new year 2008 " .

 

May Babaji's wishes get to everybody in the coming year 2008.

 

 

With best regards,

Valsala Sivadasan & Family

New Delhi.

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ramars_jillella

16 Jan 2008 17:15:47 -0000

 

JAI SAIRAM ..OMSAIRAM

 

All-Saidarbar-Samardha Sathguruvu almighty Sai devotees all over the world On

behalf of my family and myself, I wishing you all a good, blissful, energetic,

happy, prosperous, healthy, spiritually and devotionally healthy " new year-2008

and happy pongal to one and all.

 

Blissfully yours,

 

Bhanoji Ramars.J.V.

 

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pankaj_namdev

On Dec 26, 2007 7:54 PM

SaiRam,

 

I am very impressive and I have no word to explain my thought. I am always pray

to SaiRam.

 

Pankaj.

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surya_mprakash

On Dec 27, 2007 10:10 PM,

Sairam, Baba had helped us in our each and every step. Last week my father in

law was very sick about to reach the death, and doctors had no hope at all. They

gave us just 48 hours time. But just because of Baba know his life is saved and

it is almost a week, he is still with us fit and fine. Thank you Baba for all

your support and help you have given for us. We love you Baba.

Mrs. RekhaPrkash

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On Dec 27, 2007 11:50 PM

 

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send me such a lovely dairy.

Laxman.

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On Dec 28, 2007 3:42 PM

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Kuppuraj

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On Jan 1, 2008 3:18 AM

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11. SAI'S BOOK WORLD: (TAMIL)

 

Title: Shirdi Saibaba Seermigu Varalaru Pulavar

Author: Nagashanmugam

Chettinadu Pathipagam, Laxmi NivasN2,

Sical Race ViewApts, No. 2 Race Course Road

Guindy, Chennai 600 032

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Title: Shirdi Sai Baba Arputhangal Pulavar

Author: Nagashanmugam

Chettinadu Pathipagam,Laxmi NivasN2,

Sical Race View Apts, No. 2 Race CourseRoad

Guindy, Chennai, 600 032

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Title: Shirdi Sai Baba Namavalikal Pulavar

Author: Nagashanmugam

Chettinadu Pathipagam, Laxmi NivasN2,

Sical Race View Apts , No. 2 Race Course Road

Guindy, Chennai 600 032

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12. EDITORIAL:

Things impressed me from this magazine:

 

Those who see all creatures in themselves

And themselves in all creatures know no fear. How can the multiplicity of life

Delude the one who sees its unity?

 

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