The Glory of Shirdi Sai - issue 20-2008 - from Saidarbar.

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THE GLORY OF SHIRDI SAI

 

Sixth Year of Publication

 

Published as Bi-Weekly

 

Issue 20/ 2008

 

25-09-2008

 

 

 

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One World One Family.

 

Vasudhaika Kutumbam

 

Om! Asatoma

Sargamaya, Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya, Mrityorma Amritamgamaya, Om Shantihi,

Shantihi,

Shantihi!

 

 

 

(Aum! Lead from wrong path to the right path, from ignorance to knowledge, from

mortality to immortality! Peace be to All)

 

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GURUR-BRAHMA, GURUR-VISHNUHU; GURU-DEVO

MAHESWARAHA;

 

GURUR-SAKSHATH PARAM BRAHMA; THASMAI SREE

GURAVE NAMAHA:

 

  

 

Sairam. You can watch Live Web casting from

Shirdi Sai Samadhi Mandir from following Link:

 

 

 

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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.    IN THE DAYS OF SHRI SHIRDI SAIBABA

 

6.    DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES

 

7.    SAI WITH CHILDREN

 

8.    SPIRITUAL GEMS FROM SAI SATCHARITRA

 

9.    ARTICLES FROM SAI DEVOTEES

 

10.   LETTERS FROM SAI DEVOTEES

 

11.   TELUGU SECTION

 

12.   SAI'S BOOK WORLD

 

13.   EDITORIAL.

 

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1. FROM THE SATSANGHS OF SAIBANISA JI

 

    http://saibanisa.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

Shirdi Sai's Philosophy in the words of Saibanisaji

 

 

 

 

 

REALITY OF HUMAN LIFE

 

 

 

People

in the world are prone to be selfish and unsympathetic; they do not know how to

love and respect one another; they argue and quarrel over trifling matters,

only to their own harm and suffering and life becomes but a dreary round of

unhappiness.

 

 

 

Regardless

of whatever they are rich or poor, they worry about money; they suffer from

poverty and they suffer from wealth. Because their lives are controlled by

greed, they are never contended, never satisfied.

 

 

 

A

wealthy man worries about his estate if he has one; he worries about his

mansion and all other possessions. He worries lest some disaster befall him,

his mansion burn down, robbers break in, and kidnappers carry him off. Then he

worries about death and disposition of his wealth. Indeed, his way to death is

lonely, and nobody follows him to death.

 

 

 

 A

poor man always suffers from insufficiency and this serves to awaken endless

desires- for land and house. Being a flamed with covetous he wears out both his

body and mind, and comes to death in the middle of his life.

 

 

 

The

whole world seems pitted against him and even the path to death seems lonesome

as though he has a long journey to make and no friends to keep him company.

 

 

 

Compiled by:

 

Sai Sevak Smt. Rajeswari

Kasturi, Saidarbar – Hyderabad.

 

 

 

To be continued-------

 

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2. SAI'S NEWS FROM THE TIME MACHINE:

 

 

 

 Bhadrapada 1910: H.H Gajanan Maharaj of

Shegaon left his mortal coil. At the same time Shirdi Sai Baba grieved

profusely and said “Hallo! My Gajanan is gone " .

 

 

 

Bhadrapada 1922: Mahalsapathi passed away on 11-09-1922

 

 

 

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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 SHIRDI. 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.

 

 

 

FEBRUARY-1996

 

 

 

23-02-1996

 

 

 

Yesterday, Sai appeared in the form of teacher

who taught me cycling in my childhood and said-

 

 

 

Learning to cycle on his own is difficult, but

the process gets speeded up with the help extended by another person in drawing

courage. This is applicable to spiritualism also. I shall guide you in going

about in your quest for knowing the ultimate.

 

 

 

Leading life is like the mastering the art of

balancing forces.

 

 

 

26-02-1996

 

 

 

Yesterday night, Sai appeared as Music exponent

and said-

 

 

 

Life is like giving performance on a Jaltarang

(a musical instrument). Ups and downs in the notes are due to the water effects

contained in the porcelain containers. The resulting sounds therefore depend

upon the movement of water inside.

 

 

 

Water adjusts to the shape of the container and

so also should life.

 

 

 

To be continued-------

 

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4. QUINTESSENCE OF SRI

SAIBABA'S PHILOSOPHY:

 

(By Late Sri Bharam UmamaheswaraRao)

 

 

 

'Shashi': shashi_31

 

 

 

32. Significance of Meditation

 

 

 

Preliminaries

to Meditation

 

 

 

We must sit down with peace. Raise our hands to

our head as if it were Baba's head and touch our two eyes, our ear, nose,

tongue, neck, shoulders imagining that they are all parts of our Guru Sai. In

the same way touch our chest, heart, stomach, back, thighs, knees, calves, feet

saying over and over 'Guru Sai Sai'. Concentrating on this feeling, we have to

begin our meditation. When we sit in meditation, our conduct should be pure and

mind filled with noble thoughts, so that they are able to conserve the Shakti

aroused by Sai's grace.

 

 

 

We must first of all offer our body, mind,

heart and soul to Sai Baba. Let us realize the purpose of our existence and let

our eyes clearly see so that we may not mistake the unreal for reality of God.

Thy light alone can dispel all the darkness from our mind. We must feel that

our heart is captivated by thy enticing smile. Our soul is singing with joy in

the embrace with love intoxicated. Sitting in meditation, we can clearly see

and feel that our soul is enjoying right now. We must pray that our ego should

melt and our mind merge in God.

 

 

 

We must remain alert and vigilant in this

matter. On the importance of meditation, Sai Baba said to Sri G.R. Dabolkar: 'To

get Atma-Jnana, meditation is necessary. If pacifies and carries the mind into

Samadhi. So give up all desires and dwell in your mind upon God in all. If the

mind is thus concentrated, your goal is achieved. Meditate on Baba either as in

form or as formless. If such formless contemplation is hard, then think of any

form, just as you see it here. Think of it night and day. With such meditation,

the mind dissolves into unity, and attains " Laya " . The difference

between the subject and object (Myself and you) and the act of contemplation

will be lost. This results in " Chaitanya Brahma Samprapati " . The

Guru's grace is bread and milk for the pupil'.

 

 

 

 

 

To be continued…...

 

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5. IN THE DAYS OF SHRI

SHIRDI SAIBABA 

 

 

 

Baba given Darshan in the

dream to the wife of Shri Raghuvir Bhaskar Purandhare

 

 

 

When Shri Raghuvir Bhaskar Purandare had first

started to Shirdi, he requested his mother to accompany him. On the previous

day of his departures, his daughter has suffered from severe fever. Even then,

he did not stop his visit and came to Shirdi with his mother leaving his wife

and diseased daughter at home.

 

 

 

 On the third day of his arrival at

Shirdi, Baba appeared in his wife's dream in his house and applied Udi on the

forehead of his diseased daughter. From that time, his daughter began to

improve and became alright when he reached home. He knew this Leela of Baba and

ever felt grateful to Baba.

 

 

 

Baba restored to stolen

property of Shri Vaman Chintaman Munge Vakil

 

 

 

Shri Vaman Chintaman Munge, Vakil of Pimpalgaom

Baswanth, Nasik District when plague was prevailing in Pimpalgaom Baswanth, he

shifted his residence to his house in his Estate i.e., in his lands. One day

night, thieves came there, made a whole and entered the house particularly in

the place where Munge, was sleeping in a cot.

 

 

 

Baba's photo was also hanging on the wall. The

thief – has lifted a small box under the cot and passed on to another thief

standing outside the house. The small box contained a cash of Rs.200/- and some

promissory note worth Rs. 4, 000/-. The thief again came and was about to lift

a big trunk in front of the cot which was contained jewels worth about Rs.10,

000/-. In the meanwhile, Baba appeared in his dream and woke him up stating

that thieves have lifted his belongings. His sister in law also wake and they

cried out loudly as " Thieves " , " Thieves " . Then all the

servants and watchmen woke up and chased the thieves. However, the thieves have

escaped leaving the big trunk.

 

 

 

The next day the small trunk was found in a

field nearby. The thieves have taken away the cash and left promissory notes.

During that day night, he got a vision in his dream that Shri Sai Baba, Shri

Abdul Baba and Fakir with strong personality appeared before him. After some

days, he visited Shirdi and took darshan of the same three persons of whom he

has seen in his dream and he himself ascertained that the third Fakir was the

Master of Shri Abdul Baba. After some days, one Shri Datta Brahmachari of

Kopergaom has visited his house for meals and he told him that the lost

properties will be restored. Accordingly, Rs.60/- and other properties were

seized and handover to him by police. The police have stated that the amount

was seized and handed over them from a Marwadi along with some other theft

articles.

 

 

 

This clearly shows that Sai Baba was not only,

safeguarding the interest of His devotees but also their belongings.

 

 

 

To be continued…...

 

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NEWS FROM SAIDARBAR – HYDERABAD

 

 

 

Now all the works of Saibanisaji (translated

into English Language by Sai Sevak Sri RaghuRaman Satulury) are available in

one place in the web blog:

 

 

 

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badri.narasimhan

 

Fri, September 19, 2008 1:07 pm

 

SAI

DARBAR USA - ANNUAL

DAY AND PALAKI UTSAV 2008 - INVITATION

 

Jai Sai Ram

 

 

 

It has been five years now, since a small group of then called

Wallingford Sai Darbar emerged as present day Saidarbar, USA of Greater

Philadelphia.  With HIS grace and

blessings, the abundance of love and peace prevails in this group.  Member's

participation in regular Satsang, seva,

group studies and other events has increased. 

This group is conducting Satsang twice a month at various host

locations.  Approximately thirty Bal

Vikas Mandal children participate at various level of learning.

 

 

 

We are very much indebted to Mukhya Sai Sevak Shri GopalaRao Ravada garu

and the  SaiDarbar team, Hyderabad.  We thank them for their continued support

and

guidance. 

 

 

 

We are blessed to be a part of Viswa SaiDarbar.  I take privilege in

representing SaiDarbarUSA

group and invite all Viswa SaiDarbar Sevaks and Sevikas for the upcoming Annual

Day Event and Palaki Utsav Celebration that has been scheduled for October 11,

2008 at Chinmaya

Kedar, Langhorne, PA

 

 

 

I thank you for your valuable time to read this email and our invitation.

 

Best Regards,

 

Badri

Narasimhan.

 

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6. DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES:

 

 

 

m

 

Tue, August 5, 2008 6:32 am

 

             

 

 

SaiRam,

 

Sai

is everywhere in my life. More than 3 or 4 times Baba came to my rescue.

When I kept my finger in grinder, He came as doctor and in Chardham

trip when the bus brakes failed, He as common man with a beard riding a

cycle with the Baba photo in the front, He rescued us all of 25 people.

 

This

shows Baba's affection towards His devotees.

 

Sailaja.

 

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neerajalankar

 

 

 

Sairam!

 

 

 

Baba

comes and hugs you whenever you think of Him purely and honestly and with

abundant faith!

 

 

 

Recently,

on Guru Poornima day morning, I was in our Baba Temple in Austin helping others

to make sandwiches for the poor. We all

were making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and some made very few with

cheese too.

 

    

 

 

As

for me I stopped eating peanut butter after my son was born, and he is very

allergic to all nuts. It's been almost 12 yrs. and right now he was staying

with my sister's family for the summer. That day it was time for Baba's aarathi

and we all went to Him and I saw they offered Baba one sandwich and they cut it

into many small pieces and were giving all after theertham.

 

   

 

 

In

my mind, I thought I wanted to eat one with peanut butter! When it was my time

to take prasadam, I was so looking forward to getting one...but I got one with

cheese! Oh Baba! I thought, and again I said to Baba, " It's ok Baba, this

is also your blessing " and went ahead to the table to continue making more

sandwiches. After few minutes, the devotee who was giving everyone a piece of

sandwich, he came to me and asked me to take prasadam to which I said 'I

already took, thanks', and he stayed there and said " it's ok, I want you

to take prasadam, Once more

 

  

 

 

 I

was surprised and also happy to take and saw that he had now only peanut butter

pieces! I was getting a peanut butter piece after all!!! Oh Baba! I simply Love

You so much! I thanked Baba heartily in my mind and once again realized Baba is

in everyone and He came to me bringing me a peanut butter prasadam as He knew

what was in my mind! And guess what else, Baba knew it's been so long I ate

peanut butter; He made the coordinator give me the remaining pieces to take

home too! It reminded me of in SSS when one devotee stops using sugar in his

tea to be able to come to Shirdi and when he comes to Shirdi, Baba asks some

one to give him many cups of tea loaded with sugar!!!!

 

 

 

Baba

is there for you whenever you think of Him with full faith!

 

    

 

 

At

His Divine Lotus Feet

 

Neeraja.   

 

 

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7. SAI WITH CHILDREN:

 

http://www.saidarbar.org/HTML/portraits/7.jpg

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 Truth Will be out, Sooner or

Later 

 

Swami Vivekananda

 

 

 

There was a king who had a large number of

courtiers. Each one of these courtiers declared he was ready to sacrifice his

life for his master, and that he was the most sincere being ever born.

 

 

 

In course of time, a Sannyasin (saint) came to

the king. The king told him that there never was a king who had so many sincere

courtiers as he had. The Sannyasin smiled and said he did not believe that.

 

 

 

The king asked the Sannyasin to test it if he

liked. So the Sannyasin declared that he would perform a great yajna

(sacrifice) which would extend the king's reign by a several years. He put a

condition that a small tank should be made into which each one of the courtiers

will pour a pitcher of milk, in the dark of night.

 

 

 

The king smiled and said, 'Is this the test?'

He asked his courtiers to come to him, and told them what was to be done. They

all expressed their joyful assent to the proposal and returned. In the dead of

night, they came and emptied their pitchers into the tank.

 

 

 

In the morning, the tank was found to be full

of water, with no trace of milk. The courtiers were assembled and questioned

about the matter. They admitted that each one of them had thought there would

be so many pitchers of milk so his pouring water instead of milk would not be

detected!

 

 

 

Moral: If you try to cheat in a team-work,

remember it will be found out.

 

 

 

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8.  SPIRITUAL GEMS FROM SAI SATCHARITRA

 

swamymain

 

Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:06 PM

 

 

 

Spiritual

Gems from Sri Sai Satcharitra - chapter 29

 

 

 

Waman

Narvekar

 

 

 

Now

let the readers hear a different story. A gentleman, named Waman Narvekar loved

Baba very much. He once brought a rupee. On one side (obverse) of it were

engraved the figures of Rama, Laxman and Sita and on the other (reverse) side

was engraved the figure of Maruti, with folded hands. He offered it to Baba

with a hope that He should consecrate it with His touch and return it to him

with Udi. But Baba immediately pocketed it. Then Shama spoke to Baba, regarding

Wamanrao's intention and requested Him to return it. Then Baba spoke in the

presence of Wamanrao as follows: - " Why should it be returned to him? We

should keep it ourselves. If he gives Rs.25/- for it, it will be

returned. " Then, for the sake of that rupee, Wamanrao collected Rs.25/-

and placed them before Baba. Then Baba said, " The value of that rupee far

exceeds 25 Rupees. Shama, take this rupee, let us have it in our store, keep

this in your shrine and worship it. " No one had the courage to ask Baba

why He followed this particular action. He only knows what is best and most

suitable to each and all.

 

 

 

SSG:

Sai Ram. Guru's words and actions are far beyond our limited, egoistic

comprehension. May be Baba was indicating that the coin which had the figures

of Maruti on one side and Rama etc. on the other side was invaluable, much

beyond the Rs.25/-. And why did He collect Rs.25 from Wamanrao? Only He knows

and unless He wills it, the people could not bring themselves to ask. Sai Ram.

 

 

 

Bow

to Shri Sai - Peace be to all

 

 

 

 

 

Sai

Ram. We have completed another beautiful, uplifting and inspiring Chapter from

Sri Sai Satcharitra and we will, with His blessings take up other chapters in

the coming weeks. Sai Ram.

 

 

 

His Servant,

 

S.V.Swamy

 

Author, Editor and Book Reviewer

 

www.freewebs.com/swamyreviews

 

 

 

 

 

To be continued...

 

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9. ARTICLES FROM SAI DEVOTEES:

 

 

 

 Kalemama's

meeting with Sadguru Sai Baba -By Niket Kale –part 4

 

 

 

 The

very next year while Meher Baba was at Nasik in December 1928, Kalemama along

with his elder son Shreedhar or Babu decided to go to Nasik to meet Baba as it

was learnt that He is at Nasik. From Dhule they boarded a train and reached

Nasik at 4 a.m.

in the morning and went to one of Kalemama's friend Vi­nayak Dhamankar's

residence. At the day break they went to search for the place of Baba's stay at

Nasik and to their surprise were informed by the gate man

that Meher Baba and the Mandli had left the previous evening for Maherabad. It

was around 7

a.m. and Kalemama and his son

Babu were in utter disappointment to have found Baba already left Nasik.

 

 

 

They

decided to leave Nasik as it was early in the morning so to reach Nagar at

the earliest to go to Meherabad. Kalemama thought of requesting one of his

friends R. D. Karmarkar who was an Engineer at Nasik to kindly take them both in

his car up to Manmad

immediately, so they may find some train to Ahmednagar and reach Meherabad by

same day afternoon. On reaching Karmakar's house immediately and on making such

a proposal it was surprising that his friend agreed instantaneously and

suggested that instead of going to the Manmad Rly. Station they may go to

Yewala station which would be easier as he had some construction work going on

at Yewala which he would be able to supervise.

 

 

 

Thus

in Karmarkar's car Kalemama, his son Babu and one Mr. Dhumal who was a noted

Advocate and Chairman of the Local Board School proceeded to Yewala. While

talking to each other in

the car Karmarkar's friend Dhumal came to know that Kalemama was going for

Meher Baba's darshan. Dhumal was himself a disciple of Shri Sai Baba and

suggested that they may go to Shirdi, take their Lunch and then proceed

further, and thus every one reached Shirdi first. After the lunch at Shirdi and

darshan of Sai Baba's Samadhi.

 

 

 

 To be

continued...

 

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10. LETTERS FROM SAIDEVOTEES:

 

m_taluk15  

 

On Fri,

Sep 12, 2008 at 3:06 AM

 

 

 

SaiRam,

 

This is really a brilliant way to spread the

messages of our SATGURU SAINATH MAHARAJ. I would suggest the editorial to cover

up more stories and experience felt by devotees as well as publish various

facts related to BABA during HIS lifetime at SHIRDI. We would all love to hear

more and more about our LORD SAINATH MAHARAJ.

 

  Mrinal Talukdar.

 

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12. SAI'S BOOK WORLD:

 

 

 

Title: Children's Sai Baba

 

Author: Prof. D. D.

Parchure

 

Shri Sai Baba Sansthan

 

Sai Niketan 804 – B, Dr. Ambedkar Road

 

Dadar, Mumbai – 400 014

 

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Title: Shirdi Diary of the

Honorable Mr. G. S. Khaparde

 

Author: G. S. Khaparde

 

Shri Sai Baba Sansthan

 

Sai Niketan 804 – B, Dr. Ambedkar Road

 

Dadar, Mumbai – 400 014

 

 

 

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Title: Shri Sai the Superman

 

Author: Swami Sai Sharan Anand

 

Shri Sai Baba Sansthan

 

Sai Niketan 804 – B, Dr. Ambedkar Road

 

Dadar, Mumbai – 400 014

 

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13. EDITORIAL:

 

 

 

Things impressed me from this magazine:

 

 

 

 Regardless

of whether they are rich or poor, they worry about money; they suffer from

poverty and they suffer from wealth. Because their lives are controlled by

greed, they are never contended and remain never satisfied.

 

 

 

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