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- Sree guru sthuti - My experiences with Sree sadguru darga swamiji [1 Update]
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From: Subrahmanyam Gorthi <subrahmanyam.gorthi@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 12 04:38PM +0200
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I WILL NEVER LEAVE ANYONE IN THE MIDDLE .I WILL TAKE YOU TO THE GOAL.
SRI SAI BABA.
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*SRI SAI SAVES PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE FAITH IN HIM FROM DIFFICULTIES AND
BESTOWS DEVOTION IN THEM. JUST LIKE DASGANU, HE WILL BRING THEM CLOSE TO
HIM. IN THE NEXT STAGE , JUST LIKE HE DID FOR SHYAMA,- HE GIVES AN
OPPURTUNITY TO STAY IN HIS PRESENCE( SANNIDHI )AND DO HIS SEVA . THE
SUBSEQUENT STAGE IS AS SEEN IN MAHALSAPATHI. THE NEXT STAGE WILL BE SEEN IN
ANWAR KHAN AND UPASANI BABA. IN THIS WAY ,SRI SAI UPLIFTS A TRUE DEVOTEE IN
A SYSTEMATIC MANNER.
--- BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA.*
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*HIGHEST HONOR TO OUR LORD GANESHA -ORIGIN BY BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA*

Even though there are three crores of Gods in Hinduism, Lord Ganesha is
given the greatest importance. Vaishnavas,shaivas, Brahmins, saktheyulu – no
matter which God is worshipped primarily by them, when it comes to special
occasions like marriage, upanayanam, and before doing daily Pooja, every one
worships Lord Ganesha to overcome obstacles. It is essential to think why so
much importance is given to Him in the Hindu society. It is easy to conclude
it as a blind belief. Any belief that is present for several thousands of
years attracting millions of people, indicates that some where in the depth
of their hearts there is strong belief of its usefulness. To analyze about
that usefulness is wisdom. To discard everything as blind belief is the
modern superstition.
Human being understood after living several years on this earth that
the progress of any individual, country, is linked with remaining part of
nature. He understood that it is essential to consume only the necessary
things from the nature and it is important to respect and not to cause
distress the other living beings, including plant kingdom. On one hand with
advancement of the culture and civilization this idea lead to the formation
of principle of non-violence. On the other hand, Human being recognized that
it is important to respect the remaining part of nature including rivers,
mountains which provide support to us and to the rest of living creatures.
He recognized that nature is responsible providing day to day necessities,
for our happiness, bliss, to all the living creatures. To sincerely express
that thought is worshipping the nature. Human has the vision of the creative
power in all the living and nonliving objects in the nature and he
worshipped it.
This point of view is comprised in the worship of Ganesha. Lord
Ganesha is the symbolization of all the animals starting from the biggest
animal - Elephant to the smallest animal –rat that moves in the houses.
The fact that human being is also an inseparable, integral part of the
nature is indicated by the human form in Lord Ganesha 's figure . This
category of the fauna is supported by the flora. So we worship Him with
different types of leaves (PATRI). Earth is the main support for all types
living creatures. So for worship of Ganesha , the main thing is idol of
Ganesha made with clay.If water is not present on this Earth then neither
the plants nor the animals would not have evolved and survived. The bodies
of all living beings are formed by absorbing the essence from the Earth
through water. To remember this, after the pooja, the clay idol of Ganesha,
the flowers, and leaves are submerged in sacred rivers, temple tanks
(kooneeru). Wells are also used for the same purpose, when it is not
possible to do it in the rivers.
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*PARIPRASNA - ORIGIN BY BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA*

Q: Some people are writing chain letters as part of Sai Pracharam. In those
letters they are writing to send a similar letter to 20 people which will
give them lot of benefit and if they fail to do so it will cause lot of
troubles. Is Baba delighted with this type of Pracharam? Please give
suitable clarification through our magazine to these brothers.
A: There are two chains that keep all the living beings tied to earth and
hell in such a way that they don't get liberation—one is desire (or wish),
the other is fear. Both these support each other. Fear about future is the
cause for desire. As desires increase, the fear that they will not
be fulfilled increases too. If we think one as eczema the other one is
scratching it. Scratching increases the eczema and itching but will not
reduce it. As it increases in size scratching also increases. It becomes
impossible not to scratch it. The Kabandha who stands on these two feet and
devours us is SELFISHNESS. EGO and JEALOUSY are his sharp protruding teeth.
AFFECTION and HATRED are his two eyes. The wisdom to nip these off as buds
is taught by Spirituality, virtue and morality.These are present firmly in
the human hearts right from the beginning and try to conquer us when we
start the spiritual practice. Till we attain self realization these will
follow us. They ruined the penance of Viswamitra several times. Marudu – the
ego, the combined form of these two, tried to lure and threaten Buddha
several times when he started his penance.
When Lord Jesus did severe penance for 40 days in a desert, a deity
appeared and said that he will give the entire treasury on this earth if
Jesus listens to him. Immediately Jesus understood who it was! And said
"Saitan Go away! I will not surrender to you. I don't want them .The first
couple Adam and Eve surrendered to the lure of Saitan; they lost their
purity, divinity, and divine Love and became victims of death, disease, and
sins. For generations, being their descendants, even today they are chasing
us too. This saitan tried to entice the Mohammad prawakta in the same way.
But that prophet warned human beings about him. Being born as human beings
is the result of the punyam in previous births, and due to lot of punyam one
would become a spiritual seeker, and even lot of punyam will give the
opportunity to do Sadguru Seva. Sri Sai also warned "This opportunity will
never come!" that means he said to beware of this fear and desire. Basing on
the previous life virtuous deeds, we obtained the devotion on Sri Sai. To
destroy it this Kali or this Saitan in the recent past are coming in another
beautiful disguise .
That is nothing but the chain letters which is causing lot of distress
and headache to the devotees.Recently, several devotees are getting letters
in the post. On these either Sri Sai Namam or some other God's name will be
written. It says —"Write 20 copies of this chain letter and send it to 20
people. People who has done like this got monetary benefit or some other
form of benefit. For those who threw this letter in waste basket it resulted
in lot of troubles." Innocent devotees are scared of these types of letters.
So it is important to explain about these letters.People who write these
letters don't sign them. This is the first evidence to say that these are
like fake money. The letter is not signed as they know that they will be
convicted for scaring the people like this. That proves the truthfulness
of these letters. Even proper postage is not paid for these letters, which
proves right at the beginning that these letters are unnecessary expense.
Then the question is what benefit do they achieve in writing these letters
in Sri Sai's name or any other God's name.People who write these letters are
Stupid and ignorant. These types of people are present in any religion.
People who write these letters are beasts in human form and they force their
beliefs on others. In world History, these types of people, after obtaining
power and strength tortured and killed other people for not following the
religion they liked. They have destroyed great civilizations.
Lack of such opportunity make these ignorant people to cause distress
to devotees through these chain letters. There is no need for God, Sri
Sai or other Mahatmas to attract everyone with these types of wishes or
through bribe .They don't have the necessity to attract people by causing
terror. -- Are they political leaders to survive on our material and moral
support – to create hopes or to fright us? -- They are noble minded. They
merciful beings to protect and provide food, water, light, air not only to
virtuous beings but also to wicked persons, people who don't even think
about them. God ,Rishis from Vedic age; Incarnations like Lord Rama ,Lord
Sri Krishna; Satya Drastas like Buddha,Jain ; Acharyas like Sri Sankara and
Ramanujacharya; Sadgurus like Sri Sai ,Sri Rama Krishna Paramahamasa; -
have never descended to such an evil method. It is very mean to propagate
Sri Sai's namam who is Abahya swarupa, (provider of freedom from fear)
through the most evil methods like fright and hope.
So what should we do with these letters? Don't do anything. Pray Sri
Sai to protect these ignorant people from their ignorance and consign these
chain letters to waste paper basket. If you think that the namam is sacred
no matter who wrote it, then keep that letter in front of Sri Sai, and pray
"Sai you are omnipresent. By keeping this letter in front of you, your namam
will be given to all living beings. Please give vivekam to these ignorant
people." Next day remove it with *Pooja nirmalyam*. Give them to Mandiram so
that it can be used to pack vibuthi.
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*SRI CHAITANYA SWAMYJI'S MESSAGE*

DO PARAYANA OF THE LIFE HISTORIES OF THE MAHATMAS, DERIVE THE HAPPINESS IN
THE MATERIAL- SPIRITUAL LIFE BY INCESSANTLY IMPLEMENTING THEIR TEACHINGS IN
DAILY LIFE AND ULTIMATELY ACHIEVE LIBERATION FROM THE WORLDLY TIES. START
YOUR EFFORT FROM THIS MOMENT TO UNITE WITH THE ALMIGHTY SRI DATTA SAI
BHARADWAJA AND DIVYAJANANI .
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From: Sudhakar GNVS <gosukonda.sudhakar@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 12 04:22PM +0530
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/babasatsang/msg/4eebcf86ab8eb94d

Om gurubrahmaa gururvishnuhu
gururdEvO mahEswaraha
gurussaakshaat parabrahma
tasmai Sree guravE namaha
tasmai Sree guravE namaha

Once in 2009, after giving teertham in dargah, Sree swami looked at me and
said, "If you keep money, you will become piSaacha; if you keep jnaana, you
will become raakshasa". The jnaana thing, He told this year in sastsang also
during ammayya's aaraadhana. Initially I did not want to share my spiritual
experiences with anyone but after remembering what swami has told, I decided
to share. As Sree Bharadwaaja master garu has said, remembering how great
guru from the good done by Him is the actual guru stuti. So I wish to tell
my experiences, not only of spiritual.

When I was studying intermediate, my father was working in kadapa and the
family was in Nellore. Our family friends told about swami and my father
visited Him. He told my father about me and said I have bad friends. When I
learnt this, I first got angry on swami for telling that. Shortly after that
I read "Sree sai leelaamrutam" by master gaaru. It was a turning point and I
was introduced to real spirituality. Later I used to visit Sree datta sai
mandiram, the only place where master garu did vigraha pratishTha of saibaba
and I used to participate in satsang & haratis there. swami used to come
there some times and I used to have His darsan and blessings.

Later once I visited swami after I joined MCA and He told me that I was not
concentrating on studies and that I should do. After joining job in
Bangalore also, I used to visit only rarely.

The devotion & peace of mind that I had in Nellore was not there in
Bangalore and everything seemed mechanical and with no real maza/ananda. I
was depressed for that and visited shirdi. But things apparently did not
improve. Then one day I remembered swami and visited Him. swami asked me to
stay that night and told me to chant "om saayee". I was not completely
satisfied with that. Shortly after that I fell ill and one night I was
chanting "om saayee". That night I had a vision, probably a dream, in which
I saw paadukaas in soonyaa with "om saayee" being chanted from all sides and
with auspicious sounds like mrudangam being played. When I told about this
to swami, he said "mattulO gammattu" (magic in sedation). I did not
understand what it means. He wrote with bettam (stick) on floor saying, "om
saayee" should become "om yeesaa".

After this I started visiting somewhat more frequently. But by then ammayya
had already attained maha samadhi. The only remembrance I had was swami used
to say to bow her too as she is also a mahaatma. Once she gave me laddoos as
prasada.

Once I did guru geeta paaraayana and went to aasram and swami was not there.
But I had the intuition that my paaraayana will not become futile and that
we will have His darsan. After some time we come back to board the bus and
waiting on the road. Just then swami returned from Nellore, saw us and
called from car. We went back to aasram and spent some time there.

One day while swami asked me to stay but I insisted on returning to
Bangalore and left. After reaching madanapalli, I got a call from my friend
that his brother is not to be seen. To ask about this I wanted to return to
dargah and I returned the next day. The devotees told me that swami told the
them that I would return the next day. When I asked swami about my friend He
said, he would come back. Later he did come back.

I attended satsangam in IISc few times and there the members told about
swamiji that increased my devotion towards Him and I started visiting a bit
more frequently.

Swami once took the karma of some devotee who was in hospital bed & praying
swami. Swami was not taking even water for some days. Anyone in that state
would have suffered low bp and sugar levels and would have fainted. Swami
was not answering any questions and everyone was just having His darsan and
returning. I too was doing only that without saying anything. Then swami
told me, "you are trying to shift company. Don't do that". Actually I was
doing that at that time. So I stayed in the same company. It proved good for
me for I was able to file some 25 patents after that which could not havee
been possible had I shifted. It helped me to build a strong career. Once
there was a lot of work pressure and when asked swami He told that it would
come down by April and it happened that way later. I have a quarrelsome
attitude. When asked Him what should I do with management if I get over
work, He said, "gupchipgaa cheyyi" (do it quietly) and it helped me in
office. I was asked to go to US for office work but owing to circumstances
in the family I was not willing to. So I asked swami. He told me not to go
and that management will find another way. It happened that way only. When I
was in czech republic, I asked my father to ask for swami's blessings. Swami
said that His blessings are always with me. 2 times I forgot my passport
pouch there and some one else found it. It was due to His blessings only.
Once swami said about something that "chestoo unte ade vastundi" "as you do,
you will get it". I follow the same principle while resolving technical
issues in office.

When in Bangalore, my father got fever and finally was admitted in hospital.
We had spent 1 lakh but there was no improvement. I called swami. He told
that by so and so day, the fever would come down. It came down exactly that
way. Once I was not well for some days and after visiting swami we told
this. swami said angrily that we did not visit Him and that we should visit
at least once in 4 months. It was true. Once it so happened that I could not
visit Him for more than 4 months. I again fell ill and got hospitalized.
When my father called swami, He asked us to bring me for His darsan. Swami
applied on my body with his bettam and asked me not to skip food and take
something once in 4 hours and that rules about food told to sanyasis were
not for me. Doctors said it was TB and the samples sent to Bombay gave +ve
for TB. Later when we told this, swami said there was no TB and asked me not
to take any medicines. I had purchased TB medicines by then and was about to
start the course, which would have been a 6-9 month course with multiple
powerful antibiotics. I stopped the medicines and did not get fever again.
Later I started visiting swami whenever I get chance. Once swami while I was
returning home came out from His room and asked me to close the door of
kitchen and when no one was there gave me an apple and asked me to take home
& eat by all saying that diseases will not come.

Once I took a japa mala and prayed for His blessings. He took it and closed
His eyes for some time and gave me. Later one day after taking bath after
wiping face with towel, the japa mala came in my hand, meaning the thread
got cut. Except for one bead, everything came very nicely in my hand. That
bead also fell in bucket of water and no where else. swami gave baba dollars
to many devotees. He gave one to me also and showed both sides and said,
"see saibaba, dattaswamy" and put it around my neck.

During 2009 urusu I took my newly bought SLR camera and was trying to take
photos. Though I attended a basic course and studied manual, I had doubts
and could not understand somethings in manual mode. While looking at the
eyes of swami's picture pasted on the wall through camera, it occurred to me
that there should be a better way to use the camera. I opened the manual and
spent only around a minute and it occurred like a flash about the purpose of
settings and the doubts were cleared at once. Then I was able to take good
ones.

Swami once asked me to come and stay in dagah for some 10 days saying that I
should get at least some part of the qualities like piousness etc., that
swami and ammayya have. I stayed there later for about 13 days and swami
told many things during that time. The following things happened during that
time. One day I was having some questions in my mind and was a bit
dissatisfied & depressed and while thinking moved around in the place
between well and the rest rooms. Sankarayya gaaru also asked why I was
moody. That evening I went and sat in satsanga. swami was looking at some
book and did not look at me at all. Guptaa gaaru started reading "Sree paada
charitaamrutam". In that Sree paada swami answers questions of
narasimhaavadhaanlu(?) after appearing in his pooja room. Swami started
explaining them. swami's words were all answers to my questions. I became
happy, lifted my head and with smile I looked at swami. Just then some sound
came from outside and everyone looked outside. swami then looked at me and
gave gesture ordering me to bend my head down and not to look at Him, thus
instructing me secretly. At the end while getting up, swami said, "Sree
paada swami conducted darbaar today". One afternoon when swami was alone
sitting on sofa, I went near and just sat down. swami touched my head with
His bettam and waved it gesturing that I should go. Swami laid down. I then
felt an impulse to meditate and went behind ammayya samaadhi mandiram and
started meditating on "I". It went deep. I don't know its significance. One
morning after cleaning the mandiram I adjusted my jandhyam after sitting
down. As soon as I touched it, swami asked me if my upanayanam was over.
When I said yes, He asked me if I was told that I am a dwija (who took two
janmaas). I don't know what to say. Then swami asked if I am remembering
(doing) gayatri at least once or twice per day. When I said that I did for 1
year and stopped. He said, "ee prapamchamantaa gaayatrilOnE vundi. anDa
pinDa brahmaanDamulannee gaayatrilOnE unnavi". (This entire world is in
gaayatri only. anDa pinDa brahmaanDa everything is in gayatri only). After
this I started doing gayatri again. Actually my upanayana did not happen
twice as my mother fell ill. Third time we took swami's blessings. Though
again some obstacles came, it went well.

During that stay swami said the following things: "vyaasa is not considered
as guru". "Did we say rama or krishna?"(Meaning, this is sadguru peetham. We
say sadguru but not rama or krishna.) "In masjid they do not say alla hu /
alla ho(?). Here we say that". Once swami said that "alla hu" means sivoham.
He also said bismilla is same as omkaara. He said, "samsaara vruksham
pOvaalamTE talli veru teeyaali". (To remove the sansaara vruksha we have to
remove mother root). veru in telugu also means different. It occurred to me
that swami's real message was "to remove samsaara vruksha we have to remove
the idea that mother is different". Swami went to baba vigraha pratishta
after that. I started thinking that night. If mother and father are not
different, where from srushti has come? What is the real nature? It went
deep linking different things and I did not sleep whole night. There was a
saying that we should not enquire into the roots of river, yogi & woman. I
don't know if this is what swami intended me to do. But I went deep on it.
One evening in satsang the incident where Sree pada swami takes out some
one's karma by keeping His thumb on the bhrukuti(space between eye brows)
came during the paaraayana. Swami looked at me and gestured meaning, so
also, He had taken away my bad karma. After that stay I went back to
Bangalore. Later when I came back to dargah for, I think, guru poornima,
swami after looking at me said, "neekOsam enta tapassu chEsaanuraa !" (How
much tapas I did for you re!). It was true for I could for the first time in
life feel confidence in spiritual matters and also started doing nama japa.
Before the stay, I was always worried about my spiritual progress and was
not sure if I am moving ahead or not. After that I regained the devotion
which I lost after leaving Nellore, only in a much mature way. I also had
this feeling of I am great. It has come down after the stay.

Oneday in satsangam swami told sankarayya garu with smile, "We will make you
CM". I thought where is he? and where is CM post? I was perplexed. Then
swami said to him, "CM ante (means) cooking master raa" and everyone
laughed.

Once someone sang some song which tells how Baba blessed His devotees like
shyama etc., Swami said, baba did not like that song and that baba is
saying, "Have I not done anything for you?"

Swami asked me not to read some spiritual books. I obeyed that. Though they
may be great books, they are not suited for me.

Once swami while looking at baba and folding hands said, we should pray
saying that, swami (baba) we do not know even one croreth of a mustard
seed's magnitude of you or yours greatness. He also said once that everyone
has this durguna right from birth that I am great. He once asked in satsanga
that which artist can paint like creator who painted the colors of parrot.
Once during while giving teertha He asked some questions related to maha
bharatam and some devotees asked correctly. Then He asked, "what is the
difference between God and dog?". No one gave an answer. Later while reading
master's book I found the analogy given by master where He says if we
consider water in sea as God, the waves are the jeevaas.

I was there when one Bharadwaja master's disciple came to swami. Swami told
him, "I and Bharadwaja are not different".

One night some bird was making sound for a long time. Only few were there in
mandiram. swami said, "enough of it" and it immediately stopped.

Many of us must have observed swami stopping rain many times during the time
of yagna and meravani/pallaki.

I had the thought of not getting married. One night I got a dream where I
went to Sri Rajarajeswari temple in Nellore and there near entrance some one
was giving arathi to vinayaka swami vigraha. They asked swami about me and
He said that I should get married. After that dream, I went to Nellore. It
was more than a decade that I had been to that temple and that too I had
been there only very few times and do not remember if there was a vigraha
there or not. When I went there I actually found a vinayaka swami vigraha
there, exactly where I saw in the dream.

Last year, when we started looking for alliances, 3 matches came and we took
them to swami. He selected one out of the three and said He would give
guarantee for that match and also said that by next year I will have a baby.
I got married and we are expecting in october. There were some problems that
I faced in the family after the marriage. I went alone to swami. He left all
the phone calls and sat with me and told what to do. Later things turned out
such that I had to follow what swami has told. He also said, "achyuta ananta
govinda" means they are infinite etc., and that everything happens only
acccording to their sankalpa and asked me to say govinda namalu saying, I
would get courage thus. I remembered swami's words when difficult situations
came and it gave lot of strength.

One Thursday as I did not observe any one preparing breakfast and I did not
take. But I did not know that yesterday's food was taken for breakfast.
Later in the morning swami looked at me and asked if I had breakfast. When I
said no. swami at once shouted at me with abusive words and asked me take
food. I went and took. Once while giving teertha, I was at back and coming
to take it at the end leisurely. Swami scolded me and said any one comes for
food and teertha first and for quarrels last. Once swami asked me to be like
others. He also asked me not to imagine things. I have heard Him saying,
"aalOchana Satruvu" (Thought is enemy).

One day I asked swami about jnanam. As soon as I mentioned the word jnanam,
He shouted at me and asked me to go out and pray near baba's temple. I did
that. Next in morning in satsanga, swamy said, you are in a too much eager
state yesterday and so I did not tell

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