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From: Subrahmanyam Gorthi <subrahmanyam.gorthi@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 31 03:55PM +0200
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Vinaya-Chaturthi wishes to all Guru Bandhus.
Tomorrow is also:
(1) *Jayanthi of Sripada Srivallabha Swami* (
http://www.sripadasrivallabha.org/)
(2)* Aradhana of Sri Gajanan Maharaj *
(http://www.gajananmaharaj.org/)
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From: Sai Baba The Master <srisaimaster@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:15 PM
Subject: NEWSLETTER
To: s <srisaimaster1@gmail.com>
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SAI BABA THE MASTER
*SAI SUKTHI - ACHARYA VANI *
*GIVE UP ALL DESIRES AND DWELL IN YOUR MIND UPON GOD-IN-ALL. IF THE MIND IS
THUS CONCENTRATED, THE GOAL IS ACHIEVED.* SRI SAI BABA.
*BABA GIVES WEALTH ONLY AS MUCH AS IS ORDAINED BASING ON THE PUNYAM,
KARMA.THERE IS **NO PLACE** FOR 'WANT' HERE. HERE IS A SIMILARITY
NOTEWORTHY. INSTEAD OF ASKING "BABA MAKE ME A RICH PERSON" IT IS BETTER TO
ASK "DON'T MAKE ME A BEGGAR." IF HE WISHES , GOOD FORTUNE IS DEFINITELY
GIVEN*
* --- BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA.* *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.
After living several years on this earth, human beings
understood that the progress of any individual, country, is linked with
remaining part of the 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 beings
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 the nature is responsible for 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 group 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 the 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
(koneru). Wells are also used for the same purpose, when it is not possible
to do it in the rivers. *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 LordRama ,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. *SRI SHIRDI SAI BABA –THE
SPIRITUAL FRUIT OF GREAT TREE OF MAN KIND. *
At a time when our society is enveloped in darkness, fraught with
religious strife, religious conversations and caste wars, the light of
victory, though yet flickering gives us hope in the form of the holy day of
Vijayadasami. The reason –it is the day on which the Kohinoor among the
saints Sri Shirdi Sai Baba attained Samadhi.
Every year devotees celebrate this auspicious day, recall their
experiences with Baba and nourish the seeds of true humanity which he
planted in their hearts.
Sri Shirdi Sai Baba first appeared in the year 1954 as a boy of 16 years
seated under a neem (Margo) tree in the outskirts of the village of Shirdi
in Ahmednagar district of Maharastra. No one knows his original name, time,
place of birth, his religion and caste, not even of his parents.He never
revealed the same to anybody. Whenever anyone asked, he would put them off
with a smile. He was always seen meditating under the tree day and night
unmindful of heat or cold, uttering the words "Allah Mallik" meaning *GOD IS
SUPREME* and begging food from five houses a day. When devotees bowed to him
he blessed them saying "Allah Acha Karega"meaning "God bless you" which
would provide them godly protection. Sometimes he would remain quiet or say
"Allah has not permitted me."
Once when there were heavy rains at Shirdi, on persuasion of devotees, He
started living in the old dilapidated mosque in the village. He named it as
"Dwarakamayi." In the eastern side of the mosque he installed the "Dhuni-
the sacred fire," burning day and night, planted tulasi (Ficus Religiosa--
Ocimum) plant—a plant very holy to Hindus in front of the mosque and he sat
to the north of the mosque. Thus for sixty years, Sri Sai carried out the
mission of his divine manifestation. When traditional Muslims came he would
quote Arabic sentences from the Quran and lead them along the spiritual path
in accordance to their religious beliefs. He encountered them to celebrate
the traditional festivals like Ramadan, Moharam, etc. When they brought
(Naivedya) sacred offering of the food, he would read "Fatiha". Sometimes He
would go to the 'Takia' (the resting place of Muslim visitors to the
village) at nights and with the bells tied around his ankles, along with the
fakirs he used to dance and sing devotional songs in Arabic and Persian
languages as well as the songs composed by great saints like Kabir.*He used
to refer HIMSELF as poor fakir and a slave to Allah*.
He enlightened his Muslim devotees Abdullah, Bade Baba, Abba Seth,
Imambhai, as per the Islamic tradition. Well known saints of the time like
Hazrat Tajuddin Baba, Darvesh Shah, Banne Mia, and Shamsuddin recognized Sri
Sai Baba as a great Aulia and sent their devotees for his darshan (paying
respects personally and worshipfully.)
If for the above reasons ,we take Sri Shirdi Sai Baba to be a Muslim,
He not only encouraged His Hindu Devotees to celebrate Sri Ramanavami (the
annual festival of Sri Rama's Birth) Gurupurnima (the full moon day which
occurs in July ,considered holy to all spiritual aspirants for worshipping
their respective Gurus),DattaJayanthi (the annual festival of Lord
Dattatreya 's birth) but also made them read Hindu Scriptures like Vedanta
panchadasi,Bhagavadgita, Bhagavatham etc., He appeared to them in the form
of Hindu Gods like Rama,Maruthi ,Dattatreya,Ganapathi, Vittal etc.,and thus
proved that HE is one with all GODS. Like a true mendicant he took care of
the sacred fire and lived by begging food from five houses.
He put down the pride of a learning of a devotee by extending corrective
interpretation of critical sloka from the Bhagavadgita, the interpretation
was so unique which is not given by any scholar so far. He showed that He is
one with both Hindu and Muslim saints. HE showed that any living being when
abused or honored reached Him directly. He demonstrated his identity even
with inanimate idols and photographs of Gods and Saints. His omnipresent and
omniscient consciousness was always aware of what was happening to His
devotees at all times and at all places. That is why Hindu devotees regarded
Him as manifestation of Lord Dattatreya and the KOHINOOR among THE SAINTS.
He also blessed several Christian, Parsee, Jain devotees with divine
experiences and spiritual upliftment. Indeed, Sri Sai seems to be that
spiritual fruit of great tree of mankind sought by monarchs as Akbar and
great saints like Kabir who strived for the harmony of all religions. It is
Sai Baba the Supreme Being, who not only preached but also practically
proved that atma or self is all pervading and it is our duty to have mercy
towards living beings and to preserve religious harmony.
*In spite of being worshipped by his devotees he continued to lead a life
like fakir only. *In sixty years, not even once did he permit his devotees
to take him out in ceremonial processions. Distributing the day's
collections which he received as dakshina (a token offering of money to
symbol, a symbol of one's loving faith in him) from his devotees, amounting
to about Rs/-400 to Rs/-500 everyday to the poor before sunset and
sustaining Himself on alms,* Sri Sai is a dispassion incarnate.*
* * Millionaires, beggars and mute creatures –all had equal access to His
Durbar (Royal Court) all the time, without any middle men. He detested the
very display of occult powers .the above mentioned miracles which expound
the path of Dharma or righteousness occurred spontaneously with His
intervention.* He shunned the miracles which merely dazzle the devotee into
submitting to the performer's supremacy as akin to dalliance with a
prostitute.*
* *
In this way, having lived at Shirdi for over sixty years in October 1918 on
the holy day of Vijayadasami at about 2.30 Pm Sri Sai left his mortal body.
As promised by Him even today He is protecting His devotees by appearing
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