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- Live Telecast of Pujya Acharya Ji's Brahmanubhuthi Golden Jubilee
Year Festival [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/babasatsang/t/bea63d916919d8e9
- NEWSLETTER [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/babasatsang/t/894cc9ffe65863e0
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Topic: Live Telecast of Pujya Acharya Ji's Brahmanubhuthi Golden
Jubilee Year Festival
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/babasatsang/t/bea63d916919d8e9
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From: Subrahmanyam Gorthi <subrahmanyam.gorthi@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 09 02:12PM +0100
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FYI:
*Pujya Acharya Ji's Brahmanubhuthi Golden Jubilee Year Festival
February 9th, 2012. 6 p.m. Live video telecast from Nagole
*http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mastergaru-brahmanubhuti-celebrations-49th
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From: Subrahmanyam Gorthi <subrahmanyam.gorthi@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 09 12:10PM +0100
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FYI:
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From: SAI BABA THE MASTER <srisaimaster1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:02 PM
Subject: NEWSLETTER
To: srisaimaster@yahoo.com
www.saibharadwaja.org;Visit online
Satsangam@www.saimasterforums.org February
9 2012 *SAI BABA THE MASTER*
*In This Issue:*
*SAI SUKTHI-ACHARYA VANI <#13561c71e88bc424_13561c5a7247e955_article_1>*
*THE MASTER CALLS ME: ORIGIN FROM THE HOLY TEXT 'SAI BABA THE MASTER'
WRITTEN BY BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA.
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*RAMA ,KRISHNA IS RAMA KRISHNA -- ORIGIN BY BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA
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* PARIPRASNA :ORIGIN BY BHAGAVAN SRI
BHARADWAJA<#13561c71e88bc424_13561c5a7247e955_article_4>
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*SRI CHAITANYA SWAMYJI'S MESSAGE<#13561c71e88bc424_13561c5a7247e955_article_5>
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*UPCOMING EVENTS <#13561c71e88bc424_13561c5a7247e955_article_6>*
*ABOUT THIS EMAIL <#13561c71e88bc424_13561c5a7247e955_article_7>*
*SAI SUKTHI-ACHARYA VANI*
*HOW OFTEN IN THE PAST MANY BIRTHS HAVE I BEEN WITH YOU! AND HOW MANY MORE
SHALL I REMAIN WITH YOU! WE SHALL MEET AGAIN AND AGAIN.I HAVE TO COUNT TO
THE LORD FOR EVERY PIE THAT COMES TO ME. *
* - SRI SAI BABA.*
***___________________________________________*
*HOW MANY PAST BIRTHS WE CRIMINALLY WASTED IN THE SLAVERY OF
AFFECTION,AVERSION,JEALOUSY AND SUCH NEGATIVE EMOTIONS! AT LEAST NOW LET US
WALK IN THE SHADE OF SAI FOR PEACE.*
* BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA.*
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*THE MASTER CALLS ME: ORIGIN FROM THE HOLY TEXT 'SAI BABA THE MASTER'
WRITTEN BY BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA. *
My quest for truth was awakened by the tragic demise of my nephew in 1955
on the occasion of my initiation (sacred thread) ceremony. Now I see, in
retrospect, that it was indeed an initiation. The initial heartbreak had
left and, in its wake, several fundamental questions arose in me: "Is there
a Supreme Spirit? What is the nature? How can we contact it? What is life?
What is death? Is there a soul? Why hasn't man found a way out of death?
What is Time?" and such others. The search went on unanswered till 1960.
One evening in that year, when I was taking a stroll, something mysterious
occurred somewhere deep in me and all the questions vanished in a trice and
peace prevailed. These questions seemed out of place, of no value any
longer. A book on Zen which came to my hand quite unasked for, contained a
description of inner illumination or *satori* which came nearest to my
experience. It was a pleasant surprise and a promise. The quest took on a
richer hue.
In 1963, my elder brother Sri E. Vedavyas invited me to join him on his
visit to Shirdi. Though I had little faith in saints at that time, I
consented just to give him my company. On the 8th of February we reached
Shirdi at sunset and we went straight to the *samadhi mandir* to attend the
*arti*. The deep faith that shone on the faces of the congregation for the
saint who left off his physical frame nearly half a century ago, was
surprise to me. Soon after, the devotees dispersed and the shrine was
mostly empty. My brother showed me the tomb at close quarters and told me
that Sri Baba's mortal remains were kept in it. That being my first close
look of a tomb, I was shocked. My first reaction was to imagine in what a
putrefied condition the body must have been. The marble structure of the
tomb and the profuse incense that was burnt there made me suppose that it
was intended to keep out any stench that might possibly leak out. The
thought was revolting and nauseating. I at once took leave of my brother
and slept in the room, unable even to relish food, in the wake of the shock.
Next morning, a keen appetite woke me up and I made straight for the Madras
hotel. As I passed before the *samadhi mandir*, I found that the morning *
arti* was over and the place was almost vacant. The sight of the marble
statue over the *samadhi* attracted my attention and I wanted to have a
close look at the form that continues to charm so many devotees. I stepped
in and stood at a little distance from the statue and looked at it. It is
quite life-like and I felt that the saint must have looked precisely like
that. The sculptor must have been divinely inspired in capturing that
mysterious smile and the inward look. The look captured my gaze. "What does
his face, especially his look and smile, indicate of his attitude? Was he
elated that so many visited him to pay their homage, adore and worship him?
Or was he overwhelmed with compassion for them? Or, in that mood, was he
oblivious of his separate existence, his gaze fixed on the divine mystery,
the one omnipresent spirit? Or was it a look of recognition of that ancient
spirit, of his contacts with those teeming crowds that had contacted him
through their countless previous lives? And, was that smile of reunion
pregnant with his joy of their future possibility of reaching the spiritual
summit? Or was he just oblivious of all this, lost in his ceaseless
contemplation of the one spirit, in his at-one-ment? And is the mysterious
Monolisa-smile a manifestation of that peace which passeth understanding?
Or is there a possibility that at a higher level of consciousness all these
attitudes could coexist without the one interrupting the other?"
This last thought flashed with a particular intensity and my spirit
leapt forth to comprehend how, in that state, he was viewing all this
existence: "Is the universe of myriad forms an image projected in his
consciousness? And am I, then, too, a thought in his Mind and are all these
my thoughts parts of it?" The intuition took off and wafted my being into
far-off states. I knew of nothing else. My being was still, taut with a
particular illumination and my thoughts were both existent and
non-existent. I am aware how absurd these words must look to anyone. But
what else can they be when I verbalize what cannot be conveyed?
Quite some time lapsed in that timeless moment and I was knocked back into
normal awareness by what then felt to me like a rude knocking on my
shoulders. It was then that I realized that I was seated and that my eyes
were shut, that my cheeks were wet with half-dried tears. The shrine was
quite noisy and crowded. I saw my brother patting me gently and asking,
"You are still seated here! Had your bath and breakfast? It's almost lunch
time. It's better to finish our lunch." His words were quite audible but I
found it hard to catch the sense, as though I was abruptly awakened from
deep sleep. It was quite disturbing even to endeavor to understand the
words and still more to respond, the spirit being totally unwilling to be
called out from the heart of peace. It was much easier to just obey what he
said. It was nearly four hours since I stepped into the shrine which was
getting crowded as the time for noon *arti* was nearing and the devotees
were queing up for finishing *abhishek!* We walked down to the dining hall
but to me it was as though the walk were just a vivid reverie. My mind was
all set on sinking back into the state of peace and bliss from which it was
roused and with which the connection was not yet completely snapped. It was
quite a task to pay particular attention to things and persons.
This mood was persistent and had never quite left me during the brief
stay of two days at Shirdi. Perhaps my brother had found out that something
unusual was happening to me. "You may go over here again later if you want
to, but now we have to go back!" he said. And we were back.
The significant thing, as I see it now in retrospect, is that the
spiritual connection with that deeper level of being, continued for months
after our return from Shirdi. My mind, when it now and then relapsed into
normal awareness, quite instinctively identified that deeper level of Being
with Baba. Mostly I was in a continuous state of ineffable peace and quiet
and the normal activities of the day were powerless to interrupt it. Days
passed as a continuous moment of timelessness; it was as though all things
around, including my body, were all parts of a whole which is conscious and
aware. Whenever the world around had plucked me into the every day reality,
my spirit, once again, at the earliest possible, was summoned back to its
pristine state by the vivid appearance of the marble image at Shirdi before
my mind's eye. And then objects and creatures all around would seem to be
crystallizations of a pervasive consciousness.
This experience was accompanied by a remarkable change in my physical
constitution. My lean frame got filled in with flesh to robustness and I
was brimming with energy which was not lowered by late hours of reading at
night or by missing my meal now and then. There was a strong urge to walk
and walk, almost endlessly, through most of the day and I was not tired. My
mind was engrossed in the blissful peace and was not stirred by the traffic
on the road. My mind, too, seemed to have grown unusually penetrating. For,
the most vexatious of meta-physical questions got cleared in a wink and
there seemed practically nothing which it could not comprehend. Often
knowledge concerning my friends who were far off, or of the thoughts that
passed through my associates' minds broke in and then I was no less
surprised at it than they. Strangely enough, the pervasive peace was shared
by all those around me. It was definite that my life turned a corner. The
steady current of this experience has ever continued, sometimes quite vivid
and sometimes a little less so.
After three or four months followed my second visit to Shirdi. This
time no such spectacular experience occurred but I keenly felt that I was
visiting a saint who has been my guiding Spirit through lives, that he was
somehow connected with my initiation into the quest for knowledge eight
years earlier. There was only an intense personal attachment to the Master,
and the sense of not having the good fortune of seeing Him in flesh and
blood in this life. "What could have happened then? Now that I cannot hope
for this, could I at least see any living saint? What would be his impact
on me?" This was the object of my prayer at Baba's *samadhi mandir*.
The response was prompt and striking, as has always been characteristic
of him. During the years that followed, I could come into close contact
with numerous saints and bask in their blessings: Mother Anasuyadevi of
Jillellamudi, Sri Ranganna Babu (a great Ramabhaktha of Guntur), the late
Avadhuta Swami of Chirala, the *guru* of the Chinthapalli forests of Sileru
area, Sri Swami Purnananda of Srisailam, his *guru* Sri Rakhadi Baba who
stayed at Ganeshpuri, Sri Satya Sai Baba, the two Balayogis of
Mummidivaram, the Senior Sankaracharyaji of Kanchi, Sri Ma Anandamayi, Sri
Akhandananda Saraswati of Muthra, the recluse saints of Kalahasthi and
Cuddapah, the recluse woman saint of Chivatam, Sri Samartha Narayana
Maharaj of Harihar, and the Saint of Poondi. Besides, I had *darshan* of
some famous devotees of Sri Sai Baba. I saw others like Mother Revati Amma
of Madras, and Sri Gulab Maharaj of Nagpur. It is not possible to detail
here my experiences with these saints, but one significant feature in all
these was I could win their gracious attention only after specifically
praying to Sri Baba for the same. Baba was thus once more proving three
things simultaneously; he is still alive in spirit and would gladly bless
us with the best at our hearty praying; that he is still one with the being
of the saints of today even as he was when he lived in flesh and blood;
that he can be a competent *guru* or Master (*Samarth Sadguru*) to his
ardent devotee even today. For a time, a few friends told me that I was on
a "saint-gathering" spree and not stabilized on any one. I was not effected
by this criticism. Now in retrospect, I am happy to find that, fortunately,
my faith in Baba, if anything, grew deeper and has been constant all
through. Baba's invisible hand was leading me to act according to the
scriptural injunction;
* Madhulubdho yathaa bhRiNgaH pushhpaatpushhpaantaraM vrajeth || |**
Gnaanalubdhastathaa shishhyo gurorguvantaram vrajeth **.*
"*Just as the bee which is fond of honey moves from flower to flower,
the disciple who is fond of wisdom goes from Master (Guru) to Master". --
Sree Guru Geetha*.
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*RAMA ,KRISHNA IS RAMA KRISHNA -- ORIGIN BY BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA *
Sri Rama Krishna Paramahamsa was born on Feb 18, 1836 in a small village in
West Bengal called Kamarpukur, to the divine couple Kadhiram Chatopadyay
and chandramati.
His parents named him as Gadhadara. As a child he was very
interested in listening to stories in puranas. When he was 6 years old, he
lost in ecstasy , at the sight of a flock of cranes flying in the sky in a
row. He was sent to school at the age of 5 ,but never showed interest in
studies. After the death of his father in 1843, He went to Calcutta to his
older brother, Ram Kumar. Ram Kumar, tried to make his brother to continue
his education. For this Gadhadara answered, *"What is the use of this
education that is useful for living? The main goal of human life is to find
God. One should try to achieve this." * For instance, look at the great
truth in the words of Prahlada as written in Pothana Bhagavatham *- "Nirmala
Mandakini Veechikala tugu, rayancha chanune taranginulaku"* .
Rani Rasamayi Devi constructed a Kali Temple in Dakshineswar for which
Rama Krishna Paramahamsa was appointed as priest. Ramakrishna would stay in
meditation continuously in front of Kali Devi. "*Mother, Please give me
your Darshan? Why don't you show your mercy? Please provide me the fortune
of having your Darshan? Have mercy one me! *" He would plead tearfully. One
day, He took the sword hanging on the wall and tried to put an end to his
life saying "*Oh Goddess! With out your darshan this life is waste, what is
the use of living?"* He lost consciousness and attained samadhi state,when
he attempted to do end his life. From the Idol of Kali Devi, brilliant
lights appeared, and Mother Kali in Her radiant form appeared in front of
him. He became Paramahamsa. As per the wish of Mother Kali, he married
Sarada Devi.
By the grace of Kali Devi, a yogini named Bhairava Brahmani came
to Ramakrishna and taught him all the tantrika spiritual practices. She
declared Sri Ramakrishna as the incarnation of God, in front of all the
scholars in a congregation. As per the directions of Parameswari – a monk
named Totapuri taught him the spiritual practice—*NIRGUNA PARABRAHMA SADHANA
* (meditation on form less God)." Ramakrishna achieved that practice in 3
days. To realize this truth in all other forms, Ramakrishna followed the
practices from other religions. In this way Ramakrishna Pramahamsa
experienced the God practicing through different ways, and preached the
oneness in all the religions.
The lamp doesn't light without oil. Man doesn't exist with out God. We
call water as Jalam, pani, tanni etc in different languages. We are using
different names for the same water. Similarly, God is one, even though we
call Him with different names. God will definitely appear, if one has
yearning for him.
Service of Human is Service of God. Show kindness to wretched, vile,
and dejected people. Lord Narayana will be Happy. Many young men were
attracted to the divine power of Sri Ramakrishna. Swami Vivekananda was one
among them. He spread across the world the greatness of his nation, and the
spiritual Knowledge of his nation. Spiritual services of The Ramakrishna
mission, received regards from the entire world. The brotherhood in all the
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