Seven day Katha of Sathya Sai Baba - Tapovanama

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OmJai Shri Sai Ram!!!

 

Tapovanama - Shri sathyasai Sathcharithra - Sacred life story of Sathya Sai

Baba,Holy Book for daily recitation, is divided in to seven sections, each

section containing about 30 - 40 pages is to be read every day starting from

thursday and ending on wednesday.

 

The book can be procured from www.sssbpt.org the official web site of

Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publication Trust,

Prashanthi Nilayam,

Andhra pradesh 515134,

India

 

as well as from

 

J Nageswara Rao

Jandhyala vari Veedhi, Subbaraopet

Tadepalligudem 534102

Andhra pradesh

India

 

or any sai center near to you.

 

It nicely summarizes the life of Baba upto 2000 when it was first published in

18 chapters to bring out the fact of why Baba is God Himself, God in Human Form

- The God Incarnate like Krishna and Rama and is reincarnation of Sirdi Sai

Baba.

 

The book is divided in to two parts:

 

Part I is titled Approach to divinity

 

* Prayer

* Sai pooja- Sankalpam (Procedure of worship of Bhagawan Shri sathya Sai Baba)

* Archana

* Ashtotthara Satha Namavali(Invocation of 108 Sacred names of Bhagawan Sri

Sathya sai Baba) * Sai Eswara Ashtaka

* Sri Sai Ashtakshari Manthram

 

Part II Dibvine Miracles

 

Day 1 - Thursday

 

Chapter 1 Thapovanam

Entering the Tapovanam - Pranavam - Nagara Sankeerthan - Sandarshan - "Even

Celestial Beings Wait For Me" - Pedda Bottu's Experience - Raja Reddy's Vision

- Bhajan.

 

Chapter 2 Shirdi Sai Parthi Sai

 

Jodi Adipalli Somappa - Prem Kuteeram - Baba The Shiv Shakthi - Life story of Lord Shirdi Sai-

Shirdi Sai's Promise - Bodies are Two; Divinity is One - Baba is All Pervasive -

"I Know You Don't"

 

Day 2 Friday

 

Chapter 3 Sambhavami Yuge Yuge (I Incarnate Again and Again)

 

Putta Vardhani - Easwaramma - Swami's Incarnation -Not Conception but Advent _

Divine Touch - The Teacher's Chair - Tiger hunter chided

 

Chapter 4 Sai Blossoms

 

Pushpagiri Festival - "I am The Servitor of All" - Do Deeds Match Words? - The

Missing Horse - Divine Puppeteer Acts the Danseuse - The Sting of a Scorpuion -

The Bestower of knowledge- Forbearance- "I am sai Baba" - The Great Annunciation

- References to Sathya sai Baba in Ancient Treatises

 

Day 3 Saturday Resurrection of Dharma

 

Chapter 5 Revitalisation of temples - Badarinath, Varanasi, Somanath, Dwaraka,

Srisailam, Pandharpur - Resuscitation of Vedic Dharma - Who Else Knows The

Right Muhoortam - The Yajna Kalasam - Ayudha Pooja.

 

Chapter 6 The Supreme Divinity

 

Baba Transcends Every Other God - As Sri Maha Ganapati - As Sri Subrahmanya

Swamy - As Lord Param Siva - As Lord Sri Ram - As Sri Shyam Sundar - As Gautam

Buddha - As Jesus Christ - The Kaba in Baba's Palm - As Sri Dattatreya - "My

human Form Encompasses The Divine Shakthis of All Gods" - Swamy Pervades The

universe - "Nethi, Nethi."

 

Day 4 Sunday

 

Chapter 7 The All Powerful: Creator, Preserver, Destroyer

 

Creation (Srishti) - Ant Becomes Beads; Parrot From Beatel Leaves - Diamond

Ear-Tops in cookies - Maintenance (Sthithi) - "You Are Embodiments of Athma" -

The Simla Incident - Ultimate Dissolution (Layam) - "Creation , maintenance and

Dissolution are in My Hand."

 

Chapter 8 The Lord of the Cosmos

 

All Elements lie in his Control- Rescue from Fire - Rescue from Flood - Water

Turns in to Petrol - Sunshine in the Himalayas.

 

Chapter 9 "Why Fear When I am Here?"

 

Child Saved From Truck - God is Closer than Husband - God is Closer than Mother

- Suicide Averted - His bounbdless Compassion.

 

Chapter 10 The Master of Time

 

He Abridges Time - He Elongates time - "Time and Space Bind Me Not" - Aneka

Roopa Roopaya (Assuming Numerous Forms) - The Incomprehendible - He Arrives

Unnoticed.

 

Day 5 Monday

 

Chapter 11: Loving Mother Sai

 

Love of a Thousand mothers - Agony moves Bhagawan - The Flower of Love - "Shed a

Tear For Me" - Flu Driven Away - Supremacy of Spritual Learning - "My children

Are MY Entire Property"- Frolicsome God - Tolerance - Benefit from closeness

With Baba."

 

Chapter 12: The Temples of Healing

 

Super Specialty Hospitals - Potency of Prasadam- Who Has Performed The Surgery?-

Why Hospital, if God is Here? - To Each ADifferent Treatment.

 

Chapter 13 Paramam Vichitram Leela Vibhutim

The Miraculous Vibhuti

 

 

Vibhuti Cancels cancer - 'Dono Polo' Tribal Leader Surrenders to Him - Wonderous potency of vibhuti.

 

Day 6 Tuesday

 

Chapter 16 Divine Miracles beyonf boundaries

 

The Eternal Saviour- John Hislpo and the Image of Jesus - Al Drucker - Indra

Devi- Dr. Frank Boronowski - Dr. Art-ong Jumsai - "Be Happy; That is The Only

Thing I Ask of You" - Jagadeesan - Mala, Vikshepa, Avarana.

 

Day 7 Wednesday

 

Chapter 15 : "I am Aware of the past, the Present and Future of Everyone"

 

Evil begets evil - "Picking up Food Thrown Away Earlier" - Ocean of mercy - Nam

Smaran and roop Dhyan - Release from Retribution.

 

Chapter 16 : Significance of Nama Smaran

 

Thulasamma - Nama Smaran Means Summoning God - Nama Smaran Means Telephoning God

- Maya, The Terrible Dog - Earnest Prayer - "I am Ever Waiting For You" - "The

Oppressed are My children" - Goat and Mind.

 

Chapter 17: Manava Seva is Madhava Seva

(Service To Man Is Service To God)

 

"Take One Step Towards Me; I will take a Hundred Towards You" - hanuman and

Vibheeshan in Discourse - Service Leads To Heaven - Maintain Spirituality

Throughout Life.

 

Chapter 18: Dear to The deprived and near to The needy -

 

Adversary Brings God Closer - "I Too Fear her!" - Nine Types of Bhakti - Conclusion.

 

Benediction (Phala Shruthi)

 

Mangala Arathi

 

 

Yours In Sai

 

Husiar