Praying for Swami's sake!!!

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minds. He will do his divine miracles of changing the Universe to better human

outcome through his own sankalpam In love with Service at His Lotus Feet Meena

Chintapalliprakash <saibhajo > wrote: Sharing one the sai devotee's

thoughts PRAKASH: Sai Ram. Please permit to share some of my thoughts with you

all. During last week, Swami did not come out for Darshan for two days in the

morning sessions. Then the next two days were totally blank; no Darshan at all

during morning or evening sessions. Then the next day too, the morning Darshan

was skipped.Saturday evening brought cheers to all devotees assembled in Sai

Ramesh hall. There was a big commotion among devotees when Swami made his

appearance through the rear side of the stage. Many devotees cried out

unashamedly seeing Swami, after missing Him for couple of days. There was not

a single face without tears. There was no time to wipe out the tears flowing

down since every one was holding palms together in great reverence.There was a

very huge crowd assembled on Sunday Morning. The weather was severely cold, and

yet every inch of the hall and extended area was jam packed from early morning,

praying and waiting for Divine appearance. The day was something special. Swami

walked by entering through the rear side of the stage, and occupied the chair

near the front edge of the stage. The Bhajan was going on. After few

minutes, swami indicated that he be brought down. Thereafter it was all cheers

and cheers all over. Swami made several rounds, and passed through the various

points three times or more. Swami was speaking with many devotees, accepted

many letters.Swami departed through the back entry, walking again. Before that

Swami got up from chair stood up, and waved HIS Divine hands, blessing all the

fortunate devotees who had assembled that day. In the evening sessions on

Sunday, the students presented some skits. Each student prayed in different

languages, the agony there were having, on missing Swami. Each one of them

mentioned that they are bound by Love to Swami, and their relation with Swami

was inseparable. They pleaded, that they cannot live WITHOUT HIM. The narration

by each student was followed by songs which revealed their agony of missing

Swami. A very emotion packed presentation, was

witnessed by all devotees.So far so good. Now the time has come for all us to

think more about Swami We are taking for granted about routine Darshan of

Bhagawan. Swami's Divine body is aging. We have seen Swami for the last many

decades. There are only few more years of Swami's existence in the world, and

this short period is very very precious. And during this short period Swami is

visibly in physical strain. For the sake of devotees, Swami undergoes lot of

inconveniences and makes His appearance for giving us His Divine Darshan. We

should make the best possible chances to get benefits from these Darshans The

feelings should not be a routine one. We should start feeling for the welfare

of Swami's physical body too. This is most important and the responsibility of

we devotees.While we proceed to Prashanthi Nilayam or Brindavan in Whitefield,

we go with lot of prayers for our own problems. In this process, we

forget the problems of Bhagawan.Few suggestions please:-While waiting for Divine

Darshan. we should forget for a while our own problems and start praying for

Swami's welfare. By any chance, even if Darshan is not forthcoming, instead of

feeling bad about it, we should feel that Darshan is not that important but

Swami should be fine. This thought should be very positive in our mind. If

Swami is okay, all will be okay. We should be consistent in our faith that

Swami knows every one of us and our needs as well. So all our thoughts should

be centered on Swami's well being alone.2. Back in our homes, all our prayers

in our home and Sai centers too, should be for the good health of Swami.We are

used to sit in silence, (the so called Dhyan) for about a minute or two after

end of each Bhajan sessions. Nobody is sure, as what type of Dhyan it is. They

sit silently waiting for the signal which could end of

that silence sitting. This has become a routine. Let us now give some thoughts

for useful way of this precious time. During this time of silent sitting, we

should pray to Swami that He should recover soon, and be back to His brisk and

active movements. We should pray that Swami should give us joy by moving around

us, without any difficulty. In short, Devotees should have a mental dialogue

with Swami, always praying for Swami's welfare. We can even play a tape

recorder, with some mild rendering like "OM" or Gayathri mantra as a background

during this silent sitting. This would help devotees, to hold on their thoughts

on Swami, instead of allowing the mind wandering away.In all programmes, such

as any workshops, conferences or study circles etc., separate time should be

allotted to make prayers for Swami good health. Even in Balvikas classes,

children should be trained to offer such prayers.In

short all activities in Sri Sathya Sai organizations in all levels, devotees

should be encourage to offer prayers on regular basis.Let all of us keep our

own matters in the secondary position, and understand that Swami's good health

is very important.Come let us all take the initial steps as early as possible.

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Dear SAI brother & sisters,

 

We all agree to this. Yesterday in our Samiti

discussions, we have decided to do HAVAN exclusively

for early recovery of SWAMI in addition to our daily

prayers.

 

SWAMI always says that he does not do anything for him

and therefore it is our moral duty to now pray our

Bhagwan to cure himself at the earliest,

 

JAI SAI RAM

 

Vivek Gupta

 

 

 

--- Meenakshi Chintapalli <mkchintapalli

wrote:

 

> Sai Ram Brothers and Sisters,

> I totally agree with brother Prakash.

> I think this is the very reason we started the Sai

> Global Prayer group to dedicate a selected time

> world over to pray for the Welfare Of The UNiverse

> and Swami. Swami is the Universe. They are

> inseperable.....