Fw: Sai Inspires - 16th October 2005 from Prashanti Nilayam

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Forwarding the message received from "Heart2Heart" RadioSai e-Journal Team, Prasanthi Nilayam.

 

Sairam

 

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Dear Reader,

 

Loving Sairam from the H2H Team.

 

What should be the guiding spirit behind all our actions? Swami enlightens you today.

 

 

Sai Inspires - 16th October 2005

 

 

The body is the prime requisite for the performance of right action (dharma).

Indifferent to fame or blame, not seeking power or position, one should perform

one’s duty selflessly. Do not be swayed by any consideration other than

your duty. Whether it be in a political organization or any other, with regard

to a personal matter or in relation to national issues, you should act

according to the dictates of your conscience, without any other concern. One

can become a courageous leader only if one performs one’s duties in this

spirit. All actions must be done in a spirit of service.

- Divine Discourse, 1st Jan 1993.

 

'I AM SAI'

 

Loving Sai Ram and greetings from Prashanti Nilayam.

Four days from today, it would be the 20th of October. We wonder if the date

rings a bell. Exactly sixty-five years ago on this day, a fourteen year old boy

named Satyanarayana Raju, studying in the Government School in Uravakonda in

Anantapur District, left for School in the morning, as he did every day.

However, on that day, he turned back half way and returned home. There he told

his stunned elder brother and sister-in-law:

I am no longer your Sathya. I am Sai. I don’t belong to you. I have My

work. My devotees are calling Me. I am leaving you. I can no longer stay here.

So saying, he walked up to a neighbour’s house and sat on a rock in the

garden there while people flocked, bringing flowers and various other

offerings. And then, most lovingly, Sathya, who had now revealed Himself as

Sai, led the congregation in a Bhajan that has now become famous.

Manasa bhajare Gurucharanam,Dustara bhavasagara tharanam.

O mind! Meditate on the Lotus Feet of the Lord!That alone will help you to sail

across the turbulent ocean called life.

The schoolboy Sathya had now become a part of history and in His place there was

the Avatar of the Age, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba! Elder brother Seshama Raju

was not entirely convinced, even though people started flocking to the Avatar.

Some years later, Seshama Raju, failing to recognise that his younger brother

was the Avatar, wrote a letter warning Swami about the pitfalls of life, and

how some were decrying Him as a fraud and a trickster.

On 25th May, 1947, Swami replied to that letter. Though the letter was intended

for Seshama Raju, it was in fact addressed to ‘all who are devoted to

Me’. That letter is a powerful declaration of the purpose of the Sai

Avatar. In that letter, Baba wrote: I have a Task: To foster all mankind, and

ensure for all people lives full of Bliss or Ananda.

I have a Vow: To lead all who stray away from the straight path back again into

goodness and to save them.

I am attached to a ‘Work’ that I love: To remove the suffering of

the poor and grant them what they lack.

Just reflect on all that has happened since then, and how much our beloved Swami

has done for humanity, hardly moving from His native village!

We hope that as the Eightieth Birthday approaches, these thoughts would fill

your Mind every single second, about how inspiring His life and Message are!

See you again next week. Jai Sai Ram.

 

 

With Love and Regards,

"Heart2Heart"

RadioSai e-Journal Team,

In Sai Service.

 

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