Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Sai Vichaar www.saibaba.org Thursday , January 26, 2006 :: Volume 8, Issue 37 (In its eighth year of publication.) Sai Vichaar is a Weekly newsletter distributed every Thursday and is devoted to the life, philosophy and teachings of Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi. Feel free to forward this newsletter to your interested associates in its original form. IN THIS ISSUE: FEATURE OF THE WEEK CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE DEVOTEES SAY PRAYER CLUB EXPERIENCE OF DEVOTEES QUOTATION OF THE WEEK QUESTION OF THE WEEK SAI ACTIVITIES FROM THE EDITORS KEYBOARD FEATURE OF THE WEEK: Role of Sadguru Once upon a time, a teacher by name of Paramanandam lived in a small village. He was a married person with a wife and children. He had ten students under him. These students were very naive and used to behave in foolish way. Most of the time, they used to misinterpret the teacher's words and they used to create confusing situations. The teacher knew their defects and always tried to help them. Days were passing on like this. One day, a difficult, problematic situation had cropped up. The problem was that the ten students had to cross a river to go to the other side. The teacher told them all the precautions to cross the river safely. The ten students, by holding hands together, crossed the river and went to the other side. Then suddenly, they got a doubt that someone in them was missing. So, they wanted to count each other. They selected a person among themselves to do the counting. The person who did the counting (he did not include himself in the counting) counted only nine people. This created tension in them. Another one was selected to do the counting; he also repeated the same mistake as the first one did. He also reconfirmed that only nine people were left. Now, it became clear for them that one among them was drowned in the river. They felt very sad. They started crying loudly for the lost one. A passenger going by listened to their cries. He went near and asked them about their problem. They explained to him the situation. This passenger was an intelligent person. He understood their foolishness completely. He asked the ten students to stand in a line. He started counting them one by one until he counted the tenth person. The students felt very happy and thanked the passenger. In this story, even though there is a tenth person, because of ignorance, the presence of that person could not be appreciated. Then, the teacher who came as a passenger, (teachings of the teacher) showed them that the tenth person was present. The ignorance is two- fold. It makes us not to appreciate the real and also makes us to misinterpret the real. A Guru is essential for us to bring us out of the darkness of ignorance. The Guru makes us to experience the 'Real' in a clear way. The Grace of our Sri Sai who is a perfect master and a mother that knows the real needs of her children blesses all of us. CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: A Prayer Whenever I have been depressed and low, which is often My Baba listens to my prayers, which is always... I pray to you with my mind wandering here and there Bless me Baba, control my mind Please be with me always and ever..... What shall I do without your grace I need your blessings, your love and protection Please answer my prayers, remove my fears I have faith, wish to have stronger faith Let me be at your feet and let your hand be on my head, always and ever....... Baba I love you, I worship you Let my heart be filled with your love and worship always and ever.... (Contributed by Savita Jayaram) DEVOTEES SAY: Swapna My dear Baba, thank you very much for granting my wish and coming to my home. After the New Year, I received a letter from your temple in Chicago. I opened it with great interest to see your greeting card blessing us for the New Year. When I saw it, my happiness knew no bounds Baba. Please be always with us and help us get through in this journey of life. Kavitha I am a student doing my Post Graduate and I was not able to write my exams properly. I really studied well, but during that three hours I was not able to answer all the questions. I was really very much worried about my results. I prayed Baba to help me. I got my P.G in a well reputed college due to Baba's grace. Yesterday only I got my result. I got 92 percent. I do not have words to explain my feelings. I am very happy. I thanked Baba for helping me. Thank you very much Baba. Rani Sai Ram, yesterday I was in a big problem, when I was doing one project work, my Laptop hard drive crashed and I could not start the computer and gave too many errors. This project, I have been working since two weeks and could not save or back up this particular file. I almost started to cry, as I knew I will get bad name from my boss. Sai Bandhus please believe me, I just started praying Baba and reciting Sai Namams and while chanting I packed my laptop and took it to a computer service center and with great difficulty with Baba's grace, the technician and owner had a looked at it and it started as if nothing happened. Kamal Sai, this is your humble devotee. I had prayed to Sai that if my sister found her gold chain which she had misplaced that I would write to You. She found the chain after we prayed in front of Your picture. Thankyou Sai we have full faith in You and you will not disappoint your devotees. Sai Bless us always. Let us be humble to all. Surekha Thank you very much for helping my husband to become a Ph.D candidate. You made everyone to be in his favor. Though he did not do his oral exam properly, You helped him get his candidacy. Thank you Saibaba, thank you very much. PRAYER CLUB: Shashi I want to join my new company. I guess my manager will try to create problems not releasing me from the company. He will say that he will not accept my resignation. But I want to join the new company at any cost on 13th February 2006. Please Baba, help me get relieved by 13th of February with a handshake. Geeta I am working for IDBI as a secretary. I have applied for IDBI's exam for the post of assistant manager. Please pray that I should get through the exam and the interview that will follow. Srinivas We are praying on a big request to You for the last six years and that time has come Baba to see the reality of that request. Please help us Baba in that and see that our child is born healthy and safely. Bhavna Please bless us to have a baby. Sai devotees, please pray for us, so that we could get Baba's grace. We need that right now. Senthil Help me to find a job where I would have happiness, good salary and career. Find me the love of my life. Please shower with blessing. I have no one without You. Sanjeevarani Baba today brother's court case is there. Please be with him. Baba, he is much feared. Please solve the case in our favor Sai. Baba my brother is innocent. Please Baba be with my mother and brother in court. A Sai devotee Baba accept my gratitude to bless me with my result. Without Your help I couldn't able to pass, please bless me continue to finish my degree and diploma. Please solve my work problem and also find me a nice loving caring husband. Also find me some friends and family whom I can trust to share my feelings. Please help my sister to be with me and also help her to get married. Please show me your miracle. I know You can help me. I have no one without Your feet. Sai devotee Oh! kind Sai koti pranaams to You. First of all thank you dear Sai for making it possible for me to be able to visit India and hence Shirdi and spend quality time with my parents. Oh Sai today I am going to my in-laws place, please let our stay there be peaceful without any trouble. Oh Sai please bless my sister with a child. We have been praying so hard for her so please shower Your blessings on her kind Sai. Please continue to protect my family and my children. A devotee I am facing lot of family problems, I don't know what to do . Please guide me in this regard. Except You nobody can solve my problems. I don't know to whom I have to trust and not to trust. Please help me to build a house at my native place. Please guide me in this regard. Please guide my daughter to behave in decent manner and go to school and classes regularly. I have more faith and trust on You, please help my son to get good marks like more than 80 percent in total percentage. If you think there is no limits for sanctioning. Gauree Dear Baba, You are always there whenever I need you. You have always showered me your blessings and I still need that. Please clear my all obstacles that are coming on my way so that I wish to reach my aim soon. And Baba, please fulfill my wishes to have happy life. Shilpa I thank you Sai Baba for helping me out to come out of my problems and providing me a new job, but Baba now please give me the strength to face the society because You know how people treat when a girl leaves her hubby and try to face the world alone. My request is that I don't wanna go back into my married life but I want my in-laws and husband to realize what they have done to me is wrong. EXPERIENCE OF DEVOTEES: Sirisha I would like to share my experience with all the Sai devotees. In November 2004 I became pregnant and after nine weeks of pregnancy, miscarriage happened and I became devastated. At that time when I went to the doctor, she did all the tests and results came that I have thyroid problem, so I started taking thyroid medicines. Doctor also told me that upto one year it is impossible for me to become pregnant. I came home and in front of Baba I cried a lot. By Baba's blessings in March 2005, I became pregnant but I was so tensed about my pregnancy because I have thyroid problem. With Baba's blessings I delivered healthy baby boy on January 4th 2006 without any health complications and I didn't suffer much in labor time also. Because of Baba's blessing all this happened. I named my son Sai. Please Baba shower your blessings on our family and all the Sai devotees. Charul I want to share my experience that made my husband a devotee of Shri Sai. My husband is an expert in the German language. Since the times are very demanding and we were expecting our second child, we were looking for an additional source of income. Baba made it possible for us to have that source by giving translation assignments to my husband. As a token of respect, we decided to offer 10 percent of the total extra income for charity purposes. It was indeed a matter of great surprise for both of us when we purchased blankets for the needy that the cost of the blankets was the same as we had kept aside as if Baba was telling us that He approves of our choice. For some it may be sheer coincidence but for us it was Baba's words. I pray that Sai gives his divine grace to all, there be peace and love all around. Let all the children of Sai be blessed by His grace and let there be Sai everywhere. Om Sai Ram. Rupali Saibaba's miracles in my life are endless. But one of them is as follows. My father suffered a heart attack on Thursday just a week before the birth of my daughter. At first, I was very disappointed with Baba. I thought why did Baba give this pain. I put udhi on my father's forehead and all of us prayed to Baba. But later on when my father recovered, I realized that Baba saved my father. It happened on Thursday-Saibaba's day. He did not suffer much. Before next Thursday, he was home. On Friday my daughter was born healthy with no complications since I was worried that the emotional stress I had due to my fathers ill health would affect my delivery. So my father did not have much time to feel low about his health (the after shock) neither did we, instead he survived a major crisis and was happy being grandfather. QUOTATION OF THE WEEK: "Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets. Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to the king. Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship. Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business. Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well."-A Sufi saying QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Q. How are we to know that we have won Sai's grace? A. by Nandini Aum Sarva BhaaraBhrthe Namah! (Obeisance to SaiNath who takes over the burden of all) When the doubting mind finally rests, we begin to feel peace and happiness from within for reasons beyond our understanding. Suddenly everything looks perfect; we no longer feel the lack of anything. We begin to see a glow somewhere and our hearts tend to believe we are on the right path. The Holy Name of Sai or Rama will send a wave of satwik emotions through our body. All this is the outcome of true surrender to a Higher Power, for such a surrender is immediately followed by peace. Where there is surrender, there the Guru's Grace has dawned! SAI ACTIVITIES: Shirdi Sai Temple of Chicago and Suburbs, Illinois, USA Shirdi Sai temple is open daily from 8:00 a.m to 9:00 p.m (Winter hours). Daily program includes Kakad Arathi at 8 a.m followed by Abhisek. Madhayana Arathi at 12 noon, Dhoop Arathi at 6 p.m and Shej Arathi at 9 p.m. Archana, Homams, Sahasranama and sponsored poojas continue in between the Arathis. To request a pooja for yourselves, your friends and family, please call. Devotees can request water (Abhishek Jal) from the Holy bathing of Baba by sending us an email or by phone. Temple is located 25 minutes drive west of Schaumburg on intersection of IL Route 47 and Plank Road in Hampshire, IL. For more information please call 847-931-4058 or send email to maildrop. Shirdi Saibaba Prayer Center, Minnesota Regular Sai activities in Minneapolis, St.Paul area are being conducted at Shirdi Saibaba Prayer Center, 725 Lake St NE, Apt #139 Hopkins MN. For details, please contact hamaresai, or call Shirdi Saibaba Prayer Center at 952-938-2983, and to read the monthly newsletter Sai Sandesh, visit www.hamaresai.org. Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple of DFW Metroplex is located at 2109 West Parker (Parker Plaza), Suite 212, Plano, TX 75023. For temple hours and activities please call the temple office at 469-467-3388 or visit the website www.shirdisaidallas.org. Shirdi Sai Satsang, Bay Area, California Shirdi Sai Parivaar invites all to join us for Satsang every Thursday 7:30 pm at Odd Fellows Temple, 20589 Homestead Road, Cupertino, CA 95014. For details please call 408-564-6704 or send email to saibandhu or visit www.ShradhaSaburi.org. Sai Satsang, New Jersey, USA Shirdi Sai Dham, Inc regularly conducts Sai bhajans followed by Aarti and Parsad on every 1st Saturday of each month at Durga Mandir, Kendall Park, New Jersey from 3 pm to 5 pm (Winter Hours). All are requested to kindly come and receive Baba's blessings. For more information, please call us at 609-275-1334 or visit www.shirdisaidham.org or email us at shirdisaidham Shirdi Sai Satsang, Toronto, Canada Shirdi Saibaba Sansthan invites all to join for satsangs every Thursday 7:00 pm at Sai Dwarkamai, 147 Winston Castle Dr. Markham, Ontario, L6C 2N4, phone 416-402-8089 or email: saileela99. To request a pooja for yourselves, your friends and family for any occasion at your residence, please call. Devotees can request udi or Holy water (Abhishek Jal) from the Holy bathing of Baba by sending us an email or by phone. Shirdi Sai Mandir, Scarborough, Canada The Shirdi Sai Mandir located at 2721 Markham Road, Scarborough, Ontario, M1X 1L5 (Intersection of Markham and Nashdene) is open Monday to Friday from 6:30 p.m to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday to Sunday from 10:30 a.m to 8:30 p.m. Dhoop Aarti is at 7:30 p.m. everyday. Bhajans are on Saturday from 5:00 p.m. onwards. For other temple activities and information please call 647-444-4724 or send an email to info. Shirdi Sai Satsang in Vancouver, BC, Canada Shirdi Sai parivar in Vancouver invites you for bhajans, every Thursday (6:30pm - 7:30 pm) at 8571, 118A Street, Delta, V4C 6L2. For further details contact Ritu (604)592 4182 or email at sai_ish. Sai Satsang, Singapore To all Shirdi Sai Baba devotees in Singapore, Sai Sansthan, Singapore is organizing Shirdi Sai Baba prayer session every Saturday between 18:30 hrs to 20:30 hrs at 2nd floor function hall, Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman temple, (opp. to Sinda), 555, Serangoon Road, Singapore- 218174. We invite you all to participate and seek Baba's blessings. For further details, please visit www.saisansthan.com. Sai Baba Satsang in Auckland, New Zealand Sai Baba Satsang ( Bhajans , Provochan , Sai Ashotottram and Shej Arathi ) is held every Thursday from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at MT Roskill War Memorial Hall, May Road , Mt Roskill, Auckland, NZ. For more detials visit our website http://www.shirdisaibaba.org.nz or mail to info. FROM THE EDITORS KEYBOARD: Sai Vichaar thanks you for your support for the Question of the Week feature. This feature is intended to initiate useful discussion on topics related to Sai philosophy, His message, and Sai devotion. 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