The Glory of Shirdi Sai - Issue 07-2007 from Saidarbar

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THE GLORY OF SHIRDI SAI

Fifth Year of Publication

Published as Bi-Weekly

Issue 07/2007

29-03-2007

 

 

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GURUR-BRAHMA, GURUR-VISHNUH; GURU-DEVO MAHESWARAHA;

 

GURUR-SAKSHATH PARAM BRAHMA; THASMAI SREE GURAVE

NAMAHA:

 

 

Sairam. You can watch Live Web casting from Shirdi Sai

Samadhi Mandir from following Link:

 

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THIS ISSUE CONTAINS:

 

1. FROM THE SATSANGHS OF SAIBANISA JI

2. SAI'S NEWS FROM TIME MACHINE

3. SAI IN DREAMS

4. QUINTESSENCE OF SRI SAIBABA'S PHILOSOPHY

5. SANATANA DHARMA & SHRI SHIRDI SAIBABA

6. DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES

7. SAI WITH CHILDREN

8. ARTICLES FROM SAI DEVOTEES

9. LETTERS FROM SAI DEVOTEES

10. TELUGU SECTION

11. SAI'S BOOK WORLD

12. EDITORIAL.

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1. FROM THE SATSANGHS OF SAIBANISA JI

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Compiled by:

Sai Sevak Smt. Rajeswari Kasturi, Saidarbar –

Hyderabad.

 

TRUTH

 

With perfect detachment a slightly new twist may be

give even to truth in modern exigencies. Truth is the

first definition of God. There is no reality greater

than truth. Truth and penance purify the mind as

nothing else can. With the mind cleansed, control of

the senses becomes comfortable and the revelation of

the Brahman inside follows as a matter of course.

 

We do not harm others by our untruth as much as we do

ourselves. By appearing to the outside world what we

really are not inside, we only cause the most serious

loss to our own spiritual up lift.

 

If we make truth our life principle and follow it

steadfastly, it irons out many oddities in our

character. For instance, suppose a person commits

adultery. He is afraid of confessing it in public or

before his wife. But if he is most resolutely wedded

to truth, he never allows himself to become guilty of

that sin at any time for fear that he will have to

tell a lie about it in future.

 

Like this, sticking to truth unswervingly, he can cure

himself of anger, greed, jealousy, etc. with the

eradication of all such frailities, the human rises to

the level of the divine, which again is infinitely

superior to all the material advantages that accrue to

him by leading a life of falsehood.

 

But inspite of all this, it has unfortunately become

the irony of the modern times, that truth is proving

suicidal to the person adopting it as an article of

faith in his life. A strict adherent to truth is

thrown out of the picture very often, in business,

politics, society and power.

 

In such extreme cases, and that too as a very rare

concession to the treacherous conditions in which he

is obliged to live, a by pass to truth may be

permitted. That is, he may then utter as little

untruth as is absolutely necessary, with the

detachment of a paid executioner towards the victim,

but that mental discipline is perhaps more difficult

to acquire than desisting from falsehood.

 

Om Shantih Shantih Shantihi

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu

To be continued…

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2. SAI'S NEWS FROM THE TIME MACHINE:

 

March 1917- (Holi). Baba appeared to Hemadripanth in

dream and said that he would come for meals that day

and finally he arrived in the form of a picture.

 

March 1988- Swami Ram Baba a noted devotee associated

with Baba left his mortal coil at Bombay.

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3. SAI IN DREAMS:

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These are the dream sequences and messages as received

by SaiBaNiSaji From our beloved GURU LORD SAINATH OF

SHIRIDI. In Anticipation that this feature will help

in one's spiritual growth are hereby compiled from his

personal Diary and presented to SAIBANDHUS.

 

Translated and presented by RAGHU RAMAN SATULURY.

 

25-01-1995

 

I prayed Baba to grant me with the energies to be on

the right path always. Sai had shown the following

visual:

 

The people imprison the goddess of the Truth and

wisdom. Break the shackles and work for their freedom

with tactful intelligence.

 

Exercise restraint in exhibiting charity. Even wife

need not be informed. Then only the inner strength

grows.

 

Observe selectivity in all other matters of charities

except in feeding the hungry.

 

Be truthful and realistic in charities.

 

30-01-1995

 

I was feeling inferior and disappointed, as I was not

able to speak in better language during Satsanghs. Sai

appeared in the form of an unknown person and said-

 

A man dresses up well and applies all sorts of

perfumes before he steps out to satiate his sensual

pleasures. Whereas devotion is mainly linked with the

heart. We cannot decorate the heart for the purpose,

but the heart can be synchronized with the time and

situation to experience the underlying bliss. Devotion

thus helps in bridging the gap between the soul and

the God. Here there is no language barrier involved. A

hungry person needs food and the sick one needs

medicine, so also devotion needs the proper bent of

mind.

 

Content is more important than the language.

 

To be continued…..

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4. QUINTESSENCE OF SRI SAIBABA'S PHILOSOPHY:

(By Late Sri Bharam UmamaheswaraRao)

" Shashi " : shashi_31

 

28. What is Jnana & Ajnana (Nescience)

 

Without spiritual knowledge (jnana), ignorance

(ajnana) cannot be banished. True spiritual knowledge

is that which cleanses and purifies the inner feeling,

restrains futile thoughts, not giving rise to sensual

longings, not yielding to the cravings, bestowing the

ability to discriminate between the appropriate and

inappropriate actions, unruffled by sensations, fear

and sorry, unperturbed by allegations or humiliations,

unaffected by calamitous forces of lust and anger.

Jnana gives rise to awakening of Sama (forbearance)

and Dama (self control) capable of resting one in

Samadhi, during meditation, exalting the consciousness

to a unified image and deriving joy from it and

renders the mind disinterested in objects. Jnana is

that which develops interest in the practice of yoga,

that which restrains one from indulging in pleasures

and luxuries of the mundane world, restraining the

sense of doer ship even while discharging the ordained

duties and responsibilities, that which enables

performance of the duties without egoism that which

frees one from sorrows of birth and death and dispels

the scourges of diseases and old age.

 

Jnana induces an ardent and intense effort for

breaking away from the bonds of cycles of

birth/re-birth, makes one realize even during one’s

youth the qualities of old age, enables one to realize

that this body would ultimately perish after reaching

the old age. It confers the ability to perceive

oneness of God, bestows the realization that the

Supreme Being signifies the assertion the One and the

only One without the Second. Jnana confers the

unswerving steadiness of mind. ‘Shradhavan Labhate

Jnanam’ i.e. such a one who has Shraddha only gains

knowledge.

 

To be continued…..

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5. SANATANA DHARMA & SHRI SHIRDI SAIBABA

 

The unitive state cannot be attained

Through words or thoughts or through the eye.

How can it be attained except through one

Who is established in this state himself?

 

-Katha Upanishad

 

Neither the sense of acting; nor actions, nor

connections of cause and effect comes from the Lord of

this world. These three arise from nature.

 

-Bhagavad Gita 5:14

 

 

NEWS

 

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PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, March 20, 2007: Princeton Hindu

Satsangam and The Princeton University Office of

Religious Life invites interested individuals to a

discussion entitled " Peace or Perish - There is No

Other Choice " with The Revered Dada J. P. Vaswani,

world-renowned Hindu leader and humanitarian from

Pune, India. Mr. Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary

General, United Nations, will be a guest speaker. This

important discussion will be held Tuesday, April 10,

2007, at 7 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander

Hall, Princeton University. The Reverend Vaswani's new

book, " Peace or Perish - There Is No Other Choice,

Stepping Stones for Turbulent Times " will also be

released at the evening's event. For directions,

please visit URL above.

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DINDIGUL, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, March 25, 2007: The huge

10-day Panguni Uthiram festival will commence at the

famed Palani Hills Murugan Temple with flag hoisting

between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on March 26. The car

procession will start from Padha Vinayagar Temple at

Malai Adivaram at 4:00 pm on April 1. The temple

administration has made elaborate arrangements for the

festival. Cultural programs have been arranged at

Kudamuzhukku Mandapam near Malai Adivaram during the

festival days. Lord Murugan will be taken in a

procession on Giri Veedhis in the evening on all

festival days. Eminent speakers will render religious

discourses and artistes and carnatic vocalists will

sing devotional songs; the emphasis will be on folk

music. The cultural programs will commence at 5.30

p.m. and end at 10 p.m. and the Nadai of the hill

temple will open at 4 a.m. during the festival period.

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first time in summer, Rutgers University is including

four new credit courses under religion department

about Hindu culture and religion: 1. Hinduism through

its Narrative Tradition; 2. Hindu Rituals, Festivals

and Symbols; 3. Hindu Philosophy; and 4. Hinduism and

Modernity. In addition, Sanskrit, the ancient Indian

classical language is also offered as a credit course.

All these courses can be taken by anybody without any

pre-requisites. For more info, please visit URL above.

 

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6. DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES:

 

vkv55

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:14:37 +0000 (GMT)

 

Pranams at the Lotus Feet of Sainath- The Most

Merciful and Loving Lord

 

Shri Sainath's mercy cannot be expressed in words. Our

whole family loves Sai and we have several pictures of

Sai in our home. My wife almost every day reads the

Sacharitra and she has been a recipient of His Grace

on several occasions. I also completed a 7 day saptaha

and am awaiting to receive Prasad from Shiridi. He

knows us more than we know ourselves. Our residence in

Chennai, is just a km from Mylapore Baba's temple. We

always get that joy when we visit the temple and

particularly, when we touch His Lotus Feet, our

emotions sometimes goes un controlled.

May Lord Sainath bring joy to all His Bhaktas and May

He draw more and more to Him and protect them.

 

Thanks for allowing me to speak about Sai.

 

Humbly yours

Vijayaraghavan v k

Bahrain

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parvati26

On 24 Mar 2007 04:58:31 -0000

 

I believe in Chamatkar of Sai Ram because it is comes

true Both time

when I worry and in problems I remembered to Sai Baba

 

Sai Baba sabka dukh dekhte hai aur use kam karte hai.

 

I Parul Sing belong in city Kanpur, I have visit the

city Shirdi last year it is a holy place there Sai

Baba seemed to me every place

Om Sai Ram

 

Parul Singh

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7. SAI WITH CHILDREN:

 

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Smt. Madhu Gopal Ravada, Saidarbar, Hyderabad.

 

Hello Children! I am Madhu aunty. Do you know Baba use

to play with children and used to tell stories to

them? I felt children visiting Saidarbar should be

entertained with good stories. Now I want to tell the

stories what heard in my child hood.

 

Lord Krishna and the Lapwing's Nest

 

It was the battle of Kurukshetra. The white conch

shells were about to sound, the elephants to march

forward, and the attack of the archers to commence.

The moment was brief and terrible. Banners were

flying, and the charioteers preparing for the advance.

 

 

Suddenly a little lapwing, who had built her nest in

the turf of a hillock in the midst of the battlefield,

drew the attention of the Lord Krishna by her cries of

anxiety and distress for her young. " Poor little

mother! " he said tenderly, " let this be thy

protection! " And, lifting a great elephant-bell that

had fallen near, he placed it over the lapwing's nest.

 

And so, through the eighteen days of raging battle

that followed, a lapwing and her nestlings were kept

in safety in their nest, by the mercy of the lord,

even in the midst of the raging field of Kurukshetra.

 

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8. ARTICLES FROM SAI DEVOTEES

 

" raghammudi ramchandrakiran " ramchandrakiran

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:01:20 +0000 (GMT)

 

jeevan ke safar mein sai tera hi saharaa,

jis par padey teri najar voh na kabhi haara

bhar loon sai naam hriday mein mera hriday hai kora

door bhagaa do hamaarey jeevan sey andhiyaara

 

satcharit paarayan sey shraddha saburi milta

sanshaya saarey door hotey manwaanchit phal paata

meri icchhaen puri karo Baba tum par hi vishwaas karta

teri leela itni niraali sabkey dukh tu harta.

 

daata tu jagat ka jholi teri kabhi na hoti khali

datta avatar maana kisi ney, kisi ney Maa kaali

teen koti devon ka mool rup, hai tu jag ka rakhwali

teri kripa sey hi bhakto key jeevan mein hogi

khushhaali.

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sudha_vohra

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:06:42 +0530

 

BABA APPNE CHARNOON SE DOOR NA HUMKO KARNA

YAHIN PER JINA HAI HUMKO YAHIN PER HUMKO MARNA

 

PAAR KAROGE NAIYA YAHI AAS DILAYI HAI TUMNE

BHATKE HUOAIN KO BABA RAH DIKHAI HAI TUMNE

KIS BAT KA PHIR HUMKO DARNA

BABA APPNE ......................

 

KIYA KIYA NAHIN SAHA BABA NE HUM LOGON KI KATIR

JAGA DIYA GAHRI NEEND SE AAPNA AAP MITAKAR

AAB TO HUMKO HAI SANBHALNA

BABA APPNE...................

 

MAT DHUKRANA BABA HUM HAI BALAK TERE

JABSE SAI NAAM JAPA HAI HO GAYE DOOR AANDHERE

AAB TO UJALE KI OOR HAI BADNA

BABA APPNE...................

 

Sudha Vohra

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9. LETTERS FROM SAIDEVOTEES:

 

shankarpandhri

16 Mar 2007 11:32:49 -0000

 

Thanks for this mail I am so happy. I am very thank

full to the Glory of Shirdi Sai – E magazine.

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abhayananth

On 19 Mar 2007 02:40:51 -0000

 

SaiRam

I really love the section " Sai In Dreams " . It contains

amazing sayings, & each one of them has touched me

deeply. Thanks for this amazing newsletter & magazine.

 

Abhay Ananth

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yvhlnrao

On 3/23/07

 

Jai Sairam

 

Excellent site and greate issue, and I am browsing

first time this time of 3D page turning format. I am

very much thankful for sending “The Glory of Shirdi

Sai " and it is very very nice and easily

understandable

 

ThanQ very much

 

Narasimharao

 

 

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Response for “The Glory of Shirdi Sai” E- Magazine

in the 3d page turning NEW FORMAT

 

achla_durga

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:12:36 40500

Jai Sai Ram,

 

The inclusion of video clipping of Saibanisaji is very

good.

 

It would be great if discourses from Satsangs are

added to e-magazine, so that we may also get some

grace listening to the satsangs

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kalajaius

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:50:34 -0700 (PDT)

SaiRam

Great. It was excellent. Enjoyed every bit.

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pburhoo

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:07:41 40500

 

Om Sai Ram

Very good e-magazine. Keep it up. May Baba blessings

be with the mag team

Premduth Burhoo

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diorshanti

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:12:58 40500

 

Sairam,

Really it is very good. In life I have some

difficulties. I want to tell to Shri Sairam thro'

letter. Kindly help me how to send him my queries. Pl

help me in this regard.

Shanthi

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melavanki

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:22:36 40500

SaiRam!

Good work. Keep it up.

Jinendra.

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prakash.vram

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:21:17 40500

 

It is a wonderful experience reading about Shri Shri

Sai Ram. You are doing an excellent job. Keep it up.

How enchanting would it be to hear the prayers of Shri

Sai Ram while reading these articles!. Kindly consider

inclusion of audio section in this work of yours.

V.PRAKASH.

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monav

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:37:22 40500

Dear Saibandhus

 

We are very glad that Baba has enlightened our lives

and has manifested so many times by his various

appearances through photos either when thinking of him

or looking for solace and thanks to his directions ,

our work has progressed very well.

Navind & Monika.

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angaras2002

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:46:42 40500

SaiRam

This E-magazine in its new format is excellent. It

gives the readers the convenience of flipping through

the magazine easily. I thank Sai Sevaks in Sai Durbar

for their efforts in bringing the Glory of Sri Sai to

the devotees all over the world.

 

-Sai Sevak -Venkata Subrahmanyam Angara

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kalaivanni_99

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:41:20 40500

..It is very nice. All the best for further

proceedings.

R. Kalaivani

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shanthacv

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:24:56 40500

Sairam

Excellent.

C V Ramanathan

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saidinakaran

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:15:44 40500

your method of displaying our Sai's heart and his

life is very appreciable, may god bless showers his

blessings to elevate your creation like this.

with love

Dinakaran

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bbliss47

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:02:54 40500

It is very nice of you all to do this. Thanks. May Sai

bless us all. cheers

Easwaran

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11. SAI'S BOOK WORLD:

Sai Baba of Shirdi

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Phase –II, New Delhi - 110 020

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The Eternal Sai

Author: S. Maneey

Diamond Pocket Books

X-30 Okhla Industrial Area,

Phase –II, New Delhi-110 020

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Shubhra Marga Shirdi Sai Baba

Author: Sai Ananda

Shirdi Sai Baba Satsang

KBRS Building,Kamaraj Road

Bangalore – 560 042

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You can download Audio:

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Sri Guru Charithra (In English Language)

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Request Sri Sai Satcharithra CD (English and Telugu

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12. EDITORIAL.

 

Things impressed me from this magazine:

 

We do not harm others by our untruth as much as we do

ourselves. If we make truth our life principle and

follow it steadfastly, it irons out many oddities in

our character.

 

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