Sai Satcharitra - Ovi to Ovi english Translation - Chp-1

March 30, 2007

12. O, the holiest of holies, with an immense body, Ganapati! there is no difference between you and Sai. Please take me to your abode where you reside in contentment. 13. Now, I bow down to Saraswati, the daughter of Brahma, who inspires the intelligence. Make my intelligence thy swan8 and control it. 14. She has the veena9 of Brahma in her hand, and a vermillion mark on her forehead. She is clad in virginal white and her vehicle is the swan. Grant me your blessings. 15. She is the Deity of Speech and Mother of the Universe. Without her grace no literary activity is possible;

and, without her blessings I will not be able to write these religious verses. 16. This Mother of the Universe is the source of the Vedas. She is the splendour of knowledge and the excellence of the mind. May the nectar of the Sai Samartha Charita be drunk by the people through me. 17. Sai himself is the Divine Saraswati, holding the ‘Aum’ chanting veena in his

hands and himself sings the story of his own life, for the salvation of the devotees. 18. Obeisance to Brahma, Vishnu and Shankar respectively representing creation, preservation and destruction of the universe and epitome of Raja, Satva, Tama10. 19. O, Sainath, Light Incarnate, for us you are Ganesh, Lord of Savitri, Ramesh and

Umesh11. 20. You are the Sadguru for us. You are the ship to carry us across life’s ocean. We, the devotees, are its passengers. Take us to the yonder shore. 21. Without some good deeds of the past births, how could we have got such a place at your feet? 22. My obeisance to the Family Deity, Narayana Adinatha12, dweller of the milky ocean and remover of all sorrows. 23. Parshuram reclaimed the ocean and created a new land, which is called “Konkan”13. There appeared Narayan. 24. I am totally dependent on Narayan, the indweller of all beings, who controls all the living beings and protects them with his merciful glance, for his inspiration. 25. Similarly, I make obeisance with utmost respect to my original ancestor, a great sage of Gowd region, who was brought by Bhargava, for the completion of his sacrifice or

‘yajñya’. -- to be contdDevotees can read this book from the Book Section of http://www.saileela s.org/books/ sss/index. htm

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