Message for the week.

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Sairam,

 

Happy BABA's day to you all. May our prayers be answered and all our problems lighten with the grace of BABA. Last weeks message, was about repeating BABA's name constantly with love, and devotion. In Satcharita, love and devotion are stressed repeatedly through out the scripture. Why is this so? Can you imagine our relationship with parents, husband, wife, children when there is no love. When there is no feeling or empathy. Where there is no feeling of oneness? We would have been emotionless, and nothing would move us. We may not need god too. When we have the emotions of love in us we feel, hurt, pain, and other emotions which overwhelm us. It is then we resort to the feet of the god and implore him to take care of our problems. Attitude is very important, it is our attitude that determines the life we lead and how we interact with other people. We as children of BABA implore god, we have that right, but our attitude and our underlying feelings must be true. Ever wonder why children are loved by God and Scriptures say one must have the heart and faith of a child to see god? It is because the true feeling of love and faith that child has on the parent. God expects the same kind of love and feeling. Not a lip service to Him. Call out to HIM with pure heart filled with love and HE is in front of you to pull u out of the problems. Here is the message of the week. My favourite one, and i look forwards to this message everytime..

 

"

Mr. Cholkar's Sugarless Tea

Initially, Baba was known in Poona and Ahmednagar Districts, but Nanasaheb

Chandorkar, by his personal talks and by Dasganu, by his splendid Kirtans,

spread the fame of Baba in the Konkan (Bombay Presidency). In fact, it was

Dasganu - May God bless him-who, by his beautiful and inimitable Kirtans, made

Baba available to so many people there. The audience, who come to hear the

Kirtans have different tastes. Some like the erudition of the Haridas; some his

gestures, some his singing, some his wit and humour, some his preliminary

dissertation on Vedanta, and some others, his main stories and so on; but among

them, there are very few, who by hearing the Kirtan get faith and devotion or

love for God or saints. The effect of hearing Dasganu's kirtan on the minds of

audience was however electric, as it were. We give an instance here

Dasganu was once performing his Kirtan and singing the glory of Sai Baba, in the

Koupineshwar temple in Thana. One Mr. Cholkar, a poor man serving as a candidate

in the Civil Courts in Thana, was amongst the audience. He heard Dasganu's

Kirtan most attentively and was much moved. He there and then mentally bowed and

vowed to Baba saying - "Baba, I am a poor man, unable to support my family. If

by your grace, I pass the departmental examination, and get a permanent post, I

shall go to Shirdi, fall at Your Feet and distribute sugar-candy in Your name."

As good luck would have it, Mr.Cholkar did pass te examination and did get the

permanent post and now it remained for him to fulfil his vow, the sooner the

better. Mr. Cholkar was a poor man with a large family to support; and he could

not afford to pay for the expenses of a Shirdi trip. As is well said, one can

easily cross over Nahne ghat in Thana District or even the Sahyadri Range; but

it is very difficult for a poor man to cross Umbareghat, i.e., the threshold of

his house. As Mr. Cholkar was anxious to fulfill his vow as early as possible,

he resolved to economize, cut down his expenses, and save money. He determined

not to use sugar in his diet; and began to take his tea without it. After he was

able to save some money in this way, he came to Shirdi, took Baba's darshan,

fell at His Feet, offered a coconut, distributed it with a clean conscience

along with sugar-candy as per his vow and said to Baba that he was much pleased

with His darshan and that his desires were fulfilled that day. Mr. Cholkar was

in the Masjid with his host Bapusaheb Jog. When the host and the guest both got

up and were about to leave the Masjid, Baba spoke to Jog as follows:- "Give him

(your guest) cups of tea, fully saturated with Sugar." Hearing these significant

words, Mr. Cholkar was much moved, he was wonderstruck, his eyes were bedewed

with tears, and he fell at Baba's Feet again. Mr. Jog was also curious about

this direction, regarding the tea-cups to be given to his guest. Baba wanted by

His words to create faith and devotion in Cholkar's mind. He hinted as it were,

that He got the sugar-candy as per his vow and that He knew full well his secret

determination not to use sugar in his diet. Baba meant to say, "If you spread

your palms with devotion before Me, I am immediately with you, day and night.

Though, I am here bodily, still I know what you do; beyond the saven seas. Go

wherever you will, over the wide world, I am with you. My abode is in your heart

and I am within you. Always worship Me, Who is seated in your heart, as well as,

in the hearts of all beings, Blessed and fortunate, indeed, is he who knows Me

thus" Chapter 15 satcharitaBABA bless us and guide us always.

 

Humble pranams to you all.

 

Sairam

 

 

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