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FROM " LIFE OF SRI SHIRDI SAI BABA " BY NARASIMHA SWAMI

 

...... " It is always good to pray, because it brings one in contact with God. The

prayer, however, that is found most common in society is occasional prayer for a

definite material object, and there it stops. It is always advisable to avoid

the commercial spirit when dealing with God. We should not bargain with God. Nor

should we say, ‘I will pray to you only for such and such an object being

gained’. The thought of God purifies the soul, and the purified soul gets

power to draw God more and more into it. The commercialized soul, if too much

oppressed with the contemplation of the worldy benefit is handicapping itself

and preventing its purification, that is, saturation with God idea (purity means

having God-idea and impurity is lack of God or God-­idea). The very idea of

material objects may so obsess a mind as practically to obliterate the thought

of God. God then becomes only a secondary consideration, a sort of side element,

a weak coloration when

the main object before the mind’s eye is worldly gain. Such approaches are

deplorable, however attractive the object to be gained by prayer may be. One

ought to have prayer without concentrating too much on worldly gains.

Concentration on God alone is purity. Purity means power, and when a soul is

thoroughly pure, and then the objects entertained in the mind of the prayerful

soul some time previously, that is even before the prayer began, remain in the

subconscious, i.e. at the back of the praying party’s mind and may come to

fruition by the power of the purified and strengthened soul. This is an

incidental benefit which ought not to turn the scales when one considers how he

should pray. Prayer is primarily and essentially only an affair of the soul with

God. All intervention of outside objects is an interference with the soul’s

concentration on God. Prayer must be purified by very keen practice- i.e. it

must be shorn of all undesirable gross

elements just as we keep off the floating moss repeatedly when we bathe in a

tank. In cases where however one is in dire extremity and prayer comes out from

him for a much needed object, in spite of oneself, then the prayer cannot be

condemned at all. Prayer is a natural vent for the heart. We leap out at what we

want on the wings of prayer. It is God Himself that has implanted this tendency

to seek God’s help to attain objects of great importance to one’s material

or spiritual life and each time we so seek, we should stress in our mind that

God is our first and final object and that other objects form a temporary and

partial diversion or screen. " ...........

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Sai Ram and Happy Sadguru Day to you all

 

By Baba's grace, I have just completed reading a book written by DrG R Vijayakumar about the life of Sri Narasimha Swami, Apostle of Shiridi Sai Baba. (English)  published by Sterling paper backs.

 

I will be grateful to know if this book or any other publication about the life of Sri Narasimha Swami available in Telugu language.

 

Sai ram

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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:58 PM, swamy mahadevan <mahadevanvnswamy wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

FROM " LIFE OF SRI SHIRDI SAI BABA " BY NARASIMHA SWAMI……“In another case, that of Bhimaji, who had serious chest disease, asthma, tuberculosis, etc., Baba first told Shama, ‘Shama, in bringing this thief to me what a load of responsibility you are placing on me!’ Baba meant that the tuberculosis, asthma, etc., from which Bhimaji suffered were the result of Bhiinaji’s karma in a previous janma consisting of theft. Bhimaji felt Baba’s declaration a blow. At once he surrendered himself to Baba and said, ‘Helper of the helpless! I am helpless. Pray show thy pity and grace to me’. Then Baba’s tone changed. Baba told him, ‘The Fakir (God) is merciful, and your disease will be cured’. He was suffering from the results of karma, but that could be mitigated, and so the man was sent to live and sleep in a wet verandah. Bhimaji did so. There, he had two very dreadful dreams. In one dream, he was mercilessly birched by a school master. For, in the dream he fancied he was a boy and the master was

birching him. So, he felt the pain in the dream and he roared out. In the second dream, it was even worse. He felt that some one was placing a stone roller and rolling it over his breast. He suffered all the horror of instant death approaching him. All the pain of a hanging sentence and whipping sentence were endured by this man in the course of one night. Baba thus changed the punishments, which he had earned by his previous karma, and told him that he was thus free from karmic effects. He then recovered his health. The above instances go to show that most of our conceptions about karma are nebulous and ungrounded, and that the safest course for us to follow would be to be guided by the dicta of Satpurushas like Sai Baba.”……

 

 

-- Sai Nathaa Arpanastu Akhilanda Koti Brahmanda NayakaRaja Dhi Raja Yogi Raja Para Brahma Shri Sachidananda Sadguru Sai Nath Maharaj Ki Jai!!!Please visit  http://saidham.tk/

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