Sai-Satsang in 3 centers-week ending 23rd March

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om sai ram

" This month Mohammed Nabi who is a Yemeni driver-he

donated as much as SAR. 180 (SAR 111 + SAR 69) on his

own. He also bows before Baba’s photo. This is good

sign for our movement. "

--good!!!SAI'S golden era!!!

'sai bless u'

sai ram

 

--- Rajan PBV <sssdgroup wrote:

 

> Sai-Satsang in 3 centers continued

> (week ending 23rd March, Friday)

>

> Sairam to all Children, Sisters and Sai Brothers

> in all 3 Sai SatSanghs in Jubail, Dammam and Riyadh.

>

> We continue with the seventh posting of the

> activities

> of all 3 centers.

>

> Summary:

>

> 1) Ugadhi Greetings to all

>

> 2) Send-off party for Bro Achutan and family well

> attended in Riyadh

>

> Details:

>

> In Dammam the weekly satsang was held on the evening

> of Wednesday 21st March, at the residence of Bro

> Kaladeepan. The attendance was by about 20 members.

> It

> started punctually at 7.30 pm. Aarti was taken again

> by Bro Jayaraman. (It is a good practice to rotate

> the

> turn to perform aarthi) Study circle session was

> held

> on the same evening after a small break for Prasad.

> It

> was attended by about 18 members and the there was

> good participation. They have raised to me a query

> about “Spiritual Discrimination” in Chapter 4- point

> 5. I will get the clarifications and revert. Next

> Bhajan will be held at the residence of Bro Vinod.

> Bro

> Jaggu is in USA and is likely to participate in

> wedding of Bro Nada’s son on the forthcoming Sunday

> 25th March considered an auspicious day by our Hindu

> calendar. On behalf of SAI members in all 3 centers,

> we convey our best wishes for the function.

>

> The study circle in Dammam was this time attended by

> all the members who came for the Bhajan. This is a

> very healthy practice. Bro. Vinod is the study

> circle

> co-coordinator. The presence of Uncle R.S. Mani

> (father in law of Bro Varada) and a new lady member

> Gayatri helped in discussions of the topics in

> Chapter

> 4 & 5: Faith- Source of Knowledge.

>

> Jubail center held the weekly Satsang on the

> Thursday

> 22nd March at 7.30 pm that was attended by about 29

> members at Bro Swamy Mahadevan’s residence. Aarthi

> was

> taken by Bro Sunil. 10 the members came all the way

> from Dammam. Study circle on 20th March Tuesday was

> held at Bro Gopalakrishnan’s residence and attended

> by

> 6 members.

>

> I learnt from Bro Swamy Mahadevan that one of the

> Jubail center’s voluntary contributor is Mohammed

> Nabi

> who is a Yemeni driver. This month he donated as

> much

> as SAR. 180 (SAR 111 + SAR 69) on his own. He also

> bows before Baba’s photo. This is good sign for our

> movement.

>

> Riyadh group held the weekly Bhajan on Thursday 22nd

> March from 7.00 pm. till about 10.00 pm. It was a

> full house with about 60 members. The aarthi was

> performed by Bro Achuthan who is leaving the

> Kingdom

> this month to work in Dubai. The dinner was also

> hosted by his family. The center presented a token

> gift as sign of our affection and love and as

> Swami’s

> blessings for his family. His wife Kavitha and son

> were also present.

>

> Bro.Achuthan is an alumnus of Baba’s educational

> Institution where he did his MBA. Even his father

> was

> a devotee of Swami for more than 40 years. Baba

> recognized Achuthan and called him affectionately as

> “Palakad” nad took him to Kodai in Summer retreat.

> Achuthan also attended the year-end Alumni meet last

> Dec 2006 at Puttaparthi. He participated in our

> Jubail

> program and also in Medical camp organized last year

> in Dammam. We are very lucky that there are still

> other alumni’s continuing in Riyadh center and

> sharing

> their wonderful and personal experiences of Swami

> with

> us.

>

> Ugadhi was this year on 20th March and members

> posted

> several greetings. The following note is really for

> BalVikas students and hopefully they now have time

> to

> look at it, after their recent exams, that is now

> complete. A lot of the material below appeared in

> New

> York Times.

>

> This is really an astronomical event that ushers in

> spring proper. This year in 2006 the vernal equinox

> falls on Tuesday, March 20,

>

> The equinox is the result of Earth’s sizable tilt,

> 23.5 degrees relative to the plane of the orbit.

> That

> tilt is fairly fixed and the northern tip of the

> skewer always points toward the same spot in space,

> the bold sparkle of Polaris, the North Star (Dhuruva

> in Hindu almanac).

>

> When the northern skewer tip happens to be facing

> the

> Sun the northern hemisphere is bathed in the direct

> sunbeams and generous long days of summer. During

> that

> time, it is winter in Southern hemisphere (below the

> equator). Six months later, it is reversed, with the

> northern axis tilted away from the Sun, and reverse

> seasons for the two hemispheres.

>

> However, twice a year the axial skewer tips are

> pointing neither toward nor away from the Sun, but

> instead are positioned exactly off to the side.

> These

> are the times of the equinox, when the linked

> geometry

> of Earth’s rotational and orbital planes together

> bestow a day of equal parts light and night across

> the

> entire globe. There are two equinoxes during the

> year,

> one in March and another in September.

>

> Vernal equinox, the Latin term that means “equal

> night

> of spring,” is used to indicate the March-based

> equinox even in the southern hemisphere, where the

> event is really the start of autumn.

>

> For many cultures throughout history, people got

> ready

> to start tilling the fields. Ancient peoples were

> keen

> observers of the Sun, stars and planets and noted

> with

> enviable precision how the position of the sunrise

> shifted on the horizon throughout the year. By

> tracking solar motions, they kept track of time and

> even designed their major structures to suit it.

>

> The Great Sphinx of Egypt, for example, built some

> 4,500 years ago, is positioned to face toward the

> rising sun on the vernal equinox.

> In the 1,500-year-old Mayan city of Chichén Itzá, in

> Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, the magnificent Kukulcán

> Pyramid practically slithers to life each spring

> equinox evening, as the waning sun casts a shadow

> along its steps of seven perfectly symmetrical

> isosceles triangles, a pattern suggesting the

> diamondback skin of a snake. “The snake’s head

> points

> north, to the sacred part of the site, and the

> snake’s

> body represents a kind of umbilicus between sky and

> earth,”

>

> While Hindus call this day as Ugadhi (Uga +Aadhi in

> Sanskrit= meaning beginning of a New Era) other

> agricultural communities also celebrate it under

> different names. For example, it is called as

> “Nawroz”

> in Iran and Iraq. It is really a farmer’s festival

> and

> not associated with Mythology.

>

> I hope our student members will now post their own

> observations of different festivals we Hindus and

> other cultures celebrate and reasons behind it.

>

> Sairam and Pranams to all.

>

> P.B.V.Rajan

>

 

 

 

 

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