Guest guest Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 jai sai ram deepa........your mail is very encourgeable.......thanks ...may god bless youpoojasai ram--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Deepa <debu7366 wrote:Deepa <debu7366 Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 2:31 AM Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? It was a Thursday on the first day of this year. I knew how it feels for a Sai devotee. New Year always brings lots of new hopes and since the first day was a Thursday, I was very excited and happy and felt that this is definitely going to be a good year. In the evening I went to Sai temple, did pooja and offered some money in the hundi of the temple.The next day, I heard about an old friend whose father died 5 years back. I haven't heard about her since then. I didn't know that she had to abandon her study due to the financial crisis. She joined a beauty parlor to support her family. She has a younger sister who was physically challenged. I was shocked to learn about her story. She was a very bright and ambitious student and she had lots of dreams about her higher education. I really felt bad. I tried to help her and offered her financial help so she can resume her study. But it was too late. She couldn't accept my offer as she had discontinued her studies long back as she had to support her family.Later in the day I remembered an article about Shirdi Sai Sansthan becoming the second richest temple in the country just behind the temple of Tirupati. There were talks of enormous amounts of money collected by the temple as donation or offerings by people. I wondered how much of that money is actually utilized and how much of that money remains idle not serving any purpose. People donate hundreds of crores of rupees every year to various temples and spiritual organizations without even caring how much of that money would be utilized.This incident made me realize that there are definitely better and even more practical ways of utilizing the money which we want to donate. And this can be achieved if we look around the place we live and identify the needs of the people. Because India is a land of contrasts, we can always find people who are in greater need of goods and financial assistance than us. For example we can support the education of a kid of a poor family, pay for the medical bills of the person who cannot afford it, feed poor people or donate our money to an organization which is actively involved in social work and not just sit on piles of money. Most of the famous Temples are already very rich and practically they do not need any money at least for a couple of years.There is no better sight in the world than seeing the face of a small child who cannot afford education and who has just been given a notebook and other accessories by you. If you think you have very little money to help, you can save that little money and add onto it till it becomes significant enough to bring a change in a needy person's life. You can even save a fixed amount of money per month and use it later when you see someone really needs it. If you look around carefully, you will find lots of opportunity where the money can be utilized.Donation is not a formality to please our lords but it's a way to support and appreciate a noble cause. The responsibility lies on us to plan well and donate the money very carefully as it belongs to our Sai. We give full attention to our SAI who is sitting inside a temple but we often ignore SAI who lives in each and every human soul in this world. Let us make judicious use of our assets to spread happiness in the lives of people who need it most. PS: Article published in Samarpan Jan 2009 Edition.You can read more of such articles at http://gallery. spiritualindia. org/spiritual- resources/ samarpan/ Samarpan_ Jan2009.pdf. html Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu Gurur Devoh Maheshwar; Gurur Shakshat Parambramha Tashmai Shri Gurur Veh Namah" May the Merciful Sri Sai Baba always shower His grace on us and our families and remove our problems and anxieties by giving us all - strength , goodluck, success and happiness with peace of mind. Sai bhakt, Deepa H Blog dedicated to Shri Shirdi Saibaba : http://debu7366. blogspot. com/ Listen to Radio Shirdi Sai : http://sairadio. blogspot. com/ For free Sai Satcharitra books: http://www.saiseva. omsrisai. net/store/ index.php Saibaba temple directory: http://www.omsrisai .net/saitemples. php Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Om Sai Ram Dear Deepaji. It is wonderfull msg. to all. Not only sai devotees but also this msg. should spread all over the world. It was my dream and with the grace of Bhagawan Baba I could accumalte maximum from my earnig and built a Sai Seva Sadan at a remote village of Kerala called Thiruvilwamala. Its took me near about 5 years to complete. In 2008 on the Vijayadasami day Bhagawan Baba blessed me and done the opening ceremony. With is grace I could run a Free Homoeo Clinic with a very good Doctor whom have nobody in this world execpt Sai Baba. Till now baba is giving me the strength to run the Clinic with my earnings. A part of earnigs I will buy medicine every month. When ever I buy medicine I felt the amount am offering to Sai. Number of poor people from far of places are benefited. Only satisfaction I hv is anyone come to Sai Seva Sadan they will have the Darshan of Shirdi Sai, Satya Sai and Vinayaka's blessing and that itself is a sort of healings. The Clinic is open every day and the God given Doctor is there to serve poor patient always. Om Jai Sai Ram.--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Deepa <debu7366 wrote: Deepa <debu7366[saibabanews] Donation - Who needs your money. A must read?saibabanews Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 6:24 AM Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? It was a Thursday on the first day of this year. I knew how it feels for a Sai devotee. New Year always brings lots of new hopes and since the first day was a Thursday, I was very excited and happy and felt that this is definitely going to be a good year. In the evening I went to Sai temple, did pooja and offered some money in the hundi of the temple...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Dear Pooja, Jai Sai Ram, I agree completely with the article "WHO NEEDS YOUR MONEY". There are so many people around us who need help but it seems that people prefer to give to temples thinking that that will be a step towards heaven, when Sai himself preached with examples. Hope this article will make people to reflect over this. God Bless Gita From: pragyamanupoojaDate: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:16:19 +0530Re: Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? jai sai ram deepa........your mail is very encourgeable.......thanks ...may god bless youpoojasai ram--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Deepa <debu7366 > wrote: Deepa <debu7366 > Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 2:31 AM Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? It was a Thursday on the first day of this year. I knew how it feels for a Sai devotee. New Year always brings lots of new hopes and since the first day was a Thursday, I was very excited and happy and felt that this is definitely going to be a good year. In the evening I went to Sai temple, did pooja and offered some money in the hundi of the temple.The next day, I heard about an old friend whose father died 5 years back. I haven't heard about her since then. I didn't know that she had to abandon her study due to the financial crisis. She joined a beauty parlor to support her family. She has a younger sister who was physically challenged. I was shocked to learn about her story. She was a very bright and ambitious student and she had lots of dreams about her higher education. I really felt bad. I tried to help her and offered her financial help so she can resume her study. But it was too late. She couldn't accept my offer as she had discontinued her studies long back as she had to support her family.Later in the day I remembered an article about Shirdi Sai Sansthan becoming the second richest temple in the country just behind the temple of Tirupati. There were talks of enormous amounts of money collected by the temple as donation or offerings by people. I wondered how much of that money is actually utilized and how much of that money remains idle not serving any purpose. People donate hundreds of crores of rupees every year to various temples and spiritual organizations without even caring how much of that money would be utilized.This incident made me realize that there are definitely better and even more practical ways of utilizing the money which we want to donate. And this can be achieved if we look around the place we live and identify the needs of the people. Because India is a land of contrasts, we can always find people who are in greater need of goods and financial assistance than us. For example we can support the education of a kid of a poor family, pay for the medical bills of the person who cannot afford it, feed poor people or donate our money to an organization which is actively involved in social work and not just sit on piles of money. Most of the famous Temples are already very rich and practically they do not need any money at least for a couple of years.There is no better sight in the world than seeing the face of a small child who cannot afford education and who has just been given a notebook and other accessories by you. If you think you have very little money to help, you can save that little money and add onto it till it becomes significant enough to bring a change in a needy person's life. You can even save a fixed amount of money per month and use it later when you see someone really needs it. If you look around carefully, you will find lots of opportunity where the money can be utilized.Donation is not a formality to please our lords but it's a way to support and appreciate a noble cause. The responsibility lies on us to plan well and donate the money very carefully as it belongs to our Sai. We give full attention to our SAI who is sitting inside a temple but we often ignore SAI who lives in each and every human soul in this world. Let us make judicious use of our assets to spread happiness in the lives of people who need it most. PS: Article published in Samarpan Jan 2009 Edition.You can read more of such articles at http://gallery. spiritualindia. org/spiritual- resources/ samarpan/ Samarpan_ Jan2009.pdf. html Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu Gurur Devoh Maheshwar; Gurur Shakshat Parambramha Tashmai Shri Gurur Veh Namah" May the Merciful Sri Sai Baba always shower His grace on us and our families and remove our problems and anxieties by giving us all - strength , goodluck, success and happiness with peace of mind. Sai bhakt, Deepa H Blog dedicated to Shri Shirdi Saibaba : http://debu7366. blogspot. com/ Listen to Radio Shirdi Sai : http://sairadio. blogspot. com/ For free Sai Satcharitra books: http://www.saiseva. omsrisai. net/store/ index.php Saibaba temple directory: http://www.omsrisai .net/saitemples. php Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now. Nuevo Windows Live, un mundo lleno de posibilidades Descúbrelo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Thank you very much for such an eye opening article. your writing answered the question I had in my mind for a long while. May God bless you. Nandini--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Deepa <debu7366 wrote: Deepa <debu7366 Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? Received: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 10:31 PM Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? It was a Thursday on the first day of this year. I knew how it feels for a Sai devotee. New Year always brings lots of new hopes and since the first day was a Thursday, I was very excited and happy and felt that this is definitely going to be a good year. In the evening I went to Sai temple, did pooja and offered some money in the hundi of the temple.The next day, I heard about an old friend whose father died 5 years back. I haven't heard about her since then. I didn't know that she had to abandon her study due to the financial crisis. She joined a beauty parlor to support her family. She has a younger sister who was physically challenged. I was shocked to learn about her story. She was a very bright and ambitious student and she had lots of dreams about her higher education. I really felt bad. I tried to help her and offered her financial help so she can resume her study. But it was too late. She couldn't accept my offer as she had discontinued her studies long back as she had to support her family.Later in the day I remembered an article about Shirdi Sai Sansthan becoming the second richest temple in the country just behind the temple of Tirupati. There were talks of enormous amounts of money collected by the temple as donation or offerings by people. I wondered how much of that money is actually utilized and how much of that money remains idle not serving any purpose. People donate hundreds of crores of rupees every year to various temples and spiritual organizations without even caring how much of that money would be utilized.This incident made me realize that there are definitely better and even more practical ways of utilizing the money which we want to donate. And this can be achieved if we look around the place we live and identify the needs of the people. Because India is a land of contrasts, we can always find people who are in greater need of goods and financial assistance than us. For example we can support the education of a kid of a poor family, pay for the medical bills of the person who cannot afford it, feed poor people or donate our money to an organization which is actively involved in social work and not just sit on piles of money. Most of the famous Temples are already very rich and practically they do not need any money at least for a couple of years.There is no better sight in the world than seeing the face of a small child who cannot afford education and who has just been given a notebook and other accessories by you. If you think you have very little money to help, you can save that little money and add onto it till it becomes significant enough to bring a change in a needy person's life. You can even save a fixed amount of money per month and use it later when you see someone really needs it. If you look around carefully, you will find lots of opportunity where the money can be utilized.Donation is not a formality to please our lords but it's a way to support and appreciate a noble cause. The responsibility lies on us to plan well and donate the money very carefully as it belongs to our Sai. We give full attention to our SAI who is sitting inside a temple but we often ignore SAI who lives in each and every human soul in this world. Let us make judicious use of our assets to spread happiness in the lives of people who need it most. PS: Article published in Samarpan Jan 2009 Edition.You can read more of such articles at http://gallery. spiritualindia. org/spiritual- resources/ samarpan/ Samarpan_ Jan2009.pdf. html Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu Gurur Devoh Maheshwar; Gurur Shakshat Parambramha Tashmai Shri Gurur Veh Namah" May the Merciful Sri Sai Baba always shower His grace on us and our families and remove our problems and anxieties by giving us all - strength , goodluck, success and happiness with peace of mind. Sai bhakt, Deepa H Blog dedicated to Shri Shirdi Saibaba : http://debu7366. blogspot. com/ Listen to Radio Shirdi Sai : http://sairadio. blogspot. com/ For free Sai Satcharitra books: http://www.saiseva. omsrisai. net/store/ index.php Saibaba temple directory: http://www.omsrisai .net/saitemples. php All new Mail - Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Om Sai Ram My heartfelt thanks to Ravi Verma for sharing this encouraging article with all of us.. He is the one who actually wrote this article .He is also the editor of Samarpan magazine and a good friend of mine. Yesterday, when he gave me this article to fwd to all the Sai Grps-- Before I could ask him the name of the author who wrote this article- He went offline..So today, I am fwding this important piece of information , which was left by me - yesterday.. Kindly write your comments abt this article at the below link http://forum.spiritualindia.org/donation-who-needs-your-money-a-must-read-t29309.0.html Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? It was a Thursday on the first day of this year. I knew how it feels for a Sai devotee. New Year always brings lots of new hopes and since the first day was a Thursday, I was very excited and happy and felt that this is definitely going to be a good year. In the evening I went to Sai temple, did pooja and offered some money in the hundi of the temple..The next day, I heard about an old friend whose father died 5 years back. I haven't heard about her since then. I didn't know that she had to abandon her study due to the financial crisis. She joined a beauty parlor to support her family. She has a younger sister who was physically challenged. I was shocked to learn about her story. She was a very bright and ambitious student and she had lots of dreams about her higher education. I really felt bad. I tried to help her and offered her financial help so she can resume her study. But it was too late. She couldn't accept my offer as she had discontinued her studies long back as she had to support her family.Later in the day I remembered an article about Shirdi Sai Sansthan becoming the second richest temple in the country just behind the temple of Tirupati. There were talks of enormous amounts of money collected by the temple as donation or offerings by people. I wondered how much of that money is actually utilized and how much of that money remains idle not serving any purpose. People donate hundreds of crores of rupees every year to various temples and spiritual organizations without even caring how much of that money would be utilized.This incident made me realize that there are definitely better and even more practical ways of utilizing the money which we want to donate. And this can be achieved if we look around the place we live and identify the needs of the people. Because India is a land of contrasts, we can always find people who are in greater need of goods and financial assistance than us. For example we can support the education of a kid of a poor family, pay for the medical bills of the person who cannot afford it, feed poor people or donate our money to an organization which is actively involved in social work and not just sit on piles of money. Most of the famous Temples are already very rich and practically they do not need any money at least for a couple of years.There is no better sight in the world than seeing the face of a small child who cannot afford education and who has just been given a notebook and other accessories by you. If you think you have very little money to help, you can save that little money and add onto it till it becomes significant enough to bring a change in a needy person's life. You can even save a fixed amount of money per month and use it later when you see someone really needs it. If you look around carefully, you will find lots of opportunity where the money can be utilized.Donation is not a formality to please our lords but it's a way to support and appreciate a noble cause. The responsibility lies on us to plan well and donate the money very carefully as it belongs to our Sai. We give full attention to our SAI who is sitting inside a temple but we often ignore SAI who lives in each and every human soul in this world. Let us make judicious use of our assets to spread happiness in the lives of people who need it most. Written by Ravi Verma Kindly write ur comments abt this message at http://forum.spiritualindia.org/donation-who-needs-your-money-a-must-read-t29309.0.html PS: Article published in Samarpan Jan 2009 Edition.You can read more of such articles at http://gallery.spiritualindia.org/spiritual-resources/samarpan/Samarpan_Jan2009.pdf.html Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu Gurur Devoh Maheshwar; Gurur Shakshat Parambramha Tashmai Shri Gurur Veh Namah" May the Merciful Sri Sai Baba always shower His grace on us and our families and remove our problems and anxieties by giving us all - strength , goodluck, success and happiness with peace of mind. Sai bhakt, Deepa H Blog dedicated to Shri Shirdi Saibaba : http://debu7366.blogspot.com/ Listen to Radio Shirdi Sai : http://sairadio.blogspot.com/ For free Sai Satcharitra books: http://www.saiseva.omsrisai.net/store/index.php Saibaba temple directory: http://www.omsrisai.net/saitemples.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 Jai Gurudev, Jai SaiRam, I want to donate for this good reason, could you advise me how to do this. Do we have any Regd'., charitable institution if so please furnish the details I am more eager to participate in this service with all other Sai brothers who are really interested. Sai Baba Bless all his Children always With Love & Light, Pandurangan.S..--- On Sat, 3/14/09, Deepa H <debu7366 wrote:Deepa H <debu7366 Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 2:34 AM Om Sai Ram My heartfelt thanks to Ravi Verma for sharing this encouraging article with all of us.. He is the one who actually wrote this article .He is also the editor of Samarpan magazine and a good friend of mine. Yesterday, when he gave me this article to fwd to all the Sai Grps-- Before I could ask him the name of the author who wrote this article- He went offline..So today, I am fwding this important piece of information , which was left by me - yesterday.. Kindly write your comments abt this article at the below link http://forum. spiritualindia. org/donation- who-needs- your-money- a-must-read- t29309.0. html Donation - Who needs your money. A must read? It was a Thursday on the first day of this year. I knew how it feels for a Sai devotee. New Year always brings lots of new hopes and since the first day was a Thursday, I was very excited and happy and felt that this is definitely going to be a good year. In the evening I went to Sai temple, did pooja and offered some money in the hundi of the temple..The next day, I heard about an old friend whose father died 5 years back. I haven't heard about her since then. I didn't know that she had to abandon her study due to the financial crisis. She joined a beauty parlor to support her family. She has a younger sister who was physically challenged. I was shocked to learn about her story. She was a very bright and ambitious student and she had lots of dreams about her higher education. I really felt bad. I tried to help her and offered her financial help so she can resume her study. But it was too late. She couldn't accept my offer as she had discontinued her studies long back as she had to support her family.Later in the day I remembered an article about Shirdi Sai Sansthan becoming the second richest temple in the country just behind the temple of Tirupati. There were talks of enormous amounts of money collected by the temple as donation or offerings by people. I wondered how much of that money is actually utilized and how much of that money remains idle not serving any purpose. People donate hundreds of crores of rupees every year to various temples and spiritual organizations without even caring how much of that money would be utilized.This incident made me realize that there are definitely better and even more practical ways of utilizing the money which we want to donate. And this can be achieved if we look around the place we live and identify the needs of the people. Because India is a land of contrasts, we can always find people who are in greater need of goods and financial assistance than us. For example we can support the education of a kid of a poor family, pay for the medical bills of the person who cannot afford it, feed poor people or donate our money to an organization which is actively involved in social work and not just sit on piles of money. Most of the famous Temples are already very rich and practically they do not need any money at least for a couple of years.There is no better sight in the world than seeing the face of a small child who cannot afford education and who has just been given a notebook and other accessories by you. If you think you have very little money to help, you can save that little money and add onto it till it becomes significant enough to bring a change in a needy person's life. You can even save a fixed amount of money per month and use it later when you see someone really needs it. If you look around carefully, you will find lots of opportunity where the money can be utilized.Donation is not a formality to please our lords but it's a way to support and appreciate a noble cause. The responsibility lies on us to plan well and donate the money very carefully as it belongs to our Sai. We give full attention to our SAI who is sitting inside a temple but we often ignore SAI who lives in each and every human soul in this world. Let us make judicious use of our assets to spread happiness in the lives of people who need it most. Written by Ravi Verma Kindly write ur comments abt this message at http://forum. spiritualindia. org/donation- who-needs- your-money- a-must-read- t29309.0. html PS: Article published in Samarpan Jan 2009 Edition.You can read more of such articles at http://gallery. spiritualindia. org/spiritual- resources/ samarpan/ Samarpan_ Jan2009.pdf. html Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu Gurur Devoh Maheshwar; Gurur Shakshat Parambramha Tashmai Shri Gurur Veh Namah" May the Merciful Sri Sai Baba always shower His grace on us and our families and remove our problems and anxieties by giving us all - strength , goodluck, success and happiness with peace of mind. Sai bhakt, Deepa H Blog dedicated to Shri Shirdi Saibaba : http://debu7366. blogspot. com/ Listen to Radio Shirdi Sai : http://sairadio. blogspot. com/ For free Sai Satcharitra books: http://www.saiseva. omsrisai. net/store/ index.php Saibaba temple directory: http://www.omsrisai .net/saitemples. php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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