Message for the week.

October 8, 2009

Sairam,

Happy BABA's day to you. May the grace of Baba shine upon one and all. May all our prayers be heard.

Anguish fills our hearts when we face obstacles, go through hard times or fail at something. Life is not a bed of roses, it is infact a rollercoaster, having good moments and bad times. Let us face it, if we do not show the emotions of misery, unhappiness, depression etc when faced with failures, then each one of us would be a sadguru too, who have gone beyond the affect of karma. But it is not meant to be so. We are humans, imperfect and affected by the actions of prarabdh. BABA has given us a penacea for eleminating the problems and getting along with life. The medicine for these troubles is repitition of gods name. For this Baba said..

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Shama and Vishnu-Sahasra-Nam Shama was a very intimate devotee of Baba and Baba wanted to favour him in a particular way by giving him a copy of Vishnu-Sahasra-Nam as Prasad. This was done in the following way. Once a Ramadasi (follower of Saint Ramadas) came to Shirdi and stayed for some time. The routine he followed daily was as follows : He got up early in the morning, washed his face, bathed and then after wearing saffron-coloured clothes and besmearing himself with sacred ashes, read Vishnu-Sahasra-Nam (a book giving a thousand names in praise of Vishnu, and held second in importance to Bhagwad Geeta) and Adhyatma-Ramayana (Esoteric version of Rama's story) with faith. He read these books often and often and then after some days Baba thought of favouring and initiating Shama with Vishnu-Sahasra-Nam. He, therefore, called the Ramadasi to Him and said to him that, He was suffering from intense stomach-pain, and unless He took Senna-pods (Sona-mukhi, a mild purgative drug) the pain would not stop; so he should please go to the bazar and bring the drug. The Ramadasi closed his reading and went to the bazar. Then Baba descended from His seat, came to the Ramadasi's place of reading, took out the copy of Vishnu-Sahasra-Nam, and coming to His seat said to Shama- "Oh Shama, this book is very valuable and efficacious, so I present it to

you, you read it. Once I suffered intensely and My heart began to palpitate and

My life was in danger. At that critical time, I hugged this book to My heart and

then, Shama, what a relief it gave me! I thought that Allah Himself came down

and saved Me. So I give this to you, read it slowly, little by little, read

daily one name at least and it will do you good." Shama replied that he did not want it, and that the owner of it, the Ramadasi who was a mad, obstinate and irritable fellow would certainly pick up a quarrel with him, besides, being a rustic himself, he could not read distinctly the Sanskrit (Devanagari) letters of the book. " Chapter 27 SSS.

Baba bless us and guide us always.

Humble pranams

Sairam

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