Message for the Week.

April 23, 2009

Sairam,

Wish you all a wonderful Thursday. Thursday is very dear to BABA's followers and it has a special significance to us because we start our parayana for the welfare of the community, society and our friends and family who are in need of prayers. The reason we pray for others is because any pain to our near and dear is our pain too. When we pray we share the burden and lessen the burden for others. Also Prayers reach out to BABA and forces HIM to act and reach out to HIS children. Thank you to all those who pray for others. "Lokasamastha Sukhinobhavanthu" is one powerful wish, and is a way to express our selfishness. Let us include that as part of our daily prayer to BABA. It is those who love BABA very much are the ones who are subjected to lot of pain, did you ever notice that. The reason for this is

1. Because we have a relationship with BABA since previous few births we are drawn to HIM this birth.

2. It is BABA who pulls us towards HIM.

3. The reason for suffering is because we are working out our karma/actions of our previous birth

Having said this BABA does not stand back and have a laugh at us when we suffer. He suffers equally. Maybe He goes about HIS mad way saying "why did you do that, see how you suffer now". Because He loves us He takes on the sufferings on HIMSELF. If it were not for HIM the suffering we undergo now would have been manyfolds beyond our capacity to withstand the force of destiny for every bad deed, word or action. That is why after the worst is over we are able to look back to the past with a smile on our face and reflect how we managed to come out of it.

Well here is the message for the week. I consider this message quite significant to our parayana that we commence from today. We are doing this parayana for the welfare and ease the sufferings and cure the ailing. Well Baba through this message today seems to convey to us that "yes you will suffer my dear, but have faith, you will come out of it"... read the message for the week...

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Shama Cured of Snake-Bite Before Hemadpant begins the story, he says about the Jiva that it can be very well compared with a parrot, and that they both are bound, the one in the body and the other in a cage. Both think that their present bound state is good for them. It is only when a Helper, i.e., Guru comes and by God's grace opens their

eyes and liberates them from their bondage, that their eyes are opened to a

greater and larger life, compared to which their former limited life is nothing.

In the last Chapter, it was shown how Baba anticipated the calamity, that was to

befall on Mr. Mirikar and rescued him from it. Now let the readers hear a story grander than that. Once Shama was bitten by a poisonous snake. His little finger of the hand was stung and the poison began to spread into the body. The pain was also severe and Shama thought that he would pass off soon. His friends wanted to take him to the God Viroba, where such cases were often sent, but Shama ran to the Masjid -- to His Viroba (Sai Baba). When Baba saw him, He began to scold and abuse. He got enraged and said - "Oh vile Bhaturdya (Priest) do not climp up.

Beware if you do so" and then roared - "Go, Get away, Come down." Seeing Baba

thus red with wrath, Shama was greatly puzzled and disappointed. He thought that

the Masjid was his home and Sai Baba his sole Refuge, but if he was driven away

like this, where should he go? He lost all hope of life and kept silent. After a

time Baba became normal and calm when Shama went up and sat near. Then Baba said

to him - "Don't be afraid, don't care a jot, the Merciful Fakir will save you,

go and sit quiet at home, don't go out, believe in Me and remain fearless and

have no anxeity". Then he was sent home. Immediately afterwards, Baba sent Tatya Patil and Kakasaheb Dixit to him with instructions to the effect, that he should eat what he liked, should move in the home, but should never lie down and sleep. Needless to say that these instructions were acted upon and Shama got all-right in a short time. The only thing to be remembered in this connection is this - the words of Baba (or the five syllabled Mantra, viz, `Go, Get away, Come down')

were not addressed to Shama- as it apparently looked - but they were a direct

order to the snake and its poison not to go up and circulate through Shama's

body. Like others well-versed in Mantrashastra, He had not to use any

incantation, charged rice or water etc. His words only were most efficacious in

saving the life of Shama. "Chapter 23 Satcharita.

Baba bless us on this Thursday and help our parayana to be successfully completed and please do listen to our prayers.

Humble pranams

Sairam

Anitha Kandukuri

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