31st Anniversay of Kobe Sai Center in I.S.S Kobe on 27th Aug,2006

[Guest guest]

Sai Ram,

 

Loving Pranaams at the at the divine lotus feet of Bhagavan.

Respected elders and my dear divine brothers and sisters.

 

I, wellcome you all, to this great event, the 31st Anniversary,

of our Kobe center. We have reached, another milestone,

and that is, the anniversary of our very loving Kobe center

A,center that started with very humble beginings.

 

Over the years, we have learnt that the goal of Sai Organization,

is to inter-pret the eternal messages of Bhagavans to help

devotees, to follow them and use them in their day to day

living.

 

The divine teachings, when used correctely, are meant to

liberate man from the bondage of birth and death, and the

Sai organization endeavors to help us all in this task.

 

Every activity that the Sai Organization undertakes has this

supreme goal in view. In the past 30 years that have gone by,

the devotees have blossomed spiritually in their journey

towards God. The travails of the world do not torment them

and of they do, their actions are far lass painful, because of

new understanding, by following Swami's teachings

 

The most significant aspects of this organization is the

voluntary participation af all members from all sections of

society inspite of all wordly difficulties, they carry out servive

to mankind and by doing this they are getting the divine grace.

 

The organization has spread thruout the world with over

5000 Sai centers abd bhajan groups in about in 165 countries.

 

In Bhagavan " s words, He says let Sai sevaks work for the good

of others,ofcouse they will not be able to do such service, in

an unattached way at first, but that does not matter. Let them

continue this practice of doing unselfish work which will purify

their minds and when the mind is sufficiantly purified and the

heart is filled with selfless love they will feel the existances

of God and develop a longiing to realize him.

 

Service or seva to mankind, form a part of our spiritual execercise

like meditation,bhajans and reading sai literature. This means that

every devotee is an active worker in the organization.Thus Sai

organization gives an oppertunity to every devotee in the

furtherance of his spiritual progress.

 

Bhagavan's teachings therefore are directed to the eternal good

for individual irrespective of his religion or race as also the

unification of all mankind in love. We have to develop deep for

God,to find out the inner significance with clarity then only we

will be able to put into practice His teachings in our day to day

life.

 

Swami tells us this wonderful story: There was a beggar who begged

all his life standing at the same place and when he died

it was thought it is best to bury him at the same place where he

spent all his life begging.When they started digging after just 5

feet of digging they heard the sound of metal.

 

They further dug and found that the begger had been standing over

a huge treasure all his life.

Bhagavan says that our situation is very similar. We are all the

emboidment of all bliss that is our true nature but forgetting it

we spend our lives begging for the little sensel pleasure ignortant

of our true reality.

 

If only the begger had stopped begging and had started digging he

would have found the treasure of bliss.

In the famous words of lord Jesus Christ :Seek and ye shall find " .

If only we stop begging for the world's sense pleasure and start

digging towards our inner path we will surely find the ocean of

bliss within us.

 

This my dear brother and sisters has been Swami's assurance to all

of us.Therefore let us began the inward journey and reach the goal

divine.

 

Thank you for listining my dear brothers and sisters please

receive my love is Sai.

Talk by Ram.Chugani-Kobe center Anniversary- Aughst 27th 2006.

 

Ram Chugani

Kobe, Japan

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