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Sai Vichaar Oct 22, 2009 Volume 12, Issue 24 (In its twelfth year of publication) 01.Feature of the Week 02.Contributed Article 03.Experiences of Devotees 04.Devotees Say 05.Sai Activities 06.Prayer Club 07.Quote of the Week 08.Question of the Week 09.Subscribe to Sai Vichaar 10.Email Newsletter to a friend 11.Submit Articles to Sai Vichaar 12.Un-Subscribe Sai Vichaar 13.From the Editor's Keyboard 14.Back Issues 15.Disclaimer From the Editor's Keyboard... Sai Vichaar has learnt that several have received their weekly email into their unwanted email folder due to the email filter function of the respective email providers. Please check your email folders before deleting to make sure Sai Vichaar is not delivered into Spam mail. In the true spirit of Sai devotion, contributors are requested to remember to suit the content, language, style, and presentation, appropriate to a worldwide readership. It should also be noted that when a section from any material other than their own is quoted or referred to, it is the authors' responsibility to acknowledge the source appropriately. Sai Vichaar requests the devotees to continue to submit to Sai Vichaar using the pages intended for various sections of Sai Vichaar. Sai Vichaar gratefully appreciates the patience of its readers during the past few weeks of revamping of our database. A Sai devotee suggested the The "Question of the week" for this week as,, Q.What can be learnt from the experiences of Sai devotee Sapatnekar in Sri Sai Satcharita? Humbly Yours, The Editor
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 Feature
of the week: Ask Sai!
If everything is predisposed, and what one gets is according to his karma, why not just accept it? How does the loving mother of a charming infant dying of cancer could accept this thought? How could a good natured, responsible, guileless individual witnessing his downward spiral in sincere pursuit consent to this concept? While contentment with what one possesses is one of the dimensions of spiritual growth, restlessness, dejection, and disappointment is equally important stage of human growth on the spiritual lines. After all, human minds are oriented towards responding to its environment, both good and bad. Naturally! Shri Hemadpanth narrates a wonderful incident in Sri Sai Satcharitha. Bhimaji Patil was a patient suffering from tuberculosis. He was advised by Nanasaaheb Chandorkar to resort Baba's feet for a relief from the dreaded disease. Let us read what Hemadpanth wrote about this episode: "Relying on Mr. Nanasaaheb's advice, he made preparations for going to Shirdi. He was brought to Shirdi, taken to the Masjid, and placed before Baba. Mr. Nanasaaheb and Shama (Madhavrao Deshpande) were then present. Baba pointed out that the disease was due to the previous evil karma and was not at firstly disposed to interfere. But the patient cried out in despair that he was helpless, and sought refuge in Him as He was his last hope and prayed for mercy. Then Baba's heart melted and He said, "Stay, cast off your anxiety, your sufferings have come to an end. However oppressed and troubled one may be, as soon as he steps in the masjid, he is on the path to happiness. The Fakir here is very kind and he will cure the disease, and protect all with love and kindness". The patient vomited blood every five minutes, but there was no vomiting in the presence of Baba" (Sai Satcharitha, Chapter XIII). The patient was eventually cured of the disease. "My coffers are open. Ask, Ye shall be given". So, ask! Ask for the self, for the kith and kin, ask with devotion, and ask with love. The unique Saint of Shirdi is the rarest of its kind who supports asking for material possession. However, natural course for such a pursuit is to realize the limitedness of mundane possessions in giving perennial happiness. This should automatically stimulate one to take a careful look at what the Master said. Contributed
Article: Temporal outline of the Bhakta Divine vision means acquaintance with, and crystalline understanding of, the universal energy. God and the devotee are one; in his very nature, the devotee is identical with God. So long as one has not realized God, one does not know what justice and injustice are, but with realization, the devotee comes to know the distinction between justice and injustice, the essential and the contingent, the eternal and the evanescent, and this leads to his emancipation. The divine vision eliminates individuality; the manifest is clearly distinguished from the unmanifest. When the sense of individuality is replaced by that of impersonal consciousness, the devotee knows that he is pure consciousness. Manifestation is pure consciousness manifesting itself in all the different names and forms; the spiritually enlightened take part in it sportily, knowing that it is only the play of universal consciousness. The name and form of the spiritually enlightened Saint experiences the pangs and sorrows of life, but not their sting. He is neither moved nor perturbed by the pleasures and pains, nor the profits and losses of the world. He is thus in a position to direct others. His behavior is guided exclusively by the sense of justice. The temporal life must continue, with all its complex interactions, but the Saint is ever aware that it is only the pure consciousness that is expressing itself in different names and forms, and it continues to do so, in ever-new forms. To him, the unbearable events of the world are just a tame and harmless affair; he remains unmoved in world-shaking events. At first people, through pride, simply ignore him, but their subsequent experiences draw them toward him. God, as justice incarnate, has neither relations nor belongings of His own; peace and happiness are, as it were, His only treasure. The formless, divine consciousness cannot have any thing as its own interest. This is the temporal outline of the Bhakta. (Source:DIVINE VISION AND THE DEVOTEE from Self Knowledge and Self Realization by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
Parthasarathy Vipin Srinivas Raveendra Usha Ameet Sai devotee Aparna Ashok Sandhia Madhurima Devotee Quotation of
the Week: Q. How does a Sai devotee deal with deceitful relationships and situations where there is abuse of trust? A. by Kiranmai May be little analysis of why there is a spiritual ego should help stay one to be grounded. If a prayer is answered then it is not spiritual ego. As it is said, "Knowledge is Power" - More often spiritual ego arises because one gained bookish-knowledge and considers themselves somehow superior aspirant. If divine knowledge is acknowledged as a blessing of Grace, then there is affiliation to ego because such Supreme knowledge is rendered with only one purpose to one's soul to show path to its Home, union with Supreme. It is like this just because one knows how to take their physical body to their home at end of the day; does one feel a swell of ego? If one feels egoistic due to bookish knowledge based on one's interpretation of text then one should make sincere efforts to practice humility to gain knowledge by real means - earn Grace of SadhGuru!
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