Jahan Jahan mein jaatha Sayee
Geeth thumhare gaatha...geeth thumhare gaatha

Meree vinthi sunle Baba...kabh se tumhe bulaatha
Geeth tumhare gaatha...geeth thumhare gaatha

(Wherever I go, as I wander from place to place....
Your name be praised.... Oh Sai,
Listen to my prayers Oh Lord;
I have been calling you for a long time
Your glory be sung.... Oh Sai.)

Sai is formless and timeless. The pious face with the piercing eyes represents everything that is beyond. Just as light will not have a shadow, Sadguru Sai is self-illuminating spirit that stays with those who have faith in Him. Just like the Sun is not left behind when one wanders, and wind is not parted, Baba stays with those faithful wherever they go. It is one of His assurances. For someone who had no need to travel anywhere beyond a few miles from where He had stayed, physical distance is not a criterion. If this fact is not assuring, none else is!

A concern that one would stay out of His divine grace should never be a criterion, for Sadguru is the most merciful and the most compassionate. He will never forsake His children. On the other hand, it is the devotees' prerogative that he should constantly remember the graceful Sadguru and His benevolence. It is the devotees' spiritual duty to seek Sadguru wherever they go and whatever they do. That is the constant remembrance, which will lead one to break the wall that separates Sadguru and Sadbhaktha. This is the simplest saadhana.
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Contributed Article: Guruji's Visit to Hyderabad

Sairam ! Guruji Sri C.B.Satpathyji came to Hyderabad on the morning of February 25th. After his arrival he proceded to Saidabad Mandir. This is a newly constructed mandir where Guruji did Prana Prathistha of Baba's marble statue. This is a beautiful murthi of Baba about 6 feet tall. I felt very peaceful in Mandir. There was continuous Sainam Japa while Homam was performed. The mandir was full of devotees all the time. After arrival in the Mandir, Guruji joined the Homam. Then he installed Ganesh statue on the left side of Baba, Guru Datta on right side and Nandi in front of the Baba's murthi. Then there was Abhishek of Baba which concluded with Madhyana aarti. In the Evening he talked about Sadguru and Reincarnation. He said that AP probably is Karmabhumi of Baba as there are highest number of devotees and Saimandirs from AP. He said Sadguru is one who can take you to God. Similarly one's good deeds is the right path towards God. Rudraksha maala jap can not take one to God, it is an important medicinal herb, keep it as herb and use your good deed to reach the Sadguru. He went on saying that use your precious time for giving sanskar and give the message of love to mankind, to your loved ones and to God. Always remember Sai before eating or drinking anything. Afterwards Shri Shantanu Satpathy along with Kumari Moushmi performed the Bhajans.

On 26th morning we proceded to Secunderabad where there is oldest temple of Saibaba in AP. It is said that Mr. Naidu in 1936 received a Baba murti in the mail. No one knows where it came from. After receiving the Murti he constructed the Mandir. Guruji inaugurated Dhyan Mandap in this mandir. In discourse here he talked about Baba as a Reincarnation of reincarnation. He compared Baba with Shri Krishna and said that after Shri Krishna, Baba was the only Sadguru who could order nature with his will power. He gave examples of fire in the Dwarkamai and heavy rains in Shirdi. He said a sadguru can bless more than 500 souls in a micro second. After Secunderabad we went to Dilsukhnagar Mandir. It is the second biggest mandir in AP after Tirupati. They have a beautiful murthi of Baba. In the meeting with trustees Guruji emphasized that fraud should be kept away from the mandir. After Dilsukhnagar, we went to Saivrindavan where they are going to build a 108 feet murthi of Baba. Guruji blessed that site . In the evening we had the inauguration of telugu web site. Before leaving Saivrindvan, Guruji told Sri Raghunada Reddy, "Be prepared, I can see that power is going to go out". Exactly at 7pm power went off but came back within minutes after Gurujis arrival and then the concluding funtion went on smooth. (Contributed by Jitendra Shelke, Shirdi)
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Experiences of Devotees

Shri Shirdi Sai Chitra Yatra Host Home, Bloomington, IL
Dear Sai Devotees, Its a miracle of Sai!!! Om Sri Sairam!!! We live in Bloomington,IL and I get Sai Vichar News letter every thursday and I have been reading about the Sri Sai Chitra Yatra and I wanted to see Baba if anybody anchors or hosts in and around Bloomington and last thursday I came to see that there is one family(Sai Sudha...Kavitha) who already anchors Baba and I felt very happy that I need not go out of Bloomington and to my surprise Sudha the person who anchors Baba...met once in the month of April, 2001..introduced by my neighbour. I am happy to know that Baba already came to Bloomington. I called her and we went to their home, did Baba Bhajan which is very first time for them and now with the Grace of Baba, we are hosting Baba in my home. I was not so confident to anchor myself with my 4 years old boy ...but now I am able to host Baba...which I was looking for whenever I was reading about the Sai Chitra Yatra...Baba blessed us not going too far to see Him! Sri Samardha Sadguru Sainath Maharaj ki Jai!!!! Padmaja Prakhya

Shri Shirdi Sai Chitra Yatra Host Home, NJ
Jai Sai Ram! I signed up as Host home from Piscataway, NJ. We had the great pleasure of having Baba with us for two weeks in February. There are really no words that can describe how we felt about having Baba with us. It was truly a divine experience having Baba's big picture at home. My 20-month old daughter enjoyed doing aarthi (with me) to Baba and wishing Baba good morning and good night everyday. With Baba's grace we were also able to perform Baba's abhishek and Satyanarayana pooja during this time. It was also a great pleasure working with our Anchor home members. May Baba's grace be on all of us always. Lakshmi Nagarajan-Iyer
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Devotees say...

Syamasundar, Houston, TX
I just visited Baba's Telugu website. It is really wonderful. I read Sri Sathapati guruji's How Baba came into my life. It is really great and that shows Baba's mission brought him under Baba's grip. It is really great. The background Saigayatri mahamantra is really soul rendering. We chant Srigayatri in our regular Thursday satsangh and today I am happy to find it as the background chanting of the website. Really the Telugu addition will be a great added asset to the website.

Shirdi Sai Chitra Yatra Anchor Home, Akron, Canton, Fairlawn, OH
Dearest Devotees, In Fairlawn , Akron Ohio , we had the greatest blessing of receiving Baba on January 9. I had made several overtures to have him circulating as per the Chitra Yatra plan. However, He continued to sit gracefully and joyously in the front room with all my other items of worship. Daily morning and evening we worshipped and did japa and chit chatted happily. It seems Baba has his own plan and time. He chose 23 Feb Saturday as his Chitra Yatra celebration and I plan to send him off to visit with others. If anyone in Akron, Canton, Fairlawn, or in and around Ohio wish to join us feel personally invited to do so. Thanks Dr. Naidu

Venugopal Askani, CT
Sairam, The telugu site is too good and thanks for developing such a wonderful site. May BABA bless all of us sai devotees around the world.

Gary W Adamson, San Diego, CA
Fortunately, I discovered the www.saibaba.org website. Your website is amazingly powerful, especially the virtual pooja room. Amazing.

Vidya Bansal
Destiny is something with which a person is born with. But they say if you worship God, you can change your destiny for good.

I came to know about Sai Baba first when my father was transferred to Nasik. I was around 8-9 years old, too young to really understand and pray to Sai. But my parents had become very staunch believer of Sai. I too unconsciously had developed a great belief in Him. It was only when I started understanding Him I saw his help in little things, I really had great love and devotion for Him and I guess that was true devotion as I had no desires from Him and still I worshiped Him.

When I started studying the college, I had to go through a lot of mental tensions and that's when I started asking Baba to relieve me of it, but I never felt that He was helping me as I had to go through a really tough time. Finally, I was done with my BS and MS and my parents started looking for good match for me. We found a good match and everything started well and by the time me and my husband got married things had turned very ugly, everything that can go wrong in a marriage went wrong. It has been 4 years since I have been married and the things have gotten even worse. I am not able to get pregnant. My parents are going through a lot of tension and have been insulted by my in-laws and now hurt by my husband's attitude.

All through this time, I have been praying to Sai for His blessings and His grace. There have been times when I have blamed Him, said bad things to Him, have asked Him for forgiveness, have cried in front of Him, have vowed never to ask Him for anything and never to come back to Him. But I eventually come back and pray again. Until date, He has not answered my prayers. According to astrology, I am destined to go through all this as I have bad planet's influence and that things should start improving. Maybe they will, I still do not see anything happening.

I wonder with all this if it is my destiny to suffer and destiny that things will start improving and that I will be pregnant soon (which I don't know when) than what does my Prayer to Sai give me. I know He demands Faith and Patience, haven't I had enough. With all this, I have my doubts if God really answers prayers as for past several years all I recollect is pain and Sai's no help. If things do improve according to destiny, how can I thank Sai for it? I feel really hurt that I am saying all this but I telling how I am feeling or is it Sai is angry with me and he is punishing me. Because I have read instances in Sai Satcharita, where people who said bad things and showed disrespect, their prayers were not accepted and they had to go back empty handed. Is it the same for me because I have shown disrespect for Him and so He is not accepting me? I have asked for forgiveness but I guess He has not forgiven me yet or maybe my acts are not pardonable.

One good thing has happened though, Sai is coming to my house on March 4 and I will be a host home for Him.
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Prayer Club

Saijoshua Jayaprakash Jayabal, Malaysia
Dear sai siblings: I have been praying for years to SAI so that my mum [ sister pushpa ] will be gifted a baby girl , but no avail . Why SAI are you testing us so much ? How long more am I to wait to see my mother conceive ? When will I hear the news of her pregnancy ? I do vilakku pooja with only your sweet smile in my mind . Please grant my boons soon. Pray for me , a sinner from Malaysia, right here in johor bahru.

J.Parthasarathy
Ohm SAIRAM, Presently me and my family are staying away. My Children need my support and also me and my wife miising each other. I request all the SAI devotees to pray for me and my Family so that I can join with family and assist my family. Om SAI RAM

Sai devotee
Sai Ram Everyone, I do not know who to believe any more. But I would like to request all Sai devotees to pray for me so, I would find a good life partner, I have been asking Baba but he is not listening to me he never did. Daddy was sick I cried front of him and asked him to spare daddy's life but he did not. Yes, he took daddy away from us when he knew we needed him more than he does. But now, I am asking him to find me a good husband, it is time for me to get married and have a life partner but he is not listening to me. Would you all please pray for me and ask him to do what is right for me. I am not loosing faith in him 'cause he did help me many times he did help me to get this job that I have been wanting all this time and recently got promoted to this new position. There were times that I wouldn't have to ask him for things, they are just given to me without asking Baba but this is something that my entire family wants and yes I cannot have more saburi, not only myself but my entire family is sad about this fact. Thanks to you all.

Devi
Sai Devotee, please pray Sai Baba on behalf of me, from my childhood I never prayed to Baba, I used to do it only when I went to temple, I was never a devotee for him. But I do not know now, I feel my problem can only be solved by him, my husband does not have a job, though he is getting on close to some job offer, some obstacle comes on way, I am unable to know whom to ask for help. I was reading the article "devotee say......" I saw someone saying thanks to you all, as you all prayed to Baba to get a job for her son. Please Sai devotees pray for my husband too. If my husband gets a job, I will be a regular devotee for him.
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Quotation of the Week
The Prarabdha of jnanis is still active and sprouts in the mind but only to be burnt up by the steady flame of jnana. Pleasure or pain is due to the dwelling of the mind on occurrences. But if these are scorched at their sources, how can there be pain or pleasure? - Tripura Rahasya Ch. XIX. p. 104-05.
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Question of the Week

Q. What is faith in GOD?

A. by Badri Narasimhan
Having faith in YourSelf means having faith in God. Every individual is God and everyone must have that faith. When anyone does a wrong action, thought or deed, his sub-consciousness definitely tells him that his action is not right. That consciousness is, nothing but, your inner voice or consciousness or the voice of the God. That proves that God is within us and directs you about the consequences. We and the God are the same. When we develop more of this feeling, we become , more humble, more careful, more clearer in our thoughts and action. This is nothing but the grace of God from YourSelf which does all these things. This is nothing but having faith in YourSelf as a God. One must have a faith that God is not external but is within each and every living and non-living being in this cosmos. Om Sai, Shri Sai, Jai Jai Sai.
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Sai Activities

SHRI SHIRDI SAI BABA WEB SITE IN TELUGU
The telugu web site http://www.shirdisaiashirvadam.org was inaugurated by Guruji Shri Chandra Bhanu Satpathyji in Hyderabad, India on February 26, 2002. The web site has been launched with joint efforts of Sri Shirdi Sai Kalyanam Trust, Tirupati, AP, India and Saibaba.org(USA). Please visit the web site or visit http://www.saibaba.org and follow the link to the telugu site. Send us your comments and suggestions to maildrop@shirdisaiashirvadam.org or maildrop@saibaba.org

SRI SHIRDI SAI SAMSTHAN
1889 Grand Avenue, Baldwin, New York 11510, USA
Recently a life sized Baba's murthi has been placed at Baldwin Long Island New York. Open for darshan every thursday evening 6 to 9 pm and on weekends 10am to 7pm. Shivarathri program from 7pm on March 12, 2002 to 8am on March 13th, 2002. For further information contact: romeshnyc@hotmail.com or sunildevalla@yahoo.com

Shri Shirdi Sai Chitra Yatra, Cary, NC
By Baba's Grace, the Chitra yatra will be gracing my home at 102, Copper Green St, Cary, NC 27513 and there will be a Sri Sai Sathyanarayan Pooja at 7pm at the above address. Anyone in the vicinity is invited to attend. thank you Anbudan[with love], Sk

Shri Shirdi Sai Chitra Yatra, PennState University, PA
By the divine grace and will of almighty (Sai Baba Incarnate), The Sri Sai Chitra Yatra 2002 movement has sanctified this small university town of State College, Pennsylvania which is home to The Pennsylvania State University (PennState Univ.). The Lord has been kind enough to choose me as one of his ANCHORS in this area and hence I would request all Sai Bhaktas to contact me to host his holiness Sai Baba in their homes for worship. You can drop in an email at sri104@psu.edu or call me up at 814-867 0572 for the same.

Shirdi Sai Satsang, Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
Please contact Ravin or Sunitha at 763-862-3910 for Shirdi Sai Baba Chithra Yatra and Sai Satsang in Minneapolis, St. Paul area of Minnesota, USA.

Shri Shirdi Sai Chithra Yatra, Austin, TX
With Baba's grace, many devotees here in Austin are being blessed to take part in Saichitra yatra. Sai bhandhus willing to host the picture in and around Austin can contact the Anchor Home at Harinibilla@hotmail.com/rbilla@hotmail.com or 512 873 9755. May Baba always reside in the hearts of his people!

Shri Shirdi Sai Chithra Yatra, Indiana, USA
I am a devotee of Sai Baba and by my Baba's grace, I am one of the anchor homes in Indiana. This is a message to all devotees in and around Indiana that i received the picture thanks to the team at saibaba.org for giving me this wonderful opportunity. If any body wants to contact me, please write an email to Anitha Lattupally at anithajay@hotmail.com or contact me at my phone number at 317-579-0747.

Shri Shirdi Sai Chitra Yatra 2002 in USA
"Shri Shirdi Sai Chitra Yatra(Pictorial Journey)", started in USA on Jan 01, 2002. With anchor points across USA concurrently participating from day one, this unique event is off to a great start.

The journey which involves the ceremonial travel of Baba in the form of a portrait will stop at all Baba devotees homes who are interested in being a host to his protrait. The Yatra which will run till fall of this year, is open to one and all. There is no fees or charges involved to take part in this event. You may participate either as a host home or serve as an anchor point in your community.

Vist online at yatra page for all the details and to register.

For questions, comments, suggestions or to get details on an Anchor home in your area, send us an email at maildrop@saibaba.org with the subject line of "Shri Sai Chitra Yatra".
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