Volume:13 Issue:15
Thursday, Aug 19, 2010
Quote:
“Remember Me always, believe in Me heart and soul, and you will be most benefitted”- Shri Sai Baba
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Upcoming Events:
The full moon day(Pournima) of Hindu Ashada month (July 25th) is desingated to serve the Guru, hence it is also referred to as Guru Pournima. Sai devotees accross the world will be celebrating Gurupournima celebrations either at home or temple. Mark your calendars for a day of prayer and service to Shri Sai. Share your story and picture with other devotees by clicking here.
Devotees Say:
Sridhar
Thank you Baba for helping me to finish the MBA program. Hopefully you will bless us with the green cards soon.
Rajneesh
Om Sai Ram, Baba Thank you so much to listen and answer to all of my Prayers. On Thursday, I received the Two most Important and wonderful news of my life. With your blessing, my Green Card application is approved on Thursday and on the same day, I was selected for another project in same company where I am working right now. I truly believe that both of this news was not possible without your blessings. About 3 weeks back I was told that my project will going to be end in August and since then I was keep praying in front of Baba to help me find another project in same city and get my Green Card approved before end of July month Visa bulletin. On the day, we received an email that our Green Card is approved, as per my promise I leave early from work and visit Shirdi Temple in (Illinois). Once again Baba Thank you so very much for everything. Please shower your blessings on us and all of your devotees.
Devotees Experience:
Sai Devotee
Sai Devotees, I want to share my experience of Baba blessings in my life. We planned to by house in NJ and we started looking for houses. One day we got call from realtor that one good house on sale. He forced us to see the house on same day. My husband and I went see the house. The house is really good and because of lot of competition, we signed the contract immediately. I left every thing to Baba because he will give the things, which gives the good results. We applied the loan to bank and we were waiting for appraisal report. Finally, appraisal came low. Bank told they do not give loan more than appraisal price. My realtor told that would try the appraisal one more time. However, seller is in hurry and he gave only 4 days time line to get the commitment. We requested new lender to do the process quickly. He did appraisal again and the value came low again. I thought Baba is doing all these things to do some good. Seller wants to cancel the contract. I left everything to Baba and sent mail to attorney cancel the contract. Again Baba did miracle and seller agreed to reduce the price. Again, we started the process to buy the house. My seller fixed the closing date and we started running towards the date. On closing day, our lender called, loan was not cleared, and they have some doubt about our status. I prayed Baba sincerely to solve the issue and understand the loan processor about our status. With Baba grace, they understand the documentation and we closed the house. We faced so many hurdles, but are always with us and gave strength to face them. He did miracles and he blessed us with our dream house. As per my Promise, I am leaving Nonveg on Thursdays for my entire life.
KK Singh
Dear All, I have been suffering a lot for last 20 years and developed faith in God slowly. I joined a Satasang in my town around 6 years ago. I was a compulsive drinker for all seven days a week until some one in my home town in India told me that I must quit drinks and non veg on Thursdays as the results to my efforts are only limited due to this. I was told that it is a day of Guru. I prayed Hanuman Ji as my Guru until this Saturday 24 July 2010, when I was having dinner with a friend and they said that it is the day for Sain Baba. I could realize that Sai had entered in my life so long ago. Just three months ago from today, some one from my Satsang advised me to read Sai SatCharitra as it has miraculous effects. I read it in two months and when completed, approached appropriate people in my organization to help me saving the life of my daughter by placing me in any medically advanced country.
However, it is not done completely, but to cut the storey short, I got some great hope and have belief in Baba that every thing would go all right. In last one month only, there are three Sai Sat Charitra in my family with different people and I have planned a trip with 18 other family and friends\' family members to visit Shirdi. Thankfully, the day we would be there is a Thursday only. Jai Sai Ram. This is my first experience to visit this site and enrolled my self and my wife as recipient of mails and my first letter as Article subscriber. If acceptable, I would share my some of the pains as well in future. I wish all Sai Baba followers a great life and pray to Sai to bless us all as he is so Merciful and loving! Please welcome me and my family as a new member in your life full of Sai\'s stories and blessings.
Manisha
I would like to share with all the devotees of Saibaba his miracle for which I am forever thankful to him. I was very keen to settle down in UK.I tried on student visa, workpermit visa and other countries visa also since long time but I believe Baba always gives me excellent things in my life. During my last year visit to Shirdi, I prayed to Baba to do needful for my one wish-- to settle in abroad. I thought in Shirdi temple in front of Saibaba, I should bring my passport that time UK immigration wants master degree and my friends told me that UK government would not change rule so I was hopeless. But I have strong "Shardha" trust on Baba that he will change rule in short time. It was Baba’s grace that the UK immigration rule changes for education from master to bachelor degree. My husband and I applied on 5 May 2010 and within 10days, we got visa.
Thank you Saibaba. I request to all Sai devotee that whatever you ask in Shirdi temple, please always keep "Shardha" and “Saburi" and surrender on Saibaba. He will do best for you. Another miracle that my younger sister got married on 9th July on blessing of Saibaba only because we have searched partner for her since 7 years.
Sai Vichaar Vol 13, Issue 15
Feature: You are unique!
Each of us has our own relationship with Sri Saibaba that is unique and shaped by our own experiences. We may at times feel that an experience narrated by others is much enriching than ours or our own experience is much important and profound than that of others. This sort of behavior will lead to unhappiness and an uneasy mind. Baba clearly instructed his devotees not to compare notes, discuss, and argue as each one's path is different. He strongly advised his devotees to resort to his name if they were not able to control their urge otherwise. The methods used by the master are beyond our comprehension.
Sri Sai Satcharita exemplifies varied methods used by Shri Baba. To one devotee he advised being locked up in a dark filthy room for spiritual progress. For the same purpose, another one was asked to go to the top of a mountain! To cure a nagging illness, one was given to drink juice of some leaves that would otherwise be harmful, while another was asked not to sleep as a cure for snakebite. One suffering from asthma was made to sleep in the Chavadi that was unhygienic and uncomfortable to anyone else. When a child devotee of his fell in fire at a distant place, He immediately put his hand in fire sitting in his abode to save the child! It is certain that the same process is continuing today too. As said in Sri Saibaba arathi, “Jayaa manee jaisaa bhaava tayaa taisaa anubhava”, Sri Sai grants suitable experience as per one’s faith and devotion.
One needs to experience Baba with love and humility. One's own experience is the most important thing. Others’ experiences may only serve as guidance or words of encouragement. Ultimately, it is one's own effort towards reaching the master that is rewarded. Lobbying by others may only serve a limited role and it is one's own journey that will get him to the goal of His abode. It is advisable if one becomes aware of this fact quickly and acts accordingly.
Contributed Article: Saibaba’s divinity!
The Charters and Sayings reports a conversation of Sai with a mother and son in which Baba first denies his divine identity and later gives a vision of himself as a four-armed god. Sai asked the son for eight rupees. Since the boy didn’t have them, he directed him to Jog. The latter was reading from the Dhruvacharita and commenting on it, told the boy: Saints, though not God, have some powers derived from Him.
The boy came back to Baba quite angry and told him how there were persons who said that he was merely a man and not God. Then Baba said: “Then what is the untruth in that? Hello! What am I? A petty fakir! I am not God. How great is God! No one can compare with Him”.
Here the faqir adheres to the basic tenets of Islam concerning God’s radical transcendence and unknowability. Soon after having said this, however, he is reported to have given a vision of himself as a four-armed Hindu god, thus confirming the boy’s faith in his divinity!
The story is a good example of Sufi as well as Hindu mysticism, elucidating a paradoxical coincidentia oppositorum, that is, the transcendence and at the same time immanence of the divine: God, in other words, is both everywhere and nowhere.
(Source: “The Life and Teachings of Saibaba of Shirdi” by Antonio Rigopuolos)