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Sai Vichaar 1.Feature of the Week: A higher level of faith and perception 2.Ekadasi Sai Gayathri 3.Experiences of Devotees 4.Devotees Say 5.From the Editor's Keyboard 6.Subscribe to Sai Vichaar 7.Disclaimer From the Editor's Keyboard... Thanks to the devotees for their continued support for Shirdi Darshan Parts I and II. We once again request devotees to send us video clippings of Sainath Maharaj related activities for such video shows in future. Devotees who intend to contribute to Sai Vichaar in the form of features, writings on their experiences, other comments and views, please do so by sending them to Shirdi Sai Baba web site organization by email, or regular mail. We pray for His grace and your continued support for the future activities we have planned. Humbly yours, The Editor
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Feature of the week:
A higher level of faith and perception
Is Sai Baba God or could that be He was just a man with a few unique powers and peculiarities? This was also a question raised about two thousand years ago with Christ, was Jesus Christ a man or a magician? Discussions on - the father, the son and the Holy Spirit’ is still a popular topic at churches all over. Where does the answer lie to the question whether Sai Baba was an ordinary man with a few powers or the manifestation of the supreme conscious that eludes common rationale? Let us see a wonderful passage from "Glimpses of Sai Baba" by His Holiness Shri Narasimhaswami ji: "As to how Sri Sai Baba is to be regarded, there is wide divergence of views, not merely among religions, sects and people, but also within one’s stage of the spiritual growth. Many regard Him as both God and man, just as Tennyson did in case of Jesus Christ. Thou seemest human and divine
There are many who are hovering about this level, in their view of Sai Baba-now, disposed to submit and surrender, and pray to Him as God, again disposed to regard Him as a highly developed personality acting as their guardian angel or at least as a benevolent but more gifted man , with human frailties and other human peculiarities. Some devotees, if they analyze their perception from time to time, might discover that they can not fix themselves to one particular view of Sai Baba always, but are involuntarily moved from one to the other viewpoints mentioned above and even to pass beyond these, even to the extent of doubting whether Sai Baba is or is not good and powerful. Such is human weakness that one need not be ashamed to discover his own position in the last named class. But commonsense, and higher impulses naturally drive us to quit such a useless, nay, pernicious state and strive to reach higher levels of faith and perception."
Ekadasi Sai Gayathri
These are the eleven Gayathri Mantras on Shirdi Sai., known as Ekadasa Sai Gayathri. Ekadasa Sai Gayathri is chanted after taking a morning shower, wearing fresh clothes, applying Udi on the forehead and sitting facing east, north or northeast directions . Ekadasa Sai Gayathri Om Digambaraya Vidmahey
Om Digambaraya Vidmahey
Om Ayim Gurudevaya Vidmahey
Om Shiridi Vaasaaya Vidmahey
Om Gnananandaya Vidmahey
Om Samardhaya Vidmahey
Om Sarvagnaaya Vidmahey
Om Tatvagnaaya Vidamahey
Om Sai Raamaaya Vidamahey
Om Atmaroopaya Vidmahey
Om Brahmathejaya Vidmahey
Devotees recite the following chant while partaking Baba’s Udi Mahagraha Peedaam Mahotpaatha Peedaam
Paramam Pavithram Baba Vibhutim
Experiences of Devotees
I came to know Sai Baba while I was living in India, about ten years ago. I made two trips to Shirdi at that time. I particularly like the quotation where Baba says, " I will draw my devotee to me as though he was a bird with a string attached to its leg." Now, I live in the States and with my husband started a business. Last year we expanded and went far into debt and everything that could go wrong did. The terrible stress and financial difficulties caused me to go into such a bad depressions that I had to take medication. Things are getting better now but still very difficult. Recently, I started praying to Baba, again. I tried to be very specific and asked for a good delivery driver who would care about our business and do a good job. Good drivers are hard to get and I had to do all this work myself, usually, plus all the bookkeeping, sales, not to mention taking care of a household. In fact, about a month later, my daughter moved back home with her best friend who needed a job and is about the best driver we have ever had. I said to myself, this is probably just a coincidence. the way one does say such things to oneself the beginning of this month I was terribly short of cash and I prayed to just make it through the week. The money came through just when I needed it and I was very grateful. But later, I was so badly in the hole, I knew that the money from the receivables would not come in fast enough and I was going to be in real trouble. I felt so anxious, I did not want to get up in the morning. I felt like crying all the time. I go to a little Protestant church in our village here in the northern US. There are very few paritioners, sometimes only five or six on a Sunday. I like to attend because generations of my family have done so in the same church and I love to sing the old Christian hymns. After church I was sitting with some of my friends and telling them about my worries. This morning, one of them, an eighty-year-old lady, came to my house and presented me with a check for ten thousand dollars. This was totally unexpected, totally out of the blue, and was just about the exact amount I needed. I started to cry when I got it and I have started to cry thinking about it now. She said it was a gift and gave me a hug and said, "I love you, Rebecca." After this, I have a hard time thinking that all these answers to my prayers were just coincidence. I have to say, thank you Baba, thank you for helping me. I have felt, with all the suffering and injustice in the world, why should I succeed with my dumb little business. I should have more faith. When I do succeed, I dearly hope to be able to help other people in turn.
Binaifer Karanjia
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