Archive for 2013
Buddha Purnima Morning…
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Today is Vaisakha Pournami, the day that marks the birth of Lord Buddha. Celebrating the holy occasion, known the world over as Buddha Purnima, hundreds of devotees from Region 4 & 5 of Sri Sathya Sai Organisations – Worldwide, comprising of countries Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are currently camping in Prasanthi Nilayam. read more »
Posted in Prasanthi News
Whom do you prefer…Lakshmi or Narayana…?
Thursday, May 23, 2013
How much have we utilised His Presence when He chose to walk amongst us, loving and serving, teaching and preaching the Supreme Path Of Truth to Sanathana Dharma? Has mankind ever understood the supreme potential of this Mighty Lord? Hinting upon man’s folly in going after Lakshmi, leaving Narayana out Bhagawan narrated a beautiful story involving Lord Narayana, His consort Goddess Lakshmi and Devarishi Narada. read more »
Posted in Storytime With Baba
I Am Sai Baba
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Dispelling doubts of ‘nay-sayers’, who turned aghast often, seeing the ‘out-of-the-world’ deeds of Little Sathya, Bhagawan as Little Sathya demonstrated a ‘miracle’ for the world and the worldly, proving to the Doubting Thomases that He is Sai Baba…He chose to scatter a handful of jasmine blossoms on the floor that obeyed the Divine Will to construe the words Sai Baba in Telugu…Reminiscing the beautiful episode from His Story Sri Jullie Chaudhuri writes, commemorating yet another anniversary of the epochal day, 23 May… read more »
Posted in Say It Poetically, Straight From The Heart
Sai Gita To Herself…
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Sai Gita, Bhagawan’s doted pet elephant, was…and is…undoubtedly one of the most exalted devotee of The Lord, whose dedication and devotion was hailed by Bhagawan, lavishly in public, asking men to follow her exemplary path…On 22nd May 2007 Sai Gita’s soul chose to fly free…to continue to ring out its melody…in the etheric sky…to merge forever with Beloved Mother Sai… Living her life full, with one-pointed devotion to Mother Sai, this Little Princess had left her footprints in the heart of her Beloved Master and thus would ever be remembered as the foremost of His devotees. On this occasion of the sixth anniversary of Sai Gita’s passing on, remembering the legendary pachyderm, let us listen to Sai Gita rhyming unto herself, reminiscing the glory of her Beloved Master…a poetic imagination by Anne Balabrega. read more »
Posted in Sai Spiritual Showers, Say It Poetically
Sai Gita…A Song That Embraces Eternity…
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The noble soul of Bhagawan’s long-time pet elephant Sai Gita chose to peacefully rest…merge…blissfully blend…into her Beloved Lord…on Tuesday, 22nd May 2007…at around 1800 hrs IST… Six years from that fateful day when we look back, what we understand is….The Gita of Sathya Sai lives on…Knowing no dusk…nor dawn…through the immortal song of Sai Gita… a poem from Sri Jullie Chaudhuri on the 6th anniversary of Sai Gita’s final passing on from the face of the Earth. read more »
Posted in Say It Poetically, Straight From The Heart
Miracle Of Transformation
Monday, May 20, 2013
It is because of Sri Sathya Sai Baba that my life is happier, more meaningful and insightful and my job is enriched with new challenges and new perspectives and meanings: “Work is love made visible.” His love and service translated into action for over 60 years are mind boggling, and His initiatives at cross cultural understanding among devotees from over 160 countries are just as amazing, writes Dr Yassin Sankar, Professor of Management, Dalhousie University, Canada. An extract from Sanathana Sarathi, September 2001. read more »
Posted in Sai Spiritual Showers
Banging Of The Clock
Saturday, May 18, 2013
A rightful desire from the core of a devoted heart, and there is Bhagawan with His Visiting Card, fulfilling the cherished desire of the devotee. The Cowans from the United States had the great good fortune of experiencing this unique Touch-Of-Grace, at their home in the United States, way back in the late sixties…extracted from Sanathana Sarathi, March 1969. read more »
Posted in Sai Spiritual Showers
An Unprecedented Devotional Feat
Saturday, May 18, 2013
We have heard the stories of ancient Rishis and Saints undertaking rigorous penance for a number of years, standing on one leg surrounded by raging fire or hanging upside down to the branch of tree in the wild forest, invoking the grace of God and have His vision. For the modern man, these achievements remain only in fables and stories. read more »
Posted in Prasanthi News
What Language Breathe Thee O’ Chitravathi…
Friday, May 17, 2013
Rarely we see a poem pulsating in nature’s perfect tune…As a stream flowing silently by the night in ecstatic swoon…Catching up with the mood of Holy River Chitravathi, that earned the rarest heavenly boon by being the ‘playground’ for the Avatar’s Divine Sport, narrating her current plight, Sri Satish Kumar Dua writes poetically silently praying to the Holy River, Mother Chitravathi to rise once again in sovereign queenly rage…Sri Satish Dua was formerly President Of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations – Haryana, currently serving the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam in its extended Drinking Water Supply Project. read more »
Posted in Say It Poetically, Straight From The Heart
Time…
Monday, May 13, 2013
If you waste your time enjoying the pleasures of life during your youth, wasting the power of your body and your sense organs, then if you want to reach your goal of merging with the Lord in your old age, you may not get that chance said Bhagawan once exhorting devotees to understand the preciousness of time. When time waste becomes life waste, knowing very well that we have to pay for being slack, how should man deal with time making the best of it…a poem from Sri Jullie Chaudhuri. read more »
Posted in Say It Poetically
