Archive for 2012

Musical Offering and Divine Discourse…

Celebrating holy Ganesh Chaturthi, students from the Institute offered a string of hymns propitiating Lord Ganesha this morning here in Prasanthi Nilayam. Singing special hymns invoking the Lord, Who is hailed as ‘Prathama Vandana’, the students regaled the audience read more »

Lord Ganesh ‘Returns’ to Prasanthi as Ganesh Chaturthi arrives…

Ganapathi is called Vinayaka because there is no master above Him. He is all powerful and independent. Without recognizing the esoteric significance of the Vinayaka Principle, people look only at the external form and offer worship in mundane terms. read more »

Ganesh Chaturthi tomorrow…

Tomorrow being Ganesh Chaturthi, students from Sri Sathya Sai Institute Of Higher Learning will offer a bouquet of devotional hymns in the morning in Sai Kulwant Hall. The programme commences at 0820 hrs. after 20 minutes of Veda chanting.
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Let God Do It…

Bhagawan’s sayings on life, calling to play the game of life, meet the challenges in life mainly focus on one final step, Total Surrender to God. For the mortals Surrender is too big a term, theoretically okay to understand, but practically hard to practise. Let’s read on an interesting anecdote from a Bal Vikas Guru of Mumbai, Ms. Rama Sampath, narrating how Bhagawan taught her the lesson of Complete Surrender… read more »

I Am The Champion Of The World

Akin to Bhagawan’s saying, bend the body, mend the senses and end the mind, when a resolute and committed Mikko Mayeda, who was completely blind, decided to ‘ride on’ with an untiring pursuit for excellence, nothing stood in her way making her victorious, a champion of the world. An inspirational poem from Mikko Mayedo depicting her moment of glory of becoming ‘the champion of the world’. (copyright with Mikko Mayedo) read more »

Are You Spying On Him?!?

How often have we seen the perfect ‘human face’ of the Avatar descended, our Beloved Bhagawan, living His life among men, talking, joking and laughing – like humans, touching every heart with His indelible impressions of Supreme Love. An interesting instance involving Prof Kasturi, Indra Devi and Beloved Bhagawan. read more »

Sai, Teri Pyaar Ki Yaadein…Profound Memories Of Your Boundless Love

How profound are the golden memories of His Divine Love!…is known to every soul as each soul will have its own tale of Divine bondage with Beloved Mother Sai…when these recollections become an intense sadhana, feeling within pours forth, as a fervent prayer, shaping up a beautiful poem…Ms Jullie Chaudhuri expresses the beauty of her profound memories of ‘His Touch Of Grace’ ending it up with a prayer to Bhagawan… read more »

The Power of the Lord’s Name…

In the course of His discourse in the Prasanthi Mandir on June 22nd, 1989, Bhagawan explained the purifying and redeeming power of the Lord’s Name when it is recited in a spirit of total surrender to the Divine. Bhagawan said: read more »

Sathya Sai About Shirdi Sai…

How Bhagawan Shirdi Sai, Who would often repeat ‘Dattatreya Malik’ and ‘Allah Malik’ once ‘proved’ that He is verily Lord Dattatreya and on another occasion demonstrated the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man, settling a dispute between Hindu and Muslim devotees, was narrated by Bhagawan in one of His Divine discourses… read more »

The Power Of Faith…

In one of His discourses in “Trayee Brindavan” in May 1994, Bhagawan spoke at length on the power of faith, He said: “Complete faith is most essential if you want to experience Divinity. There should not be even an iota of doubt. One living without faith in the Divine is like a lifeless corpse.” Bhagavan related the following story to illustrate the Power Of Faith: read more »