Nagarsankirtan…
Sunday, September 9, 2012
When the entire creation gets activated at the waking hours, it denotes a miniature rebirth, marking the stage of transition from nidra to jagrat. The day, rather life cannot be started more auspiciously than hearing the sweet name of the Lord…a poem by Prof Kasturi on the efficacy of the dawning hour’s group spiritual exercise called Nagarsankirtan. read more »
Posted in Say It Poetically
That Unfathomable Bond Of Pure Love…!!!
Friday, September 7, 2012
Divine footprints upon the sands of consciousness,
Thus so, humanity did Bhagawan bless,
Nurturing every atom in creation – a Divine Largesse,
Oh! Beloved Lord…we pledge,
We will forever do as You say…
Together today, to You, we do this convey,
We adoringly seek Your glorious grace to rise above,
To prove worthy of…
…that unfathomable bond of pure love… read more »
Posted in Reports
Siva and Sivasakthi
Thursday, September 6, 2012
God, Who is miraculous by His very nature, reveals glimpses of His glory, off and on, through what humans decipher as miracles. When faith meets with devotion, God acts swiftly, bringing heavenly providence, converting a humanly impossible situation into a possible miracle. How a little 14-year old lad came out unharmed, of cerebral meningitis and paralysis, by sheer blessing of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai. read more »
Posted in Sai Spiritual Showers
Sai and the Irate Missionary…
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
For the oppressed and for the depressed, for the needy and disconsolate, He is there as a friend, guide and guardian. Serving the mankind, serving them from the glitches of ignorance, He moves on often showing glimpses of His Divine aura. How He comes to the rescue of a troubled heart, saving blushes, often avoiding ignominy of tarnishing the Divine Name. Giri Naidu shares his experience, happened in the distant Himalayan region. (from Sanathana Sarathi archives)
Posted in Divine Foot Prints, Sai Spiritual Showers
My Sankalpa Is All-Powerful!
Monday, September 3, 2012
The Bond Of Love between Bhagawan and His ‘students’ is the sweetest and most incomprehensible. What the ‘vanaras’ of the Treta and ‘gopis’ of the Dwapara were privileged, in the Kali age when God descended as Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai, it is undoubtedly His band of ‘students’ who are the most privileged, to whom He has given Himself, guiding and nurturing them, to become the torch-bearers of His mission…and it is an unending saga of love, that is still on…What is that unfathomable Bond and how much Bhagawan expects from His band of students? read more »
Posted in Discourses
Onam 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
The Guest speaker Hon’ble Justice Sri Radhakrishnan’s beginning sentence addressing devotees from Kerala, “all the efforts that we have taken to assemble here is worth as you do not have Onam in Kerala as it is here” rightly reflected the holistic approach the festivity brings in to God’s Very Own Prasanthi Nilayam. Onam has always been a different experience in Prasanthi Nilayam compared to the ‘home’ experience. Where, in modern times, culture, traditions and the legends connected to festivities take a back-seat owing to unhealthy culture of commercialism and excess materialism, Prasanthi Nilayam often welcomes the holistic side of all festivities, embracing and disseminating true purport of each festivity.
This year too, as has been over the years, thousand from the state along with hundreds from different parts of India joined Prasanthi Nilayam, the holy hamlet that has witnessed a metamorphosis of the festivity over decades, celebrating the festivity for three days, from August 27 to the final Thiruvonam Day on August 29. read more »
Posted in Reports
Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vahini Reaching New Milestone…
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Bhagawan’s pet project announced during the 85th Birthday celebrations, Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vahini, that aims at integrating values in an innovative way into the school curriculum, got a big fillip last week as its newly developed comprehensive web application was offered at Bhagawan’s Lotus Feet on August 25, 2012 in Prasanthi Nilayam.
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Posted in Reports
Gloves and Grace…
Thursday, August 30, 2012
“I am a 14 year old Grade 9 student at the Highland Junior High School in Toronto, Canada. Recently, I had, I hope, the good fortune of experiencing Bhagawan’s Grace. I told it to my parents. They were very pleased. They shared it with some of their friends at Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Toronto. One of them suggested that I should share the episode with the readers of ‘Sanathana Sarathi’,” wrote little Priya Kumar from Canada, sharing his own experience of Bhagawan’s Divinity…. From Sanathana Sarathi, August 1987.
On Sunday mornings I deliver 35-40 newspapers in my neighbourhood. These are morning papers, so I have to deliver them before 8 a.m. But Sunday, February 15, 1987, was an extremely cold morning. The temperature was 23 degree Celsius. There was also a chill wind, which made the temperature seem even worse. As usual, I started out with my load of newspapers in a shopping cart accompanied by my pet dog, Snowball. Snowball is fluffy, white Samoyed, an Arctic breed. But the weather was so cruel that I thought even my Arctic companion was not enjoying the walk. His breath was freezing on his whiskers and I had some fun breaking them off. read more »
Posted in Sai Spiritual Showers
His First Speech on Baba
Monday, August 27, 2012
After coming to Baba in the Fifties, Prof Kasturi was for many decades the most entertaining and edifying exponent of Bhagawan’s life and message. But the first speech he had to give on Baba in 1951 was quite an ordeal. The following account of the incident, related in Prof Kasturi’s own inimitable humorous style, is reproduced from his autobiography, “Loving God”.
1951, December I received in the day’s mail a letter from Baba, in the Kannada language, but in Anglo Saxon script. I could neither read nor write the Telugu script and my understanding of the language was halting and inchoate. So, Baba had to devise this devious dualistic method of correspondence to communicate His orders. The letter made me both proud and penitent. It was a command clothed as a request. I was to unveil Bhagawan’s portrait at the School Day Function of the Sri Sathya Sai Baba District Board High School, Bukkapatnam! As a measure of abundant caution, Baba had written that my being given this golden chance was a precious piece of good fortune. read more »
Posted in Lest We Forget
Unto Sai a witness
Monday, August 27, 2012
Prof N. Kasturi was undoubtedly the most familiar name in Sai fraternity who lived an astounding forty years in close proximity to the Avatar of the Age, serving Him in His mission in various capacities. The Professor whose genius had many pens in his pocket was His ‘charge d’affaires’ and when the right time for Prasanthi’s premier publishing enterprise arrived it was Prof Kasturi who was ordained to take mission ahead, the mission of Sanathana Sarathi. Remembering the legend, on this occasion of quarter century of His ascent, who was the first Editor of Sanathana Sarathi and the first Convener of Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust, we reproduce what his successor Sri VK Narasimhan had written for Sanathana Sarathi announcing the ascent of the doyen, merging at His Lotus Feet!
“Death is the denouement of the drama of life,” wrote Prof Kasturi in 1981. That denouement came to him on August 14 at noon, a few minutes after Bhagawan Baba saw him in the Sathya Sai Hospital at Prasanthi Nilayam. He was 90. read more »
Posted in Indelible Impressions
