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
Yes, You Can!!!
Sunday, May 12, 2013
The story of Mikko Mayedo of Ontario, California – Champion Over Adversity – is an incredible story of ‘Yes, You Can…” , story of ‘will’ that granted her the power to win against all oddities, finally to become a ‘champion of the world’. Mikko Mayedo was a world‑renowned Olympic Equestrian Champion from the United States who achieved her feat despite being completely blind. As her narration continues, she ends up with her telling tale of finding her God within. She claims, Even in blindness, I know that God has come, narrating how she found the Avatar Of the Age ‘within!!!’
(Mikko Mayeda – “Champion Over Adversity” – even though afflicted with MS and blind, she won 18 first place and 6 second of 24 equestrian entries from 1983 to 1987, and became an Olympic and International Champion.)
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Posted in Divine Foot Prints, Indelible Impressions
From The Physical To The Subtle…
Saturday, May 11, 2013
When Bhagawan Himself says His Name is not distinct from His Form, when Form and Name become inseparable, is it right to call Bhagawan’s transition, from the physical to the subtle, “From Form To Formless” asks Dr Sara Pavan, narrating a couple of His ever increasing ”Divine Sport’ of His physical manifestations post His passing on from the physical plane… read more »
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Why Do Animals Matter?
Friday, May 10, 2013
Imagine a world without greenery around, without the four legged ones, without the flying colours? Such a world would be hollow without the essence. Man is blessed to co-exist in this beautiful world, with plants, animals, birds and all other living ‘loving’ creatures. If alone man understands his duty, his legacy, to live practising “Love All Serve All, Help Ever Hurt Never”, coexisting with his co-creation, he can surely claim that his heart has been touched by God. Why man should co-exist in nature and why do animals, birds matter for him? Read on as Ms. Mercinini Sheratt from the United Kingdom writes about the beauty of animal kingdom, citing Bhagawan’s priceless quotes. The writer, an English Teacher by profession, has been a long time devotee and is currently spiritual co-ordinator for Region 6 in the UK. She has also been taking active interest in animal welfare and animal rights. read more »
Posted in Animal and Nature
Transformation From Within…
Friday, May 10, 2013
In today’s world of competition and corruption, jealousy and hatred, transformation is what man needs the most. How are we to achieve it? This transformation should come from within and that too on a mass scale. Just as one tree does not make a forest or one house a village, so also one man’s transformation does not serve the purpose of society. According to Swami, for the transformation of humanity, first each individual has to transform himself, next there should be transformation in the family, then transformation in the community, thereafter transformation in the nation which finally leads to transformation in the world, writes Sri Parthish Dubey, then (1989) a XII standard student at Bhagawan’s school. Extracted from his speech delivered in the immediate Divine Presence. Read on… read more »
Posted in Sai Spiritual Showers
Secret of Spiritual Success
Friday, May 10, 2013
Defining His Avataric mission, dividing His mission into 16 years apiece with defined tasks, Bhagawan, delivering His ‘first public Divine Discourse said: …”not that I Am determined to exclude leela and mahima from My activity after that…. I only mean that re-establishing Dharma, correcting the crookedness of the human mind and guiding humanity back to Sanathana Dharma will be My task thereafter. Read on… read more »
Posted in Divine Foot Prints, Lessons From The Epics, Sathya Sai Speaks
The Mother as an Apprentice…
Saturday, May 4, 2013
How dearly the simple village woman in The Chosen Mother, Easwaramma, loved her ‘Bundle Of Joy”, often failing to grasp the Truth that He was verily the source and sustenance of the world and beyond. Unassuming and full of motherly love, Easwaramma, the Mother who cradled Him… nursed Him – Who was verily Her delight, would often worry about the safety and security of Her Avataric Son when He often crossed the borders of Prasanthi. Read on how the Mother cared for ‘Her Love and Light and Delight’…from Kasturi’s Pen… read more »
Posted in From Kasturi's Pen
You Bless Us Every Now And Then…
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Our Mighty Lord He Is…and His little children we are…that the unique bond, which is the real and lone relationship that exists is so unique that the child supplicate to Him seeing Beloved Mother Sai in Him…lavishing Him with heaps of praise for His Love…for His Protection…for His Guidance…for Him Being The Essence Of Our Lives…a beautiful poem from Sri Satish Dua, formerly President Of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations – Harynana, 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
When Beauty Was Being…
Friday, May 3, 2013
Here is an attempt to describe the Beauty of The Lord Who Walks The Earth in Prasanthi, captured from an eventful day’s memory, 27th day of the first month of 1974, a day when Bhagawan granted interviews for almost six hours, exuding pristine freshness and joy, utterly untouched by strain or tedium. Writing about the Beauty of His Being, R. Ganapathi asks what was it that elevated the beauty that evening, above the holy beauty of sea and mountain of sun and moon, and placed it along with the consumingly Divine Beauty of the entrancing Idol of Kamakshi at Kanchi, or of the Nataraj at Chidambaram, or Balaji at Tirupati?
Posted in Reflections, Sai Spiritual Showers
Friends! Do Not Tarry…
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Prasanthi Nilayam, the Supreme Abode Of Divinity On Planet Earth – Is IT yet another pilgrim spot for humanity to seek and satisfy petty ‘worldly’ desires?…or does IT offer something substantial…? For the one who is inclined, who has the eyes to see, ears to hear and ability to think, this Supreme Abode Of Sri Sathya Sai offers a glimpse of the Supreme Truth, writes Sri A Venkata Rao urging fellow travellers to make haste, life being short, cautioning, ‘if we tarry, great is our loss’. Extracted from Sanathana Sarathi, February 1970. read more »
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