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 SAI SOOKTHI -ACHARYA VANI
I WILL NEVER LEAVE ANYONE IN THE MIDDLE .I WILL TAKE YOU TO THE GOAL.
SRI SAI BABA.
SRI SAI SAVES PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAVE FAITH IN HIM FROM DIFFICULTIES AND BESTOWS DEVOTION IN THEM. JUST LIKE DASGANU, HE WILL BRING THEM CLOSE TO HIM. IN THE NEXT STAGE , JUST LIKE HE DID FOR SHYAMA,- HE GIVES AN OPPURTUNITY TO STAY IN HIS PRESENCE( SANNIDHI )AND DO HIS SEVA . THE SUBSEQUENT STAGE IS AS SEEN IN MAHALSAPATHI. THE NEXT STAGE WILL BE SEEN IN ANWAR KHAN AND UPASANI BABA. IN THIS WAY ,SRI SAI UPLIFTS A TRUE DEVOTEE IN A SYSTEMATIC MANNER.
--- BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA.
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 HIGHEST HONOR TO OUR LORD GANESHA -ORIGIN BY BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA
Even though there are three crores of Gods in Hinduism, Lord Ganesha is given the greatest importance. Vaishnavas,shaivas, Brahmins, saktheyulu – no matter which God is worshipped primarily by them, when it comes to special occasions like marriage, upanayanam, and before doing daily Pooja, every one worships Lord Ganesha to overcome obstacles. It is essential to think why so much importance is given to Him in the Hindu society. It is easy to conclude it as a blind belief. Any belief that is present for several thousands of years attracting millions of people, indicates that some where in the depth of their hearts there is strong belief of its usefulness. To analyze about that usefulness is wisdom. To discard everything as blind belief is the modern superstition.
Human being understood after living several years on this earth that the progress of any individual, country, is linked with remaining part of nature. He understood that it is essential to consume only the necessary things from the nature and it is important to respect and not to cause distress the other living beings, including plant kingdom. On one hand with advancement of the culture and civilization this idea lead to the formation of principle of non-violence. On the other hand, Human being recognized that it is important to respect the remaining part of nature including rivers, mountains which provide support to us and to the rest of living creatures. He recognized that nature is responsible providing day to day necessities, for our happiness, bliss, to all the living creatures. To sincerely express that thought is worshipping the nature. Human has the vision of the creative
power in all the living and nonliving objects in the nature and he worshipped it.
This point of view is comprised in the worship of Ganesha. Lord Ganesha is the symbolization of all the animals starting from the biggest animal - Elephant to the smallest animal –rat that moves in the houses. The fact that human being is also an inseparable, integral part of the nature is indicated by the human form in Lord Ganesha ‘s figure . This category of the fauna is supported by the flora. So we worship Him with different types of leaves (PATRI). Earth is the main support for all types living creatures. So for worship of Ganesha , the main thing is idol of Ganesha made with clay.If water is not present on this Earth then neither the plants nor the animals would not have evolved and survived. The bodies of all living beings are formed by absorbing the essence from the Earth through water. To remember this, after the pooja, the clay idol
of Ganesha, the flowers, and leaves are submerged in sacred rivers, temple tanks (kooneeru). Wells are also used for the same purpose, when it is not possible to do it in the rivers.
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 PARIPRASNA - ORIGIN BY BHAGAVAN SRI BHARADWAJA
Q: Some people are writing chain letters as part of Sai Pracharam. In those letters they are writing to send a similar letter to 20 people which will give them lot of benefit and if they fail to do so it will cause lot of troubles. Is Baba delighted with this type of Pracharam? Please give suitable clarification through our magazine to these brothers.
A: There are two chains that keep all the living beings tied to earth and hell in such a way that they don’t get liberation—one is desire (or wish), the other is fear. Both these support each other. Fear about future is the cause for desire. As desires increase, the fear that they will not be fulfilled increases too. If we think one as eczema the other one is scratching it. Scratching increases the eczema and itching but will not reduce it. As it increases in size scratching also increases. It becomes impossible not to scratch it. The Kabandha who stands on these two feet and
devours us is SELFISHNESS. EGO and JEALOUSY are his sharp protruding teeth. AFFECTION and HATRED are his two eyes. The wisdom to nip these off as buds is taught by Spirituality, virtue and morality.These are present firmly in the human hearts right from the beginning and try to conquer us when we start the spiritual practice. Till we attain self realization these will follow us. They ruined the penance of Viswamitra several times. Marudu – the ego, the combined form of these two, tried to lure and threaten Buddha several times when he started his penance.
When Lord Jesus did severe penance for 40 days in a desert, a deity appeared and said that he will give the entire treasury on this earth if Jesus listens to him. Immediately Jesus understood who it was! And said “Saitan Go away!
I will not surrender to you. I don’t want them .The first couple Adam and Eve surrendered to the lure of Saitan; they lost their purity, divinity, and divine Love and became victims of death, disease, and sins. For generations, being their descendants, even today they are chasing us too. This saitan tried to entice the Mohammad prawakta in the same way. But that prophet warned human beings about him. Being born as human beings is the result of the punyam in previous births, and due to lot of punyam one would become a spiritual seeker, and even lot of punyam will give the opportunity to do Sadguru Seva. Sri Sai also warned “This opportunity will never come!” that means he said to beware of this fear and desire. Basing on the previous life virtuous deeds, we obtained the devotion on Sri Sai. To destroy it this Kali or this Saitan in the recent past are coming in another beautiful disguise .
That is nothing but the chain letters which is causing lot of distress and headache to the devotees.Recently, several devotees are getting letters in the post. On these either Sri Sai Namam or some other God’s name will be written. It says —“Write 20 copies of this chain letter and send it to 20 people. People who has done like this got monetary benefit or some other form of benefit. For those who threw this letter in waste basket it resulted in lot of troubles.” Innocent devotees are scared of these types of letters. So it is important to explain about these letters.People who write these letters don’t sign them. This is the first evidence to say that these are like fake money. The letter is not signed as they know that they will be convicted for scaring the people like this. That proves the truthfulness of these letters. Even proper postage is not paid for these letters, which proves right at the beginning that these letters
are unnecessary expense. Then the question is what benefit do they achieve in writing these letters in Sri Sai‘s name or any other God’s name.People who write these letters are Stupid and ignorant. These types of people are present in any religion. People who write these letters are beasts in human form and they force their beliefs on others. In world History, these types of people, after obtaining power and strength tortured and killed other people for not following the religion they liked. They have destroyed great civilizations.
Lack of such opportunity make these ignorant people to cause distress to devotees through these chain letters. There is no need for God, Sri Sai or other Mahatmas to attract everyone with these types of wishes or through bribe .They don’t have the necessity to attract people by causing terror. -- Are they political leaders to
survive on our material and moral support – to create hopes or to fright us? -- They are noble minded. They merciful beings to protect and provide food, water, light, air not only to virtuous beings but also to wicked persons, people who don’t even think about them. God ,Rishis from Vedic age; Incarnations like Lord Rama ,Lord Sri Krishna; Satya Drastas like Buddha,Jain ; Acharyas like Sri Sankara and Ramanujacharya; Sadgurus like Sri Sai ,Sri Rama Krishna Paramahamasa; - have never descended to such an evil method. It is very mean to propagate Sri Sai’s namam who is Abahya swarupa, (provider of freedom from fear) through the most evil methods like fright and hope.
So what should we do with these letters? Don’t do anything. Pray Sri Sai to protect these ignorant people from their ignorance and consign these chain letters to waste paper basket. If you think that the namam is sacred no
matter who wrote it, then keep that letter in front of Sri Sai, and pray “Sai you are omnipresent. By keeping this letter in front of you, your namam will be given to all living beings. Please give vivekam to these ignorant people.” Next day remove it with Pooja nirmalyam. Give them to Mandiram so that it can be used to pack vibuthi.
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SRI CHAITANYA SWAMYJI'S MESSAGE 