Volume 1 Issue 4
April 2003
Contents
Bundle of Notes
Antaa Sai Mayam
Sai na hote to
Sai Sandesh
Quotation of the month
Did You know?
About Shirdi Saibaba Prayer Center
Sai SandeshSai Sandesh is a Monthly Newsletter dedicated to the Life and message of Saibaba of Shirdi. Please send your contributions to hamaresai@yahoo.com. If you want to receive this newsletter please click here. Shirdi Saibaba Prayer Center, Twin Cities, MN is not responsible for the opinions expressed by the individual contributors.
About Shirdi Saibaba Prayer Center.
Shirdi Saibaba Prayer Center, Inc., Twin Cities, MN is registered as a Non-profit corporation in the state of Minnesota. The organization is funded by the voluntary contributions of Sai devotees. The Prayer Center is currently located at 725 NE Lake St. Apt. 139, Hopkins, MN, where regular Sai Satsangs are conducted and occasions of importance to Saibaba of Shirdi are celebrated. In addition to the Prayer Center activities, the organization is also involved with community service including "Meals on Wheels" and "Adapt a Family" programs. Please visit the Prayer Center and participate in its activities. Please write to hamaresai@yahoo.com for more details.
Activities
Sri Ramanavami / Baba's Urs Celebrations
Om Sai!
Shirdi Saibaba Prayer Center under the blessings & guidance of Sadguru Sainath,
with the devotees' help will be celebrating Sree Rama Navami / Baba's Urs on
April 12 from 3:30 pm at Geeta Ashram. The highlight of the celebration will be
the flag&sandal procession led by children. The program includes Sai abhishek
with devotee participation, Dhup Arti, Activites for children, Bhajans/Kirtans,
Devotee experience sharing, Palki Seva, Shej Arti. MahaPrasad [dinner] will be
served at the end of the celebrations. For more details, drivng directions
please visit our website.
Meals on Wheels
Shirdi Sai devotees are volunteering for the Meals -On-Wheels, in various
locations in the TwinCities. Volunteers pick up packed meals and deliver them to
the needy as per the list given by the organizers. The volunteers have given a
very positive feedback about the good feeling one gets for having done something
to reach out to the elderly and needy. If you would like to join in this
program please send us
email
Fortnightly Satsanghs
Shirdi Saibaba Prayer center conducts fortnightly satsanghs from 5pm onwards and the program includes Abhishek to Baba, Dhoop Arti, Bhajan/Kirtans, Naam Jap, Shej Arti and Maha Prasad. The next 2 satsanghs are scheduled on April 26, May 10. |
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Monthly Feature
Bundle up your notes!
By Ravin Gnanasambandam, Coon Rapids, MN
When the rich merchant sought Sai Baba for Brahma Jnana (Self realization), Baba made him sit and asked someone else to fetch some money, the money Baba never needed. The merchant sat quite with bundles of notes in his pocket anticipating that he would be rewarded with the ultimate wisdom, the only riches that he has been denied in life. Or so he thought!
After the drama was over, the Merciful One asked the merchant to take out the bundle from his pocket, spelling out exactly the amount to its last rupee! Bewildered and humiliated, the merchant knew exactly what Baba meant to teach him through the drama. How could someone who is not willing to part with the most transient of the possessions gain the experience of more than a lifetime? Missed opportunity!
Sai Satcharithamritha quotes several incidents where Baba read the minds of those who came to him; the pleader from Pandharpur was referred to as someone cunning, and Sapatnekar was made to endure the abuse and the humiliation until his mind was completely transformed and his faith in Baba grew to the unconditional extent.
The realization that Sadguru is Antaryamin, the one that is the most awake and the one that is the most aware is a significant stage in one's spiritual pursuit. He stays in the Conscience observing every thought and every action. Such a realization should naturally lead one to the thoughts and action that are truthful with the acceptance that the self is not the doer. Good or bad, right or wrong, necessary or wasteful, mandatory or optional, any logic and every thought will have His supervision. Whatever such a mind does will always have right consequences. The self charioted by Sadguru does not stop at the transitory bundles, however alluring that might be!
Devotee Contributions
Antaa Sai Mayam
By Bhuva Valluri, Eagan, MN
Sai na hote to
By Guru ji Sri C.B. Satpathy ji
Quotation of the Month
Spirituality should fill our lives with enthusiasm for the quest for truth and the determination to achieve the aim of life. It should fill us with love and happiness to make our life full of vitality. To fill our lives with pessimism and to degrade our lives with lack of purpose is not true spirituality.
– Sadguru Sainathuni Sarath Babuji
Did you know? |
| Of all the blessed people that spent time with Sainath Maharaj, it occurred to only two of those to document their experiences in writing. They were Shri Dadasaheb Khaparde who wrote his diary in English and Shri Kakasaheb Dikshit who wrote his experiences in Marathi.
(Source: Saipatham Magazine -June 2001)
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