benefit of sevaks outside India, via two letters from Dr. Michael. Goldstein: ------------------------------------------------begin copies------------ Dear Brothers and Sisters, Sai Ram! I have requested Dr. Venkataraman to provide information for all Overseas Sai Centers regarding the Radio Sai Satellite Broadcasts which are now associated with a new website and a regular newsletter publication. The transmissions are made available through agreements with different satellites in different parts of the world. In certain areas there is a small charge imposed by the satellite for use of their technology and access to our service. There are no fees associated with the use of the website and the newsletter. Please cirulate this letter and the following information sent by Dr. Venkataraman to all Overseas Sai Centers so that Sai devotees may avail themselves of these services. Sincerely, Michael Goldstein OM SRI SAI RAM ABOUT RADIO SAI GLOBAL HARMONY AND ITS SERVICES Radio Sai Global Harmony is the radio service managed by Prashantinilayam, and is meant for spreading Swami's Message of Universal Love to people of all continents. This service is being made available in many different ways as follows: " To the people in Asia, the radio programs are beamed by the Asiastar satellite of WORLDSPACE, 24 hours a day. This service inaugurated by Bhagavan Baba on His Birthday in 2001, has been running non-stop ever since. " To people in Africa and Europe, a special service was launched in April this year, and is available on the Afristar satellite of WORLDSPACE. This service too runs 24 hours a day. The programs offered on this channel are not the same as on the Asia service. " Together, both channels carry: Divine Discourse, Bhajans, Interviews, Talks, Festival Radio Reports, etc. " In addition, Radio Sai brings current news. Efforts are under way to bring this within 12 hours of happening. For example, once these efforts are complete, a Discourse can be heard all over the world within 12 hours at the most. " For the benefit of people who are not under the foot print of the WORLDSPACE satellites [especially people in the American Continent, Caribbean Islands, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji], Radio Sai offers a web radio service. To receive web broadcasts, one does the following: First log on to: www.radiosai.org . On the Home page, there are many windows. Look in Download. The download page will then pop up and show the radio programs currently available for download. This means the listener can tick the programs he or she likes, and download these programs into the listener's hard disc for subsequent use. Alternately, one can use the playlist tick boxes and select programs ONE WANTS TO HEAR. The web site will compile these programs and start streaming them. The listener can just sit back and listen to the programs on the loudspeaker. Making use of new high-bandwidth facilities being made available here, efforts are under way to organise a 12-hour special streaming service to American continent. If this comes through, then a listener in that continent has to just log on and keep listening! He/she can do this for 12 waking hours, and every day, there will be different programs, just as we have on the Asiastar and Afristar services. The Radio Sai web site also has a fortnightly news magazine entitled HEART TO HEART, that devotees are certain to find interesting. This too can be viewed by logging on to the website mentioned above. -------------------------------------------------------- Dear Brothers and Sisters, Sai Ram! Recently, the Sanathana Sarathi has begun to include uplifting Sai Events from the State Organizations within India. The State Presidents in India submit articles describing salient events within their states to the All India President. The All India President then reviews the articles, selects those that he deems most inspirational, and sends to Sanathana Sarathi for publication. The Editor of Sanathana Saratha has invited the Overseas Sai Organizations to contribute to the Sanathana Sarathi in a similar manner. We will certainly do so! Therefore, I request that all Central Coordinators send to their respective Zone Chairmen brief articles regarding inspiring events that have taken place in one of the countries for which they are responsible, ideally 2-3 paragraphs in length. The Zone Chairmen should then review and select one or two articles from his/her zone and send them to me. I will then also review and select and send the most representative articls to the Sanathana Sarathi. We will do this for each issue and should try to find events taking place in as many coutnries as possible over time. I would like to receive the first articles from the Zone Chairmen by October 18. They may be about events that have taken place with two months preceding October 18. Your cooperation is appreciated. Sincerely, Michael Goldstein |