GURUVAAR PRARTHNA

GURUVAAR   PRARTHNA

 

 

Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy Day of Guruvaar. Baba, help us to take off various masks we use on our day to day life. When we look around, the whole world of masked men and women. Baba, we can't judge who is true, whole majority of people who have decided to hide behind a mask because of the issues they are battling with. Baba, it is time to make self examination in front of You, if any one of us wearing a mask, please help to remove the masks, it is right time to take it off with Your help. We want to stop pretending everything is fine when we know it is not, Today is very auspicious day, not only Guruvaar, but also the day we determined to take off all our masks and to show our real face to our brothers and sisters, friends and relatives, persons known and unknown to us. Baba. On this holy day we start our prayers by reading your divine guidance in Shri Sai Samartha Satcharitra.

  

 

 

In the chariot of one's own body, make your intellect the charioteer and be the master yourself. Then you can sit at ease.

 

 

On these roads full of obstacles, in the form of pleasures of the senses, make the charioteer control the ten prancing horses of the sense organs by means of the reins, in the form of the mind.

 

 

If the horses try to run helter-skelter, the charioteer will hold the reins to control the horses. And once they are entrusted to him, you can rest at ease.

 

 

If the charioteer is skillful and expert, the horses will run properly. But if the mind in control of the reins is not independent, there is weakness.

 

 

Whenever the intellect accompanied by the sense of discretion, is in a position to guide the chariot, that person has full control over himself. One who can concentrate and whose mind is composed only can reach the supreme state of salvation and all others tire out on the way.

 

 

He will not be satisfied whose mind is restless. He has no entry in the realm of the supreme state of salvation and thus cannot avoid the cycle of birth and death.

 

 

Such is that supreme state but when can one find it? When all the doubts of the mind are cleared, it then appears before you on its own.

 

 

Here logic, deductions, popular talk or discussions are of no avail. Only by God's grace you can attain it. All other sciences of learning are futile.

 

 

This is the marvel in this case – that innocent belief succeeds in knowing it, while logical skills are futile and the logical mind is confused.

 

 

Those who acquire the perfect wisdom are of a different type, whose thinking and intelligence are of a different kind. Please understand that such a person who has the real knowledge is very different and he is the best person to impart knowledge.

 

 

How the precious body is wasted! Wealth and pleasures are like the afternoon shadows, short-lived. Understand that this is a powerful illusion created by God and surrender at the feet of the Saints.

 

 

Saints are like the vessel on the oceans of the world. You be one of the passengers. Who else is capable of taking you across to the yonder shore?

 

 

Self-control and detachment, if combined together, will take him across the worldly ocean without difficulty, even though he may be a dullard like a millstone.

 

 

 

 

 

I bow down to Sree Ganesh

I bow down to Sree Saraswati

I bow down to the Guru

I bow down to the Family Deity

I bow down to Sree Sita-Ramachandra

I bow down to Sree Sadguru Sainath.

  

 

 

Sarveshaam Svaastir Bhavatu

Sarveshaam Shaantir Bhavatu

Sarveshaam Poornam Bhavatu

Sarveshaam Mangalam Bhavatu

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanteeh

  

 

 

-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter  17, Ovi  30 - 42)

List of Devotees Submitted Prayer Request for Shirdi Sai Spiritual Group Prayers on Thursday, 28th July 2016, 09:00 hrs

List of Devotees Submitted Prayer Request for Shirdi Sai Spiritual Group Prayers on Thursday, 28th July 2016, 09:00 hrs

 

 

Benefits of Group Healing Prayers:

 

Dear Sai Brothers and Sisters,

 

Sai Group Healing Prayers – when our prayers from all parts of the world focusing on a specific day & specific time (All Thursdays at 09:00 hrs IST) with a single object with total concentration of praying for others, with our resolve to get help from Sai for those unknown to us, praying selflessly for the benefit of all Sai families, certainly this power packed prayer energising and elevating our sub conscious mind with powerful spiritual vibrations. Also this group prayers release divine guidance, divine protection, averts disaster, very powerful divine impact and more importantly all participants witness powerful answers to our prayers.

 

Let us sincerely pray for these devotees and request Baba to accomplish all their desires as soon as possible.

 

Please share your experiences post Sai Spiritual Healing Prayers and forward a thanks giving note to Baba.

 

Om Sai Sri Sai Jaya Jaya Sai.

 

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Assurance of Protection from Shirdi Sai Baba:

 

Baba gave the following doctrines to us. This is very clear and open message to all of us. Let us read once again and keep them in our mind before staring our prayers.

 

 

Why should any fear?  When I am here?

 

I will not allow my devotees to come to harm. I have to take thought for my devotees. And if a devotee is about to fall, I stretch out my hands, and thus outstretched hands at time to support him, I will not let him fall.

 

See I have to suffer for your sake, to remove your sufferings.

 

My treasury is open. None brings carts to take from it. I say dig; none will take any pains. I said dig out the treasure and cart it away. Be the real and true sons of the mother and fully stock your magazine. What is to become of us i.e. this body life? Earth will return to the earth; and the air (breath) will return to the air. This opportunity will not return.

 

I shall draw out My devotees from the jaws of Death.

 

Be wherever you like, do whatever you choose, remember this well that all what you do is known to Me

 

I am the Controller - the wirepuller of the show of this Universe.

 

Nothing will harm him, who turns his attention towards Me

 

Stay, cast off your anxiety, your sufferings have come to an end. However, oppressed and troubled one may be as soon as he steps into the Masjid, he is on the pathway to happiness.

 

If you spread your palms with devotion before Me, I am immediately with you, day and night.

 

Let anybody speak hundreds of things against you, do not resent by giving any bitter reply

 

God is the sole Proprietor, nobody else is our Protector. His method of work is extra-ordinary, invaluable, and inscrutable. His will will be done and He will show us the way, and satisfy our heart's desires.

 

We should mean well and do well. Whatever is destined to happen, will happen".

 

Place your entire faith in my words. Your object will be accomplished

 

 

(from Baba's Charters and Saying)

 

 

Sai Group Healing Prayers Methodology:

 

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Prayer List for this week:

 

 

1.       Universal Prayers

2.     From: Padma , Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Subject: Please make my parents accept for my love marriage

3.     From: SUKLA KALI , Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Subject: CONFIDENTIAL - ​ ​ JUDGEMENT DATE

4.      From: Rishika, Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Subject: Confidential​ Prayer​

5.      From: Manoj kumar pattanaik Date: Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:21 AM Subject: solv job and faience problem

6.     From: Brotati Date: Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:23 PM Subject: Prayer to Saibaba for good health and job

7.     From: s.gupta  Date: Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 7:22 PM  Subject: prayer, confidential

8.     From: S Nagarajan  Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 1:39 PM  Subject: Prayer

9.      From: Bina Singh   Date: Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 5:04 PM  Subject: Health, wealth

10.   From: sukla kali   Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:37 PM  Subject: confidential​ prayers for health problems​

11.   From: Anusha   Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 4:25 PM   Subject: Prayer for child fear tension family problem

12.   From: dhilo loga   Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:28 PM  Subject: parents permission for love marriage

13.  From: Namita Behera   Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 9:08 PM  Subject: Seeking blessings( confidential)

14.  From: Vinotha Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:32 PM  Subject: Seeking Blessings- Confidential

15.   From: Praveena Sri Perini Date: Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:39 AM  Subject: Prayer request- Praveena Sri

16.  From: Praveena Sri Perini  Date: Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:24 AM   ​​Subject: Praveena sri​ - Nanaamma health to restore​

 

 

 

Bow to Shri Sai – Peace be to all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shri Sai Satcharitra Parayana - Chapter – 41 Assigned for July 28, 2016

Shri Sai Satcharitra Parayana

Chapter – 41 Assigned for July 28, 2016

Story of the Picture – Stealing the Rags and Reading of Jnaneshwari.

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Chapter XLI

Story of the Picture – Stealing the Rags and Reading of Jnaneshwari.

 

As stated in the last chapter, we continue here the story of the picture.

Nine years after the occurrence of the incident depicted in the last chapter, Ali Mahomed saw Hemadpant and related to him the following story.

One day while wandering in the streets of Bombay he bought the picture from a street-hawker; then he framed and set it on a wall in his house at Bandra (suburb of Bombay). As he loved Baba, he daily took darshana of it. Three months before he gave the picture to Hemadpant, he was suffering from an abscess or swelling on his leg for which an operation was performed and he was convalescing in the house of his brother-in-law, Mr. Noor-Mahomed Peerbhoy in Bombay. For three months his house in Bandra was closed; and nobody was living there. Only the pictures of the famous Baba Abdul Rahiman, Moulanasaheb Mahomed Hussain, Baba Sai, Baba Tajudin and other saints (living) were there. The wheel of time did not even spare these. He was lying sick and suffering in Bombay. Why should the pictures suffer there (in Bandra)? It seems that they have also their ins and outs (births and deaths). All the pictures met their fate, but how Sai Baba's picture escaped it, nobody had been able to explain to me up till now. It shows the all-pervasiveness, omnipresence of Sai and His insrutable power.

He got a small picture of Saint Baba Abdul Rahiman from Mahomed Hussain Thariyatopan many years ago. He gave it to his brother-in-law, Noor-Mahomed Peerbhoy and it was lying on his table for eight years. Once the latter saw it, took it to a photographer and got it enlarged to life-size and distributed copies of the same amongst his relations and friends, including Ali Mahomed who fixed it up in his Bandra house. Noor-Mahomed was a disciple of Saint Abdul Rahiman and when he went to present the picture to his Guru in an open darbar held by him, the Guru got wild and ran to beat him, and drove him out. He felt very sorry and dejected. He thought that he lost so much of his money, and incurred his Guru's displeasure and anger. As his Guru did not like image-worship, he took the enlarged picture with him to the Appollo Bunder and, after hiring a boat, went in it and drowned it in the sea. He requested the friends and relations to return their copies and after getting them (6 in all) back, had them thrown by a fisherman in the Bandra sea. At this time Ali Mahomed was in his brother-in-law's house. He was told by him that his suffering would come to an end if he would soon drown the pictures of the saints in the sea. Hearing this, Ali Mahomed sent his Mehta (Manager) to his Bandra house and got all the pictures of the saints in his house thrown into the sea.

When Ali Mahomed returned home after two months, he was surprised to find Baba's picture on the wall as before. He did not understand how his Mehta took away all the pictures except this. He immediately took it out and kept it in his cupboard, fearing that if his brother-in-law saw it, he would do away with it. While he was thanking how it should be disposed of, and who would keep it and guard it well, Sai Baba Himself as it were, suggested to him that he should see and consult Moulana Ismu Mujavar and abide by his opinion. He saw the Moulana and told him everything. After mature consideration they both decided that the picture should be presented to Annasaheb (Hemadpant) and that he would protect it well. Then they both went to Hemadpant and presented the picture in the nick of time.

This story shows how Baba knew all the past, present and future, and how skillfully He pulled the wires and fulfilled desired of His devotees. The following story shows that Baba liked very much those persons who took real interest in matters spiritual and that He removed all their difficulties and made them happy.

Stealing the Rags and Reading of Jnaneshwari

Mr.B.V.Deo who was Mamlatdar of Dahanu (Thana District) wished for a long time to read Jnaneshwari – (the well-known Marathi commentary on the Bhagawad-Gita by Jnaneshwar), along with other scriptures. He could read daily one chapter of the Bhagawad-Gita, and some portion of other books; but when he took Jnaneshwari in hand, some difficulties cropped up and he was precluded from reading it. He took three months' leave, went to Shirdi and thence to his home at Pound for rest. He could read there other books but when he opened Jnaneshwari, some evil or stray thoughts came crowding in his mind and stopped him in the effort. Try however he might, he was not able to read even a few lines of the book with ease. So he resolved in his mind that when Baba would create love for the book and would order him to read it, he would begin and not till then. Then in the month of February 1914 he went with his family to Shirdi. There Jog asked him whether he daily read Jnaneshwari. Deo said that he was desirous of reading it, but he was not successful and that only when Baba would order him to read it, he would commence. Jog then advised him to take a copy of the book and present it to Baba and to start the reading after it was consecrated and returned by Him. Deo then replied that he did not want to resort to this device, as Baba knows his heart. Would He not know his desire and satisfy it by giving him a clear order to read?

Deo then saw Baba and offered one rupee as Dakshina. Baba asked for Rs. 20/- which he gave. At night, he saw one Balakram and enquired how he secured Baba's devotion and grace. Balakram told him that he would communicate everything next day after arati. When Deo went for darshana next day, Baba asked for Rs.20/- which he gave willingly. As the Masjid was crowded, Deo went aside and sat in a corner. Baba asked him to come close and sit with a calm mind, which Deo did. Then after the noon-arati was over and after the men dispersed, Deo saw again Balakram and asked him his previous history, what Baba told him and how he was taught meditation. Balakram was going to reply when Baba sent one Chandru, a leper devotee to call Deo to Him. When Deo went to Baba, the latter asked him when and with whom and what he was talking. He said that he talked with Balakram and heard from him His fame. Then Baba asked again Rs.25/- as Dakshina which Deo gladly gave. Then Baba took him inside and sitting near the post charged him saying – "You stole away My rags without My knowledge." Deo denied all knowledge of the rags, but Baba asked him to make a search. He searched but found none. Then Baba got angry and said – "There is nobody here, you are the only thief, so grey-haired and old, you came here for stealing." After this Baba lost His temper, got terribly wild, gave all sorts of abuses and scoldings. Deo remained silent and watching, and thought that he might get a beating also. After about an hour or so, Baba asked him to go to the Wada. He returned to the Wada and told Jog and Balakram all that had happened. Then in the after-noon Baba sent for all and Deo also, and said that His words might have pained the old man (Deo) but as he committed the theft, He could not but speak out. Then Baba asked again for Rs. 12/- Deo collected the amount, paid it and prostrated himself before Him. Then Baba said to him – "What are you doing?" "Nothing" replied Deo. Then Baba – "Go on daily reading the Pothi (Jnaneshwari), go and sit in the Wada, read something regularly every day and while reading, explain the portion read, to all with love and devotion. I am sitting here ready to give you the whole gold-embroidered Shella (valuable cloth), then why go to others to steal rags, and why should you get into the habit of stealing?"

Deo was much pleased to hear the words of Baba, for He asked him to start reading Pothi (Jnaneshwari). He thought that he got what he wanted and that he could read the book with ease thenceforth. He again prostrated himself before Baba and said that he surrendered himself to Him and that he should be treated as a child and be helped in his reading. He realized then what Baba meant by 'stealing the rags'. What he asked Balakram constituted the 'rags' and Baba did not like his behaviour in this respect. As He was ready to answer any question, He did not like him to ask others and make unnecessary enquiries and therefore He harassed and scolded him. Deo thought that He really did not 'harass and scold' him but taught that He was ready to fulfill his desires, and there was no use asking others in vain. Deo took these scoldings as flowers and blessings and went home satisfied and contented.

The matter did not end here. Baba did not stop with only issuing an order to read. Within a year He went to Deo and enquired about his progress. On 2nd April 1914, on Thursday morn, Baba gave him a dream-vision. He sat on the upper floor and asked him whether he understood the Pothi. "No" answered Deo. Baba – "Then when are you going to understand?" Deo burst into tears and said, "Unless You shower Your grace, the reading is mere worry and the understanding is still more difficult. I say this definitely." Baba – "While reading you make haste, read it before Me, in My presence." Deo – "What shall I read?" Baba – "Read Adhyatma (spiritualism)." Deo went to bring the book when he opened his eyes and was awakened. We leave the readers to imagine what ineffable joy and bliss Deo felt after this vision.

Bow to Shri Sai – Peace be to all