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“CONSCIOUS”

When you are aware of what is going-on in your

head.

“UNCONSCIOUS” When thoughts take-over you and you lose con-

tact with the ‘present moment’.

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When you are full of consciousness…

The good and the bad merge.

The right and the wrong disappear.

The thoughts of perfection and imperfection bring

a hearty laughter.

The day and night is of no consequence.

The pride of success or guilt of failure is of no

relevance.

You are no longer alien to me and I am no longer alien to you. We not only feel connected, but we

feel entire cosmos is connected to everything and

with everyone of us.

In that oneness, you visualise the cosmic gentleman named 'G O D'

~~~~His Holiness Sri V.V. Sridhar Guruji

MASTER’S DIV INE WORDS

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I n s i d e t h i s i s s u e

M a y 2 0 2 1 , I s s u e

Announcement 1

Upcoming Events 1

Sridharamrutham 2

Krishna in Mahabhara-tha

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Satya Sai story 4

Priya Iyer poems 6

Who is Sai Baba 5,6

Gospel of Ramakrishna 7

Patanjali Yoga sutra 8

Sri Sai in our daily life 9

Just for Fun 10,11

U p c o m i n g E v e n t s

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05/03/2021

Ashtami

5/07/2021 & 5/22/2021

Ekadasi

5/8/2021 & 5/24/2021

Pradosham

05/11/2021

Amavasya

05/17/2021

Shasti

05/29/2021

Sankashtahara Chaturthi

05/26/2021

Pournami

05/12/2021

Karthigai

05/9/2021

Masa Sivarathri

May Festivals ***************************

05/01/2021 Varaha Jayanthi

05/14/2021 Akshaya Thrithiya

05/25/2021 Nrusimha Jayanthi

05/26/2021 Kurma Jayanthi


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S R I D H A R A M R U T H A M

You should ... love to postpone 'anger'.

You should ... love to postpone 'ego'.

You should ... love to postpone 'possessiveness'.

You should love to postpone 'jealousy'.

But these things are very sporadic and instantaneous.

The idiocy is that, subtly we feel we are going to live forever.

So we presume that prayers or meditation can wait.

We feel that prayers and meditation can be postponed.

God is a subject which everyone loves to postpone. “Not today !” “Not now !”

“We will see some other time !”

Life is temporary and short lived.

Postpone anger, pride, ego, jealousy, possessiveness, greed, lust etc.,

Don’t postpone God ! Don’t postpone Prayers !

Don’t postpone Meditation !

Don’t postpone Charity !

~~~~His Holiness Sri V.V. Sridhar Guruji


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KRISHNA!!

In the dice game which kauravas played with pandavas, duryodhana nominated shakuni to play on behalf of kauravas.... According to rules of the game, this prac-

tice is allowed....

Whereas

The all good and justification personified yudhistra played on behalf of pandavas

& seldom lord krishna came in to his mind to play on behalf of pandavas....

Sometimes even people who are considered good and straight forward have a

subtle ego which makes them to forget the lord at the right time...

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S A T Y A S A I S T O R Y - S h a l i n i

SATYA SAI BABA AND THE SCHOOL BOY

There was a school boy once who was very poor in mathematics. When the

day of examination came around, he went to a temple of Sai Baba and vowed that if the questions were easy and he could solve all the problems correctly, he would offer 5 kg of sweetened rice to Him. The paper turned out to be with-in the limits of his capacity; he finished answering all the questions correctly within the allotted time; he had an extra hour on hand. So, he took a few sheets of paper and drew up a list of items with their price, to prepare the offering he had vowed to Sai Baba. He had a ten rupee note in his pocket; but when he added up the cost of rice, sugar, cashew nut, carda-mom, ghee, dried grapes etc. the total amount required was found to be about 15 rupees! He tried cancelling a few items and reducing the quantities of a few, but the total was always more than what he could afford. Then, he argued that Sai Baba was not in need of sweetened rice and that a few fruits should certainly satisfy Him. Fruits too were very costly, but he found that the flowers were not. Then he remembered that in the Gita, the Lord had said that patram (leaf) pushpam (flower) phalam (fruit) or toyam

(water) would be enough to please Him. So he finally decided that toyam (water) from the well, in his house would be ample payment for the grace he received that day. He could well save the ten rupee for a film he longed to see; he calculated how much that would cost and was glad to find that he could even take one of his friends to the movie. Just when he arrived at this happy conclusion, the invigilator called that the hour was over and asked for the an-swer papers to be handed over. The boy woke up from his reverie and in the confusion, he handed over the sheets whereon he had made all the calculations of cost and quantity for the sweetened rice offering, the fruits, the flowers, and finally, the movie. When he went home and looked into the papers he brought back, he found to his dis-may that they were the answer papers he had to hand over to the invigilator! It is all a matter of 're-action, re-sound and re-flection'. What you plan to do to another, recoils on to you. God is neither angry, nor vengeful. He is the eter-nal witness of the play. You punish yourselves for your evil thoughts and deeds; you reward yourselves for your good thoughts and deeds. That is the real Truth!!


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SAINT’S MISSION

The purpose or object of Divine Incarnation is to protect the good and destroy

the wicked. But, the mission of the saints is quite different. To them the good

and the wicked are one and the same. First, they draw the evil-doers and set

them on the right path. They are the Agasti1 to destroy the Bhava-sagar (the

ocean of worldly existence) or the sun to destroy the darkness of ignorance. Our

Sai is One of these, who incarnated for the welfare of the devotees. Supreme in

knowledge and surrounded with divine aura, He loved all being equally. He was

unattached. Foes and friends, kings and paupers, all were same to Him. Hear

His Leelas! For the sake of devotees, He gave His stock of merits and was ever

alert to help them. But, the devotees could never approach Him, unless He

meant to receive them. If their appointed time did not come, they did not re-

member Baba, and His Leelas could not reach their ears. Then, how could they

think of seeing Him? Some men desired to see Sai Bab, but they did not get any

opportunity of taking His Darshan, till His Samadhi. There are many such per-

sons, whose desire for Baba’s darshan was not thus satisfied. If these persons,

believing in Him, listen to His Leelas, their quest for darshan will be, to a great

extent, satisfied by the Leelas. Even if some persons went there by sheer luck

and took Baba’s darshan, were they able to stay longer? No. Nobody could go

there of his own accord and nobody could stay there longer if Baba did not wish

so. They could stay there, so long as Baba permitted them to stay, and had to

leave the place, when asked to do so by Him so, everything depended on Baba’s

divine will.

THE INSCRUTABLE POWER OF MAYA

Baba’s words were always short, deep, full of meaning, effective and well-

balanced. He was ever content and never cared for anything. He said, “Though I

am a Fakir, have no house or wife, and though, leaving all care, I stay at one

place, the inevitable Maya teases Me often. Though, I forgot Myself but she can-

not forget Me. She always envelopes Me. This Maya (illusive power) of the Lord

(Sri Hari) harasses even Lord Brahma and others, then what to speak of a poor

Fakir, like Me? Those, who take refuge in God, will be freed from Her clutches

with His grace.”

— continued in the next page

WHO IS SAI BABA


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In such terms Baba spoke about the power of Maya. Lord Sri Krishna has said

to Uddhava in the Bhagwat that the saints are His living forms and see, what

Baba has said for the welfare of His devotees, “Those, who are fortunate and

whose demerits have vanished, take to My worship. If you always say “Sai, Sai”,

I shall take you over the seven seas believe in these words, and you will be cer-

tainly benefitted. I do not need any paraphernalia of worship – either eight-fold

or sixteen-fold. I rest there, where there is full devotion.”

— Based on experts from Shri Sai Satcharita, complied by Babu Jammi.

Is That You & Is This Me?

All that time I once spent in rummage, Seem distant now, yet I pay my homage.

Sadhana at home and in pilgrimage. Now, You and Me a transient image.

Sadhguru will this feather join your Plumage?

When in meditation, what is my part? Body, breath, and I together we start. Body and breath slowly stand apart.

Breath and I united until thoughts depart. ‘I’ standing alone is a mere clip art.

WHO IS SAI BABA

A PEN IN DEVOTION


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GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHN A- MALLIKA VADLAMANI

THE OIL LAMP, THE MOON, AND THE SUN

“The knowledge of a worldly person, the knowledge of a devotee, and the Knowledge of an Incarnation are by no means of the same degree. The knowledge of a worldly person is like that of an oil lamp, which shows only the inside of a room. Through such knowledge he eats and drinks, attends to

household duties, protects his body, brings up his children, and so on.

The knowledge of a devotee is like the light of the moon, which illumines objects both inside and outside of a room. But such light is still limited, because it can-

not enable him to see a distant or minute object.

The knowledge of an Incarnation of God is like the light of the Sun. Through such knowledge the incarnation can see everything- inside and outside, big and

small.”

IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE AND VIJNANA

“When a thorn gets into the sole of your foot, you procure a second thorn. After taking out the first thorn with the help of the second thorn, you throw both thorns away. Likewise, you should procure the thorn of knowledge to remove the thorn of ignorance. After destroying ignorance, you should discard both knowledge and ignorance. Then you attain Vijnana. Vijnana is special

knowledge of God.

To know many things is ignorance. To know that God dwells in all beings is knowledge. Vijnana is to know God in a special manner, to converse with Him

and feel Him to be one’s relative.”

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna by M, a disciple of the Master. Translated by Swami Nikhilananda. (Indian Edition 1996 by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras).

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PATANJALI YOGA SUTRA —KAVINAYA

Patanjali Yoga Sutra – “Samadhi Pada”

(continuation from April issue)

Practice should be done with these qualities 1) for a long time, 2) continuously, and 3) With sincerity. In Tamil, there is a great literature about 63 Nayanmars or devotees of Lord Shiva. Although the service of each of them was not the same and they did not express their Bakthi or devotion in the same way, there was something that was the same about all of them. It was their ever flowing love for the Lord and their determination in doing what they were doing, even in the face of adversity.

Ilayankudi Maranar (Marar) was born in Ilaiyangudi, in Tamil Nadu. Marar was a farmer and he accumulated great wealth by agriculture. He was a staunch devotee of the God Shiva, and served the God and His devotees. He welcomed devotees of Shiva to his home, washed their feet and fed them feast.

To test Marar's devotion, Shiva made his wealth wane. Marar continued to serve the devotees in penury, as he did in plenty. The Nayanmar sold all his proper-

ties to feed the devotees.

On a night of torrential downpour, Lord Shiva came disguised as a devotee and came to Marar's home. Marar welcomed the guest with respect, dried him and gave him a warm seat to sit. The starving couple pondered how they could feed the guest as the house had no food and it was pouring outside. The wife sug-gested that the paddy sown in the field can be gathered and prepared as a meal for the guest. Marar rushed to the field in the deluge and gathered the flooding seeds from the field. Since there was no firewood, the Nayanmar pulled a rafter from the wooden roof to use as fuel. They prepared a meal with the rice from the paddy and some spinach from the garden. When Marar went to call the resting devotee to have food, the story goes that Lord Shiva appeared in his true form with his consort Parvati, blessed the couple, and took Marar and his wife to his

abode Kailash.

Here, Marar’s Practice was to serve the devotees, from which he never failed

even in the worst of the circumstances.

(To be continued…) Reference: “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” by Swami Sachidananda.


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SRI SAI IN OUR DAILY L IFE (Chapte r 5 )—SANKARKUMAR

NEVER TRY TO INQUIRE ABOUT SAINTS’ PAST LIFE!

Once there was one Chand Patil who was searching for his lost horse. He saw

an old Fakir sitting under a tree inviting him to share a smoke. He dug the

ground to take out some fire and brought water by scratching the earth with His

Satka to prepare the smoke. After sharing it with Patil, the Fakir told him to

search in the nearby meadow and the man found his horse there! Chand Patil

invited the Fakir to his village and after a few days, they all went to Shirdi for a

wedding. The Fakir also joined them and the temple priest Mahalsapathi greet-

ed the Fakir ‘Ya, SAI’! thus the name SAI was given to Fakir and Sai stayed

there forever.

He was recognized by many great saints as a shining jewel. Unmindful of these

praises. Sai tended to a flower garden with pots of water. The present day

Samadhi Mandir is in this land only. One Mr. Bai Krishnaji was instrumental in

installing Sai Padhukas under a neem tree following a dream vision. With

Baba’s permission and others’ help, the Padhukas were installed with an in-

scription and regular puja is offered till today!

Baba was having long hair and but He changed His appearance after got defeat-

ed by one Tamboli from Mohit. He started wearing a long Kafni and a turban.

He never possessed anything except for a stick and Chillim. He always stayed in

a ruined Masjid. His fame spread around the Ahamed Nagar district after Nana

sahib got a son through His blessings. ‘Alla Malik’ was His one constant procla-

mation.

When the oil merchants refused to give oil for Baba to light the lamps, Baba

came back to Masjid, drank some water and spat it in the oil can and lighted

the lamps. Lo! All lamps shone brightly throughout the night! The merchants

saw this miracle and begged for Baba’s pardon, whom Baba forgave.

A dubious guru called Jawahar Ali claimed Baba was his disciple and took Him

away to Rahata. Baba did not protest and followed the fake Guru. Later people

of Shirdi claimed back Baba by defeating Jawahar Ali in a debate. Several years

later, this guru came to Shirdi and asked Baba’s pardon, realizing his mistake.

Thus, Baba corrected this man with His humility.


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