OM (AUM)… Oh my LORD, as in the breath of my life, my savior from all ills, omnipresent, happiness incarnate, YOU who is omniscient and the origin and GOD of all universe
"SAI" can be split into two: "Sa" and "Ai". We have been told that "Sa" means universal father, while "Ai" stands for universal mother. Shirdi Sai Baba, our Sai, is our mother and father.
"RAM" can be viewed as a shortening of "Rama". One interpretation of this word is that "Ra" is the Fire Principle, which burns all to ash, while "ma" stands for maya or illusion, so together, they mean the destruction of illusion.
🙏❤️ॐ🙏OM SAI RAM🙏ॐ❤️🙏
❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤
"Bow to Shri Sai & Peace Be to all"
|ॐ|ॐ|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|ॐ|ॐ|
It is true, none will perish who repose faith in Baba and it is equally true that Baba blesses the faithful devotees. When faith and grace are combined, it ensures liberation. It is a state where the devotee and God only exist. To reach this state, faith must flow from the devotee so that God showers His Grace. Concentration is required to stabilize faith. Human mind is very fickle by nature and hence its attention gets distracted. But, when once the mind concentrates on a concept or form, all our sense organs and feelings will get centered around it.
Once, such power of concentrated attention is attained, no force can distract us. The Omnipotent Baba will activate this state of mind and thereby stabilize our unflinching loyalty to Him. It is a Herculean task to attain self-liberation by our own efforts. Only the Merciful Baba's grace can ensure our self-liberation. Even the most wicked person will become pious and get liberated by faithfully surrendering to the will of the Divine One. Without faith, even a pious person cannot attempt to experience bliss. Let the belief remain strong that the abundant grace of the All-powerful Baba will grant liberation. We should be conscious that Baba grants all that we need. Thus, when our faith in God enjoins with the Omnipresent Baba's Grace, attaining salvation becomes easier.
❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤
"Bow to Shri Sai and Peace Be to all"
|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|
Mr. Ramachandra was a staunch devotee of Sai Baba. His wife and son loved baba equally or perhaps more. It was once proposed that son should go with his mother to Shirdi and spend his summer vacation there but the son was unwilling to go as he thought that in case he left his home in Bandra, the worship of Baba at home would not be properly attended as his father would not care. However, on his father giving an assurance under oath that, he would perform the worship exactly as his son was doing, the mother and the son left for Shirdi on a Friday night.
Next day Mr. Ramachandra got up early, took his bath and before proceeding with the pooja prostrated himself before the shrine and said, " Baba, I am going to perform the pooja exactly as my son has been doing but please let it not be a formal drill." saying so, he performed the pooja and offered a few pieces of lump sugar as offering. The sugar was distributed at lunch time.
That evening and next day Sunday, everything went on well. Mr. Ramachandra who had never performed pooja like this in all his life, felt great confidence within himself that everything was passing on quite satisfactorily as per the promise given to the son. Next day, he preformed the usual morning pooja and left for work. Coming home at noon, he found that there was no sugar to partake of when the meal was served. He asked the servant cook, who told him that there was no offering made that morning and that he had completely forgotten to perform that part of the puja ( offering Naivadya). At this, he left his seat and prostrated himself before the shrine, expressed his regret at the same time chiding Baba for the want of guidance in making the whole affair a matter of mere drill. Then he wrote a letter to his son, stating the facts and requested him to lay it at Baba'a feet and ask his pardon for his neglect. This happened in Bandra at about Tuesday noon.
At about the same time, when the noon Aarthi was about to commence in Shirdi , Baba said to Mrs. Ramachandra, " Mother, I had been to your house in Bandra, with a view to have something to eat. I found the door locked. I, somehow got an entry and found to my regret that Ramachandra had left nothing for me to eat. So I have returned with my hunger unappeased.
The lady did not understand this but the son, who was close by understood the whole thing that there was something wrong with the pooja in Bandra and he therefore requested Baba to permit him to go home. Baba refused this, but allowed him to perform puja there. Then the son wrote a letter to his father stating all that took place at Shirdi and implored his father not to neglect the pooja at home.
Om Sai Ram
❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤
"Bow to Shri Sai & Peace Be to all"
|ॐ|ॐ|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|ॐ|ॐ|
Servitude means service. Knowing Sai's ideal, secret of His philosophy, serving Him with devotion and obeying His orders are indeed acts of devotion for Sai. Offering services to Sai idols in temples, cleaning, washing the temple and meditating on Sai's image in the eye of one's mind and worshipping Him are the various methods of this devotion. The "devotion of servitude" is practiced with an objective of obtaining great love of Sai, always serving Him and to be ever in His presence. Sai grants liberation to people with the devotional fervour.
Baba accepted the services of the sick for removing the sins of their previous lives, to make them pious and finally bless them.
Baba thrust His hand into the fire to save a gold-smith's child from slipping into the flames of the furnace. His hand got burnt and devotees called for a doctor. But, Baba offered this service to a devotee, Bhagoji Shinde, suffering from leprosy, with shrunk fingers, body oozing foul smell and pus leaking out of his body. Shinde used to apply ghee on Sai's hand, put a leaf and bandage it everyday and tried to alleviate the pain. Shinde was thus blessed by Baba to serve Him in order to get his sins of past lives absolved. Servitude as a mode of devotion is the easiest path for Baba's devotees.
❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤
"Bow to Shri Sai & Peace Be to all"
|ॐ|ॐ|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|ॐ|ॐ|
'Listening' as a mode of devotion refers to attentively listening to the experiences the devotees had by chanting the name of Sai and meditating on the Majesty and Message of Sai Form and His philosophy. In order to inflame the spark of devotion within us, by listening to songs of Sai Glory, we must first prostrate to the feet of sages and saints, seek their blessings and serve them. We must long to be in their holy company, behave obediently, clarify our genuine doubts and learn to practice the spiritual teachings taught by them. The treasure of spiritual wisdom we inherit from the Perfect Masters must be shared with others. Sai showers His grace on us if we listen to His story with deep love and devotion. Experiences of millions of Sai devotees bear an eloquent testimony to it.
Cholker cultivated love and devotion for Sai by listening to Sai stories composed and sung by Dasganu, the great song composer. So, throughout our life, we should be with Sai devotees and listen to His glorious deeds of grace. In the nine modes of devotion, listening has much importance. Therefore, time and again, we have to attentively listen to the recital of His nectarine love-miracles and mind-cheering messages of Sai and spread them among all and making everyone benefit from listening. This is the easiest path of getting merged and be one with Sai.
❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤
"Bow to Shri Sai & Peace Be to all"
|ॐ|ॐ|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|ॐ|ॐ|
The devotional path of Sai is the wonderful one that the mankind could easily follow. Like a kite controlled by a string, Baba would bring devotees and non-believers to Him. In this Kaliyuga there is no other sure-fire method except Sai Devotion to elevate and liberate the soul. This is the easiest of all methods. In this age, it is difficult for us to practice Yoga, penance or conduct of religious rituals. Hence, All-Knowing Sai appeared to the devotees in the form they wished and taught them the simplest and practically feasible path of devotion.
Baba has taught that 'faith and patience' are essential for people treading the path of devotion. To get devoted to Sai, one's age, color etc., does not matter much. Only love for Baba coupled with devotion is sufficient. Indeed, good conduct and virtues are naturally cultivated by Sai devotees. Before He shed His mortal coil, Baba, with love, dropped nine coins, symbolizing nine modes of worship, into the palms of Lakshmibhai Shinde. They are viz., listening to Sai Leelas, chanting His name, remembering Him, worshipping His feet, performing rites, bowing, friendship and self-surrender. One is assured of attaining salvation through any of the nine modes of worship. Let us choose any one of the paths and make every effort to reach Sai by devout practice and let us make our lives worthier.
❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤
"Bow to Shri Sai & Peace Be to all"
|ॐ|ॐ|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|ॐ|ॐ|
A living being is blessed with human birth only once - but it is impermanent. But all religions suggested ways to make human birth everlasting. Helping others is the most important of them and such service is like serving God who lives in all living beings in the form of Satchidananda (Sat - Truth, Chith - Knowledge, Ananda - Bliss). Ignoring the welfare of the society and living only for one's own sake amounts to overlooking God. If one serves the helpless, the needy and the forsaken, such selfless service will lead to salvation. Baba, assumed the human form to teach us how we can, caught in the turbulence of the ocean of worldly life, save our souls by the spirit of rendering selfless service by seeing Sai in one and all.
The human life is like a water bubble and is ephemeral. A man may sow a seed and it grows into a huge tree. So long as the tree yields fruits to the posterity, the man, who planted it, lives in the tree though he is dead. Likewise, the man who donates the organs of his body, before he dies, makes himself immortal in the body of the one who got the organs planted in his body for survival. It is the supreme sacrifice. Baba staked His life to save Tatya who was destined to die and thereby showed that sacrificing one's life to save others is the secret of Self-Liberation.
❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤
"Bow to Shri Sai & Peace Be to all"
|ॐ|ॐ|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|ॐ|ॐ|
