"You will never be able to understand thoroughly how great Sai Baba is. He is the very personification of perfection. If you know Him as I know Him, you would call Him the Master of Creation" - Meher Baba (1894 - 1969)

Meher Baba said that when a sincere and patient seeker of Truth comes into contact with one who is spiritually perfect, he will observe certain outer signs that are inseparably associated with inner spiritual perfection. The most important of these signs are three: firstly, Perfection is not only "Oneness with God," but also the continual and uninterrupted experience of "Oneness in everything." A Perfect Master continually, without break, experiences and realizes his own Self as the Self in all. This inner experience objectively manifests itself in the spontaneity of love that such a one feels or expresses towards all Creation. To him nothing is attractive or repulsive. Good and bad, saint and sinner, beauty and ugliness, wisdom and idiocy, health and disease -- all are modes of his own manifestation. When embodied Perfection loves, fondles or feeds any living creature, it feels and enjoys as if it were loving, fondling and feeding its own Self. In this stage no vestige of "otherness" is left.

The second sign is the atmosphere of bliss that Perfection radiates in its immediate vicinity, an atmosphere that a stranger in search of it cannot help feeling. A Perfect Master not only enjoys infinite bliss but also experiences universal suffering. The acuteness of suffering however is nullified or subdued by the overwhelming feeling of bliss. Hence Perfection can outwardly appear blissfully calm in the face of every kind of suffering and persecution.

The third sign of Perfection is its power to adapt itself to any level of humanity. It can be as nonchalant on a throne as in a gutter. It can very naturally be thrifty with the poor, extravagant with the rich, regal with kings, wise with the learned and simple with the illiterate and the ignorant. Just as a Maser of Letters teaches English in different ways to beginners and graduate students, so also a Perfect Master adapts himself to the level of those whom he wants to uplift spiritually.

Sadguru Sainath is the foremost of the Perfect Masters Meher Baba resorted to during his quest to seek realization. Meher Baba, a great Yogi himself, felt that if one knows Sainath as he had known him, he/she would accept Him to be the Master of the Creation. Sainath of Shirdi is the rarest of such Perfect Masters who is perfect in and out.
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Experiences of Devotees

Gaurav Sonali Mehta
On 27th Oct I was supposed to leave USA (where I had gone to meet my sister) for India.I was feeling very nervous for three reasons- firstly because I was flying alone, secondly because the last time I had travelled the plane shook a lot and I had a feeling that I would die in a plane crash and thirdly because my baggage weight was in excess and they were very strict about it.I could not leave anything behind and I did not want them to make me open my suitcases in front of everybody.I just kept chanting Babas name all the way to the airport and kept praying to him for help and miracle of miracles the officer at the airport checked my passport and ticket and checked my luggage in without even weighing it.They did not even look at my suitcases let alone weigh them.I was completely taken aback because this is something which is never done on international sectors.Then on the way I realised that one of my suitcases was ripping at the bottom and as it contained all the expensive stuff I was very nervous all the way that it should reach safe and sound.By Babas grace I reached safe and sound and while I was waiting for my luggage to arrive a man walked straight upto me and asked me my name.On being informed he told me that one of my suitcases had not arrived and that I should follow him .He then made me fill up a form and gave me Rs4000/- as compensation and asked me to collect my bag the next day.I then realised that it was the same bag which was tearing at the bottom and my first thought was that it had torn apart completely and all my belongings were lost, which were more than Rs 10,000/-.I could not sleep the whole night but the next day I received my suitcase in one peice with Babas grace.My trip went off very well,I reached safe and sound,I got all my luggage intact and got Rs4000/= on top of it.Such is the grace of Sai Baba.
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Sai Activities

Sai Samsthan USA, Inc. Dr. K.V. Raghava Rao Memorial
Sai Samsthan USA has scheduled its Monthly Pooja at Shri Shirdi Saibaba Mandir, Warrenville, IL, on Sunday, October 31, 1999. The Monthly pooja is being performed as a Memorial to Dr. K.V. Raghava Rao.

DR. K.V.RAGHAVA RAO MEMORIAL
Shri Saibaba of Shirdi, to His devotees, has come to stay as "Parabrahma Swarup" (God Incarnate, Supreme Spirit, Primary Cause of the Universe and Pure Consciousness) Baba lived a saintly life at Shirdi during the period of 1858-1918. His actions were unique in nature, diverse in purpose and different in character. Baba showered His Grace on the Devotees in multiple ways to some He appeared in dreams. To some in physical form and to selective few He showed His Godly form.

Dr. K.V. Raghava Rao of Hyderabad, an ardent devotee of Baba, was initiated to Baba’s Grace on the Shivaratri Day in 1978. Baba entered his residence in the form of gold idol just before commencement of Bhajans. He moved to Sri Lanka on a foreign assignment in 1979. Daily pooja to Baba remained unchanged especially on Thursdays when the intensity was much greater with Naama Japam. During his stay in Sri Lanka from 1979 to 1983, he also intensified his meditation. He gradually withdrew all social life and was deeply engrossed with Baba’s service. Baba started to show His Leelas and His presence could be felt during the prayers. The Grace of Baba has benefited several people and some of these were nothing short of miracles.

The most significant and completely different nature of benefit derived by Dr. Rao through the process of meditation cum prayer was the receipt of Messages of Wisdom directly from Baba for the benefit of the humanity. These experiences from 1978 to 1995 were complied and published as several books for the benefit of Sai Devotees.

Dr. K.V. Raghava Rao gave up his mortal body and attained Samadhi on October 21, 1999. He survived by his wife, three sons, a daughter and grand children. SAI SAMSTHAN USA will be dedicating the monthly pooja on October 31, 1999 in the Memory of Dr. K. V. Raghava Rao.

The Program is as follows;
9:00 AM Kakada Arti
9:30 AM Abhishek, Ashtothra Puja, Bhajans and Kirtans
12:00 Noon Madhyahna Arti
12:30 PM Maha Prasad

Shri Shirdi Saibaba Mandir, Warrenville, IL, is located at 27W 321 Butterfield Road, Warrenville, IL, 60555. The Telephone number for the Mandir is 630-653-4444. For directions and more information please contact one of the following:
Umapathi Cattamanchi - 708-448-3016
Nagabhushanam Koneru - 847-346-0641
Ananth Sonti - 630-858-2643
Manju Panjwani - 847-677-6654
Jitendra Shelke - 773-465-5605
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Prayer Club

Jagdish
I pray SAI for a five year old child, who has been diagnosed with child hood Leukemia and is fighting for his life. The only cure for this disease is a bone marrow transplant from a matched donor and the chances for this match is 1 out of 20,000. The parents of the child has searched all national registries to find a match, but since there are very few minorities that are registered and very few Indians, the drives are being setup everywhere, garba, temples, social gathering to find a match. The child has about 5-6 weeks. This is the last resort is to find a match, within the Indian community. If any one can help, please visit the Child's URL. http//hometown.aol.com/jaybhav/myhomepage/index.html. Please tell all your Asian colleagues, friends, and family. If any one can please help this young boy and pray for him. I am confident our beloved Sai will find some one who has a match. OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI

K DARBARY
My Brother and Sister Sai Devotees,
Please pray for my friend Jeroo Pavri. She is in constant pain from an advanced form of ovarian cancer. Please pray to Sai to take away her pain and make her well again. I pray to him every day for her. Please join me to request our Merciful Sadguru to look after her. Thank You.
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