Sai Vichaar
Feb 13, 2003
Volume 5, Issue 39
(In its fifth year of publication)
01.Feature of the Week: Will Hari Provide?
02.Contributed Article: Bhaja Govindam - Sloka 5
03.Experiences of Devotees
04.Devotees Say
05.Sai Activities
06.Prayer Club
07.Quote of the Week
08.Question of the Week
09.Subscribe to Sai Vichaar
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11.Submit Articles to Sai Vichaar
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13.From the Editor's Keyboard
14.Disclaimer
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The "Question of the week" for the week is
Q. "In this way, all the Vrittis (thoughts) regarding Desire, Anger, Avarice etc. should first be offered and directed to the Guru and if this practice be followed, the Lord will help you in eradicating all the Vrittis".What did Baba mean by the following statement?
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Feature of the week: Will Hari Provide
A child does not ask for the nourishment, mother who feeds and clothes the child brings upon its care. As the child grows, its demands increase. However, the child is still not equipped to procure its needs. Although the child knows what it wants, it is the prerogative of the caretaker to provide the demanding child with its wants. The child as it enters the adulthood, loses the luxury of being cared for by others. The adult gets what he/she works for.
The process of spiritual advancement is analogous to the above. Baba pulls His child to Himself and provides the infant with the necessities without being asked for. The later stages involve the growing child command for its wants. Baba gives. Smilingly. This stage is the audacious lag of the journey, every prayer answered, every benefit awarded. Soon this stage should end. The realization dawns once the power of temporary bliss wanes away and the longing for something bigger begins to take a shape. How is the intangible realized? The inexplicable mastered?
Will Hari provide? Hemadpanth wrote beautifully, "If there be my Hari (Lord), He will feed me on my cot". This proverb is only true in respect of food and clothing, but if anyone trusting in this sits quiet and do nothing in spiritual matters, he will be ruined. One has to exert himself to his utmost for attaining self realization. The more he endeavors, the better for him.
Mercy of Sadguru sees one safely through the stages of infant and the growing. Constant contemplation on the nature of the self, in whatever name it is called, is the endeavor for the adult. Yes, the adult has to work for it and gets what he/she works for!
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Contributed Article: Bhaja Govindam Sloka 5
Contributed by Paritala Gopi Krishna, New Delhi, India
Yaavadvittopaarjana saktah
Taavannijaparivaaro Raktah
Paschaajeevati Jarjjaradehe
Vaartaam Kopi Na Prichchati Gehe
Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam ..
Meaning:
Yaavath - as long as, Vith - of wealth, Upaarjana - to earn, Saktah - (is bent upon) has the ability, Taavath - so long, Nija Parivaarah - your dependents, Raktah - attached (to you), Paschaat - afterwards (later on), Jeevati - lives (comes to live), Jarjjar - infirm, Dehe - body, Vaartaam - word, Kopi - anyone, Na - not, Prichchati - cares to speak (asks), Gehe - at home.
Substance:
As long as one is fit and able to earn and support one's family, all the kith and kin and dependents attached are affectionate to him, no sooner one becomes old and infirm and one's earnings cease, no one cares to enquire of his well-being even in one's own home.
Commentary:
Man is essentially selfish and without expecting something in return, he will not do anything. Even the intimate relationships between persons in a family are mostly deferential towards the earnings and savings of a person. Therefore, most of the relationships either in the family or in the society are dependent on one's ability to earn materialistic pleasures. Only that person, who is rich and wealthy, earns reverence, respect, and power and is adored by others, as most of the people are under the wrong notion or delusion that only money can purchase anything and everything. It may be true in a materialistic sense, but it is rather an obstruction in one's spiritual progress if one does not realize the truth that the riches are transitory and may leave one at any time. If money can purchase happiness, then it is but natural that the absence of it can procure only sorrow. Wealth does not mean only money, but it also means, power, social status, physical strength, secular knowledge and many such materialistic qualities. Human life being what it is, faculties and capacities must necessarily wane away, since age must sap all physical and intellectual efficiencies.
Sri Adi Sankaracharya says, keeping this fundamental truth in mind, that one can be popular and beloved of the people around him only so long as one is capable of earning wealth. When one's capacity wanes away with the age and the body becomes infirm and decays, all those around, who once was their social strength, leave and a time comes even the family members desist from speaking with that person. So, one should not misunderstand and live in illusion that popularity, consideration, affection and even reference of other human beings is permanent or the very goal of life. One has to earn inner-peace and tranquility by surrendering oneself to the Ultimate Truth.
This sloka is a warning against vanities of life and by contemplation, curbing the mind away from the false values and deceptive sense of security, one has to struggle to dedicate oneself in devotion in the service of the Permanent Source of Knowledge. It is possible only through constant practice when one is young and one's faculties and mental efficiencies are at the prime, so that by the time one becomes old, one is in a position to visualize the Truth of Life and succeed in attaining it as one is nearing the concluding part of one's journey. The real achievement is to be gained in one's own personal inner contemplation by clinging to the sacred feet of Govinda, so that even long before the world comes to reject, one can reject the world of activities and retire into a higher world, where only the Supreme Truth or Govinda exists.
Contributed Article: Bhajagovindam - Audio CD Review
Contributed by Krishna Rupnawar
If one has been following the recent series of contributed articles "Bhaja Govindam" by P. Gopi Krishna in Sai Vichaar, then one would also be interested to listen to the shlokas. Rendered by P. Bala Subramaniam, listening to the spiritual music and shlokas will alter one's state of mind tending to relaxation and peace. Constant listening and then chanting of the shlokas can help one draw greate energy. Gopi Krishna has done an excellent job of compiling the meaning, substance and commentary of each shloka to help the devotee intent on understanding the shlokas that are being listened. Interested devotees can listen to the shlokas online by clicking here or by visiting the online arathis and bhajans page at www.saibaba.org. The shlokas along with Shri Vishnu Sahasranama are available in CD format for your personal use from the online store at www.saibaba.org under the Sanskrit category. Listen and enjoy.
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Experiences of Devotees
Ravindra Thota, Canada
It was on Thursday in the First week of New Year January 2003, I was facing terrible situations at domestic end and kept away from home for two months . In the Cold and Freezing weather I was supposed to see one the Federal Government Funding Body members to submit my transcripts and research records for approval of training skills to enhance my academic qualification. I put all the stuff in the briefcase with all my complete career credentials brought it upto the car trunk in the parking lot in the shivering cold weather to put it in the back of my trunk of the car. When I opened the trunk of the car, I saw my cold weather jacket pulled it out and wear to warm up myself and forgot my briefcase to put in the car. I started my car and left the briefcase in the parking lot . My scheduled meeting with the Federal Govt. Funding Body was in the afternoon. I went to the office parked my car and looking for the briefcase all around inside and outside of mycar. I was in literal tears and prayed to Baba . Baba Please let me find my briefcase for this is complete career credentials are in this briefcase. I kept calling to all the places I visited prior coming to the office but in vain. I returned to the parking lot where I started my car early in the morning and searching all over . I thought to myself where I could have placed it . I am Praying Baba that this is my last search where I could have left the brief case. One aged gentleman was walking in the afternoon with his Dog towards me . I approached him and asked if He had seen my briefcase which I left in the parking lot . He said not but certainly I would help you out. He said that he is the Vice President of the Property Management . He called from his cell phone to his office and asked whether anyone has returned the briefcase this morning. My utter surprise said Yes the briefcase is here in the office.
One Gentle man saw the briefcase in the parking lot and returned this morning. This Gentleman asked me You believe God, I said Yes. I always carry in my pocket Baba portrait wherever I go. Have faith in Him , He will protect you from all misfortunes. For a while , I thought Who else this person could be to walk in the cold climate with the Dog to the parking Lot .It is undoubtedly Lord Sai want to manifest us in my forms that is He is always there Whenever we Pray and seek Him with sincere Heart and Faith . I went to the office and collected the briefcase and thanked all the staff for protecting my credentials. Baba has once again revealed His Miracles to me in Human Form and also made me comeback home to be with the family . Thanks to Lord Sai for Finding my briefcase. May Sai Bless everyone who has Faith in Him and Protect from all calamities.
Savita Jayram
Om Sai Ram, I would like to share with you how Baba has drawn me close to Him and a wonderful Sai leela recently happened in my life. I was devoted to Baba even as a kid but not as ardently as now. After coming to USA, I used to visit the Hindu temple close to my house here in Sunnyvale, California where I saw Baba's photo kept aside not included with the rest of the photos that were kept for puja on the platform. I was so drawn to the photo and wanted to ask the pujari if he would lend it to me. But out of shame of rebuke or impropriety of such a request, I did not have the courage to ask him and came back home. The first time (March 2002) I completed Sai Satcharitra reading (not saptah) everything "happened". I say that because now I feel it has all along been Baba's own doing and His grace that precipitated the next set of events.
While I was surfing the web I came across "saibaba.org" and read about Chitra yatra and brought Baba's photo home for first time. The next time I visited the temple, I garnered up enough courage to ask the pujari for Baba's photo and he was willing to let me have it. My happiness knew no bounds. I felt as if Baba was coming to my home. That picture is most precious to me now. When I was having the Chitra Yatra photo in my house a desire for doing Baba's Bhajan arose in my heart, so I called a few friends and my anchor home patrons to my home one Thursday. To tell the truth I have never even attended a Bhajan and was quiet apprehensive how it would go. I left it to Baba thinking He would take care. It went very well with His grace and then it occurred to me that since I have started a good thing I should continue it as best as I can and we started having it every Thursday from then on. Now our small Bhajan group has grown to more than 100 Sai bandhus and we have also through His grace celebrated Guru Poornima and Mahasamadhi in a grand way.
When I went to India in November, I visited Shirdi with His grace and stayed there for four days and had a wonderful and fulfilling experience and darshan of my beloved Baba. I was happy that He had chosen me to come to Shirdi as no one goes there without His blessings. My joy on seeing Him in Samadhi Mandir was so much that tears flowed freely from my eyes and I cared not for what others would think. I did not want to leave Shirdi but left with the feeling that I would always carry Him in my heart wherever I went. I prayed that when I closed my eyes and remembered Him that I should be able to picture Him in my mind as He was - sitting elegantly in the mandir with love and compassion in His eyes. On the way back from Shirdi my father developed some allergy all over his body and severe chest pain and his BP dropped and he fainted. Luckily there was a doctor in the same compartment who had served in Shirdi for 30 years (was it coincidence or divine providence! no doubt Baba had sent him for our sake) attended on him. My father has had By pass surgery for a previous heart attack 3 years back. Seeing his low pulse, BP and parlor the doctor suggested we should alight from the train and hospitalize him immediately. We were all very worried. How do we get down in an unknown place, will we find a good hospital and doctors to treat him even if we get down, were all the doubts that assailed me and my mom. Also my little 4yr old daughter was with us. We prayed to Baba earnestly and applied His vibuthi on my father. All the fellow passengers were very helpful. There was also a Rekhi doctor who administered Rekhi on my dad all night. (Those who helped us that day happen to read this, please accept my heart felt gratitude and may Baba's blessings always be with you.)
After some time he started feeling better and we decided to continue with our journey to B'lore and take him to his regular hospital at Wockhardt where He had received treatment earlier. When we reached B'lore and took him to the hospital he was told to be out of danger and his ECG was perfectly normal with no sign of a heart attack. What more proof of His benevolence is needed. He comes to the rescue of His devotees without even being asked. All He seeks in return is our complete faith and wholehearted devotion. He shows His presence to me in many ways and I feel greatly indebted to Him for everything He has given me and continues to give. He gives His is loving care for His children every second of every day. All I pray for is that my faith on to His feet be every steady and sincere and continue to grow each day. Satchitananda Sadguru Sainath Maharaj ki Jai.
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Devotees say...
Girish MAUTADIN
Oh Dear Sai Lord! You are the dweller of every heart! Thus nothing is hidden from you. From sorrow to joy, tears to chuckles, you know every breath of ours. Oh Omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent one bless us all with your grace. Words are too weak to express our gratitude to your divine healing incarnation in this Kali Yuga. Many are those whose lives have got a meaning to them. Homeless have found shelter to your Lotus Feet. Illness have found miraculous cure with just your Sankalpa(Will Power). Indeed, one cannot express with words the blessing we have received from you Dear Father. I love you dear Mother Sai, take me into your Lap and sing the comforting lullaby; thus crossing over the hurdles of this illusionary life with you dear Lord of Sai...
Sai Devotee
In response to a posting from earlier issue of Sai Vichaar, for the person whose friend has a 12 year old child suffering. You could ask the doctor's dealing with her to look into a neurological condition called PDD - Pervasive Developemental Disorder/Autism. From what you have decribed in your prayer it sounds like this may be a cause. If that is the case then she needs specific therapy and a Neurologist's help. I hope that you find this information useful. Bow to Shri Sai and Peace to all
Rao
BABA, Thank you. today morning only I prayed you to make the things smooth. Till now you did what I asked for and you fixed my engagement and marriage dates on THURSDAYs only. Thank you BABA. This shows me that you are concerned about me. Thank you BABA. I love you BABA. Please be with me BABA please.
Selvan Rajah, Toronto
dear sai devotees! recently i left a message on the prayers club about my by-pass surgery. now i am back from hospital after surgery. just minutes before the surgery,baba has sent viboothi through a sai devotee to me, like shridi baba sent udhi to his sick children.surgery was ok and i am recovering at home. swami please be with us always. my whole family is fully surrender in you.
Raj, Florida
There are devotional moments while reading the 'Sai Newsletter' and then there are the emotional ones. Hearts bleed and eyes tear on reading devotees' prayers to the Lord. It is nearly impossible to realize the unfathomable load that Baba carries each day, each minute, and each moment. He sees, hears, and feels the unspoken grief, the warm tears, the increasing heart beats, and the aching mortal human muscles. Not one, not a few, but many-a-plenty. Can any of us comprehend the astonishing task of attending to every requestor's grief? Probably not. But, does that prevent Him from handling the concerns of devotees? No, definitely not. It is a matter of time, it a matter of faith, and it is a matter of patience. We all move from 'unawareness' to 'knowledge' to 'choice' and then to 'solution'. Baba helps us walk through these steps. May Baba bless us all.
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Prayer Club
Sai Devotee
ohmsai, srisai, jaya jaya sai.saibaba,i pray to give good health to all of my family members.you have given life to me ,recently when i was operated for my brain tumour pituitary adenoma. i like to lead my remaining life in your service. as a doctor i wish to serve to the poor in sai seva clinic. to fulfil my wish, i request to give good health to me and to my family members to lead a peaceful life.
Sai Devotee
Baba, please help us out of this financial difficulty. Due to no fault of mine I am being asked to pay back a huge amount of $23,000 dollars. I am willing to pay that, but please help us in negotiating a period of 3 years or so to pay this amount. There is no way we can pay this amount today. Baba, please help us. Baba, all these years I have never asked for ay help from you in financial matters. Please Baba shower yor blessing on us and help us ride through this situation bravely. Om Sri Sachidananda Samarth Sadguru Sainath Maharaj ki Jai.
Sai Devotee
Dear Sai Baba, Please listen to my prayers as You have always did. Baba please bless my husband with a good job and get me back with him.I cant live alone. Please get us jobs at the same place and never part us again. Living seperately is really painful. Please help me get back with him. I just wish we both live together forever. Om Sai
Sai Devotee
Baba you have been with me all this time, please help me with my delivery and bless me with a healthy baby. you know what i want please fulfill my wish. baba, every time i send a prayer in sai vichar it is fulfilled. please fulfill this wish of mine too. please bless everyone with peace of mind and happiness. sairam
Sai Devotee
Dear Baba, I have committed a grave mistake by hurting someone very dear to me. I am sincerely sorry for my mistake, please help to heal and cheer up that person. Baba, please give me patience and toleration, and help my loved ones. We have no one to turn to other than You
Vidhya Devi
Blessed are the devotees of sai. Nowadays i feel the presence of sai everywhere.Sai is guiding me in all ways. It's all because of my parents,husband and my In-laws. Bow to them.I have got everything in life. Sai blessed us with a beautiful and intelligent son and everything is going on very well except one thing. My parents who gave me this wonderful american life are undergoing some difficulties in their life. My dad who looks just like Sai leads a very simple life.I call him saint. Yes he has all the characteristics of a saint. But unfortunately he gets bad name for whatever he does from our relatives. I want the whole world to praise him. Yes he should earn respect. Sai, please bless my parents, especially my dad and be with him always. Guide him always Sai .This I ask you very earnestly Sai. Bow to sai and to all sai devotees.
Devotee
Please give my family especially my son mental and physical strength and Ram naam jap. Always.
Sai Devotee
Sai Ram I am praying for my husband who lost his job last year in April. He is facing hard time. Still he is looking for job. I know Sai Ram you can only help us. We can't live together because he doesn't have job. He is mentally upset. Baba bless us and show us path. Help my sister also she is trying hard to get settled. Baba I have faith on you. Please Baba listen to my prayer. Om Sai Ram.
Sai Devotee
Baba, For several years now I have been blessed with you love and guidance. I thank you everyday for your presence in my life. You know the mental turmoil I am going through and only you can help with all the tough choices. Please sort out all the problems, show me the correct path, and help me improve physically and mentally and be a better person at home and work. Bless everyone in my family and all your devotees.
Devotee
Sai Baba, I am feeling really excited about this oppurtunity.You know it all. Please help me to get it. I would work very hard and do my best, rest is in Your hands. Baba, You know the importance of this in my life. Pl bless me Baba. Om Sai
Sai Devotee
OM sai shri sai jaya jaya sai, baba with your grace i am pregnant ,running 4 months, but i have sugar since the last month,please see that every thing goes on well, i am very much worrried, I know you are always there with me, please make every thing run smoothly thanks for your kind blessings.
K N Rao
Om sairam , O baba with your grace my sister got married but now after six months she is facing the same problem i.e. mental depression. baba, doctors say that there is no cure for this. she is in a very bad state please show mercy on her baba make her alright i am begging you for this . I request sai devotees please pray for her . om sai sri sai jai jai sai
Sai Devotee
Sai Ram, I am in a love with a guy who is working with me. He also loved me so much. But all of a sudden he is telling, his parents are not accpeting. Because he doesn't belong to Tamil Nadu. I am a tamilian and he is bengali. So he stopped speaking to me and asked me to forget him and to get married to some other guy. But i am not able to digest it. I cannot forget him and can't get married to somebody else. But i am sure he loves me so much. Just because his parents are not well he is not able to take any bold decision. Please pray for me that BABA should change his parents mind and make us join in our life. Because i love him so much. Already i have so many personal problems in my life on top of it now this is also. And his parents are also BABA devotee only.
Kamat, Bangalore
Sai I thank you for every thing you have given me. But in return I feel I have not given any thing to you. Sai these days I am very much confused. I cannot concentrate in my work, I cannot wake up early in the morning. This has lead to many problems. I cannot perform my duties effectively as a mother, as a wife, and even as a responsible officer. So Sai please give me the mental and physical strength, to perform all my duties effectively. Please remove all the evils that are working on me. Protect me and guide me each second. Let my tounge chant only your name. Let my mind think only of you. Let my eyes always have your darshan. Please guide me. Help me and protect me.
Sai Devotee
OM Sai Ram. Oh mine baba, i am requetsing u help me i am goinng through lots of pains and suffering badly. I love someone very truely but he does not undersatnd my love because I am not from his caste and he is hurting me badly , I told him not to push me so badly i can not take this pain . OH Baba listen to my paryers. I have given up my life in your feet with true hearts. i can not take more pains. i am feeling like to end up my life after so much insult. Baba help me and give me my vinu. make him understand i can not live without him. please, God do some miracle in his life and make him understand please baba help me i really need help i really need help
Sai Devotee
Omsrisairam, I am in big trouble. I lost my job. I need to get that job again. Please help me what to do. please, other wise i have to die. I will do whatever you will say.
T. R. Durai
Dear Sai Baba, My son, Shri Shankar who is now 28 years is mentally ill. He left MBBS in II Year, due to heavy ragging, and the involvement of the professors also in the ragging. I pray to Sai Baba for the cure of my son and his well-being. I have done no harm to anybody. But why Sai Baba is punishing with such cruelty. I do not know. Please pray for the welfare of my son, who is getting totally ruined. Nobody is interested in his welfare, including my wife and daughter. So you all pray for him and me also.
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Quotation of the Week
It is my special characteristic to free any person who surrenders completely to me, who does worship me faithfully, who remembers me and meditates on me constantly.-Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi
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Question of the Week
Q. "In this way, all the Vrittis (thoughts) regarding Desire, Anger, Avarice etc. should first be offered and directed to the Guru and if this practice be followed, the Lord will help you in eradicating all the Vrittis". What did Baba mean by the following statement?
A. by by Alphanso D'Souza
This is also spoken of in the Gita (12th chapter), particularly in the verses, which give the qualities of the ideal devotee who is very dear to God. It starts with "have no hatred towards any being." But "no hatred" is enough. The verse goes on to say, you must also be friendly, be positively friendly. Even that is not enough. Have compassion towards all beings. That is pure love, selfless love. "Have no ego, no I-ness, no my-ness." Then, later, in the next verse it says, 'offer me your mind and your buddhi. Give it all to me. Then you are very dear to me.' In a following verses it says: "Offer me all your beginnings," meaning "offer me your sense of doership, which includes all thoughts regarding Desire, Anger, Avarice etc. should first be offered and directed to the guru. We have to think. It is not I who am doing. It is you, Lord, who are doing everything. It is You who makes me walk and talk and think and act as I do." When we know that and live that, then the ego is on its way out. And then, automatically, the world gets better also. We have done everything as prompted by the inner guide. And we do everything we do to the limits of our human capacity for excellence and perfection, with full concentration, with full compassion. We let him take care of the results. We do our best and offer it to him. So lets put our concerns, our worries, our fears, our hopes, our dreams, our families and our relationships in His hands. Thus if this is practiced / followed, the Lord will help us in eradicating all the Vrittis. All desires will vanish and we will attain self-realization and highest knowledge. He who works only for God fills himself with God and therefore realizes God, for in truth, everything is God. Thank You Sai Baba. May Thou guide my intellect in the right direction. May thou kindle my path from darkness unto light. OM
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Sai Activities
Annadanam seva (Feed the hungry service) from saibaba.org
Saibaba.org is designating the month of March 2003 as Annadanam (Feed the hungry). Annadan or food giving has been recommended as a means of charity since ancient times. Baba also said , "Sitting in this masjid(dwarkamayee) I shall never speak untruth. Take pity on me like this: first give bread to the hungry and eat yourself. Note this well" (Shri Sai Satcharita).
"By feeding the poor, taking them to be forms of God, without caring for the fruits of your actions you can gather the merit of feeding a thousand brahmins. Also, you can feed just one saint. A saint is one with the whole world. Hence feeding a saint means feeding the world." (talks of Shri Upasani Maharaj, the loftiest creation of Shri Sainath). Once the saint has left his or her body one can still feed the saint by feeding the assembled devotees at the saints' ashram or temple.
Shri Sainath also further said, "Know for certain that he who feeds the hungry, really serves Me with food. Regard this as an axiom truth". (Shri Sai Satcharita). Keeping that tradition alive, Saibaba.org will be performing annadnam servce to the needy at various venues during the month of March. Details of annadnam venues and dates will appear in the future issues of Sai Vichaar or can be had by sending us an email.
We invite you to join us in this service if inclined to do so.
Sri Sai Naam Japa-Sai Maa's New year's gift
We, Shirdi Sai devotees of Orlando(USA) have been inspired and made instrument by our Lord Sainath to offer one billion flowers in the form of Sai Naam Japa at the lotus feet of Eternal Sainath on the occasion of His 85th Mahasamadhi Utsav falling on 4th Oct 2003. With the Divine Grace of Lord Sainath and with the co-operation and guidance of Sai devotees across the globe , we were able to start Sai Naam Jaap on January 9th 2003. For more details contact Sridhar Rangaswamy at sathgurusai2002@yahoo.com.
Shirdi Sai Baba Prayer Center, Twin Cities, MN
By the grace and blessings of Sadguru Sainath Maharaj, Shirdi Saibaba Prayer Center has started for the benefit of Sai devotees in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas of Minnesota at 725-139 NE Lake Street, Hopkins, MN. The program will include Sai Bhajans, Kirthans and Sai Naama Jap. For details, please contact hamaresai@yahoo.com. Or call Sangeeta (651-481-6782), Kiran (952-233-1819), Ravi (651-342-0600) Bhuva (651-681-2042) or Sathya (651-739-2105)
Shirdi Sai Baba Chitra Yatra And Weekly Satsang, Canada
Shirdi Saibaba Sansthan of Canada, Toronto, cordially extends to all the best wishes for the New Year hoping with Baba's grace you will leap into 2003 with prosperity health and happiness and invites you all to for Thursday satsang at the following 2 locations: Durga Temple, 2691 Markham Rd. Scarborough, ph: 416 754 2983 and Shri Vithal Hindu Mandir, 5359 Timber Lea Blvd. Mississauga, ph: 905 238 0946. between 6:15pm to 7:15pm.
We invite all devotees in Canada to join us in celebrating "Shri Ramnavami festival 2003 in Toronto. Devotees joining from outside Toronto looking for accommodation please register by 25th of February - devotees interested in volunteering or those interested in offering bhajans to Baba pls call Shammi Chopra 416 402 8089 from 7 to 9am or after 9pm in the evening.
Shirdi Sai Satsang, Houston, TX
Shirdi Sai Jalaram Mandir, Houston, Texas, USA cordially invites you for Thursday satsang at the following location: 5645 Hillcroft, Suite #304, Houston, Texas, 77036 between 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
Shri Shirdi Sai Chitra Yatra in USA
"Shri Shirdi Sai Chitra Yatra(Pictorial Journey)", started in USA on Jan
01, 2002. With anchor points across USA concurrently participating from
day one, this unique event is off to a great start.
The journey which involves the ceremonial travel of Baba in the form of
a portrait will stop at all Baba devotees homes who are interested in
being a host to his protrait. The Yatra which will run till fall of this
year, is open to one and all. There is no fees or charges involved to
take part in this event. You may participate either as a host home or
serve as an anchor point in your community.
Vist online at
yatra page for all the details and to register.
For questions, comments, suggestions or to get details on an Anchor home
in your area, send us an email at maildrop@saibaba.org with the subject
line of "Shri Sai Chitra Yatra".
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