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Let the mind always crave for Sai Baba
2007-01-29 03:08:01
Sai Baba would always do something great that none would expect. Once Das Ganu Maharaj, was writing a commentary in Marathi Language on Isha Upanishad. It was not at all an easy task. He translated the work in Marathi language verse by verse, but was not satisfied with it. He consulted and talked with many intelligent scholars but could not find satisfaction. Thus he resolved to consult the incarnation of truth itself the Sai Baba to get some satisfactory, understanding of the work of Ishavasya Upanishad, the commentaries on truth. So when he got an opportunity to visit the sacred land Shirdi, he consulted Sai Baba about the same. Sai Baba blessed him and said, "You need not be anxious, there is no difficulty about the matter, the mind-servant of Kaka (Kakasaheb Dixit) will solve your doubts at Vile Parle, on your way home".Now to any intelligent mind it would seem, how could a problem which even the most intelligent scholars failed to give satisfactory answers, be solved by an une...
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Leave the result to Sai Baba as it happens because of his love.
2007-01-29 03:08:01
Stories of Sai Baba , we come across many incidents where the Devotees want something and Sai Baba gives something else. It is the love of Sai Baba which, is always looking for the ultimate benefit of his beloved devotees, that he works that way. Many devotees went to Sai Baba for their desires to be satisfied and got much more precious than what their mind had asked for. Many a times the devotees went with their wishes, and Sai Baba knowing the consequences, stopped them from doing so. So it is best for us to love him ask for his grace, and not feel worried if the we feel that the prayers were not ansered. We should,Leave the result to him as it happens because of his love.
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Holier than thou
2007-01-25 15:05:01
Om SaiNathaya NamahToday happens to be my birthday. I'll just chant for today's postOm Sai RamOm SaiNathaya Namah .......... This reminds me of the Shirdi where continuously this Mantra is herd in the Sacred Land. Most of the time the Audio is played of this Mantra in Shirdi.Baba Sai Baba SaiSadguru SaiNath Maharaj Ki JaiAnd now a prayer flows through my heartOh Sai, How can i ever repay you,repay you of whatever you have done for me and for all your beloved devotees,certainly no words and deeds are enough, to repay,you ask simple things like remembering you, meditate on you, read and write about your glories,and solve complex problems in miraculous ways,and this too, we tend to forget sometimes,Still your mercy and grace is always with you,How can we ever repayNothing was coming in the mind when i started writing this post. Suddenly the feeling of writing comes. Oh Sai, there is a big hurdle which can come in your devotees mind. The holier than thou feeling. Oh Sai Baba please he...
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I require no door to enter
2007-01-24 03:03:01
Sai Baba in Sai SatCharitra chapter 28"I require no door to enter. I have no form nor any extension; I always live everywhere. I carry on, as a wirepuller, all the actions of the man who trusts Me and merges in Me."Was meditating on Sai Baba?s picture. How selfish are we, when in trouble we run to Sai Baba, we run to God, look out for prayers and ways of meditating and chant mantras and read religious and sacred books like Sai SatCharitra. Once the troubles are over, the agony is over, the disturbance is over, and we tend to give importance to other things forgetting all, which held us in those disturbing times.Same happened with me, when I was going through tough times, going through agony as always I was meditating on Sai Baba?s picture, and praying to him, talking with him, to remove the agony, to remove the disturbance. As is the characteristic of the merciful Fakir, it got over with his grace. During those times a thought had come, so great is Sai Baba?s grace and love, only by...
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The enigma of Sai Baba of Shirdi
2007-01-23 03:02:01
Sai Baba is unique among all Avatars and Saints. SaiBaba spent all his life as a fakir, a beggar in a small village called Shirdi in Ahmednagar district, of Maharashtra in India. The village of Shirdi was so small and insignificant politically and socially then, it itself is wondrous and miraculous so many people came to know about it, and today so many devotees are drawn there by Sai Baba?s love and grace. Inscrutable are my ways Sai Baba used to say. Meher Baba describes him as head of the spiritual hierarchy, and further says that The beggar's appearance was most deceiving. He was the mightiest king in heaven or on earth, but he did not care if people saw him merely as a beggar.Yes the mightiest king, used to roam about as a beggar as a Fakir. Bestowing his grace on the devotees he himself draws towards him. Sai Baba also used to say that he follows his devotees life after life, guiding them, protecting them until they attain the ultimate spiritual goal, that of merging in him, ...
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Then do you offer me anything before you eat?? Sai Baba
2007-01-23 03:02:01
Sai Baba in Sri Sai SatCharitra chapter 25SaiBaba, ? It is true that, you give to persons present but if none near-by, what could you or I do? But do you remember me before eating? Am I not always with you? Sai Baba in Sri Sai Charitra chapter 25Yes Sai Baba is always with us. The god is always with us weather we know it or don?t know it. Weather we remember him or whether we don?t remember him. And Sai Baba asks us do we remember him before eating? Sai Baba asks us because most of us live a life of forgetfulness. Often most important and valuable things in life, are forgotten, are not given much importance in our life. Eating, one of the most important part of life, one who gets food regularly, becomes forgetful about it. We forget about the food provided and be thankful to us because we get it regularly and in abundance. Even while eating the food we might forget to be grateful for it, forget to offer it to Sai Baba. The mind might be busy in maybe gold, or something it is craving...
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There are very Few Original Photos of Shirdi Sai Baba. I hav
2007-01-16 14:58:01
There are very Few Original Photo s of Shirdi Sai Baba . I have posted some available on the web. Few more pictures will be added. If you find additional or better resolution pictures, please mail me at alps07@gmail.com.Any suggestion are also welcomed.
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A beautiful Wallpaper of Shirdi Sai Baba Samadhi Temple
2007-01-16 14:58:01
A beautiful Wall paper of Shirdi Sai Baba Samadhi Temple
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Shirdi Tour Shirdi Pilgrimage While Traveling To the Holy, S
2007-01-16 14:58:01
Shirdi Tour Shirdi Pilgrimage While Travel ing To the Holy, Sacred Land Shirdi Of Sai BabaShirdi DarshanFor those who visit Shirdi for Sai Baba Darshan often or for those who have few visits or none will find this virtual tour of Shirdi Of Sai Baba very informative and helpful.Baba once told Shama that one-day people will flock to Shirdi like antsProphetic statement by Sai BabaSai Baba's dictum "I draw to Me My man fram far off, or even across the seven seas, like a sparrow with a string fastened to its feet."TopicsIntroductionPlaces To Visit While in Shirdi Of Sai BabaSai Baba Samadhi Mandir, TempleGurusthanDwarkamaiChawdiOther Temples in ShirdiHouses of Sai Baba DevoteesMajor Festivals in ShirdiShirdi Sai Baba SanstahnTipsSai SatCharitraOther Pilgrimage around ShirdiWhat to buy when in Shirdi
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Old Pictures Of Chawdi In Shirdi Of Sai BabaChavadi These Da
2007-01-16 14:58:01
Old Picture s Of Chawdi In Shirdi Of Sai Baba Chavadi These DaysChawdi is very important place in Shirdi as Sai Baba used to spend alternate nights, during the last decade of his life. Every alternate night Sai Baba was taken in a procession from Dwarkamai to Chavadi, which is beautifully described in the Blessed book Sai SatCharitra. Link to the description Even these days the procession takes place every Thursday, in Shirdi. The picture of Sai Baba, which is placed on a silver throne in the right side of the Chavadi (here Sai Baba used to sleep), is placed near the Samadhi near the foot of Sai Baba?s Statue. Also Sai Baba?s footwear and Satka, which he used while he was in body are placed near the Samadhi of Sai Baba. At 9.15 in the evening garlanded portrait Sai Baba is reverently carried by the great grandson of Tatya Kote Patil, the son of Baijabai, who used to search for Sai Baba in jungles, and feed Baba, who used to roam about in near by jungles. Sai Baba called Baijabai as he...
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Why Visit Shirdi. People from all around the world travel to
2007-01-16 14:58:01
Why Visit Shirdi . People from all around the world travel to the sacred land Shirdi. Shirdi a small village in the district of Ahmednagar, in Maharashtra, is drawing the devotees, since the last decade of Sai Baba?s physical presence.These days so many devotees are drawn to this divine land, that it is seen crowded round the year. Even with so many Hotels and lodges it is very difficult to find hotel bookings in vacations and on Thursdays and weekends.When very few people knew about Sai Baba, he had prophetically told an intimate devotee Shyama that people would crowd in Shirdi like ants. And that is exactly what is happening these days.Shirdi is such a powerful sacred land it draws the devotees. So many devotees have significant experiences in this Holy Land Shirdi. I have herd peoples hair stands on the body, while taking darshan at any significant place in Shirdi. Tears flows through some devotees while taking the Darshan. The writer had an experience of impact, near the stone on...
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Life is such a flux. Few days the mind was at unrest, and a
2007-01-16 14:58:01
Life is such a flux. Few days the mind was at unrest, and again there was suffering. We suffer due to insecurity. Insecurity of relationship, material insecurity, insecurity of losing the known, and the mind is never in our control. The mind takes leaps breeding insecurities.Ah but I have the blessings and love of Sadaguru. Sai Baba?s pictures are also so much communicative. The pictures of Sai Baba are enigmatic. They are living, most of the time I feel the picture of Sai Baba of more living and vibrant than the fellow beings. And this experience I have heard from so many devotees of ShirdiSai.There is a picture of Sai Baba in my room, which is communicative. The eyes of Baba convey a lot through the picture, even the face expression changes. This has been happening since such a long time, actually years. Few days ago I could see the picture of Sai Baba in pain, the eyes were also in deep pain, and I knew some problem is waiting. And indeed it happened in a couple of days. Other ...
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Sitting again in front of Sai Baba?s picture. The body is em
2007-01-16 14:58:01
Sitting again in front of Sai Baba ?s picture. The body is empty, the mind is empty, only the energy created within is allowed to work. Still the mind tries to wander away. Such is the quality of our mind. Only Sai Baba?s grace or a Perfect Master or Sadaguru, can erase this wandering of mind. The mind cannot bring about an end to itself. In today?s world I happen to notice this, strange behavior of mind. It is always in search of peace, in search of comfort and always running in wrong directions. Wrong direction in the sense, it is longing for harmony, peace, love, and one little disturbance and it is attracted to it. For example in all relationship friends, husband and wife, parents and children, there are so many good moments. Rather than staying in those moments, if after so many such good and harmonious moments, if there is one disturbance of mind, due to self centered activity, the mind clings to it, get attracted to it and suffers. The longing of peace and harmony it can get f...
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Sai Baba draws so many devotees to the Sacred Land Shirdi.
2007-01-16 14:58:01
Sai Baba draws so many devotees to the Sacred Land Shirdi . There are few things which devotees should buy in Shirdi.1. Number One is Sai Sat Charitra, if even if you happen to have one or few, you should buy a couple of more. Simply because you never know when a interested devotee or newly drawn devotee of Sai Baba might, show a desire of reading it and you can supply the same. I generally use to buy set of 20 books and always someone looking for it would get it either from me, or through someone else who would ask me if i have in stock. These days Shirdi Sansthan shop, does not sell more copies to a single person, as they have gathered information that those sacred books are sold at premium price by few. i wonder why somebody would do it. I normally never take any money, but there are few who thinks that such sacred books should not be taken for free. i don't agree with them as one cannot put the value of something as invaluable as Shri Sai SatCharitra.2. This does not come in t...
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How to love GodHow our Beloved Guru Works on usShirdi Sai Ba
2007-01-16 14:58:01
How to love God How our Beloved Guru Work s on usShirdi Sai Baba has touched millions of lives, in his own inscrutable ways. Different spiritual Masters have been doing it since ages. The way of the Shirdi Sai Baba has been peculiar and there is no one way or few ways he touches and works for his most beloved devotees, there are many. However the most apparent is his form and his photos or pictures. As described in Chapters of Sai SatCharitra 18 and 19th Watching Guru's Form is one of the most powerful way of meditation. And with that Shradha (Faith) and Saburi(Patience), are two most valuable characteristics we the devotees require. I feel great upsurge of elevating energy in my body when ever i gaze on Baba's picture. And each time with the surge of energy seems to work on brain and other parts of body. Baba communicates with his much loved devotees through his pictures. That might be the reason we find so many pictures of Shirdi Sai Baba. In India if one moves around i...
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How To Read Sai SatCharitraSai SatCharitra A Sacred BookLink
2007-01-16 14:58:01
How To Read Sai SatCharitraSai SatCharitra A Sacred Book Link to Sai SatCharitra Audio mp3 format And for Cd requestLink to online Sri Sai SatCharitra in English by Shri N. V. Gunaji which was adopted from the original Marathi Book by Shri HepadpantSai SatCharitra when it was first given me to read, I had not gone into it deeply. Matter of fact is that I did not read more than two chapters at that time. It pains me even as I write this. During those times I was much into philosophy, and wanted clear explanations, to the mind, or rather looking for what appealed to the mind. After reading a couple of chapters, the intellectual mind did not find it appealing, thought to be mere stories with hyped up miracles.Most of the intellectual minded people might find it same today. But the book has much more than mere intellect, which can be found in millions of books in libraries and even in the weekly magazines and daily newspapers. Sai Satcharitra is a wealth given by Shirdi Sai Baba, blesse...
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Sai Baba our Sadaguru is always showering his love and grace
2007-01-16 14:58:01
Sai Baba our Sadaguru is always showering his love and grace on us. Sai Baba is always eager to help his devotees and erase their problems. We the devotees always run with our problems to Sai Baba, we visit the Holy Land Shirdi, in the hope of getting free from our conflicts and problems. Some of us looks out for mantras and attend aarti, sing song of Sai Baba. And why not it is this great characteristic of Sai Baba of Shirdi, that he runs for his devotees welfare and is always anxious to solve their problems.After giving us so much and making us free from our anxieties, Sai Baba asks us for faith and devotion, which is much needed for the us to get closer to his infinite self and merge into it and get the ultimate freedom. How many of us can do this, even after getting so much love and care from our Sadaguru.Should not our ultimate goal should be listen to him and look only for his love and grace, after demanding so many things from him and getting all the help.Truly all we need is...
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As I entered the Temple again the grace or the vibrational e
2007-01-16 14:58:01
As I entered the Temple again the grace or the vibrational energy or the subtle energy is felt. It is a temple situated about 2 kilometers form my home, with a huge and beautiful murti of Baba, with a Dargah of a sufi mystic in front of the Dargah. physically it feels like a sap running upwards, from the base of the spine, through the head, concentrating itself at the third eye. The concentration of the intensity is not brought about by any effort, it just happens as the writer goes to any spiritually charged place. When the mind is empty, empty of wants, desires, insecurities, fears, watching Baba's murti the sap runs with a intensity, the intensity one feels when meeting a dear one after a long time. Before entering the temple i was told by a friend to pray to Baba, to flatten her flat tummy. It was just a joke cracked on me, as sometimes get upset when such things are asked from Baba. Yes indeed, when our minds our filled with wants and desires, those very wants and desires perh...
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Sadguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai!!!Sai Ram Sai Devotees.I am a
2007-01-16 14:58:01
Sadguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai!!!Sai Ram Sai Devotees.I am and was much interested in spiritualism and in transcendence of the self. I read many books of philosophy and religious scriptures. Also I would visit many saints and gurus in the search for truth. I was (and am) very much attracted towards J. Krishnamurti?s words. I was experimenting with the awareness of self. And whatever feeling I use to get I let it flower without naming it and judging or theorizing it. The general tendency of human being is trying to run away from the painful psychological and emotional experiences. I do not do that and let the pain or pleasure flower.Somehow I had respect for Shirdi Sai Baba. Once I tried reading Sai Sat Charitra, and had put down the book thinking it has stories of mere miracles and not much about self transcendence. However respect for Baba was the same. While experimenting with different styles of meditations which I used to do with awareness on self I had started feeling subtle v...
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PrefaceIt has been 14 years since, the writer has been intro
2007-01-16 14:58:01
PrefaceIt has been 14 years since, the writer has been introduced to what he would like to call the grace of Baba, at the age of 22, when he happened to visit the holy land SHIRDI. Since that visit the writer has been drawn to Shirdi a number of times. It has been like ? there is some extra money for staying at least a couple of days in Shirdi, lets go to Shirdi.? Much reading about Shirdi Sai, talking about Baba has continued since. And a joy, an intense attraction, a feeling of deep closeness with Baba, a deep sense of devotion, a sense of togetherness, which is not created by the writer, has been a vital part in writer?s life.Getting drawn to Baba and Shirdi, How can the writer be away from the great holy book Sai Satcharitra, which has touched millions of devotee?s hearts, minds and souls. Along with Sai Baba of Shirdi, the writer has also been drawn towards the books of Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansha, one of the greatest of the devotees who ever walked on this earth. Meher Baba, ...
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From Chapter 21. Bestowal Of Grace. Sai SatCharitra translat
2007-01-16 14:58:01
From Chapter 21. Best owal Of Grace . Sai SatChar itra translated by Indira Kher. 109. ? How insincere people are! They will bow at the feet, even offer dakshina, and yet curse you all the time in your heart!? How strange, indeed!?Today, again the feeling of helplessness has taken over. Nothing seems to go in the way our mind is trained and conditioned. Our mind is trained and conditioned for success, success in the goals set by our conditioned mind. Success in earning, earning money, earning name and fame, earning respect from the people having the same conditioned mind. We are trained to respect people with power, people with money, people with knowledge and information. We do not give a dime to someone who has not earned something of the above, and naturally because we crave for it.Most of the time we remember Baba, or pray to him, or visit Baba?s Temple, it is for the same craving of our conditioned mind. We hardly are opened for what Baba has to offer. We seldom sit quietly in fro...
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First an excerpt from Sai SatCharitra Chapter XXIVBaba's Cha
2007-01-16 14:58:01
First an excerpt from Sai SatChar itra Chapter XXIVBaba's Characteristics -- His Dependency on BhaktasBaba allowed His devotees to serve Him in their own way, and did not like any other persons interfering in this. To quote an instance, the same Mavsibai was on another occasion, kneading Baba's abdomen. Seeing the fury and force used by her, all the other devotees felt nervous and anxious. They said, "Oh mother, be more considerate and moderate, otherwise you will break Baba's arteries and nerves". At this Baba got up at once from His seat, dashed His satka on the ground. He got enraged and His eyes became red like a live charcoal. None dared to stand before or face Baba. Then He took hold of one end of the Satka with both hands and pressed it in the hollow of his abdomen. The other end He fixed to the post and began to press His abdomen against it. The satka which was about two or three feet in length seemed all to go into the abdomen and the people feared that the abdomen would ...
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I have been watching Baba?s Picture, the original, black and
2007-01-16 14:58:01
I have been watching Baba?s Picture , the original, black and white with the umbrella. While watching, the body is still and relaxed, eye balls not moving and the eyes are empty, the brain empty, watching the picture through empty eyes. A kind of energy is felt in the brain. Thoughts and feelings may come and go. The awareness is on the energy created, in the brain. Allowing it, to purify the mind.
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Was on the bed, with the head band on the head. This head ba
2007-01-16 14:58:01
Was on the bed, with the head band on the head. This head band has got tremendous grace or power what ever one may call. On wrapping the green colored strip of cloth which I obtained when i visited Zarzari Bhakhs, tomb in Khuldabad, a village near Ellora Caves, near Aurangabad.More about on this linkI came to know about the tomb from the book Meher Baba on The Perfect Master Shirdi Sai Babawhich i happened to buy when i visited Meher Baba's Tomb in Ahmednagar, 100 kilometers away from Shirdi. The book can be read online as a part of a huge volme called Lord Meher written by Bhau, with whom also i was able to meet and chat with him one on one while he was replying the answers to the emails from Meher Baba lovers all over the world.Link to the book Lord Meher online (Shirdi Sai Baba Chapters)Talking about Bhau he is now a days conducting excellent live chats on every Sundays 5 p.m. Indian Standard Time( Check your time zone accordingly), those who cannot attend to the live chats can...
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Sadaguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai.From Shri
2007-01-16 14:58:01
Sadaguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai.From Shri Sai SatcharitraChapter XXII"God lives in all beings and creatures, whether they be serpents or scorpions. He is the Great Wirepuller of the world, and all beings, serpents, scorpions etc., obey His command. Unless He wills it, nobody can do any harm to others. The world is all dependent on Him, and no one is independent. So we should take pity and love all creatures, leave off adventurous fights and killings and be patient. The Lord (God) is the Protector of all.Last few days were really tough. Tough on the mind. All kind of insecurities were at attack on mind. The attack of insecurities also suggests that the faith in Baba is not yet total. Though Baba took care of many things in a miraculous way.There were also attacks from friends and relatives, the mental attacks. Of not being good at anything and not being able to fulfill the responsibilities. All the time I was watching Baba?s pictures and letting the words injure th...
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