Sai Ram,
It’s a new month. December promises to be filled with a lot of activities leading to a Merry and Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year. The days have been sunny with warm temperatures with the early morning cool temperatures.
The crowd has been relatively small but on December 8th it started to increase. People are slowly coming in for the holidays.
The programs have been basically the same with great bhajans and darshan.
Thursday - December 1 to Thursday – December 8. Rudram, bhajans, arathi and darshan.
Attached is the Christmas program as of December 8th. More programs may be added.
BEWARE: A fake website has claimed to be representing the Sathya Sai Central Trust. The website is very well done with all sorts of valuable information that would lead one to believe it is real. It originates from Hyderabad and has no connection to the ashram or the real Sathya Sai Central Trust.
Also, it accepts donations. No Sai organization solicits money. Money must come on a voluntary basis. Also, the Central Trust never accepts any cash. All donations must be in check, credit card, etc. There must be a clear record of the transaction. Everything must always be above board and be transparent. (Fake Website)
Be alert as there will be more false claims and web sites as the ashrams grows to become the number One pilgrimage place in the world.
Also, attached is the incredible story of Sahayam. An example to us all.
In addition, there is a picture of Baba in Kodaikanal.
If you go to http://www.saicast.org/2011/brindavanearly.html, there is a wonderful video on Sai Baba in Brindavan in earlier years.
Another wonderful Baba story concerns the Andhra Bank which shows that it pays to listen to Baba at all times.
Charles Penn wrote a wonderful story of Baba being the flute player. “ I Play My Flute”.
Many people that come here stop in Dubai. Some information on the Sai Baba center has been included.
A new ritual has started on full moon nights where people gather at the Ganesh Gate with Baba photos to walk around the entire ashram. Ganesh Gate to Petrol Station, West Gate, Shiva Temple, Hanuman Temple ending at Ganesh Gate. This is about 7 kilometers. Bhajans are sung. In November there were 90 people and one 3-legged dog.
Needed is a monthly calendar from the United States such as those available in banks and pharmacies. Also, behind the ear hearing aids or body aids and used computers for orphans to practise typing.
There are 3 Seema Messages: “Minding the Soulful Self”, “Taking the Golden Step” and “The Last Game”.
Thought for the Day
8 December 2011
Dwell always on lofty thoughts. When air fills a football, it takes the form of a ball. When it fills a balloon, it takes the form of the balloon, oval or spherical. So too, the mind takes the form of the objects with which it is attached. If it gets fixed on small things, it becomes small. If it is fixed on noble and grand things, it becomes noble and grand. The camera takes a picture of whatever it is pointed at, so is the case with the mind. Discriminate before you develop attachment. If your attachment is towards spouse and children, lands and buildings, bank accounts and balances, you will experience grief when they decline. Develop sincere and steady attachment towards the Divine and you will grow in love and splendour. Devotion is not a matter of beads and beards, nor is worship signified by flowers, camphor or bell-ringing. You are judged by your spiritual discipline, thoughts and sense-co.
Baba
Thought for the Day
2 December 2011
If the senses keep to their places there is no reason to fear. It is only when they start to contact the objects around, the twin distractions of joy and grief are produced. When you hear someone defaming you, you experience anger and grief; but there is no such agitation if the words do not fall on your ears. The attraction of the senses to the objects is the cause of grief and its twin, joy. So long as the world is there, sense-object contact cannot be avoided; similarly till the time one has the burden of previous births, one cannot escape the joy-grief complex. But of what use is it to wait till the waves are silenced, before you wade into the sea for a shower? The wise one learns the trick of avoiding the blows of the onrushing waters and the drag of the receding waves. Wear the armour of fortitude (thithiksha), and weather the blows of good and bad fortune. Thithiksha means equanimity in the face of opposites, that is, putting up boldly with duality.
Baba
Thought for the Day
29 November 2011
Attachment to the body produces grief of all kinds and sorts, and its immediate precursors - affection and hatred as well. These two are the results of the intellect considering some things and conditions as beneficial, and others as not; this is a delusion. Despite the knowledge of this fact, at times, you get attached to objects that you consider favourable and start hating the others. From the highest point of view, there is neither; the distinction is just meaningless. There is no two at all; then how can there be good and bad? To see two where there is only one is ignorance (Maya). The fundamental ignorance is the belief that you are the body, and this is the cause for all grief. Practise to live in divine consciousness instead of body consciousness, and be free from grief and live in joy.
It’s a new month. December promises to be filled with a lot of activities leading to a Merry and Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year. The days have been sunny with warm temperatures with the early morning cool temperatures.
The crowd has been relatively small but on December 8th it started to increase. People are slowly coming in for the holidays.
The programs have been basically the same with great bhajans and darshan.
Thursday - December 1 to Thursday – December 8. Rudram, bhajans, arathi and darshan.
Attached is the Christmas program as of December 8th. More programs may be added.
BEWARE: A fake website has claimed to be representing the Sathya Sai Central Trust. The website is very well done with all sorts of valuable information that would lead one to believe it is real. It originates from Hyderabad and has no connection to the ashram or the real Sathya Sai Central Trust.
Also, it accepts donations. No Sai organization solicits money. Money must come on a voluntary basis. Also, the Central Trust never accepts any cash. All donations must be in check, credit card, etc. There must be a clear record of the transaction. Everything must always be above board and be transparent. (Fake Website)
Be alert as there will be more false claims and web sites as the ashrams grows to become the number One pilgrimage place in the world.
Also, attached is the incredible story of Sahayam. An example to us all.
In addition, there is a picture of Baba in Kodaikanal.
If you go to http://www.saicast.org/2011/brindavanearly.html, there is a wonderful video on Sai Baba in Brindavan in earlier years.
Another wonderful Baba story concerns the Andhra Bank which shows that it pays to listen to Baba at all times.
Charles Penn wrote a wonderful story of Baba being the flute player. “ I Play My Flute”.
Many people that come here stop in Dubai. Some information on the Sai Baba center has been included.
A new ritual has started on full moon nights where people gather at the Ganesh Gate with Baba photos to walk around the entire ashram. Ganesh Gate to Petrol Station, West Gate, Shiva Temple, Hanuman Temple ending at Ganesh Gate. This is about 7 kilometers. Bhajans are sung. In November there were 90 people and one 3-legged dog.
Needed is a monthly calendar from the United States such as those available in banks and pharmacies. Also, behind the ear hearing aids or body aids and used computers for orphans to practise typing.
There are 3 Seema Messages: “Minding the Soulful Self”, “Taking the Golden Step” and “The Last Game”.
Thought for the Day
8 December 2011
Dwell always on lofty thoughts. When air fills a football, it takes the form of a ball. When it fills a balloon, it takes the form of the balloon, oval or spherical. So too, the mind takes the form of the objects with which it is attached. If it gets fixed on small things, it becomes small. If it is fixed on noble and grand things, it becomes noble and grand. The camera takes a picture of whatever it is pointed at, so is the case with the mind. Discriminate before you develop attachment. If your attachment is towards spouse and children, lands and buildings, bank accounts and balances, you will experience grief when they decline. Develop sincere and steady attachment towards the Divine and you will grow in love and splendour. Devotion is not a matter of beads and beards, nor is worship signified by flowers, camphor or bell-ringing. You are judged by your spiritual discipline, thoughts and sense-co.
Baba
Thought for the Day
2 December 2011
If the senses keep to their places there is no reason to fear. It is only when they start to contact the objects around, the twin distractions of joy and grief are produced. When you hear someone defaming you, you experience anger and grief; but there is no such agitation if the words do not fall on your ears. The attraction of the senses to the objects is the cause of grief and its twin, joy. So long as the world is there, sense-object contact cannot be avoided; similarly till the time one has the burden of previous births, one cannot escape the joy-grief complex. But of what use is it to wait till the waves are silenced, before you wade into the sea for a shower? The wise one learns the trick of avoiding the blows of the onrushing waters and the drag of the receding waves. Wear the armour of fortitude (thithiksha), and weather the blows of good and bad fortune. Thithiksha means equanimity in the face of opposites, that is, putting up boldly with duality.
Baba
Thought for the Day
29 November 2011
Attachment to the body produces grief of all kinds and sorts, and its immediate precursors - affection and hatred as well. These two are the results of the intellect considering some things and conditions as beneficial, and others as not; this is a delusion. Despite the knowledge of this fact, at times, you get attached to objects that you consider favourable and start hating the others. From the highest point of view, there is neither; the distinction is just meaningless. There is no two at all; then how can there be good and bad? To see two where there is only one is ignorance (Maya). The fundamental ignorance is the belief that you are the body, and this is the cause for all grief. Practise to live in divine consciousness instead of body consciousness, and be free from grief and live in joy.
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