Nicene Creed

This Christmas thing is getting to me. I sing all these carols and see pictures of the Manger and the Babe shivering in the cold, like our millions of homeless people oppressed by the Banks, and I feel such compassion. Trouble is I have no resources or money to help...not even a car to deliver toys to the homeless tots...like the ones in central Florida living in motels...that seem to be making TV news. And please don't complain about my 'run on sentences' as mine are a stream of consciousness, almost gushing.

OK, that was the introduction. Now for the blog body. Is there a connection? Oh yes, I remember, Christmas. I always have felt a bit left out at

Christmas even though, Lord knows, I celebrated 33 years of 'extreme Christmas' at Prasanthi Nilayam at His feet and I finally connected the dots and realized...JESUS AND OUR SAI BABA ARE THE SAME. So now you really have to get that, underline it in your brain; put it in capital letters. I finally realized that because they are the same, I LOVE JESUS JUST AS MUCH AS ANYONE ELSE, MAYBE MORE. He's MY SAVIOR too, only He used a different name and form, that's all.

So with this new ideology tucked under my arm I rode off to church with my sister yesterday. I live here happily in PETERborough apartments, I live in St. Petersburg and my sister attends St. Peter's Episcopal Church. AND she drives right by my building every Sunday and always offers to pick me up. I have usually said 'no thank you, I'm a Hindu, I believe in Swami '. How stupid is that when Swami is Jesus and besides how much of a Hindu am I? I haven't read the Sastras or the Vedas or the Agamas. Am I a Hindu? Well, I believe in the Atma, I believe in karma AND REINCARNATION and I believe we are all Divine and will merge hopefully at the end of this sou join. I believe in the Hindu Parthenon with all my heart and consider Ganesh and Bala and Saraswati to be my dearest friends but...does that make me a Hindu?

So am I a Christian? Oh God, no I'm not. OK so I believe He was an avatar and came to save humanity...as did our own precious Lord. I believe God has many names not only one name and I certainly don't believe you go to everlasting hell and damnation because you don't call yourself a certain name. Now come on, you know that Jesus doesn't believe that either or He wouldn't be a Divine Being. OK so I went to church and will probably continue to go to church and grit my teeth when they start saying their NICENE Creed. I automatically shut it out when they start their chant...their dogma, but then it occurred to me...what is OUR Nicene Creed, What would we call it. Our Vedic Creed, Our Prasanthi Creed, our Sai Creed? Maybe our Saieshwaraya Creed, which means omnipresent. So I came home and asked our omniscient Google about it. As always he had it at his fingertips and so I printed it out, one two three.

Anyway, I have it here and first thing I did this morning at 4 o'clock, was to rewrite it according to what we, Sai Graduates believe, you know so we could say it every day like they say their creed. I'm sure Dr. Goldstein could do a better job but...frankly I get tired of things being handed down to us from above, from committees.

So anyway, maybe we Sai Graduates could make our own committee. What do you think of that idea? OK, I'll admit that I've already rewritten it and now I will tell you what I've written...and ask that you guys be on this Saieshwaraya Creed committee and rewrite what I've rewritten. It's kinf of fun and maybe you would even enjoy it. First you have to ask Google to give you a copy of the REAL NICENE CREED then just take out the things we don't believe and substitute them with what we do believe. Knowing us free thinkers, we'll never agree on a certain particular dogma and everyone will have their own. I mean at one time earlier in our lives, we all left our religion and native land to find God thousands of miles away, so that shows what kind of intrepid non -followers we basically are but...maybe we could agree on this. I think we have always depended on our Beloved Lord to guide and point the correct path and now we have to try to figure out what He would want us say we believe.

So here are my first ideas. I would love it if you would e mail your suggestions so this could be a group effort. Wait until I get another cup of coffee and I'll tell you what I wrote. Oh God. It's seven o'clock and I haven't finished my prayers. I'll blog it tomorrow.