Deepavali with Gurukulam Kids@Nagole

Jai Sai Master!

It is probably the only festival which kids will look forward to either fire crackers or to watch their elders go nuts with the crackers. Whatever it is, this is best remembered for how much they enjoyed and every year will give them a chance to erase a previous record.

 This year, at Nagole, the Ananta Bhradwaja Gurukulam kids had a wonderful festival on both Chathurthi and deepavali days. On the day one, it was their turn to start the proceedings and on day two, it was their Gurus who started the same. The show went on for couple of hours with sparklers to pots to shots giving away array of colors and wonderful designs lighting up the night sky.

All, the elders, youth and the kids, were wonderstruck at the way the crackers were made which gave colors after colors, in nice floral designs.

A fun filled tuesday for all Nagole members who went back home thanking the Sai Master for giving an opportunity to be around with Ammagaru and Babugaru to enjoy along with every other family member, enjoying every bit of the color and for the wholesome fun with all the kids and young lot.

May we look forward to another such great day next year!

Jai Sai Master!!

Gurupurnima Celebrations@Nagole, Hyderabad-3 July 2012

Jai Sai Master!

Today, on the occassion of Gurupurnima, thousands or in lakhs, people would have visited the Sri Shirdi Sai Baba temple or other Mahatma's places seeking blessings of their Guru. The one and only saviour, the manifestation of the Ultimate Truth, The Guru, will be prayed for betterment of self and move closer to the realisation. This is infact, the one and only festival, that Sri Shirdi Sai Baba asked those present in Dwarakamai to celebrate.

Today,

(Translation broadly - Gurupurnima: In the year 1908, Krishnaji Nulkar of Pandari visited Shirdi and was in Chavadi. Sri Sai Baba told Shyama- "Ask that old man to do puja to the pillar near Dhuni". Shyama conveyed the message and returned and immediately Sri Sai Baba told him and others present to join Nulkar in puja. However, Shyama said they would do puja to Sri Sai Baba instead of pillar and pressed hard till Sri Sai Baba consented. When they checked the date, that day happened to be a full moon day and more than that, it was Gurupurnima. They all performed puja to Sri Sai Baba. From then, the tradition of celebrating Gurupurnima started in Shirdi. This was the only festival that Sri Sai Baba told to perform. From "Sri Sai Baba's sayings in  Sri Sai Leelamrutam written by Sri Sai Master)

This became a tradition for everyone across to celebrate on this day and seek blessings of their Guru. 

Fire Worship - Dhuni Pooja Day 4

Standing before an eternal flame reciting a manthra is one way to contemplate the nature of God's creation and how to work in concert with HIS creation - an act of piety and worship.

Fire represents eternal energy of the Universe and worshipping the fire is one way of acknowledging the universal law that everythign is a form of that energy and it pervades the material and living creation though the various forms of energy. It is considered a transition between spiritual and material creations.