Karthika Pournami Celebrations with Divyajanani!

Karthika Pournami, a day considered very auspicious by Hindus and celebrated by lighting lamps.

A day, which is to be remembered and lamp lit on that day to be protected for ever, for those lamps are nothing but - Lamp of Knowledge. Lord Shiva, who represents "Gnana" is also considered Guru, and many aspire the Lord to light their lamps of knowledge.

At Nagole, the members of Nagole Satsang celebrated this festival in the presence of Divyajanani Alivelu Mangamma. Festivities started with Divyajanani lighting the lamp. The women, the fortunate few gathered on the occassion, and Gurukulam girls, got their lamps lit by Divyajanani. On this occassion, Babugaru, while explaining the importance of the festival, told the gathering to protect the "lamps" lit by Ammagaru for ever in their hearts and help light many other!

One of the points that came out prominently during the festivities was, the role of woman in changing the society for better. Babugaru stressed the need to understand the importance of each festival, the significant part it is playing in our lives and translating it to the families welfare. The connect between generations can only be passed if one understands the rituals and traditions more thoroughly, otherwise, they become blind faiths vulnerable to criticism. To turn around the society on to a spiritual path, the Woman in the family need to be a pivot and disseminate the knowledge to the next generation.

Let us all try to know more about our culture, traditions and rituals more and more so that we can sincerely follow them to benefit more and help the cause of society.

May we protect the lamps lit by Divyajanani and Sai Master and help light many more lamps!

May Sadguru Alivelu Mangamma sahita Bharadwaja Maharaj bless us all to carry on this work!

JAI SAI MASTER !!

Gratitude - A wonderful word ! (Part 2)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)


Human beings are generally reactive. They never realise what they have till some thing hits them hard. Best example is - OWN BODY.


God has designed a wonderful machine which our scientists are working very hard to design and still not able to breathe life in to. This shows how primitive is current science when compared to the vast knowledge that is available in our ancient vedas. However, we do not realise the importance of each organ till that particular organ suffers. We not only fail to understand, but fail to educate children how lucky we are to possess all those in order. Today, we see many people suffering from various ailments. Particularly young people suffering from various body pains, sleeplessness etc.. What this tells us is - we can not buy everything in the world with the money that we are earning, particularly HEALTH.

Neti balale repati pourulu (Today's kids are tomorrow's Citizens)!! (Part 1)

One of my questions about Sai Baba is: He gives us so much things like money, clothes and houses, how come he was so  poor, he didn't even have a real home? - Srusti (from http://www.saimasterforums.org/kids-the-future/welcome-to-the-kids-section!/)

Today, there are innumerable devotees of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba. There are many who believe in GOD. But none raised a question of this type, but came from a child. This shows how inquisitive they are, how observant they are, about what we do, what they see. They imbibe every bit of those. For them, the first heroes are their parents. But, as we parents why we never bother to teach them good things in life? 

October 30 - A day to reinstate Sai Master's teachings !

It is the strong focus on the Goal that motivates us, drives us with determination. None of the external factors can pull us down nor can stop us from achieving it. For all, mind is the only thing which can either support or weaken -- Sai Master

On the occassion of 74th birthday of Pujya Acharya Sri Ekkirala Bharadwaja, we earnestly pray him to bless us to enable us to become Human beings in true sense. 

JAI SAI MASTER !!

Music of the soul and Deepavali !

Deepavali - A day, on which YOU light the lamp of knowledge to remove the darkness called ignorance - Pujya Sri Acharya Ekkirala Bharadwaja.

One of the wonderful and most colorful festivals celebrated all over India, and now across the world, is Deepavali. The festival, where in the whole family celebrates by lighting lamps and firing crackers, distributing sweets and sharing the joy.

LIGHT THE SOUL TO HEAR THE MUSIC !

Deepavali is celebration of success of good over evil. TRULY. This is the festival, which reminds all the family to light the lamp within to fight the ignorance and start realising self. Light can clear the darkness to enable one to see clearly, and thus can help one to search the eternal TRUTH, which is WITHIN. When the soul is pure and ready, Master will appear to help to cross the ocean of samsara.

Sri Siddharudha Swamy

" Gajanan visited me at Oubumbur tree near Shahpur. I blessed him. Ram Maruthi Maharaj and Siddharudha were with me at that time".

These are the words spoken by Sri Shirdi Sai Baba when Nana went to him. Sri Gajanan later became a great saint by name, Sri Gajanan Maharaj. 

Sri Siddharudha Samadhi, Hubli

Sri Siddarudha was a great mahatma and a contemporary of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba. One day, Sri Sai Baba distributed sweets to all present. When asked for the reason, he said a person from a Mahatma's durbar came to see  him. Upon enquiring all the devotees present, it was found, one person came from Sri Siddharudha. 

Gratitude - A wonderful word ! (Part 1)

Thank you !

How many times, we would have used this word in our life so far? More important, how many times, we missed saying that to someone? Most often, we would have missed the people whom we need to say this to, for we have taken certain things for granted. 

The loving mother, who feeds or thinks of our hunger irrespective of our state and situations, the ever protective father inspite of us not bothering to heed him, our brothers and sisters who were always there to give us happiness whenever we feel like etc.. There are few others whom we miss completely..those who helped repairing our bicycle when it is broken, helped us get into the bus or van when we were kids, people who helped us get up when we fell, people who are always there to feed us..so many like that.

In search of a True Master

Mentorship refers to a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. A commonly used word or process in today's world.

We all know that we need a guide or a mentor to understand this world better and move towards achieving our goals in a more meaningful way. Trickiest part here is, the selection of a mentor or a guide. We generally observe this in colleges where we need to seek a guide. We typically ask a question "who is good?". This depends on our mental state defining good, on the mental state of the person who is giving the answer and his perspective on good. We do not know the impact of it till we cross quite an amount of distance and most of the times, end up repenting.

"All that glitters is not gold."

SAIBABA - a spiritual and scientific magazine to gain Knowledge and to strengthen the faith

"GOD exits. I have complete faith."

Is this enough to have faith and does not try to understand more about HIM and follow what HE said? Do we need to understand the objectives of this wonderful creation?

Having faith does not mean that we should not question with a purpose to understand more about the Lord or Eternal Truth. This is infact the right way rather than following blindly. Today, the generation does not understand the customs or the methods of prayer and such. Everyone is turning out to be a blind follower. We do not even know why we need to go to a place of worship often, what should be our mental state when we are going, what should we do when we are there. Instead of digging deeper like a true seeker, we shy away from even talking about GOD.