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News from Brindavan - May 2004
Loving contributed by Brother
Raja through
saibabanews
May 6, 2004 - Shock to devotees
on Easwarama's day
Jai sairam,
It is with mixed feelings that I am writing this update. Yesterday
that is on Wednesday, there was no darshan at all. As part of
"Love my Uncertainty" this is quite common - so I thought too !
Today (Thursday) being Easwarama's day, it was announced yesterday
that Darshan would be there today. So with a mixed feeling of "what
to expect" I reached Brindavan today morning.
The first noticeable thing was that devotees were being ushered
right into Trayee Brindavan - Swami's residence area today. While
this was being welcomed as a fantastic bonus by the devotees,
everyone was equally apprehensive, as to what was going to unfold
today.
As can be expected, the whole of Trayee Brindavan was shining
thanks to the efforts of our hard working Seva Dal, and the
students of Brindavan. Swami's lotus shaped residence was so
beautifully decorated, with bouquets and simple floral designs.
Entrance to the Trayee Brindavan itself (Mandir where Swami
resides) was excellently decorated.
This is the first time that I have been into the lawns of Trayee
Brindavan and fortunately, I got a decent seating from where the
entrance to Trayee Brindavan as well as the balcony was very
nicely visible.
Festoons and banners at the gates to Trayee Brindavan, announced
the celebration of Easwarama's day on 6 May 2004.
The weather was cloudy and perfect with weather Gods as commanded
by our Supreme and Beloved Lord, in favour of the devotees and
visitors. The students sat closest to the Trayee residence
entrance, as also Bal Vikas children from various Samitis around
Bangalore, then the VIPs and staff and then the General Public on
the lawns of Trayee Brindavan, and on the side lawns too.
After a lot of waiting it was nearly 9 AM, when the balcony door
opened and Swami was found to be in a wheel chair being brought to
the edge of Balcony. Most of the hearts must have stopped as mine
did. Because Swami had some sort of discomfort and his right arm
was in some discomfort. Swami generally used His left hand only.
Anyway, He looked around the devotees gathered in front of Him and
after about 5 minutes or so, went back into the room and the
balcony doors were closed, and many thought that was the end.
But Sairam does not leave His devotees unhappy. After another 5
minutes the main door on the ground floor opened and there was our
beloved Swami coming outside though in a wheel chair. After a
little while, he gestured for College boys to come to Him, and
then He was physically assisted to get up and brought down where
He sat closest to Students and Bal vikas children and then
signalled.
The Bal vikas children began bhajans and after three or four
bhajans, other Bal Vikas children recited Vedic chats of Ganesha.
Then Swami signalled to two boys, whom later it was clear to the
audience that they had completed MBA and are with Swami still out
of love for Him and the desire to serve Him. Swami asked them to
talk.
The first boy a sikh, narrated about his fortune, in getting this
opportunity to be blessed by Bhagavan to speak on the most
auspicious day of Easwaramma. He said that Swami had many times
taught the students about the importance of serving the mother and
making her happy, as the foremost duty of a son, and also about
how Swami himself has such soft corner for mothers.
Speaking further the speaker narrated, how few years ago, an old
woman devotee was desperately seeking Swami's grace with regard to
four of her daughter-in-laws, who have not been able to beget
children.
Finally one day Swami walked upto her, and asked her, about her
problem and the woman who was hailing from Punjab(Northern India),
asked Swami to bless her daughters-in-law with children, to which
Swami had told her that it was not in their destiny. However the
woman did not stop at that. She reminded Swami that He has the
power to rewrite the destiny of the Universe and the beings
thereof, and pleaded that He does so.
The butter like heart of Swami melted at the request of the woman
and He himself being the mother, wanted to satisfy the woman and
He blessed the daughters-in-law and the woman.
Lo and behold, the next year the same woman turned up for darshan
with her 4 daughters-in-law and now 4 little ones accompanied them
for the darshan. The speaker concluded that Swami in His roopam as
the mother, was here to grant boons to all the seekers.
The second speaker also glorified the role of mother and told the
audience that they were indeed fortunate to find a Divine mother,
in their life, who cared for them every moment of their life. He
also said that Swami not only cares for humans beings only, but
also animals. In this regard he narrated,how once while walking
back to Trayee Brindavan at Bangalore after Darshan, Swami
suddenly stopped short catching everyone by surprise. Then Swami
pointed out a long line of ants moving across His path. Swami with
pure love, waited for the complete line to cross before taking the
next step. He also waved His hand, created a sweet and then
crushed it and threw it to the ants, telling the onlookers that it
was their lunch time. Such is the Compassion of Mother Sai, he
said.
Thereafter it was wonderful to see the arrangements were being
made for the discourse by Swami, and inspite of His physical
problems, Swami did not mind it one bit and proceeded to give His
discourse. I have given below gist of points as I remembered them
from Swami's discourse.
* When we take birth, it is not the garland of diamonds and
emaralds that would matter but we come with a garland made by
Brahma, which has good and Bad of what we have done in the past.
* There are 4 teachers for each man and these are "Matru Deva,
Pitru Deva, Acharya Deva and Atiti Deva"
* The first teacher is always the mother
* There are lot of inner significance to any statement made by a
mother. Though the words may appear insignificant, in effect they
would have far reaching effects.
* True son is one who obeys mother's wish or command.
* If only each son tries hard, and look inward, then they would
find a true teacher in a mother.
Thereafter Swami went on to tell about His mother, who one day
went to Chitravati river to bring water and there she observed an
old woman trying to carry a pot of water with great difficulty.
Moved by compassion, she went and enquired as to why the old woman
should carry the water, to which the old woman replied that she
has to depend on herself as has no one.
Thereafter Swami stated that Easwarama, had another incident in
which she saw school boy carrying a very heavy load of books to
school, and on enquiring from the student, the boy stated that he
had to carry all books because it would be required by various
teachers.
Yet another incident happened in Easwarama's life wherein oneday,
she observed a younger woman who was very weak herself, carrying a
baby to the town, which was far away. On enquiry Easwarama found
that there were no doctors who could treat the child and hence the
woman has to walk long distance.
The above 3 incidents in Easwaramma's life touched her heart so
deeply, that they left a permanent mark in her life.
Now Swami went on to explain about a boy from Calcutta, who was
born in a very poor family and without a father to support, as the
father had died early. This boy grew up studying under street
lamps.
The boy was known as "Easwar Chand Vidyasagar"
By his hard effort, this boy went to achieve good education, and
got a very good job with a good salary. He wanted to buy good sari
for his mother but the mother said,that she did not want a sari
but her son should "Help poor people"
Eashwar Chand Vidyasagar, satisfied many of his mother's wishes
and thus it is the responsibility of a son to fulfill his mother's
wish, Swami urged.
Eashwar Chand Vidyasagar built school, hospital etc., as per his
mother's wish and so too this "Satyasai" the Swami declared. And
as everyone knows now, Swami's projects which were the wishes of
His mother, turned out to be historic achievments. Swami referred
to the Sathyasai Institute of Higher Learning University, the
water project and the Super Speciality Hospital projects, which
emerged from simple statements of his mother. He said that "little
sentences" uttered by mothers, could turn out to be "great
mansions of joY".
He urged students and devotees to try and satisfy the aspirations
of a mother and to accept whatever a mother tells and to obey her
commands.
Swami stated that if we do this, then the whole world would
recognise you as men of character.
Swami also explained that He had yet another fall resulting out of
his own mistake, and stated that Doctors were not needed for
curing this.
Thus ended a great shock filled day, which ended with Prasadam
being distributed and Aarti being given to Swami, who accepted the
same, and slowly went inside Trayee with the support of students.
There was no darshan in the afternoon, which got cancelled at the
last moment.
All of us must be ready to face Swami's "Love my uncertainty"
principle.
Jai Sairam.
Raja
PS: As good devotees of our Lord,let us start a prayer in our
homes, in our centers, in our samiti, and let us constantly recite
"Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Babaaya Namah" This will cure Swami
faster, as Naamasmarana has excellent healing power. Keep this
prayer on your lips, through out the day when you are at work, at
rest or whatever else you are doing.
The report as above is based on my personal observation, and may
not be accurate. What is accurate is "Swami's love". Sitting at a
far off distance, I could not get to hear more.
Source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saibabanews/message/2352
May 4, 2004 - Most Memorable
Buddha Poornima Day Celebrated
Jai Sairam,
Swami continued to play His "Love my uncertainty" drama. He
arrived very
early at 7.10 AM catching everyone by surprise. He walked along
the
Ladies side, direct through the student wing to the center stage
and took
His seat.
Much to the delight of all, there was sanction from the Lord for
conduct
of bhajans by students. On this most auspicious day of Buddha
Poornima,
the Boys of the college, poured their heart out to the Lord,
through their
devotional Bhajans singing. It was fantastic and lasted for almost
one
full hour.
At the end of Bhajans, Prasadam in the form of a Laddu was
distributed toall, and Bhagavan personally supervised the same before leaving
the Hall
via the back stage.
Thus the morning session ended as early as 8.15 AM.
The afternoon session was eqully thrilling. Swami again took
everyone by
surprise by arriving at 3.15 PM, the first of its kind in the last
one
month that He is here. As soon as He took His seat on the center
stage,
Bhajans which started a little earlier, continued and until for
another 2
or 3 Bhajans. Then it was observed that a mic and podium was set
up and we
were all excited thinking that there is going to be a discourse
from Swami
today. But I saw from far, Swami signalling to someone, and later
I came
to know that it was a teacher from the College whom Swami had
called on to
the stage to speak. And what this lecturer told the august
assembly was
fantastic.
Thanking the Lord for His compassion to select him to talk to the
audience, the Lecturer commenced the talk by stating that Lord's
compassion needs to be experienced by Sadhana. He stated that the
Lord has
come amongst us to give, give and give only, and it is for us to
grab, by
going closer to the Lord.
The teacher spoke about the significance of Buddha Poornima, the
full moon
day. He said that during this auspicious day, one can find peace
and
plenty by contemplating on the Lord. He recounted how the Lord had
created
a Buddha statue from thin air, last year at Kodaikanal, on this
very day,
stating that the statue was made from a particular clay called "Lambini
clay" and is best suited for meditation.
Thereafter, the teacher also stated that the Lord is the Lord of
the
Universe and is none other than Krishna Himself. He then recounted
how the
LOrd during the sixties had materialised a ring for John Hislop,
and how
John Hislop was once wearing the ring around his neck tied to a
thread,
and Swami questioned him as to why He is wearing it there, to
which John
Hislop stated that the ring had chipped. Swami I believe took it
from him
and blew on it and lo and behond, the ring was remade with Shirdi
Baba's
icon. The Lord thereafter asked John Hislop whether he would now
like the
ring with Shirdi Baba (whom the LOrd referred to as the old man)
or he
wanted a younger person. When John Hislop kept quiet, Swami again
took the
ring and blew on it right in front of everyone, and lo and behold,
now the
ring had the icon of a new face, whom Swami told John Hislop was
the face
of "Prema Sai" - an avatar still to be born in the future.
Next speaker to day afternoon was the principal of the college (that
is
what I was told), who narrated some of his experiences with
Bhagavan. He
brought out the significance of Buddha Poornima and then went on
to
explain the meaning of
Buddam charanam Gacchami, Dharmama Charanam Gacchami and Sangam
Charanam
Gacchami.
He stated that "Buddam Charanam Gacchami" meant surrendering to
the Buddam
which is referred to "Buddhi(intellect)" - Buddhi is closest to
the Lord
and gets His vision on it all the time and so surrendering oneself
to the
Buddhi on the Intellect would help progress on the spiritual path
through
discrimination.
Next is "Dharmam Charanam Gacchami" meant that "carrying out
righteous
action" as dictated by the discrimated aspect of Buddhi because
this will
help you to stick on to the right path always.
Next was "Sangam Charanam Gacchami" which meant that one should
get into
the habit of taking the Lord's name to the community by speaking
about the
Lord to as many homes of the society as possible.
The Principal also narranted that right now few Buddhists have
come to
have the Darshan of our beloved Lord, and how one of them had a
vision of
Lord Sai in the form of Lord Vishnu. He also went on to state that
Buddha
had forecasted about the arrival of Lord Sai in Buddha's days.
Swami
Himself had told these interesting aspects of Buddha to these
fortunate
teachers and faculty.
Thereafter Swami took Aarti and left via the back stage.
Thus ended a most fantastic day celebrating "Buddha Poornima"
Jai sairam
Raja
Source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saibabanews/message/2341
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