• Embed Doc
  • Copy Link
  • Readcast
  • Collections
  • CommentGo Back
Download
 
Sai Vichaar 
www.saibaba.orgThursday, Jun 04, 2009 :: Volume 12, Issue 04(In its twelfth year of publication.)Sai Vichaar is a Weekly newsletter distributed every Thursday and is devoted to thelife, philosophy and teachings of Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi. Feel free to forward thisnewsletter to your interested associates in its original form. Please do not reply tothis email. All replies will be ignored. To contact us please see information at the bottom of this newsletter.IN THIS ISSUE:
•
FEATURE OF THE WEEK 
•
CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE
•
DEVOTEES SAY
•
PRAYER CLUB
•
EXPERIENCE OF DEVOTEES
•
QUOTATION OF THE WEEK 
•
QUESTION OF THE WEEK 
•
SAI ACTIVITIES
•
FROM THE EDITORS KEYBOARD FEATURE OF THE WEEK: Key to HappinessIs there a way to quantify faith? What constitutes a successful dose of patience?Some endure severest of hardships for several years, yet call themselves veryfortunate. Some seem to have a short stint with time and profess to have waited patiently! Wisdom, whether through Bhakthi or Jnana should impart the ability totruly discriminate between things of transient nature and permanent. Spiritualitymay not be about quantifiable material gains and losses that one accomplishes, evenwith the help of Sadguru. It may also not be about the benefits that are only perishable. On the other hand, it may be about a total personal transformation thatshould take place every minute, while at sleep or awake. The effort has to comefrom within oneself and the external factors may be the means to accomplish them.Baba said out of love for His devotees - "What (whether good or bad) is ours is withus, and what is another's is with him." - Ch. XLV, Shri Sai Satcharita. Even thesimplest expressions of Baba have the message of greatest importance. A moment of contemplation on such comments might have the most profound effects on what we perceive as pain or pleasure. By the above statement, Sadguru Sainath has endorsedthe thought that our actions precede our fruits, the consequences. He also severaltimes advised that one have to endure the consequences of his past Karma. Devoteesalso have seen how Sainath, the destroyer of karma, comes to their rescue if thefaith is earnest and the patience is complete. The patience is complete if the faith isearnest. He is the helmsman and His boundless coffers are openCONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: Patience - Review of book "Baba May I Answer"A new book authored by Sri C.B. Satpathy has been published by SterlingPublishers titled "Baba, May I Answer". The book is a compilation of questions
 
received by Sri C.B. Satpathy during the last many years from Baba devotees andhis comprehensive answers to them. The book is must reading for any serious Babadevotee as it expands on the thoughts about various topics like anger, patience, etc.One of the topics covered is patience and a sample from the book is given below:Patience is a divine virtue. Unfortunately, not only are we badly wanting in thisdivine virtue, but also we neglect it most foolishly.Q. What is patience?A. It is an inner assurance of Baba's unreserved love and unconditional guidance.Patience is Baba's power hidden in us to weather the teeming storms of life. Our fondest dreams will be transformed into fruitful realities if we just know the secretof growing the patience-tree in our heart. Patience is our sincere surrender to Baba'sWill. This surrender is by no means the effacement of the finite self, which we noware, but the total transformation of your finite existence into the infinite Self.Patience can never be imposed on us from outside. It is our own inner wealth,wisdom, peace and victory. Patience will never tell us that something is a hopelesstask. Patience will only tell us either that we are not ready or that the time is notripe. We may have the feeling that we are ready, but we have to know that our integral being, our whole being is not ready.We have to feel that patience is not something passive. On the contrary, it issomething dynamic. In patience, we develop our inner strength, our inner will power. It is true that if we have will power we can easily acquire patience. But it isequally true that when we have patience, our inner will power develops itself in aspecial way.You can get a personal copy of the book Baba, May I Answer by visiting the onlinestore at www.Saibaba.org or send an email to maildrop@saibaba.org for further information.
(Contrbuted by: Sai Vichaar Team)
 DEVOTEES SAY:
 A devotee
Thanks a lot Sainath. I had my eye test this week and I prayed to you a lot that myeye test report should be normal and by your grace the test results were normal. Plsdo help and bless me always.
 Kirti 
Baba, I sincerely thank you for helping us move in the house of our choice. It wouldnot have been possible without you. Please bring peace and happiness in this housealso.
 Mangamma
Baba thank you so much for helping my son with his dentist appointment. You werethere with us all the time. We have been struggling for more than a year now wehave been to many dentists and none were able to fix his teeth.PRAYER CLUB:
 Sasi 
Baba, please cure my wife's illness. Since two months she is suffering with stomachulcer. Please bless my father, wife and daughter Baba.
 
 Meenakshi 
My parents are worried very much about the problems that are arising everyday. SaiBaba please take control over of my brother's life and make him to become calmand understanding. Please help him to be a normal person.
 Mamta
Dear Sai, My mind is too disturbed. Please help. Please cure my mental illnessBaba. Please cure, this has already caused too many problems and it is getting worseday by day and unbearable.
 Shashibhushan
Please show me the way to keep my life peaceful and happier and free me fromfinancial stress.
Vijaya
Baba, please get our visa stamped. Baba bless us.
 Alka
Sai Baba please show us the right way bless my husband with your blessing andsave his career.EXPERIENCE OF DEVOTEES:
 Sasi 
There are no words to describe his endless love, blessings and kindness. How Babais showing his kind, love, and blessings to his devotees. Last month I had symptomslike diabetes. I was so nervous and worried. Then I prayed BABA and sent a prayer thru Sai Vichar. And went to hospital for checkup. Doctor told me your symptomsare not diabetic. And gave me the first hope. Last Thursday my results came.Surprise. I don't have any diabetes. This is miracle. Baba you are great. And also Ihave lot of work tensions. I am praying Baba everybody about work tensions. WithBaba grace slowly my work tensions are going away. We are very happy becauseyesterday one of my friends brought Shirdi prasadam.
 Nirmala
Every small gesture I consider as Baba's miracle and it makes me very happy. Thisis one small incident, which happened a year and a half ago. I shifted from home toanother place for my engineering course (which was again Baba's plan, the wholesituation I will send as another article later). At home I have a beautiful picture of Baba. It somehow got left back there. When someone went there, I asked my parents to send it to me with him or her, but an event turned up because of whichthey forgot to send (the person couldn't meet them or something like that turned up).I was very sad but I know that my Baba is always with me so I cheered up again.Then around 2 weeks later, I went to my cousin's place for Diwali. They had just been to Shirdi and they came. My uncle said he got a picture of Baba for me fromShirdi, which he put on Baba's tomb and near Baba's feet. I took the picture andopened it and GUESS WHAT?? It was the EXACT SAME, and I mean EXACTSAME, to the finest detail it was the exact same poster (picture) of Baba I have athome. Baba sent it to me. He knows everything and will do everything to keep hisdevotees happy. I jumped in joy. Baba is always with all of us. Om Sai ram, pleasekeep blessing, protecting and taking care of all of us Baba.QUOTATION OF THE WEEK:"If wealth is used for only personal enjoyment, it is wasted" - Sri Sai Baba
of 00

Leave a Comment

You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...
You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...