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Thursday, Oct 29, 2009 :: Volume 12, Issue 25(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 to thisemail. 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 KEYBOARDFEATURE OF THE WEEK: KaivalyamTo a spiritual aspirant, certain physical experiences are inexplicable. Certain peopleand places are capable of bringing out unseen joy and indescribable peace to a seeker.While this is a blessed experience for a seeker, skepticism may describe this as afantastic imagination of the week-minded. Sure, science has several definitions forsuch a state of mind. As an example, let us examine what a Hypnotist could do hissubject. In this exercise, the Hypnotist proceeds to hypnotize his subject whose onlyrequirement is to be a subject to the order of the hypnotist without offering anyresistance. Thus, the hypnotized subject can be happy or sad, ecstatic or gloomy, onlyuntil such time the hypnotist has the spell.One sign of the Perfect Master is to be able to possess all Maha Siddhis or GreatPowers. One such power is known as "Kaivalyam", the ability to impart the state of bliss to the chosen. Shri B V Narasimha Swami ji wrote in "Life of Sai Baba, Part IV":When they reach Atman or Brahman, Yogis are said to have the power of impartingsuch a state of bliss to persons fit to receive it. G.S. Khaparde was a highly culturedSanskrit scholar and had evidently read Yoga Sastra. He has referred to certaininstances and experiences of his diary in the year 1911-12, while he stayed at Shirdi.Therein he repeatedly mentions that Baba cast yogic glances at certain persons whowere immediately filled with a wave of bliss, which overpowered all their other mentalactivities and kept them immersed in bliss for hours without break.Baba had the power to completely blackout some lines of thought, e.g., that of returning home from Upasani's mind for eight days after his first visit to Baba. This
 
yogic power, which blacks out completely unwanted thoughts would evidently implythe power to give positive bliss to persons fit to receive it. If a person is comparativelyfree from sin and vice and could keep his mind sufficiently blank or sufficiently pureeven for a while, any ordinary or sufficiently experienced hypnotist with a commandcould fill his mind with blissful thoughts over a considerable period. Baba's yogasampoorna state enabled Him to keep several people in such happy state as theythemselves have recorded in their experiences.CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: WILLING TO DIE FOR THE HAPPINESS OF THEBELOVEDThe faith of the disciple must always be securely grounded in his experience of thedivinity of the Master. He must not be like a straw carried anywhere by the slightestbreeze. He should be like a rock that remains unmoved in the severest of storms.The story of Kalyan brings out the meaning of a really sound faith in the Master.Kalyan was a disciple of Swami Ramdas Samarth, who was a Perfect Master at thetime of Shivaji. A Master loves all disciples alike, but some might be particularly dearto him -- just as an individual loves all part of his body, though the eyes may be moredear to him than his fingers. Swami Ramdas Samarth had many disciples, but hisfavorite was Kalyan. The other disciples did not quite understand why Kalyan shouldbe dearer to the Master than the others.One day Swami Ramdas tested the devotion of his disciples. He asked all his disciplesto come to him and pretended to be so sick as to be on the point of death. He hadplaced a mango on the joint of his knee and bound it in a bandage so that it looked likea huge swelling. Swami Ramdas pointed to this swelling and told the disciples that itwas a malignant tumor and that there was no chance of his living unless someonesucked the poison from the joint of his knee. At the same time, he made it clear to allthat whoever sucked out the poison would die instantaneously.Then he asked whether any disciple was prepared to suck out the poison from theswelling at the cost of his own life. All the disciples hesitated except Kalyan, whoarose immediately and began to suck from the swelling. To his surprise Kalyan foundsweet mango juice and not poison, and Swami Ramdas praised his unswerving faithand self-denying love.To be willing to die for the happiness of the Beloved is true love. Such implicit faith,unfaltering love, and undivided loyalty as that of Kalyan can come to the disciple onlythrough the Grace of the Master.
(Source:Shri Meher Baba in "DISCOURSES", pp. 149-150)
 DEVOTEES SAY:
evotee
 I have posted an article few month back about my friends baby who was bornpremature, I was praying Baba to help the Baba and the parents and bless them to be
 
healthy and come out of all the complications they are going through. My friend's babyhas been released from NICU healthy and now growing as a normal Baba. Koti Kotipranam to you Baba. May your grace always be with us
 Payal 
 Sai baba I am very thankful to you for my sweet angel, next month she will becompleting her 1year. Baba really gone through tough time after marriage, you knoweverything. Also I stopped to be in touch with u. I don't know what happened to me,and why my mother in law don't want me to worship u. Baba after all this I m onceagain back to you with all my bhakti, shardha and saburi. I beg you to please forgivemy both family and me. Please bring my father in law back, let him continue to feedhis family, they really need him. Also please bless my husband with sadhbudhi andgood job so that he can feed us and we can give better life to our angel. Want to comeback to you and lean on your feet. Please allow me.
Sai devotee
 Om Sai Ram, My father passed away Baba, in spite of praying you so much for his life,my Mother begged for his life, she has so much faith that nothing will happen to myfather. But Doctors could not save him. We are all in a very miserable and sadsituation; do not know what our future is going to be. How my mother would live restof her life. Our father was our biggest pillar. Today I just opened this website torequest you to get me this job which I had an interview last Thursday (Oct 22nd). I amin need of this job. Thanks, please give all our family members peace of life, goodhealth, come out this depression.PRAYER CLUB:
Sai devotee
 Humble Pranams to you Baba. Please bless my cousin who is craving for a child.Please bring light in the eyes of my sister and brother in law. Please see that there isbaby's laughter in her house. Please let her enjoy the bliss of motherhood.
evotee
 Sairam, You are there for my family and me all the time. Please bless me to start mycareer and let me support my husband. I have been waiting for this from so many yearswith shraddha and saburi. Please Baba, help me.
 Priya
 Baba, I have been married for about 11 years now and you are yet to bless me withchildren. I cannot see the agony of my husband, parents and in-laws any more. Irequest you to please bless me with my children. Thank you Sai Baba. ShriSachidananda Satguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai
Suneetha
 SaiBaba, please bless me with a baby. Please show us some way to start for our GCprocessing. Baba you know our situation. Pleas help us Baba. Today we are herebecause of your blessing Baba. Please show us some way Baba. Baba please show your
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