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Message For The Day….God Is Sculptor Willing to Transform You into an Idol….
Offer your heart and your entire life to the Lord. Then your adoration will transform and transmute you so fast and completely, that you and He will be merged into One. You will be transformed, as a rock is transformed by the sculptor into an idol, deserving the worship of generations of sincere people. In the process you will have to bear many a hammer stroke, many a chisel-wound, for He is the sculptor. He is but releasing you from petrification! Do not defile time or waste this life and body seeking paltry ends. This life is part of the long pilgrimage you entered when you were born, which may not end even when you die. Never forget this fact. Be pure, alert and humble as pilgrims are. Treasure the good things and the truths you see and hear. Use them as props and promptings for further stages of your soul’s journey.
Message For The Day….Let us Clean Our Mind of all Passions and Impurities First….
Let
Swami Sathya Sai Baba….Ever Alert For HIS Devotees !!!!
The Lord – Ever Alert for His devotee
How Baba appeared as an old man to save Dr. Padmanabhan
Dr. R S Padmanabhan, a genial and highly renowned dentist practising in Bangalore, has been a devotee of Baba since 1942. His wife, Mrs. Kamala Padmanabhan and he are active members of Sri Sathya Sai Seva organisations. In his long association with Swami, the doctor has had wonderful experiences. Here is an instance where Baba saved them from a disaster as narrated to Smt. Shakuntala Balu in her book, “Living Divinity”:
Once, the doctor and his wife had gone to Puttaparthi and they were anxious to return to Bangalore the same night. That was during the monsoon season and Bhagawan had asked them not to travel at night but wait util daylight.
The doctor was restless thinking of the considerable amount of work waiting for him in Bangalore and, moreover, it did not seem like it would rain heavily. So they set off. Twenty miles later, the rain came down, lashing past the windows and drumming on the car. Visibility became very poor and turning back was impossible.
Dr. Padmanabhan kept the car crawling on – it was already dark and the road was empty – he felt it was better to plough on rather than stand still in the streaming rain and the darkness. He was also afraid, of the car engine stalling. The car bumped along, very slowly when, suddenly, there was a flash of light.
An old man was waving a hurricane lamp. Dr. Padmanabhan stopped. The old man told them that they were headed straight into a strong current of water that was flowing after a small bridge upstream had burst. The old man had halted the car, just in time: a few more yards and the car with its occupants would have been swept away.
“You are lucky”, said the old man who advised them to stop for the night as the bridge could only be repaired in the morning. Then he went away.
Dr. Padmanabhan drove back to his cousin’s house for the night and left again for Bangalore the next morning.
A month later, while Sri Sathya Sai Baba was in Bangalore, He castigated Dr. Padmanabhan for not heeding His words and starting out on the journey at night.
“If I had not been on the look out that night: what would have happened to you?” He asked, sternly.
The doctor, realising that it was Bhagawan who had rescued him that dark night, apologized to Him for having disregarded His words and expressed his gratitude for His grace.”
Reference: “Living Divinity” by Mrs. Shakuntala Balu. Page: 189-190. Published by S. B. Publications, Bangalore, 1983.
source:::::Devotees’ Experiences ….sri sathya sai .org.in
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Special Message For The Day….HIS Legacy Lives ….
“We shall be judged not by the creed we profess or the label we wear, or the slogans we shout , but by the Work , the industry, the sacrifice, the honesty
and purity of character.. Realise the Heaven within You and all at once , all the desires are fulfilled , all the misery and suffering is put an end to . Feel
yourself above the body and its environments, above the mind and its motives , above the thought of success or fear…
The great cause of suffering in the world is that poeple do not look WITHIN . They rely on outside forces…
With Love,
Sri Sathya Sai Baba” 
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source:::: http://www.srisathyasai.org.in thro Press release in The Hindu …24 april 2013….on HIS Mahasamadhi Day …
Natarajan
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Message For The Day….In Silence You Can Hear The Voice Of God !!!!
Unfurl in your heart, the flag of infinite peace(Prashanthi). It should remind you to overcome the urge of low desires, anger and hate when your plans are thwarted; it must exhort you to expand your heart, to embrace all humanity and creation; let it direct you to quieten your impulses and calmly meditate on your own inner reality. Gradually, the lotus of your heart will bloom, from its centre the flame of divine vision of infinite peace will arise. Practise the disciplines of silence, cleanliness and forbearance. In silence, you can hear the voice of God. Through cleanliness you earn purity. By forbearance, you cultivate love. Feel that each moment is a step towards Him. Do everything as dedicated to Him, directed by Him, as work for His adoration, for serving His children.
Little Kids Teach Us !!!….Learn a Lot From them !!!!!
> 1. A four-year-old child, whose next door
> neighbor was an elderly gentleman, who had recently lost his
> wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old
> Gentleman’s’ yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
> When his mother asked him what he had
> said to the neighbor, the little boy just said,
> ‘Nothing, I just helped him cry.’
>
> *********************************************
> 2. Teacher Debbie Moon’s first graders were
> discussing a picture of a family. One little boy in the picture
> had a different hair color than the other members. One of her
> students suggested that he was adopted.
> A little girl said, ‘I know all about
> adoption, I was adopted..’
>
> ‘What does it mean to be adopted?’, asked
> another child.
>
> ‘It means’, said the girl, ‘that you grew
> in your mommy’s heart instead of her tummy!’
>
> ************************ *********************
> 3. On my way home one day, I stopped to
> watch a Little League baseball game that was being played in a
> park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-
> base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was
> ‘We’re behind 14 to nothing,’ he answered
> With a smile.
>
> ‘Really,’ I said. ‘I have to say you
> don’t look very discouraged.’
>
> ‘Discouraged?’, the boy asked with a
> Puzzled look on his face.
>
> ‘Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t
> been up to bat yet.’
>
> *********************** **********************
> 4. Whenever I’m disappointed with my spot
> in life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott.
>
> Jamie was trying out for a part in the
> school play. His mother told me that he’d set his heart on being
> in it, though she feared he would not be chosen..
>
> On the day the parts were awarded, I went
> with her to collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her,
> eyes shining with pride and excitement.. ‘Guess what, Mom,’ he
> shouted, and then said those words that will remain a lesson to
> me….’I’ve been chosen to clap and cheer.’
>
> *********************************************
> 5. An eye witness account from New York
> City, on a cold day in December,
> some years ago: A little boy,
> about 10-years-old, was standing before a shoe store on the
> roadway, barefooted, peering through the window,
> and shivering with cold.
>
> A lady approached the young boy and said,
> ‘My child , but you’re in such deep thought staring in that window!’
>
> ‘I was asking God to give me a pair of
> shoes,’ was the boy’s reply.
>
> The lady took him by the hand, went into
> the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks
> for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water
> and a towel. He quickly brought them to her.
>
> She took the little fellow to the back
> part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed
> his little feet, and dried them with the towel.
>
> By this time, the clerk had returned with
> the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy’s feet,
> she purchased him a pair of shoes..
>
> She tied up the remaining pairs of socks
> and gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said,
> ‘No doubt, you will be more comfortable now.’
>
> As she turned to go, the astonished kid
> caught her by the hand, and looking up into her face,
> with tears in his eyes, asked her:
> ‘Are you God’s wife?’
>
source:::::input from my friend..
Natarajan
Message For the Day….Desire Makes One To Commit Sins…..
Message For The Day…God is In Your Heart !!!
Brindavan is not a specific place on the map; it’s the Universe! All human beings are cowherds; all animals are cows. Every heart is filled with the longing for the Lord; the flute is the call of the Lord; the sport Raasakreeda (the sportive dance of little Krishna and the Gopees), is the symbol of the yearning and the travail to merge in God. The Lord manifests such Grace that each one of you has the Lord all for yourself; you need not be sad that you won’t have Him; nor need you be proud that you have Him and no one else can have Him! The Lord is installed in the altar of each and every one of your hearts. Revere the gift of this body, the senses, the intelligence, the Will and all the instruments of knowledge, action and feeling as essential for His work.
How Swami Sathya Sai “s Vibuthi Turned Sunil Gavaskar Fit For Test Match !!!!!
How Vibhuti allowed Sunil Gavaskar to play in Australia.
Shammi Paranjape, a close relative of Sunil Gavaskar (sister-in-law), shares this amazing episode that happened miles away down under in Australia:
“One of the very first experiences Sunil Gavaskar had was during the Indian tour of Australia in 1977, when Bishen Singh Bedi was captain of the Indian cricket team.
During the three-day match against Victoria, Sunil slipped on the ground while fielding and tore a muscle in his thigh. It turned out to be a severe injury. In those days, the Indian team did not have a physiotherapist traveling with them, so Sunil’s injury was shown to the home team’s physiotherapist.
After he was examined, Sunil was informed that it was a severely torn muscle and he would be out of the game for the next six weeks. This was a big blow as the next Test match was starting within a week’s time.
Sunil was in excruciating pain and unable to stand or put any pressure on the right leg. He phoned Pammi (his wife) in India and informed her about this development. Pammi immediately told him, ‘Apply Baba’s Vibhuti’.
Sunil said that he had none with him. ‘I’ll send you some right away. Apply it in the affected area, I’m sure it will work’, she replied.
The prospect of Sunil being fit enough to play for the next Test, which was four days away, seemed a total impossibility, so he was not picked for that particular match in the Test squad. In the meanwhile, Sushil Doshi, one of the Hindi commentators of All India Radio happened to be leaving for Australia.
Pammi arranged to send Baba’s Vibhuti through him. Sushil Doshi arrived two days prior to the Test match in Brisbane and handed over the Vibhuti packet to Sunil. Sunil, who was still hobbling around with that painful leg immediately applied almost half of the Vibhuti packet on the affected area hoping for a miracle.”
For what happened next, let Sunil Gavaskar himself relate:
(From an article Sunil had written for the November 2000 issue of ‘Sanathana Sarathi’ – the Ashram Magazine)
“After I started applying Vibhuti, there was marked improvement and on the eve of the Test Match, I requested the team management not to rule me out but to have a fitness test on the morning of the Test Match. From barely being able to put weight on my leg, I was able to walk comfortably in just two days. But there was a stiff soreness that was worrying.
On the morning of the match, I applied Vibhuti to the leg and went to the ground. That was going to be my first attempt to try and run after a gap of eight days.
Even as I stepped on to the ground to give my fitness trial, I realised that the stiffness was almost gone. At the Queensland Cricket Ground in those days, you had to descend a few steps to the ground and it was these few steps which were painful previously, and I had to walk down gingerly. But on this day, I felt confident enough getting down these steps normally.
I took a light jog around the ground and with every stride I could feel the soreness going away. Though I did not do anything silly as a quick dash or sprint, I felt confident enough to play in the Test and so informed the management who accepted it and included me in the playing eleven. It was unbelievable.”
Incidentally, Sunil went on to score his eleventh Test century in that match!
source::::Devotees experiences on the Miracles 0f Swami Sathya Sai Baba…SriSathyasai.org.in
Reference: “Blossoms in the Eternal Spring” by Mrs. Shammi Paranjape. Page: 16-17. Published by Rupa and Co., 2004.
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