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Sai Sai

Baba Newsletter April May 2010

Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan Los Angeles' email newsletter

is sent every month to propagate the teachings of Shri Shirdi Sai

and connect the devotees of our Baba temple. Devotees maykindly send their articles on any section of newsletter by

emailing the same [email protected].
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"Man's Endeavour

Realizing how precious the human life is, and knowing that

Death is certain and may snatch us at any time, we shouldbe ever alert to achieve the object of our life, we shouldnot make the least delay but make every possible haste togain our object, just as a widower is most anxious to gethimself married to a new bride, or just as a king leaves nostone unturned to seek his lost son. So with allearnestness and speed, we should strive to attain our end,i.e., self-realization. Casting aside sloth and laziness,

warding off drowsiness, we should day and night meditateon the Self. If we fail to do this, we reduce ourselves to thelevel of beasts.

How to Proceed?

The most effective and speedy way to gain our object is to

approach a worthy Saint or Sage - Sadguru, who hashimself attained God-vision. What cannot be achieved byhearing religious lectures and study of religious works, iseasily obtained in the company of such worthy souls. Justas the sun alone gives light, which all the stars puttogether cannot do, so the Sad-Guru alone impartsspiritual wisdom which all the sacred books and sermons

cannot infuse.- Chapter 8, Sri Sai Satcharitra"

SectionsFrom our TempleLife of Sai Baba


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About ShirdiSai Baba Says

Experiences, Saileela

News and Events

From our Temple

Dear Devotees, May the choicest blessings of Baba

envelop you. May He take care of all your worries.

May all the children of Baba occupy theprivileged driver's seat in the bus of life.

There is a beautiful line in the hollywood movie

Spiderman - "With great power comes great

responsibility".

May we all realize that as Baba's privileged children,

our responsibility is even more towards guiding all tothe umbrella of Baba.

Our Baba temple is progressing with every passing day.

We would like to inform our devotees to visit our new

revamped website

www.shirdisaila.org. Our very dear devotee andvolunteer Sai Kumbeswaran and friend Nasir worked on

the website and

with Baba's blessings, it has taken a new shape. May we

always continue to serve Baba and spread His name.
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Life of Sai Baba

Babas Earlier Years at Shirdi

When he was an unknown fakir he was practically

ignored and treated by most of the villagers as of no

account. Suddenly one day an incident occured which

brought a thorough change in the situation. He always

had his Mosque, wherein he lived, lit up with three or

four -earthen lamps, according to the view common to

both Hindus and Muslims that places of worship should

be lit up at night. So, he went round begging for oil

from the Vanis or, oil mongers. There were only two

such shops and they supplied him with oil, gratis. The

oil pressman also supplied him with oil. One day it

struck these people that either they should make Baba

realise their importance or should have some fun at his

expense and they told him mockingly that they had nooil. Baba had to return to his mosque with his oil tin pot

empty. It was already dusk. The vanis and ganamdar

came behind him to see what he was going to do in the
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darkness and thereby to have .some fun. Baba took

some water from the water jar37 and shaking up the

little bit of oil sticking to the tin, drank it up. Then he

too pure, aqua from the water pot and filled his fourearthern lamps with it. He placed in each of them a

cotton wick and struck up a match and lighted it. The

spectators thought at first that cotton soaked in

water could not possibly be lit up. But to their great

surprise, the lamps were lit up and went on burning the

whole night38 After a little time, consternation seizedthe guilty vanis and ganamdar, and being terribly afraid

that Baba, having shown himself to be a man of mystic

power, might curse them just as Viswamitra cursed

Rambha and Konkanava killed a crane with a glance, fell

at his feet and prayed that he should not curse them.

Baba was the exact opposite of what they thought. Hewas not a magician resenting contempt and anxious to

seize an advantage. On the39 other hand, Baba was

more like the Bhikshu Monk in Bhikshugita40 and had a

true motherly heart, and noted that these men now

repenting were in the proper mood to receive

instruction to alter their conduct, and he gave themwholesome advice which was what they needed most.

First he asked them, You really had oil with you when

you said you had none, eh?' They admitted that they


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had uttered falsehood. Then Baba told them never to

utter falsehood. Falsehood displeases the God of truth.

There was, therefore, no necessity for Baba to curse

them. Next he pointed out to them how unsocial andwicked their conduct was. The lights were needed for

the use of all who visited the mosque and the public

would be inconvenienced if there were no lights. He

asked them if they had not come to the Mosque to

enjoy the pain which they expected him to endure while

remaining in darkness. They admitted the fact. He thenpointed out that persons who took delight in others'

miseries instead of sympathising with them would be

punished by God. God is mother to all and loves all

equally. If you hurt a child and tell the mother that you

have hurt the child, will the mother be pleased? Thus

they had displeased God by coming to rejoice in hismiserable plight or supposed miserable plight in the

absence of lamp oil. He asked them never again to take

pleasure in other's distress, or in the words of W.W.

Wordsworth "never to blend our pleasure or our pride

with sorrow of the meanest thing that feels". They

promised. Thus, after giving them excellent pieces ofadvice, so badly needed by them and by many people

now, he dismissed them from his presence. The effect

of this incident was marvellous.


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(Source: Life of Sai Baba by Sri B V Narasimha Swamy

-http://www.saileelas.org/)

About Shirdi

TULASI BRINDAVAN

Baba planted this Tulasi Brindavan outside His Masjid.After the outer pavilion was constructed, the devotees

brought this Tulasi Brindavan inside and tended it. It

now stands in the NE corner and is looked after by the

Pujari of Dwarakamai. As it is under the roof of the

Dwarakamai its nourishment is not upto the mark for

lack of sunshine. Every year Tulasi Vivah is done on thetwelfth day of Deewali. SHYAM KARAN

Kasam, a horse merchant, was distraught because his

mare had no issue for a very long time. He vowed to

Baba that if his mare had a foal, he would offer the

first born to Baba. By Baba's grace the mare did have a

series of issues. So he came and presented Baba with

the first born. Baba called the horse 'Shyam Karan' as

his body was brown while his ears were black. The

horse loved Baba and Baba reciprocated. The trainer
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Khajgiwalle saw that the horse was well looked after

and decorated. This horse was housed in the room

situated on the eastern side of Dwarakamai; now called

'Shyamsunder' hall.

At every Arati the horse would stand in the Sabha

Mandap (where the tortoise is now) and wait patiently

for the Arati to start. When the Arati was begun he

danced merrily keeping beat with the tiny bells tied to

his feet. After Baba'sLalkari he would climb thecentral steps of Dwarakamai and bow to Baba. Baba

blessed him by applying Udi to his forehead, then all

the other Bhaktas received Udi and Prasad.

On Chavadi procession days he was fully decorated with

mala, leg rings, bells and a beautiful cloth for his tail.All his decorative articles are kept in the show room of

the Samadhi Mandir. It was a sight worth seeing as he

danced all the way to Chavadi leading the procession.

After Baba entered the Chavadi he stood outside

facing Baba.

After Baba's Mahasamadhi he would dance in the

Samadhi Mandir during the Aratis and also participate

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This beloved horse of Baba died in 1945 and his

samadhi is built in Lendi Bagh.

Bala Sahcb Sulthe of Shirdi presented this idol. It was

installed on the left side of the stone on which Baba

sat.

This statue was in remembrance of the deep love that

Shyam Karan had for Baba and Baba reciprocated.

Source - Adopted from Ambrosia In Shirdi by Dr.Vinny

Chitluri, this book can be read

athttp://saileelas.org/books/ambrosiainshirdi1.htm

and this book is avirtual guide on Shirdi with lots of rare photos on Baba

Sai Baba Sayings

98. I put the Rohilla, Pishya and Rao Sahib Galwankar

each into his mothers womb.99. (To Akkalkote Sapatnekar). The soul of your

deceased son. I shall bring back to your wifes womb.

(Next year A.S.got a son)
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100. I will take my Kaka (H.S.Dixit) in Vimana

(HSD had a happy blessed ending).

Sai Babas Charters and Sayings

From the book (The God and the Apostle) - By PujyasriB.V.Narasimhaswamy

Published by All India Sal SamaJ, Chennai.

Experiences, Saileela

Other experiences with Lord"Om Shri Sainathaya Namaha."

Dear readers, as informed earlier that my father had

visited Shirdi around 17 times and the span of each

visit use to be anywhere from 7 days to one month.

During the stay they used to come across such

interesting Leela's of Baba that they never felt likeleaving Shirdi. Of course, no sooner Baba would order

them to leave; they would depart from Shirdi. My

father had good collection of these experiences which

I might not remember all. In this chapter I will try to

narrate to you some of these experiences which are

other than those depicted in Sai Satcharitra. I am sureSai devotees of those times must have come across

many such interesting experiences and they must have

passed them on to their dear ones. I am narrating them


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to you to purely express my love and devotion to Lord

Sai.

Gimmicks of Nanavali

There was a eccentric devotee of SaiBaba by name

Nanavali. I am taking this liberty to term him as cranky

because he use to perform very funny acts (monkey

tricks), which use to annoy people and they use to

complain to Baba about his misbehavior. Baba wouldthen scold Nana stating that devotees would go away

from Shirdi if he continues to misbehave. My father

had different kind of admiration for Nanavali. He was

suffering from hernia so much so that the grown up

portion use to touch the ground and he use to walk in

that fashion only. Sometimes he used to tie the piecesof cloth to his trousers at the back forming a long tail

and then he use to jump like a monkey. All the children

of the village use to get amused with his monkey tricks

and then in that state he used to come running to Baba

to save him torn the onslaught of the children. My

father used to wonder as to how can this man in thatstate of hernia run so fast. He never thought pf him to

be a mad person. Nanavali used to call my father by

name Gawalya' and use to beg him for food. Then my


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father used to go to the eating, house run by Sagun

and request him to feed him with sufficient food.

According to my father Sai Baba and Nanavali was like

a pair of Lord Ram and his ardent devotee LordHanuman. Nanavali once commanded Baba to allow him

to sit on his seat. Baba responded positively to his call

and got up from his seat and allowed Nanavali to occupy

the same. Nanavali sat for a while on the seat and then

got up saying, Oh Lord only you can occupy this seat

because it suits you, my right place is near your feetonly. You can all imagine what great guts Nanavali had

to ask Baba to allow him to occupy his seat and also the

enormous quantum of love that Baba extended to him

and vacated his 'Asan' (seat) for beloved Nanavali.

Offcourse the reason why my father use to reckon

them as an equivalent pair of Lord Ram & Hanuman isdifferent. Once Nanavali told my father "Hey Gawalya

come with me and I will show you some fun". He then

took my father to 'Chavadi' which is a little distance

from Dwarkamai. Baba was sitting there in Chavadi. In

no time Nanavali reduced his stature and made himself

so small that he could fit in a 'Handi' (glass bowlswhich are tied with small ropes and hung onto the

ceiling of the Chavadi) and then literally jumped up and

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he was sitting in the Handi and teasing my father. My

father was astonished to see that act. It was

unbelievable. It was nothing short of a miracle. How

can Nanavali with that state of his body jump so highand make himself small enough to sit in that Handi. It

was simply amazing and unbelievable. He then realized

that Sai Baba and Nanavali are Avatar of Lord Ram and

Lord Hanuman in Shirdi. He instantly prostrated in

front of Baba there and then venerated Him.

Dear Sai Devotee readers Nanavali was deep in sorrow

after Baba had taken the Samadhi and on the

thirteenth day he himself renounced this world.

Nanavali's Samadhi is situated near the eastern

entrance door of Lendi Baug. I always bow before it

whenever I visit Shirdi. Millions of bows to Lord Saiand his amazing Leelas.

Source - LIVE EXPRIENCES OF THE TARKHAD

FAMILY WITH SHRI SAI BABA OF SHIRDI BY

VIRENDRA JYOTINDRA TARDHAD

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Devotees may share Baba 's leela in their life in our

"EXPERIENCES" section. Kindly email us the same.
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News and Events

Monthly Event

Date : 08 May 2010 3:00PM Shri Saibaba SatyaVratham

Date : 26 May 2010 3:00PM Sri SatyanarayanaVratham

Weekly Event

Bal Gokulam and Sri Sai Amritvani - Every Saturday

after Madhyahana Aarti

Mahaprasad/Annadanam every Thursday evening

Daily Event

8:30 AM Kakad / Morning Arathi9:00 AM Abhishekam for BABA

9:30 AM Archana for Baba10:00 AM Abhishekam for Shiva

12:00 PM Madhyan/ Arathi6:30 AM Dhoop / Evening Arathi8:30 PM Shej / Night Arathi
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All Arathi lasts for about 15 to 25 minutes

approximately.

SHIVA ABHISHEKAM Monday 7.00PM

Temple TimingWeek Days 8.30 AM To 12.30 PM

6.30 PM To 9:00 PM

Thursdays 8.30 AM To 9.00 PM

Weekends 8.30 AM To 9.00 PM

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