sairam friends,
Happy Ram Navami to sai children in this sacred forum of sainath !
Its been long since i came here ...recently one of my sai friend , a didi from ahmadabad called up
and said someone posted a prayer for you to settle in career ...i was embarrased initially as its easy
for me to express my failures in starsai.com but when others speak about i feel if the mistakes are in me....i visited the page later that night...
http://forum.spiritualindia.org/prayers-for-owner-of-starsai-site-whos-an-ardent-devotee-of-baba-t39518.30.htmland realized how kind are sai children to pray for someone as ordinary as me and made sure i
thank the sai children while cleaning dhuni in nagasai mandhir.
One of my sai friend Heena , who mails me once in a while asked me to see this post and answer
Since its Rama Navami i thought its good to write some good words here too....
The article was written in 2007 when i wanted to guide sai children having health issues and suffering..
so made
http://www.shirdisaiheals.com/Right from my childhood i have seen my mother suffering with health issues...we used to pray a lot in
Ganesha temple and to lord murugan....i wrote about it in a book am trying to write for sai but
its been long am yet to complete it...i am a bit sad these days...so not about to write happily with devotion.
http://www.starsai.com/sai-mother/Now about my understanding of How powerful is Naam smaran , Chanting of Sai's/Gods name , doing pooja, pilgrimage etc to wash away our past and present births bad karma.
Faith and any way we take to show bhakti on sainath really helps but trust me that alone is not enough. We have to involve in good deeds that tallys with the sufferings we are going through.
example...
My mom read this article to me from a magazine some 10 years back...
A young man was slowly loosing his eye sight and doctors were really trying their best to save his vision.They consulted many doctors but in vein...They met a astrologer who guided them this way.
What ever we suffer in this birth is due to our related sins in previous birth....so do this...
Visit every single eye hospital in the state and bear the expenses of all the poor patients getting treated there for a day or week. The Good karma of helping hundreds of poor people gaining eye sight
will help your son save his vision.
The father being very rich was able to organize this major charity of helping hundreds of poor people geting treated for better vision in many hospitals.
Gradually the Son also got treated by an expert and after years of wait, he got permanent recovery.
I am not sure if the incident happened same as i described but even if there are minor changes we got
our right example here...
AS YOU SOW,SO YOU REAP.
chanting sai's name helps..
today being ram Navami
you can chant
sairam sairam sairam whole heartedly
It does help....lets say you pray sainath for good treatment to cure your disease , sai will guide you to a
good doctor...the sai leela factor of curing without meeting doctor does happen but recently
when my father had some urology problem, i believe sai guided us to the right doctor.. this is also
saibabas favour on us.
After a month i also got severe pain in my lower abdomen and i requested the doctor if i can help him in any way so that he can write articles related to urology....you see if my karma is to suffer by disease of purticular aspect , i have to take efforts to help people in similar problems.
example
Many sai children used to write me for finding a good soul mate.....thousands of people have problems in their marriage issues .....so i request them to give sarees, kumkum packet , flowers to poor women or maid or women cleaning temple n get their ashirwad.
The good karma of giving auspicious gifts to a women will make you deserve auspicous marriage in yourlife
http://www.marriagepooja.com/ helps to choose few pooja u can do...
hope i din;t misguide you...its not necessary that we always look for doing good deeds to tally what we need in life...
Sometimes all we can do is recite aarti of sainath, light lamps in temple, do abishekam in our house and chanting sairam in mind.....This is enough to wash away our karma but it takes time....immense patience is necessary...
I have a friend who is 36 and not married yet.....he serves in sai mandhir ...sometimes when hes upset
he doesnt come for seva...we understand it pains and even i feel fed up when thinks dont work out.
I also do my own set of mistakes like fighting with friends, scolding people whom i am possessive about , demanding things etc which includes scolding and then crying to sainath..
All those who seve lord shiva, vishnu and guru in ancient india too have no where to go but to take
rights and show their anger on their guru and the guru is ever caring and ocean of mercy.
Now a days when i chant sairam , i try to see that my atma is one with everyone ...every other living being on earth including the paramathma of my guru. When we realize that our pains are one with the
Guru's , we surely can feel the bliss. That sai is there and he is going to take care of us.
Sometimes when i lay down , i think i am happy...really happy....we must take the positive side of our life...if we think for a moment how much sainath has done for us, our mind will be filled with pure devotion and love on saibaba of shirdi.
Lets keep chanting sairam sairam sairam
Aum sri sainathaya namaha
My humble request ,instead of posting articles as cut n paste , please write 2-3 sentences and guide
them with a link of the website carrying the article ..... It takes hours to write and it comes out of love on sainath..My writings on sainath comes with the payback i gave through my sufferings for years and patience.
Hope you understand....
Once again Happy Ram Navami to sai children here and thanks for requesting me to write here
to shorten the message " Keep showing love for sainath with any way you choose from navavidha bhakti but try to find if you can also do good deeds with in limits of our ability "
Venkat
always in the holy feets of shirdi saibaba