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Re: Archana
« Reply #30 on: January 23, 2006, 10:34:16 AM »
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    Worship means, one who has made his ego bow down even a little, who has bowed down his head even a little. It does not matter before whom you bow down -- your bowing down is enough. If you have bowed down in a mosque it is alright; if you have bowed down in a temple it is alright; if you have bowed down in a gurudwara it is alright. The question is of bowing down -- it does not matter whether you bow down before a rock or a tree or the empty sky. It does not matter whether you believe in God or you do not believe in God.

    Mahavira bowed down without believing and attained. And Buddha never accepted God but he became God. He knew the art of bowing down!

    The question is not of attaining God, the question is of destroying one's ego. Worship means, one who has finished himself and who has said, "I am not." It is not necessary to say, "You are." Whoever has said, "I am not," that very moment he has known that "Only you are." The divine appears as soon as the I disappears. This I is the only obstacle.

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    « Reply #31 on: January 24, 2006, 02:49:33 AM »
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    « Reply #32 on: January 25, 2006, 04:49:03 AM »
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    Prayer has not really to be done. It has only to be allowed. Sitting silently, looking at the trees, suddenly it is there. Sometimes it comes; sometimes it does not come. It is not within your power to drag it. A prayer dragged is no longer prayer. Prayer is like love: sometimes it is there and sometimes it is not there. And you are helpless, you cannot do anything about it when it is not there. Or can you do something? You can pretend. You can show that you are very loving and you know deep down there is no love. You will be false, you will not be authentic. And if you get accustomed to this, by and by you will forget what real love is. You will become accustomed to the pseudo, to the pretended, to the false.

    If you watch you will see sometimes like a breeze it comes. Right now there is no breeze and the trees are silent. What can they do? They wait. When the breeze comes they will dance. They don't have a ritual. They don't say, "Now it is morning and it is time to dance, and where is the breeze?" and if it is not coming, "Then we will try on our own --we will do some yoga posture, we will perform some ritual, we will do some exercises and somehow sway." No, they don't bother. They wait. Look, they are waiting. When the breeze comes they will dance. Prayer is like that: it comes. It comes without ever giving you any indication that it is coming.

    So remain available. Sometimes sitting in your bed in the night,suddenly it is there -- the whole room becomes full of some unknown presence. Not that you can do anything about it. It is there. You can enjoy, you can be joyful, you can delight in it. You can dance; the breeze has come. You can sway, you can sing a song.

    And let that song also be of the heart, of this moment. There is no need to repeat anything from somebody else. There is no need to cram anything. The real prayer simply arises. Sometimes it may be silent. You may not say anything, not even a thank you. And sometimes you may like to talk to BABA SAI. You may even sometimes like to fight with HIM.

    Sometimes one is angry; then what to do? And sometimes one is very, very worshipful, and one bows down. And sometimes one says to BABA, "Okay, you are here, but I am not in a mood to talk to you. So as I wait for you, you will have to wait for me." The ways of love are very mysterious -- and OUR BABA SAI will understand.  

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    « Reply #33 on: January 29, 2006, 02:43:12 AM »
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    Man lives in darkness, but the capacity to live in light is there; light can be enkindled. Everything is there which can become light, utter light; but it is only a potential. It is like a seed: when you drop the seed in the soil it has the whole programme, it has the whole blueprint, of the tree. All the leaves that will ever be it has in the blueprint; the shape and the colour and the height... and the flowers and their colours and the fruits. In that small seed all is hidden. If you cut the seed you will not find anything there; it is invisible. But drop the seed in the soil, let the seed disappear, and a sprout comes and foliage and the tree starts growing. And whatsoever will happen -- the tree may live thousands of years or hundreds of years and may bring millions of flowers -- all was hidden in the seed, it was potential there.

    God is man's potentiality. We are just seeds but we have still not fallen into the soil.Devotion with faith is the courage to fall into the soil and disappear. Then great light arises, light that is eternal, light that is deathless, timeless. That light is god, and to know that light is to be blissful forever.

    Man's destiny is great but he unnecessarily lives in a very impoverished state. Man carries all the treasures of the world within him but he remains unaware and remains a beggar.

    Up to now we have been dead. That's how millions of people are; you will find them all walking around like dead people. They have not lived because they have not known who they are. Life starts only when you know who you are, never before it. Life is only when there is light inside and you have seen your own being and you have seen your own centre. Millions of people go on living only on the surface, oblivious of the depths and the heights, oblivious of all that they are meant to be.

    You carry within you heights of the Himalayas and depths of the Pacific. And when one has known all the possible heights and all the possible depths, then only does one know what a gift life has been.

    One feels grateful and prayer arises out of that gratefulness.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
    अपना साँई प्यारा साँई सबसे न्यारा अपना साँई - रमेश रमनानी

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    « Reply #34 on: February 05, 2006, 05:07:31 AM »
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    When we lift our hands in prayers let us not read out wish list to god. Let us not measure our happiness in terms of wealth. Baba said, "Fakir (Mendicancy) was the real Lordship as it was everlasting, and the so called Lordship (riches) was transient".

    Keeping this mind let us implore HIM to be our constant companion and bless us with the ability to surrender all actions and thoughts to HIM. Let us beg HIM "to keep us always in the path of devotion and constantly focus on HIM and His teachings". Also, help us to keep in mind that "all the actions are originated from HIM and HE is the sole actor and doer, whatever be the consequences of our prarabdh, to give us strength to bear good or bad karma". When the path of salvation is so simple the reason why not all people take to it is, because God has not created in them the will and need to "See, Feel and Communicate" with HIM. Let us make the start and first and foremost seek HIS blessings.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
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    « Reply #35 on: April 22, 2006, 12:11:54 PM »
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    There was one Sufi mystic, Bayazid. He became enlightened, but still he was praying one day, just as ever. So one of his disciples became disturbed and he said, "Master, you need not pray. You are already enlightened. Why are you praying?"

    Bayazid is reported to have said, "Before I prayed for Enlightenment, now also I pray for enlightenment."

    The disciple couldn't understand and said, "What do you mean?"

    The master said, "I prayed so that enlightenment may happen to me. Now it has happened, and I pray in thankfulness, in gratitude that it has happened." But prayer continues -- the same prayer.

    Prayer is an attitude.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
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    « Reply #36 on: May 01, 2006, 04:20:30 AM »
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    Prayer is rebellion, the greatest rebellion possible, because prayer is a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn, neither less nor more.
     
    It is turning inwards; it is becoming other-worldly. It is searching into one's own subjectivity. It is groping into the darkness of one's interiority. It is going to the very source of one's being, to the very roots, because only by going to the very roots of one's being does one come to know oneself. And to know oneself is the most fundamental truth of life.

    Those who don't know themselves know nothing, and those who know themselves know everything. That single knowing is so revolutionary, it brings such a radical change. It transforms one's whole life. it changes one, one's relationship to people, to the world, to everything. Hence I call it the greatest rebellion. It makes you for the first time an individual. It gives you integrity, a center. For the first time you start functioning from your innermost core and not from the periphery. For the first time you are not functioning from the head but from the heart. And to function from the heart is to know what beauty is, what blessing is, what benediction is.

    It is only in those moments of bliss, beauty, and benediction that one becomes aware of God. If one knows oneself, God is; if one does not know oneself, God is not. God is not a hypothesis: it is the ultimate experience of one's eternity, of one's immortality, of one's beginningless, endless, existence.
     
    And the miracle is done by prayer. But by prayer I don't mean the ordinary prayer: bowing to a god in a church, in a temple, reciting certain words.

    Prayer is not a ritual, it has nothing to do with words. It is neither Christian nor Hindu nor Mohammedan. It cannot be labeled. It is a silence, primordial silence, just utter silence. It is not an address to God. How can you address God? -- you don't know him. It is not calling for God. How can you call God? -- you don't know him. It is not praising God. How can you praise God? -- you don't know him. Then what is it? It is simply being silent before this mysterious existence, in wonder, in awe. And those moments of silence full of wonder and awe are prayer.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
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    « Reply #37 on: May 05, 2006, 03:45:40 PM »
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    http://www.radiosai.org/Journals/01AUG31/Medicine/Prayer.htm

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    « Reply #38 on: May 17, 2006, 12:40:30 PM »
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    Prayers reach to HIM only when they are non-demanding. If there is even a hidden demand somewhere, that very demand makes the prayer so heavy that it cannot leave the earth. When there is no demand then it is weightless, then it can rise; then the gravitation has no effect on it, then it can go to the highest, to the deepest core of existence.

    Only those prayers are heard which are nothing but jubilations, 'alleluia', for no particular reason. Only those prayers are heard which are nothing but thanks.

    And, remember it, a mind which is entangled in thinking never comes to the point where THANKING can happen. Thinking becomes a bar, a hindrance, to thanking. Either you can be thinking or you can be thanking, but you cannot be both together. Thanking arises out of non-thinking, and a demanding mind cannot afford to be non-thinking. He has to think, he has to work out... He has a demand that has to be fulfilled -- he is after it, he is chasing it, he is putting everything at stake.

    MY BABA SAI is absolutely deaf to the prayers which demand, but BABA is absolutely open to the prayers which have no demand.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
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    « Reply #39 on: May 19, 2006, 02:01:27 AM »
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    WELL SAID RAMESH BHAYA,PRAYERS SHOULD BE WEIGHT LESS.
    MAY BABA SAI BLESS&HELP YOU.
    JAI SAI RAM...
     

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    « Reply #40 on: September 24, 2006, 10:59:35 AM »
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    Anand means bliss and bhakta means devotion, a devotee. And that is going to be your path.

    Bhakta should make it his very style of life to be loving, whether someone was present or not, for the emphasis should be not on the object of love, but on the feeling of love itself. Whatsoever you regard with love, with respect, becomes a person and is no longer just a thing.

    So, for a loving person the whole world becomes luminous with personality. That's what God means. There is no way to approach God directly, only through love. So slowly go on giving things a personality. And that depends on your attitude and how you approach them. You can go to the tree and touch it as if you are touching your beloved. In that moment that tree becomes your beloved, because it is you who creates your world.

    So, devotion is nothing but a tremendous creativity and the whole world is by and by transfigured, transplanted into a new dimension. Everything becomes luminous with personality. Nothing is a thing... everything has a soul. You impart the soul, or it has always been there but you were blind. Love opens your eyes and you discover -- yes, that is more correct: you discover the soul.
     
    So let it be a continuous adventure. Look at things, look at people, at the sky, but let love be flowing. Your love will create the world around you, a new world, a new being That new being is what in the old ages people used to call God.

    God is not somebody sitting somewhere. Unless you impart godhood to existence, God is nowhere to be found. Unless you create HIM, HE is nowhere. God exists in the love of the devotee. You got me? In the love of the devotee, God exists.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
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    « Reply #41 on: November 05, 2006, 09:37:19 PM »
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    Deva means divine, abhar means gratitude. And gratitude is real prayer. To be grateful is to be prayerful. Prayer is not a demand, it is not a complaint, it is not asking for something, it is not a desire; if it is, it is not prayer. It is just a thankfulness for all that the existence has done, for all that has been given to us.
     
    Each moment is so precious that it is really impossible to understand how people can remain ungrateful to existence. Each breath is a miracle, and miracles abound. Wherever you look and whatsoever you see is a miracle. The seed becoming a sprout is a miracle. The sun rising in the morning is a miracle. The night full of stars is a miracle. To look into the eyes of another human being is a miracle and there are depths upon depths and you can never come to an end. If you look into the eyes of another human Being you enter into an infinity. Each flower is a miracle and each stone, yet man is insensitive.

    That insensitivity is what I call irreligiousness. I don't call the person irreligious who does not go to the church or to the temple. The irreligious person is one who has lost sensitivity, who is no more receptive to the glories of life, who is no more available to the splendours.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
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    « Reply #42 on: November 06, 2006, 08:22:45 PM »
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    Prayer means: lost totally, drowned totally, surrendered totally, nothing is being held back, you have gone one hundred percent into it -- ANYTHING, and it becomes prayer. If in your dance you can go one hundred percent into it, it becomes prayer. Making love, if you can go one hundred percent into it, it becomes prayer.

    Anything! It doesn't matter what it is.... The quality of prayer comes by being one hundred percent into it; you have forgotten yourself utterly, you are a drunkard.

    Prayer is the way of the drunkard, the way of the lover -- one who can abandon himself, one who can cease to be, one who is ready to evaporate.

    It is the way of trust. But ninety-nine percent won't do, not even ninety-nine-point-nine percent, no. It has to be one hundred percent.

    And the other pole is meditation: one hundred percent remembrance, mindfulness, awareness; you are just pure light. It is the way of being alert, aware, watchful, of being a witness. It is the path of the alone.

    In prayer two are implied -- the lover and the beloved. That's why Sufis call God the Beloved. Zen has no idea of God at all. Buddha says there is no God, there is no need.

    On the path of meditation God is not needed, because meditation is not a relationship -- prayer is.  Prayer is relating.  Meditation is total freedom, aloneness, the flight of the alone to the alone.

    There is no other, so there is no question of drowning yourself, but one hundred percent mindfulness will be needed -- less than that won't do. And you become transformed. Whenever you are one hundred percent alive, at the optimum, the revolution happens.

    But as people are ordinarily, they are never one hundred percent in anything. They are hotchpotch, they are always mixed. And the mixture keeps them in a contradiction: one part going to the south, another part going to the north, and they are constantly in strain and stress. Neither can they resist nor can they yield, and these are the two ways to attain perfection: either resist totally -- that is the way of meditation -- or yield totally -- that is the way of love.

    But people remain half-half, divided. And a house divided against itself is bound to fall sooner or later.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
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    « Reply #43 on: November 10, 2006, 03:40:07 PM »
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    Anna means many things: it means grace, it means prayer, it means worship. I would like you to remember prayer.
     
    Prayer is rebellion, the greatest rebellion possible, because prayer is a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn, neither less nor more.

    It is turning inwards; it is becoming other-worldly. It is searching into one's own subjectivity. It is groping into the darkness of one's interiority. It is going to the very source of one's being, to the very roots, because only by going to the very roots of one's being does one come to know oneself. And to know oneself is the most fundamental truth of life.

    Those who don't know themselves know nothing, and those who know themselves know everything. That single knowing is so revolutionary, it brings such a radical change. It transforms one's whole life. it changes one, one's relationship to people, to the world, to everything. Hence I call it the greatest rebellion. It makes you for the first time an individual. It gives you integrity, a center. For the first time you start functioning from your innermost core and not from the periphery. For the first time you are not functioning from the head but from the heart. And to function from the heart is to know what beauty is, what blessing is, what benediction is.

    It is only in those moments of bliss, beauty, and benediction that one becomes aware of God. If one knows oneself, God is; if one does not know oneself, God is not. God is not a hypothesis: it is the ultimate experience of one's eternity, of one's immortality, of one's beginningless, endless, existence.

    And the miracle is done by prayer. But by prayer I don't mean the ordinary prayer: bowing to a god in a church, in a temple, reciting certain words.

    Prayer is not a ritual, it has nothing to do with i words. It is neither Christian nor Hindu nor Mohammedan. It cannot be labeled. It is a silence, primordial silence, just utter silence. It is not an address to God. How can you address God? -- you don't know him. It is not calling for God. How can you call God? -- you don't know him. It is not praising God. How can you praise God? -- you don't know him. Then what is it? It is simply being silent before this mysterious existence, in wonder, in awe. And those moments of silence full of wonder and awe are prayer.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
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    « Reply #44 on: November 15, 2006, 09:59:56 PM »
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    PRAY THIS EVEN IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE IT!! IT WILL ONLY TAKE A MINUTE.

    You never know when MY BABA SAI is going to bless you!! Good things happen when you least expect them to !!!!!!!!

    My Dearest BABA, I thank You for this day. I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving and an understanding BABA SAI. You have done so much for me and You keep  on blessing me.  Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to you..

    I ask now for Your forgiveness.  Please keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me to start this day  with a new attitude and plenty of  gratitude. Let me make the best of  each and every day to clear my mind so  that I can hear from You. Please  broaden my mind that I can accept all  things. Let me not whine and  whimper over things I have no control over.

    And It's the best response  when I'm pushed beyond my limits.

    I know that when I can't pray, You  listen to my heart. Continue to  use me to do Your will.  Continue to  bless me that I may be a blessing to  others.  Keep me strong that I may  help the weak... Keep me uplifted that I  may have words of encouragement for others. I pray for those that are lost  and can't find their way. I  pray for those that are misjudged and  misunderstood. I pray for those  who don't know You intimately. I pray for those that don't believe you and have faith in you.

    But I thank you that I believe. I believe that You change people and change things. I pray for all my sisters and brothers. For each and every family member in their households. I pray for peace, love and joy  in their homes that they are out of debt and all their needs are met. I   pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no problem, circumstance, or situation greater than YOU. Every battle is  in YOUR Hands for YOU to fight.

    I pray that these words be received into the hearts of every eye that sees it.

    If you prayed this prayer BABA SAI will Bless you!!!!!!!!!!! Just repeat this phrase and see how BABA SAI moves!!

    BABA I love you and I need you, come into my heart, please. Don't ignore me I am waiting and waiting for long.

    MAY BABA SAI BLESS YOU ALL WITH ABUNDANCE IN EVERYTHING....

    OM SAI RAM!!!  
    अपना साँई प्यारा साँई सबसे न्यारा अपना साँई - रमेश रमनानी

     


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