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Title: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on October 04, 2005, 11:11:31 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Archana : It means prayer.

It is one of the most beautiful names possible in Hindi.

Do it in following way and within a few days you will start feeling what prayer is.

... Because in most of the countries, prayer is almost lost, and the formal prayer is thought to be the prayer -- it is not the prayer.

Prayer has nothing to say -- it is more of silence.

Prayer is not to ask anything from god -- rather it is to give.

Prayer is an offering of your being.

Prayer is losing yourself in the divine.

Prayer is not any verbal communication with god. Rather than saying or talking, it is more like listening. If god speaks, you are ready to listen.

So each morning when you are praying, listen as silently as possible and you will come to know what prayer is -- and then you will know the meaning of your name. It is silent listening, silent communication, silent communion. When your mind is completely dropped and your heart throbs with new life and a song is born in your heart -- that is prayer.

It will happen! I mean something.... It is going to happen -- you will grow into prayer.

OM SAI RAM!!!

Title: Re: Archana
Post by: vaishali on October 04, 2005, 11:28:36 AM
Wonderful explaination Rameshbhai.......Thank you

omsai srisai jayjay sai
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: snatarajan on October 06, 2005, 12:21:10 AM
Sai Ram,

Asusual,  great one from Ramesh Ji,

Sai Ram.
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Praveen P V S on October 06, 2005, 04:58:51 AM
Ramesh Bhai,

A cristal clear explanation to open my eyes.
I really liked this part. It makes a lot of sences.
"Prayer is not to ask anything from god -- rather it is to give.

Prayer is an offering of your being.

Prayer is losing yourself in the divine.

Prayer is not any verbal communication with god. Rather than saying or talking, it is more like listening. If god speaks, you are ready to listen
.
"

Thank you.
Thank you Baba.

I love you Baba.
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on October 06, 2005, 11:04:32 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

man mast hua tab kyon bole

WHERE IS THE NEED OF WORDS, WHEN LOVE HAS MADE DRUNKEN THE HEART?

I HAVE WRAPPED THE DIAMOND IN MY CLOAK; WHY OPEN IT AGAIN AND AGAIN?
 
WHEN ITS LOAD WAS LIGHT, THE PAN OF THE BALANCE WENT UP: NOW IT IS FULL, WHERE IS THE NEED FOR WEIGHING?

THE SWAN HAS TAKEN ITS FLIGHT TO THE LAKE BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS; WHY SHOULD IT SEARCH FOR THE POOLS AND DITCHES ANYMORE?

YOUR LORD DWELLS WITHIN YOU: WHY NEED YOUR OUTWARD EYES BE OPENED?

KABIR SAYS: "LISTEN, MY BROTHER! MY LORD, WHO RAVISHES MY EYES, HAS UNITED HIMSELF WITH ME."

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: SS91 on October 06, 2005, 11:09:59 AM
In prayer we show our total dependence on God who created all things

and us and by Whom all things continue to exist.

In prayer we give praise, honor, glory and reverence to His name for

His greatness and goodness.

We recognize Him as the source of all blessings.

It is also the outpouring of our hearts desire.

Our prayers should not be flowery and to impress other people,

because God will not be impressed with such.

subhasrini
OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI!!!
Let us pray at the feet of Sai Baba who is the incarnation of all gods and protector of all, to show mercy on us, and increase our devotion towards him.
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on October 06, 2005, 11:39:36 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

WHERE IS THE NEED OF WORDS, WHEN LOVE HAS MADE DRUNKEN THE HEART?

Kabir says, "Now there is nothing to say. I can only dance. I can sing, and my song will also be wild and mad, because I don't know logic anymore, I don't believe in words anymore. The language, the ordinary language, is not enough to hold what I am to express."

"WHERE IS THE NEED OF WORDS" -- now words are not needed; even silence will do -- will do better -- "WHEN LOVE HAS MADE DRUNKEN THE HEART?"

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on October 13, 2005, 11:25:54 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

When Buddha was dying, Ananda started crying and he said, "What will I do now? You are leaving and I have not yet become enlightened."

Buddha said, "Don't cry, because I cannot make you enlightened -- only you can do that miracle to yourself. Be a light unto yourself --APPA DEEPO BHAVA."

Buddha throws humanity into the interiormost core. Buddha says: Go within -- and there is nowhere else to go. YOU ARE THE SHRINE. Go within! And there is no other God anywhere to worship. The more you move inwards, the more a worshipping consciousness will arise -- without any object for worship; a prayer will arise, not addressed to anybody. A pure prayer... out of bliss, out of being, out of inner benediction.”

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on October 16, 2005, 10:52:07 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Ask my eyes to stop looking at you.....
Ask my mind to stop thinking about you...
Ask my imagination to stop dreaming about you..
Ask my hand to stop reaching you..
Ask my legs to stop walking towards you...
Ask my heart to stop beating..
Ask me everything..

Everything.....O' BABA SAI!

But please don't even stop me from loving you..

"If the only place where I could see you was in my dreams,
i'd sleep forever."                          

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on October 26, 2005, 02:32:20 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

 I Love You BABA SAI

- Thank You BABA SAI
- BABA SAI You are Inside Me
- BABA SAI Bless Me...
- BABA SAI I See You Everywhere
- BABA SAI Bless and I Love
- BABA SAI, Help Me Help You
 
Get Closer to BABA SAI.  Tap into HIS Power.

With Prayer Power...BABA SAI BLESS YOU ALL.....

OM SAI RAM!!!

Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on November 06, 2005, 04:05:55 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Lets open our eyes. A little effort towards prayer will be very helpful. And when I say prayer, I mean an openness towards MY BABA SAI. Not that you have to say something, not that you have to ask something, but just an openness, so that if He wants to give something, you are available. A deep expectation, but with no desire -- that's what you need. Urgent expectancy -- as if something is going to happen any moment. You are thrilled by the possibility of the unknown but you don't have any desire. You don't say that this should happen or that should not happen. Once you ask, prayer is corrupted.

When you don't ask, when you simply remain in silence but open, ready to go anywhere, ready even to die, when you are simply in a receptivity, a passive, welcoming spirit, then prayer happens.

Prayer is not something that one can do -- it has nothing to do with doing. It is not an action or an activity -- it is a state of mind.

So every night before you go to sleep, just sit in your bed. This is exactly the posture that your energy has taken.

In this posture, sit, close your eyes, and just wait for something unknown. If you wait for the known, then the mind functions, because the known means that which is already an experience; the known means the past. The known means that you want to repeat some thrill, some pleasure; it is a repetition. With the unknown, the mind is simply at a loss, because the unknown is simply out of the mind's grasp.

Where the unknown begins, God begins. And once the unknown has become known, it is no more God. It has become the mind.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 03, 2005, 09:10:59 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Once a young man approached Farid and Farid was taking his bath in the Ganges river, and the man asked him how he might find God. Baba Shaikh Farid took hold of him, led him into the water, and when they had gone deep enough, he forced him under the water. The young man nearly drowned before the holy man released him.

"Why did you do that?" he gulped incredulously.

"When you long for God as much as you wanted air while you were underwater," replied Baba Shaikh Farid, "you will find him."

The desire should become so intense that you put all that you have at the stake. The passion to seek should be so total that not a single doubt is allowed to make you waver. The very intensity will bring truth. It can happen in a single moment! -- just you need to become a total intensity of inner fire.

The decision should be total. It is arduous, of course, but everybody has to pass through that arduousness once. One has to pay for truth, and there is no other way to pay for it -- you have to put your whole being on the altar. That is the only sacrifice that is needed.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Dipika on December 03, 2005, 09:25:37 AM
When Baba Farid was a few years old his mother taught him his prayers. The boy asked her what was gained by prayer. His mother replied Sugar. Accordingly, she used to hide some sugar under his prayer-carpet, and, when he had finished his prayers, draw it forth, and give it to him as a reward of his devotion. One day his mother forgot to put the sugar but after prayers, there was sugar under the carpet. From that day on, Bibi Miriam started calling his son Shakar Ganj, or the treasury of Sugar.

http://www.punjabilok.com/faith/sufi_bhakti/sheikh_farid.htm

Sai baba let your holy lotus feet be our sole refuge.OMSAIRAM

dipika duggal
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 17, 2005, 08:20:11 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

When you don't say anything, it is always heard. When you speak, it is never heard.

Words never reach God because they are not His language. His language is silence, utter silence. So in that utter silence lose all control, because control is of the mind. The control is of the ego and if ego is there, you are not in prayer.

If you are there, you are not in prayer. When you are not, prayer is. That's why I call it a state, not an activity.

So every night for at least fifteen to twenty minutes, just sit this way, put the light off -- darkness is beautiful. Just wait with great expectation, with throbbing expectation. Any moment something of tremendous value is going to happen but what it is you don't know, nobody knows.

And then if the body starts moving, allow it. Go wholeheartedly with it, the whole way.

Within three, four days, things will start happening, and by the third week you will be in a whirlpool of unknown energy. And when you see that the contact has happened, don't do it for more than twenty minutes, because in the beginning it can be too much. The voltage can be too much, can be disruptive. So not more than twenty minutes -- and then go to sleep.

Go into sleep in that very state of prayer. Just fall asleep and the energy will be there. You will be flowing with it, falling into sleep. That will help very greatly because then the energy will surround you the whole night and it will continue to work. By the morning you will feel more fresh than you have ever felt before, more vital than you have ever felt before. A new elan, a new life will start penetrating you, and the whole day you will feel full of new energy; a new vibe, a new song in your heart, and a new dance in your step.

So this is to be done while you are there -- then come back. This prayer will prepare you.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 28, 2005, 07:42:45 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

You will have to understand something very subtle. People think a prayer is significant only if there is somebody to listen to the prayer, that is not right. The prayer is significant because you pray, it doesn't matter whether there is anybody to hear it or not. The prayer does not change God, the prayer changes you. The prayer changes the one who is praying, not the one prayed to.

When you pray you become humble. When you pray you become surrendered. When you pray you accept your AGNOSIA. You say, "I don't know where to go, how to find you. I don't know from where to start. Please guide me." Not that there is a God to guide you, not that somebody is going to come and guide you, not that somebody is going to fulfill your prayer, but just the capacity to pray is enough; it will help you. The capacity to bow down to existence is enough: you lose the egoistic stiffness. The prayer helps you to relax. the prayer gives you an opportunity to let go.

And in that let-go you start moving towards the right direction without anybody guiding you. It is the state of let-go that helps you to find the right direction -- because when you are not tense you are always moving towards the right direction. And whenever you are tense, even if you are moving in the right direction, the direction is not going to prove right because you are not right. The question is not of direction; the question is of YOUR being right or wrong.

When you are relaxed, at ease, at home, trusting existence, loving existence, nothing can ever go wrong. That's the purpose of prayer. It is not a demand. It is not that you have to shout it so that God can hear it.

A great Indian mystic, Kabir, was passing by the side of a mosque, and the MAULVI, the priest of the mosque, was doing his morning prayer, shouting.

Kabir went in, shook the man and told him, "What are you doing? Do you think your God has gone deaf? Why are you shouting? Just whisper, that will do! In fact, there is no need even to whisper -- just the attitude is enough."

Prayer is an attitude. Prayer is not something to be done; rather, it is a quality. Call it prayerfulness and you will be closer to the truth. Prayer means prayerfulness.

OM SAI RAM!!!

Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 29, 2005, 05:41:18 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Love is prayer. Those who pray without love, their prayers are empty, hollow of meaning. Their prayers are without wings. Their prayers will never reach to God. Only when love throbs at the heart inside the prayer is it alive, significant, and has it the energy to reach to God. It reaches instantly, no time gap is needed; in fact it reaches before you have said it.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: kripakarosai on January 01, 2006, 01:25:32 AM
Ramesh Ji...I just do not have words to appreciate the beautiful thoughts you have posted.
Such divine and crystal clear state of mind and understanding the self and thee is only possible when one is blessed.
May Baba always continue to shower his blessings on you and you always continue to spread his warmth of love and guide us towards him.

om sai sri sai jay jay sai

rajesh
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 04, 2006, 04:26:16 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Prartho means prayer. The word "prayer" comes from the same root as Prartho -- a blissful prayer. And that is the most incredible thing that can happen in life to a man. Even love is not that far out; even love falls short, even love remains human.

Prayer is a flight into the divine. It is love evaporating into the divine. It is love going beyond the gravitation of the earth. It is the most mysterious experience of life -- indefinable, elusive, but experienceable. One cannot do prayer, it is not an action; one can only be in prayer, it is a state of being. If one is doing prayer one is simply moving through empty gestures, one is following a ritual; and all rituals are dead; and no ritual is capable of containing the aliveness of prayer. It is so alive that it escapes all confinements, all limitations.

Prayer is not intellectual, verbal. It is a silent bowing down of the being, silent gratitude in the heart. But the silent part is the most essential part of it. The moment you say it, you have profaned it; the moment you say it you have gone astray. Bring words in and the prayer goes out: it is a wordless experience -- because with the words comes the mind, the intellect, and prayer has nothing to do with intellect at all; it is utterly non-intellectual.

Prayer is neither intellectual nor emotional. Prayer is a transcendence of all duality. It is a state of witnessing, of becoming aware -- nothing to say, nothing to do, but just to be.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Shammi on January 04, 2006, 06:17:44 AM

Bhai Jaan- Just beautiful beyond words and explaination !!!



Bow to Sri Sai - Raksha Karo Deva !!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 05, 2006, 04:23:11 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Your love energy is prayer. Religions, organized churches/mandirs, have destroyed it. They have given you readymade prayers. Prayer is a spontaneous feeling.

Let your prayer be a spontaneous phenomenon. If even your prayer cannot be spontaneous, then what will be? If even with God you have to be readymade then where will you be authentic and true and natural?

Say things that you would like to say. Talk to him as you would talk to a wise friend. But don't bring formalities in. A formal relationship is not a relationship at all. And you have become formal with God also. You miss all spontaneousness.

Bring love into prayer. Then you can talk! It is a beautiful thing -- a dialogue with the universe.

Spontaneousness is thought to be madness. Formalities are thought to be sanity. Just the opposite is the reality. When you go into a temple and you simply repeat some crammed prayer you are simply foolish. Have a heart-to-heart talk! And prayer is beautiful. You will start flowering through it. Prayer is to be in love -- to be in love with the whole. And sometimes you get angry with the whole and you don't talk; thats? beautiful. And you say: I will not talk, enough is enough, and you have not been listening to me! A beautiful gesture. Not dead. And sometimes you drop praying completely, because you go on praying and God is not listening.

It is a relationship with deep involvement in it. You get angry. Sometimes you feel very good, feel thankful, grateful; sometimes you feel put off; but let it be a LIVING relationship; then prayer is true.

If you just go on like a gramophone and repeat the same thing every day, you are not doing any prayer, it is not prayer.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 06, 2006, 11:32:14 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

PRAYER IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE. Prayer is not something that can be thought either. Prayer is a state of silent being, of utter silence. One simply is... then one is in prayer. If you do prayer, you miss the whole point. Doing remains on the circumference; doing cannot enter to the center of your being.

If you are saying your prayer, you again miss -- because in saying it you are thinking of yourself as separate from God, you are relating to God as if he is separate from you. And that is the basic illusion: God is not separate from you.
 
Hence, prayer cannot be a dialogue between I and thou. I is thou -- there is no possibility of any dialogue. The moment you say your prayer, you have accepted a hypothesis which is basically wrong -- that God is there, far away from you, separate. You have reduced God to an object. And God is your very subjectivity, he is your very center.

The Upanishads say, "TAT-TVAM-ASI: thou art that."

The only way to be in prayer is to be in utter silence. In that silence there is an overflowing of gratitude, but it is not verbalized. There is a tremendous thankfulness, but it is not said, it is not spoken. There is great love, but it is a pure presence.

No-mind is the ultimate prayer. And it is the state of no-mind where prayer and meditation meet. Meditation takes you to the no-mind, prayer takes you to the no-mind. No-mind is the peak where the path of the mind and the path of the heart meet.

The path of the lover, the devotee, goes directly through the heart. It simply works on the feelings. Feelings are silent, non-verbal -- you cannot communicate, you can only commune.
 
But from both the ways you reach the shrine of no-mind. It is the ultimate in prayer and it is the ultimate in meditation.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 11, 2006, 03:15:30 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Prayer should be a lived experience, a heart-to-heart dialogue. And soon, if it is hearty, you will feel that not only are you talking, but the response is there. Then prayer has come into its own, come of age. When you feel the response, that not only you are talking -- if it is a monologue it is still not prayer -- it becomes a dialogue, you not only speak, you listen.

And I tell you the whole existence is ready to respond. Once your heart is open the whole responds.

There is nothing like prayer. No love can be as beautiful as prayer.

But then there is the fourth stage which I call meditation. There dialogue also ceases. Then you have a dialogue in silence. Words drop, because when the heart is really full you cannot speak. When the heart is too overflowing only silence can be the medium. Then there is no other. You are one with the universe. You neither say anything nor listen to anything. You ARE with the one, with the universe, with the whole. A oneness. This is meditation.

If love happens, fear will disappear from the mind. You will have a life of freedom, at ease, at-homeness. No fear will come, no nightmares.

If the prayer happens then fear completely disappears, because with prayer you become one -- you start feeling a deep relationship with the whole. From the spirit, fear disappears; the fear of death disappears when you pray -- never before it.

And when you meditate even fearlessness disappears. Fear disappears, fearlessness disappears. Nothing remains. Or. only the nothing remains. A vast purity; virginity; innocence.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 12, 2006, 05:48:46 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Bliss is not a result of prayer, it is not a reward: it is prayer itself. It is not that prayerful people become blissful; just the contrary: blissful people are prayerful.

There is no question of becoming; bliss and prayer are synonymous. And once this is understood then the whole of life can be a prayer. If this is not understood then prayer remains a ritual and never becomes your whole life, and unless prayer becomes your whole life, your totality, it cannot transform you. It remains a duty, a formality, a good ritual -- healthy in itself, but it takes you nowhere.
 
I consider my BABA SAI's whole teaching as that if a person remains blissful in ordinary day-to-day life, doing small things but blissfully, then prayer is spread all over his life. Then eating he is prayerfully eating because he is blissfully eating. Then walking he is prayerfully walking because he is blissfully walking. Then breathing, he is prayerfully breathing because he is blissfully breathing.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 13, 2006, 10:12:11 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

If you really know what prayer is then prayer itself is its own reward. There is nobody else to reward you; the reward is not there in the future, not in the after-life. But praying itself is such a beautiful phenomenon that who cares about the future and who bothers about the reward? That is greed, the idea of reward. Prayer in itself is such a celebration, it brings such great joy and ecstasy, that one prays for the prayer's sake. One does not pray out of fear and one does not pray out of greed; one prays because one enjoys it. One does not even bother whether there is a God or not.

If you enjoy dancing you don't ask whether there is a God or not. If you enjoy dancing, you simply dance! Whether anybody sees the dance from the sky or not is not your concern. Whether the stars and the sun and the moon are going to reward you for your dance, you don't care. The dance is enough of a reward in itself. If you love singing you sing; whether anybody listens or not is not the point.

So is prayer. It is a dance, it is a song, it is music, it is love. You enjoy it, and there it is finished. Prayer is the means and prayer is the end; the ends and the means are not separate. Only then do you know what prayer is. And prayer is far more important than God.

Patanjali says: God is only an excuse to pray. It is like a peg on the wall to hang your coat on.

If the peg is not there you can hang your coat somewhere else. You can hang it on the door, on the window, anywhere. Patanjali has great insight when he says that God is just a peg: God has been invented because otherwise it will be difficult for you to pray.

Ordinarily you think prayer is a means to reach God; Patanjali says God is only a means so that you can pray. But it is only for the beginners -- to help them.

According to Patanjali, one of the greatest masters of the world, God is a device -- a device to help you to pray.

Once you have learned to pray, forget all about God; prayer itself is enough, more than enough.

Prayer means surrender. Prayer means bowing down to existence. Prayer means gratitude.

Prayer means thankfulness. Prayer means silence. Prayer means that "I am happy that I am." Prayer simply means that "This tremendous gift of life is so much for such an unworthy man like me. I don't deserve it, yet the unknown has showered it on me." Seeing it, gratitude arises.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 14, 2006, 08:41:54 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

I will say just start sitting in front of HIM, close your eyes, and just wait for something unknown. If you wait for the known, then the mind functions, because the known means that which is already an experience; the known means the past. The known means that you want to repeat some thrill, some pleasure; it is a repetition. With the unknown, the mind is simply at a loss, because the unknown is simply out of the mind's grasp.

Where the unknown begins, God begins. And once the unknown has become known, it is no more God. It has become the mind.

So one has to go on leaving the mind and moving into the unknown again and again. It is an eternal journey. So simply sit, wait for the unknown, and if something starts happening in your body energy, allow it. After a few days you will see tremendous happenings. You will not be able to believe what is happening. Don't get scared, don't be scared... allow it. You may feel jolts of energy, shocks of energy shaking your very foundation. You will feel a great trembling arising in you, a great shaking. And it will be coming from nowhere. You will see that you are not doing it. You will be able to see absolutely that you are not in your own control. Something has come and possessed you, something has descended upon you -- you are no more yourself. A greater self has come in contact.

So don't get scared at that moment. If you get scared, the contact is again broken.
Not only that, if you get scared the contact will become more and more difficult to make again, because the fear will stand there. When the contact happens, the fear will come and you will be cut off; fear separates, cuts off.

So when this happens, be loving. These are the only two real emotions -- fear and love. If you don't love, you will be in fear. If you are in fear, you cannot love. If you love, fear is impossible. So when this is happening, love it. Pour your energy lovingly. Feel happy that a gift has descended upon you, that there is grace around you, that BABA SAI has listened to you, that your prayer has been heard. You have not said anything, but it has been heard.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: saivenkat_r on January 14, 2006, 09:11:19 AM
OM SAI RAM

Dear Ramesh Ji,

Your messages are all Good.

OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI  OM SAI SRI JAYA JAYA SAI

Venkat
(Venkatasubramanian)
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 15, 2006, 03:47:50 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Only those prayers reach to HIM 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.

God is absolutely deaf to the prayers which demand, but God is absolutely open to the prayers which have no demand.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 17, 2006, 11:35:14 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Nothing happens by too much worship! Too much worship means that you do not know how to worship. Too much worship means that you are repeating dead rituals, otherwise it is sufficient to speak the name of the divine even once. And every day you are sitting with the rosary repeating "Sai Ram, Sai Ram." When will your life be full of Sai Ram? How many times are you going to repeat " Sai Ram"?

There are some people who keep an account of the number of their chants. They say, "I have chanted this mantra ten million times." But if nothing has happened by chanting once, then what is going to happen by chanting ten million times? Try to understand this.

A mantra is not mathematics. A mantra is not quantitative, it is qualitative. If anything is to happen it will happen the very first time. If it is not to happen then, it will not happen even if you go on repeating it ten million times. If you have repeated it wrongly the first time, you will do it more so the second time, the third time even more so, and this will go on. You can repeat it a million times or ten million times, it makes no difference.

It is a question of calling properly; then one call of the heart is enough, then even one call becomes a revolution. The divine is not deaf. He does not want your flattery. Is he going to listen only when you say it repeatedly? He can hear without your saying it but it should be from your heart. He will never hear if you go on repeating it in your mind, because the divine is not related with your thinking, the divine is related only with your prayer of the heart.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 18, 2006, 10:40:07 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

I have heard that it had not rained in a village for many years, so the whole of the village had gathered in the temple to pray.

A small child was also going to the temple to pray. Everyone was laughing at him on the way. Even the priest said, "You stupid! Why are you carrying that umbrella with you? It has not rained for many years, that is why we are going to pray."

That child had brought an umbrella. Thousands of people had gathered to pray but none of them had brought an umbrella. The child said, "I have brought the umbrella because when we pray it will certainly rain and I will need it on my way back."

People just laughed, they said, "He is mad."

Can the prayer of such people be answered? Only this child's prayer could be answered. He had deep trust; he had no doubt in the prayer; his prayer was full of deep trust. But the older people put doubt in the mind of the child.

They said, "Go home and put this umbrella away. It does not rain in this way." They are going to pray, but do not have the confidence that it will rain by praying. Then why pray at all?

It is better to be an atheist and be honest about it. What is the use of being a theist if you are dishonest? You have prayed many times but did you believe that it would be answered? When it is not answered, you say that you knew beforehand that the prayer would not be answered. You have knocked on the doors of the temple many times, but have you done so wholeheartedly? With full trust? Or did you go with doubt?

If you went with doubt then you should not have gone at all -- that would have been honest.

By going, whom did you deceive? By going you have harmed yourself. Your prayer was unanswered. If your prayer is unanswered again and again then you lose your self-confidence; then you pray from your lips and not from your heart.

AND HAS WORSHIPPED GOD EVEN A LITTLE -- yes, a little is enough. You must understand that it is not on quantity -- how much you have worshipped -- but on quality: How you have done it.

People are very calculating in life. Even their prayer is calculating and clever; they cannot be simple even while praying. If we get an opportunity we can pick God's pocket!

Perhaps that is why HE hides himself and is afraid to face us! Innocence in itself is a prayer.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 19, 2006, 06:32:58 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

When you have looked into existence through one person -- your beloved, your husband, your wife, your friend, your child, your brother, your sister, your Master, if you have looked into one person and you have seen infinity, if you looked into one person's window and the whole sky of infinity opened, now you know that love can move higher -- it can become prayer.

Prayer is meeting of spirit with spirit. Love is vaster, but still limited to a person. Prayer is unlimited. Then you know that you can move from every person to the infinite. Then every person becomes a jumping-board. You look into the eyes of your child -- and God is there. You look into the eyes of your beloved, and suddenly the beloved has disappeared, she is no more there, he is no more there -- God is smiling. You look into the flower and the whole has entered there. This is prayer.

In love the mind disappears but the spirit remains.

In prayer the spirit also disappear but the other, the God, remains but ultimately even God will disappears. Nothing remains -- or only nothing remain.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 23, 2006, 10:34:16 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: sailaja on January 24, 2006, 02:49:33 AM
OM SRI SAINATHAYA
 DEAR RAMESH BHAI, THANK YOU FOR SHARING ALL TOPICS HERE. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS MY HAPPINES IN WORDS.YOUR POSTS ALL ARE SO NICE.
MAY BABA BLESS YOU ALLWAYS.
OM SAI SRI SAI NAMO NAMO SAI.
 OM SRI SACHIDANANDA SATHGURU SAINATH MAHA RAJ KI JAI. THANK YOU BABA.
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 25, 2006, 04:49:03 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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.  

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 29, 2006, 02:43:12 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 05, 2006, 05:07:31 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 22, 2006, 12:11:54 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 01, 2006, 04:20:30 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: OmSaiRamNowOn on May 05, 2006, 03:45:40 PM
Jai Sai Ram.

http://www.radiosai.org/Journals/01AUG31/Medicine/Prayer.htm

Om Sai Ram.


OM SAI RAM !
OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI !!

-Anju
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 17, 2006, 12:40:30 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: sailaja on May 19, 2006, 02:01:27 AM
om sri sainathaaya.
WELL SAID RAMESH BHAYA,PRAYERS SHOULD BE WEIGHT LESS.
MAY BABA SAI BLESS&HELP YOU.
JAI SAI RAM...
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on September 24, 2006, 10:59:35 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on November 05, 2006, 09:37:19 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on November 06, 2006, 08:22:45 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on November 10, 2006, 03:40:07 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on November 15, 2006, 09:59:56 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!  
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on November 20, 2006, 09:53:43 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

I don't ask you to be prayerful -- prayer comes on its own when one is loving; and I don't ask you to go into a temple, because those are just outer things. The inner temple consists of love. And I don't ask you to think of BABA SAI. Only contemplate love and by and by you will see that BABA SAI is becoming more and more visible to you. It is through love that we reach BABA; there is no other way.

The english word 'religion' is not as good as 'dharma', because religion gives the feel of a doctrine, a dogma, scripture, theology. Dharma exactly means 'the way'; it does not give the idea of a dogma. Religion means Christianity, Islam, Hinduism; dharma does not mean, cannot mean, Islam, cannot mean Christianity, cannot mean Hinduism. Dharma means the essential of all religions, the very essence of religion... just the fragrance of all the religions, the core of it.

And if you want to know the core of religion, there is no other way to know it except through love. Love is the bridge between the human and the divine. The moment you are totally in love you are no more here. You are no more part of the world of things -- you are raised high; you move into another dimension, you are transported.

When you fall from love you are again in the world of things. When you rise in love you are in the world of persons; that is the revolution.

When you are in this world without love you live among things; even persons are like things then. Your wife is a thing, your friend is a thing; you use them. But when you rise in love even things are no more things. Even the chair has a personality, even the pillar is no more just a thing. You cannot neglect it, you cannot ignore it.
Then the whole existence is full of personality... throbbing with it. Everything has a soul because everything deep down exists in BABA, everything participates in BABA SAI. How can it be otherwise? Everything partakes of BABA. In that very partaking it becomes a person.

Let this be the meaning of your life too. It needs only a little alertness and things start changing.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: asha nair on January 21, 2007, 11:57:32 AM
OM SAI RAM


Life is lifeless without love...

Baba...bless us to love and respect each n every soul in this universe!

Thanks so much brother, for this wonderful message!!

om sai sri sai jaya jaya sai!!

asha
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 21, 2007, 03:11:00 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

People in love suddenly become beautiful. People in love suddenly start functioning in a totally different way than they have ever functioned. Their eyes have a shine of their own, their faces have a grace, their behaviour is no more the same. They are not really the same person.

A person not in love is a different person than the person when he is in love. There is a discontinuity; something of tremendous significance has happened inside. And love penetrates all the layers of your being. It changes your body chemistry, it changes your psyche, it changes your being, and these are the three layers. It starts with the physical but it should not stop there, it has to move to the psychological. And it should not stop even there, because it has to penetrate into being.

On the physical plane love expresses itself as sensuality. On the psychic plane it becomes love and on the spiritual plane it becomes Prayer, but all these are a continuum. It is the same phenomenon growing, it is the same phenomenon reaching new heights, new planes, new plenitudes; and life really becomes full of an unknown sweetness. The heart is able to sing and the body is able to dance and the being is full of gratitude. The moment of love is the most Precious moment in existence, and it is through that moment that one slips into eternity.

So remember: love is the highest religion, the highest truth.

All else that pretends to be religious and pretends to be true is nothing but man's imagination. Only love is natural -- the natural way to BABA SAI!

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 28, 2007, 12:43:47 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

A true Devotee selflessly prays daily for all to prosper and be happy. This gesture comes from the pure teaching of the SaiSatCharitra. For him there is no "others". There is only Oneness. The same One BABA SAI resides within all. We are all the children of that One BABA SAI. As the potter makes pots of different forms and names from the same one clay, and as the goldsmith molds jewelry of various names and shapes from the same one gold, similarly, we are all born of the same One Light. There is no difference. Accordingly, the real BABA SAI's devotee begs for good for all beings. Because he knows within that HE is one with the rest. If he does not than he is not a real BABA's Devotee. This all-inclusive SSC's teaching is so wonderful, so Divine!

When one prays for all, then the entire universe prays for HIM! Like all beads are strung on one thread, and all waves are formed from the same one water, so are we all strung on the same One Awareness. Therefore, we are inseparable like the whiteness of the snow, oil in the seed, fragrance in the flower, heat in the fire, liquidity of the water, blackness in the collyrium, light in the bulb, waves in the ocean, gold in the bracelet, clay in the pot, and rays in the sun. This is why our lives are interwoven with the thread of Divine Love. BABA SAI is Love. It is this Divine Love that brings harmony between souls. As such, the influence of our daily actions and behavior spreads in ever-widening circles. As our lives are interwoven, we can each draw the needed strength from all-pervading BABA's Divine Presence within to help each other.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 29, 2007, 01:09:55 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Prayerful Consciousness Means End of Prayer....

Often one comes across people who, even as they sit at prayer, are constantly interspersing it with household instruction — to the spouse, children or staff. Others attend to phone calls even as they pray. Some try to pray during bath time to save time before leaving for work. They would probably argue that they cannot help this: it is part of the pressures of modern life. However, if something is worth doing, it is worth doing well. This dictum applies to prayer more than to any other everyday activity.

   Kabir ridicules the practice of such multitasking: “Mechanical fingers turn the beads; the tongue rolls inside the mouth; the fickle mind wanders all over: Oh! this isn’t simran — not at all!’ Our problem arises because of an unclear understanding of the function of prayer. Prayer, as Kabir indicates, is simran, meaning communion, or a simulation of it. The Srimad Bhagavatam supports this view: “Religion is not for the purpose of securing a place in heaven. It is an inquiry into Truth, and its ideal is the knowledge and the realisation of Truth”.

   Simran is the process of self-identification, of recognising the essential unity, nondifferentiation, self-expansion. This is not an intellectual idea that once grasped, sticks for ever. It is a matter of spiritual activation that is ideally done everyday, preferably at appointed hours. Hindu tradition recommends prayer at the three sandhyas or transitional hours when night shifts into day, when day turns past noon, and when evening fuses into night. Islam identifies five times for prayer. Such prayer is essentially meditation. It detoxifies the mind and sharpens memory and thought. Time spent on prayer pays back manifold during the day through enhanced efficiency at work.

   To reduce prayer to a session of pleading your wants before God is to corrupt it, even though it is possible that things you ask for during prayer often get answered. Making prayer into a thanksgiving session is better. The best, however, is to keep it as a session of reaffirmation of your bond with the One, the All. This is the same as making it a session of humility and surrender.

   Since prayer is essentially meditation and a session of spiritual activation, it cannot form part of multitasking. The necessary focus is upset by any attempt to mix prayer with other chores. The activation fails. Prayer time should be exclusive. As tradition says, you should first complete your ablutions, sit down comfortably in a neat place, relax your body and mind, close your eyes and allow your spirit to activate.

   Having said all this, the reverse truth must also be stated. The purpose of the practice of daily activation of the spirit is to so cultivate it as to render further daily activation unnecessary. This is the essence of sanyasa: where your mind is fixed in the One at all times, waking or sleeping, working or idle. Meditation then is not an activity that you ‘do’ at appointed hours; it transforms into a state of creative consciousness you are permanently established in. You may do anything, or you may not do anything; nothing that you do or choose not to do can disable your active spirit. Multitasking is not only possible then, it becomes a normal way of life. Such a person is then a nityabhiyukta, one who is always praying. According to Narada, this is the true state of bhakti.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 14, 2007, 10:12:01 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Prayer is the highest form of love. If love is the flower, then prayer is the fragrance. Love is visible, prayer is invisible. Love is between one person and another person, prayer is between one impersonal presence and the impersonal presence of the whole. Love is limited, prayer is unlimited.

If you can pray, no other therapy is needed.

Therapies are needed in the world because prayer has disappeared. Man was never in need of therapy when prayer was alive, flowing, when people were dancing in great gratitude, singing songs in praise of God, were ecstatic just for being, for being here, were grateful just for life.

When tears were flowing from their eyes -- of love, of joy -- and when there were songs in their hearts, there was no need for therapy.

Therapy is a modern need, a poor substitute for prayer. Psychoanalysis is a poor substitute for religion, very poor. But when you cannot get the best, then you settle for second-best or the third-best, or whatsoever is available. Because temples have become rotten, churches have become political, religion has been contaminated by the priests, man is left alone, uncared for, with nobody to support him. The very ground on which he has been standing for centuries has disappeared. He is falling in an abyss, feeling uprooted. Psychoanalysis comes as a substitute: it gives you a little bit of rooting, it gives you a little bit of ground to hold onto, but it is nothing compared to prayer. Because the psychoanalyst himself is in need, he himself is as ill as the patient, there is not much difference between the psychoanalyst and the patient. If there is any difference, that difference is of knowledge -- and that makes no difference at all. It is not a difference of being. If there is any difference it is quantitative, it is not that of quality, and quantity does not make much difference. The psychoanalyst and his patient are both in the same boat.

In the o]d days there was a different kind of person moving in the world, the religious person -- the Buddha, the Christ.

You simply bow down out of gratitude. There is no object in your bowing: you simply bow down because... to see such infinite joy showering on you for no reason at all... and you are not worthy! You don't deserve it! You have never earned it! How can you remain without giving a heartful thank-you to existence?

Your head bows down, you surrender. You lie down on the earth in utter silence, your heart throbbing, pulsating with ecstasy. Your breathing has a different rhythm to it, a different melody to it. Your whole energy is dancing, streaming. You have fallen in harmony with existence. This is what I call prayer -- not that which is going on in the churches and the temples: that is parrot-like, it is formal. It has nothing to do with real prayer. And this prayer heals, this prayer is real therapy.

Everyone can be healed by prayer. Therapy has not helped anybody. At the most, therapy can make you adjusted to the society. Prayer helps you to fall in tune with existence itself. Society is man-made, its values are man-made, hence they are different everywhere. In India there are different values, in the West there are different values. Something that is perfectly okay in the West is absolutely wrong in the East, and vice versa. These values are man-created.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on April 14, 2007, 02:35:54 PM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

1. 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.

2 .Prayer is the highest form of love. If love is the flower, then prayer is the fragrance. Love is visible, prayer is invisible. Love is between one person and another person, prayer is between one impersonal presence and the impersonal presence of the whole. Love is limited, prayer is unlimited.

If you can pray, no other therapy is needed.

Therapies are needed in the world because prayer has disappeared. Man was never in need of therapy when prayer was alive, flowing, when people were dancing in great gratitude, singing songs in praise of God, were ecstatic just for being, for being here, were grateful just for life.

When tears were flowing from their eyes -- of love, of joy -- and when there were songs in their hearts, there was no need for therapy.


3.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 !!!!!!!!

4.  A true Devotee selflessly prays daily for all to prosper and be happy. This gesture comes from the pure teaching of the SaiSatCharitra. For him there is no "others". There is only Oneness.

OM SAI RAM!!!

om sai ram...

ramesh bhai....

really.....no words....its wonderful....

DON'T PRAY TO ESCAPE TROUBLE,
DON'T PRAY TO BE COMFORTABLE IN YOUR EMOTIONS.

PRAY TO DO THE WILL OF GOD IN EVERY SITUTATION.
NOTHING ELSE IS WORTH PRAYING FOR....


jai sai ram...
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 20, 2007, 08:49:46 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

When you pray, you try to express your thoughts and emotions to the Supreme Being - in words and in gratitude. You try to seek that which only the Divine can grant. You pray for yourself and for those whom you want should receive the bounty of God's grace and healing.

When the Divine has answered the prayer, you express gratitude for all the blessings and grace the Divine has showered upon you. You impregnate your mind with thoughts of light and gratitude to the Universal Intelligence for this gift that is yours.

What prayer should be: The basis of all prayer should fundamentally be gratitude. Starting with the actual blessings of your life. Focus on the good you have endeavoured to do, the love and comfort you have tried to give, and be grateful for your own ability and efforts to help others, every day in your continual prayer.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 24, 2007, 10:41:40 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

श्री कृष्ण गोविँद हरे मुरारे, हे नाथ नारायण वासुदेवा

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on June 03, 2007, 09:41:26 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

One is the way of conflict, the other is the way of surrender. In conflict you feel that your will is different from the will of the whole. In surrender you feel that you are a part of the whole, with no question of your will being different or apart. If you are aloof and apart, conflict is natural and inevitable. If you are one with the whole, surrender is natural. Conflict brings tension, restlessness, worry, and anxiety. Surrender brings emptiness, peace, joy and finally the supreme knowledge.

The ego thrives on conflict and is destroyed in surrender. The worldly man is always in conflict; the religious man has given up all struggles and surrendered himself. Religion has nothing to do with your going to a church or a mosque or a Sikh temple. If your tendency is to fight, if you are struggling even with God, if you are trying to enforce your own will -- albeit through prayer or worship -- you are irreligious.

When you have no desire of your own, then His wish is your wish; if you have no separate goal of your own, wherever He takes you is your destination. When you are ready to move as He pleases, when you have no expectations of your own, when you make no decisions, then you cease swimming and begin to float.

Have you watched a hawk soaring high in the sky? When it has flown to a sufficient height, it stretches its wings wide and floats in the air.

When your mind reaches that stage it is in a state of surrender. You need no longer flap your wings, you merely float, weightless in His atmosphere. For all weight is caused by conflict; it is born through resistance. The more you fight the lower you fall. The more you abandon the fight, the lighter you become; and the lighter you are, the higher you soar. If you leave all conflict completely, you reach God's heights, which signifies being free of all burden, weightless. Ego is like a stone tied round your neck; the more you fight, the heavier it becomes.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on October 08, 2007, 03:16:20 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

As Long As...

As long as there's a breath
left in your body,
there's hope.

As long as mankind
has prowled the earth,
miracles have happened,
restoring life and health.

As long as you have
a loving heart,
BABA will send much
warmth and love
to you in return.

As long as you've been alive,
BABA has been watching over you
and answering your prayers.

As long as the heaven
and stars exist,
BABA SAI will be there
for you.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on October 10, 2007, 12:48:34 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Counting my blessings from BABA SAI is a pleasure
Many have become my greatest treasure
BABA's blessings are special, you see
And each one brings peace to me.

BABA sends new blessings each day
HIS blessings are received in mysterious ways
Every joyful blessing HE gives is free
And I pray my eyes be open that I may see.

All blessings from BABA are everlasting
They cover the world in every place
Every blessing speaks of HIS mercy
And HE sends them with loving grace.

BABA's blessings of love HE does bestow
Only HE knows what our future will be
HIS blessings will continue we know
Because BABA loves You All and Me.
 
"May BABA SAI be merciful unto You All and may HIS blessings bring peace"

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on October 10, 2007, 01:30:18 AM
Om Sai Ram~~~

"Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire,
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?

Be thankful when you don't know something,
For it gives you the opportunity to learn."

"Be thankful for your mistakes.
They will teach you valuable lessons.

Be thankful when you're tired and weary,
Because it means you've made a difference."


Jai Sai Ram~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on October 28, 2007, 07:58:27 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

In these days ...
of uncertainty...
and fear...
It is comforting ...
to know YOU are always near...
YOU are ever listening for my call,
And YOU are there ...
to catch me if I should fall...
 
When the whole world seems...
to be falling apart...
YOU are right here in my heart...
YOU promised ...
to be with me to the end...
BABA SAI, YOU truly are My Best Friend!

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Kavitaparna on October 29, 2007, 07:02:56 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

In these days ...
of uncertainty...
and fear...
It is comforting ...
to know YOU are always near...
YOU are ever listening for my call,
And YOU are there ...
to catch me if I should fall...
 
When the whole world seems...
to be falling apart...
YOU are right here in my heart...
YOU promised ...
to be with me to the end...
BABA SAI, YOU truly are My Best Friend!

OM SAI RAM!!!


OM SRI SAI RAM

TUMHI  HI MERE MANZIL
TUMHI  HI MERE POOJA
TUMHI  HI DEVTA HO
TUMHI  HI DEVTA HO


DAYA KRUPA KSHAMA RAKSHA KARO MERE PRABHU SAI NATH!

JAI SRI SAI RAM
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on November 02, 2007, 07:30:16 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

'तेरी' आँखें  

ये बादल और कुछ नही,  'तेरी' आँखों के काजल हैं,
ये बिजली और कुछ नही,  'तेरे' आने की आहट है,
ये मौसम और कुछ नही,  'तेरे' आंचल की खुशबू है,
इस दिल में और कुछ नही,  'तुझे' पाने की चाहत है,

खुदा करे मोहब्बत में,
ये मुकाम आये,
कि किसी का नाम लूँ ज़ुबान पर,
तो सिर्फ बाबा 'तेरा' ही नाम आये।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on November 14, 2007, 06:39:15 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

'तेरी' आँखें  

Offering yourself to BABA SAI is what worship is all about…

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 01, 2007, 07:47:03 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

बाबा! यार लोग नाराज़ होते हैं
कि तुम्हें पूज़ता हूँ मैं
मैं तो कुछ नहीं कह्ता
ज़ब वे पत्थर पूजते हैं।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 16, 2007, 10:29:19 PM
जय सांई राम।।।

'तेरी' आँखें  

जागृति, स्वप्न, सुषुप्ति में रहे आपका ध्यान...
सांई तुम सा ना कोई, जग में और महान...
घट-घट व्याप्त बसे जड़-चेतन...
तेरे रूप अनेक...
दिया विश्व को महामन्त्र यह...
सबका मालिक एक...

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 21, 2007, 06:02:40 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Prayer is the highest form of love. If love is the flower, then prayer is the fragrance. Love is visible, prayer is invisible. Love is between one person and another person, prayer is between one impersonal presence and the impersonal presence of the whole. Love is limited, prayer is unlimited.

If you can pray, no other therapy is needed.

Therapies are needed in the world because prayer has disappeared. Man was never in need of therapy when prayer was alive, flowing, when people were dancing in great gratitude, singing songs in praise of God, were ecstatic just for being, for being here, were grateful just for life.

When tears were flowing from their eyes -- of love, of joy -- and when there were songs in their hearts, there was no need for therapy.

In the old days there was a different kind of person moving in the world, the religious person -- the Buddha, the Christ.

You simply bow down out of gratitude. There is no object in your bowing: you simply bow down because... to see such infinite joy showering on you for no reason at all... and you are not worthy! You don't deserve it! You have never earned it! How can you remain without giving a heartful thank-you to existence?

Your head bows down, you surrender. You lie down on the earth in utter silence, your heart throbbing, pulsating with ecstasy. Your breathing has a different rhythm to it, a different melody to it. Your whole energy is dancing, streaming. You have fallen in harmony with existence. This is what prayer is -- not that which is going on in the churches and the temples: that is parrot-like, it is formal. It has nothing to do with real prayer. And this prayer heals, this prayer is real therapy.

Everyone can be healed by prayer. Therapy has not helped anybody. At the most, therapy can make you adjusted to the society.  Prayer helps you to fall in tune with existence itself.  Society is man-made, its values are man-made, hence they are different everywhere.  In India there are different values, in the West there are different values. Something that is perfectly okay in the West is absolutely wrong in the East, and vice versa. These values are man-created.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 22, 2007, 01:02:56 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Prayer is the highest form of love. If love is the flower, then prayer is the fragrance. Love is visible, prayer is invisible. Love is between one person and another person, prayer is between one impersonal presence and the impersonal presence of the whole. Love is limited, prayer is unlimited.

If you can pray, no other therapy is needed.

Therapies are needed in the world because prayer has disappeared. Man was never in need of therapy when prayer was alive, flowing, when people were dancing in great gratitude, singing songs in praise of God, were ecstatic just for being, for being here, were grateful just for life.

When tears were flowing from their eyes -- of love, of joy -- and when there were songs in their hearts, there was no need for therapy.

In the old days there was a different kind of person moving in the world, the religious person -- the Buddha, the Christ, Guru Nanak, Shirdi Sai Baba.

You simply bow down out of gratitude. There is no object in your bowing: you simply bow down because... to see such infinite joy showering on you for no reason at all... and you are not worthy! You don't deserve it! You have never earned it! How can you remain without giving a heartful thank-you to existence?

Your head bows down, you surrender. You lie down on the earth in utter silence, your heart throbbing, pulsating with ecstasy. Your breathing has a different rhythm to it, a different melody to it. Your whole energy is dancing, streaming. You have fallen in harmony with existence. This is what prayer is -- not that which is going on in the churches and the temples: that is parrot-like, it is formal. It has nothing to do with real prayer. And this prayer heals, this prayer is real therapy.

Everyone can be healed by prayer. Therapy has not helped anybody. At the most, therapy can make you adjusted to the society.  Prayer helps you to fall in tune with existence itself.  Society is man-made, its values are man-made, hence they are different everywhere.  In India there are different values, in the West there are different values. Something that is perfectly okay in the West is absolutely wrong in the East, and vice versa. These values are man-created.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 23, 2007, 09:04:26 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

The first, and the most important, is prayer.  Love is prayer.  There is no other prayer, all other prayers are just pseudo, substitutes for' love. The other prayers are invented by people who cannot love, who are incapable of love, who are afraid of love; who have been so badly damaged by the society that they have lost their intrinsic quality of love. Prayer is a substitute for those people. But it is a poor substitute, and it cannot fulfill them because it will never become real.

A prayer is real only when it is not a substitute for love but a flowering of love, when it is the fragrance of your love.

Then it is not Christian, Hindu or Mohammedan. Then it has no form; then it is not a ritual at all. Then it is a way of life. When one lives lovingly, one is prayerful.

And the second meaning of prayer is mercy. One who is prayerful is bound to be compassionate -- naturally; it has not to be cultivated. A cultivated compassion is not true compassion. A cultivated character is only acting, pretension. Basically, anything that you cultivate makes you a hypocrite.

Real things grow; they are not painted from the outside. You don't learn them from the society, you grow them from your innermost core.

They grow in you just as leaves grow on the trees. You can paint a beautiful tree but it will be only a painting. It will not be a tree and it will never grow. No new leaves will come. Spring will come and your painting will remain dead. Spring will come and go. but your painting will not grow a single leaf, a single flower; it will know nothing of the spring. The cultivated character is like a painting -- non-growing, dead.

The real character is a real tree: it knows how to grow. It has sources in the earth, it has roots in existence.

A prayerful heart naturally becomes compassionate, because you are so happy that you start feeling for others. Mercy arises, and now the mercy has a totally different quality from the cultivated mercy. The cultivated mercy always makes you egoistic, as if you are obliging people, doing something great, doing some service to humanity. But the real compassion, the real mercy, knows nothing of all these things; it is simply natural. You don't become egoistic about it, it does not feed your ego; on the contrary, if anything of the ego is still left, it takes it away. The last traces of ego are taken away by compassion.

And the third meaning of prayer is grace. Naturally, when a person is prayerful, compassionate, he will have a new kind of beauty to his individuality: he will have grace. He will have a kind of poetry surrounding him, his vibe will be poetic.

His presence will have a music to it.

But everything starts with love, remember; love is the ultimate law. Then prayer, mercy, grace, follow of their own accord.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 29, 2007, 02:41:11 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

The deeper your prayers echo in your own consciousness, the more audible they are to God.

There is a story of a peasant girl who was passing through a farm while going to another village. There was a person offering his prayers in the open. The law is that no one should cross the place where anyone is praying. When this girl returned from the village this man was still sitting there. He said, 'O girl, now what terrible sin have you committed!' 'What did I do?' asked she. 'I was offering prayers here, and you passed over this place'. The girl asked, 'What do you mean by offering prayers?'  'Thinking of God', he replied. The girl said, 'Yes? Were you thinking of God? I was thinking of my young man whom I was going to meet, and I did not see you. Then how did you see me while you were thinking of God?'

Prayer from the depth and prayer from the surface are two prayers. One can utter what Christ has called 'vain repetitions’, just repeating the prayer; one does not fix one's mind on the meaning of the prayer. If the depth of one's heart has heard the prayer, God has heard it.

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 31, 2007, 04:34:54 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

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!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 01, 2008, 03:58:05 AM
JAI SAI RAM!!!

Sarva Bhavantu Sukhinah
Sarve Santu Niramayah
Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu,
Ma Kaschid Dukhabhagah Bhavet

Let Every Body Be Happy
And Free From Diseases
Let Every Body Enjoy Welfare
and Let None be Distressed

OM SAI RAM!!!
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 02, 2008, 10:07:14 PM
जय सांई राम़।।।

एक सूफी गीत है- प्रेयसी के द्वार पर किसी ने दस्तक दी। भीतर से आवाज आयी, 'कौन है?'  जो द्वार के बाहर खड़ा था,  उसने कहा, 'मैं हूं।'  प्रत्युत्तर में उसे सुनाई पड़ा,  'यह गृह 'मैं'  और 'तू'  दो को नहीं संभाल सकता है।'

और बंद द्वार बंद ही रहा। प्रेमी वन में चला गया। उसने तप किया, उपवास किये, प्रार्थनाएं कीं। बहुत सालों के बाद वह लौटा और पुन: उसने वही द्वार खटखटाया। दुबारा वही प्रश्न, 'बाहर कौन है?'

पर इस बार द्वार खुल गए, क्योंकि उसका उत्तर दूसरा था। उसने कहा, 'तू ही है।'

यह उत्तर कि 'तू ही है'  समस्त धर्मों का सार है। जीवन के अनंत-असीम प्रवाह पर 'मैं' की गांठ ही बंधन है। 'मैं' व्यक्ति को सत्ता से तोड़ देता है। 'मैं' बुदबुदा सत्ता-प्रवाह से अपने को भिन्न समझ बैठता है। जबकि बुदबुदे की अपनी कोई सत्ता नहीं है। उसका कोई केंद्र और अपना जीवन नहीं है। वह सागर ही है। सागर ही उसका जीवन है। 'मैं'  के भीतर झांको तो ब्रह्मं मिल जाता है।

'मैं' जहां नहीं है, वहां वस्तुत: 'तू' भी नहीं है। वहां केवल 'होना'  मात्र है। केवल अस्तित्व है, शुद्ध सत्ता है। इस शुद्ध सत्ता में जागना निर्वाण है।

ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on January 03, 2008, 11:28:34 PM
ॐ सांई राम~~~

हे! परमदेव प्रभु आप परम शुद्ध अनन्त शक्ति स्वरूप,अनन्त ज्ञान स्वरूप,अनन्त आनन्द स्वरूप,अनन्त प्रेम एवम् ज्योति स्वरूप हैं ।

हे! परम कृपालू देवाधिदेव।आप को नमस्कार हो, बार बार नमस्कार हो ।

हे! विश्वमय एवम् विश्वतीत, एकमेव अद्वितीय परमेश्वर मैं आप की शरण में हूँ मुझे अपना लो,मुझे अपना बना लो,मुझे संभाल लो प्रभु,मैं आपकी हूँ,आपकी ही हूँ,जैसी कैसी हूँ,आपकी शरण में हूँ ।

हे! सरवेश्वर मेरा शरीर स्वस्थ हो,मेरी इन्द्रियां निर्मल हो,मेरी भावनायँ पवित्र हो,मेरी बुद्धि सुस्थिर हो।

हे प्रभु! मेरा समुच्य जीवन पवित्र व विकसित बन कर आपके भजन स्मरण में,आपके चिन्तन में व आप की सेवा में व्यतीत हो । परम कृपालु! मुझे ऐसा बल दो कि मैं आपको देख सकूं,सत्य को देख सकूं।

हे पूर्ण! मेरी अपूर्णताओं को पूर्णता में बदल दो,मुझे अपने में मिला कर पूर्ण कर लो।
सभी सदगामी हो, सभी सुखी हो,सभी प्रेम से रहे,सभी का कल्याण हो।

ॐ शान्ति~~~शान्ति~~~शान्ति~~~

जय सांई राम~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 12, 2008, 12:25:10 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

'प्रभु को पुकारो। उसका नाम स्मरण करो। निरंतर बुलाने से वह अवश्य सुनता है।'

मुझे याद आया कबीर ने कहा, 'क्या ईश्वर बहरा हो गया है?'

यह तो मानो ऐसा कि 'दस आदमी सो रहे हें। किसी ने पुकारा - 'देवदत्त।'  तो देवदत्त उठ आता है। ऐसे ही प्रभु के संबंध में भी है। उसका नाम पुकारो, वह अवश्य सुनता है।'

यह सब ऐसा नहीं लगता है कि प्रभु नहीं,  हम सो रहे हैं। वह तो नित्य जाग्रत है। उसे नहीं, वरन् हमें जागना है। फिर सोए हुए जाग्रत को जगावें,  तो बड़े मजे की बात है। उसे पुकारना नहीं,  उसकी ही पुकार हमें सुननी है। यह मौन में होगा - परिपूर्ण निस्तरंग चित्त में होगा। जब चित्त में कोई ध्वनि नहीं है, तब उसका नाद उपलब्ध होता है।

पूर्ण मौन ही एक मात्र प्रार्थना है। प्रार्थना कुछ करना नहीं है, वरन् जब चित्त कुछ भी नहीं कह रहा है, तब वह प्रार्थना में है।

प्रार्थना क्रिया नहीं अवस्था है।

द्वितीय, प्रभु का कोई नाम नहीं है, न उसका कोई रूप है। इसलिए उसे बुलाने और स्मरण करने का कोई उपाय भी नहीं है। सब नाम,  सब रूप कल्पित हैं। वे सब मिथ्या हैं। उनसे नहीं,  उन्हें छोड़कर सत्य तक पहुंचना होता है।

जो सब छोड़ने का साहस करता है, वह 'उसे' पाने की शर्त पूरी करता है।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 12, 2008, 06:15:11 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

Nothing happens by too much worship! Too much worship means that you do not know how to worship. Too much worship means that you are repeating dead rituals, otherwise it is sufficient to speak the name of the divine even once. And every day you are sitting with the rosary repeating "Sai Ram, Sai Ram." When will your life be full of Sai Ram? How many times are you going to repeat "Sai Ram"?

There are some people who keep an account of the number of their chants. They say, "I have chanted this mantra ten million times."  But if nothing has happened by chanting once, then what is going to happen by chanting ten million times? Try to understand this.

A mantra is not mathematics. A mantra is not quantitative, it is qualitative. If anything is to happen it will happen the very first time. If it is not to happen then, it will not happen even if you go on repeating it ten million times. If you have repeated it wrongly the first time, you will do it more so the second time, the third time even more so, and this will go on. You can repeat it a million times or ten million times, it makes no difference.

It is a question of calling properly; then one call of the heart is enough, then even one call becomes a revolution. The divine is not deaf. He does not want your flattery. Is he going to listen only when you say it repeatedly?  He can hear without your saying it but it should be from your heart. He will never hear if you go on repeating it in your mind, because the divine is not related with your thinking, the divine is related only with your prayer of the heart.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 13, 2008, 07:09:34 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

It had not rained in a village for many years, so the whole of the village had gathered in the temple to pray.

A small child was also going to the temple to pray. Everyone was laughing at him on the way. Even the priest said, "You stupid! Why are you carrying that umbrella with you? It has not rained for many years, that is why we are going to pray."

That child had brought an umbrella. Thousands of people had gathered to pray but none of them had brought an umbrella. The child said, "I have brought the umbrella because when we pray it will certainly rain and I will need it on my way back."
 
People just laughed, they said, "He is mad."

Can the prayer of such people be answered? Only this child's prayer could be answered. He had deep trust; he had no doubt in the prayer; his prayer was full of deep trust. But the older people put doubt in the mind of the child.

They said, "Go home and put this umbrella away. It does not rain in this way." They are going to pray, but do not have the confidence that it will rain by praying. Then why pray at all?

It is better to be an atheist and be honest about it. What is the use of being a theist if you are dishonest? You have prayed many times but did you believe that it would be answered? When it is not answered, you say that you knew beforehand that the prayer would not be answered. You have knocked on the doors of the temple many times, but have you done so wholeheartedly? With full trust? Or did you go with doubt?

If you went with doubt then you should not have gone at all -- that would have been honest. By going, whom did you deceive? By going you have harmed yourself. Your prayer was unanswered. If your prayer is unanswered again and again then you lose your self-confidence; then you pray from your lips and not from your heart.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Dnarang on January 14, 2008, 01:12:19 AM
We always ask before we thank, for we are asking creatures.
We ask for love and thank you for the love you have inspired in us.
We ask to be closer to you and thank you for our capacity to pray.
We ask for understanding and thank you for bringing us the light of your presence.
We ask for happiness and thank you for the joy of life.
We ask for strength and thank you for the courage you have given us to hope.
We ask for your presence and thank you for living in our hearts. We ask, and we have already received.

Blessed be your name, Oh God, our Creator
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 16, 2008, 06:59:57 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

सच है नहीं सुनी गयी तुम्हारी हर बात....
पर मत उठाओ प्राथना से विश्वास....
ढूंढते रहो फूल जब कांटों की क्यारी हो....
आत्मदीप जलाओ यदि रात अंधियारी हो....
प्रार्थना हो सकता है तुम्हारे काम न आए....
क्या पता तुम्हारे चाहने वालों को लग जाये....

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: my_sai on January 17, 2008, 10:41:23 AM
SAI MA MAIN NAHI JAANTI PUJA KYA HAI , MAIN YE JAANTI HOON HAR PAL KOI MEREY PASS HAI JISEY MAIN DIL SE NAMAN KERTI HOON , MERY IS SHRADHA SE KIYE HUAY IS NAMAN KO SWEEKAR KERO DEVA , TUMHAREY PAWAN CHERNO KO DHONEY KE LIYE MERY PASS GANGA JAL TO NAHI SIRF AANSOO  HAI , JAISE BHI BHAKAT AAPKI PUJA KERTA HAI SSC MAIN LIKHA HAI AAP SWEEKAR KER LETY HO , SAI MA MAIN JINDGI KE AISE MOD PER HOON JAHAN AAP KE ALAWA MERI KOI MADAD  NAHI KER SAKTA MERI OR MERE PERIWAR KI RAKSHA KERO SAI MA
DAYA SAI
DAYA  SAI
JAI SAI RAM
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 19, 2008, 06:21:50 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

Just start sitting in front of HIM, close your eyes, and just wait for something unknown. If you wait for the known, then the mind functions, because the known means that which is already an experience; the known means the past. The known means that you want to repeat some thrill, some pleasure; it is a repetition. With the unknown, the mind is simply at a loss, because the unknown is simply out of the mind's grasp.

Where the unknown begins, God begins. And once the unknown has become known, it is no more God. It has become the mind.

So one has to go on leaving the mind and moving into the unknown again and again. It is an eternal journey. So simply sit, wait for the unknown, and if something starts happening in your body energy, allow it. After a few days you will see tremendous happenings. You will not be able to believe what is happening. Don't get scared, don't be scared... allow it. You may feel jolts of energy, shocks of energy shaking your very foundation. You will feel a great trembling arising in you, a great shaking. And it will be coming from nowhere. You will see that you are not doing it. You will be able to see absolutely that you are not in your own control. Something has come and possessed you, something has descended upon you -- you are no more yourself. A greater self has come in contact.

So don't get scared at that moment. If you get scared, the contact is again broken.
Not only that, if you get scared the contact will become more and more difficult to make again, because the fear will stand there. When the contact happens, the fear will come and you will be cut off; fear separates, cuts off.

So when this happens, be loving. These are the only two real emotions -- fear and love. If you don't love, you will be in fear. If you are in fear, you cannot love. If you love, fear is impossible. So when this is happening, love it. Pour your energy lovingly. Feel happy that a gift has descended upon you, that there is grace around you, that BABA SAI has listened to you, that your prayer has been heard. You have not said anything, but it has been heard.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 21, 2008, 07:54:45 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

BABA is nothing but existence pouring its blessings on you. Become aware of it, feel it more and more, and feel thankful for all that has happened to you; that is happening and that will happen.

If gratitude for existence arises in the heart then religion has happened. Gratitude is the essential taste of religion, the innermost core of prayer; nothing else is needed. If gratitude is there, all is fulfilled.

Deva means divine. It has many meanings: grace, mercy, prayer, but I would like you to rememher prayer -- divine prayer. A prayer is human if it is formal, if you are doing it because you have been taught to, if you are doing it because you have been conditioned for it. A Christian prayer, a Hindu prayer, a Mohammedan prayer, these are human prayers. Prayer is divine when you are not doing it formally; when it is informal, an informal communication; communion with existence, not ready-made, not planned, not rehearsed.

Just looking at the stars something arises in you, from the deepest core of your being something surfaces. You would like to say 'Hello' to the stars: that is divine prayer. Or you may not like to say anything; you may just be silent, in utter awe: that is divine prayer. When seeing a rose you would like to have a little talk. a little chitchat with a rose: that is divine prayer.

It has to be spontaneous, then it is divine. Anything spontaneous is divine and anything rehearsed, prepared, becomes artificial, arbitrary. It loses all beauty, it becomes mechanical.

Learn the way of divine prayer and then one need not go to the church or to the temple, because the whole existence is his temple; wherever you turn, he is. You open your eyes, he is; you close your eyes, he is. Awake, he is; asleep, he is, because nothing else exists other than god.

So one can talk to the river, to the mountains, to the trees, to the stars; any communion with existence is prayer. And if it is spontaneous, it has tremendous beauty and power. It uplifts, it takes you higher and higher; it makes you soar towards the sky. It defies gravitation.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: saniya on January 23, 2008, 06:18:51 AM
JAI SAI RAM RAMESH JI

VERY NICE EXPL....THANKS........



OM SAI NAMO NAMAH
SHRI SAI NAMO NAMAH
JAI JAI SAI NAMO NAMAH
SADGURU SAI NAMO NAMAH
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 25, 2008, 07:14:29 AM
JAI SAI RAM RAMESH JI

VERY NICE EXPL....THANKS........



OM SAI NAMO NAMAH
SHRI SAI NAMO NAMAH
JAI JAI SAI NAMO NAMAH
SADGURU SAI NAMO NAMAH

जय सांई राम।।।

प्रार्थना क्या है?  आत्म-विस्मरण!  नहीं, प्रार्थना आत्म-विस्मरण नहीं है। वह जिसमें भूलना,  डूबना और खोना है - मादकता का ही एक रूप है। वह प्रार्थना नहीं, पलायन है। शब्द में, संगीत में खोया जा सकता है। ध्वनि सम्मोहन में, नृत्य में 'जो है'  उसका विस्मरण हो सकता है। यह विस्मरण और बेहोशी सुखद भी मालूम हो सकती है, पर यह प्रार्थना नहीं है। यह मूर्च्र्छा है,  जब कि प्रार्थना सम्यक चेतना में जागरण का नाम है।

प्रार्थना क्या कोई क्रिया है?  क्या कुछ करना प्रार्थना है?

नहीं, प्रार्थना क्रिया नहीं, वरन चेतना की एक स्थिति है। प्रार्थना की नहीं जाती है,  प्रार्थना में हुआ जाता है। प्रार्थना मूलत: अक्रिया है। जब सब क्रियाएं शून्य हैं और केवल साक्षी चैतन्य शेष रह गया है,  ऐसी स्थिति का नाम प्रार्थना है। प्रार्थना शब्द से 'करने'  की ध्वनि निकलती है। ध्यान शब्द से भी 'करने'  की ध्वनि निकलती है। पर दोनों शब्द क्रियाओं के लिए नहीं, चेतना की स्थिति के लिए प्रयुक्त हुए हैं।

'शून्य में,  मौन में,  नि:शब्द में होना प्रार्थना है, ध्यान है।'

आप पूछेंगे कि, 'फिर हम क्या करें?'

'थोड़े समय को कुछ भी न करें। बिलकुल विश्राम में अपने को छोड़ दें। चुपचाप मन को देखते रहें, वह अपने से शांत और शून्य हो जाता है। इसी शून्य में, सत्य का सान्निध्य उपलब्ध होता है। इसी शून्य में वह प्रकट होता है, जो भीतर है और वह भी जो बाहर है। फिर बाहर और भीतर मिट जाते हैं और केवल वही रह जाता है 'जो है'।  इस शुद्ध 'है' की समग्रता का नाम ही बाबा है।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: saniya on January 25, 2008, 01:07:24 PM
jai sai ram

"When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart"



"Prayer is not to inform God or to move Him unwillingly to have mercy, as if, like some proud prince, He requires a certain amount of recognition of His greatness as the price of His favor; but to fit our hearts by conscious need and true desire and dependence to receive the gift which He is ever willing to give, but we are not always ready to receive."
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 27, 2008, 11:50:20 PM
जय सांई राम।।।

दिन 'तेरे'  ख्याल में गुज़र जाता है, रात को भी 'तेरा' ख्याल आ जाता है, कभी-कभी ये ख्याल इस कदर बढ़ जाता है कि आईने मे 'तेरा' ही चेहरा नज़र आता है।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: saniya on January 28, 2008, 09:24:23 AM
JAI SAI RAM


ae maalik tere bande hum
aise ho humare karm
neki par chale or badi se dare
taki haste hue nikle dam
ae malik tere bande hum


Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 28, 2008, 10:10:03 PM
जय सांई राम।।।

तू प्यार का सागर है तेरी इक बूंद के प्यासे हम.....सच में बाबा के प्रेम का अहसास अगर एक ओस की बूंद के समान भी हो जाये तो समझ लेना जीवन सफल अपना।
 
अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on January 29, 2008, 12:35:08 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

तू प्यार का सागर है तेरी इक बूंद के प्यासे हम.....सच में बाबा के प्रेम का अहसास अगर एक ओस की बूंद के समान भी हो जाये तो समझ लेना जीवन सफल अपना।
 
अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।

ॐ साईं राम~~~

बाबा की इस अहसास की बूँद के सदके,
इस अतिशय सुंदर इस भाव के सदके,
तनमन शीतल सब कर दीजो मेरे साईं,
अमृत मय उस अहसास की बूँद के सदके~~

जय साईं राम~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: saniya on January 29, 2008, 06:42:06 AM
JAI SAI RAM

Prayer is worship. In prayer we celebrate God and our being his child. By doing so we not only please him, but we sharpen our attention to his goodness and care and mercy. God gives our lives meaning, purpose, and direction, and he provides that good will come from every event of our lives, no matter how hard our follies drive us in the other direction.

JAI SAI RAM
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 31, 2008, 08:19:40 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

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. 
 
अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: saniya on February 04, 2008, 04:35:49 AM
jai sai ram

“Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.”

jai sai ram
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 04, 2008, 08:06:56 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

The divine cannot be seen, he is always the seer. He is not a thing to be seen, he is the seeing hidden within you.
The one who is seeing is the divine. He is always the seer. You can never make him the object of your sight. But he who has heard even a little of the song of life... I call that Bhagavadgita, the divine song. The song which Krishna has sung before Arjuna is the refrain of that ultimate song, is the refrain of the song of life; it is a small part of that song. That song is written on every tree, on every rock, on every wave of the sea. The emptiness of the sky is his silence, the rivers are singing the song of the divine. It is he who is seeing through your eyes; it is he who is listening through your ears; it is he who is throbbing through your heart -- there is nothing else except the divine. One who has understood even a little of the song of the divine, who has recognized life even a little, who has drunk even a drop of simplicity, who has worshipped even a little....

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.       

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: saniya on February 05, 2008, 04:28:47 AM
jai sai ram

“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”

“Keep your dreams alive.
 Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision,
hard work, determination, and dedication.
Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”



jai sai ram
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 06, 2008, 03:48:01 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

मैं माली को बीज बोते देखता हूं। फिर, वह खाद देता है। पानी देता है और फूलों के आने की प्रतीक्षा करता है। फूल खींचकर जबरदस्ती पौधों में नहीं निकाले जाते हैं। उनकी तो धीरज से प्रतीक्षा करनी होती है।

ऐसे ही प्रभु के बीज भी बोने होते हैं। ऐसे ही दिव्य जीवन के फूलों को खिलने की भी राह देखनी होती है।

जो इसके विपरीत चलता है और अधैर्य प्रकट करता है, वह कहीं भी नहीं पहुंच पाता है। अधैर्य उस विकास के लिए अच्छी खाद नहीं है।

शांति से, धैर्य से और प्रीति से प्रतीक्षा करने पर किसी सुबह अनायास ही फूल खिल जाते हैं, और उनकी गंध जीवन के आंगन को सुवासित कर देती है।

अनंत के फूलों के लिए अनंत प्रतीक्षा अपेक्षित है। पर यह स्मरण रहे कि जो उतनी प्रतीक्षा के लिए तत्पर होता है, उसकी प्राप्ति का समय तत्क्षण आ जाता है। अनंत धैर्य ही अनंत पाने की एक मात्र शर्त है। उस शर्त के पूरा होते ही वह उपलब्ध हो जाता है। उसे कहीं बाहर से थोड़ा ही आना है। वह तो भीतर का ही विकास है। वह तो मौजूद ही है। पर अधैर्य और अशांति के कारण हम उसे नहीं देख पाते हैं।
 
अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 07, 2008, 07:48:56 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

Once Haroun-Al Rashid, the Caliph of Baghdad, was celebrating a royal occasion.

He ordered a grand display of all manner of jewellery and artwork for the occasion, and invited not only courtiers and nobles but many commoners also.

At the height of the celebrations, the Sultan developed a magnanimous mood and all of a sudden he ordered every person present to touch any article they liked, and that article, no matter how precious, would belong to that person. No sooner was the royal command given than a rush was made to possess the costliest thing within reach.

A beautiful slave girl, remaining composed and serene by the side of the throne asked the Sultan to reaffirm his command. On receiving affirmation, the slave girl immediately touched the Caliph himself on the arm saying, "Why should I run after those things when the master of them all is here?"

The Sultan, in admiration of the insight shown by the girl, complimented her and said, "Now that you possess me, the whole of my kingdom is yours."

Life is the circumference: Make BABA SAI as the centre. If you touch BABA SAI, all is yours; if you have arrived at the centre, then the whole belongs to you.

 
अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Amar_akshu on February 08, 2008, 05:32:46 PM
1. OM Sri Sai Nathaaya namaha
2. OM Sri Sai Lakshmi naarayanaya namaha
3. OM Sri Sai Krishnaraamashiva maruthyaadhi roopaaya namaha
4. OM Sri Sai Seshasai ne namaha
5. OM Sri Sai Godhavarithata shirdhivasi ne namaha
6. OM Sri Sai Bhakta hrudaalayaaya namaha
7. OM Sri Sai Sarva hrunnilayaaya namaha
8. OM Sri Sai Bhoota vaasaya namaha
9. OM Sri Sai Bhootha bhavishyadbhaava varnithaaya namaha
10. OM Sri Sai Kaalaa thiithaaya namaha
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13. OM Sri Sai Kaaladarpa damanaaya namaha
14. OM Sri Sai Mrutyunjayaaya namaha
15. OM Sri Sai Amarthyaaya namaha
16. OM Sri Sai Marthyaa bhayapradhaaya namaha
17. OM Sri Sai Jiivadhaaraaya namaha
18. OM Sri Sai Sarvadhaaraaya namaha
19. OM Sri Sai Bhaktaavana samarthaaya namaha
20. OM Sri Sai Bhaktavana prathikjnaaya namaha
21. OM Sri Sai Anna vastra daaya namaha
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24. OM Sri Sai Buddhi siddhi pradaaya namaha
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26. OM Sri Sai Yogaksheema vahaaya namaha
27. OM Sri Sai Aapadbhaandhavaaya namaha
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29. OM Sri Sai Bhukti mukti swargaapavargadaaya namaha
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32. OM Sri Sai Antharyaminee namaha
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34. OM Sri Sai Nityanandaaya namaha
35. OM Sri Sai Parama sukhadaaya namaha
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43. OM Sri Sai Bhakta para dheenaya namaha
44. OM Sri Sai Bhaktaanugraha karaaya namaha
45. OM Sri Sai Sharaanagatha vatsalaaya namaha
46. OM Sri Sai Bhakti shakti pradaaya namaha
47. OM Sri Sai Gnana yraaghya prdaaya namaha
48. OM Sri Sai Preema pradaaya namaha
49. OM Sri Sai Samskhaya hrudaya dowurbhalya paapa karma vaasanaa kshayakaraaya namaha
50. OM Sri Sai Hrudayagranthi bheedakaaya namaha
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52. OM Sri Sai Suddasathva sthithaaya namaha
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56. OM Sri Sai Jayinee namaha
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59. OM Sri Sai Trilookeeshu avighaatha gatayee namaha
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75. OM Sri Sai Akarmaaneeka karma sukarminee namaha
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87. OM Sri Sai Siddheshvaraaya namaha
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108. OM Sri Sai samartha sadguru Sri Sai nathaaya namaha

Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 14, 2008, 07:34:43 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

कितनी अजीब बात है अनन्त स्नेह का स्रोत हम सबके भीतर है फिर भी बाहर इसका इतना अभाव है।

आंसू पलकों की सीपियों में छुपा हुआ एक अनमोल मोती है। इसका मानव जीवन में बहुत महत्व है। आंसू किसी का स्वागत करते समय भी झलकते हैं और जुदाई के समय भी कुछ बोल जाते हैं।  आंसू समाधान से भी बहते हैं और संताप से भी।

आंसू की भाषा समझने के लिये उसकी कीमत जान लेनी चाहिये। वे किसी महाकाव्य की प्रेरणा भी बन सकते हैं।  बडे बडे प्रबंध लिखकर भी आंसू का महत्व बयान नहीं किया जा सकता जो एक बूंद में सब कुछ कह जाते हैं। आंसू की एक बूंद में मानव जीवन का सारा सार समाया हुआ हैं।
   
अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
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Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 16, 2008, 05:11:28 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

What do I mean by prayer?

Prayer is a dialogue, a spontaneous dialogue between you and the existence. Passing by a tree suddenly you are possessed by a desire to hug the tree: that is prayer. The tree is so beautiful and so green and so alive, and dancing in the wind and the sun. If you are alive, you would like to have a little dialogue with the tree. She belongs to the earth as much as you do... she has come out of the earth as you have. She is one kind of expression, you are another kind of expression, but we come from the same source. It is good to say 'Hello' to the tree. It is just immensely nourishing to hug the tree.

And if you start talking to the tree -- anything that comes to you.... There is no need to feel embarrassed. If you become like a small child who is talking to the tree, or even talking to the sun, to the moon -- then there is prayer. That quality of innocence -- having a dialogue with existence -- that is prayer.

It cannot be formulated because it will always be different. One day it will be with a tree, another day it may be with a dog. One day you were talking with the stars; another day you may be lying down on the earth, feeling the wet earth and the grass, and you may start singing a song of joy.

That man is dead who cannot feel the wet earth, who cannot feel this immense beauty that surrounds you, this eternal celebration that goes on and on forever. To be aware of this and to have a little dialogue with this existence, is prayer. It has nothing to do with God or the Bible or the Koran or the Gita. It has nothing to do with any idea of god -- Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan. It is a direct, immediate experience of reality. One needs to have the courage to be a little mad, to be in prayer. One needs to be a poet to be in prayer. One needs to be a lover to be in prayer. And then anything is beautiful. Whatsoever happens out of that spontaneity is beautiful.
 
अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 17, 2008, 05:38:54 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

Prayer becomes false when we start demanding something; prayer is true when it is only a thanksgiving and nothing else. Because already much has been given to us... much that we don't deserve at all, for which we have not done anything. Life has been given to us -- we have not paid for it, we have not earned it. It is a gift, a sheer gift.

These two words are very important. One is 'pranam' -- it means a thankful salute. Another is 'prasad' -- 'prasad' means gift.   Prasad is from BABA's side. Pranam is from our side. HE gives -- we can only be grateful. In return we have nothing to give.  Life is a prasad, a gift. Love is a prasad, a gift... this beautiful existence and so many possibilities and so much potential.  Each moment is pregnant with infinite benediction. BABA SAI is the giver.

All that we can do in return is bow down in deep gratitude. HIS gift is called 'prasad'; our gratitude is called 'pranam'.

So become a constant salute.  Slowly slowly it penetrates so deeply that small things, very small things.... You are feeling thirsty: just a glass of water, and the thirst is quenched then there arises great thankfulness. You see a flower and suddenly you are possessed by its beauty. One would like to bow down, one would like to be on one's knees and have a little prayer. And then at each step and in every moment you will find many many things every day.  And these things were always happening but you were not aware.

Only a grateful person becomes aware of the infinite gifts that are constantly being showered on us. The more grateful you are, the more you become aware how many gifts are being given. The more you feel grateful, the more you become open to receive. And those who are ready to receive, all is given to them. Nothing else is is needed... just an open heart.

Man has to become a host, then BABA SAI is ready to become the guest. 

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on February 19, 2008, 11:27:14 PM
Om Sai Ram~~~

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden~~~-Corrie TenBoom

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action~~~-Mahatma Ghandi

Jai Sai Ram~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: saloni on February 20, 2008, 12:59:56 AM
Archana is also a Sadhna which we should do with love and thnaks for everything.

thanks Ramesh bhai

i was missing ur "Though of the day"

and here u r

take care
Saloni
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 20, 2008, 06:56:42 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

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.   

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 23, 2008, 06:58:06 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

Let your prayer be a spontaneous phenomenon. If even your prayer cannot be spontaneous, then what will be? If even with God you have to be readymade then where will you be authentic and true and natural?

Say things that you would like to say. Talk to HIM as you would talk to a wise friend. But don't bring formalities in.  A formal relationship is not a relationship at all.  And you have become formal with God also. You miss all spontaneousness.

Bring love into prayer. Then you can talk! It is a beautiful thing -- a dialogue with the universe.

But have you watched?  If you are really spontaneous,  people will think you are mad.  If you go to a tree and start talking, or to a flower, a rose, people will think you are mad.  If you go to the church and talk to the cross or in a temple to the image, nobody will think you are mad, they will think you are religious.  You are talking to a stone in the temple and everybody thinks you are religious because this is the authorized form.

If you talk to a rose -- which is more alive than any stone image, which is more divine than any stone image; if you talk to a tree -- which is more deeply rooted in God than any stone image, because no image has roots, it is a dead thing that's why it kills; a tree is alive, with roots deep into the earth, branches high into the sky, connected with the whole, with the rays of the sun, with the stars -- talk to the trees! That can be a contact point with the divine, but if you talk that way people will think you are mad.

Spontaneousness is thought to be madness. Formalities are thought to be sanity. Just the opposite is the reality. When you go into a temple and you simply repeat some crammed prayer you are simply foolish.  Have a heart-to-heart talk!  And prayer is beautiful.  You will start flowering through it.  Prayer is to be in love -- to be in love with the whole.  And sometimes you get angry with the whole and you don't talk; that's beautiful.  And you say: I will not talk, enough is enough, and you have not been listening to me! A beautiful gesture.  Not dead.  And sometimes you drop praying completely, because you go on praying and God is not listening.

It is a relationship with deep involvement in it. You get angry. Sometimes you feel very good, feel thankful, grateful; sometimes you feel put off; but let it be a LIVING relationship; then prayer is true.

If you just go on like a gramophone and repeat the same thing every day, you are not doing any prayer, it is not prayer.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 25, 2008, 02:29:01 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

मैं प्रकृति में ही परमात्मा को देखता हूं। प्रति क्षण, प्रति घड़ी उसका मुझे अनुभव हो रहा है। एक श्वास भी ऐसी नहीं आती-जाती है, जब उससे मिलना न हो जाता हो। जहां भी आंख पड़ती है,  देखता हूं कि वह उपस्थित है और जहां भी कान सुनते हैं,  पाता हूं कि उसका ही संगीत है।

वह तो सब जगह है,  केवल उसे देखने भर की बात है। वह तो है,  पर उसे पकड़ने के लिए आंख चाहिए। आंख के आते ही वो सब दिशाओं में और सब समय उपस्थित हो जाता है।

रात्रि में आकाश जब तारों से भर जाए, तो उन तारों को सोचों मत,  देखो और केवल देखो। विचार न हो और मात्र दर्शन हो, तो एक बड़ा राज़ खुल जाता है और प्रकृति के द्वार से उस रहस्य में प्रवेश होता है, जो कि परमात्मा है। प्रकृति परमात्मा के अवतरण से ज्यादा कुछ भी नहीं है और जो उसके घूंघट को उठाना जानते हैं, वे ही केवल जीवन के सत्य से परिचित हो पाते हैं।

सत्य का एक युवा खोजी किसी सद्गुरु के पास था। उसने जाकर पूछा, 'मैं सत्य को जानना चाहता हूं,  मैं धर्म को जानना चाहता हूं। कृपा करें और मुझे बतायें कि मैं कहां से प्रारंभ करूं?'  सद्गुरु ने कहा,  'क्या पास ही पर्वत से गिरते जलप्रपात की ध्वनि सुनाई पड़ रही है? ' युवक ने कहा,  'मैं तो उसे भली-भांति सुन रहा हूं।'   तो सद्गुरु बोले,  'तब वहीं से प्रारंभ करो, वहीं से प्रवेश करो। वही द्वार है।'

सच ही प्रवेश द्वार इतना ही निकट है - पहाड़ से गिरते झरनों में, हवाओं में डोल रहे वृक्षों के पत्तों में, सागर पर नाच रही सूरज की किरणों में। पर हर प्रवेश द्वार पर पर्दा है और बिना उठाये वह उठता नहीं है। वस्तुत: वह पर्दा प्रवेश-द्वारों पर नहीं है,  वह हमारी दृष्टि पर ही है और इस भांति एक परदे ने अनंत द्वारों पर परदा कर दिया है।

परदा हटाने की प्रक्रिया ही सच्ची प्रार्थना है।
 
अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 25, 2008, 08:27:54 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

Rabiya was passing one day and she saw Hasan sitting before a mosque, tears rolling down his cheeks, and crying with raised hands in deep prayer. He was saying to God, "I am knocking and knocking on your doors -- for years I have been knocking. Why don't you open the doors? When will you receive me?"

Rabiya was passing. She came close to Hasan, shook him from his prayer and said, "You, stupid! The doors are open. They have never been closed. Simply get up and enter!"

Now, Hasan is just on the border; one step and he will become wise.

That very moment Hasan opened his eyes and said, "Right, you are right! The doors have never been closed. I have been a fool It is so compassionate of you that you disturbed my sleep. I am immensely grateful to you. Yes, the doors were never closed -- and I would have prayed my whole life, believing that the doors are closed, and that I have to knock and I have to pray."

Since that day nobody ever saw Hasan praying. He stopped coming to the mosque. What is the point? The doors are everywhere.

Wherever you are, God is there confronting you, challenging you.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 29, 2008, 08:09:32 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

हमारे प्रत्येक भाव, विचार तथा कर्म प्रार्थना है, श्रद्धायुक्त एवं सबल हों तो परिणाम निश्चित रूप से आशातित होंगें!

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on March 03, 2008, 01:59:17 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

Deva means divine, archan means prayer -- a divine prayer. Prayer is not what people are doing in the churches, in the temples, in the mosques. It is something totally different. What they are doing is just an empty gesture of prayer; they are performing a ritual, a formality. It is not prayer -- they are simply acting it. It has not come out of their heart, it is coming out of their conditioned mind.

If a person is born in a Christian family he has been taught the Christian prayer. It has become part of his mind.  Whenever he is in fear, he will repeat it. Whenever he is ill, he will remember god.

Whenever he is in danger, he will suddenly become religious. Otherwise he will not bother about it at all.

Or, on Sunday morning he is expected to go to the church -- he will go, because it is a social lubricant.

It keeps a good image of you in the eyes of the people you have to live with: they think you are religious. It keeps you respectable.

This has nothing to do with prayer at all.  Prayer is like love.  It is not acting.  It is an authentic feeling. But people have done the same with love too.  You hug a woman because she is your wife -- not that you wanted to hug her, not that there was a passionate desire to hold her close to you, but just because it is expected. You are fulfilling a kind of duty. Then this is a boring experience. So prayer, love, anything that you have to do as a duty, becomes boredom. it loses all beauty.  It is dead, it is a corpse: it stinks.

Slowly slowly you will find a deepening relationship happening. Then you are no more a stranger; you belong.

And then you are not just accidental -- you are part of this immense reality and something very essential to it. Without you it will miss something, it will lack something, it will not be perfect. You have something to contribute to it. You are not just a 'useless passion' as Sartre says. You have a destiny to fulfil.

Existence has put some great hopes on you. If those hopes are fulfilled, not only will you be happy: the whole existence will be happy with you. Whenever a man becomes a Buddha, becomes enlightened, the whole existence celebrates, because through that man a part of existence has become illumined. Through that man a part has reached to the highest peak of consciousness.

It is just as your hand reaches to a flower: it is not only the hand that will be happy; you are happy. And we are only hands, thousands and thousands of hands of existence. When one hand reaches the highest peak of consciousness, bliss and truth, the whole existence is thrilled -- one part has become illumined. Existence is more illumined now than before. There is less darkness now than before, and more light.

Start moving in this prayerful way. Prayer has not to be learned -- all learned prayers are false; prayer has to be imbibed. It is a knack. Start feeling life, existence, people. And start having little dialogues. In the beginning you will feel embarrassed; in the beginning you will be looking out of the corner of your eye to see whether somebody is watching or not, but only in the beginning.

Don't be worried about it, it's okay. Soon you will see that all fear of public opinion has disappeared. And then really something great starts happening, something incredible, something which you cannot even imagine, something about which you have never dreamt.

Trees start speaking to you, and the rivers and the mountains. It is no more a monologue -- it really becomes dialogue. It is not only that you speak; you are spoken to, too. Existence responds. But only when all your embarrassment has disappeared does the response start happening. And that response coming from reality is the voice of God.

God is not a person somewhere. God is spread all over existence. If you are deep in love with a tree, he will speak from that tree. If you are deep in love with the earth, the earth will start whispering mysteries in your ears....

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: MANAV_NEHA on March 11, 2008, 12:44:31 PM
OM SAI NAMO NAMAH SHRI SAI NAMO NAMAH JAI JAI SAI NAMO NAMAH SADGURU SAI NAMO NAMAH 

OM SAI SHRI SAI JAI JAI SAI 

REHAM NAZAR KARO AB MORAE SAI 

SAI SAI SAI SAI SAI SAI SAI SAI SAI 

OM SAI SHRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI   
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on March 15, 2008, 07:34:30 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

बाबा सांई आप से प्रेम करते हैं। इसका सबसे बड़ा प्रमाण है आपका मनुष्य जीवन। इस संसार में करोडो किस्म के प्राणी हैं,  लेकिन बाबा ने,  आपको इन्सान बनाया। वह आपको चींटी या फ़िर बन्दर भी बना सकता था। आपने इन्सान का जन्म पाकर भी यदि अपने सृष्टिकर्ता को न पहचाना तो यह दुःख की बात है।

क्यों न हम हमेशा अपने बाबा को याद रखे, और ज़िन्दगी शान से जिए़।

हमेशा की तरह बाबा सांई आप की सहायता करे।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on March 15, 2008, 11:47:58 PM
जय सांई राम़।।।

Akbar's Prayer

Akbar as we all know, is one of the greatest Moghal Emperors. He was a lover of mankind and respected the great and pious souls of all religions.

He had heard of Guru Nanak's reputation and his attempts to unite the Hindus and the Muslims. He desired to welcome him and honour him in his court. So he sent word to him through his minister, paying his respects and requesting him to grace his court. Guru Nanak replied to the minister: "I shall only respond to the call of God, the Emperor of Emperors and shall enter only His court."

The minister conveyed this message to the Emperor. Akbar's respect for Guru Nanak increased and so he sent word again to meet him at the mosque at least. Nanak consented and did come to the mosque at the appointed hour. Both Akbar and Nanak were welcomed by the mullah with due honour. According to the custom, the mullah should say the prayers first. So he sat on his knees and prayed loudly. Nanak laughed loudly. All the muslims in the temple got angry but dared not say anything because of the Emperor's presence. Then Akbar sat on his knees and prayed. Nanak at once laughed even more loudly. The atmosphere in the mosque was becoming tense. The faces of the devotees became red and their lips twitched to pounce upon Nanak. Akbar controlled them by way of silent gesture. Both of them came out. Akbar questioned Nanak with all humility: "Oh revered one!, may I know why you laughed loudly during the prayer session? Does it become you?"

Guru Nanak replied: "Oh king, how could I withhold my laughter when I could see clearly that neither the mullah nor your majesty where thinking of God while praying. The mullah was thinking of his ailing son and you were thinking of the pair of beautiful Arabian horses that were gifted to you. Is it worthy of either the mullah or your majesty to call that prayer? Is it not hypocrisy? The mullah and emperor sought pardon from Nanak and thanked him for opening their eyes to their own weakness.

Remember that prayer is not just a string of words of praise to God to be recited mechanically. It is an earnest attempt to awaken and arouse the divinity in us. We should say prayers with full concentration. What matters is the feeling, not either the voice or words. "Mere adulation is poor adoration".


अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on March 17, 2008, 11:43:46 PM
जय सांई राम।।।

I asked BABA to give me a Fresh Flower,

HE gave me an Ugly Cactus.

I asked BABA to give me a Butterfly,

HE gave me a cattepillar.

I was so disappointed and sad!

A few days later, the Cactus grew beautiful flower on it and

the cattepillar became a beautiful Butterfly.

That is the way BABA makes thing. HE made beautiful thing at the right time.

So don't worry and be happy of what you have now.

Because you will never know what might come to you

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on March 18, 2008, 12:25:08 AM
ॐ सांई राम~~~

प्रार्थना~~~

1~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी शक्ति,
उसने मुझे दी कठिनाईयाँ,हिम्मत बढ़ाने के लिए।

2~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी बुद्धि,
उसने मुझे दी उलझनें,सुलझाने के लिए।

3~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी सम्रद्धि,
उसने मुझे दी समझ,काम करने के लिए।

4~ मैंने भगवान से मांगा प्यार,
उसने मुझे दिए दुखी लोग,मदद करने के लिए।

5~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी हिम्म्त,
उसने मुझे दी परेशानियाँ,उबर पाने के लिए।

6~ मैंने भगवान से मांगा वरदान,
उसने मुझे दिए अवसर,उन्हें पाने के लिए।

~~वो मुझे नहीं मिला जो मैंने मांगा था,
मुझे वो मिल गया जो मुझे चाहिए था~~


जय सांई राम~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: saiashish on March 19, 2008, 10:11:00 PM
साई राम साई राम साई राम साई राम साई राम ॐ साई ॐ साई ॐ साई
 
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on March 24, 2008, 08:17:53 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

Wait like a beloved. And any moment it can happen -- you will be surprised! Whenever it happens, everybody to whom it happens is surprised -- surprised by the fact that he was not doing anything and it has happened. Taken aback! Cannot believe it! Unbelievably true! Absurd! Because when he was doing everything it never happened, it didn't happen, and now he was not doing anything -- and suddenly it is there!

In non-doing your energy is in a deep rest.

It becomes pure, tranquil.

BABA SAI is always been in front of you -- just in front of your eyes. But your eyes are wavering with desire. Let the desire go, eyes waver no more, you are tranquil, calm, quiet -- suddenly it is there, revealed.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on March 28, 2008, 08:32:34 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

गुलस्तान जिसकी खुशबू से महकने लगे
हर गुल पर बहार आ जाये
ऐसे है मेरे बाबा सांई कि
जिनकी आहट से फूल भी झुकके सलाम करने लगें...

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on March 31, 2008, 07:24:35 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

एक बार राबिया अपने झोपडे के बाहर कुछ खोज रही थी। पास-पड़ोस के लोगो ने सोचा, बूढी औरत है चलो मदद की जाए, उन लोगों ने पूछा क्या खोजती हो?  उसने कहा, 'मेरी सुई खो गयी है'  इस पर लोगों ने सुई को खोजना शुरू कर दिया। अब सुई जैसी छोटी चीज,  साँझ का समय जब बहुत देर खोजने के बाद भी नही मिली और अँधेरा होने लगा तों एक आदमी ने पूछा, 'ऐ! अम्मा ये तों बता दे की तेरी सुई खोई कहाँ है?  तब राबिया ने कहा, ' सुई तों मेरे घर के अन्दर खोई है,  लेकिन वहाँ बहुत अँधेरा है और मेरे पास दीया नही है,  इसलिए जहाँ उजाला है उसे वही खोजा जा सकता है,  क्योकि अंधेरे में तों सुई मिलेगी नही। लोगो ने कहा पागल हो गयी है तू बुढिया,  सुई अन्दर है और तू उसे बाहर खोज रही है ,चलो सब लौट चलो, चलो इस पागल को खोजने दो, यह कहकर सभी लोग लौटने लगे, जब वो लोग लौटने को हुए तों राबिया हँसने लगी और कहा की तुम मुझे पागल कहते हो तब तों सारी दुनिया ही पागल है, क्योंकि सारे लोग तों बाहर ही खोजते है, उसे जो अन्दर है।

गौरतलब: चाहे वो सुख हो या फिर सफलता वो हमारे भीतर छिपा होता है पर दुर्भाग्यवश लोग उसे वहाँ नही खोजते। अपने अन्दर खोजने वालों को ही अपनी शक्ति का एहसास हो सकता है।

बाबा को भी बाहर खोजने वालो को मेरा पैगाम - ऐसे ही दोस्तो बाबा को पाना उतना ही आसान है जितना सांस को लेना। हर सांस के साथ बाबा सांई को याद रखो फिर देखो अपने बाबा क्या चमत्कार करते है आपकी ज़िन्दगी के साथ।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 01, 2008, 08:12:17 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

ईश्वर मुझे बचायेगा..  

एक गांव में बाढ़ आने से पहले सभी गांव वाले अपना - अपना घर छोड़ कर भाग रहे थे, सिवाए एक आदमी के जिसने कहा कि ईश्वर मुझे बचायेगा,  मुझे उस पर पूरा भरोसा है।

जब पानी का स्तर बढ़ा तो उसे बचाने के लिए एक जीप आई तो उसने मना कर दिया और मकान के दूसरी मंजिल पर चला गया और कहा कि ईश्वर मुझे बचायेगा, मुझे उस पर भरोसा है। तभी एक नाव उसे बचाने के लिए आई उसने इंकार कर दिया और कहा कि ईश्वर मुझे बचायेगा, मुझे उस पर भरोसा है। जब पानी स्तर और बढ़ा तो वह मकान के छत पर चढ़ गया, इस बार उसे बचाने के लिए हेलीकॉप्टर आया पर उसने फिर वही बात दोहराई कि ईश्वर मुझे बचायेगा, मुझे उस पर भरोसा है और वो नही चढा। जब पानी का स्तर बढ़कर उसके नाक तक आया तो वह उसे एक लकड़ी का तख्ता मिला पर उसने उसका भी सहारा नही लिया और फिर मन ही मन कहा कि ईश्वर मुझे बचायेगा, मुझे उस पर भरोसा है और अंत मे वह पानी मे डूबकर मर गया।
 
जब मरकर ईश्वर के सामने पंहुचा तो उसने गुस्से से पूछा मुझे तुम पर पूरा भरोसा था फिर भी तुमने मेरी प्रार्थना क्यो अनसुनी कर दी?  तब ईश्वर ने कहा कि वह जीप,  नाव,  हेलीकॉप्टर,  तख्ता आदि किसने भेजा था?  लेकिन नहीं बचने कि गलती तुम्हारी थी,  तुम बचना ही नही चाहते थे। भला मैं क्या कर सकता था?

गौरतलब : भाग्य उन्ही का साथ देता है जो अपनी मदद ख़ुद करते हैं,  अपना पुरूषार्थ किये बगैर जो सिर्फ किस्मत और भगवान् पर सब कुछ छोड़ देते हैं उनसे बड़ा बेवकूफ इस दुनियां में कोई नहीं होता!
   
अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 02, 2008, 07:01:54 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

ईश्वर क्या है?  

यह प्रश्न कितनों के मन में नहीं है! और यह बात ऐसे पूछी जाती है, जैसे कि ईश्वर कोई वस्तु है- खोजने वाले से अलग और भिन्न और जैसे उसे अन्य वस्तुओं की भांति पाया जा सकता है। ईश्वर को पाने की बात ही व्यर्थ है- और उसे समझने की भी। क्योंकि वह मेरे आरपार है। मैं उसमें हूं और ठीक से कहें तो 'मैं' हूं ही नहीं, केवल वही है।

ईश्वर 'जो है' उसका नाम है। वह सत्ता के भीतर 'कुछ' नहीं है; स्वयं सत्ता है। उसका अस्तित्व भी नहीं है, वरन अस्तित्व ही उसमें है। वह 'होने' का अस्तित्व का, अनाम का नाम है।

इससे उसे खोजा नहीं जाता है, क्योंकि मैं भी उसी में हूं। उसमें तो खोया जाता है और खोते ही उसका पाना है।

एक कथा है। एक मछली सागर का नाम सुनते-सुनते थक गयी थी। एक दिन उसने मछलियों की रानी से पूछा : 'मैं सदा से सागर का नाम सुनती आयी हूं, पर सागर है क्या? और कहां है?' रानी ने कहा, 'सागर में ही तुम्हारा जन्म है, जीवन है और जगत है। सागर ही तुम्हारी सत्ता है। सागर ही तुम में है और तुम्हारे बाहर है। सागर से तुम बनी हो और सागर में ही तुम्हारा अंत है। सागर प्रतिक्षण तुम्हें घेरे हुए है।'

ईश्वर प्रत्येक को प्रतिक्षण घेरे हुए है। पर हम मूर्छित हैं, इसलिए उसका दर्शन नहीं होता है। मूच्र्छा जगत है, संसार है। अमूच्र्छा ईश्वर है।
   
अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on April 05, 2008, 05:00:47 AM
Om Sai Ram~~~

I asked BABA to take away my habit~
BABA said, No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up~
 
I asked BABA to make my handicapped child whole~
BABA said, No. His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary~~
 
I asked BABA to grant me patience~
BABA said, No. Patience is a byproduct of tribulations; it isn't granted, it is learned~~
 
I asked BABA to give me happiness~
BABA said, No. I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you~~
 
I asked BABA to spare me pain~
BABA said, No.Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to me~~
 
I asked BABA to make my spirit grow~
BABA said, No.  You must grow on your own! , but I will prune you to make you fruitful~~

I asked BABA for all things that I might  enjoy life~
BABA said, No.I will give you life, so that you may enjoy all things~~

I ask BABA to help me LOVE others, as much as He loves me~
BABA said...Ahhhh, finally you have the idea~~

May BABA Bless All Of Us~~~
"To the world you might be one person, but  to one person you just might be the world"


"Even the word 'IMPOSSIBLE' says 'I M POSSIBLE' "

Jai Sai Ram~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 05, 2008, 08:15:27 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

A man went to a shop, picked up a beautiful cup and said “My God! This cup is so beautiful.''

Suddenly the cup started talking to the man. ‘Oh, man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot maker made me so beautiful?'

I was sheer mud when the potter pulled me out from mother earth. I felt wreathed in tremendous pain while being separated from mother earth. But the potter said, 'JUST WAIT '. Then he churned me. I felt giddy when I was churned, and asked him 'Why are you so cruel?' The potter said 'JUST WAIT '. Then he put me into an oven and heated me up. I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked him again 'why are you so cruel?’ He said ' JUST WAIT.'

After that he poured hot paint on me n I felt the fumes and irritation. I again asked him 'Why are you so cruel? ' He said again ' JUST WAIT '. He put me into an oven and heated me to make me strong; I felt life was so painful hence pleaded with the potter to leave me free. He said 'JUST WAIT '. And finally he took me to a mirror and said ' Now look at yourself''. Lo, what a change! I found myself so beautiful. ''

We have to wait; our struggles have a cosmic purpose. When per agenda is not fulfilled, it gives us pain. But universe has its own plans. We have to wait and make our struggles sacred. Greatness lies not in being strong but in the right use of scared strength.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 06, 2008, 09:47:56 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

बाबा से अब ताल्लुक ही कुछ ऐसा हो रहा है यारो
जब भी सोचता हूँ उसे आँख भर आती है मेरी
लगता है ये मेरी इबाबत का अन्दाज़ सा हो गया है
मानो ये उसकी मोहब्बत की इनायत है यारो...

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 07, 2008, 09:55:58 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

दूरियों की परवाह ना कीजिये
दिल जब चाहे दिल से बुला लीजिये
मैं ज्यादा दूर नही हूँ तुम सबसे
पुकारोगे मुझे प्यार से
शिरडी की गलियों से दौड़ा चला आऊगा
बस अपनी पलकों को पलकों से मिला लो
मैं तुम बच्चों की बन्द आँखों में हमेशा कैद हो जाऊगा।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: mala_raj on April 09, 2008, 08:18:29 PM
ॐ सांई राम~~~

प्रार्थना~~~

1~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी शक्ति,
उसने मुझे दी कठिनाईयाँ,हिम्मत बढ़ाने के लिए।

2~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी बुद्धि,
उसने मुझे दी उलझनें,सुलझाने के लिए।

3~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी सम्रद्धि,
उसने मुझे दी समझ,काम करने के लिए।

4~ मैंने भगवान से मांगा प्यार,
उसने मुझे दिए दुखी लोग,मदद करने के लिए।

5~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी हिम्म्त,
उसने मुझे दी परेशानियाँ,उबर पाने के लिए।

6~ मैंने भगवान से मांगा वरदान,
उसने मुझे दिए अवसर,उन्हें पाने के लिए।

~~वो मुझे नहीं मिला जो मैंने मांगा था,
मुझे वो मिल गया जो मुझे चाहिए था~~

जय सांई राम~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: sairuby on April 09, 2008, 08:53:38 PM
ॐ सांई राम~~~

प्रार्थना~~~

1~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी शक्ति,
उसने मुझे दी कठिनाईयाँ,हिम्मत बढ़ाने के लिए।

2~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी बुद्धि,
उसने मुझे दी उलझनें,सुलझाने के लिए।

3~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी सम्रद्धि,
उसने मुझे दी समझ,काम करने के लिए।

4~ मैंने भगवान से मांगा प्यार,
उसने मुझे दिए दुखी लोग,मदद करने के लिए।

5~ मैंने भगवान से मांगी हिम्म्त,
उसने मुझे दी परेशानियाँ,उबर पाने के लिए।

6~ मैंने भगवान से मांगा वरदान,
उसने मुझे दिए अवसर,उन्हें पाने के लिए।

~~वो मुझे नहीं मिला जो मैंने मांगा था,
मुझे वो मिल गया जो मुझे चाहिए था~~

जय सांई राम~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on April 09, 2008, 11:10:58 PM
Om Sai Ram~~~

" I asked  BABA to bless all of us,
As I prayed for us today,
To guide us and protect us,
As we go along our way...
His love is always with us,
His promises are true,
And when we give him all our cares,
We know He will see us through
So when the road we are traveling on,
Seems difficult at best
Just remember we here praying,
And BABA will do the rest"~~~

Jai Sai Ram~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: JBAK_SAI on April 10, 2008, 04:17:17 PM

SAI RAM  SAI RAM
SAI RAM  SAI RAM

 
:-*.....Baba, Bless Us All.....:-*
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on April 14, 2008, 01:54:47 AM
ॐ सांई राम~~~

हे! परमदेव प्रभु आप परम शुद्ध अनन्त शक्ति स्वरूप,अनन्त ज्ञान स्वरूप,अनन्त आनन्द स्वरूप,अनन्त प्रेम एवम् ज्योति स्वरूप हैं ।

हे! परम कृपालू देवाधिदेव।आप को नमस्कार हो, बार बार नमस्कार हो ।

हे! विश्वमय एवम् विश्वतीत, एकमेव अद्वितीय परमेश्वर मैं आप की शरण में हूँ मुझे अपना लो,मुझे अपना बना लो,मुझे संभाल लो प्रभु,मैं आपकी हूँ,आपकी ही हूँ,जैसी कैसी हूँ,आपकी शरण में हूँ ।

हे! सरवेश्वर मेरा शरीर स्वस्थ हो,मेरी इन्द्रियां निर्मल हो,मेरी भावनायँ पवित्र हो,मेरी बुद्धि सुस्थिर हो।

हे प्रभु! मेरा समुच्य जीवन पवित्र व विकसित बन कर आपके भजन स्मरण में,आपके चिन्तन में व आप की सेवा में व्यतीत हो । परम कृपालु! मुझे ऐसा बल दो कि मैं आपको देख सकूं,सत्य को देख सकूं।

हे पूर्ण! मेरी अपूर्णताओं को पूर्णता में बदल दो,मुझे अपने में मिला कर पूर्ण कर लो।
सभी सदगामी हो, सभी सुखी हो,सभी प्रेम से रहे,सभी का कल्याण हो।

ॐ शान्ति~~~शान्ति~~~शान्ति~~~

जय सांई राम~~~

Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on April 22, 2008, 12:56:34 AM
ॐ सांई राम~~~

प्रार्थना की कोई विधि नहीं है । यह तो एक पागलपन है - प्रेम से भरा पागलपन । सांई के नशे से मदमस्त आँखों का नाम ही प्रार्थना है!!!

जय सांई राम~~~
       
 
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 23, 2008, 07:59:33 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

WOW!  My kind of prayer "प्रार्थना की कोई विधि नहीं है । यह तो एक पागलपन है -  प्रेम से भरा पागलपन । सांई के नशे से मदमस्त आँखों का नाम ही प्रार्थना है"

Today I will delete from my diary
two days : yesterday and tomorrow
Yesterday was to learn
and tomorrow will be the consequence
of what I can do today.
     
Today I will face life
with the conviction that this day
will not ever return.

Today is the last opportunity
I have to live intensely,
as no one can assure me
that I will see tomorrow's sunrise.
   
Today I will be brave enough
not to let any opportunity pass me by,               
my only alternative is to succeed.
     
Today I will invest
my most valuable resource : my time,
in the most trascendental work:
my life;
     
I will spend each minute
passionately to make
of today a different
and unique day in my life.

Today I will defy every obstacles
that appears on my way trusting
I will succeed.
                       
Today I will resist
pesimism and will conquer             
the world with a smile,             
with the positive attitude                 
of expecting always the best.
       
Today I will make of every ordinary task
a sublime expression,             
   
Today I will have my feet on the ground
understanding reality
and the stars' gaze
to invent my future.

Today I will take the time to be happy
and will leave my footprints and my presence
in the hearts of others.
           
Today,  I invite you to begin a new season
where we can dream
that everything we undertake is possible
and we fulfil it,
with joy and dignity.

Have a Nice day
and a better one tomorrow!

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: SaiServant on April 23, 2008, 09:24:54 AM
My dearest Bhai!
Jai Sai Ram!

A very inspiring message! A lovely affirmation that life is here and now. :)
May Baba bless you!

Om Sai Ram!!
 :-*
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on April 23, 2008, 10:39:00 PM
ॐ सांई राम~~~

प्रार्थना की कोई विधि नहीं है । यह तो एक पागलपन है - प्रेम से भरा पागलपन । सांई के नशे से मदमस्त आँखों का नाम ही प्रार्थना है!!!

जय सांई राम~~~
       
 
जय सांई राम।।।

WOW!  My kind of prayer "प्रार्थना की कोई विधि नहीं है । यह तो एक पागलपन है -  प्रेम से भरा पागलपन । सांई के नशे से मदमस्त आँखों का नाम ही प्रार्थना है"

Today I will delete from my diary
two days : yesterday and tomorrow
Yesterday was to learn
and tomorrow will be the consequence
of what I can do today.
    
Today I will face life
with the conviction that this day
will not ever return.

Today is the last opportunity
I have to live intensely,
as no one can assure me
that I will see tomorrow's sunrise.
  
Today I will be brave enough
not to let any opportunity pass me by,              
my only alternative is to succeed.
    
Today I will invest
my most valuable resource : my time,
in the most trascendental work:
my life;
     
I will spend each minute
passionately to make
of today a different
and unique day in my life.

Today I will defy every obstacles
that appears on my way trusting
I will succeed.
                       
Today I will resist
pesimism and will conquer             
the world with a smile,            
with the positive attitude                
of expecting always the best.
       
Today I will make of every ordinary task
a sublime expression,            
  
Today I will have my feet on the ground
understanding reality
and the stars' gaze
to invent my future.

Today I will take the time to be happy
and will leave my footprints and my presence
in the hearts of others.
          
Today,  I invite you to begin a new season
where we can dream
that everything we undertake is possible
and we fulfil it,
with joy and dignity.

Have a Nice day
and a better one tomorrow!

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।


ॐ सांई राम~~~

हांजी रमेश भाई यही पागलपन में डूबना है....सांई नाम के नशे में,सांई प्यार के नशे में मदमस्त आँखों हो जाए बस............

जय सांई राम~~~

       
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 23, 2008, 11:27:15 PM
जय सांई राम।।।
 
Live today....

A squirrel joined the service of the King of the Forest, the lion. He did whatever work was given him, quickly and well. The lion became fond of him. "I promise you a cartload of almonds as pension when you retire". The squirrel envied the other squirrels in the forest because of their carefree life. He longed to run up and down trees and leap from branch to branch like them. Yet in pride, he loved to move with courtly dignity and boasted about his royal career. He often kept proclaiming thus. "I cannot leave the king's side even if I wish."

He consoled himself with the thought that at the end of his career, he would receive a cartload of almonds, a food that few squirrels got to taste in their lifetime. "They will envy me then," he would tell himself. The years passed. The squirrel became old and then it was time for him to retire.

The king gave a grand banquet in his honour and at the end of it, presented him with a cartload of almonds as he had promised. The squirrel had waited so long for this day but when he saw the almonds, he was seized with sadness. He realised they were of no use to him now. He had lost all his teeth.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 24, 2008, 09:30:41 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

In the ancient Judaic tradition only the highest priest of the great temple of Jerusalem was allowed to utter God's name, and that too only once a year, and one time only. But even that was not to be uttered before the people. He would go into the temple, all the doors would be closed. He would go to the innermost sanctuary the innermost shrine, where he would go only once, and there behind closed doors he would whisper the name of God -- once a year, and nobody should hear it. And it could be given by the highest priest only to his successor; in his ear he had to whisper it. It simply says that there is no name for him.

Jews, even today, whenever they write "God" never write G-O-D because that is a crime; they always G-D. They drop the O so that we know that whatsoever we utter is incomplete. The O is missing -- the most central part is missing. The O is also the symbol for zero -- and zero is the essential core of existence -- nothingness, shunya. It is beautiful the way Jews write "God," G-D; the O is missing because that is the true God. But when you take the O separately it is nothing but zero. It simply represents nothingness.

These are ways of saying that God is absolute nothingness. You cannot worship God. All that you can do is: you can become nothing. That is true worship, that is prayer.

That is what : to be nobodies, to be nothingnesses.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 26, 2008, 11:35:40 PM
जय सांई राम।।।
 
Prayer brings sweetness in life....

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 28, 2008, 08:36:45 AM
जय सांई राम।।।
 
A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet.

She poured the change out on the floor and counted it carefully.. Three times, even. The total had to be exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes.

Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way 6 blocks to Rexall's Drug Store with the big Red Indian Chief sign above the door.

She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention, but he was too busy at this moment. Tess twisted her feet to make a scuffing noise.. Nothing. She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster. No good. Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter That did it!

"And what do you want?" the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice. I'm talking to my brother from Chicago whom I haven't seen in ages," he said without waiting for a reply to his question.

"Well, I want to talk to you about my brother," Tess answered back in the same annoyed tone. "He's really, really sick..and I want to buy a miracle."

"I beg your pardon?" said the pharmacist.

"His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?"

"We don't sell miracles here, little girl. I'm sorry but I can't help you," the pharmacist said, softening a little

"Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn't enough, I will get the rest. Just tell me how much it costs."

The pharmacist's brother was a well dressed man. He stooped down and asked the little girl, "What kind of a miracle does your brother need?"

" I don't know," Tess replied with her eyes welling up. I just know he's really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation But my Daddy can't pay for it, so I want to use my money."

"How much do you have?" asked the man from Chicago .

"One dollar and eleven cents," Tess answered barely audibly.

"And it's all the money I have, but I can get some more if I need to."

"Well, what a coincidence," smiled the man. "A dollar and eleven cents---the exact price of a miracle for little brothers. "

He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her mitten and said "Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the miracle you need."

That well dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specializing in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed free of charge and it wasn't long until Andrew was home again and doing well.

Mom and Dad were happily talking about the chain of events that had led them to this place.

"That surgery," her Mom whispered. "was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have cost?"

Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost...one dollar and eleven cents....plus the faith of a little child.

In our lives, we never know how many miracles we will need.

A miracle is not the suspension of natural law, but the operation of a higher law. 


अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on April 29, 2008, 04:41:11 AM
जय सांई राम।।।
 
हम भी उसके....वह भी हमारा....बाबा साई ही मनोरथ देता है और वही उसको साकार भी करता है....हम तो बस दाता के दरबार में अर्ज़ी लगाते रहते हैं. पूजा भी उसकी, प्रार्थना भी उसकी, प्रतिफ़ल भी उसका, प्रसाद भी उसका, आनंद भी उसका, दु:ख भी उसी के, सुख भी उसी के...हम भी उसी के.....वह भी हमारा और क्या चाहिये इसके सिवा....इस दुनियां में?

कुदरत के नज़ारों में हैं मेरे बाबा ही बाबा....सिर्फ बाबा....बाबा ही बाबा

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 01, 2008, 08:29:54 AM
जय सांई राम।।।
 
दूर से आती रोशनी की एक किरण मन मे कही आशा की लौ जगा जाती है
अन्धेरो से लड़ने का हौसला दे जाती है
निराशा के मरुस्थल मे पानी की एक बूंद सी लगती है ।

ये सफर है निराशाओ से आशाओ तक का
ये सफर है मन के द्वंद से उबरने का
ये सफर है अन्धेरो से उजाले तक का ।

अन्धेरो को पीछे छोड़ मुझे आगे बढना है
कल को भूल मुझे आज मे जीना है
रोशनी के उस पुंज को छूना है ।

यही मेरा आज का संकल्प और आज की अर्चना है अपने बाबा के नाम

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: SaiServant on May 01, 2008, 09:51:35 AM
Jai Sai Ram!

Wah, dearest Bhai!! Bahut khubsurat likha hai aap ne.
May Baba lead us from darkness to light, from despair to hope, and from lack to abundance!

Om Sai Ram!
 :)
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: dayalvasnani on May 01, 2008, 09:02:08 PM
Om Sai Namo Namah Shri Sai Namo Namah
Jai Jai Sai Namo Namah Sadguru Sai Namo Namah
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on May 01, 2008, 11:02:11 PM
Om Sai Ram~~~

ये सफर है निराशाओ से आशाओ तक का
ये सफर है मन के द्वंद से उबरने का
ये सफर है अन्धेरो से उजाले तक का ।

अन्धेरो को पीछे छोड़ मुझे आगे बढना है
कल को भूल मुझे आज मे जीना है
रोशनी के उस पुंज को छूना है ।


Jai Sai Ram~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 02, 2008, 09:05:57 AM
जय सांई राम।।।
 
Madhu means sweet, nado means music -- sweet music, sweet sound. Existence is full of music; it is music everywhere, all over. The wind passing through the pines is music, the water descending from the mountains is music, the birds, the animals. The whole existence is a kind of great orchestra. It is a symphony.

Only man has fallen out of step, only man is no more musical. Man is noisy and he has created so much noise in himself that he cannot even hear the music that is all around.

He is full of his own noise, his own chattering, his constant inner talk. Awake, asleep, the talk continues, the mind continues. The mind goes on spinning and weaving, spinning and weaving; it is almost neurotic. And because of this neurotic mind you cannot hear the immensely penetrating music of existence, of the cosmos.

To hear it is to be transformed. To hear it is to be reborn. Then life takes on a new dimension. Then life is no more ordinary; it becomes extraordinary, it becomes luminous. It throbs, it dances! It becomes a hymn to god, a prayer. Tremendous gratitude arises in one's self once the cosmic music is heard. And that cosmic music is always there; it is just that we are not available.

Meditation helps you to become available. Meditation doesn't produce anything, it simply removes obstacles so that you can hear that which is already happening. Meditation is a negative process: it simply removes rocks so that the flow of music can be heard, so that the music can reach you.

When you are quiet, silent, the still small voice is heard. That voice is divine. And it is absolutely miraculous, mysterious. Its splendour is immeasurable and it leaves nothing but a sweet taste in you --the taste of nectar!

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 04, 2008, 08:23:10 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

A small story.... It is just a story, but full of meaning and juice.

When God created the world, he used to live in the world. But he became tired, because from the morning on, everybody would start coming with complaints: somebody has no child, somebody's child is sick, somebody's child has died; somebody has fallen in love but the parents are not allowing him to marry the woman.

.. and millions are the problems. And just one poor God! And those who could not get him in the day would torture him in the night -- he was unable even to sleep.

Finally, he asked his advisor, "What should I do? These people will kill me! They don't allow me rest, and they bring a thousand and one problems. They should solve those problems. I have given them every capacity, intelligence, to solve all their problems but they want to throw all responsibility on me, thinking that `Why should we bother? Why did you create us in the first place? If you created us then take care of our problems."'

The advisor whispered in his ear, "There is a place where these people will never go."  He said, "Just show it to me."

And he said, "You just hide inside these people themselves. They will go searching for you all over the world but they will never go inside. You can rest, relax." And he is resting and relaxing there.

If you want to know whether the story is true or not, Just GO IN!   

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 06, 2008, 10:33:16 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

चाभियाँ सिर्फ़ ताला खोलने के लिए नहीं होती हैं कहीं न कहीं वो उस आशा का प्रतीक होती हैं कि जीवन में कभी न कभी कहीं न कहीं कोई दरवाजा ऐसा मिलेगा जिसके ताले को खोलने की हिम्मत हमारे भीतर से कहीं उपजित होगी और उस दरवाजे के खुलते ही वो सफर शुरू होगा जिसके लिए उस दरवाजे तक का सफर तय किया गया है....

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 12, 2008, 11:32:10 PM
जय सांई राम।।।

जो केवल 'है'

'एक सराय में एक रात एक यात्री ठहरा था। वह जब वहां पहुंचा तो कुछ यात्री विदा हो रहे थे। सुबह जब वह विदा हो रहा था, तो कुछ और यात्री आ रहे थे। सराय में अतिथि आते और चले जाते, लेकिन आतिथेय वहीं का वहीं था।' एक साधु यह कह कर पूछता था कि क्या यही घटना मनुष्य के साथ प्रतिक्षण नहीं घट रही है?

मैं भी यही पूछता हूं और कहता हूं कि जीवन में अतिथि और आतिथेय को पहचान लेने से बड़ी और कोई बात नहीं है। शरीर-मन एक सराय है। उसमें विचार के, वासनाओं के, विकारों के अतिथि आते हैं। पर इन अतिथियों से पृथक भी वहां कुछ है। आतिथेय भी है। वह आतिथेय कौन है?

यह 'कौन' कैसे जाना जाये? बुद्ध ने कहा है, 'रुक जाओ।' और यह रुक जाना ही उसका जानना है। बुद्ध का पूरा वचन है, 'यह पागल मन रुकता नहीं, यदि यह रुक जाए तो वही बोधि है, वही निर्वाण है।' मन के रुकते ही आतिथेय प्रकट हो जाता है। वह शुद्ध, नित्य, बुद्ध, चैतन्य है। जो न कभी जन्मा, न मरा। न जो बद्ध है, न मुक्त होता है। जो केवल 'है', और जिसका होना परमा आनंद है।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 15, 2008, 08:37:35 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

इतनी शक्ति हमें देना दाता
मन का विश्वास कमज़ोर हो ना
हम चलें नेक रास्ते पे हमसे
भूलकर भी कोई भूल हो ना...

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 18, 2008, 02:04:39 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

BABA IS LIKE SOMEONE MORE THAN SPECIAL TO ME....
 
With each day that passes
I find myself investing more and more
Into this relationship with HIM;
Faith, hope, trust,
and even my dreams....
 
If there were a reason to keep living,
I've found ten thousand in HIM....
This is what HE's done to me,
And continue to do....
 
Because of this and more,
HE's Someone Special In My Life

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 19, 2008, 03:15:45 AM
जय सांई राम़।।।

श्री सांईराम नाम से मिले सुख,
श्री सांईराम नाम से मिले आराम,
श्री सांईराम नाम से मिले शांति,
श्री सांईराम नाम से मिटे संताप|

श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय शीतल,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय विशाल,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय सागर,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय आकाश|

श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय संवेदन,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय करूणा,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय कोमल.
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय अनुराग|

श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय सुंदर,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय उपकार,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय मर्यादा,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय सत्कार|

श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय मधुर,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय प्यार,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय साह्स,
श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय संग्राम|

श्री सांईराम का ह्र्दय परम लौ

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on May 23, 2008, 06:56:58 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

है सर्व शक्ति संपन्न प्रभू,
करबद्ध विनय हम करते हैं!
सेवा में वस्तु आप ही की,
अर्पण कर भोजन करते हैं !
इन्द्रियाँ चित्त इससे बन कर,
सब परहित ही में लग जावें !
सच्चिदानंद सदगुरू दो शक्ति हमें,
जिससे जीवन का फल पावें!

मेरा मुझ में कुछ नहीं, जो कुछ हे सो तेरा!
तेरा तुझ को अर्पित, क्या लागे हे मेरा !!

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on May 27, 2008, 05:23:02 AM
ॐ सांई राम~~~

प्रार्थना~~~

हे साई सदगुरु~~ भक्तों के कल्पतरु ~~ हमारी आपसे प्रार्थना है कि आपके अभय चरणों की हमें कभी विस्मृति न हो । आपके श्री चरण कभी भी हमारी दृष्टि से ओझल न हों । हम इस जन्म-मृत्यु के चक्र से संसार में अधिक दुखी है । अब दयाकर इस चक्र से हमारा शीघ्र उद्घार कर दो । हमारी इन्द्रियाँ, जो विषय-पदार्थों की ओर आकर्षित हो रही है, उनकी बाहृ प्रवृत्ति से रक्षा कर, उन्हें अंतर्मुखी बना कर हमें आत्म-दर्शन के योग्य बना दो । जब तक हमारी इन्द्रयों की बहिमुर्खी प्रवृत्ति और चंचल मन पर अंकुश नहीं है, तब तक आत्मसाक्षात्कार की हमें कोई आशा नहीं है । हमारे पुत्र और मीत्र, कोई भी अन्त में हमारे काम न आयेंगे । हे साई ~ हमारे तो एकमात्र तुम्हीं हो, जो हमें मोक्ष और आनन्द प्रदान करोगे । हे प्रभु ~ हमारी तर्कवितर्क तथा अन्य कुप्रवृत्तियों को नष्ट कर दो । हमारी जिहृ सदैव तुम्हारे नामस्मरण का स्वाद लेती रहे । हे साई ~ हमारे अच्छे बुरे सब प्रकार के विचारों को नष्ट कर दो । प्रभु ~ कुछ ऐसा कर दो कि जिससे हमें अपने शरीर और गृह में आसक्ति न रहे । हमारा अहंकार सर्वथा निर्मूल हो जाय और हमें एकमात्र तुम्हारे ही नाम की स्मृति बनी रहे तथा शेष सबका विस्मरण हो जाय । हमारे मन की अशान्ति को दूर कर, उसे स्थिर और शान्त करो । हे साई ~ यदि तुम हमारे हाथ अपने हाथ में ले लोगे तो अज्ञानरुपी रात्रि का आवरण शीघ्र दूर हो जायेगा और हम तुम्हारे ज्ञान-प्रकाश में सुखपूर्वक विचरण करने लगेंगे । यह जो तुम्हारा लीलामृत पान करने का सौभाग्य हमें प्राप्त हुआ तथा जिसने हमें अखण्ड निद्रा से जागृत कर दिया है, यह तुम्हारी ही कृपा और हमारे गत जन्मों के शुभ कर्मों का ही फल है ।

जय सांई राम~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: tana on June 01, 2008, 05:24:56 AM
Om Sai Ram~~~

BABA protects you;
he holds your life in his hands~~~

BABA has some plans for you,
some small, some big, some grand~~~

BABA guides you,
with a brilliant shining light~~~

BABA watches over you
through morning, noon, and night~~~

BABA is always there for you,
to aid you in times of woe~~~

BABA tries hard to help you
see, and learn, and grow~~~

BABA has much faith in you;
there's nothing you can't achieve~~~

BABA encourages you
to try, to think, to believe~~~

BABA will always love you,
and he hopes you'll love him too~~~

BABA lends a shoulder,
to calm, support, and soothe~~~

BABA will wait for you;
he'll be there in the end~~~

BABA will welcome you,
because he's your friend~~~

Jai Sai Ram~~~
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on June 05, 2008, 04:13:53 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

मैं से बड़ी और कोई भूल नहीं। प्रभु के मार्ग में वही सबसे बड़ी बाधा है। जो उस अवरोध को पार नहीं करते, सत्य के मार्ग पर उनकी कोई गति नहीं होती।

एक साधु किसी गांव से गुजरता था। उसका एक मित्र-साधु भी उस गांव में था। उसने सोचा कि उससे मिलता चलूं। रात आधी हे रही थी, फिर भी वह मिलने गया। एक बंद खिड़की से प्रकाश को आते देख उसने उसे खटखटाया। भीतर से आवाज आई, 'कौन है?' उसने यह सोचा कि वह तो अपनी आवाज से ही पहचान लिया जावेगा, कहा, 'मैं।' फिर भीतर से कोई उत्तर नहीं आया। उसने बार-बार खिड़की पर दस्तक दी उत्तर नहीं आया। ऐसा ही लगने लगा कि जैसे कि वह घर बिलकुल निर्जन है। उसने जोर से कहा, 'मित्र तुम मेरे लिये द्वार क्यों नहीं खोल रहे हो और चुप क्यों हो?' भीतर से कह गया, 'यह कौन ना समझ है, जो स्वयं को 'मैं' कहता है, क्योंकि 'मैं' कहने का अधिकार सिवाय परमात्मा के और किसी को नहीं है।'

प्रभु के द्वार पर हमारे 'मैं' का ही ताला है। जो उसे तोड़ देते हें, वे पाते हैं कि द्वार तो सदा से ही खुले थे!   

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on June 19, 2008, 09:07:28 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

Prayer is the highest form of love, the purest form of love. In love there is some demand hidden, unhidden, conscious, unconscious, but there is some subtle undercurrent of demand, of desire, of conditions. In prayer love has become free of conditions, free of desires, free of passion. In prayer love is freedom. It has stopped begging. It asks nothing; it has forgotten the language of asking. On the contrary, it has learned how to give. When love starts giving it becomes prayer.

So in fact, only love is the bridge.

The higher love is, the more rooted you will be.... More grounded.

Man also has roots just as do trees, but those roots are not visible roots, that's the only difference. Otherwise we have roots, but our roots are invisible. They need nourishment, and the nourishment comes through love and finally through prayer. So start by loving and by prayer; that is your whole path. The beginning should be love and the end should be prayer, and somewhere in the middle of the way, love is transformed into prayer. If one can go on loving and loving and loving, one day one suddenly sees that now the love is no more crawling on the earth but has grown wings and is flying into the sky. Then it is prayer.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on July 14, 2008, 02:25:01 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

प्रेम और प्रार्थना का आनंद उनमें ही है- उनके बाहर नहीं। जो उनके द्वारा उनसे कुछ चाहता है, उसे उनके रहस्य का पता नहीं है। प्रेम में डूब जाना ही प्रेम का फल है। और, प्रार्थना की तन्मयता और आनंद ही उसका पुरस्कार है।

ईश्वर का एक प्रेमी अनेक वर्षो से साधना में था। एक रात्रि उसने स्वप्न में सुना कि कोई कह रहा है, ''प्रभु तेरे भाग्य में नहीं, व्यर्थ श्रम और प्रतीक्षा मत कर।'' उसने इस स्वप्न की बात अपने मित्रों से कही। किंतु, न तो उसके चेहरे पर उदासी आई और न ही उसकी साधाना ही बंद हुई। उसके मित्रों ने उससे कहा, ''जब तूने सुन लिया कि तेरे भाग्य का दरवाजा बंद है, तो अब क्यों व्यर्थ प्रार्थनाओं में लगा हुआ है?'' उस प्रेमी ने कहा, ''व्यर्थ प्रार्थनाएं? पागलों! प्रार्थना तो स्वयं में ही आनंद है- कुछ या किसी के मिलने या न मिलने से उसका क्या संबंध है? और, जब कोई अभिलाषा रखने वाला एक दरवाजे से निराश हो जाता है, तो दूसरा दरवाजा खटखटाता है, लेकिन मेरे लिए दूसरा दरवाजा कहां है? प्रभु के अतिरिक्त कोई दरवाजा नहीं।'' उस रात्रि उसने देखा था कि प्रभु उसे आलिंगन में लिए हुए हैं।

प्रभु के अतिरिक्त जिनकी कोई चाह नहीं है, असंभव है कि वे उसे न पा लें। सब चाहों का एक चाह बन जाना ही मनुष्य के भीतर उस शक्ति को पैदा करता है, जो कि उसे स्वयं को अतिक्रमण कर भागवत चैतन्य में प्रवेश के लिए समर्थ बनाती है....

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on July 24, 2008, 03:07:26 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

प्रकाश को अंधकार का पता नहीं। प्रकाश तो सिर्फ प्रकाश को ही जानता है। जिनके हृदय प्रकाश और पवित्रता से आपूरित हो जाते हैं,  उन्हें फिर कोई हृदय अंधकार पूर्ण और अपवित्र नहीं दिखाई पड़ता। जब तक हमें अपवित्रता दिखाई पड़े, जानना चाहिए कि उसके कुछ न कुछ अवशेष जरूर हमारे भीतर हैं। वह स्वयं के अपवित्र होने की सूचना ज्यादा और कुछ नहीं है।

सुबह की प्रार्थना के स्वर मंदिर में गूंज रहे थे। आचार्य रामानुज भी प्रभु की प्रार्थना में तल्लीन से दीखते मंदिर की परिक्रमा करते थे। और तभी अकस्मात एक चांडाल स्त्री उनके सम्मुख आ गई। उसे देख उनके पैर ठिठक गये,  प्रार्थना की तथाकथित तल्लीनता खंडित हो गई और मुंह से अत्यंत कलुष शब्द फूट पड़े : ''चांडालिन मार्ग से हट, मेरे मार्ग को अपवित्र न कर।''  प्रार्थना करती उनकी आंखों में क्रोध आ गया और प्रभु की स्तुति में लगे होठों पर विष। किंतु वह चांडाल स्त्री हटी नहीं,  अपितु हाथ जोड़कर पूछने लगी, ''स्वामी, मैं किस ओर सरकूं?  प्रभु की पवित्रता तो चारों ओर ही है!  मैं अपनी अपवित्रता किस ओर ले जाऊं?''  मानों कोई परदा रामानुज की आंखों के सामने से हट गया हो,  ऐसे उन्होंने उस स्त्री की ओर देखा। उसके वे थोड़े से शब्द उनकी सारी कठोरता बहा ले गये। श्रद्धावनत उन्होंने कहा,  ''मां, क्षमा करो। भीतर का मैल ही हमें बाहर दिखाई पड़ता है। जो भीतर की पवित्रता से आंखों को जांच लेता है, उसे चहुं ओर पावनता ही दिखाई देती है।''

प्रभु को देखने का कोई और मार्ग मैं नहीं जानता हूं। एक ही मार्ग है और वह है - सब ओर पवित्रता का अनुभव होना। जो सब में पावन को देखने लगता है, वही और केवल वही प्रभु के की कुंजी उपलब्ध कर पाता है।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on July 30, 2008, 01:16:40 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

प्रेम को पाओ। उससे ऊपर और कुछ भी नहीं है। तिरुवल्लुवर ने कहा है, 'प्रेम जीवन का प्राण है। जिसमें प्रेम नहीं, वह सिर्फ मांस से घिरी हुई हड्डियों का ढेर है।'

प्रेम क्या है? कल कोई पूछता था। मैंने कहा, ''प्रेम जो कुछ भी हो, उसे शब्दों में कहने का उपाय नहीं, क्योंकि वह कोई विचार नहीं है। प्रेम तो अनुभूति है। उसमें डूबा जा सकता है, लेकिन उसे जाना नहीं जा सकता। प्रेम पर विचार मत करो। विचार को छोड़ो और फिर जगत को देखो। उस शांति में जो अनुभव में आएगा, वही प्रेम है।''

और, फिर मैंने एक कहानी भी कही। किसी बाउल फकीर से एक पंडित ने पूछा, ''क्या आपको शास्त्रों में वर्गीकृत प्रेम के विभिन्न रूपों का ज्ञान है?'' वह फकीर बोला, ''मुझ जैसा अज्ञानी शास्त्रों की बात क्या जानें?'' इसे सुनकर उस पंडित ने शास्त्रों में वर्गीकृत प्रेम की विस्तृत चर्चा की और फिर उस फकीर का तत्संबंध में मंतव्य जानना चाहा। वह फकीर खूब हंसने लगा और बोला, ''आपकी बातें सुनकर मुझे लगता था कि जैसे कोई सुनार फूलों की बगिया में घुस आया है और वह स्वर्ण को परखने वाले पत्थर पर फूलों को घिस-घिसकर उनका सौंदर्य परख रहा है!''

प्रेम को विचारों मत- जीओ। लेकिन, स्मरण रहे कि उसे जीने में स्वयं को खोना पड़ता है। अहंकार अप्रेम है और जो जितना अहंकार को छोड़ देता है, वह उतना ही प्रेम से भर जाता है। ऐसा प्रेम ही परमात्मा के द्वार की सीढ़ी है....

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on August 31, 2008, 11:28:20 PM
जय सांई राम।।।

The most important thing in any prayer is what we say to BABA but what BABA says to us.  We are apt to pray and then hurry away without giving BABA a chance to answer....

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on November 20, 2008, 07:50:54 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

There is an ancient Tibetan parable that says a man goes on praying to God, "Come to me," and cries and cries, and God comes. But by the time God reaches there the man is not there; he has moved. And sometimes even if he is there and God comes, only his body is there. Now the body cannot recognize God. He's on spiritual trips, he's never where he is. So it goes on and on, and then he dies. And then he has a real grudge against God.

And when he comes to face God, he shouts, screams and he says, "I have been crying and crying and weeping and you never came!What about your promises? In the scriptures you have promised, 'Whenever somebody calls me I will come'!" And God said, "What are you talking about? I am fed-up with you, because I have been coming to you every day. Millions of times I came, but you were never there! You were somewhere else,, some place else. How to find you?! You never allowed me to find you."

Now That's message : allow God to find you, you need not go in search of Him. Where will you search? You don't know His address, you don't know His name. He has none. You don't know His form, how will you recognize? Even if you come across Him, even if you bump into Him in the street.... If you are a gentleman you will say, "Sorry" and you will move on. Or, if you are not such a gentleman, you may be angry and abuse and shout and fight with Him, but how will you recognize Him? You have never seen Him before.

The Egyptian mystics say. "When the disciple is ready, the Master comes. When the devotee is ready God appears." This is a very significant saying, of profound significance. The disciple cannot find the Master. Even if he finds, how will he recognize? It is always the Master who finds the disciple. Whenever the disciple is ready the Master appears, never before it. All directions have to be dropped.

Those directions are the cause of why you have not been Able to disappear into God. Your search is the cause of why you have not been able to find. Stop searching and find! In fact the moment you stop searching God finds you.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 07, 2008, 06:39:57 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

बाबा से मेरी प्रार्थना......जो कबूल हुई!  

मैंने बाबा से माँगी शक्ति
उसने मुझे दी कठिनाइयाँ
हिम्मत बढ़ाने के लिए।

मैंने बाबा से माँगी बुद्धि
उसने मुझे दी उलझनें
सुलझाने के लिए।

मैंने बाबा से माँगी समृद्धि
उसने मुझे दी समझ
काम करने के लिए।

मैंने बाबा से माँगा प्यार
उसने मुझे दिए दुखी लोग
प्यार करने के लिए।

मैंने बाबा से माँगी हिम्मत
उसने मुझे दीं परेशानियाँ
उनसे उबर पाने के लिए।

मैंने बाबा से माँगा वरदान
उसने मुझे दिए अवसर
उन्हें पाने के लिए।

बाबा ने वो मुझे नहीं दिया, जो मैंने माँगा,
उसने मुझे वह दिया, जो मेरे लायक था।

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


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Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on December 10, 2008, 08:55:51 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

Love energy is actual prayer. Every Religion have destroyed it. They have given you readymade prayers. Prayer is a spontaneous feeling.

Remember this story when you pray.

Let your prayer be a spontaneous phenomenon. If even your prayer cannot be spontaneous, then what will be? If even with God you have to be readymade then where will you be authentic and true and natural?

Say things that you would like to say. Talk to HIM as you would talk to a wise friend. But don't bring formalities in. A formal relationship is not a relationship at all. And you have become formal with God also. You miss all spontaneousness.

Bring love into prayer. Then you can talk! It is a beautiful thing -- a dialogue with the universe.

But have you watched? If you are really spontaneous, people will think you are mad. If you go to a tree and start talking, or to a flower, a rose, people will think you are mad. If you go to the church and talk to the cross or in a temple to the image, nobody will think you are mad, they will think you are religious. You are talking to a stone in the temple and everybody thinks you are religious because this is the authorized form.

If you talk to a rose -- which is more alive than any stone image, which is more divine than any stone image; if you talk to a tree -- which is more deeply rooted in God than any stone image, because no image has roots, it is a dead thing that's why it kills; a tree is alive, with roots deep into the earth, branches high into the sky, connected with the whole, with the rays of the sun, with the stars -- talk to the trees! That can be a contact point with the divine, but if you talk that way people will think you are mad.

Spontaneousness is thought to be madness. Formalities are thought to be sanity. Just the opposite is the reality. When you go into a temple and you simply repeat some crammed prayer you are simply foolish. Have a heart-to-heart talk! And prayer is beautiful. You will start flowering through it. Prayer is to be in love -- to be in love with the whole. And sometimes you get angry with the whole and you don't talk; that's beautiful. And you say: I will not talk, enough is enough, and you have not been listening to me! A beautiful gesture. Not dead. And sometimes you drop praying completely, because you go on praying and God is not listening.

It is a relationship with deep involvement in it. You get angry. Sometimes you feel very good, feel thankful, grateful; sometimes you feel put off; but let it be a LIVING relationship; then prayer is true.

If you just go on like a gramophone and repeat the same thing every day, you are not doing any prayer, it is not prayer.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।

Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 17, 2009, 07:17:20 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

Prayer is blissful when it is an expression of gratitude, with no demands, with no complaints. Whenever one starts asking for something in prayer, it is no longer blissful; it is praying out of misery, out of demand, out of need.

 It loses its grandeur, its grace. It is nothing but desire disguised as prayer. And that's what goes on in the churches, temples, mosques, in the name of prayer: people are not praying, people are asking, demanding, people are trying to exploit even God for their own purposes. They pray only when they are in need, they remember God when they are in misery. They completely forget God when they are happy. And the real prayer arises out of happiness, not Out of misery, so it is very rarely that real prayer happens in the world, because people pray when they are in pain and they forget completely when they are in pleasure. When everything is going well who bothers about God and who bothers about prayer? When something is not going right, you start remembering God.

It happened in the life of one of the very rare men of this century, Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist. He was also a revolutionary, and he was condemned to death with eleven of his other comrades. All twelve were to be shot early in the morning at exactly six o'clock. They were made to stand in a line and they started looking at the church tower, at the clock, and minute by minute life was disappearing. And Dostoevsky says in his memoirs that in those four, five moments, he remembered his whole past.

It happens: when death approaches and you become aware that death is coming -- when it takes you unawares -- then it doesn't happen; but when you know that at exactly six o'clock you will be shot dead and only five minutes are left, one starts having a review.

The whole film of the past starts moving. And in those five minutes he remembered that he has not lived his life attentively. He had wasted his life, he had lived as a robot, as a machine, unconsciously, almost asleep. He could not remember a single moment of attentiveness, of awareness. He decided, "If another life is given to me, I will devote my whole life to awareness." And by chance it happened that he was forgiven; exactly one minute before, the order from the Czar came that all those twelve had to be forgiven.

Then somebody asked him after a few years: "What happened to your decision?" He said, "I tried, but it didn't work out; I could not live attentively. I still try but... for a moment it is there and then it is gone."

People are living almost in a kind of sleep. But when pain comes, misery comes, they are disturbed in their sleep and they start praying, and they take great decisions that "Now, from now onwards, I will be good, I will be this, I will be that." But that is not true prayer. If it comes out of pain, once the pain is gone the prayer will be gone. The true prayer has to arise out of bliss, it has to arise out of your gratitude to God, it has to arise out of a tremendous sense that you are part of this great, profound mystery, that such an infinitely beautiful universe has been given to you for no reason at all; you have not earned it. It is a sheer gift from God.

Then there is prayer.

And if prayer is there, God is there. Wherever prayer is, God is. People ask, "Where is God?" -- their question is meaningless. They should ask, "What is prayer?" -- because wherever prayer is, God is. Prayer is the way to see God. Prayer gives you the eyes, the perspective to see God.  A blissful prayer to God. Let that become your existence too.


अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 18, 2009, 06:20:49 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

एक दिन फूलों को लगा कि हमेशा पत्थरों की पूजा की जाती है।  यह भला कहां का न्याय है?  पूजा तो उनकी भी की जानी चाहिए।  वे रुठ गये!

प्रकृति ने उनसे कहा, “तुम्हे यदि पत्थरों को न पूजना हो तो कोई बात नही; पत्थर तुम्हारी पूजा किया करेंगे किन्तु बिना पूजा किये काम नही चलेगा”

फूलों ने यह प्रस्ताव सहर्ष स्वीकार कर लिया।  लेकिन ज्यूं ही एक-एक खुरदरा, ऊबड-खाबड और भारी पत्थर एक एक कोमल फूल पर चढाया जाने लगा त्यूं ही फूलों की जान निकलने लगी और वे कुम्हलाने-मुरझाने लगे।

सब फूलों ने तुरंत प्रकृति से प्रार्थना की,  “नही चाहिए हमें यह सम्मान, पूजा को स्वीकार कराने की अपेक्षा पूजा करने में ही सुख है”


अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on January 20, 2009, 07:46:37 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

Prayer is not human, it is always divine, because it is not done by us; it happens to us. It is a penetration of the beyond, a ray of light coming into the darkness of our being.

It is not something that we invent, it is a gift.  All that is needed on our part is to be ready to receive it, to be willing, to be open, to be vulnerable.

Prayer is not an act that you can perform; it is not a ritual, it is nothing that you can do anything about.  One is utterly helpless before prayer.  There is only one thing you can do and that doing is very negative: don't hinder it.  When it comes to you, welcome it; when it fills your heart, don't be afraid; when it starts flowing in your tears, allow it.  Be in a let-go and prayer happens.

So whenever you are feeling harmonious, whenever you are feeling happy for no reason at all -- morning, evening, night -- then just sit with closed eyes, in a state of surrender... just available. Not available to anything in particular, not expecting something to happen, not waiting for God to do something to you... because those are subtle demands and they become the hindrances. Just being silent, enjoying silence, utterly surrendered and open to existence, one starts hearing the footsteps of the beyond, very close by.  They go on coming closer and closer and closer, and suddenly they are so close that they become your heartbeat.  Ultimately they are so close that you cannot separate yourself from them; you are them.

A man cannot do prayer but a man can become prayer. Prayer is a state of being, not a state of doing.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on July 26, 2009, 09:04:39 AM
जय सांई राम।।।

Prayer becomes false when we start demanding something; prayer is true when it is only a thanksgiving and nothing else. Because already much has been given to us... much that we don't deserve at all, for which we have not done anything. Life has been given to us -- we have not paid for it, we have not earned it. It is a gift, a sheer gift.

These two words are very important. One is 'pranam' -- it means a thankful salute. Another is 'prasad' -- 'prasad' means gift. Prasad is from god's side. Pranam is from our side. He gives -- we can only be grateful. In return we have nothing to give. Life is a prasad, a gift. Love is a prasad, a gift... this beautiful existence and so many possibilities and so much potential. Each moment is pregnant with infinite benediction. God is the giver.

All that we can do in return is bow down in deep gratitude. His gift is called 'prasad'; our gratitude is called 'pranam'.

So become a constant salute. Slowly slowly it penetrates so deeply that small things, very small things.... You are feeling thirsty: just a glass of water, and the thirst is quenched then there arises great thankfulness. You see a flower and suddenly you are possessed by its beauty. One would like to bow down, one would like to be on one's knees and have a little prayer. And then at each step and in every moment you will find many many things every day. And these things were always happening but you were not aware.

Only a grateful person becomes aware of the infinite gifts that are constantly being showered on us. The more grateful you are, the more you become aware how many gifts are being given. The more you feel grateful, the more you become open to receive. And those who are ready to receive, all is given to them. Nothing else is is needed... just an open heart.

One has to become a host, then only BABA will be ready to become the guest.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on July 30, 2009, 10:19:04 AM
जय सांई राम।।।
 
Prayer is the key that opens your day to every blessing.  It also is a lock that closes the night to keep you safe while sleeping.  So what you to do is "Use your key all the time".

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई

ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on August 04, 2009, 09:49:21 AM
जय सांई राम।।।
 
Prayer can either be serious or cheerful. If it is serious it is ill, unhealthy; something has gone sour in it. If it is cheerful, dancing, rejoicing, then it is healthy and whole. Ordinarily people pray only when they are sad, miserable; hence their prayer never soars very high. It cannot reach to the ultimate. It has no wings, it cannot fly. It cannot take you to the core of the mystery of existence. Because it is out of your misery it is heavy; because it is out of your sadness it knows nothing of dance. It cannot laugh, it knows nothing of laughter.

This has to be remembered : prayer should be playful. It should not be serious, it should be sincere, certainly, but not serious. It should be silent but not sad. It should be capable of love, laughter, lightness.  Unless it is rooted in delight it cannot take you very far.

A healthy prayer is nothing but a rejoicing in life and all its gifts. And life is beautiful. Each moment is full of surprise, and each moment brings tremendous possibilities of being ecstatic; but unless you are in a prayerful mood, receptive, laughing, dancing, you cannot receive those ecstatic gifts. You remain closed.

Prayer means the opening of the heart, just like a bud opening and becoming a flower... Then the flower enjoys the sun rays, the wind, the rain. Then the flower is laughing; it is laughter. It is a song. And a tiny flower is not as tiny as it appears, because it goes on pouring its fragrance into existence. It gives, it not only has. It not only gets, it gives too, it shares; it shares its whole spirit.

Become a blissful prayer a cheerful prayer and then BABA is not far away. In that very cheerfulness HE is found.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


ॐ सांई राम।।।
Title: Re: Archana
Post by: Ramesh Ramnani on February 18, 2010, 09:48:14 PM
जय सांई राम।।।

Too often we worry about the words we use in prayer. We focus on the words. What really counts is the spirit and intent behind our words. It is the spirit and intent that the Creator responds to. He reads and listens to our heart. Prayer isn't only when we fold our hands and pray. Prayer is when we talk to the Creator even when we are walking down a path or sitting on a hill or walking in the mountains. The Elders say, walk in prayer. We should be willing to talk with the Great One.

अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई


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