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Re: Spiritual Blossoms
« Reply #45 on: October 26, 2006, 12:33:04 AM »
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  • Spontaneous belief is a gift of God for the human in us to see,

    to feel and to grow into the very image of God.

    Belief by personal effort is a human earthly discovery,

    although to some extent it also is necessary.

    Jaisairam.

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    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.
    A Person, who has controlled his mind, can achieve any success in his life. How far you are trying to control your mind?
    The mind that judges not others ever remains tension-free.
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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #46 on: October 29, 2006, 09:32:10 AM »
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  • JAI SAI RAM!!!

    Just a small candle of trust is enough to destroy the darkness of ages. The darkness cannot say, 'I have lived in this place for so long, I cannot leave so easily and I cannot leave only because of this small candle.' Even a small candle is more potential than the darkness of ages, of centuries, of thousands of lives. But it will have to go... once the light is there it has to go.

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

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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #47 on: October 30, 2006, 10:27:23 AM »
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  • JAI SAI RAM!!!

    There is a Tibetan saying, that a hundred persons start to seek the truth, and perhaps only one reaches it. Ninety-nine get lost somewhere on the way. They either become involved in some other business or they go astray. There are thousands of ways of going astray and there is only one way of going into yourself.  And thats the beauty of yourself.

    OM SAI RAM!!!


    अपना साँई प्यारा साँई सबसे न्यारा अपना साँई - रमेश रमनानी

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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #48 on: October 30, 2006, 10:56:46 AM »
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  • Dear Ramesh Bhai!

    Thanks for this lovely message..The candle dispels darkness, so...

    Suraj naa ban paye to, ban ke deepak jalta jhal;
    phool mile ya angaray, sacch ki raah pe chalta chal;
    Pyaar diloon ko deta hai, ashkoon ko sawaan deta hai;
    Jeena uska jena hai, jo auroon ko jeevan deta hai;
    Madhuban khushbu deta hai, saagar sawan deta hai;

    To such a beautiful life!!

    Om Sai Ram!!



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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #49 on: October 31, 2006, 11:28:40 AM »
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  • " Hands That Serve Are Holier Than Lips That Pray " and I think best is if you can do both.
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    Om Sai Ram !

    -Anju

    "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear."

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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #50 on: November 03, 2006, 06:38:40 AM »
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  • Good conduct alone is our real wealth. Good qualities alone constitute our real treasure. An unsullied character, expressing itself in a pure and perfect life, constitutes the most precious riches one can possess. But men today have given up these three and are seeking worldly goods and, immersed in their own concerns, are imagining that they are leading pious lives. The Divine cannot be attained through such delusions. All the teachings one listens to, the books one studies and the education one receives, are only serving to nourish these delusions and not helping men to seek the Divine. To realise the Divine, one has to get rid of these delusions.
    Om Sai Ram !

    -Anju

    "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear."

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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #51 on: November 04, 2006, 01:24:52 PM »
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  • Jai Sai Ram!

    Thanks for this beautiful thought Anju ji. This reminds me of what my mother taught me as a child:

    Wealth is lost, nothing is lost
    Health is lost, something is lost
    Character is lost, everything is lost

    This may sound cliched, but the truth hidden in these lines cannot be ignored. Sadly, it has lost value in a materialistic world!

    Om Sai Ram!

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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #52 on: November 06, 2006, 08:46:34 PM »
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  • The Three Dolls
     
    A sage presented a prince with a set of three small dolls. The prince was not amused.

    "Am I a girl that you give me dolls?" he asked.

    "This is a gift for a future king," said the man. "If you look carefully, you'll see a hole in the ear of each doll."

    "So?"

    The sage handed him a piece of string. "Pass it through each doll," he said. Intrigued, the prince picked up the first doll and put the string into the ear. It came out from the other ear.
     
    "This is one type of person," said the man. "Whatever you tell him, comes out from the other ear. He doesn't retain anything."

    The prince put the string into the second doll. It came out from the mouth.

    "This is the second type of person," said the man. "Whatever you tell him, he tells everybody else."

    The prince picked up the third doll and repeated the process. The string did not reappear from anywhere else.

    "This is the third type of person," said the man. "Whatever you tell him is locked up within him. It never comes out."

    "What is the best type of person?" asked the prince. The man handed him a fourth doll, in answer.

    When the prince put the string into the doll, it came out from the other ear.

    "Do it again," said the sage. The prince repeated the process. This time the string came out from the mouth. When he put the string in a third time, it did not come out at all.

    "This is the best type of person," said the sage. "To be trustworthy, a man must know when not to listen, when to remain silent and when to speak out."
     
    अपना साँई प्यारा साँई सबसे न्यारा अपना साँई - रमेश रमनानी

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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #53 on: November 17, 2006, 06:35:27 PM »
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  • On the journey of earthly life, people take some wealth for expenses and when they finish the journey and reach the goal, they hand over the balance to some trustworthy friend and sleep soundly. Everyone brings the wealth of love from the moment of his birth. In this Karmakshetra (field of activity) that is the world, it is difficult to safeguard the treasure of Prema (love). Therefore, everyone should look for a faithful friend. Today, the only true friend is God. When you hand over the wealth of love to God, it will be easy for you to lead a life of security and peace.
    Om Sai Ram !

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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #54 on: November 28, 2006, 08:54:13 PM »
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  • Om SaiRam.

    Eko devah sarvabhuteshu gudhah (God, Who is one only, is hidden in all beings).

    It is hidden because of Its subtlety.

    It is hidden because It is by nature a principle, an essence, beyond and devoid of name and

    form, whereas the human mind and intellect are conditioned only to think on the basis of names

    and forms. The only things the eyes can see are size, shape and colour. But behind and beyond

    the names and forms there is the nameless and formless Being, a Being Who exists, a Being Who is

    of the nature of luminous consciousness, a Being Who is endowed with the quality of pure bliss—

    sat-chit-ananda Brahman.

    Jaisairam.

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    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.
    A Person, who has controlled his mind, can achieve any success in his life. How far you are trying to control your mind?
    The mind that judges not others ever remains tension-free.
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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #55 on: November 29, 2006, 11:23:48 PM »
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  • In the Katha Upanishad there is a beautiful declaration: uttishthata jagrata—wake up! No one else can do this for you. You can be the disciple of God Almighty Himself, but even He will not be able to wake up on your behalf. If you feel hungry, you yourself must eat. The guru is not going to do the eating for you. The guru may indicate to you, but it is your problem. And if you feel it is your problem, then you awaken, and then you are awake to the problem.

    Unless you stop blaming others, including yourself, for the state you are in, you are not awake. When you are walking through a tunnel, you see the light in front of you and the light behind you. Even so, when you are in darkness you think you see some light in the past or in the future. It is an absurd pastime.

    Therefore, a major qualification for the student of yoga is to realise that no one is responsible for the state you are in. No one can bring about a spiritual awakening in you. Someone can help, anyone can help, but you have to do it. This spiritual awakening is brought about by life itself, but even to be awakened by life, a certain grace and a certain inner alertness is necessary.

    Waking up is easy, but to remain awake is not so easy. Those of you who have attempted to wake up early in the morning in order to meditate will appreciate this. You set an alarm clock, it rings and you wake up. But to remain awake after that is not so easy. The mind loves to sleep. Why? Because the mind is born of ignorance and therefore it loves sleep and it loves a thick psychological blanket.

    Therefore, wake up! That is your problem, your responsibility, not the teacher’s. From there on, ever be vigilant. Whenever I use this word ‘vigilant’, I am reminded of Buddha’s famous teaching. In some texts it is said that during one of the Buddha’s last sermons, he told his disciples: "Live in this world as you would if you were living in a room with a live cobra at the door." Can you imagine that? If you were in a small single room which had only one door and no windows, nothing to escape by, and you found a cobra sitting by that door in the middle of the night, what would you do? Would you sleep? Would you even nod? How vigilant you would be! Such must be the vigilance of the seeker.

    It is possible for us to develop this vigilance if we understand that we are trapped and that whatever we do to get out of this trap leads us into a greater trap. Because the mind arises in ignorance and plays in ignorance, it can only create restlessness and disturb our peace. It may at times generate a feeling of happiness—which is a mere state of confusion. (If you have ever had true happiness for fifteen seconds, why did you give it up? Because it was not happiness at all!) If everything that we did ended in failure, we would stop doing anything. So the mind leads us from one unhappiness to another, and makes us feel sometimes that we are enjoying ourselves. That is the game the mind plays. When this understanding arises, what happens is vigilance.

    If you are awake and alert, can you not discover the truth concerning life? With what does one discover the truth? Thought and mind cannot discover the truth because they are born of ignorance. What else do we have? There the questioner comes to an end. We can sit and think, but we have already understood that thinking leads us nowhere. We are awake, we are vigilant, but we do not know what else to do. Where do we go from there? Go to some enlightened person and be enlightened. Awakening is our job, our privilege. Enlightenment is possible with the help of the master. (Otherwise the danger is that we might regard ourselves as enlightened because our mind suggests we are enlightened—another trap.) So the commandment of the Upanishads is: uttishthata, jagrata—"awake, remain alert. Go to the enlightened ones and attain enlightenment.


    Om Sai Ram !

    -Anju

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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #56 on: November 30, 2006, 08:44:00 PM »
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  • One day a man received a brand new car from his older brother. He had just gotten off from work and was about to take a ride in his new car when a young boy stopped him.

    "Is that your car?" he asked somewhat shyly "Yes it is. I just received it as a gift from my older brother."

    "You received it as a gift from your brother - you mean you didn't have to pay a thing?"

    "Yes that's right" replied the man.

    "I wish. I wish I could." suddenly the boy stopped.  The man knew what the boy was about say.

    "Yes?" he enquired

    "I wish I could be a brother like that.and be able to give my younger brother a car."

    The man was astounded because this was not the answer he had expected from the young boy, "Would you like to take a ride in the car with me?" asked the man "Sure" replied the boy.

    As they were driving along the boy asked if they could stop at his house. The man agreed thinking that of course the boy would want to show off to all his friends and neighbors that he was riding around in a new car.

    "Can you wait for just a min?" the boy asked when they reached his house.

    "Of course" said the man After a long while the boy reappeared outside holding his younger crippled brother in his arms.

    "See," he said. "I told you. That is the car which the man received from his brother and didn't pay a single penny for. Someday I want to buy a car like that for you so that you can go and see the world."

    The man was so touched by the experience. The young boy and his brother both got into the car and went for a wonderful ride.

    This story reminds me of a sentence in which our great saints instructed us to want for our brothers what we would want for ourselves. The young boy's only thought was that he could help his younger brother by getting him a car someday. He did not think of himself first.

    अपना साँई प्यारा साँई सबसे न्यारा अपना साँई - रमेश रमनानी

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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #57 on: December 04, 2006, 09:04:49 PM »
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  • Jai Sai Ram.

    "If God is omnipresent and all-pervasive, why is He not visible to us?" Many in their ignorance ask this question. When the sun is shining, clouds which have been caused by the sun's heat hide the rays of the sun. When the sun is not visible because of the clouds, can you say that there is no sun? Likewise, the clouds of doubts and delusion, which arise in man owing to his conceit and ignorance, hide the Divine from him. When a strong wind blows, the clouds are dispelled and the sun is visible. Similarly, when the winds of love and faith blow, the clouds of doubt and egoism are scattered and God reveals Himself.

    Aum Sai Ram !
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    SAI SAI SAI SAI
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    -Anju
    Om Sai Ram !

    -Anju

    "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear."

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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #58 on: December 06, 2006, 09:23:06 AM »
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  • JAI SAI RAM!!!

    A Meera dancing: she is not aware that she is dancing -- she has become the dance. There is no gap. She has surrendered her ego completely. There is dancing -- she is not aware; she is completely lost in it. When you are absorbed totally then you are in surrender -- absorbed totally. But only the ego can be absorbed -- only the ego! And when the ego is absorbed, the Self is there in its total purity.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
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    Re: Spiritual Blossoms
    « Reply #59 on: December 06, 2006, 10:51:49 AM »
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  • Dear Anju ji and Ramesh Bhai!!

    Clouds of ego block the sun of Supreme Self! This idea is  beautifully conveyed by an old song which says: goonghat ke pat khol re tohe piya milange [:)]

    Aur Ramesh Bhai: Aisi laagi lagan, Meera ho gayi magan[:)] Your beautiful thought about the state of absolute surrender makes perfect sense!

    Baba bless you!!

    Om Sai Ram!!

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