Does sai baba support love marriage

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[Pearl India]

om sai ma

sairam
hi all....
sorry its been a long time...i cudnt write to u ppl....
ws very much drained out on th professional front and still am.
but will try to be regular now on.

i feel thankful to baba to bless me with such a lovely family....
dipika di,keeerti di,annu di,,,and all my dear ones.
we feel each others pain and rejoice when anyone gains.....
just went thru some previous msgs and posts.

love u all
its ur love tht makes me feel more closer to baba.
i feel him closer whn i feel ths love.
may he bless all b wd each one of us,guiding us at every little step.

om sai ma

[Pearl India]

i really feel tired ...... exhausted.
but m satisfied as baba had told me tht i will b surrounded by calamities...
so i knew it ws as per his will and ths ws th only source whch made me to survive ths situation at th professional front.
when a thot came tht when baba knows wht is happening thn y does he let tht happen?those were th days i cudnt access th net.
but i cud talk to him.he ws thr wd me.

he sent me for field work and tht too twice , to keep me away from th ego n politics prevailing in th school.

i love u baba.
u told me running projects will be stopped but do not worry and it ws all bout th dance and music one.thanks baba.love u.

sairam

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Shri Sai vrat Mahima

OM SHRI SAI
its a  pure and simple vrat i tell you.
YOu shud have all respect and patience on baba, thats all he needs, rituals you will find in the book i m giving.Its not a book but i tried to translate hindi to english.

Lakshmi ji main thing is that when you do vrat try to patient and make others happy , work on your self internally rather on rituals this my personal experience,
i donno u may be interested or not but i want to tell you

My wud be sister onlaw had mis carriage ,o was worried that she shud not start disbeleving sai baba, i told baba i will vrat for her  hmmm 5 is okay, i started doing, no pooja just  and incence burning, and normal fast with one timee full meal.

U wont believe  on may be monday / tuesday i got the news from my love that she has conceived again , i prayed for babay boy , by only baba`S grace she is now blessed with baby boy.


next i took vow for my brother in law i said baba 3 fast is okay plzzzz
and astarted doing that he shud get admission in MCA college , believe me he got admission, started studying....



next is  for my own now i wanted to marry my love and tool vow, this time i paid more attention to rituals and may be not so on baba , still waiting for good news from inlaws as my parents and his mother is taking time to say yes.


so the crux is  do it with all good thoughts in your mind.

hope i helped you, thanks for time.

om shri sai

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om shri sai baba

plzz sabka bhala karo

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Spiritual life and Material life

Is spiritual life the same as the material life or are they different? What constitutes a life that dwells in spirit and what is material life? Although Baba didn't elaborate on this topic just as He did not dissect on any other topic at length, one encounters this discussion frequently.

It is an observation that the young are often discouraged to pursue any spiritual activity as it is deemed that it is not as much a priority as earning a livelihood. Thus, spiritual pursuits are often pushed towards latter stages of life. To dissuade this thought, it is said that one need not differentiate the spiritual life from the way we live our everyday lives. To this effect, it is said that one should spend whatever time he/she could in the thoughts of Sadguru as one goes about the ordinary life. As the distinction is blurred, the life itself becomes a harmonious blend of the self and Sadguru. Is there anything more?

Everyone is entitled for Baba's grace. But, do all get the same benefit? Baba Himself quipped that if every flower on the tree comes to fruition it would be a bumper crop. But it doesn't happen. The thought that material life and spiritual life is one in itself is a revelation, a comforting assurance that would help one in looking at life in its perspective. Does this mean that the material and spiritual lives are same, meaning there is no difference? If one were to observe carefully, argument that there are no differences between spiritual and material life denotes an intelligent yet subtle justification to the material pursuits that are always in conflict with the search for the spirit!

Spiritual or material, it is one life. Attempting to differentiate is a futile exercise because it is neither possible nor appropriate to draw the line. However, as one progresses in the path of Sadguru, the changes in one's life should be evident as every interest revolves around Sadguru; around His likes and dislikes, and approval and disapproval. When the life is in complete tune with Sadguru and none else, such a life is completely spiritual and not material. Just like one cannot travel on two horses riding in opposite directions, one cannot expect to lead a material life to its fullest fulfillment and yet accomplish the spiritual goal. While it is not relevant to discuss the importance of each of the functions in this context, what it takes someone to become the Pope is different from what it would take to become the President of a nation.

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How Baba came into Swami Kesavaiahji's Life

Swami Kesavaiahji at that time had not heard about Sai Baba and not even seen his picture before. On one occasion he was relating to his friend Mr. Malli Reddi, an Advocate of Anantpur some of his personal difficulties. Mr. Reddi said, "Pray to Sai Baba, your difficulties would be over." Swami Kesavaiahji mentioned this to his dear wife Govindammal. On that night Sai Baba came in Swami Kesavaiahji,s dream. He remained with him for four or five minutes. Swami Kesavaiahji felt blessed and overjoyed. He wanted to buy a picture of Baba the next day and worship it. Strangely enough, on the same day a picture of Baba and packet of udhi arrived from Shirdi although the name of the sender was not known. This revelation was on 1st July 1939. It was then about 21 years since Baba had left this world. Yet this miracle in the life of Swami Kesavaiahji had happened. It had a special significance. Kesavaiahji used his spiritual powers to serve the bhaktas in the name of Baba. Many people sought Swamiji's help. When he was Sub-Registrar at Penukonda in 1948, he built a small shrine there for Sai Baba, which became famous. Swamiji did his spiritual healings to whoever sought his help. He did this good work wherever he was transferred in his official career.

Swami Kesavaiahji came to Madras in 1948 for medical treatment. As if ordained by Baba he was transferred to Madras in 1949. Even during his illness he would conduct Sai Puja in devotees' houses. He would give sacred udhi to whoever came to him. Swamiji's illness grew worse. On one night his condition grew worse. He prayed to Sai Baba intensely. Baba seemed to have driven away the messengers of death. Swamiji recovered by the grace of Sai. Through Swamij's grace many persons had received a vision of Baba in their dreams. One such person was the doctor who treated Swami Kesavaiahji during his illness.

Swami Kesavaiahji has visited Shirdi about 73 times after he was first blessed by Baba in 1939. He helped construct and open temples of Baba in many places. Once Swami Kesavaiahji visited Pandharpur. Baba seemed to accompany him in the guise of a fellow traveller. Swami Kesavaiahji dreamt that the garlands he placed on Vittoba at Pandaripur was on Baba's Samadhi itself. Swami Kesavaiajhi had innumerable such experiences to tell. Swamiji is survived by a son and two daughters. Before his Samadhi on August 9th, 1981, Swamiji has asked for udhi. He applied it to his forehead and swallowed the rest. This occurred at sunset. Still seated, he said "Allah Malik" and closed his eyes. At about 6:30 pm Swamiji left this world. Glory to Sri Sai Baba, and glory to the hallowed memory of His chosen devotee Sri Swami Kesavaiahji.

(Contributed by Sai Ankita)

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DEVOTEES SAY:

Anuradha
Last two weeks I was suffering from severe knee pains. I was unable to walk. I asked Baba to help me. I promised that I would submit my experience in Sai Vichaar. It's a miracle, from last Thursday I was able to walk with very little knee pain. This is all Baba's kripa.

Khushbu
Today again I have experienced Your miracle Sai. Sai saved me from legal complications with my previous roommate. I called today in the court and they told me that there are no pending claims against me. Thanks so much Baba. I was so worried I do not want anymore legal issues. You have again protected me Sai like always. I also want to thank You for sending a really nice rommate. I see You in her and I know she needs lot of emotional support and want Your blessings for her.

Navin
Sai Baba indeed is Antaryaami and can not only read our mind but also can feel the exact emotion that we go through. Sai Baba attracts us like a string attached to a sparrow's feet. I am really happy to say that Sai baba was the only one because of whom I am now getting married to the love of my life. I prayed and cried day and night and He cried with me. He did everything for me. I want to thank Him and I want to assure Sai that I will keep my promise. I pray to Sai to bless me and my love (soon to be my wife) and my complete family and everyone who is in pain. Sai, I will need You all along and fulfilling this big task will not be possible without You. Please bless us for a great married life and give us a place at Your feet.

Chitra
Dear Sai, Thank you, for helping me out and solving one of my problems. Please continue to help us out and bless my family.

Sai devotee
Saibaba, I prostrate before You and surrender once again to You. Though You are omniscent and all pervasive, for the sake of fellow devotees I am narrating this experience. I was relieved of my duties on 22nd October without any reason due to the foul play of certain vested interests. I was without any assignment for over three months. I, my wife and my mother prayed Baba with immense faith. After three months, on 21st January, I got the posting in the same organisation at a higher level, more so above the person, who was instrumental for my sufferring. It was just an unbelievable miracle of Baba. Baba, I pray that You continue to shower Your blessings on me to regain my shattered confidence and excel in this new assignment.

Sai devotee
Thank you father for confirming my contract for a job exactly on a Thursday. As promised, I am posting this. Sainatha, I have been trying for a job for couple of years. You also showered Your blessings in my dream. After that a lot of changes in my career. All of a sudden I got a nice job that I wanted. Thank you so much for guiding Your devotees, and putting them on the right track. Please give me strength and knowledge to perform at work. Please be with me, my children and husband. My husband is going through a tough time with his job. Please solve the problems that he is facing.

Zeenat
Thank you very much for sending me the Shirdi Sai 2008 calendar. I was very happy to get and it is very beautifully designed. When I ordered this calendar I thought I wouldn't get it for some reason. In the morning before the calendar arrived in the post, I had a dream early morning that many things such as posters, calendar and magazines of Baba had arrived in the post, it was so much I didn't know where to put it. When I woke up after the dream I was very happy and thought that the calendar might arrive today. Then when I heard the letterbox my heart was beating very hard and my sister went and picked up the letters and there it was the calendar, my dream came true and I was blessed by Baba.

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EXPERIENCE OF DEVOTEES:

Mona
Sai Ram, this miracle happened to me and wanted to share this. I am sure that I am not the first one to experience. I had ordered Baba's statue and I specified that the statue should be a medium sized statue. Almost a week after I had ordered, I visited my friend, who is also a great Baba devotee, in fact she plays a pivotal role in my being His devotee, so whenever I visit her, I first go to her place of worship and take Sai's blessings. That day I did the same, when I reached her alter to my surprise I saw the same statue that I had ordered a week back but hers was larger in size. Looking at Baba now I regretted not having ordered the same size as hers and I knew it was too late to change the order, and you know what the day was Thursday. I left her home with a regretted feeling, but to my surprise, I had a parcel waiting for me. I knew it was my order. I opened the box and I realized that the statue was the same size as I had seen at my friend's place. I could not stop crying, I was so delighted and I understood it was nothing but Baba's power towards His devotees. He listens to everybody. Om Sai Ram.

Nirmala
March 1st was our twin daughters' birthday. One of our friends told us that there is Sai temple newly opened in our city. So I wanted to take my daughters for Sai darshan that day. But some how by the time we reached the temple it was closed. I was very disappointed and said to my husband that we can have Sai darshan only if Sai wishes and we were not lucky this time. We sat in the prayer hall for sometime but since the temple people were waiting for us to close I said to my husband that we should leave. In the mean time the panditji came to us and asked us generally that if my daughters were twins and what is their age. I told him that it was their birthday. To our surprise he removed the curtains and let us has have Sai darshan. I was thrilled and tears were rolling from my eyes. Thank you Sai for giving us Your darshan.
 

 

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QUOTATION OF THE WEEK:

"For a greedy man there is no peace, neither contentment, nor certainty (Steadiness). If there be even a little trace of greed in mind, all the Sadhanas are of no avail."-Shri Sai Baba

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Q. In Sai Satcharita Sri Saibaba says to a devotee that their relationship was for the past 72 births. Is there any significance to 72 births?

A. In Sai Satcharita, Hemadpant has pictured Baba as Lord Shankar and Madhavrao as his Nandi. Madhavrao Deshpande alias 'Shama' served Baba till the end of his life. Shri SaiBaba gave him Respect- The place of a friend close to Heart. It was a vivid example of a devotee-friend. Shri Sai Baba used to call Madhavrao as " Maza Shama" (My Shama). He served Shri SaiBaba till the end of his life.

Upto the age of 72 , Shama did not suffer from any ailments. He did not suffer even from simple maladies like fever or headache. In one of the incidents, after dinner, Shama was rubbing Baba's wet hands with a towel when Baba pinched Shama's cheek. Shama then said, "Deva, is it proper for you to pinch me like this? We don't want such a mischievous God who pinches us thus. Are we Your dependents, is this the fruit of our intimacy?" Baba replied, "Oh Shama, during the 72 generations that you were with me, I never pinched you till now and now you resent my touching you". Shama, "We want a God that will give us ever kisses and sweets to eat; we do not want any respect from You, or heaven, balloon etc. Let our faith unto Your Feet be ever wide-awake". Baba, "Yes, I have indeed come for that. I have been feeding and nursing you and have got love and affection for you".
 

 

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How Baba does it?

Faith in Saibaba slowly leads one to believe that Baba is behind the things done or undone. This realization works easy when the things happen to one's satisfaction while it falters if things are not pleasing. The path to the complete surrender at Sadguru's lotus feet chops away the difference between the pleasant and unpleasant.

If one completely understands how Baba's intent or sankalpa translates to tangible actions to its minutest details, contentment naturally fills in the heart and as the consequence equanimity. Rare and great are such souls. Or, if one would say that somehow Baba will do it, is indicative of a blind faith in Sadguru's disposition. This is a feeling that rain or shine, it is Baba! Any trace of ignorance in this regard will be washed away in the constant company of the Sadguru. But judgments of others actions such as "what does he or she think he or she is doing? Its all Baba's doing", is blatant arrogance. One can easily understand this feeling with a little bit of contemplation. These thoughts should be nipped in the bud, as they are signs of spiritual falling.

Baba didn't materialize anything out of thin air. Baba's "miracles" happen through people and situations in our surroundings in the most inconspicuous ways. This truth is articulated in the most eloquent way by Sri Sarathbabuji as follows: "Miracles of Sai do not take place as something falling from the sky. We experience it through mercy, compassion, and protection from those around us in a natural way. We pray to Baba, "Baba! I need money". I am in difficulties". We offer naivedya to Baba and go to bed, but we do not see Baba keeping a lakh rupees under the pillow! Someone will come to us and suggest a solution to our problem. Baba Himself said, "Not a single leaf moves without my order". When the wind blows, the leaves on the tree move. When even the movement of a leaf from an inanimate tree requires Baba's order, His intent and grace, how can we think that everything is in our hands? When this awareness crops in us, the ego that makes us think, "We are doing something, we have to do it, we have to accomplish and we have accomplished because we have done something", will vanish. The realization that "He does everything. And we are not capable of doing anything" is called as "Complete Surrender". However, this should not become the dry and wry philosophy of uttering around, "Its all Baba's sankalpa, what do I have to do? He has done it". The cognizance of "complete surrender" should remain as just an inspiration, a background to the pursuit of our desires, ideals, and trials. Unless we get to completely experience the intent of Saibaba in every action, we should not use the term "complete surrender" for our convenience".
 

 

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Story of Ganapati Sastri

Ganapati Sastri was an outstanding devotee of Bhagavan Ramana. Erudite and scholarly, he was a man of towering abilities. By the age of ten, he had written verses in Sanskrit, prepared an astrological almanac besides mastering several Sanskrit Kavyas. Like Sri Bhagavan, he had a phenomenal memory and the ability to do ashtavadhana, that is of giving his attention to a number of different things at the same time. I his youth, he attended many spiritual and scholarly retreats and worked as a schoolteacher in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. Not satisfied with the schoolteacher job, he felt that he had come to a dead end, not attaining any success either wit pursuit of God or the world.

Ganapati Sastri approached The Swami in Tiruvannamalai and pleaded, "All that has to be read I have read, even Vedanta Sastra I fully understood, I have performed japa (invocation) to my heart's content, yet I have not up to this time understood what tapa is. Therefore, I sought your refuge at your feet. Pray enlighten me as to the nature of tapas." The Swami turned his silent gaze upon him for some fifteen minutes and then replied: "If one watches whence the notion "I" arises, the mind is absorbed into That, that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches the source from which the mantra sound is produced the mind id absorbed in That, that is Tapas."

Ganapati Sastri was jubilated at the sight of Swami, composed verses on him. He declared that the Swami by name Venkataramana Iyer must be known as Bhagavan Sri Ramana and as the Maharshi. He also liked to refer Sri Bhagavan as a manifestation of Lord Subrahmanya. However, the devotees refused to follow this feeling that to regard Sri Bhagavan as a manifestation of ay one divine aspect was to attempt to limit the illimitable.

Once a devotee asked Ganapati Sastri, "If Bhagavan is an avatar of Subrahmanya, why does he not tell us openly?" Sastri replied, "What is an avatar? An avatar is only a manifestation of one aspect of God, whereas a jnani is God Himself". Although he was blessed with several graceful experiences by Bhagavan, Sastri in a way failed to get past beyond his spiritual aims, ideals and ambitions, perhaps conditioned by his intellect. He asked once, "Is seeking the source of the I-thought sufficient for the attainment of all my aims or is mantra dhyana needed?". Sri Bhagavan curtly replied, "The former will suffice". When Sastri continued about his aims and ideals, Bhagavan added, "It will be better if you throw your entire burden on the Lord. He will carry all the burdens and you will be free from them. He will do his part".

During later stages of his life, Ganapati Sastri settled down in a village near Kharagpur with a group of followers and until his death devoted himself wholly to tapas (asceticism). Sri Bhagavan was once asked whether Ganapati Sastri could have attained Realization during this life, he replied, "How could he? His sankalpa (inherent tendencies) were too strong.

(Contributed by Condensed from "Ramana Maharshi and Path of Self-Knowledge" by Arthur Osborne)

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The Meaning of Faith

Faith has been interpreted by so many. "Faith that moves mountains" faith of the heart, faith in oneself. My love and faith in our beloved Sai Baba goes back many years and over time trials, tribulations faith, trust, and love for Him has grown stronger. Recently I had an episode whereby a friend of mine was in urgent need of a favor. She is also like me a strong devotee of our Incredible Saibaba and she was really stressed out about the same. I prayed with her and we both asked Sai to grant this wish, as it was a question of her child's future. Both of us with fervent faith called upon Sai for help. Days, hours minutes passed and there seem to be not a murmur. Still I clung on to His holy feet without doubt or question. Days, hours, minutes kept passing and with every sunset, my friend seemed to wilt like a flower losing hope of her wish ever becoming a reality. I also stepped up my prayers praying night and day for Sai to help her in her hour of need and as the days passed she started to feel helpless and hopeless she thought Sai had forsaken her, left her, was not heeding her, she became despondent but I kept reminding her of her faith and love for Him and she thanked me for doing so but I could feel her helplessness. I called out to Him for we are His children and He could not do this to a true Saibaba devotee and just as I felt all was lost lo and behold from nowhere came that call the one we awaited the one she so longed for and her wish became a reality. I sobbed uncontrollably and so did she and we clung to each other knowing our Baba had come through. Yes it took time, patience, sadness, helplessness, hopelessness but I am proud to say that I held on refusing to let go, refusing to accept anything other than His love.

True faith, I have been tested time and time again and I have to admit I do get upset and feel lost but He is there, He is there and as He says "One Step taken towards Me I will take Ten towards you". I am glad I held on. I am happy that Baba came through for us. Remember all you Sai Baba devotees, we are truly blessed and lucky, keep your faith and it will surely make you move that mountain.

(Contributed by Havovi Medora)