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Originally posted by subhasrini
SaiRam Astridji
Next week we expect a poem for your beloved sisters.
Hope it is fine with you my dear Astrid.
A very nice poem and kindly contribute more such poems every guruwar.
Jaisairam.
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.
Sai Ram
Subhadra, my dearest sister, not a poem, but a story, a very special gem from the treasure chest of my heart (that's what it is to me at least) you gave me the inspiration to post here
and dedicate it to my sisters Subhadra, Shammi, Dipika, Sushma, Shreya, Ankita, Shivani, Mona, Vaishali, Deepa, Malar, Lakshmi, Rajalakshmi, Sainaa, Suchitra, Sushma, Devki, Suman, Valentina, Sivagowri, Smitha, to Prasanthi, who feels like a daughter to me and all my SAI sisters, named and unnamed, known and unknown:
Knowing that SAI is our mother and in everything ...
There is a tree here nearby, who had become especially dear to me. An oak, and I perceived her to be female. I used to go and see her every second day, surround her to honour her and ask her blessings. She had become everything female to me: my grandmother, my mother, my sister. She would give me her love, her strength, her shelter, feminine power so tender and strong containing all aspects of womanhood. I'd talk to her, she'd talk to me. When I was not feeling fine, I'd take a bit of her bark - she'd drop a tiny little twig just in front of my feet for me to take - prepare tea and soon be well again. And then came a time, when I was supposed to travel, I'd be away for two weeks. I was worried, I knew, I would miss my oak so much. What would I do without her blessings, her love, her strength? And I also wondered what would become of our relationship, if and when I'd leave her for these two weeks. I told her my worries and she said:
I AM AND YOU ARE - SO WE ARE TOGETHER
So wherever I'd be her blessings, her love would be with me, whether or not we'd be together physically - and mine would be with her. And so it is with our SAI MAA: In times of happiness and in times of dispair, whether we feel HER so close or cannot seem to feel HER at all:
SAI IS AND WE ARE - SO WE ARE TOGETHER
OM SAI RAM
Astrid
Restless was my heart till it found rest in THEE