http://srisainarayana.org http://sriamruthasai.org 1 “CONSCIOUS” When you are aware of what is going-on in your head. “UNCONSCIOUS” When thoughts take-over you and you lose con- tact with the ‘present moment’. **************************************************** When you are full of consciousness… The good and the bad merge. The right and the wrong disappear. The thoughts of perfection and imperfection bring a hearty laughter. The day and night is of no consequence. The pride of success or guilt of failure is of no relevance. You are no longer alien to me and I am no longer alien to you. We not only feel connected, but we feel entire cosmos is connected to everything and with everyone of us. In that oneness, you visualise the cosmic gentleman named 'G O D' ~~~~His Holiness Sri V.V. Sridhar Guruji MASTER’S DIVINE WORDS Sai Amrutha Jyothi Inside this issue May 2021 , Issue Announcement 1 Upcoming Events 1 Sridharamrutham 2 Krishna in Mahabhara- tha 3 Satya Sai story 4 Priya Iyer poems 6 Who is Sai Baba 5,6 Gospel of Ramakrishna 7 Patanjali Yoga sutra 8 Sri Sai in our daily life 9 Just for Fun 10,11 Upcoming Events *************************** 05/03/2021 Ashtami 5/07/2021 & 5/22/2021 Ekadasi 5/8/2021 & 5/24/2021 Pradosham 05/11/2021 Amavasya 05/17/2021 Shasti 05/29/2021 Sankashtahara Chaturthi 05/26/2021 Pournami 05/12/2021 Karthigai 05/9/2021 Masa Sivarathri May Festivals *************************** 05/01/2021 Varaha Jayanthi 05/14/2021 Akshaya Thrithiya 05/25/2021 Nrusimha Jayanthi 05/26/2021 Kurma Jayanthi
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In the dice game which kauravas played with pandavas, duryodhana nominated shakuni to play on behalf of kauravas.... According to rules of the game, this prac-
tice is allowed....
Whereas
The all good and justification personified yudhistra played on behalf of pandavas
& seldom lord krishna came in to his mind to play on behalf of pandavas....
Sometimes even people who are considered good and straight forward have a
subtle ego which makes them to forget the lord at the right time...
~~~~His Holiness Sri V.V. Sridhar Guruji Picture copyrights:www.krishnafortoday.com & Keshav
There was a school boy once who was very poor in mathematics. When the
day of examination came around, he went to a temple of Sai Baba and vowed that if the questions were easy and he could solve all the problems correctly, he would offer 5 kg of sweetened rice to Him. The paper turned out to be with-in the limits of his capacity; he finished answering all the questions correctly within the allotted time; he had an extra hour on hand. So, he took a few sheets of paper and drew up a list of items with their price, to prepare the offering he had vowed to Sai Baba. He had a ten rupee note in his pocket; but when he added up the cost of rice, sugar, cashew nut, carda-mom, ghee, dried grapes etc. the total amount required was found to be about 15 rupees! He tried cancelling a few items and reducing the quantities of a few, but the total was always more than what he could afford. Then, he argued that Sai Baba was not in need of sweetened rice and that a few fruits should certainly satisfy Him. Fruits too were very costly, but he found that the flowers were not. Then he remembered that in the Gita, the Lord had said that patram (leaf) pushpam (flower) phalam (fruit) or toyam
(water) would be enough to please Him. So he finally decided that toyam (water) from the well, in his house would be ample payment for the grace he received that day. He could well save the ten rupee for a film he longed to see; he calculated how much that would cost and was glad to find that he could even take one of his friends to the movie. Just when he arrived at this happy conclusion, the invigilator called that the hour was over and asked for the an-swer papers to be handed over. The boy woke up from his reverie and in the confusion, he handed over the sheets whereon he had made all the calculations of cost and quantity for the sweetened rice offering, the fruits, the flowers, and finally, the movie. When he went home and looked into the papers he brought back, he found to his dis-may that they were the answer papers he had to hand over to the invigilator! It is all a matter of 're-action, re-sound and re-flection'. What you plan to do to another, recoils on to you. God is neither angry, nor vengeful. He is the eter-nal witness of the play. You punish yourselves for your evil thoughts and deeds; you reward yourselves for your good thoughts and deeds. That is the real Truth!!
“The knowledge of a worldly person, the knowledge of a devotee, and the Knowledge of an Incarnation are by no means of the same degree. The knowledge of a worldly person is like that of an oil lamp, which shows only the inside of a room. Through such knowledge he eats and drinks, attends to
household duties, protects his body, brings up his children, and so on.
The knowledge of a devotee is like the light of the moon, which illumines objects both inside and outside of a room. But such light is still limited, because it can-
not enable him to see a distant or minute object.
The knowledge of an Incarnation of God is like the light of the Sun. Through such knowledge the incarnation can see everything- inside and outside, big and
small.”
IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE AND VIJNANA
“When a thorn gets into the sole of your foot, you procure a second thorn. After taking out the first thorn with the help of the second thorn, you throw both thorns away. Likewise, you should procure the thorn of knowledge to remove the thorn of ignorance. After destroying ignorance, you should discard both knowledge and ignorance. Then you attain Vijnana. Vijnana is special
knowledge of God.
To know many things is ignorance. To know that God dwells in all beings is knowledge. Vijnana is to know God in a special manner, to converse with Him
and feel Him to be one’s relative.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna by M, a disciple of the Master. Translated by Swami Nikhilananda. (Indian Edition 1996 by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras).
Practice should be done with these qualities 1) for a long time, 2) continuously, and 3) With sincerity. In Tamil, there is a great literature about 63 Nayanmars or devotees of Lord Shiva. Although the service of each of them was not the same and they did not express their Bakthi or devotion in the same way, there was something that was the same about all of them. It was their ever flowing love for the Lord and their determination in doing what they were doing, even in the face of adversity.
Ilayankudi Maranar (Marar) was born in Ilaiyangudi, in Tamil Nadu. Marar was a farmer and he accumulated great wealth by agriculture. He was a staunch devotee of the God Shiva, and served the God and His devotees. He welcomed devotees of Shiva to his home, washed their feet and fed them feast.
To test Marar's devotion, Shiva made his wealth wane. Marar continued to serve the devotees in penury, as he did in plenty. The Nayanmar sold all his proper-
ties to feed the devotees.
On a night of torrential downpour, Lord Shiva came disguised as a devotee and came to Marar's home. Marar welcomed the guest with respect, dried him and gave him a warm seat to sit. The starving couple pondered how they could feed the guest as the house had no food and it was pouring outside. The wife sug-gested that the paddy sown in the field can be gathered and prepared as a meal for the guest. Marar rushed to the field in the deluge and gathered the flooding seeds from the field. Since there was no firewood, the Nayanmar pulled a rafter from the wooden roof to use as fuel. They prepared a meal with the rice from the paddy and some spinach from the garden. When Marar went to call the resting devotee to have food, the story goes that Lord Shiva appeared in his true form with his consort Parvati, blessed the couple, and took Marar and his wife to his
abode Kailash.
Here, Marar’s Practice was to serve the devotees, from which he never failed
even in the worst of the circumstances.
(To be continued…) Reference: “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” by Swami Sachidananda.