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Global Gayatri Mantra chanitng:
31-12-2011 & a special message from Veda Narayana
Dear Gods and Goddesses of the
globe,
On 31st December 2011 (2pm to 7pm) (New Year’s Eve) the next
global Gayatri Mantra chanting programme shall take place. This programme
will mark two full years (!) of us devotees (from over 20 countries),
coming together and chanting. -And so, a special announcement regarding
the importance and potency of the Gayatri mantra has been explained by
Veda Narayana himself (please keep reading for further details on how to
watch the video online)... Veda Narayana has been chosen by Sai Baba to
teach the vedas / chanting / praying to the students at Prashanti Nilayam,
and he has spent 35 Dasara festivals in the presence of the God
incarnation; Sathya Sai Baba!
From the very first programme that
took place in February 2010, this event has been blessed with so many
divine visiting cards’ from God. On one programme, Sai Baba appeared on a
glass of water (please see the attached photographs). Before the last
programme in October 2011; devotees from a Sai Centre were questioning the
purpose of this programme and so they asked Sai Baba to give them a sign
about the programme's validity... - Baba manifested vibuthi on a printed
version of the email that had been sent out, which described the purpose
of the this programme (please see the attached photographs) - Below is a
'recap' for the purpose of this programme:
We are chanting for God’s physical well-being. To ask the embodiment of
pure love that He himself also uses his unconditional light, love and
infinite energy to also heal, cure and take care of His own physical
well-being. Swami explained that unless we ask Him; God shall not take
care and think of Himself. So it is a natural response from His children
to now ask Him! Let’s always ask and never stop! – Everything He does is
for us, for our benefit, as He needs nothing. So you may now ask; if He
needs nothing why are we doing this? – The answer is so that we are a
practicing reflection of His own pure unconditional love. He gives to us.
We express the love back to Him. We pray and ask Him to look after His
beautiful form(s) as a mark of respect, as an expression of unconditional
love! He is aware of all: All joy. All pain. He is omni-conscious.
However, even though is aware; He is also above it. -Unattached. Yet, if
you ask does He feel pain also? The answer is yes, He is aware of all. He
himself has declared that many devotees do not realise that not only does
God feel joy but He also feels their suffering and pain (but He always
remains in perfect bliss). When we do good; He feels it. When we do‘bad’;
He also feels it! - Only, we are not to worry, as the difference with Him
is that He is detached, being the embodiment of equanimity! Truly
speaking, He is unaffected by anything, but He is aware. - He is being,
awareness, bliss. He is love and light and all is always good to Him.
However, as a mark of respect; we should show him love by asking him not
to endure such events of physical suffering onto Himself. – (At His will
of course). - All is His will alone...
"Many men and women were seated in the gallery, but
I took care that none noticed My injuries. I pretended as though nothing
had happened. The Vice Chancellor was worried, thinking that Swami was
unable to get up. I knew that any further delay would cause anxiety in the
minds of devotees. So, I immediately got up, forgetting the pain, and
started blessing the devotees waving My hands. The pain was very severe,
and the cut on My hand was so deep as though it was pierced with a knife.
Actually the sleeve of the robe covering My hand should have been torn
before I got the injury. But the cloth was not torn at all. This incident
gives you a glimpse of the infinite power of Divinity.
…I detached Myself from the body. My body was numb. There was no sensation
whatsoever."
- Sai Baba (an extract taken from Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 32 part 1)
Further to this point; I would like to mention that some may ask why we
are continuing to chant for God's well-being if the form of Bhagavan Sri
Sathya Sai Baba has taken maha-samadhi? The answer is very obvious. Who is
Sathya Sai Baba? Who is Shirdi Sai Baba? Who is Jesus? Who is Buddha? Who
is Rama, Krishna, Vishnu, Gayatri, Laxmi, Mary, Hanuman, and who is Prema
Sai Baba? – The same one and only Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba; the same
one entity of pure love: God!
I love the following pure and simple words of Truth that He has spoken,
and so I now appropriately repeat them here:
"I incarnate from age to age..."
- Sai Baba (taken from the 'Milestone' discourse).
– So why would we ever stop now that He has passed on this valuable
knowledge to us (?!)... We do not stop...- This programme is uniting
devotees all over the world to come together and it is teaching us all to
have unconditional love for God, and to express that Love it to Him! –
Baba has explained that loving God unconditionally without any expectation
or asking for anything in return is the highest type of devotion! – Love
God for the simple and pure sake of loving Him. Love Him alone, asking for
nothing in return. Our joy and reward is in loving Him!
A devotee living in New Zealand (whose name I shall withhold), does a lot
of Sai Baba’s work for mankind, including being the editor of the
International Sai Organisation website and who works closely to Anil
Kumar, sent in this email:
“Sai Ram Dear God's Children,
I am *******
from Wellington, NZ (official editor of the International Sai Organisation
website). I have been guded and blessed by Swami to participate in this
programme as it is a selfless act of unconditional love. In my humble
opinion the programme has to go on in a full swing, in fact with more
intensity and larger participation from children of God all around the
globe. Praying for the Physical well being of God could be the highest and
best expression of love to the Manifested form of an incarnation of God,
in this instance, it is Sathya Sai Baba
For various reasons known only to Him He has chosen to withdraw His chosen
Divine physical form at His will at a specific time. But in my humble
understanding that does not stop us from praying for Him or His physical
well-being as He is that manifested form and all other forms of
manifestations that we have ever seen and will ever continue to see. Not
only that, in His unmanifested Comic form is contained the entire creation
- either in the manifested or unmanifested form, out of which He, at His
own Divine will and in His own time, might choose another Divine
manifested physical form to adorn Mother Earth yet again. So I consider
this to be a glorious opportunity for all of us to come together as one
family celebrating the brotherhood of man and fatherhood of our one and
only God who is all Love.
Thank you ***** for all your initiative and efforts in making this
programme possible and going very well
.
My grateful humble Pranams at the Ever-nectarine Divine Lotus Feet”
- I share the above email with you all, as it so well expresses the love
and support from so many genuine souls, and there are so many highly
respected and well-known devotees that support and participate in this
programme. Even to this day, I hear from so many new devotees. Often, when
I ask how they have come to know of the chanting (?), they explain that
Baba Himself has appeared in their dream or performed miracles, asking
them to join in with this Gayatri Mantra chanting.
Here is an opportunity to watch an exclusive video
clip containing a message from Veda Narayana; explaining the meaning and
potency of the Gayatri Mantra:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GM4SB#p/u/0/kSEadxswlL8
For those of
you that would like to join in with the chanting, wherever you live on
God’s beautiful planet, please do email: jitenthakrar@yahoo.co.uk and the
programme material (video clips, audio files and delivery material) shall
be sent to you for using on the big day: (New Year’s Eve) 31st December
2011 (2pm to 7pm).
If you would like to attend the programme at the 'flagship' venue with the
devotees of a Sai Centre here in Leicester, UK; the address is:
East West Community Project, (Upstairs Hall), 10 Wilberforce Road,
Leicester, LE3 0GT
- Please see the attached flyer displaying the venue details. There is
also another flyer attached for use by those that are joining in from
other venues (you can fill in your local address in the blank space and
then print out the flyer or email it to other local devotees).
The chanting does not have to be done in any particular circumstance or
venue. -You can be at a centre, group, temple, home, a bus, a train, in a
park etc…Previously, devotees have even chanted at a wedding that they
were attending on the day!
A Christmas message:
“THE meaning of Avathaar (Divine Incarnation) is this: to save mankind,
God out of His love, affection and compassion, comes down to the level of
man and arouses the Divine Consciousness in man. He makes man aware of Him
in him, when He finds him desperately searching outside of himself for Him
who is his very core. God alone is the guru; others can at best be
Upaadhyaayas or Adhyaapaks (teachers, instructors). The Guru out of His
infinite compassion and wisdom counsels the most beneficent path. The
shishya (pupil) out of his infinite devotion, follows it and attains the
goal. Arjuna said, after listening to the Lord's counsel, "Karishye
vachanam thava," "I shall act according to your words." You have to be
pupils like him. Then, you can live in peace and joy in this warring world
of misery and demonstrate in your lives the excellence of the Bhaaratheeya
(Indian) tradition and culture.
God is Eternal Power, Omnipotent, Omniscient. He is the cause and
consequence---the potter, the clay and the pot. Without God, there can be
no Universe. He willed and the Universe happened. It is His play, the
manifestation of His power. Man embodies His Will, His power, His Wisdom.
But, he is unaware of this glory. The cloud of ignorance veils the truth.
God sends sages, saints and prophets to unveil the Truth and Himself
appears as an Avathaar (divine incarnation) to awaken and liberate him.
Resolve to practise what all Jesus taught Two thousand years ago, when
narrow pride and thick ignorance defiled mankind, Jesus came as the
embodiment of Love and compassion and lived among men, holding forth the
highest ideals of life. You must pay attention to the lessons he
elaborated in the various stages of his life. 'I am the Messenger of God,'
he declared, first. Yes. Each individual has to accept that role and live
as examples of Divine Love and Charity. The guru must; act as the
alarm-clock; he should awaken the sleeper to his duty to himself. "
Uththishtha! jaagratha, " as the Upanishaths proclaim---"Arise! Awake."
And bear witness to the God within, in every thought, word and deed.
This day, Christmas is celebrated. Bring to mind the words he uttered, the
advice he offered, the warning he gave, and decide to direct your daily
lives along the path he laid down. His words must be imprinted on your
hearts and you must resolve to practise all that he taught. Above all,
recognise this truth: Sai is in all. When you hate another, you are hating
Sai; when you hate Sai, you are hating yourself When you inflict pain on
another name, remember that the other is yourself, in another form, with
another name. Envy causes pain on those who are envied. When another's
fortune is green, why should your eyes be red? Why get wild when another
eats his fill? Give up this vice of envy; be happy when another is happy.
That is more pleasing to the Lord than all the manthras you recite, or all
the flowers you heap on his picture or image, or even the hours you spend
in japam or dhyaanam (silent recitation of holy words or meditation).”
- Sai Baba (Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 14)
Happy Christmas to you all and God bless you infinitely..
(Please do forward this email on to others to spread the message of unity
and chanting to express unconditional love to God).
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The Gayatri Mantra:
Om Bhur Bhuvah Swaha Tat Savitur Varenyam Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi Dhiyo Yo
Nah Prachodayath
It's Meaning:
We meditate on that Isvar's glory, who has created the universe, who is
fit to be worshipped, who is the embodiment of knowledge and light, the
remover of all sins and ignorance. May He enlighten our intellects.
Sai Jesus Mary Joseph Ram,
Jiten
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