Guruvaar Prarthna

​ Guruvaar Prarthna

 

 

Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy Day of Guruvaar. Baba, you asked us to go 'high up',  but the way is difficult, there are snakes, foxes, tigers and wolves on the way, Baba come with us and take us straight to our destination, protect us  from all predators and show the way away from ditches on our life journey. With your company, we continue our safe and secure journey and reach high with your blessings.  Baba, on this holy day we start our prayers by reading your divine words in Shri Sai Samartha Satcharitra.

 

 

All of you, young and old, simple and believing, spare a few moments from your worldly life and listen to this unique story of Sai.

 

Though Sai is himself an incarnation, he, remaining unaffected, enacts various roles just like a householder engrossed in his daily life; and, acts according to the dictates of Maya.

 

"Samartha Sai"! With this 'mantra', for those who serve at his holy feet, he moves the strings for the deliverance of his devotees from worldly existence. Sacred is his life story.

 

In brief, holy is the story of Sai. The hearts will be purified of those who recite and those who listen.

 

Listening to the stories with love will dispel all worldly afflictions. Sai, the cloud of mercy, will shower grace; and, complete and pure knowledge will appear.

 

Sloth, a wandering mind, attachment to sense-objects and indulgence of the palate – these are the obstacles which come in the way of listening. Steer clear of these and the listening will become a happy experience.

 

You do not need ceremonies to complete the rituals, you do not need fasting to torture the body; you do not need to visit the tirthas. It is sufficient to listen to the story.

 

Genuine love and awareness of the core of devotion will easily lead to the attainment of the highest good; and incorrect knowledge and the knowledge of the two-fold nature will be destroyed.

 

You need not make efforts for other means. Let us listen to the Saicharita. It will exhaust all karma, of the past and the present life, which results in rebirth. Not the least effect will remain of them.

 

As a miser, wherever he is, has his mind fixed on his hidden treasure, day and night, in the same easy way Sai should dwell in our minds.

 

 

I bow down to Sree Ganesh

I bow down to Sree Saraswati

I bow down to the Guru

I bow down to the Family Deity

I bow down to Sree Sita-Ramachandra

I bow down to Sree Sadguru Sainath.

 

Sarveshaam Svaastir Bhavatu

Sarveshaam Shaantir Bhavatu

Sarveshaam Poornam Bhavatu

Sarveshaam Mangalam Bhavatu

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanteeh

 

 

 

-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter  3, Ovi 176 - 185)

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