You Will Be a Gainer

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You Will Be a Gainer

 

Baba, to Balakrishna G. Upasani Sastri:

 

Baba: Will you give me dakshina?

BGU: I have no money.

Baba: What is that in your pocket? Give it.

BGU: This is a silver watch. Take it, Baba.

Baba: Do you think you are losing by giving this.

BGU: Nothing given to you is a loss.

 

Then Baba received the watch and at once gave it away to someone present. BGU went on to Poona and there a rich friend, learning that he had given away his watch to Baba, compelled him to accept a gold watch (without knowing the above words of Baba). So, BGU was a gainer and not a loser by giving away his silver watch.

 

(From Baba's Charters and Saying – 250)

 

 

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​Realise God and Enjoy Eternal Happiness.

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Realise God and Enjoy Eternal Happiness.

 

 

God is always just. God is truth. God is love. God is absolute good, know that everything is vanity except God. God can be attained by truthful behaviour, by leading a highly moral life and by the acquisition of knowledge. God's way is mercy. God's name is love.

 

In the eternity of God is real life. In truth God is eternal light. In the goodness of God is eternal bliss, peace and joy. God is near at hand to help you in your difficulties.

 

Difficult it is to get a human birth. Difficult it is to get a guru (spiritual preceptor). Difficult it is to attain God-realisation. But, through the grace of God, you can overcome all difficulties.

 

You have the urge of hunger and there is food to appease that hunger. You have the urge of thirst and there is water to quench that thirst. There is the urge to be always happy and there must be something to satisfy that urge. This 'something' is God.

 

Appeal. Knock. You will be heard. The door shall be opened unto you. Do not seek him far and wide - He is in your own heart - He has his dwelling there.

 

God is the great deliverer. Surely, He is near at hand to help you in your difficulties. God is the bread of life eternal. This bread is more than anything else. It is more abundant life.

 

God is the embodiment of happiness. Realise God and you will enjoy eternal happiness.

 

 

Guruvaar Prarthna

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Guruvaar Prarthna

 

Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy day of Guruvaar. Baba, many people develop worries by falsely imagining that they are inferior to others. You taught us the idea of inferiority or superiority brings trouble and worries. Ideas of superiority and inferiority are due to ego of individuals. On this blessed day we pray for Your help to get rid of our egoistic mind-set and seek Your blessings to lead a trouble free and worry free life. We start our prayers after reading the following ovi verses from Your Satcharita.

 

 

Devotees have desires without realising their true welfare. Only the Guru knows what is in the devotee's interest, knowing the past, present and the future.

 

However much anyone kept his thought hidden, Sai Samartha dwells within the hearts of everyone as the Witness and he knows the innermost thoughts.

 

When anyone lovingly related his intentions and placed them at Sai's feet, and asked for permission with full faith, Sai showed the right path.

 

This was his vow and all his devotees knew it. He removed the obstacles of all who had completely surrendered.

 

The Guru is the real mother and father. Since numerous births, he is the Guardian and Protector. He is Brahma, Vishnu and Shankar, the Doer and the One who gets everything done.

 

A child wants sweets but the mother gives bitter medicine whether the child cries or writhes. This is her loving decision.

 

How can the child know the properties of that bitter medicine and how it will be beneficial at the proper time? Only the mother knows the indications.

 

Even if Anna kept a share, was Baba likely to forget himself? His love was not motivated by gain. He was ever ready to look after the welfare of his devotees.

 

Money and gold were like dust to him, so what was the value of the share for him? These Saints manifest in the world only to uplift suffering humanity.

 

He is a Saint who has control over his senses and is free from the vices of ignorance and envy and whose aim is to bestow favours on others.

 

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.

 

-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter 25, Ovi 56 - 65)

 

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Each gets what he chooses.

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Each gets what he chooses.

 

Sadu Bhayya (Sadashiv Dundiraj) who was at Harda on 15-2-1915 was walking with some friends at 4 pm. Suddenly Baba appeared to be coming from the opposite direction and he passed his hand into Sadu Bhayya's and leaving a toothpick in the latter's hand and disappeared.

 

A skeptic Friend: What is that has happened now?

 

S.Bhayya: One thing is certain. When we were coming on, I had no toothpick in hand. Now I have got a toothpick here. Baba has given me this.

 

Skeptic Friend: Why not write to Shirdi and verify? Sadhu Bhayya wrote to Shama and on Shama's invitation went to Shirdi and narrated all facts in Baba's presence.

 

Baba: Sadu, go and tell this to Bade Baba. Sadhu Bhayya went and narrated it before Bade Baba, Dr. Pillai and others. Bade Baba very much excited began to think and came weeping to Baba.

 

Bade Baba: What Baba, you have been giving me large sums of money but money only; but to Sadhu Bhayya you have given Sakshatkar.

So saying he wept.

 

Baba: What is to be done? Each gets what he chooses.

 

Bade Baba who had plenty of money and paid income tax on them subsequently lost all fortune and died.

 

(From Baba's Charters and Saying – 231)

 

 

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Auspicious Vedic Mantras for pregnant ladies (Translation)

Vandana trayee. Prayers to Lord Agni -- Bless me and my husband with long life, good understanding and integration of our body mind and soul and a lasting relationship in this birth and also in future births. Bless US with a good child. Let my children be happy and healthy and my house be full of auspicious things. May Goddess Subhalakshmi (righteous/auspicious wealth) come to me and may I be a good householder giving love, affection and devotion and with courtesy and hospitality for every one. Bless us with a long life.

Prayer to Surya -- Bless us with shining wisdom.

Prayer to Lord Agni -- Be present in my womb and give strength to my womb and my unborn child and may my child grow to be a good and courageous child. Bless my child and the child's father. Bless us with good children, a home and a long healthy life.

Prayer to Lord Indra -- May the delivery be a safe one for the child and the mother.

Prayer to Lord Vishnu -- Let the child in my womb reside safely for the right length of time.

Prayer to Soma -- Give me the strength and the ability to hold the child in the womb.

Prayer to Twashta -- May the child created be a beautiful one.

Prayer to Agni and Devas -- Bless me and my children with good longevity and fulfill all my needs and desires and let me receive love from all in the world. Bless me with good energy to have healthy and well developed children.
Prayer to the seasons -- Vasanta, Grishma, Varsha, Sharath, Hemantha and Shishira seasons performed the Ekadasha Ratra Yagya and were blessed with good children. May the ones who listen to these mantras be blessed with good and healthy children.
Prayer to Lord Indra, Lord Agni and Soma -- May my womb be a safe place for my child.

Prayer to Lord Indra -- O, Lord Indra, fulfill all my desires and bless my child with vitality and bless my child so he uses the energy for good deeds.

Prayer to Lord Dhata -- Bless me and my child with Sakala Sowbhagyam -- all types of good fortune.

Prayer to Soma and Raka Devi --Destroy the bad Karmas and bless me with a healthy child who will tread the righteous path with auspicious thoughts and be fortunate.
(Mantras in audio in the below link)

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