Is gossiping a sin? Is it a bad thing?”...

This is a story of Prophet Mohammed – peace be upon him – and one of his followers.

One day a man asked Mohammed, “Is gossiping a sin? Is it a bad thing?”. In his mind he did not see the need to stop this habit of speaking about others. Mohammed in his wisdom decided to show him the hidden power behind gossiping and talking ill of others.

He asked the man to go and fetch a sack of feathers. The man soon returned with a sack full of feathers. Mohammed asked him to go and place a hand full of feathers at the front door of each house in the small town. When he had finished doing this task he come back to Mohamed. The Prophet asked him to return the same time the following day.

As arranged he met Mohammed the next day. Mohammed said to him, “Go and collect all the feathers and put them back in the sack”. The man thought Mohammed had gone crazy. In frustration the man said, It is totally impossible to collect the feathers”. “Why?” asked Mohammed.

The man said, “All the feathers have blown away. They are scattered far and wide across the countryside by the winds of yesterday and today. It will only be possible to find maybe a handful of feathers only.”

Mohammed revealed that in the same fashion when you speak ill of others or falsely spread rumours or bad stories it is likewise impossible to undo the damage caused.

Like this – once spoken your words are scattered like the winds blowing in all directions nothing that you can say or do afterwards can undo the damage caused. It is not for nothing that Swami teaches us to speak softly and sweetly, and also, only when necessary.

Jai Sai Ram!!

Never Shall we part Swami..

Oh my swami...miss you dearly,

Nearly a month and the heart aches for you,

Never shall we part as you reside in our hearts,

Make us strong, to feel you within,

My dear lord,

you are nothing but the ultimate embodiment of "Love & Bliss",

your greatest message we shall follow;

"Love all ,Serve All"

"Help Ever, Hurt Never"

Simple as it may seem, hard it is for us to follow,

Give us the wisdom and fortitude,

Guide us from within,

Still my mind and expand my heart,

Let this hands be of help,

make me worthy

to be a devotee

You are my Everything

As my heart longs and sings..

"Twameva Mata Cha Pita Twameva,

Twameva Bandhu Sakha Twameva,

Twameva Vidya Sarvinam Twameva,

Twameva Sarvam Mum Dev Deva"

(O Lord, You Are My Mother, Father, Kinsman And Friend.

You Are My Wealth Of Knowledge, Strength, Velour And Power.

You Are My All God Of Gods)

"Love Bliss" is my name (Prem Ananth),

given by none but you,

bless me to live up to my name

and touch everyone and everything,

that crosses my path,

As I surrender at thy Lotus feet,

May your will prevail

and enlighten us all

Jai Sai Ram!!

Maula Mere (My God) - Sathya Sai Baba

LET'S THANK GOD ..

Forget The Harm One Has Done To You And
Forget The Good You Have Done To Others

At first sight, this injunction appears to be in direct contradiction to everything we observe in operation around us. Usually, when someone attack us, the very first impulse is to retaliate by hitting back. At the same time, whenever we have helped someone, we tend to feel smug and superior. Now, we are being told that neither of these reactions is morally correct and must be reversed if we expect to reach our final goal of enlightenment, or union with our Real-self.

The teachings of Jesus contain a similar injunction, "Turn the other cheek", which many people find extremely difficult to accept. But Baba tells us that we are all one, all God, and so everything we do to someone else, we are actually doing to ourselves. This statement follows the law of karma, by which everything we do to others, eventually returns to us to teach us to treat everyone as a reflection of ourselves and refrain from accumulating any further karma to work out in the future.

We need to forgive everyone who has ever, in our own limited opinion, harmed us in any way. This will free us to direct love to them instead of blame, and we may eventually thank them for teaching us lessons we needed to learn, even if they taught us how not to act or speak!

(From : LET'S THANK GOD by Phyllis Krystal)

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Sathya Sai Baba’s Physical Death Prediction Comes True...

By Raj Sharma


There has been much confusion in the last few weeks regarding the age of Sathya Sai Baba and the timeline of his presence in physical form, for Baba it is said, had declared that he would leave his physical form when he reached 96 years of age.


This confusion in truth pertains to the modes of computation for most people still adhere to the Roman/Gregorian calendar whereas Sathya Sai Baba always referred to the Hindu Nakshatra Kala Ganana (timescales based on stars) in his own discourses.

Accordingly, the Sidereal Lunar year as per old “Vedic” cycles is not 365 days but 324 days or 27 X 12 (12 sidereal months) because a lunar (sidereal) month extends from Aswathi to Revathi stars — that is 27 days. Hence it is important to note that we are not referring to the solar year 365 days or tropical lunar year from full moon to full moon which is 12 X 29 1/2 days or 354 days. We are speaking of the sidereal lunar year with one month consisting of 27 day moon transit of the zodiac and the 27 nakshatras. Therefore the lunar year in this case would have 324 days and not 365 days as in the Gregorian calendar.

Roughly speaking then, if we consider the prediction of death at 96 years of age then 96 lunar years at 324 = 31104 days, divided by 365 solar years= 85.2 solar years. Hence Sathya Sai Baba is no doubt around 85 ‘solar’ years according to the Roman/Gregorian calendar but he is ’96′ lunar years according to the old Vedic Hindu calculation (of the sidereal months). Moreover this information has been confirmed by many Vedic scholars and astrologists, including the eminent Pandit Vamadeva Shastri (David Frawley)

It is also interesting to note an incident which took place on the 85th birthday celebration of Sathya Sai Baba. Usually, during any festival celebration, especially Baba’s birthday, the entire Prashanti Nilayam would be temporarily decorated with objects made of materials such as cardboards, etc. which could be easily dismantled and dismembered after the celebration ended since the new celebration would require the new birth date, etc. to be hoarded on the banner. However, during this 85th birthday celebration Sathya Sai Baba told his students “Make all the decorations of “PERMANENT” material”. Accordingly a board had been put up at the Ganesh Dwar which read “85 years of Love” and after celebrations the board has remained and not come down, just as Baba wanted and instructed. Moreover this time around instead of temporary gates, permanent gates were made and they are still there. When the students asked Swami whether they could remove and clear the decorations Swami responded by telling them not to remove the banner or decorations and to let it be there, implying that he knew this would be the last celebration.

Furthermore during his 80th birthday celebration, in the discourse that Sathya Sai Baba gave he declared that “Today is MY 90th Birthday”… and the entire crowd started laughing thinking that Swami had made a mistake…no one took it seriously and the publisher of Sathya Sai Baba in that subsequent volume went on to publish it as 80 years. Yet all of the devotees present that day undoubtedly heard Swami say that he was 90 years of age.

It stands to reason however that even if devotees knew that Sathya Sai Baba was indeed 96 years old, it would not make the situation any better but only worse since most devotees were already heartbroken and suffering even when they were convinced that Baba would not leave his body yet. Hence if devotees knew for sure that Baba would be leaving then Prashanti Nilyam would be subject to complete chaos and most devotees who have been so strongly attached to Baba would certainly succumb to emotional breakdowns, especially in the final years of Baba’s life. Instead, Baba, out of care for his devotees, made all circumstances transpire so fast, and out of the range of our conscious awareness of the actual reality of things, so that most of us would not really experience the real magnitude or impact of the situation making it less emotionally painful, which is why till today most people still feel as if it was all a dream.

More importantly, the way that avatars work ultimately always remains a mystery, so it never does matter whether in the end things add up mathematically or not as Baba’s age would still be irrelevant in the grand scheme of life. What will always continue to remain more important is our experience with him, his life, his message and his work, which is what devotees must continue to set their hearts and minds on

Cleverness and Wisdom

The human mind has two distinct capabilities. They are (1) the capacity to acquire worldly skills, and (2) the capacity for Spiritual Discrimination. These two faculties are called Medha Shakti and Buddhi respectively. People do not have a clear idea of the difference between (worldly) cleverness and (spiritual) Wisdom, and often mistake Buddhi to mean cleverness. This is not correct.


Being exclusively related to the phenomenal world, Medha Shakti would help a person to be shrewd in worldly matters and achieve success in Society. However, this is no blessing. A clever man is restless, does not enjoy peace, and often goes through mental conflicts. He is a slave to his ego, which casts a veil over the Self and renders Buddhi ineffective. Cleverness is not an attribute of the Wise but unfortunately in this Kali age a clever person alone is regarded as great and accorded much respect.

Modern education lays great stress on the sharpening of the brain and can certainly help people to become clever. But it has no positive effect on Buddhi or the spiritual intellect. Our ancients, on the other hand, were unanimously of the view that Buddhi is superior to Medha Shakti, and is any day to be preferred.

Buddhi is essentially the combination of Shradda (earnestness), Sathyam (Truth), Yoga (power of control), and Mahat Shakti (Divine Power). Shradda is the product of yearning and steadfastness. The Sathyam aspect implies a proper judgement and perspective, with Truth as the central focus. The third aspect Yoga connotes a mastery over the senses. One cannot speak of a person being with blessed with Buddhi, if he lacks sense and mind control. Shradda, Sathyam and Yoga together manifest as Mahat Shakti, the power of the Divine. In short, all the aspects of Buddhi are verily Divine.

Students should understand clearly the difference between Medha Shakti and Buddhi. Cleverness would help one in securing good grades in examinations, and in scoring victory in debates. It is associated exclusively with worldly skills. Buddhi, on the other hand, is spiritual in nature and close to the Atma. Thus, one must never confuse a Wise person (Buddhiman) with a clever person.

The hierarchical relationship of the various entities related to Medha Shakti and Buddhi is as follows: At the bottom of the totem pole is the physical plane. Above it are the senses; then comes the mind or Manas. Buddhi comes above the mind and last of all is the Atma or the Self. Buddhi is thus just a "stone's throw" away from the Atma and is verily a reflection of the latter. It is thus the height of ignorance to equate Wisdom (Buddhi) with cleverness (Medha Shakti). The latter is associated to the senses and is thus intimately related to the phenomenal world. It promotes ego, and as long as ego dominates you cannot understand anything about the Self. A clever person would never be able to achieve Self-realisation; only a Wise person can

Excerpts from a Divine Discourse of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Divine Leelas and Mahima's (2)

Our Guru, Everyone's Guru


Once Seva workers of the Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organization reached the outskirts of a remote battered village with packets of food, medicine, clothes and blankets. When they arrived at the village, it was past noon and the entire area was submerged. It was still drizzling. The volunteers stood at the gate hoping someone would come forward to show them where the survivors were most in need of their services and goods.

Finally, some villagers saw them and came running. The volunteers thought that help had come and they would be directed to where they could be of the most use, but the villagers began snatching and grabbing the rescue items. The volunteers stood there dumbstruck not knowing whom to pacify and whom to control. They were themselves drenched and exhausted.

Then a Girl appeared and pacified the villagers. She told sweetly the necessity of being patient and disciplined and to allow the helping team to carry out their mission. She enabled the volunteers to reach those with the most urgent needs first, such as first aid, medicine and food, and helped organize the entire rescue mission. When the villagers became impatient, she spoke a few kind words and also lent a helping hand in the distribution of food packets and medicine. Throughout the day, she led the team through the muddy and flooded roads to every nook and corner where people were who required help. She never looked tired and her face was always radiating with gratitude and loving-kindness.

The Seva Dal team finished their work and sat down for some rest. Suddenly one of the Seva Dal team members recollected that while the girl had taken them to all the needy people and helped them distribute food and medicine she had not taken any food for herself.

They asked her why she had not taken any food packet. Hesitatingly, the girl said that her GURU had told her that duty towards others should be the prime concern and when that duty is fulfilled He himself will take care of their needs. Such a small girl, staying in a poor condition and imparting the knowledge of the highest teachings reflecting implicit faith in her Guru held the team in awe and admiration. They inquired about the Guru and also wanted to know how she had met her guru.

The girl said, "I have not met or even seen my guru personally but I have his photo given to me by my teacher who stays in the nearby town."

The team members got more curious and asked her the name of her guru. "Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba," came the prompt reply. "I am a Bal Vikas student," she said further with a voice soaked in reverence and pride.

Everyone of the Seva Dal members were in Tears.

Swami always and every time reminds all of us, "There is no other quality nobler than Love in this world. The highest spiritual practice is to transform this love into service, Serve and help the Needy, Swami will be closest to you when you do Service and help the Needy".

Om Sai Ram.