2013 Sathya Sai Service Organisation Republic of Ireland, Zone 9, Region 91 SATHYA SAI NEWSLETTER JAN-FEB 2013 Dear Devotees of Sathya Sai, love expresses itself in many ways. In a mental asylum there are people A Happy and Blessed New Year to with many kinds of delusions. In a you all! sense, the entire world may be considered as a mental asylum. There This is a new year, and hopefully not are many people in the world who are an extension of the last one, but a crazy about money. There are others year that will offer peace, happiness who have obsessions regarding their and a future filled with hope for health and sickness. Some others are everybody. crazy about power and position. In The year gone by will long be this manner, every individual is remembered for many reasons - the obsessed with some desire or the uncertain weather, economic woes, other. There are, again, some who are and so much tragedy in people’s obsessed with the idea of God. That is lives. Everybody is trying hard to see the only commendable obsession.” the light at the end of the tunnel, so On another occasion, Swami that they will be able to smile again referred to the present-day Seven as they enter 2014. However, the Deadly Sins, as follows: fault lies not within the stars, as they say, but within man himself and his “The nation today is affected by the greed for more of the good things of consequences of seven grievous sins. life which he can neither afford nor The first is business without morality; needs. Homes and livelihoods have the second is politics without been lost by this craving and suicide principle; the third, education figures have never been higher! without character; the fourth, worship without sacrifice, the fifth, We, Sai devotees are blessed to wealth without hard work; the sixth, know of Swami, and the love He has human exist without regard for showered upon us over the years, scriptures; the seventh, devotion and, indeed, continues to do so. without austerity. Regretfully, there are those who have never heard of Him, and even These are the Seven Deadly Sins that wonder at our devotion to such a are ravaging the nation. The country Glorious Being. So it must be will regain prosperity and peace only through our actions of service and when all these are banished and you love towards others that will have morality in business, principles impress them to learn more about in politics educated men who have the Avatar of this New Age - this character and work as the basis of Golden Age. wealth.” Mankind is obsessed with all things These words were said many years material and his greed-list gets ago but are as pertinent today as longer and longer. Some years ago, when He first said them. Swami touched on this very subject, which I now quote: All this is food for thought. Ed. _________________________________ “There is no human being in the world without love. However, that 2 I am the Sai Baba of Shirdi come me. I did not know how much time I again; then I was mostly engaged was standing there. I heard the call in preparing the meal; now I have of my mother and I knew I should come to free you all with rush back to avoid harsh words or strengthening, purifying repast. even a beating from my mother. During the few minutes when I was -Baba (age 14) standing, the water had been slowly ___________________________________ rising. I did not notice it. But suddenly the mud below the rock SAVING HANDS UNDER had been washed off and the rock slipped into the rushing waters. THE FLOODED RIVER Faithfully, I have followed the rock as a companion. The rock had landed I thought Swami had come to my life nearby, but I was washed off along only in the year 1965, when I had the big waves of the river. Somebody the fortune of meeting Divinity for was shouting, calling for help, and the first time. But I was wrong. many rushed to see me mercilessly Swami later one day confirmed that I thrown up and down (in) the water. had been earmarked by Bhagavan for shaping my life, even before I had I was going down the water, unable met Him. to grasp my breath. I had already taken a lot of water into me and I Swami clarified that, “I know the could not breathe. Past, the Present and the Future of all My devotees very well. I know their It was at that critical moment that I destiny, and subtly interfere and help suddenly felt that somebody from them for the quickest evolution in down under the water was their spiritual pursuit”. supporting me! I could feel a pair of hands holding me and keeping me And as a confirmative assurance, aloft in the water for a distance of Swami asked me, “Do you remember few meters. I saw a branch of a huge those Hands that saved you from a tree almost touching the water and I flooded river, in your childhood had (the) presence of mind to hold days?” on to that branch. As I was holding In a flash I remembered the desperately to the branch, half unforgettable incident when I was a portion of my body was still in the young boy. On a fateful weekend, the water and the force of the water was river Harichandra was flowing threatening to pull me again into it. I fiercely, flooding the riverbeds too. was crying loudly and called my In my childhood days, not knowing mother. But no sound was coming the dangers, we were delighted to out from my throat. The fear of watch the unending stream of death in that tender age was floodwater. The roaring waves of the overwhelming me. But from that river seemed to invite us. I was instant I could not feel the standing on a rock kept on the side mysterious hands which were of the riverbed near our home. The supporting me till then. I thought sight of the river was mesmerising that somebody had tried to save me 3 from the floods and then vanished Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram. when perhaps I seemed to be safe This state-of-the-art, fully automated holding to a tree branch. ELISA work station for its microbiology department was There was immense hue and cry bought at the cost of Rs. 35 lakh along the shore of the river, many (5,000 euro approx.). people running here and there. An old man climbed over the tree and With the new machine tests can be jumped into the water nearer me, performed in the hospital in a took hold of me and swam along the shorted span of time. Dr. Choudary shore for a small distance, before he D. Voleti said that this new machine could set his feet on earth. He then will bring the sample testing time put me on the floor face down, till I from 6 hours down to 2.5 hours, thus vomited all the water, which I had reducing the waiting time for consumed during those dreaded patients. period of uncertainty. “It is now possible to test 400 But all along, I was thinking of blood samples at a time,” he said. those mysterious Hands, which were “The procurement of the new ELISA supporting me from under the work station is in consonance with water. Who was He? I did not know. the principals of health care laid The elders in our house did not down by Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Baba’s believe the story of those two hands health institutes, therefore, give top supporting me from down the water. priority to patient-care and are always evolving ways to serve the As I had mentioned earlier, now I patients better,” Dr. Voleti said. firmly believe that our Lord Sai had been watching me even from my _________________________________ tender age, and Swami was in the act of resurrecting me from the jaws of The heart full of compassion is death. verily the temple of God. - “Mumbai” Srinivasan - BABA _________________________________ _________________________________ Dust if you think, dust you are. The Next Sai Incarnation God if you think, God you are. In the early 1990s, during a talk with - BABA students, Sathya Sai told them "that the father of his next incarnation, as _________________________________ Prema Sai, had been born in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. New ELISA Work-Station He also said that the body of Prema The very latest technology in the Sai was in the process of being field of diagnosing infections, like formed." "It is also said that Prof. Kasthuri will be the mother of Prema HIV (Aids), Hepatitis and dengue, among others, has been recently Sai," who is now already reborn. installed in SSS Institute of Higher 4 The future incarnation of Sathya Sai “He will have plenty of work. Prema is to include the roles of being a Sai will elevate human consciousness husband and father. It is said, at a to divine heights. Not only will there certain time, Prema Sai will be be a lot of work but he will also need married, and be the father to one a lot of help.” James Sinclair, in 2005, boy. described a series of dreams that Prema Sai Baba is said to complete "went on for years”. I saw myself the mission of the Sai Avatar to end walking up a hill, led by three men in this age of darkness and to usher in the darkness of night.