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Kodai 14May14 morng ClipS:
Aum Sri Sai Ram
The following are the links to some video clips from May 12-20, 2014 Kodaikanal trip with Swami in His present form 'Sukshma Sareera'. These are arranged session wise. When present Swami is in the jhoola.
LINKS:
1. Kodai 14May14 morng Clip1
http://youtu.be/HWyUBZ_VnWI
14th Morning Session
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Waiting for Swami’s arrival
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Dr. Ram Shetty’s talk
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Sri Vijay Sai’s talk
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Swami’s talk – Explains His presence in “sukshma sarira” through the analogy of –
water vapor, water and ice.
2. Kodai 17May14
Narasiimha murthy talk clip Clip1
Your video is at
http://youtu.be/rxXd5_GFHyk
2.
17th Evening Session
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Sri Narasimha Murthy’s talk
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Swami talks about the morning picnic
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Swami blesses the son of the picnic host
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Followed by Swamis talk – only a parts of it (clips)
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A student asks what he should do if a beggar
asks for arms. Swami answers with the story of a rich man and explains what to
do. Moral: Help ever to empower.
3. Kodai 19May14 10
49 Swamis talk and QA session Clip1
Your video is at http://youtu.be/G7uHAV6tiXQ
19th Morning session- Question Answer
session- 1
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A student asks Swami how to detach from worldly
desires. Swami explains and concludes that – if you let world in (heart) then
there is no place for God, if you let God in then there is no place for world.
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Please see the transcript on page 10 of 19th May – Swami’s farewell
speech.
19th
Morning session- Swami’s talk
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The transcript of this is given in the pages
1-10 of the farewell speech.
4. Kodai 19May14 11
00 Swami QA session Clip2
Your video is at http://youtu.be/KzdPZx6gFx4
4. 19th Morning session- Question Answer
session- 2
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One of the teachers requests Swamis for a set of
messages that would help students, who have not seen Swami in physical form, to
experience divinity.
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Please see the see the transcript on page 17
of 19th May – Swami’s
farewell speech.
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Swami: It is the greatest responsibility of all
those who have seen Me and experienced Me while I was in the body, that the
same Love and experience they must spread to the others, through their own
life.
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Professor: There will be a lot of questions from
my students, colleagues, friends, and family, as to what I have experienced
here. I seek your advice in this regard, Swami.
✓
Swami: Tell fearlessly what you have
experienced. If there is a mistake, only then there has to be fear. There is no
mistake, so there is no scope for fear. Tell what your heart has witnessed…
rest on page 18 – farewell speech.
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Devotee: Swami, every Avatar has some purpose.
Sathya Sai Baba, when He was in physical form, there was a purpose, and it was
to spread Love, and we all have experienced that Love. There are questions in
our mind, that in this Form, what is Swami’s purpose?
✓
Swami: The purpose that was there, whether I was
in body or not the body is just the same. It has not changed……rest on pages 19
& 20.
✓ This
is a very important piece. Swami explains what made him give up His body and
what is the most important purpose of his avatar as- transformation of the
human heart.
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Student: Swami, how can I control my mind and
ego?
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Swami: tells a china katha, the story of a factory and the son of the owner of the
factory, to illustrate how to over come ego. See pages 21 & 22 of the
farewell speech.
5. Kodai 19May14 11
15 Swami QA session Clip3
Your video is at http://youtu.be/P7-GnOFCAyA
5.
19th Morning session- Question Answer
session- 3
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Vijay Sai on hunger?
✓
Swami: Hunger is not the problem, desire is the
problem. Advices controlled saatwik food.
See page 22 & 23.
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Swami: Ramgopal, you don’t have any doubts?
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Ramgopal: I don’t have any doubts, Swami. I
learned from you.
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Swami: Because he reads a lot of books, he
already knows everything that Swami has spoken. What Swami had spoken, the same
thing Swami is speaking. There is nothing new in it… rest..
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Swami arrives for the photo session.
6. Kodai 19May14 16
54 evening session bhajan Clip1
Your video is at http://youtu.be/Shl-hUlXUeY
7. Kodai 19May14
evening session bhajan Clip2
Your video is at http://youtu.be/RCh6Md2mIVs
19th
Evening session- Question Answer session- 1
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Bhajan, Rama katha, Gayathi Ganjawalla sings a
Thyaraja krithi on Swami’s request ( she didn’t know but learnt it to sing for
Swami)- shown in a different clip.
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Followed by Swami’s talk. A farewell advise
8. Kodai 20May14 07
03 Swami interaction before leaving Kodai Clip3
Your video is at http://youtu.be/rjkPi84ax48
20th
Morning session – Blessing before departure.Seeing off, just before departure
to Muddenahalli. 7.00 AM
Sunday, July 20, 2014
PREFACE
Aum
Sri Sai Ram
PREFACE
Sairam to
one and all.
Before I
was brought to the physical presence of Swami (Bahgavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba),
God was a concept to me, in spite of all the knowledge I had about God. God is
omniscient and so one can prey form anywhere, any time and for anything. Being
omnipotent, He can grant our prayer and can punish for our sinful acts. Yet
chose to pray always in front of an idol or a photo and always for mundane
cravings.
Once in
physical of proximity of the Swami, God became a reality. I could see, talk,
touch, and experience His love, and all the attributes associated with God.
Life and the relationship with God gained an entirely new meaning and purpose.
In spite of being aware of His omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence every
moment, the life was inseparably intertwined with the physical form. When He
dropped His physical body (deham) on 24 April 2011, like many other devotees, I
was also swinging between the two states of mind; one of confidence and
assurance based on His omnipresent form and the other, the agony of missing the
physical form and the confusion goes with it. Though very much aware of His
presence from the protection provided by Him and by the fulfillment of our
prayers and needs, yet was not sure of the ‘from’ He is in. It was mixed state;
He was there yet He was not.
This
continued for two year. Out His compassion, He chose to reveal to me ( and many
others) in His chosen subtle-body ( suukshma
sarira – as Swami refers to) through a series of events which finally
resulted in taking me and my wife to Kodaikanal during May 11- 20, 2014. All
that happened there emphasized that He is in a form, which I can neither see nor
hear but He was there in front of me, looking and listening to me. Whenever He
wanted, He used ‘M’ as the media to convey His words. I also learnt that He is
now healthy, younger looking as He was in 1980’s, a form we loved so much.
During the stay He convinced us that He will continue in this form the
remaining part of His avatharic
mission for the remaining period. While Swami is in the ‘final phase’ of His
mission, I am in the third phase of being with God; fist as a concept, next as
O3-Lord (omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient) with a physical
from and now O3-Lord with from but nobody. Life and my relationship
with Swami now have an entirely different meaning - a joy and assurance that I
enjoyed when He was physically there.
When I
asked Swami about sharing my experience with others His answer was:
“Tell
fearlessly what you have experienced. If there is a mistake, only then there
has to be fear. There is no mistake, so there is no scope for fear. Tell what
your heart has witnessed.
For those who ask
sincerely, ask with feeling, let them
know that there is a way to experience Swami still, and that is through the
path of humility and open-mindedness. If somebody is humble and
broad-minded, definitely he will understand. There is no point in chanting
Vedas to buffaloes. They will not understand anything. Teach them to those who
will understand. For the others, silence is the best answer.
I have
therefore, created this blog and put whatever the material that was at my
disposal with the idea of sharing with all my Sai-borhters and Sai-sisters.
Sairam. May this by His grace bring joy, confidence and enlightenment in your
lives.
Yours in His service.
GVP
Excerpts from His messages at Kodai:
“If there were circumstances in
which I could have stayed in the physical body, I would have continued to do
the same things. There would not have been any change.”
“Unfortunately, for loka
kalyana, for the benefit of the world, Swami underwent a lot of trouble. There
is a law of karma, like the rules of a game.”
“Out of My compassion, a lot of
the karma of these devotees, I took upon Myself.”
“Every time you write to Me
saying, “Swami cure me of this, save me from that,” all these what you had to
suffer, somebody in the Universe has to suffer. That is what I underwent, which
made Me give away that old car much sooner than I desired. However, I continue
in this new
car towards the same destination for which I had started, right since
the beginning of time. The destination is the transformation of human into
Divine. Don’t ever think it is only opening educational institutions under the
name Sathya Sai, or opening medical facilities under the name Sathya Sai, or
giving drinking water only under the name Sathya Sai….”
“It is the greatest
responsibility of all those who have seen Me and experienced Me while I was in
the body, that the same Love and experience they must spread to the others,
through their own life. This is a great responsibility that we must all decide to
shoulder, and that is all Bhagawan expects – to live the Message, not talk the
Message.”
“This is a very, very sacred, very unique time
in the history of mankind, where One Spirit is moving on into the other. Soon,
Bhagawan’s Mission will grow, expand and reach all the corners of the world,
and the New Avatar, Bhagawan will come back physically, for those who crave for
it, as the new Avatar, as another Sai Avatar, very shortly. And as long as you
have this faith that Bhagawan is with you, you shall all participate in the
Mission which will continue from this Avatar to the next.”
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