Om Sri Sai Guru Ganeshaya Namaha

SAI BALA

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CHILDREN’S NEWS LETTER 23
11/10/2003

Om Sri Sai Guru Deva

Dear boys and girls

We meet every weekend. This letter is for you, to love your parents and
every parent in this world.

If we are unable to come on weekends please excuse us. There may be some
reasons. You should always keep loving and enjoy your life with love. Tell
your parents or elders to receive this email print it and give it to you.
You can share our SAI BALA with all your friends. If you do not understand
any big words, ask your parents they will help you. Your parent is your
immediate GOD. OBEY THEM WITH LOVE. SATHYA SAI BABA WILL PROTECT YOU. Jai Sai Ram.

Jai Sai Ram

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Jai Sai Ram

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EVENT THIS SATURDAY……

FREE SAI BABA LIVE ONLINE CHATROOM CLASSES

Topic: Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Five basic human values, philosophy and teachings.

Admission Free. All are Welcome. Jai Sai Ram and Swami bless you.

Jai Sai Ram

SATHYA SAI BABA WORLD ONLINE DEVOTEES CHATROOM

Open 24 hours and 7 days a week.

We have normal and voice chat facilities.

You can make appointments with fellow devotees and use our Chat Room facility at any time.

Please note the timings for free general Online Counselling Sessions and genera discussion on Swami for all by Dr Jose Luis Hernani.

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Are you a drug addict? Are you an alcoholic? Do you have a marriage Problem? Career Advice? or Any other.

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Special weekly meetings on Sundays 9:30am - 10:30am (Indian Time)

You can make appointments with fellow devotees and use our Chat Room facility at any time.

Jai Sai Ram

THE TEN FOLD PATH TO DIVINITY

Fold 10

Adore God. Abhor Sin.

BHAGAWAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
 
Jai Sai Ram.

THIS WEEK’S MESSAGE BY BHAGAWAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

A child is all love; its smile is most innocent, it has not learnt to work
for gain, It has no attachment to the goods of the world. It plays with a
doll for a while and throws it off the next moment. The love – full heart of
the child hardens with age because greed breeds hatred and envy.

BHAGAWAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Jai Sai Ram.

CHILDREN’S WORD FOR THE WEEK

ONE

Sweets are many but sugar is one; stars are many but sky is one; jewels are
many but gold is one; beings are many but spirit is one; nations are many
but earth is one. All are therefore children of God.

BHAGAWAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Jai Sai Ram.

STORY FOR THIS WEEK

THE PURNAVATARAS

According to the Indian conception, the Lord Vishnu has so far descended
incarnate in nine forms, UNTIL THE CURRENT SHRI SATYA SAI BABA THE
YUGAVATARA.

10. SHRI SATYA SAI BABA THE YUGAVATARA.

The Yugavatara. Baba, like Buddha, preaches that the Vedic virtues have to
be constantly hammered into the ears of the world-community. His method is
through miracles. He performs these day in and day out and proclaims that
the Vedic teachings have the sanction of God Almighty.

The first five Avataras had firmly established the supremacy of spiritualism
over materialism. These by their precept and practice clearly proved that
God Almighty exists and that He is the Designer, Controller and Destroyer
i.e Transformer of what he has created, and none else. Inert matter has no
inherent potentiality to produce anything. It is God Brahman who through His
volition starts the process of creation, maintenance and also dissolution.
He does not need any material or any other means to accomplish these
processes.

The next three came to re-establish the values already accepted by the
society in the earlier incarnations. The powerful elements in the society
paying lip-sympathy to these Values, did not follow these themselves. The
values by and large are : (1) Faith in God. (2) Godly virtues are: (a) Non
violence or Love towards his kith and kin and his neighbors. Man’s all
actions should be informed by sweetness of word. (b) Love of truth and
detestation of false hood, cheating and injustice (c) non-covetousness or
the development of the instinct to enjoy what legitimately belongs to us and
not grab what belongs to the others. (d) Development of character, purity of
mind and body. (e) Training the mind not to run after the waywardness of the
senses. Baba puts this as the training of the mind to instinctively put
“ceiling on desires and not suppression of all desires”.

We have noted that to suppress Kartaveerya, Parshurama had to come, to
suppress Ravana a Brahmana, Rama had to come and to suppress Jarasandha,
Kamsa, Shishupala, Narakasura, Kalayavana and Duryodhana and most of the
others of like nature, Krishna had to come.

Buddha had to come to activate the good elements to supress the evil. It is
not suficient that you behave justly. Not only must you behave properly, but
vociferously condemn the bad and the evil in society. It is the duty of
every virtuous man to spread this message louder and clear, and take it to
every nook and corner of the globe.

Now let us take stock of the background circumstances against which Baba has
come.

The task before Baba-Avatara is manifestly much more complicated than what
the earlier Avataras had to face and accomplish.

MATERIALISM HAS RAISED ITS HEAD

Materialism which the first five Avataras tried to oust and replace it by
establishing the supremacy of spirituality over it, has again reared its
head. Not only this, but it has received respectability by the backing of
the scientific community. The main culprit for this situation is the
establishment of the Semitic faiths. These faiths advocated the acceptance
of dogmatic beliefs in the name of religion. For example Moses the founder
of Judaism promulgated the doctrine of ‘Jealous God’. Now God and Jealousy
can never coexist.It is not the rational view. But in the name of religion
and God, this irrational belief is passed on as a revelation and God, this
irrational belief is passed on as a revelation given to His chosen prophet
by the God Himself. Coupled with this, Moses advocated the destruction of
‘idols’ of God and bade his followers not to worship these. Infact nobody
worships the stone or the wood or any other material of which this icon is
made. He or she worships the qualities a particular Godhead is supposed to
posses. So the advocacy of destruction of the images, has caused unnecessary
conflicts between the sects which advocate image-worship and those which
oppose it. Islam in particular has imposed bloody wars on the idolators.

Jesus Christ made the first attempt early in the first century B.C. to
replace Jealous God of Moses by his God of Love. But this was set at naught
by Paul who in addition to the doctrines of Jealous God and destruction of
idols advocated by the earlier prophets, added his own. These are the
doctrines of Original Sin and the Judgement Day. With these two irrational
beliefs as his weapons in proselytism, he started his missions of mass
conversions. Ofcourse his path was not smooth. The missionaries by hook and
crook won the paronage of the ruling groups and even by perpetrating heinous
crimes, added larger and larger number to their flock. Islam folowed its
elder brother in this game of increasing the numbers. Conversation of the
followers of God of love, to the God of jealously, is infact a crime against
God and humanity. But these religions indulge in it with impurity.

These religious overlords with the help of the ruling groups, forged the
oppressive instrument of suppressing even rational beliefs of Bruno the
philosopher in 1600 AD, imposing bans on Copernicus and Galileo not to
propagate experimentally proved scientific discoveries and so on.

This scientists therefore, dubbed these religious faiths as anti-science.
The main religious dogma was belief in some God. The scientists, therefore
became anti God too.

This anti religious attitude of the thinking elite and the scientists was
very pithily expressed by the authors of the Communst Manifesto Marx and
Engels. They gave two slogans to mankind: (1) Workers of the world unite,
you have nothing to loose but your chains and (2) Religion is the opium of
the masses. Looking to the history and development of Semitie faiths like
Christianity and Islam, Marx can not be faulted for coining his second
slogan viz, religion is the opium of the masses.

But this does grave injustice to the Vedic Dharma. It never advocated
irrational beliefs. On the other hand, rationalism is one of the ten basic
tenets of Hinduism, the modern name for Vedic faith. The endeavour of the
Vedic faith is to establish the supremacy of spiritualism over materialism.
In other words the Vedic faith firmly establishes the existence of God
Almighty, the Ultimate Reality. The modern scientists also appear to agree
to this Vedic theory, when they say that the scientific principle behind
this universe is the ‘All in one’ i.e this whole diversified universe has
its source in ONE principle.

Jai Sai Ram.

SHRI SATYA SAI BABA THE YUGAVATARA Will be continued on our next letter

Jai Sai Ram.

PAST ISSUES OF THIS NEWS LETTER

NOW WE HAVE A GLOBAL WEB SITE FOR OUR MISSION

Now you can see stories, poems, pictures and questions on a web site.

Jai Sai Ram

Love is the only motivation. Please Bless All and Help the Poor. Swami bless you.

Jai Sai Ram

All our words, thoughts, efforts, actions and outcomes are surrendered upon the beautiful lotus feet of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
In Sai's Love

News Letter Editor
Soma