Year# 2 Issue# 175 th Date: 29 Oct 2007
Thursday 23rd August 2007 Mahavardhaman Mahavardhaman Dr. Yogindrasinh Joshi and Dr. Vishakhaveera Joshi recited the 14 th Chapter of Guru charitra in Sanskrit. While they were reciting P.P.Sadguru Aniruddha Bapu performed the ‘puja’ and ‘abhishek’ on Lord Dattaguru.
P.P. Sadguru Bapu’s Guidance || Hari Om ||
As the month of Shravana starts everyone is busy with the vows and observances. This observances that observances, observing Monday, a Shravani Monday offering milk to Lord Shankar on that day, fast in the morning, eat only at five in the evening and otherwise do what you want. It doesn’t matter if you do not remember God but all these rituals have to be followed, so one realizes that importance is given to these rituals. In Shravan month that photo must be be installed, it must have two Jivtya, Buddha and Brahaspati in it. This means that why we must do this puja is none of our concern, we are only interested in the benefit we get from it or what am I going to lose from it. I'll accept only if there is benefit. If there is loss, I don't want it. I don't want it if there is neither a gain nor a loss. "Swatacha Jhala thoda aani vyahyancha aal ghoda" this situation is not acceptable to us. We are afraid of not observing these rituals. This picture, has to be brought home home and put up and anointed anointed with ‘gandh’ everyday, the ‘gandh’ can put at any place place and the Gods in it will share and and adjust. But we have no idea about it. The The Brihaspati from the Budha and Brihaspati picture picture why is he he sitting on a tiger? Why does Budha sit on an elephant? Or while they are sitting together on a low wooden seat why are they talking to each other. We know nothing. We think it is not necessary to know it. We only have to do do it. Why? Because our our grandparents grandparents were doing it, our parents were
doing it so we do it. Basically it is not bad. bad. Whatever you are doing, it is good. But while doing so just think that you have been given something to eat which you like very much. Suppose you like Batatawada or chicken, or fish and you like it very much. All the required spices are put but if no salt is is put in it, then will you eat that that dish, No. You will not not be able to eat it. Right? Right? That That means that in in that big vessel full of chicken Biryani or Masala Rice only two or three spoons of salt is added. added. That means means compared to its quantity very little salt is put, about 2-3 spoons. Thus as compared to its quantity it is very little, yet its presence is essential. Without salt the food is tasteless. The poor fellows who have to eat food without salt know how difficult it is ! It's then we realise that a little of amount of salt is very much essential for a potful of Masala Rice or Biryani. Without Without it it the Masala Rice Rice it tasteless.. However, much we like that Biryani Biryani or Masala Rice we will not be able to eat it properly. It's a different matter if we are absolutely helpless we may eat just to fill our stomach. We must also keep in mind that the salt should be in the right proportion. proportion. If the salt is more than than required then the food becomes salty. How much bhakti should we do? Only that much as is necessary. Son is in the 12th Standard, bhakti is done. The daughter's marriage is not getting fixed, bhakti is done. Son or daughter is not getting an issue, bhakti bhakti is done. There is illness, illness, bhakti bhakti is done. If somebody is troubling, bhakti is done. Otherwise there is no bhakti. As we say that that if the salt salt is in excess, excess, then the food becomes salty, similarly if spirituality is in excess the life becomes insipid. It's because the Saints have compared it to salt so we have reason to believe it. No, my dear, we should not do too much bhakti bhakti or else like the food our life will be salty. Bear it in mind that your life becomes salty by the tears in your eyes. But if those tears are for your Lord or for the anguish of separation from the Lord then your life does not become salty but adds flavour to it. When tears come come because of our sorrows, or punishment punishment or reprimand reprimand then our life life becomes salty. That means means it is our tears which make our life salty. But it all depends whether they are tears of joy, tears of love, tears of grief or crocodile tears. While observing a vow in the month of Shravana or in any other month, we should be able to tell the Lord calmly, "Lord, I do not know who you are. I am not able to know all your attributes. attributes. But whatever I am doing from the bottom of my heart kindly accept it wholeheartedly and give me good ‘buddhi’ (intellect)." Here, I remember a short story, in a village there is a temple and the deity of that temple is alive. What is meant by (‘jagrut’)‘active’? Actually all deities are active. But we consider a deity active, when the deity gives gives response to the vows of the devotee. What's the meaning meaning of 'Active"? God who fulfills the desires of the bhakta bhakta in response to his vow. Nothing else. And therefore all the villagers villagers would come in the morning morning and the evening evening to burn incense sticks, to light the lamp. It then comes comes in the mind of the Lord that all these villagers villagers are happy with me, how much much seva they are rendering. rendering. They come in the morning, noon and and evening. They come and ring ring the bells in the temple, beat the drums. They would would not pay attention to their children but they would would sweep the temple, do this this and that. that. They would do everything. God was very pleased He thought his bhaktas bhaktas really loved him. Along with the God, His consort, consort, Jagadamba is is standing with Him. Him. She correctly tells Him that is an illusion, "Dear, wait for a while." He asks, "Why?" She replies, "I think you are impatient to shower your grace on them." He says, "Yes, I am going to shower my grace, I think I will make them all happy forever, all the villagers." The Goddess replies, “Do not do this. You just do it only for a year. For just one year from today. Let them not have any sorrow, whatsoever. Let there be no trouble. Let no grief grip them. Let them not remember any mournful event. Just do this this and then we shall decide what do do.” A woman by nature nature is careful. No hurry, not not inviting unwanted unwanted trouble? And accordingly accordingly without any any magic or sorcery all the sorrows of all the the people disappeared in a moment. There There is no need now for making any any vows to the the Lord, they they got whatever whatever they desired. desired. If somebody wanted wanted to marry, the groom would come at their doorstep and was willing to get married without any
dowry and on the contrary was ready to give something to marry. There is no chest pain, no stomachache. No backache or headache. Nothing at all. The children ate well. They studied well, everything was fine. There was no need to make any vows and as this went on, in the first week itself the number of people visiting visiting the temple was reduced by ten ten percent. Even then, some people visited the temple. Those who used to come daily, come once a week. After six months, those who used to be keen to do seva in the temple in the morning and evening, none of them came. Then a day came when the both God and the Goddess of the temple sat alone in the the temple wondering what what was happening. No one came to the temple. temple. No bhakta has turned up since morning. No lamp is burnt. No ‘aarti’ was done in the temple. Nothing was done, absolutely nothing. Why to keep the priest? To give money to the priest one needs to take subscriptions. For everybody, everything was fine. Each one said, “ I will not give. He will give, he would say the other one will give and it went on and eventually no one gave.” The priest priest does not get his salary so the priest also also stopped coming. He was concerned with his salary. There was problem for even the God's f ood. Poor God ! There was problem for His meals. The Goddess says, “What should I give you to eat? You have not brought anything. Your devotees have not brought you anything, nothing was offered to you. What should we do now?” The Goddess asks Him, “Have you understood what has happened?” The God says, “Yes, it's good that I didn't say that I would destroying all your sins permanently. Otherwise, this would have been our state forever.” Then the Goddess says, “That's why I say, I observe everyone carefully, each one get the fruits according to their deeds. According to the seva done they will get their fruits and nothing more. Otherwise, men are arrogant and will soon get insolent. Man only utilises God for getting whatever whatever he wants. And he first sees to his own happiness and then if possible tries to do some seva . Then their bad destiny should not be wiped, let them do it themselves. Only when they suffer and face face miseries, then they realise that there is somebody who wipes off all there troubles. Till they face sufferings, till they meet troubles, they do not remember God. And that is the reason why Dattaguru (the Lord) has made this Inevitable Law of Karma applicable to all. Do not intervene in it.” Then God asks Her, "How many days are left for the year to complete?" Jagadmauli says, "It's just at this moment that the year is over. This moment itself." The God and the Goddess are sitting calmly. Just then they hear some confusion and noise. They were not used to hearing hearing any noise. There was filth all around. Some Some four five people came running. One of them had backache, the other stomachache, the other one's son had failed. O my God ! this God has granted all our wishes. O dear God, what has happened to you? Seva started immediately, some some sweep, some pour pour water, somebody somebody does this, somebody does that and somebody somebody brings food. What do do they all say, each and everyone one? People have put God in distress distress that's why all this has happened. happened. We made a mistake. This was not said. We forgot our God, this they did not admit. Once there need was over He was forgotten. Therefore, this story should be told by the grandparents to their young grandchildren. From this, we can understand one thing that when we have happiness, enjoyment and peace but truly speaking this is never possible. “Who is completely happy on this this earth?” Who Who is happy? The true bhakta of the Lord is only happy. Man always wants to be happy and therefore he wants a short-cut. Minimum Minimum work and maximum maximum benefits, high salaries, salaries, high respect. All this can only happen in government organizations not in private companies and this world is God's Private Private company, bear it in mind. mind. Nobody can question question Him. However big a Union you may establish, establish, have a morcha, bring about about a lock-out, lock-out, the loss will be yours. yours. God will not be afraid of you. If He wants to remove you from His services that means He issues your cheque. Even if you shout shout and scream He will write your your cheque. Once it is signed, nobody can ever dishonour dishonour that that cheque. And that very cheque if if He wants to hold it back, even if you tear it, nobody will allow you entry into heaven or hell from this earth. Bear it in mind. It is because it is really really His private matter. matter. It is His own. He has neither begged it from anybody nor has He has not bought it from anybody. He himself has created
it, he has made it by his own efforts. And therefore therefore He will not listen to anybody, this we must first understand. We may think that we will do the ‘upasana’, collectively do the ‘upasana’ and and later do a drama before before Him or oppose Him, if you do both these things, the loss is yours. The maximum benefit got in the month of Shravana is by doing maximum ‘shravan bhakti’ (hearing the Lord’s Lord’s name and glory) glory) and the maximum maximum possible chanting chanting of the Lord’s name. First of all what improves is your hearing. hearing. It doesn't mean mean that a man man who is deaf, starts hearing. It means that you learn to hear good things and whatever we hear we assimilate only the good from it and discard discard that which which is not good. good. This is the most most important benefit of the ‘shravan ‘shravan bhakti’ in the month month of Shravana. Shravana. The The Budha and and Brihaspati and the Goddess (Jivti) what are they basically? They are the Gods for the organ of hearing. In that photo, (Jivti) the deities that are there; if you closely observe them the snake and the deities they are like the organs in our ear. The photos are nothing but a symbol of man’s outer outer ear to the inner ear and that this this photo is of ‘shravan bhakti’. And when this month of "Shravana" i.e. of ‘shravan bhakti’ gets over then comes the "Mahaganapati Siddhivinayak". Keep in mind. If you do not do ‘shravan bhakti’ well or do not observe the month of Shravana then Ganapati does not come into your life. Ganapati doesn't arrive. Without the month of "Shravana", the month of "Bhadrapada" doesn't come. If in anybody's life the month of Shravana does not exist, then in his life Ganapati also does not exist. The one in whose life Ganapati does does not exist, then in his life the the month of Bhadrapada Bhadrapada means an utter utter mess, “kutryancha bhadrapad”. Keep it in mind. A life that is utterly shameless, unethical, having no scruples, scruples, such a conduct and demeanor means means “kutryancha bhadrapad”. By which path do we want to go? go? We do not want to go on the the path of those dogs. We want Dattaguru's dogs. dogs. If we want to become become dogs it's better that we become the the dogs of Lord Dattaguru than the dogs on the streets. It is the best of all. Once we keep in mind the greatness of ‘shravan bhakti’, then we shall start understanding every aspect of Lord Ganapati. Today also we are going to chant the Aradhanajyoti 38. “Vighnanashine Shivasutaya” the destroyer of all obstacles is the Mahaganapati. He obliterates all our obstacles but Ganapati does not remove our obstacles automatically like the mosquitoes who bite us unknowingly and we get malaria. This we must understand. The mosquito has to come from somewhere and bite us. Ganapati Ganapati does not come from anywhere, anywhere, He is omnipresent. He is also there inside our "Mooladharchakra" "Mooladharchakra".. He is there to remove remove all our obstacles. obstacles. Before the word "Vighnanashine" comes "Ekadantaya". "Ekadantaya Vighnanashine". We think his one tusk is broken and that is why he is "Ekadanta" (having one tusk.) It is true. But the meaning of the word, "Ekadanta" is completely different. What do we understand by the word "Ekadanta"? "Having one tooth". Of the two tusks one is broken then should he not have been called "having one and half tusks"? But it is not so. The meaning of the word, "Ekadanta" is "Wherever two is required one is also sufficient." Wherever there is a need for two one is enough for him. Look at the constitution of the human body- we have two ears, if one ear is deaf, we can hear by the other ear. If one eye is completely covered, we can see by the other eye whatever we want to see. We have two kidneys. If one kidney does not function at all, then the second kidney does the work. The liver has two lobes if one does not work the other does the work. We have two lungs, lungs, if one does not function, the the other does. You will notice that wherever there are two with with only one functioning a man can live. His life continues. But how is the Ganapati who resides in the Mooladharchakra? When two are required then with the help of one, he accepts that one and life goes on. What does it mean? If does not then just work but makes it work. He needs two seva from you but if you have given him only one seva , then the He accepts it happily. If you have to do a punishment punishment of 500 sit ups then on doing 250 he asks you to stop. If you have to be in imprisonment for ten years, then on completion of five years he says it is enough. One for two is the ratio of your
obstacles. When does this happen? Only when you will remember this "Ekdanta", then only. When you hear with both ears to be one with with Him and not when you are deaf to Him. When you concentrate and and both your eyes are are on the One, when both your ears ears are concentrated concentrated on the One, both your feet dance in one place to His tune, both your hands are brought together to clap for Him, clapping your hands remembering His name and most importantly when both the lobes of the brain, the right and left hemisphere come together, only then. How can they be brought together Bapu? To bring them together means to bring together our mind and intellect. Both the mind and the intellect. We have knowledge therefore, we can read. So here it is the work of the intellect. Only our mind is wandering elsewhere. Try maximum to pull your mind mind for remembering remembering God, for His ‘gajars’ ‘gajars’ and his bhakti. Then see, Ganapati will definitely come. || Hari Om ||
Gajar 1:
"^r_énr _hméÐm dO« hZw_mZ _méVr Ÿ& dmZar A§OZr nw Ìm am_XyVm à^§OZm Ÿ& O` ~mocmo hZw_mZ H$s , O` O` O` {g`mam_ H$s Ÿ&& “Bhimroopi maharudra vajra Hanuman Maruti Vanari anjani putra Ram doota prabhanjana Jai bolo Hanuman ki, Jai Jai Jai siyaram ki ”
Gajar 2 :
"AcrH$So Sm| "AcrH$So S Ja, m| ncrH$So Xar Aer OrdZmMr JV `m Pmc Ÿ& gm§Jo {nn`mMr `m d¡Iar , a§ _mZdm Zm_mMr H$m§g `m Yar ~mny Zm_mMr H$m§g `m Yar, ao VwOcm Vmarc ~mny h[a Ÿ&& Vmarc h[a, VwOcm Vmarc ~mny h[a Ÿ&& “Alikade dongar, palikade dari Ashi jivanachi gat ya zala | Sange pipayachi ya vaikhari, ra manava Namachi kas ya dhari Bapu namachi kas ya dhari, re tuzala taril Bapu hari || Taril hari, Tuzala taril Bapu hari ||
Arti –
1. "AmaVr gmB©~m~m gm¡ »`XmVmam Ordm....' 2. "› gmB© lr gmB© O` O` gmB©am_...' 1. “Arti Saibaba saukhadatara jeeva” 2. “Om Sai Shri Sai Jai Jai SaiRam” || Hari Om ||
Aniruddha's Bank of Ramnaam
Total no of accounts : 1,11,872
'Ram' Naam : 1,260,551,808
'Shri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram' : 78,784,488
'Krishna' Naam : 315,317,952
'Dattaguru' Naam : 157,568,976
'Jai Jai Aniruddha Hari' : 78,784,488
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