Some Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba birthday Facebook post contents
Given below are some Facebook posts that I shared on Facebook a little while back today on the occasion of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's birthday today, Nov. 23rd.
https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2021018128114754 shares a birthday songs video whose fuller version seems to be available on youtube here: SWAMI BIRTHDAY SONG, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH5WYJwC-Wg, 9 min 51 secs, published by Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation Maharashtra Goa on 8th Nov. 2013.
Here's the comment I (Ravi) put on the above Facebook post:
Thoroughly enjoyed it and feel blessed as I am filled with memories of seeing these events live in Sai Kulwant Hall. Thanks for sharing. Jai Sairam! (Around 9 minute video).
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Ravi: I think all the video clips in the video are from the period I was blessed to offer free service in Prasanthi Nilayam ashram system from Oct. 2002 till sometime after Mahasamadhi of Bhagavan in April 2011. So I am able to relate to them very well. I see many people in it who were my colleagues in the ashram system and also a few who were my students in the Sai university.
Now we are left only with memories of that extraordinary physical presence of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (physical form). [I exclude the rare cases of those who claim to have visions/visitations of Bhagavan in that physical form after Mahasamadhi.] So these videos shared freely on the Internet are a vital resource in keeping those memories of Bhagavan fresh in our minds.
What a powerful and magnetic spiritual presence Bhagavan had! It is now when I cannot experience at physical form level, that powerful and magnetic spiritual presence of Bhagavan that I truly understand how valuable it was to me and how much I miss it (presence) today.
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"Our Conscience knows the Real source of the Joy. It will proceed towards the right Path. You have to take it as a Guide and not disobey it".-- Baba
Pic and text (slightly edited) above courtesy: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1426944660756785&set=gm.1140296892768027.
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"Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine and reveres others as divine."
Above text and pic courtesy: https://www.facebook.com/groups/223054021158990/permalink/1140671772730539/.
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Loving Sai Ram
Happy 92nd birthday of Kali Awatar our beloved Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
[Ravi: The words below seem to be quotes of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.]
"Of what use is it to honour the Avatar and hold the day when the Avatar took human form as sacred? The Message of the Avatar must be born, must become alive, must grow in you, your heart-that is the Birthday, you have to celebrate. Celebrate the Birthday in your own village. You need not travel long distances to where I physically am! Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Jet them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday."
"The day when you resolve to practise My advice; to follow my directives, to translate My message into acts of service, and to engage in spiritual discipline-that day is My birthday for you. The 23rd of November which you now honor as the day on which I was born, is only like any other day, even if you celebrate it in a routine, ritual fashion. Adore man: the adoration reaches Me. Neglect man; you neglect Me. Of what avail is it to worship the Lord and to suppress man, His counterpart on earth? Love for God must be manifested as Love for man, and Love must express itself as service."
"Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavanthu (Let all beings in all the worlds be happy). Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you."
"Embodiments of Love! Do not pay attention to the day when the body was born and fulfil selfish ends by celebrating the event pompously. The day when you manifest pure feelings in your hearts, plant firm faith in the Divine Principle in your thoughts and cultivate unselfish enthusiasm to serve others, that day deserves to be celebrated as the Real Birthday. Seva can give you the experience of the Omnipresence of God, God as Vishnu."
"There's none in the world who has been able to see Me. They are seeing every thing and they are trying to understand everything, but they are not making the slightest attempt to understand what is divinity, which is present within them. When we talk of God we should know that God has no birth. Birth is only for the body. A body which is born has to die but God is above birth and death. He has no beginning, no middle and no end. He is neither born nor can He be destroyed. He is present everywhere in the form of Atma."
"I must ask you to give me as a birthday offering only one thing - reduce your selfishness; abate your wrong desires. Foster your spirit of sacrifice and become noble human beings. The Avatar (Divine incarnation) comes to save mankind out of His Love and Compassion. He comes down to the level of man and arouses the Divine Consciousness in him. In order to enable you to reach the highest goal of merging with the Absolute, this chance has been granted to you as a reward for merit acquired in many previous lives."
Above text courtesy (slightly edited): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1411772675602267&set=a.144702552309292.28109.100003086447165.
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Happy Birthday To Our Dearest Sai Maa
There is no distance between you and me. I am as close to you as you are to yourself. -Baba
Above pic and text courtesy (slightly edited): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1978542959074441&set=a.1708478099414263.1073741826.100007562672288
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2021018128114754 shares a birthday songs video whose fuller version seems to be available on youtube here: SWAMI BIRTHDAY SONG, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH5WYJwC-Wg, 9 min 51 secs, published by Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation Maharashtra Goa on 8th Nov. 2013.
Here's the comment I (Ravi) put on the above Facebook post:
Thoroughly enjoyed it and feel blessed as I am filled with memories of seeing these events live in Sai Kulwant Hall. Thanks for sharing. Jai Sairam! (Around 9 minute video).
--- end comment ---
Ravi: I think all the video clips in the video are from the period I was blessed to offer free service in Prasanthi Nilayam ashram system from Oct. 2002 till sometime after Mahasamadhi of Bhagavan in April 2011. So I am able to relate to them very well. I see many people in it who were my colleagues in the ashram system and also a few who were my students in the Sai university.
Now we are left only with memories of that extraordinary physical presence of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (physical form). [I exclude the rare cases of those who claim to have visions/visitations of Bhagavan in that physical form after Mahasamadhi.] So these videos shared freely on the Internet are a vital resource in keeping those memories of Bhagavan fresh in our minds.
What a powerful and magnetic spiritual presence Bhagavan had! It is now when I cannot experience at physical form level, that powerful and magnetic spiritual presence of Bhagavan that I truly understand how valuable it was to me and how much I miss it (presence) today.
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"Our Conscience knows the Real source of the Joy. It will proceed towards the right Path. You have to take it as a Guide and not disobey it".-- Baba
Pic and text (slightly edited) above courtesy: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1426944660756785&set=gm.1140296892768027.
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"Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine and reveres others as divine."
Above text and pic courtesy: https://www.facebook.com/groups/223054021158990/permalink/1140671772730539/.
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Loving Sai Ram
Happy 92nd birthday of Kali Awatar our beloved Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
[Ravi: The words below seem to be quotes of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.]
"Of what use is it to honour the Avatar and hold the day when the Avatar took human form as sacred? The Message of the Avatar must be born, must become alive, must grow in you, your heart-that is the Birthday, you have to celebrate. Celebrate the Birthday in your own village. You need not travel long distances to where I physically am! Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Jet them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday."
"The day when you resolve to practise My advice; to follow my directives, to translate My message into acts of service, and to engage in spiritual discipline-that day is My birthday for you. The 23rd of November which you now honor as the day on which I was born, is only like any other day, even if you celebrate it in a routine, ritual fashion. Adore man: the adoration reaches Me. Neglect man; you neglect Me. Of what avail is it to worship the Lord and to suppress man, His counterpart on earth? Love for God must be manifested as Love for man, and Love must express itself as service."
"Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavanthu (Let all beings in all the worlds be happy). Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you."
"Embodiments of Love! Do not pay attention to the day when the body was born and fulfil selfish ends by celebrating the event pompously. The day when you manifest pure feelings in your hearts, plant firm faith in the Divine Principle in your thoughts and cultivate unselfish enthusiasm to serve others, that day deserves to be celebrated as the Real Birthday. Seva can give you the experience of the Omnipresence of God, God as Vishnu."
"There's none in the world who has been able to see Me. They are seeing every thing and they are trying to understand everything, but they are not making the slightest attempt to understand what is divinity, which is present within them. When we talk of God we should know that God has no birth. Birth is only for the body. A body which is born has to die but God is above birth and death. He has no beginning, no middle and no end. He is neither born nor can He be destroyed. He is present everywhere in the form of Atma."
"I must ask you to give me as a birthday offering only one thing - reduce your selfishness; abate your wrong desires. Foster your spirit of sacrifice and become noble human beings. The Avatar (Divine incarnation) comes to save mankind out of His Love and Compassion. He comes down to the level of man and arouses the Divine Consciousness in him. In order to enable you to reach the highest goal of merging with the Absolute, this chance has been granted to you as a reward for merit acquired in many previous lives."
Above text courtesy (slightly edited): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1411772675602267&set=a.144702552309292.28109.100003086447165.
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Happy Birthday To Our Dearest Sai Maa
There is no distance between you and me. I am as close to you as you are to yourself. -Baba
Above pic and text courtesy (slightly edited): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1978542959074441&set=a.1708478099414263.1073741826.100007562672288
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