Shri Shirdi Sai Speaks-16th March/The Bhagavad Gita for Children and Beginners-Chapter 15- The Supreme Person/A very rare picture of the Samadhi Mandir |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2013 12:08 AM PDT Om Shree Ganeshaya Namaha! Om Sai Ram ! Om Namah Shivaya! If for some reason you are not able to see , or download the below pictures or click to the below links and pictures- Plz go to http://debu7370.blogspot.com/ You can also have access to all the previous Shirdi Sai speaks mails at the above link.And if any of you would like to receive these messages directly to your mailbox everyday-- To request for Shri Sai Satcharitra books go to : http://www.saiseva.omsrisai.net/store/index.php For everything else related to Shri Shirdi Sai baba , go to http://debu7366.blogspot.com/  Yesterday, I listed a few of the Best Moments of our lives but I think the bestest of all is when one accepts God's will and has the courage to love life and let go of the past .. Because when you learn to accept your present situation and decide to move on,- you learn to let go of the pain , the heart aches, the dreams that never came true and above all,- U learn to say to yourself that let me have some faith and a little more patience cos I am Sure that God has a better plan for me !! Sai bhakt, Deepa H  THE BHAGAVAD-GITA For Children and Beginners To read this from the very begining - Click Here  CHAPTER 15 THE SUPREME PERSON Jai: Grandma, I am confused by the difference between Supreme Spirit, Spirit, Divine Beings and individual souls. Will you please explain them again? Grandma: Yes, Jai, these are terms you should understand well. The Supreme Spirit is also called the Supreme Person, the Supreme Being, the Supersoul, the Absolute, Father, Mother, God, Ishvara, Allah and by many other names. The Supreme Spirit is called ParaBrahma, Paramatma , ParamaShiva , or Krishna in Sanskrit. The Supreme Spirit is the source or the root of everything. There is nothing higher than the Supreme Spirit. Spirit (Brahma or Atma.) is a part of the Supreme Spirit that expands and supports the entire cosmos. Divine Beings (Devas, Devis), such as Brahma , Shiva, and Vishnu, , many others, are the expansions of Brahma (Spirit). Individual Souls (soul or Jiva), such as all living beings, are the expansions of Divine Beings. The Supreme Spirit and Spirit do not change and last forever. Divine Beings come out of Spirit and have a very long life span. Individual souls or the living beings have a very limited life span. If you compare the creation with a tree, then the Supreme Lord Krishna (the Supreme Spirit) is the root of the tree. Atma or Brahma (also spelled as Brahman, Brahm) is the trunk of the tree. The cosmos are the branches of the tree, and the holy books, such as the Vedas, Upanishads, and Gita ,Dhammapada, Torah , Bible, Koran, etc. are its leaves. Individual souls, such as living beings, are the fruits and flowers of the tree. Do you see how everything is connected and part of the Supreme Being?  Jai: How about planets, such as the Sun, and the Moon and the stars? Grandma: The entire visible world, such as the Sun, Moon, Earth, other planets, and galaxies, was created by Lord Brahma and is supported by Lord Vishnu and is destroyed by Lord Shiva. Remember that Brahma ,Vishnu andShiva are a part of the energy of the Spirit or Brahma. The light energy of the Sun also comes from Brahma, and Brahma is a part of the Supreme Being, Lord Krishna. The sages tell us that everything is nothing but another form of Lord Krishna, the Supreme Being.Krishna is inside and outside everything. He has actually become everything. The One has become all. He also comes to earth in human form to establish law and order (Dharma) when needed. (Gita 4.07-08)  Here is a story when the Supreme Lord Himself incarnated as Krishna about 5,100 years ago. 19. A Story of Baby Krishna Baby Krishna had an elder half-brother named Balarama.Both played together in the village of Gokul. Krishna's birth mother's name was Devaki. His father's name was Vasudeva. Krishna is also called Vasudeva. Krishna spent His childhood years under the care of Aunty Yashoda.Both Balarama and Krishna were the favorites of the village milkmaids. Their mothers loved them proudly. Yashoda and Rohini (Balarama's mother) dressed their young boys colorfully, Krishna in yellow with a crown of peacock feathers in His hair, and Balarama in blue. The two boys went from place to place, making friends wherever they went. Most of the time they got into a lot of trouble! One day, they were playing outside with a few of the other village boys, digging in the dirt, making mud pies, and getting very dirty. After a while, one of the older boys ran to mother Yashoda and said, "Krishna has been a bad boy, He has been eating clay!" Yashoda was annoyed with her young son. She had also been hearing other complaints from villagers that Krishna had been stealing butter from their houses. She came out of her house and asked Krishna angrily, "Did you really eat clay, Krishna? How many times have I told you not to put things in your mouth!" Krishna didn't want to be punished, so he played a trick on mother Yashoda. He opened His mouth wide and said, "See, Mother, I haven't been eating anything. These boys are just lying to get me in trouble." Yashoda looked inside Krishna's mouth. There, in the little boy's mouth, she saw the whole universe ---Earth and stars, the wide empty space, the entire galaxy and the Milky Way, the oceans and the mountains, the Sun and the Moon. All were contained within His mouth. She realized then that Krishna was Lord Vishnu incarnate, and she was about to fall before Him and worship. But Krishna didn't want her to worship Him. He just wanted her to love Him the way mothers love their children. He could have come to earth in any form to fight the demons, but He liked being a little boy to a mother and a father who had performed many difficult spiritual practices to have God as their child. Baby Krishna realized that His trick had been a big mistake! Quickly, He spread His power of Maya over her. The next minute Yashoda was holding her son as usual, with no memory at all of what she had just seen in Krishna's mouth. You should read interesting stories of Krishna's adventures and tricks with village milkmaids when you get time.  The Lord also comes as a saint or a teacher to teach us from time to time. Here is a story of such a saint: 20. The Story of Shri RamaKrishna The Lord came to this earth as RamaKrishna, born on February 18, 1836, in the village Kamarpukur of West Bengal. Most of the stories I have told you are from his "Tales and Parables of Shri RamaKrishna." Swami Vivekananda was one of his most famous disciples. Swami Vivekananda was the first Hindu monk who came to the USA in 1893. He established the Vedanta Society in New York. RamaKrishna led a very simple life, depending on God for his daily food and other necessities of life. He would not accept any money. He was married to Sarada Ma, whom he treated like his mother and never had any child. Sarada Ma used to tell her disciples: "If you want peace of mind, do not look into others' faults; rather, look into your own. No one is a stranger; the whole world is your own." Sarada..Ma also warned her disciples not to be too close with persons of the opposite gender, even if God came in that form. RamaKrishna worshipped Goddess Kali as his personal deity in a temple at Dakshineshvar near Kolkatta. This temple still exists today.  Chapter 15 Summary: The creation is changeable and does not last forever. It has a limited life span. Brahma or Atma does not change and is eternal. It is the cause of all causes. Krishna is called ParaBrahma or the Supreme Being. He is also called the Absolute because He has no origin. He is the source of Brahma. Everything in the universe comes out of Brahma. The entire visible world and its creatures are created by Brahma, the creative power; sustained by Vishnu's sustaining power and destroyed by Shiva.  Quote of BABA: Let the world go topsy-turvey, you remain where you are. Standing or staying in your own place, look on calmly at this show of all things passing before you.  A very rare picture of the Samadhi Mandir.. My humble pranams to Baba and his sacred Samadhi and above all - to his unlimited leela's in my life..May Sai baba's blessings and grace always be with all of us.. Sai bhakt, Deepa H  |
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