Month of Shravana

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Thursday23rd August 2007Mahavardhaman Dr. Yogindrasinh Joshi and Dr. Vishakhaveera Joshi recited the 14th Chapterof Guru charitra in Sanskrit. While they were reciting P.P.Sadguru Aniruddha Bapu

performed the puja and abhishek on Lord Dattaguru.

P.P. Sadguru Bapus Guidance

|| Hari Om ||

As the month of Shravana starts everyone is busy with thevows and observances. This observances that observances,observing Monday, a Shravani Monday offering milk to LordShankar on that day, fast in the morning, eat only at five in

the evening and otherwise do what you want. It doesntmatter if you do not remember God but all these rituals haveto be followed, so one realizes that importance is given tothese rituals. In Shravan month that photo must 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. Idon't want it if there is neither a gain nor a loss. "Swatacha Jhala thoda aani vyahyancha aalghoda" this situation is not acceptable to us. We are afraid of not observing these rituals.This picture, has to be brought home and put up and anointed with gandh everyday, the

gandh can put at any place and the Gods in it will share and adjust. But we have no ideaabout it. The Brihaspati from the Budha and Brihaspati picture why is he sitting on a tiger?Why does Budha sit on an elephant? Or while they are sitting together on a low wooden seatwhy are they talking to each other. We know nothing. We think it is not necessary to know

it. We only have to do it. Why? Because our grandparents were doing it, our parents were

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doing it so we do it. Basically it is not 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 requiredspices are put but if no salt is put in it, then will you eat that dish, No. You will not be ableto eat it. Right? That means that in that big vessel full of chicken Biryani or Masala Rice

only two or three spoons of salt is added. That means compared to its quantity very littlesalt is put, about 2-3 spoons. Thus as compared to its quantity it is very little, yet itspresence 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 werealise that a little of amount of salt is very much essential for a potful of Masala Rice orBiryani. Without it the Masala Rice it tasteless.. However, much we like that Biryani or

Masala Rice we will not be able to eat it properly. It's a different matter if we are absolutelyhelpless we may eat just to fill our stomach. We must also keep in mind that the salt shouldbe in the right proportion. If the salt is more than required then the food becomes salty.

How much bhakti should we do? Only that much as is necessary. Son is in the 12thStandard, bhakti is done. The daughter's marriage is notgetting fixed, bhakti is done. Son or daughter is not getting anissue, bhakti is done. There is illness, bhakti is done. If

somebody is troubling, bhakti is done. Otherwise there is nobhakti. As we say that if the salt is in excess, then the foodbecomes salty, similarly if spirituality is in excess the lifebecomes insipid. It's because the Saints have compared it tosalt so we have reason to believe it. No, my dear, we should

not do too much bhakti or else like the food our life will besalty. Bear it in mind that your life becomes salty by the tearsin 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 toit. When tears come because of our sorrows, or punishment or reprimand then our lifebecomes salty. That 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 observinga 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. Butwhatever 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 isalive. What is meant by (jagrut)active? Actually all deities are active. But we consider a

deity active, when the deity gives response to the vows of the devotee. What's the meaningof 'Active"? God who fulfills the desires of the bhakta in response to his vow. Nothing else.And therefore all the villagers would come in the morning and the evening to burn incensesticks, to light the lamp. It then comes in the mind of the Lord that all these villagers are

happy with me, how much seva they are rendering. They come in the morning, noon andevening. They come and ring the bells in the temple, beat the drums. They would not payattention to their children but they would sweep the temple, do this and that. They would

do everything. God was very pleased He thought his bhaktas really loved him. Along with

the God, His consort, Jagadamba is standing with Him. She correctly tells Him that is anillusion, "Dear, wait for a while." He asks, "Why?" She replies, "I think you are impatient toshower 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 anymournful event. Just do this and then we shall decide what do do. A woman by nature is

careful. No hurry, not inviting unwanted trouble? And accordingly without any magic orsorcery all the sorrows of all the people disappeared in a moment. There is no need now formaking any vows to the Lord, they got whatever they desired. If somebody wanted to

marry, the groom would come at their doorstep and was willing to get married without any


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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 studiedwell, everything was fine. There was no need to make any vows and as this went on, in thefirst week itself the number of people visiting the temple was reduced by ten percent. Eventhen, 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 andevening, none of them came. Then a day came when the both God and the Goddess of thetemple sat alone in the temple wondering what was happening. No one came to the 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 priestone needs to take subscriptions. For everybody, everything was fine. Each one said, I willnot give. He will give, he would say the other one will give and it went on and eventually no

one gave. The priest does not get his salary so the priest also stopped coming. He wasconcerned with his salary. There was problem for even the God's food. Poor God ! There wasproblem 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 toyou. What should we do now? The Goddess asks Him, Have you understood what hashappened? The God says, Yes, it's good that I didn't say that I would destroying all yoursins permanently. Otherwise, this would have been our state forever. Then the Goddess

says, That's why I say, I observe everyone carefully, each oneget the fruits according to their deeds. According to the sevadone they will get their fruits and nothing more. Otherwise,men are arrogant and will soon get insolent. Man only utilisesGod for getting 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 itthemselves. Only when they suffer and face miseries, then

they realise that there is somebody who wipes off all theretroubles. Till they face sufferings, till they meet troubles, theydo not remember God. And that is the reason why Dattaguru

(the Lord) has made this Inevitable Law of Karma applicable toall. 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 momentitself." The God and the Goddess are sitting calmly. Just then they hear some confusion and

noise. They were not used to hearing any noise. There was filth all around. Some four fivepeople came running. One of them had backache, the other stomachache, the other one'sson had failed. O my God ! this God has granted all our wishes. O dear God, what hashappened to you? Seva started immediately, some sweep, some pour water, somebody

does this, somebody does that and somebody brings food. What do they all say, each andeveryone one? People have put God in distress that's why all this has happened. We made amistake. This was not said. We forgot our God, this they did not admit. Once there need wasover He was forgotten.

Therefore, this story should be told by the grandparents to their young grandchildren. Fromthis, 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 earth? Who is

happy? The true bhakta of the Lord is only happy. Man always wants to be happy andtherefore he wants a short-cut. Minimum work and maximum benefits, high salaries, highrespect. All this can only happen in government organizations not in private companies and

this world is God's Private company, bear it in mind. Nobody can question Him. However biga Union you may establish, have a morcha, bring about a lock-out, the loss will be yours.God will not be afraid of you. If He wants to remove you from His services that means Heissues your cheque. Even if you shout and scream He will write your cheque. Once it is

signed, nobody can ever dishonour that cheque. And that very cheque if He wants to hold itback, 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 His private 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


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it, he has made it by his own efforts. And therefore He will not listen to anybody, this we

must first understand. We may think that we will do the upasana, collectively do theupasana and later do a drama before Him or oppose Him, if you do both these things, theloss is yours.

The maximum benefit got in the month of Shravana is by doing maximum shravan bhakti(hearing the Lords name and glory) and the maximum possible chanting of the Lordsname. First of all what improves is your hearing. It doesn't mean that a 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 that which is not good. This is the mostimportant benefit of the shravan bhakti in the month of Shravana. The Budha andBrihaspati 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; ifyou closely observe them the snake and the deities they arelike the organs in our ear. The photos are nothing but a symbol

of mans outer ear to the inner ear and that this photo is ofshravan bhakti. And when this month of "Shravana" i.e. ofshravan bhakti gets over then comes the "MahaganapatiSiddhivinayak". Keep in mind. If you do not do shravan bhakti

well or do not observe the month of Shravana then Ganapatidoes not come into your life. Ganapati doesn't arrive. Withoutthe month of "Shravana", the month of "Bhadrapada" doesn'tcome. If in anybody's life the month of Shravana does notexist, then in his life Ganapati also does not exist. The one in

whose life Ganapati does not exist, then in his life the month of Bhadrapada means an uttermess, kutryancha bhadrapad. Keep it in mind. A life that is utterly shameless, unethical,having no scruples, such a conduct and demeanor means kutryancha bhadrapad. By

which path do we want to go? We do not want to go on the path of those dogs. We wantDattaguru's dogs. If we want to become dogs it's better that we become the dogs of LordDattaguru 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 LordGanapati.

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 Ganapatidoes not remove our obstacles automatically like the mosquitoes who bite us unknowinglyand we get malaria. This we must understand. The mosquito has to come from somewhereand bite us. Ganapati does not come from anywhere, He is omnipresent. He is also there

inside our "Mooladharchakra". He is there to remove all our obstacles. Before the word"Vighnanashine" comes "Ekadantaya". "Ekadantaya Vighnanashine". We think his one tuskis broken and that is why he is "Ekadanta" (having one tusk.) It is true. But the meaning ofthe 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 havebeen 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 seeby the other eye whatever we want to see. We have two kidneys. If one kidney does notfunction 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, if one does not function, the other does.You will notice that wherever there are two with only one functioning a man can live. Hislife continues. But how is the Ganapati who resides in the Mooladharchakra? When two arerequired 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 havegiven him only one seva , then the He accepts it happily. If you have to do a punishment of500 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


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obstacles. When does this happen? Only when you will remember this "Ekdanta", then only.

When you hear with both ears to be one with Him and not when you are deaf to Him. Whenyou concentrate and both your eyes are on the One, when both your ears are concentratedon the One, both your feet dance in one place to His tune, both your hands are broughttogether 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 togetherour mind and intellect. Both the mind and the intellect. We have knowledge therefore, wecan read. So here it is the work of the intellect. Only our mind is wandering elsewhere. Try

maximum to pull your mind for remembering God, for His gajars and his bhakti. Then see,Ganapati will definitely come.

|| Hari Om ||

Gajar 1: "^r_nr _hmm dO hZw_mZ _mVr &dmZar AOZr nwm am_XyVm ^OZm &

O` ~mocmo hZw_mZ H$s , O` O` O` {g`mam_ H$s &&

Bhimroopi maharudra vajra Hanuman MarutiVanari anjani putra Ram doota prabhanjana

Jai bolo Hanuman ki, Jai Jai Jai siyaram ki

Gajar 2 : "AcrH$So Sm|Ja, ncrH$So XarAer OrdZmMr JV `m Pmc &gmJo {nn`mMr `m dIar , a _mZdmZm_mMr H$mg `m Yar~mny Zm_mMr H$mg `m Yar, ao VwOcm Vmarc ~mnyh[a &&

Vmarc h[a, VwOcm Vmarc ~mny h[a &&Alikade dongar, palikade dariAshi jivanachi gat ya zala |

Sange pipayachi ya vaikhari, ra manavaNamachi kas ya dhariBapu namachi kas ya dhari, re tuzala taril Bapu hari ||

Taril hari, Tuzala taril Bapu hari ||


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Arti

1."AmaVr gmB~m~m gm`XmVmam Ordm....'2." gmB lr gmBO` O` gmBam_...'

1. Arti Saibaba saukhadatara jeeva2. 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

'JaiJaiAniruddhaHari':

78,784,488

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