Sairam friends,

Last night I was too tired, so slept off early. At least this makes my parents feel OK with me. I had a very strange dream as someone meets with a accident and am trying to save him but I don’t have water with me. A girl stops her car to help and another man too comes to give water to the man. Fortunately, the man comes back to life.

I woke up and thought about the dream. At times, the nerves in my leg would pull bringing pain I can’t bear.When It pulled this morning, i kept silent without shouting because if parents hear me, then they will say its because I am not listening to them and simply sitting near computer. ..he he…

Since My nerves pulled, I believed Sai wanted me to write about Good Health and something inspiring ….I told you, I love knowing about lives of ordinary people…so heres something nice to share…

My friends at work usually share any important News and suddenly a Link popped up which read

Google CEO Larry Page discloses health issue – Vocal cord problem affects voice, breathing but doesn’t affect work, Page says

I was shocked as I love Google so much as am into Web Research and Writing. Most of  my Sai friends who comes to starsai comes through Google. So Google is a road Sai used to bring his children to Star Sai. Apart from this, Years back when I was a freelancer Google was a blessing to earn a living.

A blog in Newyork Times reports as below

One of Mr. Page’s vocal cords was paralyzed after a viral infection 14 years ago, and the second was left with limited movement after a cold last summer. The condition can become life-threatening, doctors say, when it inhibits breathing. Mr. Page addressed that in his post.

“Vocal cord nerve issues can also affect your breathing, so my ability to exercise at peak aerobic capacity is somewhat reduced,” he wrote. “That said, my friends still think I have way more stamina than them when we go kitesurfing!”

Mr. Page also said he had given a personal grant to the Voice Health Institute, a group founded in 2003, for a research program on improving vocal cord nerve function.He did not disclose the size of the donation, but the person briefed on Mr. Page’s health said it was more than $10 million. – ( Courtesy of Newyork times )

My friend told me, What will we do if such a problem comes to us? If its Google CEO, he has lots of money. So he can grant millions of dollars research to find cure for his disease.

God gives problems who are rich so that they help the poor and needy:

I told him” God gives pains to Rich people so that they can do something to help millions of people who face similar pain and very few wealthy people realize it. The money Larry donates for research could help find a cure not only for him but millions of people with similar health issue”

My friend Said, Ya you are right.

I myself thought what poor people could do when they face such peculiar health problems….

After work, I took bus and was going to Saibaba temple. A man who seems to work in Don bosco school as security got in to the bus and sat near me. He asked me “Saibaba kovil vandha solunga” – “Tell me when Saibaba temple bus  stop comes”.

His voice was not so clear. So I asked him again what he’s trying to Say. He repeated and I told him “Sure I shall say as am myself going there”.

Since his voice was not clear, I doubted if he was drunk and tried to avoid him. As if he read my mind he said ” I was in coma stage for 2 years. So my voice is not clear”.

I was taken aback and asked him “What?”

He said that he fell down during Pongal time 3 years ago and has been in Coma stage for 2 years. He added ” My wife had taken care of me few days but due to shock she has passed away”

He has come from Chennai to work as security through some agency as in Coimbatore, they pay him 8,000 Rs and lesser than this in Chennai.. I asked him about his children.

He said, I had 2 daughters, One is going to join for college and another is in school. The girl in college is in Virudhunagar and other younger seems to have got upset with relatives when she had no one to care and joined a Hostel. He told me, Its a christian school and they are not leaving her away. I said, “Be careful, They might convert her”

Sai always says – Subka Maalik Ek – God is One but according to Sai a person must follow his own religion. Changing religion is like changing your father

Surprisingly, The man again read my mind and said “I told her, you can go to church and pray Jesus as I myself believe all Gods are one but always be a Hindu. He added “If you change your religion, I am not your father” .

He was speaking about cost of living in Coimbatore and he spends more than 100 rs for food everyday. I told him when he has leave, he can come to Saibaba temple and have food there. When my intention was to help him save some money, he said “Yes i shall, come and do meditation for half an hour…Where ever i go, palani or Thiruchendur, I do Dhyana and peacefully spend few hours”

I wondered how many of us can have such an attitude. I have seen Sai devotees bugging him with all their needs and wants and not take a minute to feel the peace Sai can give while in temple or when remembering him.

I told him “You must educate your daughters and help them continue studies”

He said with a Spark in his eyes. “Adhukaagadhaan indha vela sairen”

“That’s why i do this work. I have determination to educate both my daughters as they wish. I want to see them grow above my relatives. My wife is gone, so what else I have now. All i have are my daughters”

He told me, My fate is like this, I had been in Coma for 2 years. I remember whole of chennai but now a days, I don’t know many places. I slightly remember past. My voice has problem.I was earning 1000 rupees a day doing some labor work and now I have come for this security work. My wife is gone……What to do its my fate…We have to accept Gods will and go on…

We got down the bus and I showed him exact location of Nagasai mandhir. He said with a smile, I shall come someday. I asked his name – Mohan was his reply. “Din’t you see my ID card, He showed with a smile”

The security agency he works for is called “FAITH”

I walked into Sai mandhir and realized how sweet are the leelas of Sai.

This morning I read about Voice problem for someone wealthy as Larry Page and the same night Sai made me come across this poor man facing similar problem.

Both these Men has a dream

Both these Men lives for a reason and the reason may be small or big.

What matters is they have a Magic Spark, They have realized the power of dream.

The poor mans dream to educate his daughters is as worthy as the dreams of Larry Page.

I was really really upset when I read students who scored less marks in Exams have committed suicide. How much dreams your parents will have for you. There are men and women facing so many pains in relationship, family problems and career issues and commit suicide.

Yesterday when I told baba “Please let me end this life” I felt May be i must have not said like this. I am here to do something meaningful.May be Sai made me face such problems because he want me to do something worthy for generations to come….

Deep within each heart, there lies a magic spark – Realize the power of Dream

Now lets see how Sai showed you when you are really depressed and about to take a wrong decision..Sai, wont come and do the same to each and everyone of you. You are here to believe Sai cares for you.

Shirdi Sai Baba wants you to live :

Here’s a incident in Sai Satcharitra that’s inspiring and motivating..

Story of Ambadekar

Gopal Narayan Ambadekar of Poona was a devotee of Baba. He served for ten years in the Abkari department in the Thana District and in Javhar state, from where he had to retire. He tried to get some other job, but he did not succeed. He was overtaken by other calamities and his condition grew from bad to worse. He passed 7 years in this condition, visiting Shirdi every year and placing his grievance before Baba.

In 1916 his plight became worst and be decided to commit suicide in Shirdi. So he came there with his wife and stayed for two months. One night while sitting in a bullock cart in front of Dixit’s Wada, he resolved to end his life by throwing himself into a well close by. He proposed to do one way but Baba wished to do something else. A few paces from this place, there was a hotel and its proprietor Sagun, a devotee of Baba, came out and accosted him thus –

“Did you ever read this Akkalkotkar Maharaja’s life?”

Ambadekar took that book from Sagun and began to read it. Casually, or we may say providentially he came across a story which was to this effect.

During the life time of Akkalkotkar Maharaj a certain devotee suffered very much from an incurble disease and when he could endure the agony and pain no longer, be became desperate and to end his miseries threw himself one night into a well. Immediately the Maharaj came there and took him out with his own hands and advised him thus –

“You must enjoy the fruit – good or bad – of your past actions; if the enjoyment be incomplete, suicide won’t help you. You have to take another birth and suffer again; so instead of killing yourself, why not suffer for some time and finish up your store of the fruit of your past deeds and be done with it once and for all?”

Reading this appropriate and timely story, Ambadekar was much surprised, and moved. Had he not got Sai Baba’s hint through the story, he would have been no more. On seeing Baba’s all-prevasiveness and benevolence, his faith in Him was confirmed, and he became a staunch devotee.

His father was a devotee of Saint Akkalkotkar Maharaj called Swami Samartha and Sai Baba wanted him to walk into his father’s footsteps and continue his devotion to Him. He then got Sai Baba’s blessings and his prospects began to improve. He studied astrology and gained proficiency in it and thereby improved his lot. He was able to earn sufficient money and passed his after-life in ease and comfort.

Friends, Did you see how Sai indirectly made the devotee realize his mistake and saved his life. When Sai himself could have done that he had his messenger Sagun meru Naik to give book of Swami Samartha. Similarly, Venkat is a instrument in the hands of Sai to bring you here and inspire you as

” Sai really wants you to live a long happy life “

It could be your Mom, Dad, Friend, cousin or anyone dear to you. Speak to them, Open up your heart or If you have no one to care for you remember, Sai lives as Antaryami in your heart and he truly cares for your well being. Sai will make your life better. There are devotees who suffer for years and write me Sai did nothing for me. What to do. At times we have to accept life as it is and remain strong.

Someday, You will show the world what power of your dreams can do for you

Deep within each heart, there lies a magic spark – Realize the power of Dream

Mahamrityunjaya Mantra in praise of Lord Shiva

When you are really worried and depressed, Please listen to this beautiful Mantra.

The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra (Sanskrit: महामृत्युंजय मंत्र, mahāmṛtyuṃjaya mantra “Great Death-conquering Mantra”), also called the Tryambakam Mantra, is a verse of the Rigveda. It is addressed to Tryambaka, “the three-eyed one”, an epithet of Rudra, later identified with Shiva.

Mahamrityunjaya Mantra

Om triambakam yajamahe
Sugandhim pushti vardanam
Urvarukamiva bandhanan
Mrityor muksheeya mamritat

Translation:
OM We worship Shiva, the Three-eyed Lord who is fragrant and who nourishes and nurtures all beings. As is the ripened cucumber (with the intervention of the gardener) freed from its bondage (to the creeper) May He liberate us from death for the sake of immortality. OM

The Maha Mrityunjay Mantra or Lord Shiva Mantra is considered extremely powerful and significant by the Hindus. Also known as the Moksha Mantra of Lord Shiva, chanting of Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra is said to create divine vibrations that heals. Devotees of Lord Shiva further believe that Maha Mrityunjay evokes the Shiva within human beings and removes the fear of death, liberating one from the cycle of death and rebirth.

Kindly recite it 108 times or atleast listen to it everyday from now on. Your life will be good.

Keep chanting Aum  Nama Shivaya in mind or if you are a Shirdi Saibaba devotee, you can chant, Sairam, Sairam,Sairam. Naam smaran can always bring positive vibrations in you.

I want starsai to bring people of all kinds…So here’s something to relax if you feel am always boring with my spiritual quest….

Deep within each heart, there lies a magic spark – Realize the power of Dream

I love CELINE DION as she has sung “My heart will go on for you” in Titanic. I was searching for a inspiring Song from Celion and here’s what she sung LIVE – Atlanta Olympics

Deep within each heart
There lies a magic spark
That lights the fire of our imagination
And since the dawn of man
The strength of just “I can”
Has brought together people of all nations

There’s nothing ordinary
In the living of each day
There’s a special part
Every one of us will play

Feel the flame forever burn
Teaching lessons we must learn
To bring us closer to the power of the dream
As the world gives us its best
To stand apart from all the rest
It is the power of the dream that brings us here

Your mind will take you far
The rest is just pure heart
You’ll find your fate is all your own creation
Every boy and girl
As they come into this world
They bring the gift of hope and inspiration

Feel the flame forever burn
Teaching lessons we must learn
To bring us closer to the power of the dream
The world unites in hope and peace

We pray that it will always be
It is the power of the dream that brings us here

There’s so much strength in all of us
Every woman child and man
It’s the moment that you think you can’t
You’ll discover that you can

Feel the flame forever burn
Teaching lessons we must learn
To bring us closer to the power of the dream
The world unites in hope and peace
We pray that it will always be
It is the power of the dream that brings us here

Feel the flame forever burn
Teaching lessons we must learn
To bring us closer to the power of the dream
The world unites in hope and peace
We pray that it will always be
It is the power of the dream that brings us here

The power of the dream
The faith in things unseen
The courage to embrace your fear
No matter where you are
To reach for your own star
To realize the power of the dream

Songwriter(s): Kenneth Edmonds, Linda Thompson

I am really getting late for work friends. I tried to write fast as much as I can. sorry for any mistakes as am in hurry.

Please understand “You are here to Live”

You can LIVE.

If a man who lost his voice

Who lost his wife

and

who earns so little with a small job wanted to live

You too CAN

Love,

Venkat

Always in the holy feet of Shirdi Saibaba

Do not mail me anything related to suicide . I am not legally allowed to reply such mails. I can only say you tell you “You can LIVE because your life will change for good. Someday…Some way. Believe in yourself.