From Moderator's Desk_1

[Ashok]

With no idea if something can be told in words the way it is felt or experienced, the freedom to express and convey through words is a gift which i will use.
Nothing can be taught before time and nothing can be learnt before time. But for the fruits to ripe someday, we all have to sow a seed sometime long before. We constantly sow all types of seeds which break into tiny plants and then bigger ones, some seeds are sown by choices while others are by chances. But it all in the end confirm so perfectly to the plan of that super power, or may be it is just my thinking.

We can watch and watch hours and days together and still the world will never fail to amaze and surprise us with all its happenings. In the process of understanding and knowing, i am not sure if i am becoming slave of my mind without giving heart a chance to experience and feel. Should we know the price of everything without really knowing the true worth of most of the things. Who decides my choices? Am I making fool of myself by making choices with all the limitations already in place. According to Sai, there is no free will. Everything happens according to the way it should happen. And the only freedom is the way i react to that, if that is so, does the way i react shape my future in any way? If yes then how are things pre-decided and how is there no free will. I might utter knowledge like a parrot, but it has to sink in me deep for it to take effect. Travelling is fun, getting lost is definitely not. How does one know if he is arriving or getting lost?

[Ashok]

While I was doing engineering, i visited a church with one of my friends on a sunday. The pastor was very friendly and spoke to almost everybody there personally at the end of the mass.

He gave a small but very effective discourse after reading something from Bible. I do not remember the verses which were read, but i remember the explanation. He told a story of a person whose only way to earn money was showing his talent of tight rope-walking at a very high altitude. Beneath the rope would be a furious and overflowing river in a hilly region. However he would balance himself perfectly and go from one bank of the river to another and come back. One day after doing one round of his show, he returned the end of the river which had all the audience. He called upon the audience and asked for a volunteer who would accompany him during the tight rope walk. He said that he would carry the person on his back and there was nothing to fear. However no one turned up. It was simply too risky and dangerous. 

Just then from the crowd, one voice came up. A child who appeard no more than ten years old, said that he was ready to climb on his back. The artist carried the child on his back and walked from one end to another and returned back. All the people were speechless and shocked. It was such a dangerous act and they could not stop praising the the child for his courage.

One person from the crowd asked the child if he was afraid anytime. The child said, " No, why should I be? I climbed on the back of my father. That person is my father".

Just like that child, do you trust your "FATHER" - SAI so much? Are you afraid of living in this world with all the turbulences and all the lurking dangers. Why should you be afraid when you are clinging to your "FATHER" always.

SAI's the biggest assurance in this every changing world. Let us climb on HIS back and never get down as long as we are on the tight-rope.

[saivanamale]

OM SAIRAM

BABA's leelas are great

Thanks ASHOK ji, for sharing this, such a graet thought in a  very simple way understood.

Thanks
Vanamale

JAI JAI SAI