Hope all is well with Swami’s grace!
This Saturday, January 18th 2019 we will have our regular naryana seva feeding service opportunities lined up. Bowery Food Service and Riverside Food Service will be the opportunities to serve the needy with a hot meal. Please join the activities in any capacity you can. See below flyer for more details.
This Sunday, January 19th 2019 we will start off with two service activities. The Monthly 3rd Sunday Bowery Food Service and also the quarterly Ronald McDonald Kitchen Service activities will be the opportunities for devotees to participate. Please reach out to Manorama Aunty for more details related to these opportunities. Our regular SSE Classes will start from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM. From 2:00 PM we will have our Bhajans followed by “Why Meditation” stuy topic. Please see below the details related to study circle topic.
Jyoti (Light) Meditation
Flame that kindles and flames kindled are identical
This body goes on changing, but the flame does not undergo any changes. A small example to show this – You have a tub full of water. If one keeps taking a tumbler full of water from this tub, there will be a time when there will not be any water in the tub. At one place we have dumped a truck-load full of sand. If each person carries away a basket full of sand, eventually, there will not be any sand. But, out of one single flame, one can light a million flame and still the original flame will remain. So this supreme Jyoti (flame) does not go through dilution or destruction. There will not be “kshine punye martya-lokam visanti” (after one’s enjoyment due to pious activities is finished, one must return to this planet). So concentrating on such flame, if you have any form you like, any form you have taken to heart, you keep that form in the flame and meditate. It is the best form of meditation to think that, the form that I adore is in Jyoti (flame) and that flame is in all. [Sathya Sai Baba – Excerpts from discourse on: 05-25-1979]
“Since the light illumines all the senses every day so deeply and so systematically, a time will soon come when you can no more relish dark and evil sights, yearn for dark and sinister tales, crave for base, harmful, deadening toxic food and drink, handle dirty demeaning things, approach places of ill-fame and injury, or frame evil designs against anyone at any time. Stay on in that thrill of witnessing the light everywhere. If you are adoring God in any form now, try to visualize that form in the all-pervasive light. For Light is God; God is Light. “Practice this meditation as I have advised regularly every day.” – Excerpts from [SSS 14.41: 21-11-1979]
Please join the study circle discussion.
1. We will start off with 21 AUMS before bhajans and conclude with 9 SAMASTHA LOKA after bhajans as part of Daily Prayers.
Please see the monthly Calendar for January 2020
Sairam,
Sai Kishore.
——-Jai Sairam———
———————-Jai Sai Ram————————————-
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