HAPPY RAMANAVAMI TO ALL This day, the birth of Sri Rama is celebrated in all lands. Rama had deed, word and thought, body, speech and mind, ever pure and totally free from blemish. Really speaking, one ought to revere the story of Rama as ...a profound allegory. Every act and actor in that story attracts attention and gets imprinted on the memory because the allegory is personal to each of us. It is often said that Rama followed dharma at all times. This is not the correct way of describing him. He did not follow dharma, he was dharma. What he thought, spoke, and did was dharma and is dharma forever. - Sathya Sai Baba - Divine Discourse: 18 April 1986 The word Rama has the triple power of destroying sins, conferring peace, and dispelling ignorance. When you utter the word "Ram", you first open the mouth with the sound "Ra". All your sins go out when your mouth is open. When you utter "M" by closing the mouth, the entry is barred against the sins that have gone out. Everyone should recognize the sweetness, sacredness, and divinity enshrined in the name Rama. It is good to utter the name Rama with full understanding of all that it signifies. But even without that understanding the chanting of the name has the power to destroy all sins. We must learn to chant the sweet name of Rama with a pure, unsullied heart, in a spirit of selfless devotion. Men should learn to speak sweetly and pleasingly. Sweet speech confers peace. It is the means to self-realization. Sri Rama loves to dwell in the heart of the man who speaks sweetly. Wholehearted chanting of the name of Rama even once can destroy mountains of sins. But the chanting should not be done mechanically, like a gramophone record. It should emanate from the depths of the heart. You must seek to redeem your lives, by living up to Rama's ideals and proclaiming them to the world. Remember the name of Rama with love. God can be realized only through love and by no other means. - Sathya Sai Baba - Divine Discourse: 14 April 1989 Sri Rama Navami in the Divine Presence… Saturday, April 20th, 2013 On the auspicious occasion of Sri Rama Navami, marking the birth of Lord Rama, Prof Kamaraju Anil Kumar spoke on the esoteric significance of the life of Lord Rama narrating beautiful anecdotes from the illustrious Avataric life this evening here in Prasanthi Nilayam. Speaking in chaste Telugu, the erudite speaker and translator of Bhagawan’s Divine discourses brought out some of the most fascinating tales from Lord Rama’s life, narrating soulfully, bringing the audience to rapt attention. Prof Anil Kumar’s half-an-hour speech was followed by a fifteen minute excerpts of Bhagawan’s Divine discourse. Recounting His Story from the Treta Yuga, Bhagawan narrated the episode that led to the Divine Marriage of Lord Rama and Mother Sita. The ever untold episode of Mother Sita garlanding Lord Rama, in a Divinely orchestrated drama, was lucidly narrated by Bhagawan bringing extra smiles on the thousands assembled in the hall. Bhagawan ended His Divine discourse with the bhajan “Rama Kodanda Rama…Rama Kalyana Rama…”. Sri Ram Bhajans by students continued until Mangala Arathi at 1845 hrs. Prasadam was distributed to the entire audience. II Samastha Lokah Sukhino Bhavantu II sourced: http://www.theprasanthireporter.org/2013/04/sri-rama-navami-in-the-divine-presence-2/ Photos of Ram Navami at Dharmakshetra - 19th April, 2013 https://picasaweb.google.com/111907858410338952557/RAMNAVMI2013AtDharmakshetra?authkey=Gv1sRgCKbmivrAxrPyGQ# Aum Sri Sai Ram Visit SAIRAM website for the daily latest updates. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "saimsg" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
