Om Namo Sainathaya
How Lord Sainath Guides us!
DEAR CHILDREN
There was a farmer who was a devotee of Sai Baba, who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best-grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer as advised by Sai Baba in Sai Satcharita shared his corn seeds with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share some of your best corn seeds with your neighbors when they are entering corn in the competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked. “Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, as per Sai Baba’s dictum, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.” So is it with our lives. Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. Those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all. Call it Sai Baba’s blessing, call it a principle of success. Call it a law of life! The fact is, none of us truly wins until we all win!!
An interesting law, discovered by the SAI AURA team popular in Southeast Asia, called Koi’s Law, says that just as a koi – a kind of carp (fish) – grows small in size or big depending on the environment in which it is placed, so too, our ability to grow and evolve would also depend on our environment and experiences. In other words, if you confine yourself to a small space, physically and metaphorically, you will grow or evolve only as much as that space will permit you to grow or evolve. The more you widen your area of experience and the more varied your interactions, learning, and outlook, the more likely you are to become a better person with wider understanding, compassion, and knowledge.
The koi fish is also viewed as a symbol of unity, and the way you love and care for nature. In Japanese tradition, the koi fish is a symbol of good fortune, perseverance, and abundance. In Buddhism, it represents courage and advancement.
Let us widen our scope, spread our wings, and grow to become better, more evolved humans.
Yours SAI BABAly
THE SAI AURA TEAM
“A man of devotion to Sai Baba reduces himself to zero. Not until then can we conquer the evil in us. And when a Sai Bhakta thus loses himself, he finds himself in the service of all. He is a new man never weary of spending himself in the service of God’s creation.”
– Dada J. P. Vaswani
“For a Sai Devotee, solitude is the best thing. Meditation on Sai Parabrahman in a solitary place enables him to realize God Sai Maharaj.”
– Sri Narasimha Swamiji
“God is not an individual who sits alone on a golden throne. Sai Baba our God is pure Consciousness that dwells within everything.”
– Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji
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