Guruvaar Prarthna
Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy day of Guruvaar. Life has become very artificial, there is physical, mental and moral degeneration. There is wholesale devastation, divorce courts are increasing, life has become a matter of uncertainty, a mass of confusion, chaos and bewilderment, very stormy and boisterous. We are living in a clueless environment, not knowing what is going to happen. Baba You are our one and only Saviour, please save us against all the evils and make us useful, make us harmless, make us pure and make us a channel of Your Love. On this day, we start our prayers by absorbing Your advice mentioned in Your Satcharita.
Therefore, oh devotees listen attentively to this story of Sai's profound nature which burns all the sins.
This narrative is sacred and purifying like the holy water of the Ganges. Blessed are the ears of the listeners for they become the means to gain good now and hereafter.
Let us compare it with nectar. But nectar cannot be sweeter than this. Nectar will save the life but this story will give freedom from the cycle of birth and death.
People say they are powerful and they can do whatever they wish. One who thinks like this should listen to this story carefully.
If the human being is genuinely independent, then when he strives day and night to achieve happiness why does he gain only unhappiness? This is the story of existence!
Even if a person is on guard to avoid unhappiness at every step, miseries follow quickly in search of him and keep track behind him.
If one tries to shake them off they hold one by the neck; if one tries to brush them off they cling more. Vain is man's strife against it. It only debilitates him.
If a human being was really free, he would be completely happy and he would not have known even a trace of unhappiness.
Assuming he was a free being, he would never commit any sins and only accumulate his store of merits, thus enhancing his happiness.
But a human being is not independent. His previous births' deeds are attached to him, and the ways of karma are strange. He is forever a puppet in the hands of karma.
One tries to think of good deeds but one is dragged towards sins. Wanting to be meritorious, one ends up by being an evil doer.
Destiny plays strange games. Without any rhyme or reason, we can either gain or lose. Sufferings born of karma come to you as a disease
Only one remedy. "Surrender at Sai's feet. This is the only saving grace. He is both Mother and Father.
He is the compassionate mother of all, who comes running at your call, takes pity on you and picks you up in her arms, understanding the need of the children.
Even leprosy is cured by mere darshan. What is to be said about tuberculosis! Have not the least doubt. Go and surrender at his feet.
He grants whatever anyone asks. This is his creed. Therefore, I say, make haste. Take Sai's darshan.
The greatest fear is the fear of death. What else can there be? Go and hold fast to Sai's feet. He alone will make you free of fear ".
I bow down to Sree Ganesh
I bow down to Sree Saraswati
I bow down to the Guru
I bow down to the Family Deity
I bow down to Sree Sita-Ramachandra
I bow down to Sree Sadguru Sainath.
-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter 13, Ovi 20–33, 57-61)
