New Year Begins – Time to make resolution

हें श्री साईनाथचरित्र | श्रोतीं सपुत्र-मित्र-कलत्र | परिसतां साधेल इहपरत्र | लीला विचित्र बाबांची ||

सभाग्य श्रद्धाळू श्रोते | तेची या कथांचे परिसते | परिसतां अति हळुवारचित्तें | शांतते येते शांतता ||

या कथानि:स्यंदनिर्झरें | कर्माकर्मलवण विरे | श्रवणद्वारें नयनीं शिरे | रूप साजिरें साईंचें ||

चरित्रश्रवणें पातकां ह्रास | चरित्रश्रवणें काळावरी कास | चरित्रश्रवणें परमोल्हास | श्रोते निरायास पावती ||

श्रवणें शुद्ध अंत:करण | श्रवणें चुकेल जन्ममरण | श्रवणें श्रोतयां ब्रह्मपण | केवळ ब्रह्मार्पणकर्मानें ||

ऐसा हा साईसेवाकाम | सेवकां सदा करी निष्काम | निजभक्तां श्रीसाईराम | देईल आराम सर्वदा ||

भागश: या ग्रंथाचें वाचन | अथवा श्रवण आणि परिशीलन | मनन आणि निदिध्यासन | करा अनुदिन श्रोत्रे हो ||

"आनंदो ब्रह्मेति व्यजानात" | हे तरी तैत्तिरीय श्रुती विख्यात | तेंच ते बाबा अनुवादत | श्रुतिनिर्णीत भक्तांते ||

"फिकीर न करावी यत्किंचित | सदा असावे आनंदभरित | चिंता न करावी आमरणांत" | उपदेश नित्य बाबांचा ||

- अध्याय १७ - श्री साईसत्चरीत

First of all wishing a very Happy and Prosperous New Year to all. May this and every new year bring you all most auspicious gains.

A new year begins with new hopes, new dreams, and new resolutions. Every year we make resolution. Why do we make resolution? Everybody has a desire to become healthy, to be free of worries, to be happy all the time. Is it not? Every year we learn something new, either from our previous successes-failures, through friends or through some book and then pick the idea and make a resolution. That’s the way it should be. One has to have some resolution, some goal. The goals and resolutions give direction to the efforts. How we progress depends on how much information we have to chalk out our plan for success. The more reliable and proven information the more quick we get the results. They say that the path shown by Saints through their stories is the quickest way to fulfill all desires – health, wealth, freedom from worries, and never ending happiness and fulfillment of all duties in life.

Shri Saisatcharit, a book written by Shri Govind Raghunath Dabholkar alias“Hemadpant” is the source of all information needed to fulfill every goal of life. Men and women of all ages can find answers to their questions.

Reading of Sai Satcharit can be done individually or with group. For welfare of all it should be read along with wife (कलत्र),children and friends (सपुत्र-मित्र). परिसतां अति हळुवारचित्तें | शांतते येते शांतता – while reading stories of Saibaba one should keep away all other thoughts and slowly focus on the stories. This focus alone brings the peace to the mind. या कथानि:स्यंदनिर्झरें |कर्माकर्मलवण विरे |श्रवणद्वारें नयनीं शिरे | रूप साजिरें साईंचें ||. By slowly focusing and attentively listening to this continuous flow of Baba’s stories, the beautiful form of Sai gets fixed in the mind. चरित्रश्रवणें पातकां ह्रास | चरित्रश्रवणें काळावरी कास| चरित्रश्रवणें परमोल्हास |श्रोते निरायास पावती || - By listening to these stories all sins get destroyed and the reader and listener experience the bliss (supreme happiness) without much efforts. श्रवणें शुद्ध अंत:करण | श्रवणें चुकेल जन्ममरण | श्रवणें श्रोतयां ब्रह्मपण | केवळ ब्रह्मार्पणकर्मानें ||- By listening, the mind gets purified which results in escape from the cycle of birth and death. When the mind thus gets purified every action becomes an offering to Brahma and hence one achieves highest position that can be achieved in human birth i.e. Brahmapan (oneness with Brahma). ऐसा हा साईसेवाकाम | सेवकां सदा करी निष्काम |निजभक्तां श्रीसाईराम | देईल आराम सर्वदा || - In fact reading and listening to the stories of Saibaba in itself is a great service to Saibaba which frees the mind of all desires and thus one achieves peace of mind. भागश: या ग्रंथाचें वाचन | अथवा श्रवण आणि परिशीलन | मनन आणि निदिध्यासन | करा अनुदिन श्रोत्रे हो ||- Read and listen to these stories part by part. After reading a part one should meditate upon them. "आनंदो ब्रह्मेति व्यजानात" |हे तरी तैत्तिरीय श्रुती विख्यात | तेंच ते बाबा अनुवादत |श्रुतिनिर्णीत भक्तांते || "फिकीर न करावी यत्किंचित | सदा असावे आनंदभरित |चिंता न करावी आमरणांत" | उपदेश नित्य बाबांचा ||- Baba advices same what shrutis and smrutis advice – fix the mind on Baba and then forget about all worries and be happy all the time.