SaiYugNetwork.com brings you Spiritual Venture "Lesson For Life - The Universal Prayer". A Unique Concept To Be Helpful To Lord Sai Baba Selflessly
“Don’t stop praying I am working it out for you” was one of the Sai picture messages that I had stumbled upon once and it left me thinking quite a while. I began to think what must be Baba doing to work it out for us? To reduce the intensity of our karmas or to burn our sins does He have to do any meditation or naam jaap or something else on our behalf?
Lesson For Life – The Universal Prayer these six words along with the hyphen since then have always been there in front of my eyes but still I have always ignored them giving priority to other spiritual ventures inspired by Baba thinking it(LFL-TUP) to be unrealistic or not logical to even think of helping Baba Who is Himself the God. Now that all the things which were in mind (MahaParayan, 365 Days Parayan, Vishnu Sahastranamavali Parayan, Stavan Manjari Parayan, Anant Akhand Sai Mahajaap, Brahma Muhurat Parayan, Hanuman Chalisa - The Longest Garland and the meditation group) have already started executing smoothly, my attention was again drawn to Lesson For Life – The Universal Prayer. At the very beginning itself I myself also had felt very foolish about the idea to help God but immediately I was then reminded the story of Squirrel from Ramayan. Still I ignored the thoughts and thought of first serving Baba with different spiritual ventures stated above as this was slightly on different lines.
What is Lesson For Life – The Universal Prayer?
As I mentioned that picture had left me thinking how to help Baba and was it logical to think so? Lesson For Life –The Universal Prayer is an attempt to help Baba as He has so many uncountable children for whom He needs to work out so many things continuously. So we would be attempting to offer help to Baba and it would be Baba’s wish for whom to use those prayers for that day. I know to some it may sound foolish or funny to think of helping God and also because we would never ever know for whom, where and how our prayers were utilized unless Baba Himself tells us!
Here every devotee would select a chapter from Sai Satcharitra which he or she would read it everyday for Baba and would not expect anything in return for themselves or their known ones. As at every moment in the world someone is in desperate need of a prayer or Baba’s help, we would say Baba that, “Baba I would like You to consider my reading of this chapter as a prayer for someone whom You feel needs it the most in any aspect and that You only know it the best”. Although God is having thousands of hands to help His uncountable children still He has to work out something as He says. So what could be better if our reading a chapter from Satcharitra in form of prayer can be of any use to God? So whatever chapter we choose would be our lesson for lifetime and read it everyday without fail which would be the prayer offered for any aspect like health, pregnancy, job, family, education, wealth or any desires or needs of Baba’s children/beings in the whole of Universe!
I am sure anything offered with love is surely accepted and this can be very much related with the story of squirrel (Reference - Read Full Version of Story) from Ramayana where it had helped Rama in building the ten yojana long bridge to Lanka. The squirrel would jump in the sea water, wet it’s body, roll over the sand, carry some pebbles in its mouth and then shed the sand and pebbles over the bridge. Although there were thousands of monkeys who were involved here scolded the tiny squirrel for coming in between but Rama seeing her love and bhakti appreciated her efforts which helped in plugging many holes in the bridge that could not have been possible with huge stones by monkeys. Rama then warmly stroked the back of the squirrel with his fingers and since then, it is believed that squirrels have three lines on their body as Rama had moved His fingers over their back.
Another beauty of this Lesson For Life – The Universal Prayer is that there would be separate whatsapp group formed for each of the chapters and each group would have 108 members over the period of time as we would begin from this Guru Pournima itself that is 27th July, 2108. Once when all groups would get full; everyday 108 parayans of complete Sai Satcharitra would be offered to Baba unlike in Mahaparayan where it happens at the end of one year. But here it would be as a help to Baba to work out things for His devotees/beings whom we do not even know. This would be a 100 percent selfless act with 0 expectations in return from Baba. We would never even come to know for whom our prayers were utilised? Baba Himself will choose and guide His children. We would also pray that we do not want any kind of fruits in return.
the law of Universe say: YOU GET BACK WHAT YOU GIVE AND THAT TOO MANY FOLDS!If we plant few seeds of apple we get a tree with many, many apples and many more seeds in return than what we gave. Similarly you do good it will somehow someday come back to you multiplied and if bad then bad karma will also multiply and make sure to reach its correct address. Karma never forgets its right address!
So we never know that some day when we or our loved ones would be in desperate need of some prayers and that time may be these prayers may come back to us too.
I know all of us are already having many other commitments one may feel difficult to think of enrolling or reading devotedly. But believe me I myself have started reading Chapter 36 daily for Baba past 2 to 3 months nearly and now it hardly takes me 6 to 7 minutes. Its not that we do not have even 10 minutes to waste everyday then why not invest in good karmas?
Above all Baba is within us and He Himself is getting everything done. When we will try to spread light automatically the darkness from our lives too will disappear.
The squirrel is such a small animal. It could not have been of any great use to a very tough mission like building a bridge across the ocean all the way to Lanka. Yet, it came up to the place and with full application of mind, heart and soul did what it could. So insignificant in terms of magnitude, but in terms of dedication and devotion to the cause, an unparalleled example. Rama recognized its services and blessed the species! It conveys us that To God no service is small or insignificant.
In Ramayana, a tiny squirrel helped Lord Sri Rama build the bridge to Lanka. Seeing its devout service, Sri Rama affectionately patted on its back. How many of us would be lucky enough to be affectionately touched by the Lord Himself? Size and power really doesn’t matter when it comes to Bhakti and thus thinking to help the Almighty! What all needed is the love to do something to help our Baba in our own little way just like the little squirrel dared to make an attempt to help Sri Rama!
So let's attempt to be the little squirrel to our Sai Rama and get ready to feel His warm pat on our back...!
To Register Yourself and FAQ’s:
- We have 48 links for different chapters and one group for those who would like to take the responsibility for volunteering a particular chapter group. Please click the temporary link group and enrol. You would soon be moved to the main group. We need 1 teacher and 108 devotees for each chapter group. So please come forward to make it happen!
- Please remember that let not all choose only ch 11 or ch 15. Choose any chapter which you have a special connection to or the one which you like the most. You may also randomly open Sai Satcharitra and select the chapter which Baba directs You too. As we need to fill in all the groups so that gradually 108 parayans can be offered everyday and this would be possible when all the chapter groups are filled.
- Please note one has to read the same chapter everyday and report in the group as Name, Roll no and chapter no read as per IST. The volunteer will make a count of your offering and next day report it further if received before 12.00 midnight IST. So all would have a 24 hour window for reporting.
eg. Baba please accept our lesson for life as the Universal Prayer
Name: Pooja Garg
Roll no: L-1
Ch- 36
- It would be lifetime as the name suggests for any aspect, for anyone and anything in the Universe and about whom we do not know.
- It would begin from 27th July (IST) Guru Pournima.
- You can listen to the audio of the chapter available on google or You Tube.
- If someday you are not able to read, you can ask your friend or family member to read on your behalf. But please manage it on your personal level and not ask in group possibly.
- Some languages (gujarati, Kannada and Marathi) in Sai Satcharitra have 53 chapters. We would be referring the chapters as per Hindi or English Sai Satcharitra 1 to 51. Accordingly you can select or match up the contents and read accordingly.
- Some of you already may have prayer groups where if the admin wishes can convert it into a group for a particular chapter no group and thus make it a part of Universal Prayer for every being for whom Baba knows the best.
Links For Joining Whats App Group For Registration
So let's attempt to be the little squirrel to our Sai Rama and get ready to feel His warm pat on our back...!
Jai Jai Sai Ram
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HI POOJA,
ReplyDeleteYOU ARE DOING GGOD JOB BUT SOMETIMES EXTRA OVER WORK WOULD COMPLICATE DEVOTEES, AS I HAD MENTION IN WHATSUP MP-72, BABA NEEDS US TO LIGTH DIYAS IN FRONT OF BABA STATUE/PICTURES, WE ALWAYS NEED TO CHANT SAI MANTRA AND IT WOULD BE VERY GOOD IF MEDITATE SAI DAILY. SAISATCHARITHRA AND FASTING ON THURSDAY IS EXTRA DIVINE ATTACHMENT. THESE 5 OF TYPES DIVINE ATTACHMENT WITH SAI IS ENOUGH FOR SAI BUT WE CAN DO MORE, HOPE MSG IS CLEAR,THANKS
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ReplyDeleteI want to join. Can I have the whatsapp link for : chapter 5
I try the above link but it's may not working
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ReplyDeleteI want to join the group for reading chapter 15, but I am not able to join it. Kindly share the updated link.
May said baba bless u guys for doing all this.I m also one of the member of WhatsApp group &I joined it few weeks back from fb..I m Advocate by profession. Without knowing about u I just joined it and started listening my share of chapters. Today in lockdown I just went through your website and got to know the surprising reason for creating these auspicious pranayam groups I m feeling my self blessed.
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