The "Power" that came along !!

Jai Sai Master!

April 8, 2013: Nagole, Hyderabad.

It was decided that 60 members of Nagole Satsang would leave for Gangapur, near Gulbarga, a famous Datta Kshetram, on a 11 day trip. While it was an exciting news for the members, who were on a deeksha, few of the issues that came up were, food, water and most importantly, facing the setting-in heat at that place. Gulbarga being a dry place, with temperatures already soaring high, availability of current to atleast provide fans was found to be most challenging.  

After a brief discussion touching the focus points, for power an easy solution was found and it proved to be a real "divine" gift - Solar power. The team packed-in 6 panels on top of a vehicle with couple of batteries thrown in along with an inverter. Once the team reached the place, one of the foremost things to be done was to mount the panels on top of the building and connecting to the batteries through the inverter.

This system proved to be a simple, yet providing a clean energy that we consumed without any cost associated with it. More than this, at a place, where power is provided only 6 hours a day, it is a great boon to have this kind of system which can light up the place for the team to go around as usual as one can think of.

It will be only time before many such units can come up in all the villages across with SAGES getting in to the solar solutions line with an intention to support villages and critical care units to empower them.

May Sri Sai Master and Divyajanani bless the endeavour which is intended at providing an efficient solution for harvesting clean energy.

Jai Sai Master!!

Sri Manga Bharadwaja Trust - In the service of Guru!

Jai Sai Master!

A true GURU never feels that HE is a GURU and never acquires or controls anything materialistic. HE teaches what is right and it is up to the one following to do so with all sincerity. However, when HE comes for the welfare of millions and starts teaching, nature responds by creating many ways in which the message flows across to reach those millions in wonderful ways, some seen and some unseen. Sri Manga Bharadwaja Trust is one such ways in which HIS message is being propagated all around.

Established in the year 2010 (April 2010), with divine blessings of Divyajanani, the trust is completing 3 years of service and humbly bows to that LORD DATTA, who came to our midst in the form of Pujya Acharya Sri Ekkirala Bharadwaja and re-energised people and motivated many in the path of Guru parampara, indicating that alone is the way for salvation. While those who were with HIM are the fortunate few, efforts are being made to preserve HIS work (HIS manuscripts), collect HIS speeches to ensure future generations can use them effectively.

During the inception, the trustees of Sri Manga Bharadwaja Trust, indicated that the main objective of the Trust is to support the cause of propagation of the right way of living, as taught by Sri Sai Master and is being followed by HIS family, to support those who wish to follow HIM truthfully, to support the greater cause of building a society dedicated to living harmoniously, righteously aiming at creating a new world order with robust spiritual fundamentals.

India, fortunately experienced this way of living in the past, way back, and it is our endeavour to go back to the golden period with no cause of worry due to pollution of any kind in a human life. Sri Sai Master's literature helps in understanding this way of living and to clearly set a purpose for the life. At our trust office at Nagole, Hyderabad and Kothapet, Ongole, we make all the literature available along with photos and other memorabilia of Sri Sai Master.

Literature on display at Trust office at Hyderabad

Photos of Sri Sai Master, Lord Datta, Sri Shirdi Sai Baba and others

Literature ready for sale

                                    









May we pray to Sri Sai Master to bless us to continue to serve in many ways using all our energies to support the greater cause of putting building blocks for a bright future.

Jai Sai Master!!

Entertainment- At any cost!!!

Jai Sai Master!

"It is wonderful film! Shot over 30 locations and spent over 2 crores..beautiful ra!!"
"What a waste of time? lousy da machha!"
"Oh my goodness..!!Crazy...nothing in this movie makes sense. No story, no proper editing..only music is somewhat good...!! "

These are some of the common lines that you hear when you go around with friends and infact, some that I heard during my days. However, once we start using a little bit of common sense, suddenly we realise, IT was a real waste of time and effort and we have been looted or cheated in the name of entertainment, sometimes, cheap entertainment..!!

Cinema is a real industry.. The only industry, probably, which will never get tired as there is someone or other who is intelligent enough to play with the dubmbo that we are, who are ready to part with any amount to "enjoy" that entertainment. Probably, this is the only field, where we end up losing in every sense and every director or actor who is suppose to be entertaining us, is getting away with money with no responsibility what-so-ever. 

We pay for the movie..we sit through what ever time..we pay for the snacks or drinks.. we come back and if we are not strong mentally, live in those dreams wasting more and more time. But the sub-conscious which picks up the pictures, comes out at an opportune time playing on our emotions. If we closely observe, if we are movie buff, we cry like a particular person or like in a particular movie even. It so happens, that everyone who is getting in to college or getting married or going to be a father... always will have some reel infront of him that is going-on, and falls flat as the real life never matches with reel life. Media, overall, has influenced every family to form opinions. Every member of the family of will have an opinion on every subject and hence, the total outlook never converges. Elders always feel that younger lot is horrible due to the influences, but never works on remedies. 

While many of us feel intelligent, if we really observe ourselves with cinema or any media (buying or watching TV) watch, we understand that we are the dumbest of all for we pay for our entertainment and spend our valuable time to write critique of it or even read it. Are we intelligent and educated? 

Jai Sai Master!!

Circle of life - a human's perspective and search for better!

Jai Sai Master!

Life goes on!

Life goes on without any hitch for everyone (or it seems), because we all learned how to maneuver around the "obstacles". We started "accepting"  the obstacles as noises in life, which we can not any way handle. Because of this, we live, mostly, to the diktats of others. Even though, we may say no to this, just by looking any one event in our daily life can show how dependent we are on others. Starting with the toothpaste we use, to the soap, to the food we make, for everything we depend on "outside" support. While the same was not the scene in our villages few years back, current "reforms" changed the total scenario and ensured the "bottom of the pyramid" is also impacted sufficiently to the "dependency syndrome".

There was a time, when the people took a twig of neem tree for cleaning the teeth, and home-made bath powder for bathing. Local khadi for the dresses and home-grown veggies for the food. But today, entire country is slowly getting in to the grip of "modernization ghost", which makes people so dependent that we are ever afraid of protesting any thing that is impacting us. Be fuel prices, or cap on LPG, we just do not bother. Infact, we brush aside the same and keep moving ahead. We have no idea, how a small change will impact every sphere of our life, putting pressure on us to ensure, we stay inside the fear-desire cycle. We do not think for a moment when we try to buy our clothes today. Anything less than 1000 rupees is cheap. But consider the so called bottom of the pyramid, who are getting pressed down further due to the weight all these pressures are putting. In the name of flat world, we opened up Indian shores too fast for those who are trying to push their products deeper in to the roots without bothering about the consequences. Example is GM food. While we talk about the eco-system on one side, we talk about genetically modified plants to ensure the eco system can not thrive for lack of food. What an irony? Who cares? 

Those who try to go against the tide are termed mad or the number is so miniscule, the voices are not cared for. As the reforms juggernaut keeps moving ahead, the scary thought that we are going to be controlled remotely by few powers-be crosses my mind, which made me wake-up to do what is necessary- work towards reduction of such dependency. Either by growing my own veggies in my back yard, looking for simplifying the needs that drive me towards a super-store, reducing the movement which require costly fuel etc.. While, I am not in a position to say, hurrah- I started, I definitely am happy to accept whole-heartedly the thought that we need to do something quickly. 

I am happy to share what I am feeling. How about you, while your life goes on?

Jai Sai Master!!

Cinema and Impact on future generations!!

Jai Sai Master!

It is not an understatement if it is said that cinema feeds many, particularys in southern states of India, be any wood. Cinema and its impact is hardly realised by people and even if it is understood, is worse than any other addiction as one can not shake off after tasting. Me either. However, how many of us really understand the level of impact it is having on our future generation?

We do see many kids dancing to the tunes, or parents encouraging the dances to the tunes. This starts at fairly young age, and instead of dreaming about reaching stars, they want to become stars in one of the "woods". If one poses the same question to any of the stars or their fans, they in turn tell us how much they are helping society by giving joy for few hours atleast. Irony is, instead if giving joy, they are making people frustrated or dejected or demotivating by showing them dreams which no one, even the stars in the movies, can achieve. When one of the politicians of old era asked everyone to dream for a vibrant India, he never asked us to borrow ideas from these woods, or the places which are literally dead. 

Cinema impacts every mind, more so with the kids. Their subconscious mind registers every single detail and as they grow-up, they try to dress-up like one of those heroes or heroines. They think talking against parents is a fad. Love or dressing up or fast bikes..all are influences from Cinema culture. Instead of using this media for promoting good values, we are pushing the current systems down. 

As parents, we can only give better time than showing few movies which help only in degrading Indian culture or teach loose moral values. We can do, as parents and friends, better things to help our generation become much stronger and healthier..

May we eradicate the virusless disease called CINEMA from our land and resurrect all "WOODS". 

Jai Sai Master!!

The Right Perspective....A Seminar

Jai Sai Master!

Perspective- a way of regarding situations, facts etc..and judging their relative importance or
                  - the proper or accurate point of view or the ability to see it; objectivity;
(from World English Dictionary of Collins)

This is a word which is used very commonly across by many. However, how many of us really use it after authoritatively in any way while using it ? Even when we say today's kids do not have a proper perspective of life, how many of us really mean it and how many of us have it ourselves, before commenting on today's generation?

Is it really important to have a right perspective in our lives? If so, regarding what? If not, then how do we live without any direction? Are we drifting in our every day life? Everyone of us in the current world, need to pose this question in all sincerity and try getting some answer to it - Do I have the right perspective on my life?

HELP, IF YOU CAN !!

Jai Sai Master!

We all live in this world, side-by-side, together and happily.. Though the last word is a bit doubtful in many cases. Yes. there are quite a few who can not afford to be happy due to various reasons. To help atleast few of them, there are few NGOs who try their best to work hard.

In every segment, there are people, good and bad. However, because of those defective few, we can not term all the human race to be bad. Similarly, there are few social service organisations, which are trying their level best to support the community at large, doing their bit in real sense. They are all inspired by few events in their personal life and that incident works like an elixir to continue their work tirelessly. I would like to introduce one such organisation, which for the last 10 to 12 years, is doing their bit and all because of persistence of one person, Mr Rajesh. That organisation is Bharati Memorial Foundation. This is a destitute home with quite a few inmates, trying to survive on a daily basis. I asked Mr Rajesh one day, how he is able to pull on and he smilingly said- "I do not bother about tomorrow".

He brings in road accident victims who are treated by hospitals and thrown out and no-where to go. We might tend to ask, "why does he do it?". Answer is simple: In a society, we are responsible for creating such a situation through various imbalances. My appeal to you all is, since we can not directly do any service for him, atleast try help him with cash or kind.

Mr Rajesh, never goes out of way to seek funds. It is his belief that help comes from some quarter. Yes, indeed, it keeps coming. However, there are always problems for it is a dynamic situation.

Please help the cause, a good cause, if you can.

For more information: http://bharathimemorialfoundation.org/service/

If you wish to donate: http://bharathimemorialfoundation.org/service/donate-us/

Thank you and may you all live happily...

JAI SAI MASTER!!