Yearly Archive: 2008

Who is Sai?

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s reality is difficult to comprehend, and yet we really want to understand it. On June 19, 1974, He allowed us a glimpse into this reality. God is inscrutable. He

A Mighty Fortress of God

I was woken by the bright red bird fluttering in the emerald cage of jasmine branches and tapping urgently on my window-pane. Peeking through the partially open Venetian blinds, I could see my excited friend

Art From the Heart

Sri C. G. Sai Prakash is a member of the staff at the Sri Sathya Sai Digital Studio  in Prasanthi Nilayam. He started at the Sri Sathya Sai Primary School and completed his education

In Ringing Tones

On Christmas day, I left home on an evening stroll toward the newly constructed Sathyanarayanaswamy temple, on the outskirts of my village, with the December ‘Sanathana Sarathi’ and ‘Pradeepa’ [magazines] as my companions. The

Baba’s Voice

What an enchanting, wonderful voice Sai Baba has! It is indeed the voice of God, one that speaks directly to the soul, inspires and is imbued with joy, peace, strength, purity, love, and power.

Christmas and the Avatar

In 1985 on Christmas Day in Brindavan, Bhagavan Baba asked Mr. Al Drucker of the United States to speak to the people assembled there. Drucker narrated how he had asked Swami if He was

Who is a Sai Devotee?

Following is an extraordinary letter Bhagavan Baba wrote to a devotee wherein Swami enumerates the qualities one should cultivate to become His devotee. We should regard these words as our life breath. Moksha [liberation] is

Friendship

Heart must understand heart; heart must be drawn to heart, if friendship must last. Friendship must bind two hearts and affect both of them beneficially, whatever may happen to loss or gain, pain or

Pathri—Parthi

Sri V. C. Kondappa in his Telugu book, Sree Sayeesuni Charitram, notes that Sri N. Kasturi has given in Sathyam Sivam Sundaram a few important details of the early life of the Baba of

His Grace

Puttaparthi…Prasanthi Nilayam… Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba … I had heard about them and I had read about them. Yet I had not seen them and I never knew I could see them, so

Sai and Sufi Tradition: An Islamic View

(It was four years ago that I was given the directive: “You don’t even know your own religion. How can you know Me?” This led me to a study of Islam with a fresh

Someone Up There

Amitava Ghose is the President of the Sathya Sai Baba Center of Cherry Hill, NJ. He had most of his education in India and is presently working in Salem, NJ. The following is a narration of