Divine discourse - Sri Baba

Give joy to all. Practicing Selfless Love is the way to achieve this ideal. When Love can bring even God near you, how can it fail where human beings are involved?

God dwells in a pure heart, shining in His innate splendor of Wisdom, Power and Love. Start the day with Love. Spend the day with Love.

Fill the day with Love. End the day with Love. That is the way to God.

SRI SAI

Divine discourse - Sri Annai

Mother divine , grant that today may bring to us a complete consercation to your will , a more integral gift of our selves to your work , a more total forgetfulness of self, a greater illumination , a purer love .

Grant that in a communion growing ever deeper , more constant and entire, we may be united always more and more closely to you and become your sevitors worthy of yours .

Remove from us all egoism , root out all petty vanity, greed and obscurity .

May we be all ablaze with your divine love ; make us your torches in the world .

SRI MOTHER

Divine Discourse - sri sai

You do not lose much if a finger is so damaged that it needs to be cut off.

The body can still function and be a fit instrument.

Even if you lose a limb, you can function and benefit with the help of your faculties.

But if you lose character, then everything is lost.

Do not allow laziness, hatred or anger to contaminate your hearts.

The world looks forward to your leadership in establishing and ensuring peace.

Practice calmness and the habit of deliberation.

If anyone blames, abuses or hurts you, do not retaliate with the same.

Behave nobly and with patience.

- sri sai

Divine discourse - sri sai baba

Look at Me within you.

I look at Myself in you.

You are My life, My breath and My soul.

You are all, everyone of you,

When I love you, I love My own self.

When you love yourselves,

you are loving Me.
- sri sai

Rich and Poor

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live.

They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, 'How was the trip?' 'Did you see how poor people live?' the father asked.'Oh yeah,' said the son .So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?' asked the father.

The son answered: 'I saw that we have one dog and they had four.We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night.

Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them.

' The boy's father was speechless. Then his son added, 'Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are'.

Isn't perspective a wonderful thing? Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don't have.Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!

'Life is too short and friends are too few.'

Divine discourse - Sri Aurobindo

I have not come here
to accomplish miracles,
but to show, lead the way,
help, on the road
to a great inner change
of our human nature,--
the outer change in the world
is only possible if and when
that inner transmutation
is effected and extends itself.

SRI AUROBINDO

Shri SwamiNarayan Mandir _ Atlanta

A new temple has been built in Atlanta , Georgia , USA . Name of the temple is " Shri Swami Narayan temple "

Here are some interesting detalis of this temple .

* It is one among the top ten largest traditional Hindu Vedic stone temples outside India.

* The temple is located on 30 acres of land.

* The total area of the mandir is 22442 sq. ft

* The exterior of the Mandir is made of Turkish Limra limestone.

* The main floor is made of Italian Carrara marble.

* The ground floor and basement is made of Indian sandstone.

* The Mandir has tapered ceiling.

* 75 ceilings with 39 different designs

* Apart from this the Mandir has numerous windows and pillars, which are intricately carved, and also marble steps.

* Central heating and cooling.

* Under floor heating with Gel tubing.

* Fiber optic lighting.

* Estimated cost of the Swaminarayan temple is $19 million.

Other Interesting Facts

* The pillars of the temple are intricately hand-carved and each pillar depicts a famous incident from Hindu scriptures.

* The construction of the Mandir is based on 'Shila Shastras' ancient Hindu text dealing in building and sculpture techniques.

* Some stones like marble and limestone were imported from the respective countries to India.

* The stones were hand-carved in India and later imported to United States.

* Intricate geometric patterns, rosettes, feathers, leaves and other designs which number to more than 500 were hand-carved in India.

* Each section of the temple weighing from 50 grams to five tons after carving in India had a bar code.

* Each section thus imported was then assembled in Lilburn just like playing the jigsaw puzzle.