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SAI RAM & WELCOME SAI RAM & WELCOME TO THISTO THIS

Lord Lord krishna’s krishna’s birthdaybirthday

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The Lord’s PrayerThe Lord’s Prayer

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DharmaDharma

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• our family,

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• our family,our family,• our society,

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• our family,our family,• our society, our society, • our spiritual life

and

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• our family,our family,• our society, our society, • our spiritual life our spiritual life

and and • our dharma

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We depend on each other for our existence —

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We depend on each other for our existence — we cannot exist alone.

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We depend on each other for our existence — we cannot exist alone. Therefore, we should work for the good of all.

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We depend on each other for our existence — we cannot exist alone. Therefore, we should work for the good of all. That is what dharmadharma essentially is, to perform our duties.

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We all live in this world and if we all follow our own individual ideas and imaginations:

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• there will be clashes of interest

We all live in this world and if we all follow our own individual ideas and imaginations:

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• there will be clashes of interest

• and physically forever fighting each other,

We all live in this world and if we all follow our own individual ideas and imaginations:

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• and so the whole of life will be a battle of fighting for nothing.

We all live in this world and if we all follow our own individual ideas and imaginations:

• there will be clashes of interest

• and physically forever fighting each other,

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• We all are different,

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• We all are different, • we think in different ways

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• We all are different, • we think in different ways • and we all have our individual needs

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• We all are different, • we think in different ways • and we all have our individual needs

If each of us goes his own way there will be clashes of interest all the time.

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So we should get together to work on ways and means whereby each one of us will be able to make a sacrifice for our society, for the good of all.

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Therefore we need Therefore we need to have to have RegulationsRegulations. .

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The Rishis incorporated these laws in spiritual living for us to practise from our free will.

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By nature we will do the right thing; that is what dharma is about.

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By nature we will do the right thing; that is what dharma is about.

When we do the right thing we will benefit from it and, ultimately, our society will benefit as well.

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Another type of law is the law that is imposed on us with the police and the army to force us to follow it, but in spite of all these external forces imposed on us, we still do not live peacefully, because our nature is like that.

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Another type of law is the law that is imposed on us with the police and the army to force us to follow it, but in spite of all these external forces imposed on us, we still do not live peacefully, because our nature is like that.

To practise some To practise some discipline is essential.discipline is essential.

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The VedasVedas state that it is good to have knowledge, that we must have knowledge, but that knowledge alone is not enough.

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We have to enforce some discipline on ourselves, so that we will become morally and ethically elevated.

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When we just talk all the time others will not follow, and we have to put some pressure on so that they will follow.

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The nature of human beings is like that and that is why we have so many laws...........

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Therefore the Rishis prescribed dharmadharma, which does not say that we must not destroy but...

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...that all is divinedivine and when we know that all is divine we will not destroy.

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The The Highest Highest

PerfectionPerfection

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We fulfil our duties as:

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We fulfil our duties as: •a father,

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We fulfil our duties as: •a father, •a mother,

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We fulfil our duties as: •a father, •a mother, •a daughter, •a son, and so on,

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We fulfil our duties as: •a father, •a mother, •a daughter, •a son, and so on, •as a part of society,

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We fulfil our duties as: •a father, •a mother, •a daughter, •a son, and so on, •as a part of society, •a part of everything.

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When we perform

When we perform

duties with the duties with the

attitude of not attitude of not

thinking of any thinking of any

selfish rewards, but

selfish rewards, but

as an obligation, as a

as an obligation, as a

contribution to life

contribution to life ——

that spirit will that spirit will

develop an inner

develop an inner

detachment. detachment.

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By performing these types of duties:

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By performing these types of duties: • our mind becomes pure,

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By performing these types of duties: • our mind becomes pure,•our nature becomes pure and

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By performing these types of duties: • our mind becomes pure,•our nature becomes pure and •then we become detached from this material world.

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Attachment arises when we only act for our own selfish requirements, our position, and so on.

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Think of our duties towards

• our family,

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Think of our duties towards

• our family,

• our society,

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Think of our duties towards

• our family,

• our society,

• our religious life and

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Think of our duties towards

• our family,

• our society,

• our religious life and

• our dharma,

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Think of our duties towards

• our family,

• our society,

• our religious life and

• our dharma,

trying to do things for

others;

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The essential The essential teaching of the teaching of the Bhagavad GitaBhagavad Gita is is to do to do sevaseva. .

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Lord Krishna said that through that spirit of selfless activities, when we have nothing to gain and nothing to lose by not doing, performing seva all the time to our family, and so on, we attain that height of realisation whereby our mind becomes absorbed in God.

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Lord Krishna advises us, therefore, always to perform — with the spirit of detachment — that action which has to be done; then, verily, we attain to the highest perfection.

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Lord Krishna explained Lord Krishna explained that when we think only that when we think only about ourselves all the about ourselves all the time and forget time and forget everyone else, we everyone else, we become bound to become bound to things, and as a result things, and as a result of that attachment all of that attachment all kinds of obstacles come kinds of obstacles come into our life. into our life.

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Therefore, this is not the way for mankind to find peace and happiness.

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The only way we can find happiness is through detachment, because whenever there is attachment there is suffering — attachment is the cause of suffering.

Therefore, this is not the way for mankind to find peace and happiness.

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And where there is And where there is detachment there is detachment there is peace and peace and harmony, there is harmony, there is everything because everything because with the spirit of with the spirit of sacrifice comes sacrifice comes non-attachment. non-attachment. And where there is And where there is sacrifice everyone sacrifice everyone gains. gains.

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But when we are self-centred — thinking only about ourselves — no one likes us.

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No one likes selfish people.

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No one likes selfish people.

Lord Krishna said that there is no place in this world for people who do not make sacrifices.

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"Therefore,"

Lord Krishna

said, "always

perform action

with the spirit

of non-

attachment."

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Role Role ModelModel

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Whatever great people do and accept as authority, others will follow.

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Spirituality is not just talking; it must express itself in our actions and in our attitude.

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Spirituality is not just talking; it must express itself in our actions and in our attitude. For it is through example that we can teach, not by just talking.

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The great people are an example to follow, showing others the way they must walk.

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So we must work: for our family, for our society, for our dharma, and by engaging in these types of activities all the time, our mind will become pure.

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When our mind becomes pure, God will help us.

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SacrificeSacrifice

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To make a sacrifice is the greatest thing that we can do. As someone said, selfless service is like a tree — we nurture and water it, and when the tree grows we will enjoy it because we have seen the tree from the beginning, we have cared for it.

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That is real dharmadharma.

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That is real dharmadharma. The basis of dharma is yajna — to sacrifice.

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The word 'Dharma', The word 'Dharma', which is really which is really bound up with an bound up with an infinite variety of infinite variety of meanings, is meanings, is regarded in regarded in common usage ascommon usage as

referring to actions like charity, referring to actions like charity, performing good deeds, and performing good deeds, and discharging one's duties, etc. discharging one's duties, etc.

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But these relate only to external But these relate only to external actions. Dharma is eternal, the same actions. Dharma is eternal, the same for everyone, everywhere. It for everyone, everywhere. It expresses the significance of the expresses the significance of the inner Atma. The birth place of inner Atma. The birth place of Dharma is the heart. Dharma is the heart.

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What comes from the heart as a What comes from the heart as a pure idea, when translated into pure idea, when translated into action is Dharma. The true Dharma action is Dharma. The true Dharma of every human being is to make of every human being is to make every endeavour to realize the every endeavour to realize the Divine; Dharma should lead to Self-Divine; Dharma should lead to Self-realization.realization.

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FamilyFamily

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The family is the basis, the root of our society. What our family is, that is what our society becomes.

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Particularly when the children are very small we need to teach them by example, because if we do not do that when they are small, we will lose control.

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So Lord Krishna said that we have multiple responsibilities, not one, but responsibilities towards: •our family, our family,

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So Lord Krishna said that we have multiple responsibilities, not one, but responsibilities towards: •our family, our family, •our society, our society,

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So Lord Krishna said that we have multiple responsibilities, not one, but responsibilities towards: •our family, our family, •our society, our society, •our religious life andour religious life and

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So Lord Krishna said that we have multiple responsibilities, not one, but responsibilities towards: •our family, our family, •our society, our society, •our religious life andour religious life and•our our dharmadharma. .

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If we are like that, our life will be happy and our society will prosper.

That is selfless service. That is selfless service.

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Bhagavad Bhagavad GitaGita

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is that when we follow the principles, the ethics and the sadhana — meditation — of the Bhagavad Gita:

So the emphasis in the Bhagavad Gita

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is that when we follow the principles, the ethics and the sadhana — meditation — of the Bhagavad Gita:•our life will definitely our life will definitely become uplifting; become uplifting;

So the emphasis in the Bhagavad Gita

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is that when we follow the principles, the ethics and the sadhana — meditation — of the Bhagavad Gita:•our life will definitely our life will definitely become uplifting; become uplifting; •we will experience we will experience peace and peace and

So the emphasis in the Bhagavad Gita

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is that when we follow the principles, the ethics and the sadhana — meditation — of the Bhagavad Gita:•our life will definitely our life will definitely become uplifting; become uplifting; •we will experience we will experience peace and peace and

So the emphasis in the Bhagavad Gita

•our society will be in order. our society will be in order.

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The Bhagavad Gita is an epic poem about

…….life, .life, …….death, .death, ……..love, and love, and ……..duty, duty, from the people who settled in the river valleys in India and developed a sophisticated culture, thousands of years ago.

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a masterpiece about the heights and depths of the human soul.

embedded in the middle of a six-inch-thick poem, the

It is a half-inch thick poem

Mahabharatha Mahabharatha ,,

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To read The Bhagavad Gita is to swing back and forth smoothly, between the head and the heart,

between the worldly and the spiritual, curving between gaining knowledge and applying it in today’s real world.

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In this swing from humanness to godliness lies the Gita’s secret penetrating power, its ability: •to lift and •move us.

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Sometimes, a thought arises what our nation would have been without the Gita. What remains if we eliminate Shrimad Bhagavat, Ramayana and Bhagavad Gita from our culture?

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Can we imagine Indian culture without these holy books? They make our invaluable treasure, of which the realisation and possession has elevated us to the heights of supremacy in the world.

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In every major age, God comes •as avatar and •teaches the Gita to initiate us into self-knowledge and •dispel the covering which hide our divine nature.

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5000 years ago, God came as Krishna, to render this song of truth at a time of great moral decline.

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At that time, he gave the Gita in order to rescue Arjuna,

and through him all of mankind, from the fog of illusion and attachment.

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In this age, He has come again as In this age, He has come again as Sai Sai BabaBaba, to give this sacred teaching at , to give this sacred teaching at

another time of great turmoil and another time of great turmoil and declining values. declining values.

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Where there is love, there Where there is love, there is Ais Ananda; nanda; where there is where there is Ananda, Ananda, there is music. there is music.

That is the reason why That is the reason why Krishna sang the Krishna sang the Bhagavad Bhagavad GitaGita

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Love knows no fear, Love knows no fear, no untruth, no untruth, no anxiety, no anxiety, no grief. no grief.

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I am love; I am love; I shower love; I shower love; I share love; I share love; I am pleased with I am pleased with love; love;

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I bless that you I bless that you have more and have more and more of love to more of love to more and more more and more Beings. Beings.

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Love is God, Love is God, Love is Love—Love is Love—that is the that is the message of message of Sri Krishna. Sri Krishna.

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