Surrender to Shirdi Sai Baba by Awareness Chanting: FREE eBook on Golden Teachings of Shirdi Sai Baba

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Shirdi Sai Baba says, "He who surrenders himself to the Feet of Hari will get free from all troubles." But the problem for us is to understand what surrender is, and how to implement it in practice so that our prayers are effectively fulfilled by Baba.

Surrender is the process of merger of consciousness of our self with the universal Consciousness of God; obviously, we can't even understand what it is, leave alone accomplishing it ourselves.

If we could find a spiritual tool that will help us surrender to the universal Consciousness, we'll be definitely pleased to use it so that we can get assistance from Baba in facing the challenges of our life, won't we?

I have been using one such tool, which I prefer to call AWARENESS CHANTING, to increase the effectiveness of my prayers for a decade with reasonable success rate.

I have designed a Prayer called SHIRDI SAI BABA AWARENESS CHANTING SARANAGATI PRAYER (posted in this blog as an article below) to incorporate Awareness Chanting so that we can surrender our consciousness of our self to the universal Consciousness of God with considerable ease.

~ umasreedasan

Get Your FREE eBook "Golden Teachings of Shirdi Sai Baba"

A decade and a half back I selected instructions and life events of (followers of) Shirdi Sai Baba in eighteen groups each, and compiled them into a write-up for my ready reference and periodic recital programs in the pursuit of my spiritual and material goals.

The selection criterion I used was simple - those instructions and life events of Baba that will contribute to the surrender of my Consciousness to the universal Consciousness. It took fifteen years for spiritual Enlightenment to happen to me, and all along those fifteen years that write-up was so much useful for me to learn, practice and perfect the technology of Surrender by separating and expanding my Consciousness and merging It with the universal Consciousness.

In these fifteen years my family, social and professional life has become more and more peaceful due to the influence of the content of that write-up.

I have used that write-up to prepare this book titled, "Golden Teachings of Shirdi Sai Baba."

This book is available for FREE download here: http://lampofmanifestation.blogspot.com/2015/08/free-ebook-on-teachings-of-shirdi-sai.html

~ umasreedasan

Diamond Words of Shirdi Sai Baba

Have faith and confidence in your Guru. Believe fully that Guru is the Doer. Blessed is he who knows the greatness of his Guru and thinks him to be Hari-Hara-Brahma incarnate.

The tortoise is on one bank of the river and her young ones are on the other side. She gives neither milk nor warmth to them. Her mere glance gives them nutrition. The young ones do nothing but remember their mother. The tortoise' glance is, to the young ones, a downpour of nectar, the only source of happiness. Similar is the relation between the Guru and disciples.

Be wherever you like, do whatever you choose, remember this well that all what you do is known to Me. I am the Inner Ruler of all and seated in their hearts. I envelope all the creatures, the movable and immovable world. I am the Controller – the Wire-puller of the show of this universe. I am the Mother – origin of all beings – the Harmony of three Gunas, the Propeller of all senses, the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer. Nothing will harm him, who turns his attention towards Me; but Maya will lash him, who forgets Me. All the insects, ants, the visible, movable and immovable world, is My body.

Glossary

Awareness Chanting - a spiritual tool by which Saranagati (Surrender) happens within us. It is chanting a holy Name of God with faith that the consciousness of our self is sustained and controlled by the all-pervading universal Consciousness of God.

Consciousness - invisible sentient entity that directly sustains and controls visible and invisible insentient matter of this universe. Our consciousness sustains, powers and controls our mind (where our thoughts arise), body (where our sensory perceptions and activities like speech arise) and heart (where our desires arise).

Guru - the spiritual Guide Who is always in complete merger with the all-pervading universal Consciousness of God. eg. Shirdi Sai Baba.

Saranagati (Surrender) - the process in which the consciousness of our self is merged with the universal Consciousness of God.

Self - sentient entity from which our I-ness (perception of I-sense) arises. It is the source of our consciousness. Also known as soul.

Universal Consciousness of God - the all-pervading sentient Entity of this universe that supports, powers and controls the consciousness of all beings. Hari-Hara-Brahma incarnate in Hinduism.

Blessed by Baba: My Experience

It was the spring of 2004. I had gone on a personal visit to Chennai. After finishing my personal work I went to the Mylapore temple of Shirdi Sri Sai Baba. I had visited that temple a couple of times earlier.

After worshiping the main deity, I was just strolling around the temple. Then I was casually reading the inscription in a pillar that listed the popular eleven promises of Baba. I knew it already but I was just passing time casually reading it.

Suddenly I heard a voice behind me: "You want this?" I turned around to face a six and a half feet tall, well-built man standing near me. I was too startled by the encounter of this rather strange visitor to answer him. But without expecting a reply he thrust a 3"x2" card into my right palm. Lowering my eyes I saw the card in my hand which had those eleven promises printed on its face. I felt I didn't need it. But when I raised my eyes, he had already disappeared in the crowd of devotees.

I wondered why Baba gave it to me through somebody or perhaps He Himself came to do the job. After all I believed in Him and I didn't require any promise of that sort. In fact throughout the previous year I was doing an extensive research in the doctrine of Saranagati (Surrender). I was spending much of my spare time in exploring the works of Sri Ramanuja and His disciples who lived in Srirangam for about five centuries. I was yet to get a satisfactory explanation and so my quest continued through 2004.

Therefore, the gift I expected from Baba at that time was to expound the theory and practice of the doctrine of Saranagati. And then I flipped the card that was thrust into my palm a few minutes before. I was thrilled to see the picture of the pair of holy Feet of Baba (the one you see above in this blog).

When I came back to Tiruchi from Chennai I felt I was blessed by Baba. My spiritual progress went at a break-neck speed since then.

Within a decade Baba inspired and guided me to get enlightened.

~ umasreedasan.