\"A queen is defined as a I also came to an woman who rules the country, who often portrays such a understanding that there is powerful character\". no one better than the Master himself to inspire us and started sharing my thoughts A queen with such character with all the young adult will surely face every challenge that comes her leaders in the country such as way, full of perseverance, determination, ambition, and Bro Raagan, Bro Sankar, Bro most importantly, she won't be afraid to fail. We too can Vijay Dorai, Sis Darshana, Sis be so much more like a queen and realize our full potential Aishwariya, etc. Putting with a high spirit and winning attitude. together all the thoughts, we kicked-off a program especially for the young adults and teen youths called Omkaar/Sathyam Sivam Sundaram (SSS). After gaining much The journey of Omkaar/SSS started in the year 2012. It experience from the walk for started in Sri Muda Sai Centre and today, it has been values (WFV), I started happening on a bimonthly basis for the past 8 years in discovering my capability and the KL/Selangor region. All the centres in this region understood my capacity. I have participated and organized this program in the roared as majestically as the past 8 years. lion and was courageous enough to face any situation I was put into. Due to my enthusiastic The global pandemic of participation in the COVID-19 did not stop the preparation of WFV, I was Omkaar/SSS to be conducted. given the opportunity to lead The KL/Selangor team under the young adults of Sri Muda the leadership of Sis Sai Centre. To roar even Mohanah launched E-Omkaar louder, I would need to be for the year 2020 and 3 majestic and be a role model sessions were successfully for all the younger brothers conducted. In addition, 4 and sisters around me and outdoor state camps were that motivated me further to successfully organized for be part of SSIOM activities. young adults and teen youths.
\"When the program was I used to lock myself in the launched in the year 2012, room and cry silently till I fell never in my dreams I asleep. Weeks passed and visualized the achievement of nothing much changed, the program. The faith in except for me, looking Swami and the dedication of physically and mentally weak the team (facilitators, bhajans & host centres) have .I’m consciously starting to contributed to this realize I need emotional help. achievement. Self-isolation will not help me heal from this journey. I To my Dear Sisters, reached out to my close friends to ask them to lend The Light End of my Tunnel their ears and to motivate me to come out of this dark Once Aristotle said, \"It is moment. Gayathri Mantra during our darkest moments and Bhajans, my best friends, that we must focus to see the allowed me to energize light\". Everyone has gone myself on a daily basis. through their darkest moment at some point in I was determined to be fully their life and so have I. During that period, all the out of my hurtful past. I soul-shaking series of events had caused my life to turn started finding ways to help upside down. myself. I found new hobbies I too felt that there was no way out and I convinced such as reading self- myself not to trust anybody. All I wanted was to be alone. enrichment books, listening to podcasts, meditating, Ho’opnopono, etc. The Ho’opnopono is a Hawaiian healing technique I used to break free from my negative thoughts by repeating these four sentences, “I’m sorry, Please forgive me, Thank You and I love you”. Practicing this form of unconditional love, I began to forgive others in a positive and loving way.
I noticed tremendous \"She introduced me to the improvement in myself as I Maypole Meditation, which felt the emotional burden helps to connect with our fading. higher consciousness and at the same time experience During the same darkest pure and unconditional love. moment, Quest for My life started changing magically after practicing Prathyagatma was Maypole meditation and a lot of positive things came along announced. I was hesitant to with me. I’m ever grateful to Swami for sending me His join the Quest as I was losing Instruments to guide me to see the light end of my my faith. After a much tunnel. convincing talk by Sis Prashanthini, I agreed. The daily challenges and tasks had kept me pretty occupied. Moreover, it was a self- discovery journey. A lot of doubt and queries were slowly being answered during this whole Quest. During one of the breaks, a few of us were having a satsangh about Swami. I shared my troubled moment and bingo, that was the best decision I made. I found a permanent solution and could visualize my life being colorful again. One of the Sai sisters shared with me, “Akka, you must also start forgiving yourself and send a lot of love to heal yourself”.
Dear Sisters, Sai Maa is our guiding light. He says, “Like the eyelids protect the eyes, I shall protect and look after you forever”. Spend your time for Swami and do your responsibilities wholeheartedly, surrender the rest to the Master Himself, and everything else is taken care of. Grow your faith and love towards Him. During our darkest moments, we get closer to Him, and unconditional love towards Him grows abundantly. Failure is the greatest teacher. As the Master says, \"I want you to be leaders to protect the world. Leaders like lions, self-reliant, courageous, majestic, and just. Lion is the king of animals and I want you to be king among men\". Do not be afraid to take the first step, be confident in whatever you do, the Master will guide you. Empower yourself to create the colorful life you want! Thank You, Swami and Jai Sai Ram!
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RISK FACTORS: Mental Illness/ Psychotic Disorder Family history to suicide and/or exposure to suicide Family history or mental illness Physical/sexual abuse Aggressive behaviour/impulsivity Social isolation Poor coping skills Physical illness Traumatic events WARNING SIGNS: Preoccupation with death Intense sadness or/and hopelessness Not caring about activities that used to matter Social withdrawal from family, friends, social activities Sleep disturbance Risky behaviour Lack of energy Changes in appetite Increased irritability picture adapted from: https://www.cleanpng.com/png-royalty-free-clip-art-risk-980804/ , https://www.pngitem.com/download/iTTwRho_saying-no-images-cartoon-hd-png-download/ article adapted from : https://www.childrenshospital.org/conditions-and-treatments/conditions/s/suicide-and-teens/symptoms-and-causes
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UNTOLD STORIES OF TRETHA YUGA
Dasaratha and his Queen resumed their royal duties, and ruled with love and care. As the years passed however, the king was still worried at the thought that he still has no children to claim the throne. Knowing Dasaratha’s wish, Kausalya prayed for him to marry another wife, and so, he married Sumitra. Kausalya and Sumitra formed an inseparable bond, but they too, were worried when they could not bear any child. So, with the insistence of the two queens, Dasaratha married a third wife, Kaika. The three queens loved each other unconditionally, and
were the most loving towards their king. Years passed, and yet, there was still no sign of the queens having a child. To help resolve the problem, they consulted sage Vasishta. Vasishta told Dasaratha to immediately perform a sacred sacrifice, for those who wish to have a son. Overjoyed at the words of Vasishta, Dasaratha and his queens prepared for the ceremony. The ceremony was held at the bank of the river Sarayu, led by sage Rishyaringa, and he began performing the ceremony. As offerings were placed into the sacred fire, a divine form rose from the flames,
shining as bright as lightning. Then, as a voice was heard coming from the sky. The voice informed the King to accept the vessel beheld by the divine form, and to give the sweet milk pudding in it, to his queens. After the divine form placed the vessel into Dasaratha’s hands, it disappeared. What joy was contained by Dasaratha, as they returned to the palace, with a sacred vessel in his hands!
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The Ultimate Murukku “My advice for you, dear, is to not Sweets. So many of them. Gulab get fascinated by books that are like Jamun, jilebi, ladoo, kalakand, jalebis, sweet and attractive but the rasgulla, halwa, kesari; so many of them - how do I choose? The swirls are messy unlike the murukku.” Nallamal hands me the young lady sits on the short- book she’s reading. “Read it. Most legged stool with the sweets importantly, don’t forget to practice spread out on a sheet in front of her. In her hand, a book. Today what you learn in your life. about another Guru with glorious Otherwise even if you have all the hair like a halo around His head knowledge in the world, it will be and a mischievous glint in His useless!” Her eyes crinkle as she eyes. laughs Nallamal is a local, orphaned at a The books I read are like this murukku. young age. She is known for her When I make it, I start from the center amazing traditional sweets and and work my way out. The life stories admired for her passion in reading. of saints and sages, they are stories of Piled next to her as she minds her makeshift shop are books of various truth. The center of the murukku titles. “Nallamal, I’ve come to buy represents the truth and then as it sweets.” She smiles and packs up swirls, the outer rings represent the my choices. I pass her the money other things in life. But it all begins and prepare to leave but choose to stay instead. She looks at me over from the truth. Most of all, this knowledge is solid, like this murukku.” her glasses, still smiling. I slowly take and bite the hard sweet. “The “Nallamal, Deepavali is coming and I’d like to give you kaal urunde, did it break into pieces in your something. I have many books on horror, romance and mouth?” I nod silently. “These books you even some biographies. Which do you like? ” I expect read, they are not bad but they are of no her to choose a genre but Nallamal shakes her head. use to me. Our life is already full of ups and “Thank you for your kindness but I don’t read such downs, confusing and even frustrating. books. While they are entertaining, they do not Reading fictions and other books will only nourish me like the books I read. ” Confused and further complicate things. The knowledge slightly offended I ask, “What do you mean to say, you gain through the books you read are Nallamal? All books are a blessing. I’ve read so many like the hard exterior of the kaal urunde. fictions that even my teachers are impressed with my Hard on the outside but not hard enough to wide vocabulary and command of the language. The biography of various leaders have taught me pain and keep it intact when there is an external suffering, failures and triumph. They are just as force.” Nallamal continues. valuable as the books you read about the great sages and gurus.” Nallamal silently reaches for a kaal urunde and asks me to bite it.
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The boys shared their idea with the warden and the warden’s eyes were twinkling, “Wow, that’s great!” The boys went to Karaikudi to get 5 identical tiffin boxes. Then, the next morning the boys divided the responsibilities and standardized the process of making the chapatti to ensure it turned out to be a perfect circled chapati. Later in the evening, Swami came to visit them. The warden did not utter a word as he wants to surprise Swami after the complaint was raised. Swami straight opened the chappati vessel in the expectation to see irregularly shaped chappatis but to His utter surprise, He found all the chappatis in a perfect round shaped and says “Our children did very well!”. Swami took one chapatti to the ladies and showed the perfect shaped chapati. He laughingly says, “ Doesn’t everything look like a moon and uniformed? Even the ladies cannot do it this way!” That is how Swami takes care of His children because of the love showered by them towards Swami. Premaswarupalara, Embodiments of Love. source: Radio Sai
HISBTAOLRVYIKAANSDININMCAELPATYIOSNIAOF In 1968, when women members of the samithis asked Swami, \"How can we do our seva for you since we are not able to go outside to do Sevadal work\". Swami told them to gather children and tell them stories. Make them act out the values in them. About 10 years later, a group of Malaysian delegates attended the very first SSE Gurus' Training program in Puttaparthi. In 1981, Malaysian devotees started SSEHV classes simultaneously in various states of Malaysia. In 1983, the Malaysian Central Council committee invited trainers from India to conduct Gurus' Training Program in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Soon after, SSE & SSEHV classes were commenced in more states in Malaysia. Syllabus for the classes were from Indian and many children started benefitting from the classes. By year 1990, the Malaysian Gurus had created and standardized a syllabus for EHV students by incorporating Malaysian themes and stories along with the ancient puranas and lives of great men & women. Source : Sis Tara Menon (Ampang) & Sis Saraswathy Selvanayagam (Bangsar)
What were the challenges How was the initiation of faced when teaching SSE for SSE done in Malaysia ? the first time ? SSE was initiated in Malaysia by bringing in trainers from Puttaparthi, Zero knowledge of Mantras. The Mrs Indulal Shah and current India Gurus had to learn the Mantras quickly National Coordinator Mrs Kamala to impart to kids. There were also Pandya (as an 18 year old). The first some family opposition. training in Malaysia was conducted in 1982. Names of the people who Where were the SSE attended the first SSE Gurus' Classes conducted ? Training program in First classes were Puttaparthi (Year 1981). simultaneously conducted Mrs. Oosha Ramachandran, in Johor Bahru, Kuala Mrs. J. Subramaniam, Mrs. Rengayah, Mrs. Lumpur, Alor Setar & S. Raja Sapai, Mrs. Kamalambigai Ratnam, Mrs. Selam Muthu, Mrs. P. Sree Jayan, Mrs. Malacca. Kamala Jegadesan, Mrs. K. Paramasothy, Mrs. Shanmuganathan, Mrs. Viswanathan. Source : Sis Tara Menon (Ampang) & Sis Saraswathy Selvanayagam (Bangsar)
What were the How was the response of syllabus focused on ? children when the first SSE classes was conducted ? Values or Vedas ? There was an excitement among the Only values based stories. early students. Especially frkm the Vedas were never touched parents, some of whom later got trained and became gurus upon. How and why did you choose In the present times, Gurus to become a Balvikas Guru have easy access to Sai Literature, what type of back then ? resources were available back then for Balvikas ? Personally, I started because it was a nice avenue for me and my kids to It was always from India, in the form of Amar Chitra Katha, participate together. They were 4 Chinmaya tales and etc. and 6 when I started out in Ampang - Sis Tara Menon Source : Sis Tara Menon (Ampang) & Sis Saraswathy Selvanayagam (Bangsar)
Journey of Sai 1951 Sathya Sai Akhanda Bhajans was held at Bangalore for the first time. 1953 Sathya Sai Baba brought 1954 back V. Radhakrishna to life. 1955 1957 Sathya Sai Baba laid the 1958 foundation stone for the 1959 Super Specialty Hospital behind Prashanti Nilayam. Shiva Linga emerged from Sathya Sai Baba on Shivarathri. Sathya Sai Baba planted the Vatavriksha (Meditation tree). Sathya Sai Baba inaugurated the Super Specialty Hospital. Inauguration of Thapovan Sathya Sai Baba inaugurated Santhana Sarathi. Publication of Sanathana Sarathi started. Sathya Sai Baba saved a devotee from a fire in Madras.
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