SPR THOUGHT'S

Salutations  -- The Story of Grinding Wheat and Its Philosophical Significance. According to the ancient and revered custom, Hemadpant begins the work, Sai Satcharitra, with various salutations.First, he makes obeisance to the God Ganesha to remove all obstacles and make the work a success and says that Shri Sai is the God Ganesha. Then, to the Goddess Saraswati to inspire him to write out the work and says that Shri Sai is one with this Goddess and that He is Himself singing His own life.Then, to the Gods; Brahma, Vishnu and Shankar - the Creating, Preserving and Destroying Deities respectively; and says that Sainath is one with them and He as the great Teacher, will carry us across the River of Wordly Existence. Then, to his tutelary Deity Narayan Adinath who manifested himself in Konkan - the land reclaimed by Parashurama, (Rama in the Hindi version) from the sea; and to the Adi (Original) Purusha of the family.Then, to the Bharadwaja Muni, into whose gotra (clan) he was born and

Happy New Year, everyone  !!  – I’ve been enjoying mine – and it’s probably a quieter time than what lies ahead in 2012; perhaps 2012 will be that “capstone” year many are wishing for.  I see it as a year of “convergence”, and perhaps this year, for me, of merging, putting it all together, all that I worked for, written about, thought about, wanted to do –  get the chance to do it all . The last month has been about getting things in order (for the above) and closing out 2011 in a good place, which I’ve done all I mentally, creatively and physically, I could do.