Please join Swami’s 95th Birthday program conducted by SSIO.
Link : http://www.sathyasai.org/live
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Please join Swami’s 95th Birthday program conducted by SSIO.
Link : http://www.sathyasai.org/live
95th-birthday-celebrations-2020-program_compressed
Please join us at https://www.sathyasai.org/live to chant the Gayatri Mantra with Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba for 24 hours, from 8 AM, 19th December to 8 AM, 20th December 2020. Times are Pacific Daylight Time (Los Angeles time) – please check your local time carefully. Specific time slots are recommended for every Zone, as noted below. Devotees can also join the chanting at any time. We urge all SSIO
members worldwide to participate in the first two hours and closing two hours of the Global Akhanda Gayatri chanting.
Gayatri is a universal prayer that is addressed to the immanent and transcendent divine.
The Gayatri Mantra is sacred and is considered the mother of Vedas. It is non-denominational and can be chanted by anyone to illumine the intellect. Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba has emphasized that chanting of the Gayatri Mantra is good for spiritual
seekers everywhere, irrespective of nationality, race, religion, faith, and gender. Gayatri will protect us wherever we are. It also prevents and cures diseases, wards off miseries, and fulfills good desires. Gayatri brings peace to the individual, the family, the society, the nation, and the whole universe.
The details of Global Akhanda Gayatri 2020 and its significance can be found at
https://www.sathyasai.org/announcement/global-akhand-gayatri
Please join Region 8 Christmas and Hanukkah Celebration.
Link : https://www.youtube.com/region8sai/live
If you need technical help to join the Region 8 Devotional program on Tuesdays: Please contact Prasad Rege: 310-359-5388 or Karthik Swaminathan: 714-872-6385 Or Shankar Kulkarni: 310-853-9578
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More information to come…
Sri Sathya Sai International Organization (SSSIO) is happy to announce the online celebration of the 2021 Chinese New Year (CNY) on February 13, 2021. It is traditionally a time to bring families together, sharing blessings with all loved ones. It has become the most widely celebrated occasion in the world for over a thousand years, and has been celebrated in the divine presence of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba since 1997. According to the Chinese calendar, this Year is the year of the Ox which represents incredible physical, mental, and emotional strength and stamina.
The SSSIO Online program will be held as per following schedule:
- February 13, 2021 8:30 PM Malaysia Time – 4:30 AM PST: convenient for SSSIO Zones 4A, 4B, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9A, 9B and UK & Ireland.
- February 13, 2021 2 PM PST: convenient for SSSIO Zones 1, 2A, 2B, and 3.
Further details about the CNY program can be found at this LINK. The attached documents describe the online program and the history, culture and traditions associated with the CNY celebration.
At the appropriate time, please click on this LINK to join the program.
Zone Chairs, kindly share this email and the attachments with all members of Sathya Sai Centres, Groups, Trusts and Institutes.
Committee Chairs, kindly share this email and the attachments with all members of your Committee.
Mr. Deviesh Tankaria, kindly share this email and the attachments with all Young Adults.
The transformation of man is based on transformation of the mind. When men are transformed, the nation is transformed. When nations change, the world is transformed. Hence, if the world has to be changed, there has to be a mental transformation at the individual level. The human mind should be filled with love. The mind is a remarkable entity. When it is filled with wisdom, it makes a man a saint. When it is associated with ignorance, it rums into an agent of death. Hence it has been declared that the mind is the cause of human bondage or liberation.
-Sri Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. 30/Ch. 4: Chinese New Year, February 13, 1997
The Sri Sathya Sai International Organization (SSSIO) is happy to announce the Global Akhanda Gayatri chanting with Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. This is the first Akhanda Gayatri event for 2021.
Please join us from 7:30 AM February 20 2021, PST to 8:00 AM February 21, 2021, PST https://www.sathyasai.org/live for the program.
All times stated here are Pacific Standard Time (Los Angeles time) – please check your local time carefully by clicking on this link.
The link https://www.sathyasai.org/live will open at 7:30 AM February 20, 2021 with Darshan of Bhagawan, Bhajans, and a Discourse. Gayatri chanting will begin at 8:00 AM.
Specific time slots are recommended for every Zone and are given below. Devotees can also join the chanting at any time. We urge as many SSSIO members as possible, from all Zones, to participate in the first two hours and closing two hours of the Global Akhanda Gayatri chanting.
Gayatri is a universal prayer that is addressed to the immanent and transcendent divine. The Gayatri Mantra is sacred and is considered the mother of Vedas. It is non-denominational and can be chanted by anyone to illumine the intellect. Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba has emphasized that chanting of the Gayatri Mantra is good for spiritual seekers everywhere, irrespective of nationality, race, religion, faith, and gender. Gayatri will protect us wherever we are. It also prevents and cures diseases, wards off miseries, and fulfills good desires. Gayatri brings peace to the individual, the family, the society, the nation, the world, and the whole universe.
I pray to Bhagawan to bless us with devotion and dedication to chant this mantra with love and one-pointedness.
“Sarva-roga nivaarini Gayatri” (Gayatri is the reliever of all diseases). “Sarva-dhukha parivaarini Gayatri” (Gayatri wards off all misery). “Sarva-vaancha phalashri Gayatri” (Gayatri is the fulfiller of all desires). Gayatri is the bestower of all that is beneficial. If the mantra is chanted, various kinds of powers will emerge in one.
Sri Sathya Sai Speaks, vol 28.22: August, 23, 1995
Sri Sathya Sai International Organization (SSSIO) cordially invites everyone to join the global online celebration of the 2021 Maha Shivaratri. This is a time to express our gratitude to Lord Sai Shiva who showered His love and grace on us and lived a life of sacrifice and service.
Please join us at https://www.sathyasai.org/live from 5:30 AM March 11, 2021, PST to 6:00 AM March 12, 2021, PST for the program. All times stated are Pacific Standard Time (Los Angeles time) – Please check your local time carefully.
The significance of Maha Shivaratri and the program can be found at this link https://www.sathyasai.org/maha-shivaratri/2021.
Shivaratri is a very auspicious day for all. It is the fourteenth day of the lunar fortnight, when the moon is waning and the sun is in the sign of Aquarius. However, the festival is related to the moon rather than the sun. Unlike other nights, this particular night is the night of consecration, of dedication, of illumination. The mind is intimately associated with the moon. Chandra, the deity of the moon, is the presiding deity of the mind. He loses one sixteenth of his brilliance every day after the full moon day and continues waning until, on this night, he is left with just one sixteenth of his power. The waned moon may be taken to stand for the mind with all its wild fancies and waywardness reduced after it has been conquered by spiritual discipline.
On this night, there is just a minute part more to be conquered, and that can be done by keeping vigil and dwelling on the glory of God The vigil that is prescribed is symbolic of the eternal vigil one has to observe, while the rite of fasting is symbolic of divesting the senses of the pleasures for which they crave. The night-long devotional singing is significant of the life long consciousness of the Divine Presence that everyone should cultivate.
Sri Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 14/Ch. 1: March 07, 1978
The Sri Sathya Sai International Organization (SSSIO) is happy to announce the Global Akhanda Gayatri chanting with Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. This is the Second Akhanda Gayatri event for 2021.
Please join us from 8:00 AM April 24, 2021, PDT to 8:00 AM April 25, 2021, PDT https://www.sathyasai.org/live for the program.
All times stated here are Pacific Daylight Time (Los Angeles time) – please check your local time carefully by clicking on this link.
The link https://www.sathyasai.org/live will open at 6:30 AM April 24, 2021, for Aradhana Mahotsavam. Akhanda Gayatri chanting will begin at 8:00 AM.
Specific time slots are recommended for every Zone and are given below. Devotees can also join the chanting at any time. We urge as many SSSIO members as possible, from all Zones, to participate in the first two hours and closing two hours of the Global Akhanda Gayatri chanting.
Sri Sathya Sai International Organization is paying homage to Sri Sathya Sai Baba with Global online celebrations of His Life, Message and Works, on April 24th from 6:30 AM PDT to 8:00 AM PDT
This is followed by 24-hours Akhanda Gayatri starting at 8:00 AM PDT.