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surrounding circumstances and mans habits, and the efforts he takes , whether he has the

habit of walking bare footed or not. His habit, his practice, these two things are of greatimportance. They may be very simple things but if we do not have the practice, then wecannot perform it perfectly.

Every year I tell you this, on the advent of Ganapati festival only on the earlier day (of thefestival) the aarti books are taken out. And then what happens when we say the aartis. Weknow them because we have been singing them for years but we do not remember the firstline of the stanza and then we just mumble something. Anybody who has the aarti book in

his hand says,Lavthavthi (the first word of the stanza) andthen we start with the next word, Vikraal. We get confusedwhether Lambodar Pitambar come first or Ratnakhachit

comes first; let somebody say that word first then I will say.Every year we make it a point that next year we will take outthe aarti book well in advance before the festival, read it and

sing the aartis very sincerely. But it does not happen. Andbecause of that the fervor that should come while singing theaartis, while looking at the deity, the fervor is thereforelacking. What will people say? How does it look? My dear,

instead of thinking about others, it is better to think what Godwill feel about it. So what if you cannot sing? Let people laugh. Only their teeth will be seen.But I do not know the aartis, others are singing, I shall quietly clap, I shall peacefully lookat the image of God; look at His charan (feet) or I shall close my eyes and try to visualizeHis image. Let me try it sincerely but no, it does not happen so. These are the simple things

which occur every year. But since we do not have the habit and since we have not practicedit, it does not happen the way it should be done every year. It does not happen the way wewant it to happen every year.

We know the story of Hemadpant in the Saisatcharitra, one day he decides that for nextentire day, for twenty four hours from the time he gets up, he should chant Ramnaam.

Therefore, while sleeping the earlier night he keeps on saying, Ramnaam, Ram, Ram, ShreeRam, Ram Jai Ram. Why? Its so, my dear, that while sleeping in the night the state of

mind that we have that state flourishes more the next morning. And then Baba encouragedthis beautiful resolution of his. Next day morning he heard Aurangabadkar singing Eknaths

bhajan on Ram.

Jw H$nmOZ nm`mo _oao ^mB,am_ {~Zm H$Nw> _mZV ZmhrAXa am_m, ~mha am_m ...

Guru Krupanjana Payo mere bhaiRam bina Kachu manat nahiAndar Rama, Bahar Rama

(You all get the grace of Ram, my dear; There is only Ram and none other;My inner world

and outer world is Ram. )What was the need for Aurangabadkar to sing this very song ? But he was singing that verysong; that too on that day. He knew hundreds of songs by heart but nevertheless when

Hemadpant was passing that way why was this song sung by Aurangabadkar and heard byHemadpant. It is all Gods doing. But Hemadpant practised it while going to sleep, made it ahabit in his mind and so he was able to recite Ramnaam as soon as he got up the nextmorning and that is why Saibaba gave him the response. In our life even in small matters

we have bad habits. Apart from the big bad habits like drinking, in small things we makemany mistakes only because of our habits. We put off these small habits as they are ofeveryday matters. Its all fine as long as nobody has pointed out anything. But even these

small habits can be dangerous. Its a very simple thing, our Bapu has told that when we goout of our house, when you go out anywhere, even when you go down in your building for

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two minutes, apply Udi on your forehead and then go out. Tell me how long does it take?

Maximum two seconds. But do we do it? No. In the morning while going for the work, weapply Udi. While going to bed we put it but we generally tend to forget because ourstomach is full and we are in a hurry to go to sleep.

It is a long journey from the morning when we get up till we go to bed at night but it is agreater journey from the time we sleep at night till the time we get up in the morning. Weare only concerned about this journey from the time we get up in the morning till the timewe go to sleep. But about our journey from the time we fall of to sleep till we get up next

morning But Bapu what can we do about it? Knowingly unknowingly whatever happensduring the day we know about it. But we are unaware of what happens during the night. Atnight the cells in our brain get rest because we do not see with our active eyes, we cannot

hear anything with our ears, our brain is at peace. It is at this time that the events that takeplace during the entire day get stored in their proper areas in the brain and they get linkedwith old experiences and old memories. Tonight when you sleep, whatever events you

have seen or taken place during the entire day should they be linked to wrong old mattersin your life or with good things?. This happens at night but what does it depend on? Itdepends on your attitude. If there is positive thinking, good attitude then whatever happenduring the day the brain links it with the good experiences of the past. If there is negative

thinking and your attitude is not good then what happens? The events of your entire day,while you will sleep at night, gets linked to your bad and bitter experiences in the past. And

then what happens? It behaves like your mind, if you are apositive thinker, it will make it positive for you. If you are anegative thinker, it will make it negative for you. While doing

positive thinking the wrong things also are accepted in apositive manner and it then they grow. And this is not underour control and therefore, during the night, the matters that

remain in your mind are pushed on to your sub-consciousmind. And once any matter enters the sub-conscious mind, Ihave always told you that it increases multifold times.

Therefore, we have been told several times that while sleepingin the night after you have finished everything, you should

remember Lords name and go to sleep. Its because the Lordsname has the strength to change all your conduct into good conduct. And therefore naturally

it has the strength to impede the brain cells from being connected to the brain centres orhas the strength to connect with the brain centres. And this strength is known as goodattitude or good conduct which comes from chanting of the Lords name and application ofudi. When we apply this Udi at the Adnyachakra and also in the Kanthakupachakra

which we also call the Vishuddhachakra and truly this centre is an impure one. We call itKanthakupachakra and when we apply at both these places and put a bit of udi in themouth thereby taking it inside our system then automatically it influences our feelings andattitude changing it into a positive state. And because of this, our brain becomes more

strong during the night. The old and the new feelings are shifted at night by the Udi andthe chanting of the Lords name and as such the wrong feelings are discarded and thrownaside and only the healthy and good feelings are taken inside. And this state of mind is of

peace and contentment. And this peace can be granted only by that Eternal Lord. The Lord

who is Eternal can only bestow this to us.

Today, we will worship and pray to the Eternal Lord for keeping our minds always healthy

and peaceful. Unless it is healthy it cannot remain peaceful and unless it is peaceful, itcannot be healthy. Most of us know it, the shloka from the Sundarkand.

|| Hari Om ||

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Gajar 1: A{Z ~mocmo h[a A{Z ~mocmo &g~H$m _m{cH$ ~mny, A{Z ~mocmo &&

Aniruddha Bolo Hari Aniruddha Bolo&Sabka Malik Bapu, Aniruddha Bolo &&

Gajar 2: Amo hZw_Vm, Vy Xo _wPH$mo am_&

Amo hZw_Vm, Xo Xo _wPH$mo Vyam_&&O Hanumanta, Tu De Mujhko Ram|O Hanumanta, De De Mujhko Tu Ram||

Aarti : 1. "AmaVr gmB~m~m gm`XmVmam Ordm....'2. gmB lr gmB O` O` gmBam_...'

1. Aarti Saibaba Soukhya datara Jeeva..2. Om Sai Shri Sai Jay Jay Sai Ram.

Aniruddha's Bank of Ramnaam

Total no of accounts :

1,18,004

'Ram' Naam :

14,862,782,016

'Shri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram' :

928,923,876

'Krishna'Naam :

3,715,695,504

'Dattaguru'Naam :

1,857,847,752

'JaiJaiAniruddhaHari':

928,923,876

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