Shri SaiBaba devotees of Charlotte would like to invite
everyone in Guru Poornima celebrations on 07/07/2009
8:30 AM
Kakad Aarti – Prasad
9:00 AM
Recital of Stavan manjiri
9:30 AM
Sai Naam Jap
10:30 AM
SatyaNarayan Pooja
12:00 Noon
Madhyaan Aarti – Prasad
12:30 PM
PM Sai Naam Jap
6:00 PM
Sai Satya Vrat Pooja
6:45 PM
Dhoop Aarti – Prasad
7:00 PM
Bhajans
8:00 PM
ShejAarti
8:30 PM
Mahaprasad
SatyaNarayan
Pooja Sponsorship available $ 51 /family
Sai Satya Vrat Pooja
Sponsorship available $ 51 /family
For Sponsorship please
contact
Shubhangi Thorat
863-521-0064
Vinit Nayyar
321-662-7383
Lakshmi Kamath
704-867-8104
Gayathri
704-625-3872
Venkat
704-651-6566
Radha Handiekar
704-3668989
Significance of of
Guru Poornima Day.
The Poornima (Full Moon)
Day in the month of Ashadha (July-August) is known as Guru
Poornima. This is a very sacred day on which special worship
is performed to the Acharyas (Gurus), who, through their
Infinite Compassion and Supreme Grace, have imparted the
Knowledge of the Absolute(Brahma Vidya) through a long and
continuous line of Acharyas (Guru Parampara) to all the
Seekers of the Self.
The celebration of Guru
Poornima began in Shirdi around 1908 when Sai Baba told his
disciple Shri Dada Kelkar, "Do you know this day is the day
to approach Gurus? Bring your worship articles". Then Shri
Kelkar and his friends looked up the calendar and found that
the day was Guru Poornima day. They started worshipping Shri
Sai Baba as their Guru, and that practice has continued till
today not only in Shirdi but all over the world where
prayers are offered to Shri Sai.
Description of Guru:
The human soul, even
though initiated in the spiritual path, cannot love an
abstract power; and it is for this reason that the
scriptures advise us to venerate those who lead us to God
and to love their physical presence as the Divine
manifesting itself in human form. The Guru's physical body
is just a receptacle of the mighty Divine, and as such
worthy of the utmost devotion and reverence.
The Guru and God
are one because the Almighty and His medium of manifestation
cannot be different. The Guru embodies not only the
Saguna (characteristics) but also the Nirguna
(quality) of the Supreme Being, and so to that extent the
Guru is approachable and accessible to man's needs and
comprehension.
Celebration of Guru
Poornima Day.
Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi
is the Guru incarnate to live on this earth in the late part
of last century and early part of this century. Shri Sai
Baba gave tremendous importance to the adoption of the Guru
in one's spiritual "Sadhana"(pursuit). With an innate
compassion Shri Sai Baba often declared -"I am your savior,
not only from the weight of sin, but from the weight of care
and misery". "Guru is all the Gods", said the Saint of
Shirdi. Moreover, the Baba declared reassuringly that he
would extend complete protection to those who put their
implicit faith in him.
