L-R: Sri Indulal Shah, the Founder and International Advisor, Sri Sathya Sai Organisations, Revered Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Sri K Chakravarthi, Secretary, Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust and Sri Sudhir Joshi, SSSO, Mumbai. Time, Day and Date of Release: 7.45 pm, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 Place: Bhajan Hall, Prashanti Mandir When the Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation (SSSO) was set-up in Mumbai in 1965, few realised that in hindsight, historians would view the event as epoch making. Fewer still envisaged the unprecedented global penetration the organisation would achieve over the next four and a half decades. From the remotest taluks in rural India to island nations in the Pacific, to each of the republics of the former Soviet Union and the G8 countries, from the North Pole to the South Pole, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, the SSSO today has become synonymous with pure love driven social uplift projects. 2 Through its groundbreaking work in fields of community service, character education, healthcare and harmony of religions, the Sai Organisation has borne a definitive impact on the society and is increasingly being recognised by the world as a model worth emulating. Based on Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s vision of Spiritual Socialism, the SSSO has emerged as the most globally spread, barriers-free, compassionate and far reaching service agency whose members unite as one human family while honouring their respective ethnic, cultural and religious traditions. To capture this wide panorama of the Sai mission over the past 45 years, Sri Indulal Shah, Founder and International Advisor of the SSO, has cashed in on his long and close association with the Sai movement to compile the This bible of the Sai Mission is a chronicle of a silent revolution that has ushered the Age of Sai Altruism globally. Acclaimed as a spiritual lighthouse for posterity, the Compendium of the SSSO is a convergence of an insider’s view of the organisation’s growth, in-depth research, detailed documentation and state-of-the-art technology. 3 The Compendium package comes with a book, accompanied by a set of 12 DVDs to capture every possible aspect of the most peaceful yet potent revolution the human spirit has ever undergone. It fulfills the prophecy that Bhagavan Baba revealed to the Blitz Editor (late) Mr. R.K. Karanjia in September 1976. In his most extensive media interview ever, Sri Sathya Sai Baba had prophesised a kind of spiritual socialism based on the conversion of wealth into a trusteeship for the removal of poverty. He has spoken of a change that must evolve from the heart instead of being imposed from outside. Recognising that all materialist doctrines had failed to bring about any real transformation, Baba had advised spiritual transformation through selfless social service as necessary for a revolution in human consciousness way back in 1976 when He had clarified: "We need to transform society from false to real values. We have to convince people to embrace a high level of living and thinking on the basis of humility, morality, compassion and detachment, as against the existing greed for competitive luxury and conspicuous consumption. People have to be convinced that the only way to rouse the latent divinity in them is to master desires and conquer greed for pleasure and luxury instead of being a slave to these false materialistic values. Less Luggage – More Comfort. Curb your desires, reduce your wants, live in spiritual austerity, and the available material will be sufficient for all humanity. More than that, the tensions of a competitive socio-economic system will be dissolved and peace of mind will be restored. Life is like a journey in a vehicle between birth and death. The body is the vehicle in which you are motoring to death … Would it not be better to attend to the immortal spirit rather than waste time which is running out on gaining wealth and securing comforts? This is the logic of spiritualism with which I seek to change the attitude of people." What Baba revealed to Editor Karanjia in 1976 has come to fruition as a global phenomena like none before and Shri Indulal Shah’s compendium captures the various facets of this historic mission with the same love, proficiency and excellence that have become synonymous with the name Sri Sathya Sai. For more details : Send an E-mail to ihs99999@gmail.com -Smt.Karuna Sarup-Munshi Prashanti Digital Studio Prashanti Nilayam Revised information SRI SAIRAM Indulal Shah ‘ Sai Darshan’ 9th & 11th Road Junction Khar (West) MUMBAI – 400 052 (India). +91 22 2649 5868 ihs99999@gmail.com; May 12, 2011 To, All Devottes and Office Bearers, SSO (Overseas) Dear Sisters and Brothers, Loving Sairam to you and the members in your family… All of you are well aware about the release of the compendium of SSSOs Worldwide: 1965-2010 at the Divine Hands on Tuesday, 1 March 2011 at Prashanti Mandir Bhajan Hall. Due to many unavoidable circumstances, the release of the compendium was delayed. I am happy to inform that the compendium is ready and we shall be able to forward the same by the last week of May 2011. On account of unavoidable circumstances beyond our control, we are compelled to marginally revise the cost per set in respect of overseas countries from originally declared price of US $ 35 to revised price of US $ 40. We have received overwhelming response and innumerable individual and group enquiries from all parts of the world. We trust that each one of you is certainly in process of creating good amount of awareness among all about the compendium. There is no change in the procedure for remittance to be made. Along with this circular, we have also forwarded country wise and weight wise shipment charges. Please have a look at the same. Copies of the compendium will be forwarded against receipt of full payment (Cost of copies plus shipment charges) in advance by electronic remittance in favour of: Sri Sathya Sai Education in Human Values Trust Account No. 030101000011890 Indian Overseas Bank New Marine Lines Branch, Maker Bhavan No.2 Sir Vithaldas Thackersey Marg Mumbai – 400 020 (India). Branch Code – 301 RTGS / NEFT IFSC Code – IOBA 0000301 SWIFT Code – IOBAINBB301 MICR No. – 400020004 As far as possible, forwarding remittances by cheques, demand drafts, international money orders etc., may kindly be avoided. After remittance, please drop an e-mail indicating the transaction details on my e-mail id ihs99999@gmail.com with cc to smj108@gmail.com We have worked out special rates with DHL Couriers that are in par with the package rates offered to the Book Trust, Prashanti Nilayam. Nevertheless, we are providing you various options to take delivery of the sets. Option 1: Delivery can be taken by devotees visiting Puttaparthi. Place of delivery will be Chaitanya Jyoti Museum Office at Prashanti Nilayam. In this case, forwarding charges will be on Mumbai-Puttaparthi basis. Option 2: Delivery can be taken by devotees travelling to Mumbai. Place of delivery will be communicated later. In this case, forwarding charges will be very nominal. Option 3: Consignment/s will be forwarded through DHL International Courier Services. Please refer to the rate chart annexed herewith. You may exercise any option that you may wish and let us know on the same along with quantity desired. Based on the option exercised by you, we shall communicate total remittance to be made to us. Delivery will be made for the entire quantity at a time and not in piecemeal. Brother Sudhir Joshi coordinates on all issues. In case of any need, please feel free to contact him on +91 22 2620 3040 (Res.) +91 99690 09090 (Cell) smj108@gmail.com (E-mail) We shall be thankful to receive your earliest response indicating your requirement. With warm regards, Indulal Shah International Advisor, SSO. Trustee, Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust and Sri Sathya Sai University ********* Kindly click here to read the pdf file |