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Love Express SSO Zone 6 Youth Wing

Year 3, Issue 15: September – October 2009

Dear All, Trust you are all having a wonderful autumn. The newsletter team has grown last month and welcomes Aude Gachet. May she motivate our readers with her lovely energy and her precious élan. In this issue we will get inspired by the Zonal 6 & 7 meeting which took place in Italy at Mother Sai. The topics were SSLTP, Module 4, and the preparation for the European Youth Conference 2010. More insightful activities are taking place in many other countries. Wishing you a blissful and cheerful time.

COMMUNICATING BEINGS Dearest Brothers and Sisters,

regarding a quite “trendy” topic since

On the 31st October and 1st November,

we hear a lot about it in our daily lives:

a great and unusual opportunity to

communication.

meet at Mother Sai, Divignano, was once more given to us. Unusual, because youth from Zone 6 as well as from Zone 7, were present, in order to prepare

the

European

Youth

Conference 2010. This meeting was also the continuation of the beautiful journey that began in March,

the

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step

in

As Divine and blessed beings, until we

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are remembered and integrated our

Reconnecting ourselves to our true

telepathic

nature,

skills,

the

way

we

the

answers

appear

by

communicate with each other should,

themselves.

naturally, be Divine, that is filled with

purifying ourselves, removing the ego,

Human Values, especially with Love.

enable us to develop an empathic

However, do we really have in mind

listening and, in the end, to live

what true communication is and its

communication,

starting point?

community.

Indeed,

as

clarifying

united

and

in

a

Aude Gachet Youth Coordinator Deputy

FRANCE Sai Ram dear all,

Divignano regarding Module 4 of SSLTP

September was a “special” month in

and the preparation of EYC 2010.

France

in

Once again, this experience was very

addition to the classical ones, were a

strong – it didn’t seem to be just 2

bit different than usually.

days, but at least 4.

Thus, knowing that we had several

All the elements were here so that we

meetings planned in Italy (for SSLTP,

could

EYC 2010, etc.), we began an initiation

communication.

because,

our

activities,

put

into

practice

a

real

to Italian language, in order to allow the youth to have some notions and communicate more easily with all the Italian

brothers

and

sisters

who

welcomed us at Mother Sai! Moreover, we shared Module 2 of SSLTP relative to “Self Leadership”, regarding personality and character. Since we had time, I recently realized

I

really

enjoyed

these

moments

that French youth had succeeded in

together that I wish them to be

forming a small group and really

everlasting…

strived to share all the activities that

With Love.

are proposed notably within Zone 6. In fact, four of us participated to the meeting taking place last weekend in Aude Gachet NYC France

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SERBIA We did not have any special youth

a strong wish to help and work on this

activities in the past period, and we

project

with

all

our

hearts.

did not make any new projects in the meantime. The reason for that is our engagement in the existing project of SSO Croatia “Joy of serving”. The youth have been very much involved in the preparations for the project: making japamalas,

sewing

small

bags

for

japamalas and making butterflies for the decoration. Also, a lot of youth will join the big group of devotees from our Region in Prashanti for Christmas

Moreover, we would like to use this

time, where they will participate in all

great and unique opportunity to serve

activities of the mentioned project. This

our beloved Swami.

is very important for all of as. We have

With love from the youth from Serbia.

Zvijezdana Bijelic NYC Serbia

SLOVENIA Stop the Excuses and be yourSelf.

from realigning to our divine being with

Just for one day, imagine how your life

all our thoughts, words and deeds.

would be if you stop making the excuses about yourself not being able to live in the divine awareness.

Ask

yourself: How much do I want to put the ego aside and allow my Divine nature

to

blossom

through

this

personality? Do I really want it? If your answer is positive, you might be interested in the latest workshop that youth from Slovenia are preparing on

The most common excuses we use

a weekly basis. “Stop the Excuses”

every day are: I don’t have enough

workshop

Swami’s

money, it’s too big, I am not smart

discourses and Wayne Dyers’s latest

enough, it is going to be difficult, I do

book

not have the energy, etc. These

is

“Excuses

based

on

Begun”.

We

are

excuses

discussing the excuses that prevent us

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feel

In order to realign our thoughts, words

separate from our divine being. But

and deeds with our divinity, we need

Swami gave us the powerful mantra:

to develop the abilities to:

“I am God. I am not different from

let go of need to compete with others;

God. I am the Indivisible Supreme

let go of need to have more material

Absolute. I am Being, Awareness, Bliss.

things and achievements (do not

Grief and anxiety can never affect

define yourself by the things you have

me. I am ever content; fear can never

or the things you do); remove the ego

enter me.”

(i.e. strong personal interests) and

Mere repeating the mantra without

allow

being aware of its meaning will be of

through our life; be fully present here

no use to us. So how can we make use

and now; remember our divine nature

of it? During our daily activities we

by: repeating the mantra “I am God”,

need to observe our behavior, our

chanting the Divine name, walking in

thoughts

about

nature, or simply sing to yourself: ” I

ourselves, our words and our actions.

was born not to mourn, not to cry no

Are we in alignment with our purest

to shy, not to lie that I cannot try. I can,

being described by the mantra or we

I do and I will create, this life is so great

live

in this loving Divine state”!

consciousness

and

and

on

the

consciousness,

make

us

convictions

level

of

believing

body all

Swami

to

manifest

Himself

the

excuses that pop out when facing the challenges of life? We encourage each other to use or make our own affirmations,

which

will

put

us

in

alignment with our true Self. Only we can

change

our

beliefs

about

ourselves, nobody else has that power. It depends on us, if we want to use it or

We wish you all to follow and enjoy

continue living the way we do.

your Bliss!

Tina HT NYC Slovenia

AGENDA The agenda is thought to inform about the future Sai activities of our zone and to give the opportunity to whoever is interested to participate in any of the following events. 6th December 2009 (to be confirmed): National Youth Meeting, Paris – France (National Event).

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Prasanthi Nilayam, 1st November People imagine that spirituality means meditating on God, bathing in sacred waters and visiting holy shrines, but this is

not

the

correct

meaning

of

spirituality. Spirituality means destroying the

animal

nature

awakening

him

consciousness. recognizing

in to

man his

divine

Spirituality that

one’s

and

implies manifold

capacities emanate from the Spirit and not from the mind, then utilizing them for achieving spiritual strength. It means acknowledging that all powers come from the Divine. BABA

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pages

may

be

reproduced,

Feet of Our Beloved Bhagavan With humility, love and gratitude.

distributed, and transmitted in any form, by any means, provided that: (1) no text or

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May we manifest always Our True Nature, And expand infinitely Divine love and eternal bliss.

Publisher: SSO Zone 6 Youth Wing Zone 6 Youth Coordinator: Ivan Bavcevic Zone 6 Youth Coordinator Deputy: Aude

Jay Sai Ram.

Gachet Editor: Saja Svilar [email protected] Zone 6 website: www.sathyasai-zone6.org

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