Shravanam Mananam Nidhidhyasanam - Season 3 - 54 | Discussion on Summer Showers 1973

[intro music] Shravanam Mananam Nidhidhyasanam.

Listen, reflect and absorb.

Dear listener, Sairam and welcome to our radio series in which a divine discourse by Bhagawan is played in small parts, and following each part, a short discussion is undertaken to reflect on the message.

This was part of Radio Sai's Thursday Live, hosted by Prem and Sai Prakash from Sri Sathya Sai Media Center.

Dear listener, the discourses that are taken up for study in this program are from the series of discourses on the theme Bhaja Govindam, delivered during the summer course in Indian Culture and Spirituality in the year 1973.

This is the fifth part of the discussion on the discourse delivered on June 2nd, 1973.

[singing] Shravanam.

Mananam.

Nidhidhyasanam.

Offering our most loving pranams at Bhagawan's lotus feet, dear listeners, we welcome you to another episode of Shravanam Mananam Nidhidhyasanam.

A warm good morning to all of you, and it's wonderful to join you in this series where we've been going through the Bhaja Govindam discourses.

These were discourses that Swami gave as part of the Summer Showers in 1973.

We've, uh, covered 12 discourses.

We're in the middle of the 13th discourse.

As we've seen in all the discourses, Swami takes one verse from the Bhaja Govindam, composed by Adi Shankara and his disciples, and explains the importance of that particular precept in our spiritual journey.

And the 13th discourse has been on the importance of detachment, as Swami would often convey through a beautiful quotation of His, "The head in the forest, the hands in the society," or many other quotations that Swami would give us.

He says that you should be in the world, but the world should not be in you.

And, uh, the another example or analogy that Swami would often give is to be like the lotus, and that is the main example that is used in this particular verse that is discussed in this discourse, too.

But the beautiful thing about this discourse, like few other discourses that we saw earlier, too, are the many beautiful stories that Swami narrates in the course of the discourse.

Especially the, the clip that we played last time had a very beautiful story.

But before I tell you about it and give you a summary of what we covered last time, let's invite Brother Sai Prakash to join all of us.

Sai Ram, Sai Prakash.

Sai Ram, Prem.

Sai Ram, dear listeners.

Welcome to this episode of Shravanam Mananam Nidhidhyasanam.