Sathya:

Sathya: Thruth (BV-1), (RRV-10b).

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Sathya annasti paradharmah:

Sathya annasti paradharmah: there is no Dharma higher than Truth (SSS-III)

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Tapah, sauca, daya, sathya:

Tapah, sauca, daya, sathya: Austerity, cleanliness, compassion and thruthfullness are the legs that established the age of truth [Sathya Yuga, the 'old days'] [SB; C1:17-24]

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Sauca, tapah, daya, sathya:

Sauca, tapah, daya, sathya: Austerity, cleanliness, compassion and thruthfullness are the legs that established the age of truth [Sathya Yuga, the 'old days'] [SB; C1:17-24]

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Tapah:

Tapah, sauca, daya, sathya: Austerity, cleanliness, compassion and thruthfullness are the legs that established the age of truth [Sathya Yuga, the 'old days'] [SB; C1:17-24]

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Sathya:

Truth. (Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

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Baba:

Baba. Sathya Sai Baba.

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Shirdi Sai Baba:

Shirdi Sai Baba. First of the triple incarnation consisting of Shirdi Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Baba, and Prema Sai Baba. He passed away in 1918.

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Sri:

Prefix to the name of venerated persons. (Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

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Sai:

Sai: Master; Divine Mother; Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Sathya Narayana) (SSS-III)

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Siddhi:

A Divine power, or ability. Examples are omnipresence (as demonstrated regularly by Sathya Sai Baba), and levitation.

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Ayodhya:

Ayodhya: Capital city of Kosala which was ruled by Dasaratha, later by Rama.

Baba: Divine Father; Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Sathya Narayana) (SSS-III)

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Nabhaga:

Nabhaga (Naabhaaga). Brother of Ikshvaku; father of Ambarisha. In Ramakatha I, Sathya Sai Baba says that Prasusruka was Ambarisha's father.

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Darshan:

An audience, seeing, or teaching with a spiritual teacher. This can be a private audience or, in the case of Sathya Sai Baba, may be attended by many thousands of people. It may also be silent, as in the case of Mother Meera.

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Bhagavan:

Bhagavan (Bhagavaan). Divinity; term of reverential address; Sathya Sai Baba is called Bhagavan by his devotees.

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Prema Vahini:

Prema Vahini (Vaahini). Stream of Divine Love, a book by Sathya Sai Baba.

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Peddavenkappa Raju:

Peddavenkappa Raju: Earthly father of Sathya Sai Baba (Sathyanarayana) (SSS-II)

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Amongst Guru-shishya relationships, there is a certain range of variation of the levels of authority that may be attributed to the guru. This level of authority ranges from the highest levels of authority as most often found in bhakti yoga, such as the Sathya Sai Baba movement, to the lowest levels, as found in the Pranayama forms of yoga such as in the Sankara Saranam movement. Between these two ends of the spectrum there are innumerable variations in degree and form of that author ...

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Kasturi, Narayana:

Kasturi, Narayana: N. Kasturi M.A., B.L. (1897-1987) has been Baba’s biographer for many decades. Besides he has also been the translator for Baba’s discourses and writings, editor of Sanathana Sarathi and an elderly devotee at Prasanthi Nilayam. He is the author of Sathyam Sivam Sundaram - The Life of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sathya Sai Baba. [See also: Reminiscence of Professor Kasturi])

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Avatar:

A sanskrit word meaning "descent". It is a coming down of the Divine to earth. An incarnation, or manifestation of God on earth, taking a form according to the age in which the incarnation occurs. Sathya Sai Baba is the World Avatar for Earth. There can be full and partial embodiments of God. A full avatar is also known as a poorna avatar.

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Gajendra:

Gajendra (Gajendhra). Elephant. In Sathya Sai Speaks III 40, Sai Baba mentions that the Gajendra or elephant (man) who was caught by the alligator (egotism) while frolicking in the lake (the objective world) was saved by the Lord (spiritual practices).

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Sanathana Sarathi:

Sanathana Sarathi (Sanaathana Saarathi). Literally, "eternal charioteer". The monthly magazine published by the Sri Sathya Sai Baba Books and Publications Trust.

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