Dear Practitioners

I am very happy to be writing to you during the auspicious time of Maha Shivaratri. Our beloved Master, Sai Baba, who is verily the combination of the Shiva and Shakti energy, had said “Endeavour. That is the main thing, that is the inescapable task for all mortals. Even those who deny God today will have one day to tread the pilgrim road, melting their hearts out in tears of travail. If you make the slightest effort to progress along the path of liberation, the Lord will help you a hundred-fold. Shivaraathri conveys that hope to you.” -- Discourse by Sathya Sai Baba, Maha Shivaratri, Prashanthi Nilayam, 4 March 1962. I urge all practitioners to take this message to heart and implement it in all aspects of your life with great rigour. This is bound to give you immense success in your vibrionics practice.

We have made great strides towards enhancing the quality of vibrionics practitioners and also emboldening our organizational capabilities. I am delighted to report that our efforts are paying off in many ways. I would like to share some of them here.

We have strengthened our administrative base and have appointed many new reports coordinators; resultantly, reporting has substantially improved. In fact, some reporters are able to personally follow up with practitioners who are lagging behind and obtain their reports by phone but at the same time encouraging and helping them to fill their own seva hours. I am happy to announce that this has resulted in 100% reporting by some!

Our refresher workshops are really gaining momentum. Technology has certainly played a key role in bridging the distance as we can now skype or use other internet-based video conferencing to bring people residing in distant locations together to have a highly fruitful discussion on various topics. In the US, our coordinator⁰¹³³⁹ has been conducting regular monthly telephone conference calls for 5 years and these have been very popular and successful.

It is heartening to see not only the frequency and types of workshops increasing but also the resulting enthusiasm of practitioners who attend these workshops. The recently held refresher workshop in Mumbai (see In Addition #3) has inspired some coordinators to arrange similar events in their areas. I appeal to coordinators to please come forward and contact as many practitioners as possible in your area with a view to organizing local meetings. We are ready to provide all help and full support to organisers to facilitate such activity. In the spirit of ensuring a productive and coherent session, it is best to have an agenda in advance and intimate all participants through mail. Each meeting can focus on one aspect of the subject and its practice and have interactions from the perspective of its theory, its practice, updates from our newsletters, and any constraints felt.  Discussion can include successful cases related to the subject, whether published or ready for publication, as well as difficult cases which pose challenges.

With the explosion of data breaches, data protection is a hot topic. It is important for us to comply with the latest regulation and also implement best practices. To this end we have taken appropriate measures in our Practitioners’ website. Visit https://practitioners.vibrionics.org, look at the bottom of the left-side menu, click on GDPR and complete the form with your choice of options and submit. This is mandatory for all practitioners for the protection of their personal data.

Wishing each and every one of you a blissful Shivaratri!

In loving service to Sai

Jit K Aggarwal