Heart stopped and then ran wild

[Guest guest]

Sairam brothers and sisters,

 

Today (Good Friday) has been exceptional for me. You will understand "why" as you read below.

 

Swami came today early surprising everyone. He caught even the college boys by

surprise by arriving early. He arrived at 7.25 AM and as usual got down on the

ladies side from car and He walked from there very fast as if with a purpose

and went straight to the college boys block, where He spent a little time

talking to boys and then gradually moved behind..

 

Approaching the VIP block, He suddenly announced ( I believe He spoke so) that

He has not been going to the side aisle and so today He would go to the side

aisle of Men. He started off with a purposeful walk, and surprised everyone.

When I saw Him walking so, I knew immediately that Swami is going to come to my

side, finally, and my heart stopped for a moment before racing again wildly.

Swami hardly stopped anywhere except when He approached a older devotee, with

whom He spoke for a long time (or did the old devotee speak to Him for a long

time ?) The devotee literally held Swami's hand and would not let it go. Often

the devotee would touch Swami and keep talking also.

 

Swami made Vibhuti for him and applied it Himself on his forehead. Then finally

after what appeared as eternity, He started walking and now hardly stopped

anywhere. He was continuously walking, yet He walked very slow, so that all

devotees could digest the beautiful form, the graceful gait, and wonderful

smile, the piercing look. Eager hands reached out to Him, to give their

letters, but Swami indicated whose letter should be collected by the escorts

and given to Him. Particularly He collected some letters from international

devotees, who were absolutely thrilled that their long wait and travel to India

to see their Lord was well rewarded.

 

As Swami says that "prayer can do anything", today it was wonderful to witness

this aspect. I have been praying to Swami for long years to grant me the "Look

at me" wish. Swami had never looked at me even once since 1996 that He saw me

for a brief moment then. Today my long years of prayers was answered and Swami

gave His grace and looked at me, twice. I was absolutely thrilled because it is

a known fact that Swami's glance is enough to grant you Peace and plenty.

 

However Swami stopped short of the turn towards the center section, and

consented to get into the Car, from which He gave beautiful darshan to all

devotees and driving very very slowly along the center aisle and pleasing all

the devotees. He was constantly waving out and blessing. Occassionallly He

would stop and talk to an odd devotee, before continuing. Finally he drove out

of Ramesh Hall to Trayee Brindavan.

 

Today the crowd has been more than normal, and the hall was full including the

extended hall. Even for afternoon darshan the turn out was more than normal.

With Kerala and Tamilnadu (Malayalam and Tamil new years) New year approaching,

more number of devotees from these areas are turning up in large numbers. It is

expected that there would be around 20000 plus devotees around 14th and 15th of

April. Kerala is expected to bring in a huge contingent of youth this year

also. Last year they did so beautifully well and Swami was thrilled with their

devotion.

 

Afternoon Swami played His role of "Love my uncertainty" beautifully once again.

Because He arrived earlier in the morning, the Hall was filled up by 2.30 PM and

everyone awaited Swami's pleasure. But there was no news of Swami even till 4.25

PM. Then suddenly at 4.30 PM the instrumental music started, and everyone was

happy that Swami is going to come any moment. All eyes were on the back stage

curtain, from where Swami normally arrived. But no such thing happened. 4.45

PM, then 5 PM and then 5.15 PM went past with scores of bhajans being sung by

students and still no Baba. Just when everyone thought that there is going to

be no darshan, Swami arrived in His majesty and thrilled the audience. He sat

for about 15 minutes and went away, blessing everyone.

 

Brindavan is really alive now with hundreds of international devotees. The

coffee shop, Book shop and stores all were full. People are highly excited. One

can observe lot of new white covers in hands of devotees indicating their

preparation to hand over their letters to Swami.

 

I also met a sevak, who is not educated, and learnt from him, how Swami attended

to him. More about this in my next mail.

 

sai pranams and regards

 

 

Raja

 

PS: Today I saw the demonstration of "The Quest" CD-ROM. It is really superb.

In quest of what ? read the details in the mail that must have come to you from

the Secretary, Sri Sathyasai Books center, giving info on CD-ROMs currently

popular. If you have not got this mail, then register your name with

srisathyasaisociety (AT) (DOT) co.in and you would get the necessary info. In

anycase this has also been circulated by "saibabanews" today, as I observe.