Report On Easwaramma Day Celebrations at Brindavan: 6th May, 2004

May 10, 2004

Report On Easwaramma Day Celebrations at Brindavan: 6th May, 2004May 6th every

year, is celebrated as Easwaramma Day, in honour of the saintly lady who was

blessed to be the mother to the Avatar of the Kali age. Easwaramma was very

fond of children and was one of the pioneers of the Bal Vikas movement. Hence

this day is also celebrated as Bal Vikas Day.

This year, the celebrations were organised in the picturesque lawns of Trayee

Brindavan, Bhagawan’s residence at Bangalore. The cool and pleasant morning and

the beautiful surroundings made for a wonderful setting for the Bal Vikas

students and teachers from the city of Bangalore and devotees assembled there.

Bhagawan first granted Darshan from the balcony of His residence at around 8.15

a.m. A little while later, Bhagawan emerged from the main door, to the singing

of Bhajans by Bal Vikas students. The day’s programme commenced with a Vedic

invocation. Bhagawan then graciously permitted two students of the MBA course

at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning to address the gathering.

The first speaker, Sri Jaipreet Singh, chose to speak on the motherly aspect of

Bhagawan that melts at the suffering of His devotees. Next to speak was Sri

Sanjay Mahalingam. He narrated various incidents from the life of Mother

Easwaramma that demonstrate the qualities of simplicity, compassion and love

that she embodied. Her glorious earthly career culminated in an equally

glorious manner on 6th May, 1972. The Mother had just partaken of her breakfast

and was resting. Suddenly, she called out to Swami and Swami responded,

Vosthunnanu,Vosthunnanu (I am coming, I am coming), and thus she breathed her

last with name of the Lord on her lips. It is only a fortunate few who remember

the Lord’s name in their last moments and this, Sri Mahalingam said, was the

fruit of a life of piety and devotion.

Then Bhagawan delivered His Discourse in which he recounted how three small

wishes of Easwaramma had today taken the form of the magnificent

Super-speciality hospitals, the educational institutions and the mammoth water

supply project. He praised the devotion of the students and the spirit of

service which they exhibited wherever they went. He said that the bond of love

between them was so intimate that the students cannot live without Swami, and

Swami too cannot keep Himself away from them. He concluded His Discourse by

saying that it is the primary duty of children to respect their parents and

obey their commands.

The programme concluded with arati being offered to Bhagawan and later prasadam

was distributed to all the devotees.

Jai Sai Ram!

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