News from Puttaparthi 11-15 January 2005

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News from Puttaparthi 11-15 January 2005

 

Look at the pictures of Sathya Sai Baba devotees in

Colombo doing Seva for the Tsunami victims:

www.puttaparthi.org/news.html

 

January 15

Sathya Sai Baba Devotees from Sri Lanka in Colombo have sent us

these pictures of the seva they are doing for the people affected by

the Tsunami in their region. If any other organisation are doing

this kind of seva please send us the pictures. Actions are better

than words to get people motivated to help those affected. Let us

pray to Swami to shower His grace on the people of Sri Lanka and

those who are helping them.

 

January 15

Yesterday evening there was a program by the students of Primary

School here in Puttaparthi. They performed the life story of Swami

and it was nicely done. After the program Swami asked the boy who

played the role of Swami's mother to take the aarthi. Later Swami

talked to a few boys, who were playing the roles of the relatives.

 

January 14

Happy Sankaranthi to all the Sathya Sai Devotees

 

Today morning Swami was accompanied to mandir by the bands from the

anantapur and puttaparthi colleges. Then Swami gave a discourse as

part of the Sankranthi festival. Swami said that most of the

devotees are in troubles and were complaining that god has done this

to them. Swami said that Swami would never wish such things on his

devotees and also said that things would get better. And that we

should try harder to get past the obstacles. Swami also said that

there will more such problems this coming year and that we should

pray and try harder to get trough them. Then Swami presented the

students of the colleges who participated in the sports day meet

with trophies. Then the program ended. There will be program by the

children from primary school in the evening.

 

January 13

Yesterday evening there was a program by the students from

Brindavan. The performed the story of "Annamaiya" a very big devotee

of Lord Venkateshwara. The program was really colorful and was

performed very nicely.

 

January 12

Yesterday evening there was a program in mandir. It was a musical

dance ballet performed by the Sri Sathya Sai Bala Vikas from Andhra

Pradesh. The Drama was about sankaranthi and it was called "Sai

Sankaranthi". The program was really nice, it showed how sankaranthi

is celebrated etc.

 

If you want to see the picture of Sports Daythen go here:

http://www.puttaparthi.org/events.html

 

January 12

Yesterday afternoon at 2.45 pm the programs started with children

from the primary school performing dances. They were colorful and

very well performed. The students from higher learning performed

some daring stunts like go down the rope from nearly 100 feet and do

the bungee jump backwards. It really was fun to watch. Only after

the program we came to know that the Chief Guest for this occasion

was Mr.Rathore (He was the Indian silver medalist at last years

Olympic games in shooting which were held in Greece). So it really

was a nice occasion. Even with the sun beating down on the stadium

the whole place was jam packed with people.

 

January 11

Today is Sports day in Puttaparthi, it was chilly morning. It was

7:45 am when Swami came like the sun light into the stadium

accompanied with musical bands and riders on horse back and the dear

elephant Sai gheeta. Swami came in the golf cart like car in white

dress. Then the music began to play. It only stopped after Swami got

on the dais. Then there was march past by the students of all the

Swami's colleges. Then Swami blessed the fire for the sports day

which was the specially brought and was the same one that was used

at the 2004 Athens Olympics games in Greece. Then the programs began

with colorful, acrobatic and daring performance by both boys and

girls belonging to the Brindavan and Anantapur campuses. Then after

two hours the program was finished and Swami left the stadium at

9:45 am. The program again starts at 2:30 pm in the afternoon when

the students from the primary school will perform.

 

Courtesy: http://www.puttaparthi.org/news.html