News from Prashanthi Nilayam, 11-14 August, 2005

August 14, 2005

August 14: Yesterday evening Swami came for a visit out side mandir and

Returned pretty quickly. You can Click here to see the video. Its seems like

Swami is actually looking at the camera in the video if you look closely. Or is

it just my eyes playing trick with me.

August 13: Swami came outside mandir this morning and returned before the

bhajans. Swami also gave interview to "Nithaya Shri Mahadevan" a well known

Carnatic Singer who performed last evening in mandir.

August 12: In the morning the "Vara Lakshmi Vratham" started in Puttaparthi.

Huge number of devotees participated in the pooja. They performed pooja to

Godess lakshmi in the Divine presence of Sathya Sai Baba. Swami looked over the

pooja and gave blessings to all the devotees. Nearly 1000 people participated in

the "Vara Lakshmi Vratham" In the evening "Nithaya Shri Mahadevan" a well known

Carnatic Singer from south india. She sang beautiful songs. Swami presented her

with a saree. At the end of the program she thanked Swami for giving the

oppurtunity to sing on the ocassion of "Vara Lakshmi Vratham". She said that

getting an

oppurtunity to sing infront of Swami was a very big blessing she said that not

that many people get this oppurtunity so she was really thanful to Swami.

August 11: There was an article in the local newspaper which said that. The

number of devotees for this years celebration of the 80th Birthday of Sathya

Sai Baba will be around 20 lakhs. We will bring you more details later. In two

days a big pooja is going to happen here in Puttaparthi. Many devotees are also

participating in this event. The name of the pooja is "Vara Lakshmi Vratham".

Nearly 800 people are participating in this event.

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