Birthday Darshan in Puttaparthi....

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birthday celebrations of our beloved lord started this morning in the Sathya Sai

Hill view stadium. It rained heavily the last night, symbolsing the birth of our

Lord Sai Krishna. The rain calmed down, as the sun was rising. Thousands of

devotees from 180 countries were eagerly waiting for this morning. The queues

to the stadium started as early as 4am. The crowd was uncontrollable, even to

the 2000+police force and equal number of Sevadals. The stadium was beautifully

decorated with flowers and the flags of various countries displayed around the

stadium, symbolizing ONE universe and ONE universal Lord. Balloons all over and

on the top of the hill, near the mighty Hanuman statue were balloon palm trees,

which looked very attaractive. At least 15 cameras were seen all over. Swamy

came around 7:30 am amidst cheers and prayers. Swamy, was clad in His beautiful

speactacular white robe, wearing the most beautiful smile. There was not even a

iota of pressure on His face, inspite of

oraganising such a mighty task. He was seated on the beautiful silver

thorne on the stage. Swamy was hardly visible to the devotees seated at the

rear end of the stadium, but was very nice that two giant screens were put on,

one on ladies’ side and one on gents’ side. Another surprise was

atleast half a dozen of Indian cricketers attending the celebrations, including

our MASTER BLASTER Sachin Tendulkar. One was surprised to see them, because

there was only one day left

(25th ) for the 4th one day match to be played in Eden gardens, Kolkata. All of

them were seated on the floor, Sachin bit closer to Swamy. The

stadium was JAM packed with people from all over the world. I should say, the

number would be atleast 2lakhs(2 hundred thousand), every body on their toes to

have a glance of Swamy. After Mr.Indulal Shah and Mr.Goldstein finished their

talks, Swamy stood up to give His birthday discourse, which is always special.

He started His divine discourse at 8:55am and went on for an hour

yes"> He started Prema Swaroopulara (embodiments of love) and again with

the this verse SATHYA DHARMA PREMA SHANTULU LEKUNNA CHADUVU LANNI CHADIVI

VILUVA SUNNA (if truth, righteousness, peace and love are absent, all your

wordly education is equal to a BIG

zero) SATHYA DHARMA PREMA SANTHULU LEKUNNA BAHULA SATH KARYAMBULU VILUVA SUNNA

(all your sacred deeds are of no use) SATHYA DHARMA PREMA

yes"> SANTHULU LEKUNNA PADAVULANU ELI VILUVA SUNNA (all the exotic positons are

of no use) He continued, People say that they are doing social work, uplifting

people but in reality, not social work but SHOW WORK. If any one comes to your

door asking for alms, you scold them and sent them away. Man is not behaving

like a man. Hatred and jealousy is ruling the day. there is no love for human

beings, no love for parents. You say, Iam praying to God, but God is not

giving any thing to me rather ask what you are giving to God. What ever God has

given to man kind, is pure, but human beings are making it impure and blaming

God. He gave on example, one devotee was worshipping Lord Siva. After some

time, he didn’t experience peace of mind, so took the idol of Shiva and after

keeping it in an alma rah, started to worship Krishna. Initially, he was

enjoying Krishna’s company, but later his mind was again disturbed. After

deciding that Krishna is no longer conferring the bliss, keeps the idol in the

alimarah, and worships Rama. Again he had the same experience. One day, one

lady suggested him to worship Goddess. Accordingly he started worshipping

Goddess. One day, Goddess manifests and says, O foolish man, there is no need

to change Gods or idols. What are these idols. They are made you(Man). Look

inside, God is within you. Realise this TRUTH and you will be always happy.

Swamy continued, Many people contemplate on God, only in old age. In child

hood they play with kids, in adult hood, they spoil themselves with bad company.

You run

after temporal things like money, positions, worldly things. At the end, they

say, I have got every thing in my life, exept PEACE OF MIND…where is this peace

of mind… its within you…. Many people sow seeds when there is no rain

and some people don’t sow seeds inspite of rains(interstingly when He was

speaking about rains, it started raining of course not heavily, the ROMANTIC

drizzle as we call locally)

1"> This Human Body is like a water bubble. You don’t know when you

will leave this body. This Human life is GOD’S GIFT. Make use of this body for

noble purposes. Pleasure and Pain co-exist. There is happiness in pain and pain

in happiness. A devotee should not be worried at all. You have come here, after

undergoing lot of trouble.I am very happy for you all. I will be much more

happy, if you practice My teachings. That is true devotion.

1"> Swamy’s voice was very strong. HE was standing till He finished

His discourse. At the end He said, IAM BLESSING ALL THE PEOPLE ASSEMBLED HERE

WITH A LONG LIFE, HAPPY LIFE, PEACEFUL LIFE AND DIVINE LIFE.WITH THIS WORDS I

BRING MY DISCOURSE TO AN END… Swamy then sat on His Silver Thorne for

more than 30 minutes while bhajans were sung on the back ground. Mean while

prasadams were brought and Swamy blessed them and distributed the prasadams

personally to dignitaries on the stage including cricketers. After that a Big

birthday cake was placed in front of Swamy, and Swamy very

graciously cut the cake with a long knife(while HE was still seated on the

Throne). The dignitaries were standing beside Swamy. Sachin Tendulkar (whom we

cricket fans call as Master Blaster) came forward to Swamy and got some advice

from the Divine master, while He was holding Swamy’s hands. I first saw Sachin

Tendulkar, when he came to play a match in puttaparth in 1997. He batted

fantastically and Swamy with love slapped on His cheeks, and exactly after a

month or so, He devasted the Australian bowling with two consecutive centuries

in sharjah. One would not be surprised if he makes a century in Eden gardens,

Kolkata on 25th Nov against South Africans.

1"> Prof.Anil Kumar, announced that prasadams will be given to devotees

with lunch at various FREE food counters in Mandir. Swamy then left the stadium

in His TOYOTA PORTE car which has the automatic wheel chair. While leaving the

stadium, the car went bit fast, with atleast 15 men surrounding the tiny car

amidst cheers from the vast gathering. Over all it was a fantastic

morning, to all those lucky devotees who could make it to parthi to witness the

80th birthday celebrations. Some people sounded bit irritated with the crowd and

sweared will never comet to parthiwhen such a big crowd is around,

some said, it’s a different feeling and lots of FUN..but the fact is its HIS

will, when ever He calls you have to be here, even if you like it or dislike

it… May Swamy bless all of us with His choicest blessings to help us

to know the divinity with in us and the courage and strength to fight the

demonic qualities in us… Swamy YOU ARE BEYOND TIME AND SPACE.. YOU

DON’T HAVE A DAY CALLED

BIRTHDAY IN YOUR DIVINE DICTIONERY…BUT YOU HAVE GIVEN US THIS OPPORTUNITY JUST

TO MAKE US HAPPY… THANK YOU VERY MUCH SWAMY….. WE LOVE YOU.. WE LOVE YOU… WE

LOVE YOU….. With Swamy from Puttaparthi Satish Naik Brahmanapalli Thanda

village near puttaparthi anantapur district andhra pradesh India 515134

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