Parthi incidents during Swami's 80th birthday

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Swami and then summed up by His message which was-" Fish is much better than

selfish"- I said that was Swam's message and my nephews wife burst out and said

"what a wonderful saying I have never heard that before"- so that was it and it

was past midnight and off we went to our respective rooms for early rise for

Ladies day celebration.Now on ladies day Swami's discourse -guess what ? Swami

said exaclty- what I said - He said not to be selfish and then same quote-

"Fish is better than selfish-" see He just made me realize that He was present

in our discussions(Omni present Sai). Swami's Institutions ,Hospitals,

Publishing Co all these you will find students coming to the workforce ,and so

one of my old friend who is Swami's student and who is working inside Prasanthi

Nilyam( will not disclose his identity for obvious reason). Little introductory

about my friend after completing his commerce degree he

opted stay back at Parthi and serve Swami but after couple of years Swami asked

him to leave. So he stayed outside Nilayam with little savings hoping Swami

will call him -somedays he use to take one meal a day but still he doesn't want

to leave Swami as he simply couldn't-he use to pray and cry for Swami as this

was unbearable.Oneday litlle unexpectedly he got Rs 400 from the Parthi

administrator telling him this is from Swami and Swami's message for him is not

to cry too much, but with this money he can return home- this happened almost a

year and then at last he was summoned from our beloved God and he was given a

job with a flat too- so this is my friend- now this year when I met him during

the birthdays I asked him what about the marriage and returning home- he simply

replied who will look after Swami's work if we all leave what will happen? ( my

mouth was wide open and I thought what sacrifice- how much love for Swami ) - I

heard another person who is a reputed

doctor(Indian) and who came from all the way from USA just to serve Swami if he

wanted he could have got much better offer in USA but he chose to be in Parthi

to serve Swami( I salute all these people - how much love they have for Swami-

what sacrifice) Pardon me it has become little lengthy- To be continued

after couple of days. Loka Samstha Sukhino Bhavanthu Soumendra