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

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

 

http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/pages/Easwaramma_Day_04.htm

 

May 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.

 

Photographs of Easwaramma Day Celebrations - 2004

http://www.sssct.org/Photos/2004/pages/Easwaramma_Day.htm