Report on Eashwaramma Day Celebrations - A Devotee

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Aum Sri Sairam,

Swami has moved to Whitefield.

Forwarding latest mail from my son.

Jai Sairam..Surinder

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Waking from the Kodai dream

Sairam All,

Swami left Kodai this morning at around 9 am. Had darshan of him sitting in the car.

Eswaramma day was incredible. In the morning there were veda chants followed by

bhajans. Swami gave darshans as usual and then distributed saris and food to

the poor. All devotees were fed lunch as prasadam.

In the afternoon, Swami left with his guests to go somewhere at around 2:30 pm.

We all then went in to the bhajan hall and waited for him there from 2:30 to

4:30. Usually by 4:30 the bhajans and darshans are over but yestereday Swami

came in at 4:30 pm into the bhajan hall.

He sat on his chair and the State President gave a talk in Swami's presence for

about 15min. He then said that some balvikas students were going to perform if

Swami allows. Swami said that he will give discourse instead. The discourse was

not like any I've heard before. Swami was relating incidents from his childhood

and with regards to Eswaramma. He talked about the Mother being higher than

God. He talked about Bengal, Punjab, and other successful people being so only

because of the greatness of the mother. It was a thrilling sight to see him

talk from such close a distance and him making jokes and everyone laughing. He

then sang a bhajan and there was Aarti. Everyone thought Swami would leave but

he did not forget about the balvikas students. The children performed in side

the bhajan hall and Swami blessed them and gave them apples. Apples were also

distributed to us inside the bhajan hall. This was the first darshan of Swami

from head to toe in the standing pose

from such close a distance.

Swami left the bhajan hall at around 7 pm. Nearly 2.5 hrs. it was incredible.

Again Swami's main message has been Faith and Surrender in God...and nothing

else being more important than this. What is destined will happen and the best

we can do is to hold God's hand while we go through such tough times.

Anyway, I'm heading to Whitefiled at 6 pm. tonight...and will arrive there on

8th morning at around 8 am. Long journey!

Love,

Nanu.A Anantha VijayaManager (Sales & Mktg.) Dhara Vegetable Oil & Foods Company

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