Prashanthi Bulletin December 27th, 2005

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Source: radiosai.org

December 27th, 2005 This evening, Swami was out by 4.00 p.m. He took a full

round and just like yesterday went into the interview room. However, minutes

later, He was out again and moving on His chair along the middle Portico, He

slowly emerged onto the dais and sat down in the centre giving beautiful

Darshan to one and all. Vedam chanting was on in full swing. After sitting for

10 minutes or so, He went out the other way towards the interview room, but

surprisingly, instead of moving into the room, He asked the boys to take Him

onto the Ladies side. It was a bonanza this evening for the lady devotees. He

went slowly, moving along the path on their side. As He moved along, He talked

to a few devotees and signaled to a number of overseas lady devotees, asking

them to go into the interview room. Most of them were part of yesterday’s

singing group. This went on for quite some time and Swami had taken a full

round on the Ladies side coming back towards the dais and then completing a

circle by going towards the interview room. He took all of them into the

interview room. While those who went in would have been ecstatic, even those

who did not were overjoyed, for after such a long time, they had a real

close-up Darshan of our beloved Lord! Hence, it turned out to be a win-win

situation! Typical of everything that He does! The lucky devotees were in for a

real long time and came out only at 5.15 p.m. Bhajans had already started. Swami

went into the interview room and sat for a few Bhajans before He took Aarti at

5.30 p.m. He got into the Porte and proceeded towards PC. December 26th, 2005

Let us wish all our Jewish brothers and sisters a very Happy and Holy Hanukkah.

Hanukkah as we know is the Festival of Lights or the Festival of Dedication. The

festival is observed in Jewish homes by the kindling of lights on each of the

festival's eight nights, one on the first night, two on the second night and so

on. The word 'Hanukkah' means "dedication." Spiritually, Hanukkah commemorates

the Miracle of the Oil. At the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem,

following the victory of the Maccabees over the Selucids, there was only enough

consecrated olive oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day.

Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days - which was the length of time it

took to press, prepare and consecrate new oil. This evening, Swami came out at

4.05 p.m. for Darshan. He took a full round and went straight into the

interview room. The devotees from California and Hawaii were seated right in

front of the dais with several music instruments. We guessed that there was

going to be some Music Programme. This was confirmed when we received booklets

about the Music Programme to be presented by the Sathya Sai Singers from

Southern California and Hawaii – titled “Life is a Song – Sing it”. At 4.15

p.m. the interview room door opened and Swami’s chair came out. A few feet

away, the chair stopped and Swami stood up. With the help of brother Nitin, He

started walking towards the dais. Overjoyed, all the devotees started clapping.

He came to the centre of the dais and stood for a while holding the railings.

Then He sat down and signaled for the programme to begin. At the outset a lady

devotee from Australia came forward and offered a card to Swami. With Swami’s

Blessings, she conducted a prayer song - Shalom. The Hebrew word Shalom is

understood around the world to mean peace. But peace is only one small part of

the meaning of the word Shalom. A word study in the New King James version for

Shalom says: Completeness, wholeness, health, peace, welfare, safety soundness,

tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, the absence of

agitation or discord. It was a very melodious rendering. Subsequently, the lady

conductor for the rest of the songs got up and went to Swami. She sought

Bhagawan’s Blessings and commenced the singing. Interestingly, the songs they

sang were not the usual Christmas Carols but they were a very beautiful

collection of prayers written by different people. Some of them adored the

almighty Lord while the others sang in praise of Mother Earth with an appeal to

save the planet from the onslaught of the modern man. They sang with all their

heart for the next 45 minutes. The music was very soothing and the lyrics were

very meaningful and pregnant with wisdom. It calmed our minds and lifted our

souls. Swami was very much involved in their singing. He kept beat with His

Hand and had a Blissful smile on His face throughout. This filled our hearts

with thrill and joy. At 5.00 p.m. the singing came to a close. The lady

conductor turned around, bowed to Swami and taking a deep breath went to take

her seat. One could witness how involved she was in conducting the singing by

her expression of satisfaction and joy at the end. After she sat down on her

chair, Swami called her front and stood up Himself. Even as He was standing, He

rotated His right Hand and created a chain for her. Our brothers next to Swami

helped in unhooking the chain and placing it around her neck and Swami gave it

the final tug to put it in place! The lady was overjoyed and with a beaming

smile retreated to her seat. Swami then asked them to sing Bhajans. They

started with some English Bhajans and then went on to sing our normal Hindi /

Sanskrit Bhajans rendering the lyrics so well that one could hardly make out

that they were overseas devotees singing our Bhajans. In the course of their

singing, Swami went inside the interview room and came out. Then He sat outside

but now more towards the Primary School children. He kept beat with His Hand and

at times was lost in Bliss with His eyes closed and face radiating with an

inexplicably peaceful smile! This sent a powerful vibration across the Hall

merging all of us in His eternal joy and Bliss! The clapping became louder, the

singing more powerful and all this led us to a different world altogether! All

good things have to come to an end. At 6.00 p.m. after about an hour of Bhajan

singing, which included Hindi, Sanskrit and even English Bhajans, Swami took

Aarti and retired for the day. Group resource <<Sainews HOME

Source: radiosai.org

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