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evening darshan news. Sai Darshan news - 21st Feb. 21st Feb. Today morning

Kulwant hall was jam packed with devotees, everyday brings more devotees to

Puttparthi due to upcoming festival of Shivaratri. MP-Madhya Pradesh sevadal is

on duty and they are doing a fabulous job. Bhajans started at 9 a.m. and

everyone thought now Swami will come at appx 9.30 with the last Bhajan going

on, one could see Swami’s car parked outside His residence. Arathi started and

ended but Swami didn’t come; Swami’s empty car was driven back to the garage

again. Evening Swami came at 4:30 p.m.There is a group came from Ooty here and

Swami distributed clothes to them not Himself but thru the sevadal Swami

was present there afterwards Baba took all the group Ladies & Gents for

interview in Bhajan Mandir for 1/2 hour. Then the darshan was concluded with

bhajans at 5:30p.m as usual. Here is a picture of handmade painting of Sai

Baba by an Indian artist on sale at Leepakashi complex of AP goverment shop

here in Puttparthi, We can't gaurantee but guess it was for appx. Indian Rs

16,ooo. Next week we'll publish (online) a full page photo feature about this

beautiful complex with leepakshi shop which was inagurated by Swami few months

back. Prasanthi

Bulletin February 21st, 2006 This evening, Swami came out for Darshan at

4.15 p.m. But as the car reached the Ladies side, it took a sharp turn and

bypassed the Gents side and approached the interview room. But again, even

before reaching the turning point, it halted. Our brothers ran and fetched some

saris and showed them to Swami. They were all white saris. Swami saw and

approved the selection. The car then took a reverse and turned around to once

again move along to the Ladies side. At the farther corner were seated the

women folk from Ooty - the Badagas - as the community is called. They wear only

white saris and drape them in a different way from the conventional style. They

were overjoyed when they saw Swami approaching them in the car with the boys

running behind

with the saris. Bhagawan personally supervised the distribution of the saris.

The car then moved along forward, but once again bypassed the gents and went

straight near the interview room. Swami went in at 4.30 p.m. A little while

later, the Badaga gents and ladies were called into the Bhajan Hall. Swami also

went in and spent some time interacting with them. After some time, they started

singing Bhajans inside. Though the mikes were not switched on, we could hear the

Bhajans that were being sung with full vigour. At 5.25 p.m., Swami took Aarti

and retired for the day. February 20th, 2006 Bhagawan gave morning Darshan

today. In the evening, He was out by 3.00 p.m. and He went straight into the

Bhajan Hall to interact with the final year undergraduate students who had

assembled there to pray to Swami for Blessing their programme. Swami spent a

few minutes inside the Bhajan Hall speaking to the boys

and seeing their cards and letters. At 3.20 p.m., He came out and signalled to

the boys also to come out and get ready for their presentation. As the boys got

into their places in the Kulwant Hall and set everything for starting their

play, Swami Blessed the birthday boys and others seated in front. There were

almost a dozen boys waiting in a line and Swami Blessed each boy with a smile

and a few words too. At 3.30 p.m. the students began their presentation. This

is an annual affair, wherein the final year students both of the undergraduate

and postgraduate section make a presentation in the Divine Presence towards the

end of their academic year, expressing their deep sense of gratitude to their

Divine Mother and Father for all the Love and Grace showered by Him on them and

their families. This evening, it was the turn of the undergraduate boys. The

theme was Educare & Education. The programme was designed as a series of songs

intercepted by short skits

and commentaries. The first song was Hum Tere Hein Sai... In this first module,

the virtue of duty as expounded by Educare was highlighted. The aspect of duty

was illustrated by the example of Bharatha who comes to the forest to plead

with Rama to return to Ayodhya. But when the sage Vashishta tells Bharatha that

his prime duty was to obey the command of Lord Rama, he agrees to return to

Ayodhya taking the sandals of Lord Rama to represent the seat of monarchy. The

next song was Enta Manchee Teepu.... The second virtue bestowed by Educare was

Understanding. A student narrated the story of two brothers, one with a family

and another a bachelor. Each one was so concerned about the other that they

kept sharing bags of rice between them without their own knowledge. The married

brother would feel that his bachelor brother had no one to take care of him in

his old days. Therefore, he would carry a bag of rice from his share of the

harvest and empty it into his brothers granary.

The bachelor brother would feel that his married brother had so many family

responsibilities and more expenditure and hence would carry a bag of rice from

his share of harvest and empty the same into the married brother's granary.

This was the pure love and understanding they had between themselves. The third

module began with the song Kaise Jeeyun Mein Tere Bin Tu Jo Nahin To.... The

virtue highlighted was Love and Compassion. The story narrated was that of

Siddhartha who saves a bird wounded by a hunter. The hunter claims his

ownership over the bird but then finally Siddhartha proves his ownership over

it. The one who saves life has greater authority than the one who takes it

away. Another beautiful story of compassion was about a young student from

Hassan district, Karnataka who had a great ambition to become a medical doctor.

However, his financial condition prevented him from taking up medical studies.

To add to that he developed a serious heart ailment.

Incidentally, he approached the Super Specialty Hospital in Bangalore and was

treated for the ailment. He was so impressed by all the love showered on him by

the doctors and the nurses that he vowed to become a doctor and serve the needy.

But how could he get into the medical college? The e-journal Heart-to-Heart of

Radio Sai, wrote an article about this patient and how he was touched by the

treatment in the hospital. An Australian devotee who read all about this was so

struck that he flew down to Bangalore, procured the address of the patient from

the Hospital and then contacted the young man and got him admission into a

Medical College, promising him that he would take care of all the expenses!

What an act of Love prompted by our Lord! The subsequent module talked about

Nishkama Karma. A short skit was enacted showing how a young man who was

commanded by his father to get bananas for the Puja, went out to the shop to

procure the same. However, on the way finding a

poor hungry man, he gives away all the bananas and comes empty handed. The

father gets furious, but the Pujari explains that even without performing the

Puja, the family has gained the merit of the prayers because of this selfless

deed of their sacred son. Maa Prana Daivam Nija Divya Matru Roopam.... song

followed. Then came the virtue of Reverence. Yudhishtira was the role model.

Even on the battle field, he walked across the strip separating the two armies

and bowed down to his Acharya Bheeshma. Bheehsma is thus obliged to bless him

with victory though being on the enemies side. The song Marichitivemo Madilo

Mammu Sainatha.... filled the air. Each time a new module began; one student

would sit on a small platform resting against the cut out of a tree facing

Bhagawan, with a black robe and eyes tied with a blindfold. He represented the

blind man of today who was blind to the wisdom of educare and was lost in mere

education. As all the virtues are revealed one by

one, finally this man throws off his black robe and unfolds the blind covering

his eyes. This is symbolic of his enlightenment. The programme concluded at

4.45 p.m. Throughout the presentation, Swami was very much involved. He was

smiling, making some comments and later even spoke at length to the boys who

came forward to hand over the scripts of the songs and roses, when the group

singing went on. He enquired many details with some students and even

materialized a ring for one. All the boys were overjoyed with the abundant Love

and Grace showered by Swami on all of them. At 4.50 p.m., Swami took Aarti and

retired to PC. One may say farewell to Parthi but one can never leave the

Parthivaasa, for He is always with us and in us. This feeling permeated each

one's heart as we walked out of the Kulwant Hall. <<

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