Darshan at Brindavan, 5th June -2006

June 5, 2006

SAIRAM dear members of our [sBOI-Group] SAI family

Today Monday the 5th of June, is a working day here in India.

The climate is pretty cool and windy and as we reach the ashram, the time is around

6:30am the ashram gate is open but not much crowd of devotees are seen today.

As we enter the ashram we can feel the fresh scent of flowers of the decorated Saraswati idol

and there is a soft breeze blowing in the ashram. The sevadal are busy swiping the darshan hall and the Krishna idol on stage is being decorated with flowers, otherwise there is not much extra decoration inside the ashram.

We are let into the hall and manage to get a good seat,

at 7:30am boy students rush inside and sit in their places in front,

soon SAI GAYATHRI chanting begins, till 8am when the hall is silent,

but ................still no sign of SWAMI coming on stage,

as we turn back we can see SAI RAMESH hall is full and all are eagerly awaiting the arrival of SWAMI.

Some unlucky souls after sitting till about 9:15am begin leaving the ashram and looking at them most of us think that today we may not have darshan, at

But at 9:30 am the ladies side devotees who had started to leave rush to their places and soon the stage lights are switched on and chanting of

OM>OM>>OM>>> begins and all devotees sit up in their places, thanking swami for finally deciding to come for darshan bringing relief to parched eyes looking at stage.........

The Vinayaka bhajan is over and SHAMBHO SHIV SHAMBHO>>>> bhajan begins and soon Swami makes his most awaited darshan entrance on stage at 9:40 am, walks till the railing and is seated in a few minutes after blessing us all.

The bhajans continue and Swami is seen reading a few letters and giving it to his attenders on stage. Today we can see Swamis feet very clearly from where we are seated, and in between when we see him we can see a different glow on his face and he is often smiling at all present and blessing us all in between the bhajans till about 10 am when there is silence and a students brings a rose and gets it back BLESSED by Swami...............

OM Jai Jagdish Hare Swami Satya Sai Hare........ Aarti begins and Swami stands up ,meanwhile students bring huge boxes on stage get it blessed by the Master and begin distribution of the divine prasadam ................ OM SHANTI>>SHANTI>>SHANTI>>> Aarti comes to an end and Swami slowly walks back towards the curtain on stage after giving us a wonderful Darshan on a day most of us thought we may not get Darshan but we got an additional blessing in the form of a big, sweet, ripe SAI KeESAR MANGO each,

distribution of which is soon completed and the lights on stage are switched off.

As i peel this sweet smelling mango divine prasadam i hope you all too can join me in tasting this in your taste buds isn't it ..................... in the meantime till we get another darshan at

Brindavan Whitefield ,lets hope we do because maybe we hear rumours that SWAMI may leave for PARTHI soon but the final plans are known only to SWAMI himself and not to any one else.......................................................................SAIRAM........................................ sanju

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