January 11th 7:00 pm - Sports Day Celebrations in Puttaparthi

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January 11th

Sports Day Celebrations end in Puttaparthi

 

January 11th 7:00 pm - Sports Day Celebrations in Puttaparthi

 

 

 

Afternoon Program

 

This evening the programs started with Swami�s arrival at the hill view

stadium at 3:15 pm. Swami was in maroon color dress giving all the

devotees a very special darshan. After Swami reached the dais the

programs started.

First were the children from Sri Sathya Sai Primary School.

They did nice dances with colorful costumes. The boys from primary

school performed gymnastics, acrobatics on unicycles and cycles. It was

a very nice presentation by them.

Then the students from Prasanthi Nilayam campus, which

includes, Sri Sathya Sai Higher Learning and Sri Sathya Sai University

began their programs. Their program was the one that received huge

claps from the devotees at Hill View Stadium. They began with a dance

and then performed acrobatics on ropes and did gymnastics on moving

vehicles etc. They ended their program with a martial art display.

The programs ended at 5:30 pm, after blessing many students Swami left for mandir.

 

Ending the Sports Day celebration in Puttaparthi.

 

Morning Program

 

 

This morning devotees gathered in Hill View Stadium from as early as

5:00 am. All the devotees and vehicles were headed to the stadium this

morning.

Swami arrived in a open roof car at 7:55 am to the Hill View stadium.

Swami was wearing a bright yellow dress, and gave all the devotees a

very nice darshan. Swami was accompanied by two marching bands and by

students on Horses. After Swami reached the dais the event started with

the march past from all the institutes of Sathya Sai Baba. After the

march past Swami lit the lamp to begin the sports day.

 

The first performance was by the ladies from Anantapur Campus. They

performed some wonderful dances in Japanese costumes, then they did

some exercises with hockey sticks and they ended their performance by a

brave display on motorbikes. The highlight of that event was a jump by

a student over a ramp and over the students who were lying down after

the ramp. They ended their program by offering pranams to Swami.

Then the program by the students of Brindavan campus began.

The first event was horse jumping, which they did wonderfully well.

Four students on horses participated in the event. After that the

rhythmic dances by the students began. They were students doing

acrobatics using big wheel. They ended the program with an event where

students did acrobatics on ropes, which were hanging high in the sky to

a crane. They did some amazing exercises on it. The also wrote words

like �WE LOVE U�, �SAI� with their bodies. They ended their programs

offering pranams to Swami.

 

 

 

 

 

After that, the event ended with Aarathi and Swami left Hill View Stadium at 9:55 am. Bring the morning programs to an end. Evening programs will begin at 3:00 pm, where students from

Prasanthi Nilayam campus and the children from Primary School will take

part.

 

Calendars and Prasadam was distributed to all the devotees who were gathered in Hill View Stadium.

 

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