18th weekly posting- Saudi Sai activities-June 8

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Sai-Satsang in 4 centers continued

(week ending 8th June, Friday)

 

Sairam to all Children, Sisters and Sai Brothers

in all 4 Sai SatSanghs in Dammam, Jubail, Jeddah and

Riyadh.

 

We continue with the Eighteenth (18) posting of the

activities of all 4 centers.

 

Summary:

1) Total Attendance all over Saudi over 110.

2) Two Sai Riyadh familes move out of KSA to

neighboring Arab countries

3) SAI Book Center in London

 

Details:

 

In Dammam the weekly satsang was held on the evening

7.30 pm of Wednesday 6th June at Bro. Mani's (and

sister Jaya) residence which was the first time being

held in their home. This coincided with the birthday

of their 5 year old daughter Vaishali which is on 7th

June. The attendance was by about 35 members and

Bro. Mani took the Aarthi. Our Best wishes to Vaishali

Jaya Mani and " Happy Birthday " . The Bhajan was

followed by cake cutting and Bhojan.

 

Study Circle was conducted with about 15 participants,

with a new chapter " Dharma " . Questions and discussions

on the previous chapter " Discipline " are to be held

later. We are informed that Sister Mythili Ganesan

also will be the (second) Bhajan coorodinator on

return from the vacation. With 2 Bhajan coordinators,

Dammam circle are expected to have good Bahajan

sessions in future. We are looking forward to it.

 

Jubail center held the weekly Satsang on Thursday 7th

June at 7.30 pm attended by about 16 members at Bro

Sunil’s residence. Aarthi was taken by Bro

Kaladheepan, one of the 4 members from Dammam who

attended. It was followed by Dinner hosted by Bro

Sunil & family.

 

As a part of seva activity, Brother Sunil Gallapathi

in Jubail carried out a Narayana Seva by distributing

500 lunch packets on 1st June 2007, Friday to the

labour camp employees in Jubail. It may be mentioned

that he does this at his own initiative-Sai Bless him.

The program was joined by several Jubail SAI member

volunteers. Bro Jaggu from Dammam also participated

with sweets for the food packets.

 

Jeddah report did not reach me at the time of this

posting.

 

Riyadh group held the weekly Bhajan on Thursday 7th

June evening from 6.00 am till about 8 pm. It was

attended by about 60 members as it was the Mahila and

Balvikas Bhajans. The aarthi was taken by Ms. Shivaji.

As there were a number of Birthdays after the Bhajan a

joint Happy Birthday was sung for Lavina Suresh,

Venugopals (Riyadh bank & SABIC), Mythili and Kaushik.

“Wishing you all many more Happy Years”.

 

After the Bhajan a dinner was hosted to give farewell

to Aparna, Kamakshi & Shankar who are leaving for

Jordon and for family of Bro Shivaji (wife, 2 sons)

who is leaving for Qatar. We wish their careers a big

success. Usually members move to India, USA or Dubai

but moving to our neighbors is a new good trend.

 

The above reports were provided by Bros. Vinod from

Dammam, Vimal from Jubail and Batha Suresh from

Riyadh. This week-end I was not in Saudi myself.

 

This week while in London, I visited the " Sri Sathya

Sai Books UK Ltd " (Book shop) located at 19, Hay Lane,

Kingsbury, London NW9 0NH Tel: 020 8732 2886

www.srisathyasaibookcentre.org.uk

The premises are owned by the trust and well stocked.

I recommend it to our brothers and sisters while

visiting London to take some time to pay a visit there

too. It is conveniently located in North west of

London in the Indians-friendly belt consisting of

Alperton-Wembley-Kingsbury etc where you can find a

number of " Genuine " Indian vegetarian restuarants at

reasonable prices. (Most Indian resturants in UK are

run by Bangladeshis except in these places)

 

I bought a couple of books and 3 CDs including 2 on

Vedam chanting. Although these materials are more

expensive than bought in India, we should support such

overseas centers. The book shop is manned by

volunteers and the Brother and sister I met there gave

me good descriptions of various books and CD

materials. I also picked up a monthly update of

activities newsletter which mentioned about visit of

Vedam Narayanan from Puttaparthy to UK in an

interesting way. From the newsletter, I make out that

sister Rosemary Perry is the National Chair, Kishor

Kumar is National secretary, Mathan Arulvel is

National Youth coordinator and Carole Alderman is the of British Institute of Sai Education. There

are 10 regions in UK and about 100 Sai centers.

 

So if you are the next family, moving out of Riyadh to

UK, you have plenty of SAI company. Incidentally I

think Saudi is a perfect training ground for vedanta

as one knows that being here is a temperory phenomena

and this " sponsored' existence can come to a sudden

end for various reasons mostly outside your control.

Also sometimes you feel you are in heaven and some

time you are in hell. Cars move around at cosmic

speeds and while it is hot outside, it is cool inside.

Somehow all the spritual energy gets converted to more

physical weight! May be Riyal is yet another (Hindu)

way to Moksha!!

 

Pranams and Sairams

P.B.V.Rajan

rajanpbv

 

 

 

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