Drama by the devotees from Adilabad District

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Puttaparthi Updated News Upto 10.02.2008 evening

 

Yesterday evening Swami came to Sai Kulwant Hall at

5:45 pm.

 

After Swami reached the veranda programs by the

Adilabad devotees began.

 

Drama by the devotees from Adilabad DistrictIt was a

wonderful drama, which was beautifully written and

acted by the devotees. The drama starts in the Kingdom

of King Krishna Devaraya, who once ruled the Andhra

Pradesh region. The King is in his palace, talking

with the revered poets of that era. And ask them how

his kingdom is doing now, which was full of peace and

joy in his era.

 

One of the poets responds saying that the kingdom is

doing even better than, how it was in his era. King

asks the poets how this was humanly possible at this

day and age. Then the poet responds saying its not

humanly possible, but its possible to the God who

created these Humans. And that God is Sathya Sai Baba.

 

Then the king asks the poets to tell him more about

Lord Sathya Sai Baba.

 

The poets tell the story of Puttaparthi and how it was

a flourishing area in kings era. But was later

punished by Gods and was turned into a snake infested

area. And its now back to its glory days with the

presence of Sathya Sai Baba.

 

All these were described in beautiful poetic Telugu.

 

Drama by the devotees from Adilabad District Then

there were some dances to the songs that were written

by Swami like “Unnadaya Devudu Vunadaya”, “God is

Present”.

 

Then poets talk about Swami’s teaching and also tell

how in every temple devotees go to see God, but only

in Prasanthi Nilayam Swami comes to see His devotees.

The poets also said that they feel privileged because

Swami has chosen their language as His mother tongue.

 

Almost all the sentences in the drama were ending to

huge applause by the devotees in Sai Kulwant Hall. I

wish more people knew Telugu well to really understand

the wonderful meaning of this drama. It really was

beautiful.

 

Then they dramatized a real incident that happened in

Adilabad District. Where a Sai devotee passed away

after an heart attack. His family of two girls and a

boy and his wife wanted to do bhajans and ask Swami to

give their Family member back. When other devotees in

the village hear about it. They say that they too are

devotees of Sathya Sai Baba, but this is madness not

devotion. How can Swami bring back someone who is

dead. But the family insists and finally they decide

that they will do bhajans for 1 hour. All the devotees

start the bhajans and with Swami’s Divine blessing the

devotee who died comes back to life. Then the devotees

who questioned their devotion apologies to the family

and say true devotee never has doubt in his mind.

 

Then the King and the poets come back and talk about

how wonderful it is to see all the people of his

Kingdom being blessed by Sathya Sai Baba. King feels

sad that he was not born in this era of Lord Sathya

Sai Baba.

 

Sathya Sai Baba called the boy who played the king and

presented and blessed him with a Golden giftSwami

called the boy who played the king and presented and

blessed him with a Golden gift, all this as the drama

was going on. Drama ended with a song about Swami and

a boy playing Swami's role comes and blesses the King

and the poets ending the drama.

 

After the drama all the performers sat in front of

Swami. And the devotees from Adilabad brought a Joola

in which Swami sat and blessed them and took photos

with them.

 

After taking pictures with the performers Swami walked

on to the veranda and then walked little bit more on

the veranda and blessed all the devotees in Sai

Kulwant Hall with both hands while standing. Which was

a Divine sight to see.

 

This evening after the scintillating Drama performance

by the devotees from Adilabad District, Swami gave a

short discourse and said that the program was

beautiful. And the performance of the actors was also

wonderful. Swami also made specially mention of the

boy who played the role of the King Krishna Devaraya.

Swami said their performance came from the heart and

was filled with love. Swami told the devotees of

Adilabad that He was very happy with their programs.

Swami said devotees should strive to develop the

Adilabad District more. And ended the short discourse

talking about the importance of bhajans and that they

should never forget to do bhajans. Then Swami sang few

lines of the bhajan “Hari Bhajana Bhina Suk Shanti

Nahi”

 

After that Swami distributed clothes Personally to all

the performers of the drama. After few more bhajans

the events ended at 7:45 pm and Sathya Sai Baba left

for Yajur Mandir (swami's home).