DARSHAN NEWS FROM PRASHANTI NILAYAM , Friday, March 22-23, 2008

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DARSHAN NEWS FROM PRASHANTI NILAYAM

Friday, March 22-23, 2008:Om Sai ram dearest Sai Family, Like

in South Africa its holiday season in India. We had a very long weekend,

courtesy of Milad un nabi, Holi and Easter. There is a big group of about 1000

devotees from the states of Bihar and Jharkand to celebrate fun packed holi

festival which every Indian looks forward to..

Holi festival in the modern India has now taken a U turn with Dine and Wine...

But in the Land of of our Lord its only DIVINE.

22 March 08 - The Holi celebrations started when our beloved

Lord, blessed all of us with His divine darshan at 4:45 pm. The Balvikas

children of Bihar and Jharkhand were ready for the evening programme. There was

a beautiful musical programme. After about 45 mins the Programme came to an end

and Swami blessed the children with a group photo. Later the devotees sung

bhajans while Prasad was distributed. The day came to an end with Arathi to Swami

at 6pm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

23

March:This morning Swami didn’t come for darshan. Afternoon,

the Bihar and Jharkhand group had yet another programme. The hall was packed by

3pm. It was a long wait for all of us today. .. It was 5:45pm by the time Swami

came out for His afternoon darshan. Little girls with lamps in their hands,

stood on either side in the ladies’ side to welcome the Lord of the Lords. The

car came very slow and when Swami came right in the middle of Kulwanth hall,

there was a BIG OOOOOOH from the gents’ side when Swami’s car slowly took a

right turn towards the dais, skipping the gents’ side. Swami came on the dias

and two little girls went to Swami to take His blessing for the start of the

programme. After blessing the kids Swami went into the interview room. After a

short while Swami emerged from the interview room. Swami then called upon the

primary school boys and handed over boxes of goodies to distribute amongst

themselves. Swami then signaled for the programme to start. The balvikas

children today had a play titled “Bhakta Sabariâ€. That devotee, who was near

and dear to Lord Rama. The devotee from whom Lord Rama accepted the fruit

already eaten by Sabari. That great devotee who gave the message that any thing

offered to God with devotion is accepted by Him. The play was well done with

beautiful songs in telugu, hindi and dialogues in English. The songs were very

touchy especially the one when Sabari Sings when she sees her Lord Rama. “O

Lord, you are all pervasive and omniscient, what can I ask You? What do I need

other than You? “ How true, what else we need when we have our beloved Swami by

our side? The colorful holi ended with such a beautiful play, again reminding us

“if there is any thing we should look for, long for , aspire for then its only

HIM.. just HIM..There are

many

rumours of Swami going to whitefield very soon… but on a personal note, I

really pray to you dear Lord to let us witness the telugu new year day, UGADI,

in Puttaparthi before you leave for your Summer Abode…..With humble pranams at

the lotus feet of our beloved Lord, Reporting from Kaliyuga’s Mathura… Jai Sai

Ram, submitted

by SBOI-Group

member Satish Naik

Friday, March 15, 2008: Students of the Post-graduate classes at

the Sri Sathya Sai University had done well in the All-India GATE exams -

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering. Out of the 30 students who wrote the

exam, many got very high percentile scores, and the Sai University students

also secured All-India Rank numbers 2 and 4 in Physics and 7 in Biosciences..

These students were seated in the Bhajan Hall as Bhagawan came while the

Bhajans went on. After interacting for a few minutes there, Bhagawan asked them

to move to the stage area, and He went there, asking for the Bhajans to stop

and for the Vice-Chancellor to announce the good results of these students.

Once of the students and Prof. Anil Kumar also spoke, and Swami Blessed one of

them with a chain.

 

 

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