Parthi News - January 11th

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January 11th

 

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Sports Day Celebrations in Puttaparthi

 

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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