Fw: SWAMI WATCHING AND PARTICIPATING THROUGH PROCEEDING...PRASHANTHI DIARY

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Ram ChuganiKobe, Japan--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Ramchand Chugani <rgcjp wrote:

Ramchand Chugani <rgcjpSWAMI WATCHING AND PARTICIPATING THROUGH PROCEEDING...PRASHANTHI DIARY------Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5:50 PM

 

 

 

 

 

Yajur Mandir.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watching and participating through the proceedings

 

 

 

 

The priests go around sprinkling the consecrated scented water

 

Bhagavan arrived for darshan in the car at 5.30 that evening. Once He came onstage, Swami noticed Nepalese students seated in the front with huge kumkum marks embedded with rice grains on their foreheads. Swami asked them as to what that mark was all about. The 40 odd students went up to Swami and sought His blessings for the traditional Durga Pooja practice that is common in Nepal. Swami blessed all of them and accepted their letters. He spoke to a few of them too. A wonderful story has to be mentioned here. The Nepalese students from the University, Music College and the Higher Secondary School get together during the summer vacation to carry out seva activities in their region every year. The most impressive aspect of this service is that all the finance for this activity is obtained from the "spiritual savings" of these students. They put a ceiling on their desires and many of them wash their own clothes and save the dhobi fees. It is only such savings that are directed towards the service activity. As Swami says, charity gets meaning when it involves sacrifice. The Rs. 100 given by a millionaire pales into insignificance before the single rupee saved by hard effort! The photos of the previous year’s service activities were shown to Swami and Bhagavan was appreciative of them. After that He blessed all those students and then heard the Vedam chants for a while.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sri T. G. Krishnamoorthy shares his thoughts

 

After this, Mr. T. G. Krishnamurthy, the former President of Sathya Sai Seva Organisation of Tamil Nadu, was asked to speak. After his half-hour speech, Prof. G. Venkataraman, former Vice-Chancellor of the Sri Sathya Sai University, shared his thoughts. The distinguished professor outlined as to how the world that does not root itself in Swami's teachings of Love undergoes one bust after another like the dotcom bubble and the housing bubble. Sensing that Swami would most probably deliver His Divine Discourse, the eloquent speaker concluded his talk after twenty minutes. Bhagavan then indicated that He would deliver His Divine Vijaya Dasami message and His microphone was brought up. The discourse on that evening would become one of epic proportions in terms of it's significance in reminding humanity and rendering a wake up call to it about one important aspect. Swami said:

Many people pass through pleasure and pain. When it is pleasure, we say, it is good luck and in the other case we say that it is misfortune. But it is all karma. “Yad Bhavam Tad Bhavathi” - as is the feeling, so is the experience. The whole world revolves around action. And so, the actions must be sacred. What is Dasara? It is nothing but the result of 10 days of action. The Poornahuthi can be considered as the culmination of the actions of the 10 senses. (5 senses each of perception and action). In this world, action is inevitable. Ram ChuganiKobe, Japan