Our All-Pervasive Swami
UN conference Japan & BABA
From: Ravi Dabir
I have just returned from Japan
after attending a UN convention on "Water and Resources" and what
I found was something amazing which I want to share with you and
you may pass this on to as many people as you want.
The plenary session of about 1800
delegates had in the podium men like the Prime Minister of Japan,
Dy Prime Minister of China, Prime Ministers of Malaysia,
Singapore. Indonesia and Ministers from about 20 countries,
presidents of world Bank, IMF and Mayors of at least 20 major
cities of the world and Mrs Annan, wife of the UN Secretary
General--in fact a very high power body. The Session started with
a 30-minute Dance on the Theme of Water performed by the School
children of Japan and at the end of it I got my first surprise! It
was announced that it was by the Sathya Sai School children of
Japan.
At the end of the three day
session there was a well attended ballet on Global Resources -
again by the Sathya Sai school children of the Asian region! 1800
delegates gave a standing ovation. I had to deliver a keynote
address on Swamy's water project--again an invitation from UN that
I was surprised to receive at the last minute- and this generated
a lot of enthusiasm-The attending press was so interested that
they wanted me to answer questions on an impromptu press
conference where there was a lot of interest on Swami's service
projects. This even included an invitation from the Deputy Prime
Minister of China to come to China and talk about this. During the
conference I found several dignitaries from politicians to
Bankers-some of them wearing green rings obviously given by Swami
--and many others, who were obviously Swami's devotees.
All this goes to show how
pervasive is the awareness of Swami all over the world, in all
opinion making bodies and how unobtrusively he is placing his
devotees in all world forums and how each one of us have a role to
play in creating this new world order based on Truth, Non Violence,
Peace, Right Conduct. In fact throughout this seminar which was
completely a non Sai function there were frequent reference to
these value systems.
I also had the opportunity to
speak at several Sai Centres in Japan-- Obviously one of the
hidden purposes of this sudden and surprising visit of mine --I
was impressed not only by the dedication but by the Quality of
Service work ...particularly on Educare, prevailing in this region.
Please feel free to circulate
this to as many Sai Devotees as you can. I am not normally an
email buff, but this whole experience was so humbling and a
remarkable demonstration of the increasing pervasiveness of Swami
and the role each one of us will be called upon to play towards
this.
Source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saidevotees_worldnet/message/429 |
