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An experience at Annual Sports Meet,
1991 I
would like to narrate about two incidents which happened during
Annual sports meet. Annual sports meet is the regular event. Let
me briefly explain what is this sports meet and its significance.
The free education offered at Parthi by Bhagawan composes of all
ingredients for a better student. This has a part for sports,
yoga, spirituality, discipline apart from imparting education.
Students have to undergo physical fitness regularly in the
evenings. They have to go for exercises, and different games which
are available in the hostel. Swami conducts regular music and
cultural programs so that each and every student has a role to
play in this programs.
Well, coming to this story of sports meet once in a year Sathya
Sai Institute od Higher learning conducts Sports meet for all the
three campuses (Puttaparthi ,Brindavan and Anathapur). The
students go for rigorous training in different disciplines to show
their talent to Bhagawan and impress Him. Some of the feats are
very difficult to emulate by common people. Like Parachute jumping,
Taking off through a motorized glider, Jumping over a running car
from a stationary van, yoga on motor cycles as the list goes on
and on.
This particular incident took place in 1991 when I was in Parthi.
I forgot, This function annually takes place before Sankrnathi or
second week of January. Students performed a lot of incidents and
the end program was motor cycle stunt. One of the item was a
student jumps from an elevated ramp to another elevated ramp which
are of 6 feet high and are seperated by 5 feet distance. Jumping
from one ramp to another was not a big deal. To impress the
audience and to show their valor to none other than Bhagawan
Himself students thought of adding fire in between the ramps. Well,
Students had practiced this feet without fire in between the ramps,
and wanted to have real stunt on the final day. Now the stunt
started. The ramps were setup and the fire was lit. Now Anil Patle
1989 - 1991 batch MBA student started on his bike. When he was
approaching the ramp the fumes and smoke became so thick he could
not see the ramp on the second side. People from both sides of the
ramps had no problem in seeing the ramps. Anil did not want to
stop and thus generate great disappointment to Swami and to
himself. He recollected his heroics during the practice and
filling Gods name and thoughts in his heart jumped over. Perfect
takeoff. He zoomed through the flames and landed on the second
ramp as expected. Great applause. Swami was till the on the verge
of the seat got up and started clapping. Everyone was so happy and
as usual all the students who participated in the event went for
Bhagawan's padanamskar. Swami patted this boy and said "Dunnapotha,
Look at the ramp and jump do not push everything on God" chided
lovingly.
The next morning Swami got the photographs of the motor stunt. He
came over to our hero in question and showed the photograph. In
that one shot was taken when the vehicle was landing. The picture
was so vivid ( I still remember) that only the front wheel was
touching the ramp and the back wheel was already going down in the
fire. Anyone can understand that Anil reached early and no way he
could make it to a safe feat without a back lift from
Bhagawan. Then Anil understood the meaning of what Bhagawan said
while taking padanamaskar. Currently this boy Anil Patle is
working in Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Medical sciences.
This story whenever I think of gives me tremendous confidence that
He is there to take care of, so long I think of Him. There are lot
of incidents happened to many students during their stay in Parthi
and away from Parthi. This is only one such a small incident.
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