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Prashanthi Bullettin -
March 9th-15th, 2006
March 15th, 2006
Today, the devotees from Bihar and Jharkhand were blessed by
Bhagawan to celebrate the festival of Holi in His Divine
Presence. The Sai Kulwant Hall wore a festive look with banners
carrying some of Swami's pithy sayings, and the ceiling of the
central part of the Hall was decorated with brightly coloured
reflective festoons. The morning program commenced at 7.45 as
soon as Bhagawan came onstage after His darshan round. The first
item was a Navagraha Stuti dance. The songs which followed all
reflected the joyous mood of the Holi festival, and some were
depicted in dances too. Devotees seated on either side of the
central clear area of Sai Kulwant Hall threw coloured powder
into the air at regular intervals, adding to the Holi
atmosphere.
Bhagawan was very pleased with the hour long program. Bhajans
commenced after the program, and Bhagawan came down from the
stage in His chair to give group photos for all the
participants. Prasadam was also distributed. Not content with
giving group photos to only the Balvikas children who performed
the dances, Swami went towards the ladies' side and had group
photos with the ladies from Bihar and Jharkhand seated there.
Then the gents too got an opportunity. After all this, at the
conclusion of Arati, Bhagawan Blessed the entire congregation
with both His hands.
In the afternoon, the Holi program continued with the
presentation of a play on Bhakta poet Vidyapati of Mithila. Lord
Shiva Himself comes as a servant of Vidyapati moved by his
devotion. Bhagawan was very pleased with this performance too.
In fact, He paused the play for a minute or so near the end, to
give a ring to one of the main characters! After the drama,
Bhajans were sung by the Bihar and Jharkhand devotees, and
prasadam was distributed to the performers.
March 14th, 2006
A group of devotees from Hungary had been seated in the Bhajan
Hall before evening darshan. After His darshan round, Swami went
into the Bhajan Hall and interacted with the Hungarian group, a
group interview.
March 13th, 2006
This evening also, Bhagawan came onstage after darshan. After
Bhagawan had some interaction with the Senior Hostel Warden,
some of the Music College students scrambled to get their
instruments. Bhagawan had agreed to have their Hindustani vocal
musical program. The song program commenced at 4 pm and went on
for an hour. Many pleasing and well known songs including Meera
bhajans were sung by the students to the enjoyment of all. After
the music program, bhajans commenced in the Kulwant Hall,
following which Bhagawan returned to His Poornachandra
residence.
March 12th, 2006
This was the last Sunday before the examinations commence for
the students of the Sri Sathya Sai University. The final year
students of the Anantapur womens' campus had come to seek
Bhagawan's blessings. In the evening, Bhagawan asked two eminent
devotees to speak. Sri Chitti Babu, educationist and former
Vice-Chancellor of a number of Universitites was the first
speaker. He spoke for around 20 minutes, mentioning how he had
come to Swami afflicted with illness and how we should share our
experiences with others. The second speaker was Dr. Jayalakshmi
Gopinath, Warden of the Anantapur campus Hostel, a devotee of
Bhagawan for the last 57 years. She spoke for around 45 minutes,
with references to some of the leelas of Bhagawan she had been
witness to in her long association with Him. After these
speeches, Bhagawan sat onstage for a few bhajans and then
retired for the day.
March 9th, 2006
After Bhagawan came for evening darshan, He went walking upto
the stage area and asked some teachers seated there about what
program was arranged for that day. In fact, the students were
preparing for exams and no program was planned. But a Burrakatha
- traditional narrative interspersed with songs - had been
planned by some of the students a few days back, which could not
be presented then. Now, those students came forward and Bhagawan
gave them the green signal to present the Burrakatha, complete
with costumes. In just ten minutes, the students got ready to
start their 45 minute presentation. Prof. Anil Kumar made an
introductory announcement, mentioning the short notice and the
approaching exams of the students. The Burrakatha was introduced
as "the History of Shirdi Bhagawan as narrated by Parthi
Bhagawan". Bhagawan was very pleased with the crisp Burrakatha
and bountifully blessed the three main participants along with
their accompanists after their performance.
Source:
http://radiosai.org/pages/PB.htm
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