Today, Saturday Morning, Bhagawan arrived at the Institute auditorium at around
11:30 hrs to bless the ongoing conference on "Character Building in Integral
Education".
Watching the conference proceedings, with Team Vidya Vahini sharing the concept
of the project, Bhagawan spent almost an hour and a half before returing to
Yajur Mandiram at 1300 hrs.
Yesterday, Saturday evening Darshan and Programmes
Yesterday on Saturday evening arriving at 1810 hrs. Bhagawan went for a
full round of darshan, before moving into the bhajan hall in fifteen minutes. A
cultural programme entitled, "Karishye Vachanam Thava" by the youth of
Karnataka was scheduled for the evening and the crew was seated in the bhajan
hall. Blessing the crew Bhagawan emerged through the rear entrance to come
onstage at 1830hrs., setting stage for the programme procedings.
Beginning with a narration in Karnataka's own folk art form, Yakshagana,
the yakshas, picked up a modern story of three youngsters who get into the
thick of life, viewing the same with different perception. When the first one,
Akash who jumps into a whirlpool of high ambitions, meeting with success
initially, the second one Shreyas was a worried person who despite employing
honest means was unable to get the desired breakthrough. Bhagawan's teachings
of Shreya vs. Preyas found a mention here when the third one, Sumit decided to
give him a counselling.
Akash met his doom soon as his bank opted for bankruptcy, an aftermath of
the stock market crash. Akash was a lost man while Sumit and Yashas were not so
badly affected with the downturn. They kept meeting during the Narayana Seva.
When Sumit turned worried about his not-so-paid job, Akash had the story of
young Naren and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
Finally understanding dawned upon Akash when his father was miraculously
saved by the other two friends, who took him to Bhagawan's hospital in
Whitefield. The drama often went into the flashback mode, showing relevant
episodes from the lives of Shankaracharya, Vivekananda, Bhishma, Ashoka etc. in
an effort to carry the storyline effectively.
Upon the end of the presentation, Bhgawan moved down the stairs to spent
ten minutes with the crew, moving amongst and posing for photograph. One of the
actos, who acted as Yashas was blessed with a gold chain from the Divne hands.
Arathi was offered at 1950 hrs. After a while Bhagawan left the dais
leaving towards Yajur Mandiram at aruond 2000 hrs.
This Friday evening
This Friday evening Bhagawan came at 1800 hrs. on the dot. A full round
of darshan ensued before Bhagawan arrived on the stage at 1820 hrs.
As the darshan round was on, the Veda chanting that continued non-stop
from 16:30 hrs. came to an end with Balvikas children from Karanataka taking
over singing heart-rendering bhajans.
Over 500 Balvikas children from the state have come on a Parthi Yathra
and sixty of them, thirty boys and thirty girls, participated in the evening's
bhajans. It turned out to be a freshening experience with hundreds tender vocal
cords singing aloud with innocent loving expressions in the immediate Divine
presence.
At 1855 hrs. Bhagawan asked for Mangala Arathi and a couple of boys and
girls from the Balvikas group got opportunities to come upto the dais to
receive blessings. Silence prevailed all over as Bhagawan sat on gluing on to
the group and the assembly.
Breaking the beauty of silence innocent chirpings, "We Love You Swami",
rendered the air as children collectively burst open expressing their love for
Bhagawan. Soon Bhagawan asked for an encore of Mangala Arathi.
Leaving the dais at 1910 hrs. Bhagawan made a quick visit into the
interview room before coming out to move into the ladies' side. Interacting
with some of the seniors from the Anantapur campus, Bhagawan blessed the
faculty members with sarees before retiring to Yajur Mandiram after 1920 hrs.
Special chocolate prasadam was distributed to the entire gathering.
Earlier, a two-day conference on the theme, Character Building in
Integral Education got underway at the SSSIHL auditorium this morning. Faculty
members and research scholars from all the three campuses would be attending
the conference.
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