Dear Sai family members,
Please find the news item published in a web portal on Avtaar declaration day by Jagatsinghpur district. Please click below link. http://www.paradipdiary.com/avtaar-declaration-day-celebrated-at-jagatsinghpur-by-sri-sathyasai-organisation/ Avtaar Declaration Day celebrated at Jagatsinghpur by Sri Sathyasai Organisation. Posted on October 28, 2012 by admin MAHANAGAR Parikrama at Jagatsinghpur 20th October every year is celebrated as the Avatar Declaration Day. It is on this historically significant day in the year 1940 that the young lad Sathyanarayana Raju revealed to the world His Divine identity and the glorious mission on which He has come. The following lines capture the events on that epochal day: Sathyanarayana started for school as usual. However, within a few minutes, He returned to the house. Standing on the outer doorstep, He cast aside the books He was carrying and called out, “I am no longer your Sathya. I am Sai.” The sister-in-law came from the kitchen, only to be blinded by the splendour of the halo around Baba’s head! He addressed her, “I am going; I don’t belong to you; Maya (delusion) has gone; My Bhaktas (devotees) are calling Me; I have My Work; I can’t stay here any longer.” When the brother hurried home on hearing all this, Baba only told him, “Give up all your efforts to ‘cure’ Me. I am Sai; I do not consider Myself related to you”. Crowd in the rally (Mahanagar Parikrama) In spite of repeated pleas, Sathya would not step into that building again. He moved in into the garden of the Excise Inspector Sri Anjaneyulu’s bungalow, and sat on a rock in the midst of the trees. People came into the garden from all directions bringing flowers, fruits, incense and camphor to worship Him. The garden resonated with the voices of hundreds singing bhajans (devotional singing) and following the lines of the first prayer that Sri Sathya Sai taught them. “Manasa Bhajare Gurucharanam Dusthara Bhava Sagara Tharanam “ (O Mind! Meditate on the Feet of the Guru, which will take you across the wearisome sea of Samsara or worldly existence.) To celebrate this landmark event in Baba’s life, the Avatar Declaration Day is celebrated every year with devotion and gratitude by his devotees world wide under the umbrella of Sri Sathyasai Organisation. Sri Sathyasai Seva Organisation, Jagatsinghpur district celebrated the day with a huge Mahanagar Parikrama in the district head quarter of Jagatsinghpur in which thousands of devotees including youths participated and sung bhajans, chanted vedas. The rally also consisted of Kirtan teams. Earlier in the day, the rally was inaugurated by Sri Sathyasai Seva Organisation, Odisa, Trust Convenor, Antaryami Pattnaik by lighting lamps. A decorated chariot carrying a full protrait of Sri Sathyasai Baba was also part of this rally. The rally covered all major streets of Jagatsinghpur. The samithy members from all the samithy under the district viz. Jagatsinghpur, Kujanga, Paradip, Tirtol, Raghunathpur, Pankapal and Punanga participated in this annual event in the calender of Sri Sathyasai Organisation. District president, Er.Bipin Bihari Panigrahi and other office bearers of the organisation conducted all the programme. sairam sairam sairam sairam sairam HELP EVER - HURT NEVER - BABA - sairam sairam sairam sairam sairam
