Sri Sai Gana Sudha Sunday, February 24th, 2013 On the second day of Adilabad Parthi Yatra, there was a music programme titled “Sri Sai Gana Sudha” by two exceptionally talented visually challenged singers, Sri Rohan and Sri Roshan. They were accompanied by four alumni from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. The singers after offering their salutations to Bhagawan expressed their gratitude to the Adilabad district Sri Sathya Sai Organisation for bestowing this opportunity to them. The melody duo began their performance with Ganesh Vandan “Gayiye Ganapati Jaga Vandan.”
They followed it up with a Telugu Bhajan “Manava Sevaye Madhava Sevani Bodhinchinadu Oka Baba” (Baba taught service to man is service to God). A few Prasanthi Bhajans like Parthiswara Sathya Saieswara,” Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva, Hari Naam Gaate Chalo formed beautiful interludes to famous songs like Shiva Shankari Shivananda Lahari, sung by the famous singer of yesteryears, Sri Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, Bhajan Samrat Anup Jalota’s evergreen number “Jag Mein Sundar Hai O Naam” and Suresh Wadkar’s ever echoing Abhang “Ee O Vitthale Bhaktajana Vatsale.” They ended their performance spanning about an hour with the Qawali sung many a time in Bhagawan’s physical presence “Sai Bin Raha Na Jaye.” The performance was greeted with a thunderous applause from devotees assembled in Sai Kulwant Hall. The singers and accompanying artistes were honoured with clothes and mementoes. After a few Bhajans and a recorded Bhajan of Bhagawan “Govinda Krishna Vitthale Venu Gopala Krishna Vitthale,” the day’s programme concluded with distribution of Prasadam and Mangalarati at 6.20 p.m. II Samastha Lokah Sukhino Bhavantu II sourced: http://www.theprasanthireporter.org/2013/02/sri-sai-gana-sudha/ Adilabad District Parthi Yatra… Sunday, February 24th, 2013 Devotees from Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh had come on a pilgrimage to Prasanthi Nilayam to pay their homage to Bhagawan. This pilgrimage is the seventh year in succession of the devotees of this district. As part of their pilgrimage, they staged a dance drama on the evening of 23rd February 2013. At the outset, Sri Ranganath Raju, an alumnus of Bhagawan’s Institute from the district addressed the gathering. Speaking on Bhagawan’s compassion on the devotees, the speaker said during their third Parthi Yatra, Bhagawan gave Padanamaskar to each of the 3,300 devotees. Narrating an experience from his student days, the Sri Raju said, nine years ago, Bhagawan had called the students to Poornachandra Auditorium for a session. Bhagawan asked him as to where he had come from. When he replied that he was from Adilabad, Bhagawan said, “Only recently the devotees from this district had come. They are all good boys.” The dance drama began with a dance symbolically welcoming the Lord. The drama had a mythological touch with Narada as the narrator of the drama. Interspersed with dances by tiny tots, this short dance drama portrayed the anguish of devotees in the absence of Bhagawan’s physical form. When they used to come every year, Bhagawan would lovingly ask them as to when they came, how many had come; He also lovingly gave Padanamaskar to all of them. The drama begins with a scene of the celestials – Indra, Brahma and others expressing their shock at the missing of their kith and kin. Even Lord Vinayaka, Goddess Saraswati and Hanuman are missing. Narada and others decide to meet Narayana to find a solution to this problem. Lord Narayana tells them that God has incarnated in Puttaparthi as Sathya Sai Baba. Bhagawan has installed these deities in Puttaparthi. That is the reason for their absence. In another scene, the village folk express their agony by saying that in spite of the fervent prayers of devotees all over the world, Bhagawan decided to shed His mortal coil. Narada says that God always answers the prayers of devotees. Bhagawan only requires the love of devotees. Try to reform yourself. That is what is important. Sabari patiently waited for Lord Rama’s Darshan for years, Radha continuously longed for Lord Krishna’s Darshan expressing her pangs of separation and ultimately the Lord condescended to her prayers. To refrain or stop praying is not the quality of a devotee. One should continuously pray to the Lord. That is the duty of every devotee. The drama ended with a clarion call to devotees to wake up and banish Maya (illusion). At the end, all the cast converged and clothes were distributed to them. After a photograph session of all those involved with the drama, the programme concluded with distribution of Prasadam and Arati at 6.10 pm. II Samastha Lokah Sukhino Bhavantu II sourced: http://www.theprasanthireporter.org/2013/02/adilabad-district-parthi-yatra/ Prayer requests and the Gratitude Programme - lessons from students of Sri Sathya Sai Baba >From Aravind Balasubramanya Dear all, I was surprised by the wealth of wisdom and experiences that this year's gratitude programme by the school students had... The 17th of Feb, 2013, in that sense, is unforgettable for me. Apart from conferring valuable insights, it gave me a lot of divine nectar in terms of loving experiences with Swami..... However, the most poignant lesson was on the power of simple gratitude..... http://hub.me/aeZaI -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "saimsg" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
