Ashadi in Prasanthi Nilayam… Saturday, July 20th, 2013 Celebrating Ashadi Ekadashi, the Marata festival of great spiritual significance, Balvikas children along with devotees from the State of Maharashtra presented a variety of cultural programmes yesterday at the Sanctum Sanctorum in Prasanthi Nilayam.
On the auspicious morning the programme commenced at 0820 hrs., after half-an-hour Rudram chanting, with a Dindi procession, symbolic to the age-old tradition of Varkari Yatra to Pandharpur, Abode Of Lord Vitthala. A couple of dances to the tune of Marati abhangs followed next. Balvikas children from Mumbai then offered a Musical Dance Drama entitled ‘The Divine Kaar Rally’. The Divine Kaar Rally this morning was an encore, with a modified version, of the 1999 presentation in the immediate Divine Presence of Beloved Bhagawan. The presentation was a graphic depiction of man’s plight today. Man, completely enmeshed in materialism, yielding to lower instincts, looses his track forgetting his real nature. To get into the “I to He Highway” he has to cross over Ahamkaar…then Mamakaar…to progress into Chamatkar wherein he will start experiencing Divine Touch Of Grace as miracles. From there, while in tune, he will progress with the help of a special bonus, Paropakaar, to Sakshaatkaar, Self Realisation! Presented with a touch of humour, with subtle yet profound messages, the presentation brings in a protagonist who drives in, with his ‘Ahamkaar’ that breaks down only for him to seek helpf from Sathya Sai Garage…the garagemen were helpless as ‘Ahamkaar’ broke into pieces and was beyond repair…Mamakaar drives into the scene then which also fails to further owing to break down. Even as he thinks how to reach his destination ‘Chamatkaar’ drives the protagonist to much better position wherein he was offered further assistance by the garage man to rely on Sathya Sai World Bank for ‘financial assistance’ to progress to ‘Namaskaar’…from there to ‘Sanskaar’ and finally to ‘Sakshaatkaar’. In the process the protagonist was asked to seek the help of Sri Sathya Sai Driving School wherefrom he got the essential lessons of Nine Point Code Of Conduct, to promote to the Sanskaar class. As advised by the Sathya Sai World Bank official the protaganist understands the luring schme, that yiels a special bonus as well, of 1 percentage extra grace before reaching Sakshaatkaar, his final destination. Presenting symbolically the presentation was full of values, as preached by Bhagawan, illustrating present day man’s plight owing to ignorance. At the end all the children were felicitated with special presentations and bhajans by Maharashtra troupe continued until Mangala Arathi at 0940 hrs. In the evening Balvikas children from Thane district presented a thought provoking dance drama entitle Manav to Mahatma, illustrating the mateoric rise of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to Mahatma Gandhi, India’s Father Of Nation. The presetation based on Bhagawan’s Divine Discourse as well as from the tale of National Independence Struggle depicted how his Mother Jija Bhai instilled greater values in Gandhiji as a young lad, that helped him to take a firm resolve to adhere to truth to finally sacrifice his life for the natioin winning National Independence. Episodes from his sojourn in South Africa, the famous episode of Hindu – Muslim dispute at the Azad Maidan wherein Gandhiji brought them together, the trial at the British Court etc. were also shown. The presentation was intertwined with beautiful dance and song sequences. At the end, Bhajans continued and Mangala Arathi was offered at 1820 hrs. The three day Ashadi festivity will continue today witha Musical Offering entitled Quantum Signature of God – Confluence of Science & Spirituality Sri Ganesh Atre & team. II Samastha Lokah Sukhino Bhavantu II sourced: http://www.theprasanthireporter.org/2013/07/ashadi-in-prasanthi-nilayam/ Sai Rama – Dutha At Our Window Saturday, July 20th, 2013 At a time when He was not widely accepted as Sai Baba, when critics would often look at Him and His actions with growing reservations, one family was immensely blessed by ‘The Little Divine’, the family of Little Sathya’s Uravakonda school teacher, Manchiraju Thammiraju. He would continuously bless the Thammiraju family with His Divine Visiting Cards, teaching them to live in an age of miracles. You must have read in “Sathyam Sivam Sundaram” the thrilling story of Baba’s visit to Hampi Hospet etc at the age of 14 and on His return, the epoch-making announcement, that He belonged to His devotees and that His work beckoned Him. You must have read of the First Bhajan in the garden of the Excise Inspector’s bungalow, which I too attended. I was excited and thrilled beyond words for I did not consider that Sathya was my `student’; He was my Guru, my Guide. I shall now share with you some of the experiences that the members of my family had experienced 23 years ago. (the article dates back to June 1963) Baba was present at the Uravakonda Bhajan sessions, every Thursday evening, when hundreds used to gather to take His blessings. Once when He went to Puttaparthi from there, He took me, my wife and my son as far as Anantapur and we were with Him there for two days, after which He left for the village, and we returned. We used to worship Baba, installing Him, in imagination, on the Pita (Seat Of Divine) which Baba had asked us to place in the shrine room. One day, while my wife was immersed in bhajan, with tears of joy streaming down her face, a big sized bumble-bee zoomed in circular sweeps and dropped on her head, while flying through the window, a roll of paper! We found that it was a picture of Shirdi Sai Baba! Surely, it was a gift from Sathya Sai!… for our shrine. Another day during the bhajan, Baba called the wife of Kasibhatla Sriramamurthy to the dais and told her, “I have just kept a picture in your shrine room for Puja; why is it you have no Picture there? Go and worship It.” She was surprised that this `little boy’ knew the details of the room so well and that Baba had shown them His grace. Immediately, she hurried home with three other women; they opened the lock and went in; the doors and windows were all closed for fear of monkeys; they threw them open one by one. Yes; there was a picture on the floor of the shrine, a picture of Shirdi Sai Baba! Even more wonderful is another incident which I clearly recall. Baba was then at Puttaparthi, far away from Uravakonda. We were engaged in bhajan, as usual in our little house; it was a rather a hurried bhajan, for it was a working day for the school and we teachers could not afford to go late! A monkey leaped on to the window and held fast the iron bars and grinned. We tried to shoo him off; he threw a tiny bundle of cloth into the room, and waited to note our reactions. Baba, the Divine Boy, had taught us to live in an age of miracles. So, I took the bundle and with shivering hands, untied the knot and lo!… There was a laddu (!) in it. Have you ever heard of a monkey delivering a packet of ‘laddu’, unopened? And, lo! there was also a letter… from Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba… in His own lovely handwriting!! “I sent you a picture with a bee. I am glad you are worshipping it sincerely. Well, I Am sending you now some Prasadam. Share it with all and be happy.” Must I add that I could not attend school that day? The joy was so over-powering. His grace was so overwhelming. -- --- 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]. 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