NOVEMBER 18, 2013 NEWS FROM PUTTAPARTHI What a grand start to the 88th birthday celebrations of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba!!! The ashram is beautifully decorated on this holy occasion. Its just amazing feeling looking at the beautiful colored papers, the huge tree infront of Ganesha now has a beautifully renovated platform. The Ganesha Statue has also been lit up with beautiful lights. The unique thing about this year's lighting is that it has bit of antique look. The lightings look like the one's in 80s or early 90s, with regular 60 Volt bulbs lighting in random and small lights lighting in sequence. Even though the modern day lights are bit flashy but old is gold. If we go little bit further towards Swami's Residence, the two eyes are not enough to see the beauty especially in the nights. This year's special attraction are the big flashy lights (fitted near Swami's residence) in the sky which spreads for few kilometers. Its just amazing to see this in the night sky This morning (November 18th) it was the day of the traditional Chariot festival where the idols are taken on a chariot from Gopuram gate to the Old Mandir and back. The whole of Puttaparthi came to a stand still to witness this. It was a divine morning with lots of music as well. The evening programme was equally interesting and the first one to start with was the " Whistle concert" , a one of its kind concert by Sri.Siva Prasad, who was also blessed to " whistle" in the divine presence on one occasion. It was just fantastic as he " whistled" beautiful Prasanthi Bhajans. The next programme was by the students of all campuses titled, " Bhakthi Bhava Pravaham" a beautiful dance which looked very professional in its narration and enaction. FREE MEDICAL CAMP IN THE ASHRAM: Like it happens every year, on the occasion of Swami's 88th birthday celebrations a free medical camp has been arranged in the Ashram in N4 block where in 13 doctors from USA, UK and Australia are serving the needy patients.. They are also giving out free medicines. Interestingly there are two very experienced Oncologists in the camp to guide cancer patients. The Medical camp is open the whole day till 8PM and will be operating till November 25th. (Even though most of the locals are aware of it, just in case you have any freinds in Puttaparthi, please pass this news so that people can get benefited). NEW ATM TO BE OPENED IN THE ASHRAM: After so many years, the ashram authorities have given a go ahead for the establishment of a ATM within the ashram. A new ATM operated by Canara Bank is almost ready for inaugaration right infront of North Indian Canteen. SEND US THE PHOTO OF BIRTHDAY ALTAR As mentioned earlier, www.voiceofsai.com requests you all to share the photo of your altar (it can be your home, Sai Center, group meeting etc) so that we can share the same with the rest of the world. All you have to do is take a nice picture (only of the altar with no one else in the frame and should be taken on November 23rd), with your name, country and send it to [email protected] All the photos received will be compiled and shared with the rest of the world so that we can see how our brothers and sisters celebrated Swami's 88th birthday. May Bhagawan bless us all to celebrate His birthday with joy and peace in our hearts... because He said, My birthday is when you all are joyful and peaceful.. With Pranams at the Lotus feet of our beloved Lord, R.Satish Naik -- --- 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.
