GURUPURNIMA 2014 NEWS FROM PUTTAPARTHI Om Sairam dearest Sai Family, It was a jam packed ashram, devotees, delegates of various groups, participants of cultural programmes, the support staff of the programmes and devotees all had plenty to do in a very " short" time and the Gurupurnima 2014 will be remembered for its" quality" and " quantity" be it the large group of Maharashtra devotees or the groups from Indonesia, Russia or the delegates who came to the Education Conference and office bearers from Sri Sathya Sai Organisation, India I was told by participants of Education conference that the sessions went very well with some great inspiring stories shared by teachers, academicians across the globe which inspired the participants especially those who are into Value based Education system. There was also a meeting called for all the conveners of Sai Centers across India presided by The All India President. I was told that that also went very well. On the eve of Gurupurnima about 3000 of them were made to sit in the middle of the hall and the sweet surprise and infact a "priceless" one came when the Members of Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust walked among them to give Swami's robe to each and every one of them. It is their great fortune that they got this gift of having Swami's robe specially distributed after being placed at Swami's Mahasamadhi. I was told that the idea is to make every Sai Center a "Shrine" by placing the robe in the Sai Center. On a lighter note it will be nice if the Conveners who got this gift will again " gift" the robe back to the Sai Center whom they represent as it will give joy to hundreds who visit the respective Sai Centers instead of keeping the robe in their homes. Personally, I think it was a very noble gesture by the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust to come up with such an unique idea of gifting Swami's robe. I am sure there will be many more requests from Office bearers of overseas Sai Centers in the near future. The beautiful and inspiring talks by various office bearers of India and overseas members were really inspiring and every one got to see the good work done by various Sai Centers and the omnipresent Swami doing His job in a steady pace. It was also nice to see many " long time " devotees on the dais watching the programmes keenly. Thousands of devotees thronged to Prasanthi to offer their Salutations to Guru of Gurus, Jagatguru, Sri Sathya Sai Baba. May Swami guide us and guard us. 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/d/optout.
