Speeches, Video and Carnatic Vocal…
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Three speeches, a video presentation and a Carnatic Musical offering marked the evening of this year’s Guru Purnima celebrations today here in Prasanthi Nilayam. The programme commenced at 1650 hrs. with a short introductory speech on the ensuing session.
The speakers for the final session of the talk series were Sri Hemant Patel from Gujarat, Ms Divya Tyagi from New Delhi and Sri Sundar Anantaraman from Karnataka.
Sri Hemant Patel, District President, SSSSO, Vadodara, who spoke first elucidated on the organisational endeavour highlighting the Nine Point Code Of Conduct, elaborating the 9 points in brief.
Ms Divya Tyagi, Dy. State Coordinator, SSSSO, Delhi and also an active force in the Balvikas movement spoke of the inception and evolution of the Balvikas movement that blossoms leaders for nation building. Listing out statistical details Ms Tyagi said, every home should become a Balvikas Centre, every mother should become a Balvikas Teacher…as nurturing a student is to nurture the nation.
The final speaker, Sri Sundar Anantaraman, a man with many skills, and also visiting faculty at the Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of India, spoke of the Service activities of SSSSO – India. Listing out some of the landmark service activities undertaken in various states, the speaker said ‘these are mere statistics; in Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations quantity is incidental and quality is fundamental.’ Making a mention of the ‘unseen hand’ of Bhagawan, at a time when He chose to withdraw His physical frame, Sri Sundar narrated an inspiring tale, wherein some of the corporate houses have come forward volunteering to do service at the Super Speciality Hospital in Bangalore. Service is an opportunity and one need not miss this opportunity, reminded the speaker, before signing out, quoting Bhagawan that ‘an opportunity lost will not come back.’
A beautiful video depicting the nostalgic golden olden day beauty of Beloved Bhagawan followed next. Audience sat in silent absorption, immersing in the fascinating tale of His-Story, watching the beauty of His majestic grandeur.
A musical bouquet, Carnatic vocal, by accomplished artiste Ms S Sowmya was the next item to follow. Beginning with an offering to The Supreme Teacher singing “Gurur Brahma…” she sang for the next fifty minutes producing 9 gems that included “Sakalakalavaniye Sharanam…”, “Shakthi Dayini Saayi Narayani…”, “Enna Thavam…”, “Nagumo…” etc. Ms Sowmya was accompanied by Embar Sri Kannan on violin, Sri Neyveli Sri Narayanan on Mridangam and Chandrsekhara Sharma on Ghatam.
The artistes and accompanists were felicitated at the end of the programme.
Today, Guru Purnima 2013, incidentally marks the golden jubilee of the epochal incident in His Story, when Bhagawan, out of sheer compassion and love for His devotees healed Himself of a paralytic stroke that He had taken upon Himself…and the healing was followed by His epochal declaration, revealing that, He is Paripoorna Shiva-Shakthi Avatar.
Bhajans continued and ended with Bhagawan singing “Subramaniam Subramaniam…” Prasadam was distributed and the session ended at 1905 hrs. with the offering of Mangala Arathi.
II Samastha Lokah Sukhino Bhavantu II
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