Archive for 2013

Celestial Marriage and Rathotsavam…

Week-long 88th birthday celebrations commenced in Prasanthi Nilayam on a very auspicious note, staging a symbolic celestial marriage of the Divine couple Lord Sri Ramachandra and Mother Sita followed by Rathotsavam. read more »

Blissful Smile…

How Bhagawan often goes an extra mile to bring an extra smile on His devotee’s face… Sri N.V.N. Somayajulu shares an incident depicting His special touch of grace, fulfilling an earnest desire of one of His devotees. read more »

88th Birthday Celebrations – Schedule

With the global Akhanda Bhajan for Universal Peace over and the month of November is into its third week, Prasanthi is all geared up for another joyous celebration – celebrating the Advent Of Bhagawan on 23rd November. The programme for this year’s celebrations commences on 18th November with the annual feature Ratotsavam to continue through for a week until 25th November. read more »

Depart Without Debt…

Bhagawan is hailed in the Arathi song as “Sadgurudeva”. He is the Divine Teacher of Supreme Truth. He makes use of every conceivable occasion to drive home the profoundest truths in the most compelling and interesting manner. The students and small group of devotees who were present at the evening gathering in “Trayee Brindavan” after Bhagawan’s return from Ooty on 11 May were blessed in many ways. Besides Bhagawan’s darshan and prasadam at the end of the meeting, they had the unforgettable privilege of listening to Bhagawan’s informal discourses which were mainly concerned with what may be compendiously described as “practical spirituality”. Bhagawan spoke one evening on what is true friendship. On another evening, He illustrated from a crucial episode in the Mahabharata how it is sinful to be silent witnesses to the perpetration of a grievous crime. read more »

Glittering Prasanthi witnesses grand culmination of Akhanda Bhajan…

A glittering Sai Kulwant Hall embraced Beloved Bhagawan’s ‘endearing presence’ with a couple of bhajans in His mellifluous voice echoing the holy precincts marking the culmination of 24 hour non-stop bhajan sadhana, Akhanda Bhajan, this evening here in Prasanthi Nilayam.  read more »

Global Akhanda Bhajan for World Peace commences…

Global Akhanda Bhajan 2013 commenced this evening at 1800 hrs. here in Prasanthi Nilayam. When the theme bhajan for this twenty-four hour spiritual exercise, “Akhanda Jyothi Jalaao …Sai Mana Mandir Mein” read more »

Global Akhanda Bhajan Today…

Annual Global Akhanda Bhajan 2013 will commence this evening at 1800 hrs. in Sai Kulwant Hall, Prasanthi Nilayam.  read more »

You don’t have faith in your own words…?

As the saying goes “Easier said than done” man of today tends to preach a lot with little practice. How often we boast of our so called faith only to find ourselves wanting, later… Read on a beautiful episode from the life of Ms Shiraz P. Pavri of Navsari, extracted from Sanathana Sarathi, Nov-Dec 1985. read more »

Gujarati New Year in Prasanthi Nilayam…

Hundreds of devotees from the State of Gujarat assembled in the holy precincts of Sai Kulwant Hall last evening celebrating Gujarati New Year in the immediate Divine ‘omnipresence’ of Beloved Bhagawan. This is the 11th year in succession the State is celebrating the New Year in Prasanthi Nilayam. read more »

Diwali in Prasanthi Nilayam…

4 November 2013: Celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights marking of victory good over evil, devotees from Gujarat under the auspices of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations Gujarat offered a variety of cultural programme last evening here in Prasanthi Nilayam. read more »