Onam 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
The Guest speaker Hon’ble Justice Sri Radhakrishnan’s beginning sentence addressing devotees from Kerala, “all the efforts that we have taken to assemble here is worth as you do not have Onam in Kerala as it is here” rightly reflected the holistic approach the festivity brings in to God’s Very Own Prasanthi Nilayam. Onam has always been a different experience in Prasanthi Nilayam compared to the ‘home’ experience. Where, in modern times, culture, traditions and the legends connected to festivities take a back-seat owing to unhealthy culture of commercialism and excess materialism, Prasanthi Nilayam often welcomes the holistic side of all festivities, embracing and disseminating true purport of each festivity.
This year too, as has been over the years, thousand from the state along with hundreds from different parts of India joined Prasanthi Nilayam, the holy hamlet that has witnessed a metamorphosis of the festivity over decades, celebrating the festivity for three days, from August 27 to the final Thiruvonam Day on August 29. read more »
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Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vahini Reaching New Milestone…
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Bhagawan’s pet project announced during the 85th Birthday celebrations, Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vahini, that aims at integrating values in an innovative way into the school curriculum, got a big fillip last week as its newly developed comprehensive web application was offered at Bhagawan’s Lotus Feet on August 25, 2012 in Prasanthi Nilayam.
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Gloves and Grace…
Thursday, August 30, 2012
“I am a 14 year old Grade 9 student at the Highland Junior High School in Toronto, Canada. Recently, I had, I hope, the good fortune of experiencing Bhagawan’s Grace. I told it to my parents. They were very pleased. They shared it with some of their friends at Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Toronto. One of them suggested that I should share the episode with the readers of ‘Sanathana Sarathi’,” wrote little Priya Kumar from Canada, sharing his own experience of Bhagawan’s Divinity…. From Sanathana Sarathi, August 1987.
On Sunday mornings I deliver 35-40 newspapers in my neighbourhood. These are morning papers, so I have to deliver them before 8 a.m. But Sunday, February 15, 1987, was an extremely cold morning. The temperature was 23 degree Celsius. There was also a chill wind, which made the temperature seem even worse. As usual, I started out with my load of newspapers in a shopping cart accompanied by my pet dog, Snowball. Snowball is fluffy, white Samoyed, an Arctic breed. But the weather was so cruel that I thought even my Arctic companion was not enjoying the walk. His breath was freezing on his whiskers and I had some fun breaking them off. read more »
Posted in Sai Spiritual Showers
His First Speech on Baba
Monday, August 27, 2012
After coming to Baba in the Fifties, Prof Kasturi was for many decades the most entertaining and edifying exponent of Bhagawan’s life and message. But the first speech he had to give on Baba in 1951 was quite an ordeal. The following account of the incident, related in Prof Kasturi’s own inimitable humorous style, is reproduced from his autobiography, “Loving God”.
1951, December I received in the day’s mail a letter from Baba, in the Kannada language, but in Anglo Saxon script. I could neither read nor write the Telugu script and my understanding of the language was halting and inchoate. So, Baba had to devise this devious dualistic method of correspondence to communicate His orders. The letter made me both proud and penitent. It was a command clothed as a request. I was to unveil Bhagawan’s portrait at the School Day Function of the Sri Sathya Sai Baba District Board High School, Bukkapatnam! As a measure of abundant caution, Baba had written that my being given this golden chance was a precious piece of good fortune. read more »
Posted in Lest We Forget
Unto Sai a witness
Monday, August 27, 2012
Prof N. Kasturi was undoubtedly the most familiar name in Sai fraternity who lived an astounding forty years in close proximity to the Avatar of the Age, serving Him in His mission in various capacities. The Professor whose genius had many pens in his pocket was His ‘charge d’affaires’ and when the right time for Prasanthi’s premier publishing enterprise arrived it was Prof Kasturi who was ordained to take mission ahead, the mission of Sanathana Sarathi. Remembering the legend, on this occasion of quarter century of His ascent, who was the first Editor of Sanathana Sarathi and the first Convener of Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust, we reproduce what his successor Sri VK Narasimhan had written for Sanathana Sarathi announcing the ascent of the doyen, merging at His Lotus Feet!
“Death is the denouement of the drama of life,” wrote Prof Kasturi in 1981. That denouement came to him on August 14 at noon, a few minutes after Bhagawan Baba saw him in the Sathya Sai Hospital at Prasanthi Nilayam. He was 90. read more »
Posted in Indelible Impressions
Ramadan Mubarak…
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The very root of Islam has been based on Love and Surrender, echoed Prasanthi offering a comprehensive presentation on the occasion of Eid-Ul-Fitr on August 20, 2012 in Prasanthi Nilayam. Eid-Ul-Fitr marks the end of Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Wishing the august assembly greetings on the holy auspicious occasion, the presentation began with postgraduate students enacting a conversation involving an enthusiastic and curious youngster by name Hemant with some of his Muslim acquaintance. As an innocent Hemant grew curious to know the finer aspects of Ramadan festivity, the conversation prolonged converting Sai Kulwant Hall into a ‘virtual’ classroom, where ‘Ramadan and its finer aspects’ was discussed most comprehensively, helping the august gathering enlightened about the subject. read more »
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Radio Sai @ 10
Sunday, August 19, 2012
With the spectrum of waves from Radio Sai linking and syncing the globe to Prasanthi Nilayam, the world amalgamates to become one room. ‘We are always tuned to Bhagawan through Radio Sai’, is one such response relating to the mass appeal Radio Sai enjoys among the Sai fraternity. read more »
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Study The Holy Qur’an and Hold Its Teachings…
Friday, August 17, 2012
Upon finding that the Muslims of Puttaparthi had to trek about four miles to Bukkapatnam every time they had to pray in a mosque, since they did not have a place of worship in their own village, in 1978, Bhagawan built a mosque in the village to help the Muslims to worship in Puttaparthi itself. read more »
Posted in Discourses, Festive Special
Tryst with Faith…
Thursday, August 16, 2012
The holy month of Ramzan is all set to bid good-bye. Today being the final Friday of the holy month, when the Muslims around the world would get to intensify their prayers doing self-enquiry as to whether they entertained the holy ‘guest’ with reverence, adhering to the prescriptions laid down in the Holy Quran, let’s take a peep into the what entails the Holy Month of Islam. (Adapted from Sri Sathya Sai Balvikas, July 2012) read more »
Posted in Festive Special
Disciple and Devotee…
Thursday, August 16, 2012
What is the distinction between a disciple and a devotee and who is eligible to be called a disciple and who, a devotee? Bhagawan Shirdi Sai had spelt out clear-cut distinction between the two, later confiding in His lone disciple. Read on how the present Avatar recounted the same in one of His Divine discourses delivered in 1990, at Parthi. read more »
Posted in Sai Spiritual Showers
