UN conference Japan & BABA

[Guest guest]

Mr. Ravi Dabir is a long time devotee of Swami and the letter was sent to be

circulated. I have just returned from Japan after attending a UN convention on

"Water and Resources" and what I found was something amazing which I want to

share with you. The plenary session of about 1800 delegates had in the podium

men like the Prime Minister of Japan, Dpty Prime Minister of China, Prime

Ministers of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Ministers from about 20

countries presidents of world Bank, IMF and Mayors of at least 20 major cities

of the world and Mrs Annan, wife of the UN Secretary General--infact a very

high power body. The Session started with a 30 minute Dance on the Theme of

Water performed by the School children of Japan and at the end of it I got my

first surprise! It was announced that it was by the Sathya Sai School children

of Japan. At the end of the three day session there was a well attended ballet

on Global Resources -again by the Sathya Sai school children of the Asian

Region!1800 delegates gave a standing ovation.I had to deliver a keynote

address on Swami's water project - again an invitation from UN that I was

surprised to receive at the last minute - and this generated a lot of

enthusiasm - The attending press was so interested that they wanted me to

answer questions on an impromptu press conference where there was a lot of

interest on Swami's service projects. This even included an invitation from the

Deputy Prime Minister of China to come to china and talk about this. During the

conference I found several dignitaries from politicians to Bankers - some of

them wearing green rings obviously given by Swami - and many others, who were

obviously Swami's devotees. All this goes to show how pervasive is the

awareness of Swami all over the world, in all opinion making bodies and how

unobtrusively He is placing His devotees in all world forums and how each one

of us have a role to play in creating this new world order based on Truth, Non

Violence, Peace, Right Conduct. In fact throughout this seminar which was

completely a non Sai function there were frequent reference to these value

systems.I also had the opportunity to speak at several Sai Centres in Japan -

Obviously one of the hidden purposes of this sudden and surprising visit of

mine - I was impressed not only by the dedication but by the Quality of Service

work... particularly on Educare, prevailing in this region. I am not normally an

email buff ,but this whole experience was so humbling and a remarkable

demonstration of the increasing pervasiveness of Swami and the role each one of

us will be called upon to play towards this.

Sai Ram