Eswaramma day celebrations at Whitefield and Puttaparthi

May 7, 2006

"Saikumar.B" <saikumar2001 >

News May 7th: 6:15 am - Eswaramma day celebrations at Whitefield and Puttaparthi.

Report from Puttaparthi

The Samadhi in the Samadhi road was decorated with colorful ribbons and flowers. At 8:00 am the Bhajan started at the Samadhi and 10:00 am it finished with Aarthi. Food and clothes were distributed to every one after the bhajans. Many devotees participated in the event.

Report from Whitefield

6th of may the day when our dear Swami's revered mother left this world, is celebrated as ESWARAMMA day and we in Bangalore are fortunate to be part of this celebrations at Brindavan in the divine presence of SWAMI. The weather here is very hot, the gates of the ashram were open at 6 am and the line of devotees is already huge inside the ashram we get into the tokenlines, the ladies side we can see those who have got in rush to get a good seat at around 7:00 am we are allowed into Sai Ramesh hall. somehow SWAMI makes good arrangements for all his devotees as I get a fairly good seat. While the hall is getting full very fast there are devotees from all parts of India and all around the globe exitement is writ large on all the minds of those present. When will Swami come? will he give a discourse? will he come down from the stage as he used to earlier? these thoughts fill our minds. sevadal are hurriedly arranging chairs outside to make more room. The stage pillars are

decorated with beautiful flowers and pictures of Swamis parents are kept on the stage on the left side in full standing pose decorated with beautiful roses. The vibrations are terrific all are eagerly waiting for the programme to begin. The time is 8 am and we hear the music of nadaswaram [a kind of South Indian music] playing followed by the stage lights coming on chanting of OM OM OM begins followed by invocation of lord GANESH Gowrinandan Gajanana Girijanandana he Nandana. Swami has arrived behind the stage with the nadeswaram band still playing. SWAMI enters the stage walking escorted by a very tall student, till the railing ,stands for about a minute and sits down on his sofa. The bhajans continue sung by Balvikas students since ESWARAMMA was very fond of children today is also celebrated as balvikas day and we can see all children dressed in thier best white occupying the special front places reserved especially for them today all age groups boys are there mostly 4

to 8 years boys. Meanwhile Swami is engrossed in the bhajans tapping his hand on his thighs and blessing us all in between. The hall is packed to the brim lots of vip s are also present on the stage. Swami enjoys the bhajans and in between is briefed about the arrangements for the days programme at around 9:15 am swami stands up and AARTI is taken meanwhile the students bring huge containers of prasadam on stage which is blessed by Swami and first given to those on stage by Swami himself and then swami signals to distribute the LADDOO prasadam to all present in the hall. After aarti swami signals to come down and again there is exitement in the hall SWAMI comes down in his chair on the right gents side lift and goes through the front row only blessing the small children in front and goes out through the ladies side and blesses some devotees in the portico outside the ladies side for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile there is an announcement that today evening there will be a

play by balvikas students of Bangalore after the evening darshan and bhajans. I manage to get prasad and as i open it and take a piece i hope you too can feel the taste of this divine prasadam. The atmosphere here is terrific and looking forword to the next darshan. There is an aura of celebrations engulfing all around the ashram and today we got an extended stay for darshan by SWAMI, SAIRAM. Provided by Sanjana Wadhwa.

May 7th: 6:00 am - Updated the Swami Every Where section with two pictures.

May 6th: 6:00 am - Today is Eswaramma day

It's Eswaramma day. For those who don't know what it is, this was the day Swami's mother Eswara amma passed away. This day is remembered every year in Puttaparthi, by decorating the Samadhi where Swami's mother and father's samadhi's are present. In the morning the bhajans are held there in Samadhi and then Prasadam is distributed to all the devotees. Since Swami is in Whitefield there will be some kind of prasadam distribution there, we will get you more details about it later.

May 5th: 6:30 am - Report from whitefield, of the events on May 3rd.

It was a great time yesterday, I went and sat in SAI RAMESH hall about 3:00 pm. Swami entered the hall and at 3:20 pm the bhajans started I had a very good darshan because I was sitting in the first side row from middle. After 3 bhajans Swami stood up and started his discourse in Telugu. Warden Narsimha Murthy translated the same in English. Swami spoke on our present lifestyle how we are and how we should be, He said that satya, dharma, prema, ahimsa should be must in our life and they should be 4 pillars of our foundation. And He talked for about 1hour 20 minutes. Provided by Akshay.

May 3rd: 6:00 am - Yesterday evening Swami gave discourse in Whitefield.

Yesterday evening Swami gave a discourse at around 3:30 pm Swami came to the bhajan hall and soon after that the discourse started. In the discourse Swami talked about how people should not live their selfishly but try help others etc. And should always love other etc. Swami was standing while giving the discourse. The discourse ended with bhajans.

April 28th: 9:30 am - More Exclusive pictures of Swami's when in Kodaikanal.

April 28th: 9:00 am - Today morning in Whitefield.

This morning Swami came for darshan at 8:30 am and sat on the chair giving good darshan, Swami didn't do rounds today and at around 9:15 am Swami took the aarathi and left the bhajan hall.

April 28th: 6:00 am - Swami near haridwar in 1958.

We have a special surprise for you. One of my relatives was on tour and when he came back he had a surprise for us in the pictures he brought back from the trip. One of the places he went was a temple called "Vashista Gruha". Let me give you a little background on this.

In a discourse few months back Swami talked about a place 30 kms from Haridwar. When Swami was touring that part of the region. Swami met a sage who did meditation in a cave and wanted to see Swami. Even the cave is a bit hard to reach on foot Swami goes to see the sage and spends time with him. And the sage passes away on Swami’s lap. When the sage passed away the whole cave was covered with vibhuthi. My relatives said that they still could smell the vibhuthi in that cave.

My relative also said that many people are visiting that place and he also cautioned about the road which is really rough and carved along the side of a hill which is pretty rough. See you didn't have to go through all this we bring it right to your computer.

April 25th: 7:00 am - Yesterday's darshan update from Whitefield.

Morning swami came out for darshan at around 8:10 am and walked in the veranda for 20 minutes giving good darshan after 4 or 5 Bhajans Swami took the Aarathi. There were not many people for darshan only 4000 or so attended today's darshan. Since it was Monday, may be many were busy going to work. It gets really busy on weekends in Whitefield.

Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Messenger with Voice.