THURSDAY EVENING IN PUTTAPARTHI

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Om Sairam dearest Sai Family There was lot of suspense, drama and lot of commotion in Puttaparthi this Thursday evening. To give a brief account of what had happened and to remove all the contradicting views in various TV channels, all started around 5:25 when Prof.Anil Kumar announced, with consent of Swami, that there would Viswa Virat Swaroop darshan this evening around 6pm to 7pm.. Apparently, to what I understood, Swami would be seen in the sky (in the moon) in between this time, in His cosmic form… Recently I have seen a video of experiences of some old time devotees where in Swami has showed His form on the banks of Chitravathi river, in the sky. Today it was announced that the rare darshan would be seen in the airport area.. The news spread in no time to the whole puttaparthi and in no time, thanks to the mobile revolution in India, the news spread to all corners of the world. Every one had a different name for the very very special darshan.. At one stage, the phone lines were very very hard to get through, as all the phones were busy discussing this issue.. It all started with a small gathering near the airport around 5:45 and slowly the crowd increased..The crowd were anxious, and many patients who came for treatment in the super hospital also joined the crowd and to intensify the anxiousness, Swami Himself drove to the airport.. Then started the real show.. Atleast 100 vehicles followed Swami and the crowd were in thousands, and only a bunch of police men to control. Usually for large gatherings, there are special police teams brought to Parthi, but this being a very very rare occasion and a sudden one. Before Swami could

come to the airport, thousands were already gathered in the airport. The people from my village (which is just on the other side of the airport) and surrounding villages, got into the airport by crossing over the fencing…All were standing in the run way before Swami’s arrival.. As the main gates were opened to let Swami’s car in, there was a huge gush of devotees. The police had no idea as what to do and they almost gave up.. It was getting dark by then and Swami slowly got down from His car and hardly stayed out for some minutes. .Seeing the devotees’ anxiety Swami had to get into His car again and no one had any idea as what was happening and where and how Swami would be seen in the sky… Swami had to stay in His car for more close to one hour, thanks to the

anxious devotees. It was 6:45pm by then, a very rare occasion for Swami to stay in the airport premises, overcrowded by devotees during this part of the day…. The crowd which was around 10,000 or so now doubled, thus making the situation more tense and worse…All the devotees surrounded around His car, chanting Sai Gayatri, some where singing bhajans, some chanting mantras looking at the sky and looking at Swami..Some (chatter box) devotees started saying, Swami will be seen in the east direction, some said no in the west.. another fellow said, Swami will be seen like in a Imax theater, in the sky.. one devotee went a little further and said, Swami will now give discourse from the car and the whole thing will be reflected on the sky…There were all kind of speculations and some were weird enough to be brushed aside… There was no one to announce as what was going on or what is going to

happen next. By now all the roads were blocked. Cars, motor cycles and vans were parked right in the middle of the road. Now the big question was how will Swami’s car go out.. Another 2 cars were brought..The police tried to give an impression that Swami was in a particular car and divert the attention of the crowd to let Swami go to ashram peacefully.. Even that plan didn’t work out.. After waiting for an hour, around 7:40 Swami’s car slowly turned turned towards the ashram and it took close to 2 hours for Swami to reach Puttaparthi thus pulling the curtains down for a very interesting and action packed evening…..and crowd who had come from distant places, returned back after a tension packed 2 hours… But all were in smiles for a beautiful car darshan… Probably Swami postponed His yet another Leela to some other fine evening……We all are waiting for that evening Swami… Reporting from Kali Yuga’s Mathura Satish Naik…… Jai Sai Ramsatish NaikBrahmanapalli Thanda villageNear PuttaparthiAnantapur Andhra

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