Guest guest Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Om Sairam dearest Sai Family, The evening of our beloved Lord's 84thbirthday celebrations was full of joy and festivity. The whole Puttaparthi came alive on this most important and beautiful day. The streets were full with people and just people all over... To take a walk from the busstation to samadhi road it took 30 minutes with the crowd. Even then the crowd was still less compared to yester years. On 23rd there were so many villagers from surrounding villages who came to Parthi. The streets were full of traders of all kinds. Balloon men displaying their colourful balloons, there were people selling toys, selling used sarees, tshirts and jeans for just 50 rupees. I was bit curious to know as how they good give such a nice bargain and they said all these are used clothes sent from rich countries. There were also people selling all kind of eateries in the streets. Some shopkeepers in Chitravathi road, did narayana seva and that was very nice of them feeding the poor villagers who couldn't make it to the ashram but had something to eat... Another important but a very sad development these days in Parthi is the video piracy. It is so rampant that if a DVD of some programme is released in the ashram bookstore(after hours and hours of hard work by the brothers working in the digital studio and book trust) the same evening they will start making copies and sell out side. Chitravathi in particular has about 10 stores like this displaying the video in big TVs and also with big sound and a friend of mine who is in this business sold 50 DVDs of the Golden chariot video in one day... This is a very shameful business which is not good at all. Many a times, if you are good in bargain, you get the same DVD for half the price compared to the ashram. But before one buys, one has to see the sanctity with which it is made in the ashram, the hard work put in by the students of our beloved Lord and the noble motive behind it. Also the ashram store has a superior high quality recording and let us all buy things like DVDs only from the ashram store no matter how difficult it might be sometimes to get through the long queves... All these days I was thinking it is only DVD that is being pirated but now a days, thanks(but no thanks) to the technology, shopkeepers outside have started selling the photos that are made in the ashram as well..They take a high resololution photo of Swami from the book store counter and probably scan it and print it. Here again, the price is 3 times cheaper compared to the ashram but one has to keep in mind, the print in the ashram is available in high quality photo paper where as outside it is just an ordinary print. Let us all keep this in mind and think twice before encouraging this evil act in which we are also part of by buying these stuff.. Back to darshan, as announced it was an evening full of music and music all over. Dana Gillispie made the evening more beautiful with her most beautiful voice and Swami and all the devotees were immersed in the ocean of bliss. Swami who was clad in a beautiful and rare yellow robe was very impressed by her voice.. Later it was the turn of Malladi brothers to continue their musical saga from the morning.. Swami was again very much impressed by their songs and the devotion with which it was sung.. Swami called them and blessed with golden chain and it was a memorable day for the brothers that they were felicitated by Swami Himself.. This birthday was a memorable one. Very unique. Swami was giving and giving and just giving His love.. A strong message for every one of us to love and share. It was so nice to see Swami especially on 20th November when He selected about 90 ladies from the lines and blessed them with sarees.Many dignitories were also present for the grand occassion. Famous play back singer and ardent devotee of Swami Smt. Kavitha Krishnamurthi Subramanyam and her bride to be daughter were also present and Swami blessed them with sarees. Smt. Susheela famous play back singer from Andhra Pradesh, Smt.Anjali Devi, Santoor maestro Sri.Pandit Shivakumar Sharma, , Sri.Ashok Chavan, Sri.Ajit Popat (Puppet), Jadhav Brothers who were instrumental in building the Hadsi temple and many others were present.. Let this birthday remind us that what we are doing is not good. Let this birthday remind us that we are already running late with the Avatar. Swami has come to teach and show us the highest truth. We are still lagging behind totally deluded in illusion and let this not happen again. In water a stick appears to be bent where as in reality it is straight.. We are the the stick Divine but appears to be bent because of illusion, body identification, ego, ignorance.. In water of family, in the water of community, in water of sensual pleasure, In reality we are very much divine but appears to be bent. Let us know that we are essentially divine. Let us all make Swami proud, let Swami tell about us that My children are Bangaroo (pure gold) and for Him to say that, what we have to do is Love Him as we love our selves and Love the Society as we love Him... With Pranams at the Lotus feet of our beloved Lord,R. Satish Naik.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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