Bhagavan Satya Sai Baba's birthday on 23.11.2008 - 2

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Programmes

 

BHAGAWAN Setting the Stage for the Sahasra Poorna Chandra Darshana

Shanti Mahotsavam

 

Prasanthi Nilayam is gearing up to have a date with destiny, as the

epoch-making event, Sahasra Poorna Chandra Darshana Shanti Mahotsavam is

scheduled to get underway on the 15th of November on a grand scale. The

festival is scheduled to have a formal beginning on the morning of

November 15 with a group of 170-200 learned priests entering the

specially erected Yajna Vedhi in the Sri Sathya Sai Hill View Stadium.

The festival would continue for three days with the grand finale slated

for the 17th in the Divine Presence. Huge concourses of devotees from

around the world will attend the celebrations.

 

The preparations are in full swing in the Hill View stadium with a 56

feet Yajna Vedhi being completed at the Shanti Vedhika. This extended

portion is a temporary build that has a permanent base built with

granite walls and laden with sands, protruding to the front as an

extension to the existing Shanti Vedhika structure. There are 12 homa

kundas evenly marked on this extended platform. This extension is being

done in such a way that the existing structure is left intact

underneath, well covered by this newly erected platform.

 

Apart from the venue, Yajna Vedhi, all the statues adorning the huge

Hill View Stadium have been repainted to resplendence; all the roads

leading to the venue have been resurfaced, a huge arch is being done on

the road leading to the stadium and bamboo barricades are being put up

in the stadium for the convenience of the devotees.

 

Prasanthi Digital studio teaming up with the students of Sri Sathya Sai

University is gearing up to provide deferred telecast and video

streaming of highlights everyday for the benefit of viewers around the

world. Two huge LED screens are installed in the stadium to facilitate

better viewing of the proceedings. Closed Circuit TV transmission will

be provided in Sai Kulwant Hall for devotees who find it difficult to

trudge to the stadium.

 

Hundreds of extra hands, ranging from masons to welders and carpenters,

painters to sculptors, technicians to engineers are being pressed into

service, and hundreds and thousands of extra sevadals from different

states have been already deployed for service activities. Prasanthi

Nilayam, the global spiritual town housing the supreme divinity is

doubly ensuring not to leave any stones unturned and thus making the

event a momentous one!

 

SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

 

SAHASRA POORNA CHANDRA DARSHANA SHANTI MAHOTSAVAM

 

PROGRAMME

 

15-11-2008

 

7:30 a.m. Grand Opening

 

Sahasra Poorna Chandra Darshana Santhi Mahotsavam Festitivies and Yajnam

at Sri Sathya Sai Hill View Stadium

 

8:40 a.m. Arrival of Bhagawan

 

upto

 

1:00 p.m. Yajnam

 

3:30 p.m. Yajnam

 

6:00 p.m. Cultural Programme – Vocal Concert by Priya

Sisters

 

16-11-2008

 

7:30 a.m. Yajnam

 

9:30 a.m. Arrival of Bhagawan

 

upto

 

1:00 p.m. Yajnam

 

3:30 p.m. Yajnam

 

6:00 p.m. Cultural Programme – Vocal Concert by Malladi

Brothers

 

17-11-2008

 

7:30 a.m. Yajnam

 

9:15 – 9:45 a.m.

 

" Sri Sathya Sai Suvarna Ratha Darshana Utsavam "

 

Golden Chariot Procession

 

In the Presence of His Holiness

 

Sri Sri Sri Dr. Shivakumara Swamigalu, Head of Sri Siddaganga Muth,

Tumkur

 

Sri Jagadguru Madhwacharya Mahasamsthana Pejawara Mathadeesha H.H.Sri

Vishwesha Tirtha

 

Sri Sri Sri 1008 Sri Sushameendra Thirtha Sri Padulavaru

 

Sri Jagadguru Kanchi Kamakoti Peetadhipathi Sri Jayendra Swaraswathi

Swamigal

 

Jagadguru Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Mahaswamiji, Suttur Mutt

 

Pujya Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji

 

Sri Sri Rangapriya Mahadesika Sri Sri

 

Sri Sakthiamma, Sripuram, Golden Temple, Sri Narayani Pitham

 

10:00 a.m. Poornahuthi

 

10:30 a.m. Benedictory Addresses

 

10:45 a.m. Divine Discourse – Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

5:30 p.m. Arrival of Bhagawan

 

Sri Rukmini Kalyanam

 

Cultural Programme – Ms. Mahalakshmi Iyer & Troupe

 

6:30 p.m. " Grand Finale "

 

6:45 p.m. " Maha Mangalarathi "