Prasanthi This Week - 13th Sept 2009

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Posted at 09:10 hrs. on 15th Sept 2009

As much as to the great epics so much so to the

great inspiring lives of celebrated devotees, Prasanthi’s timeless

theatre often unravels tales of “celebrations†from Bharat’s rich

treasure-house of lore of yore, having greater spiritual import.

The week in the run up to a fortnight of action

packed Dasara and Grama Seva witnessed celebration of rarity, of a

celestial calling, thrusting forth the greater import of Divine

Romance, unsullied love for the Divine in fullest measure.

The three day programme of Thiruppavai Mahotsavam

held from the 9th September in Prasanthi Nilayam culminated on the 11th

afternoon with a grand function celebrating the Divine marriage of

Lord Ranganatha with his great devotee Sri Andal, the lone female

member of the famous twelve Alwars of Vaishnavism.

Andal developed deep love for Krishna and

considered herself as God’s bride. This love for her Lord blossomed

into the immortal work “Thiruppavai.†Andal was so profoundly

enthralled by the Bhakti of Gopis and the deeds of Krishna in Mathura

and Brindavan during the Dwapara Yuga (aeon) that she too desperately

wanted to immerse in the Divine experience.

 

 

 

Bridal mysticism, as it is popularly known, the

marriage was symbolic of the culmination of Divine Romance between the

Lord and the devotee; the soul of the devotee was the bride and God was

the Bridegroom; their union was recognised as the spiritual marriage.

While the days were filled with regular rituals and

recitations followed by talks by exponents, the day of the Divine

Marriage had the gaiety and splendor of a marriage, not ordinary, but

of Divine stature. …And in the presence of the Mighty Lord, the

occasion turned out to become a splendorous heavenly treat for the

thousands of devotees congregated to witness the occasion.

These are rare occasions and one would wonder,

where else on planet earth one could witness such occasion other than

in Prasanthi Nilayam wherein the glory of the occasion multiplies to

infinite proportions by the mere presence of the Almighty Avatar of the

Age, witnessing and sanctifying the grand occasion.

Apart from the Kalyanotsavam the week was normal

with sumptuous darshans on all evenings filled with Bhajans that is the

order of any day in Prasanthi Nilayam.

A huge contingent of over two thousand five hundred

devotees from the Andhra Pradesh district of Mehaboob Nagar was in

Prasanthi for three days on a Parthi Yatra.

The week’s rose beneficiaries were, Mr. Raoji Patel

from the Bhakta Sahayak Sangh, Dr. Jagdish Narain, formerly Vice

Chancellor, Rourkie University and currently Senior Functionary in the

Publications Division of Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust, Mr.

Vaidyanathan, Mr. Sukumaran Nair, Mr. Ramakrishnan Iyer, Mr.

Sankaranarayanan and Mr. Balasubramaniam, all from Publications

Division of Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust.

One could observe the backstage operations getting

set for the upcoming mammoth Grama Seva activities on the sidelines of

Dasara festivities starting the next week. What could be expected is a

fortnight with action packed devotional surge, wherein, one could see

the “White Army†swinging in action delivering the message of Love of

Bhagawan, village to village, house to house, person to person, all

with one armour, with love being the language of the heart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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