Guest guest Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 --- On Sat, 2/1/10, satish <satish wrote:satish <satish[sBOI-post] 1ST JANUARY DARSHAN UPDATEsboiDate: Saturday, 2 January, 2010, 6:31 PM 1st January 2010 Om Sairam dearest Sai Family, The energy, in fact the divine energy was carried forward on the new year's day.. All the faces were brightly lit..New year's day is the only day when ,even people with CASTOR OIL faces prefer to smile. At the entrance of the mandir it was our beloved Lord Ganesha who was most busiest God accepting prayers, coconuts from various people.There were also some people making pradikshanas aroud Ganesha few very interestingly with a pen and paper to note the number of rounds.. In the Sai Kulwanth hall it was a very different scene.. The hall was beautifully decorated with roses above the dais and the stage was beautifully decorated. The former students of Swami were seated along with thousands of devotees this morning waiting for a glimpse of Swami on the first day of 2010..The wait was pretty long. The bhajans started at 9am. The first bhajan of this year in Prasanthi was Lambodara... The bhajan session went on and on.Swami was teaching us the lesson of PATIENCE on the very first day and the students now started pleading for darshan with their bhajans.. Finally at 10:15am the long wait fructified when our most compassionate Lord blessed us with His first darshan of 2010. Another hopeful year.. Seated in His mobile throne, clad in yellow robe He entered the SaiKulwanth hall very lovingly looking at every one. Every one's face lit up the moment Swami entered in the hall..All the students were with letters, requests, some with beautifully decorated cakes, some with little designer greeting cards.. The two police men first offered flower at His residence and took Padanamaskar and Swami slowly came in. Swami was looking so vibrant with the most familiar charm on His face a rose flower some how got stuck in between His padam making the holy feet more and more beautiful and it was also a divine chance to assume a flower being offered at thy Lotus Feet, a flower of love, a flower of Surrender, a Flower from His own beautiful Garden... Swami took a full round in Sai Kulwanth hall, continuing to maintain His most familiar SAIlence of the recent past, slowly glancing at every one of us. Many students, Alumini in particular reached out to Him, with prayers, requests and Swami very quietly listened to them again in SAIlence. All the replies came heart to heart.Swami came on to the dais. Maharashtra chief minister Sri.Ashok Chavan who is here since two days took Swami's blessings. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, the legendry Santoor artist was also on the dais. Swami smiled at every one as bhajans were sung..The university brass band was ready to perform before Swami and Swami signalled for the bhajans to stop and then started this mesmerising music played by the students who stole every one's hearts.They first started with Omkar and a Ganesha prayer and the first number was Ganga jatadhara ....the next song was dedicated to Krishna's cowherders and Gopis singing Gopala Radha lola. Swami was immensely happy when this particular song was played, and why not He is Sai Krishna of Dwapara Yuga. The next song was Durge Durge dedicated to the MOther. Brother who was leading the brass band gave an excellent talk in between the songs and after the third song, sort Swami's permission and signalled one more Swami? to which our beloved Lord, noded very gently after which came the most rhythemic Murali Krishna, Mukanda Krishna... to which the whole gathering clapped.The brass band played the most divine music, very accurate, and I was keenly watching Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma's emotions and he was all praise for the quality standards.. After which started the most beautiful and scintillating performance of the morning, a musical presentation by the students of Sri sathya Sai University.the musical offering started with Vatapi Ganapatim... and the thillana song was the BEST of all.This time I was watching Santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma even more keenly as the students were singing holding their own breath and also the listeners felt as if we are gasping for breath. Panditji, was totally immersed in the music and he was seen shaking head, moving his hands and looking at them with a smile appreciating their talent. It is a rare honour for any singer to be apraised by Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma and our students of Swami deserve the most.. All along, our Lord was watching HIs children's performance like a proud Father.. It was almost getting closer to 12pm and Swami signalled for arathi. The preist who was also wearing a yellow dress matching with that of Swami's offered arathi to Swami as specially designed packets which read happy new year 2010 with a photo of the university building was distributed to all. Swami sat on the dais, even after arathi as prasadam distributing boys were still doing their job. .. about ten minutes after arathi Swami once again asked for Arathi and every one though bit surprised sang the arathi for our Lord with utmost devotion. I was wondering how come two arathis in a row, then I thought of this little 2 years old girl Veda from South Africa, whom I met recently.She is very very fond of arathi and that is the best SONG she likes in the bhajans and apparently that is the first thing she does after waking up, do arathi to Swami and I thought probably our Swami made this arathi as a dedication to little Veda Thus ended the first day of 2010 darshan.The evening programme also had some musical presentations from Sri Sathya Sai Alumuni ..This year also coincides with the 85 birthday celebrations. This year it will be a very hectic schedule for Swami and for the ashram in Parthi. Lets hope by Swami's grace many good changes will happen, many good changes can only happen when our MONKEY MIND changes.. This year more and more number of devotees will be coming here as part of their Parthi yatra..Lets pray to Swami, to let Him introduce, Himself, to the whole world starting from this year. As once we are in Sai fold,we think twice before doing any nasty thing, we will love our fellow beings, we will think of service to the society and we will atleast know that we got a MONKEY MIND which needs to be mastered... Let us also pray that the political confusion in the state of Andhra Pradesh will be sorted out at the earliest... Swami in the year 2007 when He went to Chennai for the Yagna, even though He doesn't speak politics in public, said very clearly not to separate the Telangana region from Andhra Pradesh.. Very ironically, some ministers who turn up for every big occassion in Parthi, are demanding for a separate Telangana state completely ignoring Swami's views. Everyone in Parthi are bit surprised about this.. Lets pray to Swami to bless us with good governance, good leaders, and some smart minds who will think of ONE NESS and not BIFURCATION. ..JAI SAI RAMSatish Naik... The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Homepage. 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