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Om sairam to dear Sai family,
Puttaparthi is back to what it used to be after the arrival of HER beloved Son, our beloved Swami. There were quite a few overseas devotees waiting for Swami and against all the rumours of Him flying to whitefield, Swami arrived to Parthi. The whole puttaparthi was thrilled and all the roads were beautifully decorated
All of us were eagerly waiting for the news and also some feed back as what went on in Chennai and what Swami felt about His visit.
It was announced that Mr.Giri, former Vice Chancellor of Swami’s University would give a talk about the recently concluded Ati Rudra Maha Yagna this afternoon (Feb 2,07). This afternoon Swami came for darshan around 3:45pm. His face was shining like the radiant sun, no trace of tiredness what so ever,after the successful completion of yet another Yagna..
The car drove to the dias and Swami got down from the car and with the help of the boys, walked upto His thorne on the dias. We all were eager to hear about the Chennai visit, which was very much unique. He probably didn’t stay that long in any other venues other than Kodai and whitefield. The yagna had lots of new and interesting audience and the discourse given by Swami on 21st Jan did create tremors in the politics of Andhra Pradesh.
To non followers of Andhra Pradesh Politics, there is one region named Telangana which is claimed to
be backward and been neglected by governments for many years. Many politicians make this as their political agenda especially during elections and promise to develop the region. In the year 2001(if iam right) a political party by name Telangana Rashtra Samithi, consisting of UNEMPLOYED POLITICIANS from various parties was formed, with sole objective of dividing the state of Andhra Pradesh into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Swami in His 21st January discourse, while speaking of Unity and its importance made it very clear amidst many high profile politicians that bifurcating Andhra Pradesh into two
is worse sin which created political tremors and to politicians whose bread and butter (for their political career), was Telangana didn’t agree with Swami’s views.
Mr.Giri, after taking blessings from Swami started to share his experiences about Yagna and some intimate moments during Yagna.
Excerpts from the talk,
Revered elders, brothers, sisters and my dear students. I offer my humble salutations, gratitude to Swami for blessing me to be with Him and witness the Ati Rudra MahaYagna and also thank Him for giving me an opportunity to share my views to this gathering. Its happy to be back here in Prasanthi Nilayam and one of the ashramites felt that its been a while since Swami left Parthi and the separation was difficult.. Its for the first time that Swami has stayed in Chennai for so long.
We left here on 19th. Swami went to
Mr.Karunanidhi’s (chief minister of Tamil Nadu) house on 20th January to bless his family and spent quite a good time with the family. All the family members were very happy and even the media carried photos of Swami and Mr.Karunanidhi very happy and joyous.
And the same day the Yagna was inaugurated. There were thousands and thousands assembled there. The yagnasala was as big as Kulwanth hall and there was another hall of equal size to accommodate devotees and there were equal number of devotees stretched upto 1km to just have a glimpse of Swami.
The next day (21st Jan) there was a public meeting, a felicitation by chiefministers of 3 states and various union ministers and above all the citizens of Chennai thanking Swami for providing them pure drinking water.The meeting was unique with 3 chief ministers, setting aside their political rivalries, water disputes etc, there were 3 union ministers, Mr.Lalu Prasad Yadav Minister for Railways, Mr.Shivraj Patil, Home minister, Mr.Maran, minister of Information Technology and 2 other governors presided over the meeting.
Mr.Karunanidhi was very happy to meet Swami and to participate in this function. He addressed Swami as if we address God. He being a atheist, since child hood, said I have no doubt Swami is God in human form. Chennai is surrounded by states which have abundant Tanni (water in tamil) but we had only kanni (tears) and no water.. Its because of Sai Baba alone that the government of Andhra Pradesh has agreed to provide water to Chennai.Many people asked me as what I gave to Sai Baba when He visited my house and I said I have given my heart to Him.
Later Mr.Maran, Minister of
Information technology, shared an intimate moment with Swami. When Swami went to Karunanidhi’s house, Swami materialized a golden ring for him and PWD minister ( I don’t remember his name) who was standing next to Swami asked for a ring for himself and Swami materialized another ring to him and all of us were eagerly waiting as what Swami will give to Mr.Karunanidhi and Swami turned to Mr.Karunanidhi and said, I have given my heart to you.
Later Mr.Giri continued, Swami in His discourse stressed on unity of man kind.(Mr.Giri almost got close to what Swami stated about the Telangana issue but avoided )..
Later Mr.Lalu Prasad Yadav, Minister of Railways said, I don’t believe in babas or saints. But I have met Sathya Sai Baba only 2 times and I can confirm that He is GOD himself. I like His activities.. and His message. His words have message and that message is put into practice.. His message of unity is very special and that it why you see this many chiefministers and minister on one stage.
Mr.Giri continued, the Police chief while briefing the security arrangements to the chief minister, the next day said
that we have arranged so many public meetings and functions but this is unique and there is lot to be learned from this meeting..
The crowd were huge but were very disciplined. Thousands and thousands attended the Yagna and thousands used to stand by the road while Swami’s convoy passed by… There used to be rain of flowers and the roads beautifully decorated. After the car passes by people used to rush to collect the flowers lying on the road.Swami once said, because you see me every day you don’t quite understand the significance of darshans. Look at this people, they are happy atleast if they have glimpse.
One day there were doctors who came in hundreds to the yagna sala. Coming to know the free medical service rendered to the poor by Swami all the doctors resolved on that day that all the 63 major hospitals in Chennai city would have one free bed for ever, to serve atleast one poor patient free of charge. One hospital also came forward to provide free medical treatment for all the volunteers of Tamil Nadu. Very shortly this free bed system will be introduced in the whole state of Tamil Nadu.
Speaking of the Chennai Youth, Mr.Giri said, about 2500 youth were involved in this Yagna. They worked day in and day out for succesfull completion of this Yagna. The inventory was maintained very well.. There was no shortage of any thing. The youth was appraised by one and all and the police had nothing to do courtesy of our volunteers and well behaved devotees.
There were quite a few dignitaries like Rajni Kanth, Vijay kanth(both film stars) and Sachin Tendulkar (living legend of Indian cricket). After meeting Swami, Sachin went on to score 60 runs and 100 runs (all of us including Swami smiled), where as before
he (Sachin) had many ducks (zero runs)…
The hour long talk by Mr.Giri ended with a Tyagaraja keertan and as he went back to Swami for His blessings Swami said something to him and he had to comeback and continue his talk
Swami also reiterated that in Unity lies strength. There should not be any more divisions. You should not go on dividing India into smaller states (loud applauds). This will create problems. All should be
united.. Mr.Giri ended his talk
Thus Swami reiterated His stand on United Andhra Pradesh, United Humanity… Let His message of Unity be reached to one and all and Iam sure, He is going to speak more on UNITY in the forthcoming discourses…
It was 5:15 by then and Swami asked for Bhajans and my favourite Bhajan Gaja Mukha GajaMukha Gana natha was sung and we all were immersed in the melodius bhajans and with the Lord
Himself, before us…
Thank you Swami… No other life will be as Sweet as this.. to sing your glory in your immediate presence.. Arathi was given at 5:45 and our beloved Swami stayed for the whole arathi and our compassionate Lord raised both His Hands to bless us…… those longing devotees who missed Him..even though it was only for dozen days.. but the separation was still painfull….
THANK YOU CHENNAI FOR YOUR HOSPITALITY…. MAY SWAMI BLESS US ALL…..
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