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Om Sairam dearest Sai Family,
As Swami's divine body lies in Sai Kulwanth Hall, its 11 pm here now
in Parthi and still people are waiting in line patiently for the
last darshan. The lines for gents is gone beyond Hanuman temple and
the ladies line is also more or less the same. Inspite of this,
darshan is over in 30 minutes which itself says how nice are the
arrangements.
As Swami lies there in the middle of the hall, every one feels He is
just sleeping and He will be coming back. no body is willing to
believe that our Swami is no more (read as physically). But that is
life. Full of uncertainities. With Swami, He has told us " Love My
uncertainity". Even though this is also His "uncertainity", no one
seems to love it. Even now, I saw people crying loudly for Swami
after having His darshan and there was one woman who was telling one
police man by Ganesh gate that "My Swami is just sleeping. Please
don't think that He has left us" the police man tried his best to
console that poor lady but in vain. These scenes were commonly seen
since that painful announcement.
Today, Sachin Tendulkar came to Parthi and he was in tears watching
Swami. Sachin Tendulakar was a bleesed devotee who first came to
Swami in the year 1995 (if iam correct) was introduced to Swami by
another legendary cricketer of yester years, Sunil Gavaskar. Sachin
Tendulkar, a Shirdi Baba devotee, was fascinated by Swami and also
His yeomen service that He was doing for the mankind. Even though,
his personal conversations with Swami are not spoken in public
(neither he speaks in public) but there was one occassion when he
came to Swami in the year 1999, after the historic test series
against Pakistan.
Sachin Tendulkar who uses a heavy bat, developed back pain during
this series with Pakistan. He immediately came to Swami and our
Lord, in His usual style asked, How are you? Swami, the divine
Master likes to play with words and also gives a very strong message
with simple words. the answer from Sachin was "Body pains Swami".
Sachin who was expecting a reply or remedy for the problem, got a
stange answer from Swami. Swami replied "yes yes Body Pains".
Probably Sachin didn't understand Swami's words and Swami explained,
When you say Body Pains, it means when you come with a BODY, you are
bound to have pain. This was a very remarkable statement by Swami
which speaks about giving up of body attachment, which He was
practicing till His last breath.
Another cricketers who came to Parthi were Lakshman and Srisanth.
Hyderabad born Lakshman is also a devotee for many years now and
couple of years ago, Swami named his little son as Sarvajit, which
also happened to be the name of the telugu new year.
Ministers, Vilas Rao Deshmukh, Praful Patel and many others had
Swami's darshan. Many thousands, men and women had darshan today.
Local devotees were very busy in suppling water, biscuit packets,
food to all the devotees lining up for darshan. They were not
"leaving" any one without taking food. Many devotees were touched
with this kind gesture and if Swami were to be alive (in the body)
He would have mentioned this kind gesture by His Villagers. Swami
used to be very happy when some one from village excels or shows
this kind of kindness to their fellow human beings.
Mean while the government announced that Swami's burial will take
place on Wednesday 27th April around 9 am to 9.30 AM which will be
attended by Sri.L.K.Advani, BJP leader, and many chief ministers are
expected to attend the burial ceremony which will be attended by
Swami's family members and selected devotees.
Tomorrow Tuesday the 26th April, Swami's body will be kept till 6pm
for darshan after which the darshan will stop, to make way for final
arrangements for the burial.
More reports to follow..SBOI GROUP POSTING
(Posted by SBOI-Group member
Satish Naik) |
