2020年7月5日(土)に、インド・ムデナハリにて、グルプールニマ祭が執り行われました。以下の奉納が執り行われ、シュリ・マドゥスーダン・サイによる御講話が授けられました。
Tribute to Gurunaam Guru – Sri Sathya Sai – on Guru Purnima 2019
-by Sri Madhusudan Sai
“A day will come when you would be me and I would be you”, said He and I almost instantly dismissed it as an impossibility.
Today that day has come to pass.
23rd November 2015, the 90th birthday of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, is when for the first time I experienced a feeling like never before, when every part of my being shook with the sudden gush of purest love for one and all who had assembled in the newly opened Premamrutham hall, and the illusion of the ephemeral world melted and dissolved away in the incessant involuntary streams of tears that flowed from both my eyes. In those silent sobs of bliss the river reached the ocean at last and I disappeared into Sai.
This has been a recurring experience since then in many places in many countries with many people, so very often that it’s no more out of ordinary.
‘Bless me with the bliss of the self, bless me with the union with you, bless me with self- realisation’, were the prayers I had made to my Master as a young student disciple at His university without even knowing what that truly meant in its entirety. Nevertheless even to pray thus could not have been without His will. When He appeared to me in the subtle, on one fine evening way back on 2011, I had prayed that He grants me the highest spiritual state without even weighing my eligibility.
And He compassionately told me that such a day will come but not now. “ The clay pot is still wet, it will break if I pour the water. The wire will burn if a current of higher voltage, than its transmission capacity, passes through it. Have patience, I am preparing you. What you ask for is with me, safely locked away. I shall grant you the key to it when the time is right.”
Eight years later after those words were spoken by the divine, on this Guru Purnima of 2019, as I sat on the stage while Sri Narasimha Murthy spoke about the third phase that began on that day, that of Sankramana (Ascension) of the subtle phase of Bhagawan’s mission, it happened! The prophetic divine words came true. And it was not sudden not rushed, rather it happened slowly, smoothly and gradually. But intensely nevertheless. So intense that I could not feel my limbs after a while. I had no control over my body especially the left side which almost seemed paralysed. But deep within I felt a sense of calm that refused to be affected by the proceedings of the day. It was a feeling like that of a thick molten metal which had just started melting and while some of it moved, some remained stationary. I felt as if I was melting part by part, but this time there were no tears, instead there was a deep dense silence that was intoxicating.
Sumeet helped me to the green room after the discourse that was given sitting on the throne due to my inability to stand on my own. The experience lasted a few more minutes before I could come back to my senses, and I sensed that I was no more the same. Something had snapped within me, perhaps the last vestiges of attachments had also been broken away and I felt so free which I had never ever felt before. The joy of a river that had traversed many a tedious terrain to reach the mouth of the creek from where it would rush into the expanse of the ocean to lose itself only to find itself, was mine. I felt liberated once for all.
Since then the last sense of individuality, and the accompanying dark shadows of shame and fear, simply vanished into the bright spiritual illumination of a million suns that shone from within.
The ascension had begun and was witnessed by not merely the mortal eyes of the stupefied audience that sat in the hallowed hall, but also by the innumerable elevated beings that had descended in drones from dimensions beyond. A cosmic event had occurred only to the realisation of a few, when humanness was metamorphosing into divinity. The colourful wings of bliss and love opened up from within and the soul took to a flight of bliss, leaving the body behind. The experience was electrifying and emancipating, illuminating and intoxicating, it was simply liberating.
I am grateful to my Master who redeemed me of my pettiness and allowed me to ascend the steps of spiritual haven, till there remained only one, I in my master and my master in me, no more the painful separation of two but a blissful union of ONE.
Sri Sathya Sai Atmabodhakaya Namaha.
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世界のサイ・プラカ―シャナ社の出版物奉納
毎年グルプールニマ祭においてスワミの御講話集「シュリ・サティヤ・サイ・ウヴァーチャ」が奉納されます。今年はコロナウィールスの影響から、世界中のサイプラカ―シャナ出版社のメンバーは集まることが出来ませんでしたが、世界の18か国の出版社によるウヴァーチャやストーリー・ディバイン等の出版物が代表により奉納されました。オリジナルの英語版は第12巻と13巻が出版されました。日本からも第4巻が奉納され、スワミにより祝福されました。
(その模様をYoutubeでもご覧いただけます!→ https://youtu.be/zdqqJI-PObc)
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Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva Gurukulam
シュリ・サティヤ・サイ・ローカ・セヴァ・グルクラムが2020年5月16日に設立されました。これはスワミの教育指針である、霊的知識/Paravidayaと現世的一般的知識 /Aparavidyaの両方の教育を取り入れる、新しい教育システムです。オンラインで一部クラスも提供され、このグルプールニマ祭にて、そのウェブサイトの奉納がされました。(Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva Gurukulamについて)
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Center for Human Excellence の卒業式
ヒューマンエクセレンス・センターは2014年マイソール大学と提携して設立され、人間的価値を元にした教育者の育成を行ってきました。2020年グルプールニマの日に、2014年~2016年に入学した第1そして第2期生の卒業式が行われました。
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HP World on wheelバスの奉納
技術的な進歩が追いついていない地方の村々でオンラインコースが受けれるようにするために、コンピューターシステムを積み込んだバスがHP社より2台奉納されました
。過去数年HPとコラボレーションをして、WOWバス(World on Wheel Bus)が開発され、今日までにカルナータカ州の複数の村に出向き、コンピュータクラスなどを執り行ってきました。このグルプールニマ祭に2台追加で提供され、今後の活動がより広範囲に行うことが出来るようになりました。
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アンナプールニマ朝食プログラム
17州の子供たちに毎朝朝食を提供するプログラムが行われているが、食材等を輸送するためのトラックが奉納されました。
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子供の健康促進のためのサプリメント
サプリメントの提供が各種プログラムで並行して行われており、アンナプールニマ朝食プログラム、母と子の健康プログラム、SaiSureプログラム、にて食事の提供と共に提供されています。このグルプールニマ祭で、新しいサプリメント製品の奉納がありました。
*シュリ・マドゥスーダン・サイによる御講話は、後日出版されます