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THE DIVINE HOMECOMING
Prasanthi Nilayam - 8th June 2006. The spiritual town of Prasanthi Nilayam
was all agog, ecstatic, bustling with joy of recapturing something so
dear… still eluding. It was on 9th April 2006, Bhagawan set out of
Prasanthi Nilayam to embark on His summer trip to Kodaikanal…then to
Bangalore, with an entourage comprised of students and devotees. For
Puttaparthi and Prasanthi Nilayam, these were the days of
separation…separation from the Beloved. Expectancy was very much in the
air and with the minds and hearts joyful and exuberant; it was yet another
day, another occasion for the villagers, for the ashramites and for the
entire township to go all agog welcoming the Lord.
Over the years, Puttaparthi, the village designated with the heavenly
privilege to host the divine advent had identified herself with the
Divinity and that the pangs of separation from the physical frame of
Divinity, whenever He moved out, have always had its toll on this
spiritually hallowed township. Adding to her woes come the blazing sun
with his summer package that always brought her to a virtual naught.
An early monsoon followed by renewed hopes of Bhagawan’s imminent arrival
had already bolstered the entire township and it was brimming with
ecstasy, with the nature receiving early showers and the guardian hills
around this spiritual epicenter adorning lush green tops as if heralding
the imminent great good fortune …
8th June 2006 was indeed the end of another ‘soul-search’ for this tiny
hamlet whose ‘soul-cry’ was aptly heard and rewarded by the Greater Heaven
with His physical presence. Bhagawan arrived at Prasanthi Nilayam at 1:50
p.m. and was accorded a grand traditional welcome with Poornakhumbham and
Vedic Recital by the students of the Institute which was followed by a
colourfully attired dancing troupe from Higher Secondary Wing and a
welcome song sung by students from the Institute. It was indeed an act of
greater magnanimity and supreme love and compassion that Bhagawan who had
three hours of car journey from Brindavan to Puttaparthi chose to sit for
almost fifteen minutes on the podium upon His arrival, showering the bliss
of coveted darshan to one and all gathered in Sai Kulwant Hall. Later,
Bhagawan received Mangala Aarathi before proceeding to Yajur Mandiram, His
Divine Abode.
(source/layout: sssbt.org/SBOI)
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