May the blessings of our Divine Mother Sri Sathya Sai Baba be on all lokas!

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1 6 October 2011 Om Sairam! Warm Greetings on the occasion of Vijaya Dasami. May the blessings of our Divine Mother Sri Sathya Sai Baba be on all lokas! This report details briefly all the activities conducted in the Hyderabad District of the Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organization during the period Aug, Sep The activities have picked up amazing pace and the cosmic Leelas of Swami are visible everywhere in the form of Vibhuti manifestations and amazing coincidences. The activity of the month is the prompt Seva to the distressed who were stranded in the railway station in Hyderabad. The Sarva Janula Samme affected all and sundry. The trains were halted due to which inter- state travelers were most affected. To add to the misery shops were closed during bandh. The travelers had no means to get food or water. In the words of the convener of Prashanti Nagar, Sivam, On every 24th of the month, as a mark of Mahasamadhi Day of Bhagavan, all our Samiti members would get food packets to Sivam before 9.30 AM and our youth team with some of the elders would carry these prasadam packets in 4/5 teams and distribute them to the needy who are scattered in different streets of the city. Water sachets would also be distributed along with prasadam. This time after completing the distribution our teams returned back and observed hundreds of passengers getting stuck in Secunderabad station due to bandh, being interviewed on different media. Many old people, mothers of small babies, patients and other passengers belonging to different states across India were shown lamenting at their plight. Immediately we thought we need to attend atleast to their basic needs of food and water & instill some moral strength by our positive motivation that any time trains would start and there is nothing to worry. To this call our Samiti members response was excellent & spontaneous. By Swamis grace we could provide food on 24th evening and 25th morning & evening to the best of our ability to all the 700+ passengers stuck in railway station due to Bandh. Listening to our prayers, swami halted the bandh and trains resumed on the night of 25th. The passengers were tremendously happy at the unexpected boon showered on them by Swami. Once again thanks and Kudos to all those who participated in this SEVA Yagnam.

2 Ganesh Puja Ameerpet: With the divine blessings of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba the youth have performed Bhajans along with the BalVikas children of Durgabhavani Nagar slum, Venkatagiri on 5/09/2011, Monday in their Ganesha Pandal during Ganesha Navaratri celebrations. Later on distributed pencil boxes to 24 children to who are coming for tuition classes conducted by our Youth. Go Seva at Ibrahimpatnam deserves special mention and has been happening at a scale which needs to be pondered by all our brothers and sisters. The love shared with our divine Go Maata will not go waste. We need to put into action Swami s words on the urgent need for halting inhuman cow slaughter and animal torture. As part of the Birthday Celebrations of our Beloved Bhagavan, Dilsukhnagar Samiti planned the Holy Go-Seva at Gopal Goshala, Ibrahimpatnam, RR District, 40 KMs away from Dilsukhnagar, which resembles Gokulam. During our first visit, we could find out the need of that Goshala. There was no proper cleaning of 4 dormitories and 5 acre open yard due to lack of manpower to the management. In the routine, the fodder of cows is restricted to 1 or 2 items. Basing on our survey, we made team of Sai Youth to clean the dormitories and open yard and planned to offer very nutritional items of fodder to cows on the day of the activity. Apart from that, involving all the members of Samiti planned a Traditional Go-Pooja and Bhajan at the premises. On the day of activity ( ), initially Sai Youth reached the place of activity at 730 am and started cleaning the dormitories where more than 700 cows are kept. During the cleaning activity, the cows were kept in the adjacent 5 acre open yard. After cleaning the premises, Sai Youth prepared fodder of the cows consisting of very liking items which were carried from DSNR. After keeping the fodder ready in the Dormitories, cows were sent to the dormitories. Thereafter, the samithi members reached the spot at 9.30 am and offered Pooja to Gomatha in a traditional way duly offering the liked items to the cows. After performing pooja, Bhajan was performed in a grand way in which the trust members of Gopal Goshala were participated. In the meantime, Sai Youth took up cleaning of 5 acre open yard which is adjacent to the dormitories, in which the cows are kept in the night time, in an enthusiastic way. The entire activity ended at 1.00 pm with Maha Mangala Harathi to our Beloved Bhagawan, offered by one of the Trust Members of Gopal Goshala. By watching the inspiring activities in all the fields by our Members, the Gopal Goshala authorities offered us the pair of cow and calf for Dilsukhnagar Mandir, which was accepted by us. The cow and calf will be kept in DSNR Centre in the month of October 2011 before our Centre's 1 st Anniversary to be held on The photos depict the various activities in sequence, cleaning followed by feeding and puja. A large open space for the cows was also cleaned by the Youth members.

3 Narayana Seva to Orphans since 2008 Kacheguda Samiti A Divine urge to support children at an orphanage situated at Makapet resulted in regular visit to orphanage on every Sunday where snacks, fruits, cloths, chappals in summer and beds and blankets in winter were distributed. These 35 boys use to have a meagre meal only in night time as lunch is expected in school (mid day meal of Govt). These children were deprived of the first meal of the day which is so important for growing children of the age 6 to 16 yrs. On 2nd October

4 2008 a divine flash occurred to provide them with breakfast. Accordingly two sets of containers were arranged and different tiffins (idly, Wada, upma, pongal, Mysore bujji, tomato rice, puri ) are prepared at our service coordinator s hostel. Transportation of the food is taken care of by two senior boys who board the local train at Malakpet which is very near to their orphanage at am get down at Vidyanagar station and collect the food, get back by am. Train fare is also arranged by Samiti. It is due to HIS grace that this Seva is being carried out consistently without any interruption since 2nd October 2008 and on completion of 1000 days we offer this at divine lotus feet and pray Bhagavan to continue to shower his blessings and guide us in our Sadhana. 2 day work shop by Mahila Youth The two day workshop conducted at Sivam on the 20th and 21st of August The workshop titled Learning to be successful in Job interviews was intended for the degree final year students of Government degree colleges and a few private colleges running on low budgets to cater to the economically weaker sections. Total number of Registrations: 256 students + few more unregistered students. The following table gives a list of the topics covered in the workshop and the details of the Resource persons who handled each of those topics. Sl. Topic Resource person no 1. Self Awareness & Self Assessment Mrs. Karuna Sarup Munshi Communications Consultant, Radio Sai, Prashanthi Nilayam 2. Communication Skills Mrs.Mary Pratibha Ex GE Employee, presently freelance consultant 3. Resume Building Mrs. Sona Bhatia Business Development Head HSBC 4. Interview Skills Mrs. Kameshwari AVP HR, GE. Memorable moments of the workshop: All the speakers appreciated the way the volunteers had been trained to serve the guests. It was a very special moment and we felt we had made swami very proud of us. Youth members took active part in all the activities of the workshop, with absolutely no one having to tell them what has to be done next. No workers were employed to clean the place. Young girls washed a huge number of vessels, big and small un affected by the pouring rain. Muslim participants wanted to know more about swami and so Urdu books 3 copies were given to them from the bookstall. Some of the participants came forward to join the organization on their own and we have directed them regarding this. Most of the students on the second day of the workshop washed the plates used by them during lunch in spite of our protesting. They said they were ashamed to be making us do their work and this is exactly the transformation we were looking for.

5 We had 10 girls who were non devotees (They were friends of one of our youth members) who took an active part on both the days of the workshop in cleaning the vesselss and correcting the resumes. Though these were 2 different kinds of activities, they did both with aplomb Another workshop by the Mahila Vibhag was conducted successful in job interviews. at the Nacharam Samiti, On how to be

6 Krishnastami The programme started with Radha Nache. And Akkada unde sayeswarude.. two Dance Ballets by chi. B. Sandhya Rani, L. Sreelekah, B. Sarika, Saraswathi, Ch. Manasa, V. Manasa, A. Taruni and P. Kasturi were all as Gopikas and Chi. Ritwik as Bala Krishna. All are Kartikeyanagar Balavikas children. It was followed by Boduppal Balavikas Children. Dance Ballet Vinayana Koutam by Chi. Sharanya, and Chi. Sanjana, Gobbillu Dance by Chi. Ragini, Vinayaka Harathi and Jagadapu. Dances by Chi.Kavya and Chi. Keertana. Later, a small kit 'Devuni Chirunama' by Chi. Deepika, Sruthi, Chandana and Nitin were performed. Lastly candle dance and dance on plate by Chi. Ragini was highlight of the day. More than 70 members and mothers of the above children were all enjoyed these programmes. The programmes continued upto 9.00 p.m. The performances of Chi. Ritwik as Bala Krishna and Chi. Ragini with candle dance stole the hearts of the audience. Ramjan Festival at Nacharam Samiti Muslim Guest Shaik Gouse Saheb, M.A.,B.Ed. spoke on Ramjan Festival on Divine Spirituality. He is well versed with 'Quran, Bible and Gita'. Taking the scriptures from these three Uttama Grandhas, he wrote 'VEDANTA SUDHA LAHARI' which reflecting God is one and the importance of humanity and universal brother-hood. Over and above all, he is one of the staunch devotees of

7 our Bhagavan. His book was blessed by our Bhagavan in the year Shaik Gouse garu at his 80 years of age itself, doing Seva. He can speak hours together on spiritual topics. He retired as the Principal of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial High School, Mehdipatnam. He got 'Best Teacher' award from A.P. Govt. in the year After his retirement he continues as bonafide faculty of 'Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence' of Rama Krishna Mutt and has delivered many lecturers on 'Personality Development, Art of Living, and Communal Harmony'. He gave a lecture on the Avatar Vaibhavam and related spiritual matters. He has taken few slokas from 'Bhagavatgeeta', few lines from 'Quran' and 'Bible' and stressed that 'God is one. He is Omnipresent'. His speech continued more than one hour and everybody present felt happy listening his spiritual speech. He quoted the words of Swami: Start the Day with Love; Spend the Day with Love; Fill the Day with Love; End the Day with Love; this is the way to God A Muslim Girl, learning Computer Classes in the Samiti sang a few lines from Quran. Safilguda Samiti: As part of the distribution of note book activity to needy poor children in the area, 800 odd note books were distributed to many children from different institutions with the co-operation from the institutional management. Likewise, meeting of partial fees structure to illustrious students who are unable to meet the ends due to family constraints were taken up and successfully completed. Parenting exhibition, a district level activity being taken up in each Samiti was also taken up in Safilguda on the 21 st August 2011 in which as many as 400 visitors took part including both parents and children.

8 In spite of inclement weather and torrential rains early evening and during early hours of the day, a number of visitors poured during the period between 11am to 3.30pm after which there was once again symptoms of heavy rain in the offing. Many of the visitors who had come to witness the activity appreciated the activity and expressed their desire that such type of information should be conducted umpteen number of times at many places, specially, if possible in educational institutions and at places wherein many people congregate. As many as 20 odd educational institutions were approached to send the children, door to door canvassing in the vast area of Safilguda was done and insertion of pamphlets in newspapers also done. Another notable observation seen in this presentation was, apart from the regular parenting exhibits, activities taken up by BalVikas children and the depiction of all the activities were displayed and presented with suitable explanation. The chart depicting the information received by child Prahlada and Dhruva, prepared by a devotee of the Samiti in addition to the existing exhibits added additional glory to the exhibition. Details of the BalVikas centers in the Samiti and details of BalVikas children in each centre with details of BalVikas classes being held in the Samiti were presented at the exhibition venue for need of the visitors.

9 A number of new children got enrolled while many more are in the offing for whichh door to door interaction with parents would be initiated in days to come. A few parents enrolled themselves for getting BalVikas magazine at their residences. An example of the response from public can be had from the newspaper cutting enclosed with this article while another live presentation by HMTV which we could not witness in their channel stand specimen to the response for the activity conducted. Teacher s Day Celebration Saroornagar In total teachers from 120 schools have participated in a half day seminar. Dr.VeeraBhadraiah Garu spoke about the Ideal education system and explained how swami implemented it at all his educational school and universities. Dr. Ranga Rao spoke about the values in the field on education systems. Dr.Pattibhiram garu spoke on the Values a Guru can implant and students and the importance of the Moral values and explained its importance in today. Dr. AnilKumar spoke about the relationship about the students and teachers. The programme was ended with harathi by Anil Kumar. SaroorNagar Samiti thanked the school Managements of Lotus Lap and Naive for the support extended in imparting the education to 15 DJP boys. The teachers were very happy at

10 the end of the programme and wanted us to do the programmes more often. The parenting exhibition was also conducted at the venue. Free Spoken English Programme at Shivam Tarnaka Samiti The spoken English classes were held for close to 35 days continuously at Shivam. About 15 students were selected to be part of the class. The students were made to do speech related exercises, enact plays and listen to their own recordings and compare those to a standard speech pattern. The spoken English class became very sought after. The students were requesting advanced classes from the organizers. The classes were conducted by devotees from the Tarnaka Samiti and Prashanti Nagar Samiti. (P.N.: The feedback mentioned herein is unsolicited Students have mentioned it purely out of inspiration) Job Interviews at Shivam Job Interviews were conducted on 9, 10 & 11th Sept.2011 at SHIVAM. Candidates were interviewed for the positions of Customer Service Expert- 13 positions and Domestic Voice Process - 60 positions for this month and overall around 500 positions in next 2-3 months. B.Com Tutorials Free tutorial classes for B.com I, II and III years were started from 4th of August The timings were from 6AM to 8.15 AM everyday at Sivam. The subjects covered were B.Com I year - Accountancy and Economics, B.Com II year- Advanced Accountancy, Statistics and Income Tax, B.Com III year- Corporate accounts and Electives consisting of 1. Costing & Management 2. Advanced Corporate & Advanced Management 3. Principles of Marketing and Advanced Marketing.

11 Reprogramming Lives at Vanasthalipuram The beaming smile on the face of Dinesh said it all a smile that conveyed an inexplicable joy, immense gratitude and wonder all at the same time. Can all this be really true am I dreaming? Dinesh, the first student of the 17th batch of Sri Sathya Sai Reprogramming Lives to receive Appointment Letter, kept wondering after he was presented with Appointment Letter by his MOTHER. As on graduation day, 12 out of 40 students are placed in various prestigious companies such as Tata Business Support Service, Deloitte, Linkwell, etc. Many more students are lined up for interviews in IBM, Apollo Health Street and Linkwell. That s not all, impressed by the quality of education provided by Sathya Sai Organization, Ms. P. Ratnamala, Vice-President of Genpact, promised to provide the required training and job opportunities for the remaining students. Mr. K. Srinivas and Mr. M. Hussain Basha, students of Reprogramming Lives, shared their experiences in the past 60 days. They mentioned that Reprogramming Lives helped them in developing both personally and professionally. They also mentioned that Reprogramming Lives has motivated them in imbibing the moral and human values. Srinivas mentioned that he is very lucky to graduate from this program because of the quality of education that is taught. He mentioned that the sessions taken by Corporate Trainers were very useful in improving his soft skills. Both the students promised that they will follow the culture that is practiced at Sathya Sai Organization. They expressed their interest in participating in future batches of Reprogramming Lives.

12 Ms. Stephanie Arnold, Vice President of Deloitte, shared her thoughts and appreciated the students for completing the course. She then presented Graduation Certificates to the students. The Graduation Day was unique of its class due to the presence of chief guests from different sectors of society. Name Designation Industry/ Company A. Ranga Rao Trust Convener Sri Sathya Sai Trust, Andhra Pradesh K. Sampath Kumar Joint Director Anti Corruption Bureau Cherukuri Rama Rao Chairman Cherukuri Group Vibhuti Patel Vice President Deloitte Stephanie Arnold Vice President Deloitte P. Ratnamala Rao Vice President Genpact S Giridhar Director Ensoft Professionals Ghousia Parveen Assistant Vice President HSBC Mata Sishu Samkshemam The Mahila Sevadal and the Youth wing of Sri Sathya Sai organization, Hyderabad which started the Mother and Child Health Support Program intend to cover all the 27 adopted slums of the 27 samitis present in Hyderabad district through this program. The purpose of the entire program is to increase the nutritional levels of the children living in the 27 slums chosen. This apart it would also take care of the mothers in the slum during and after pregnancy. The first of the camps was conducted at the slum adopted by the Tarnaka Samiti on the 10th of October 2010 between pm and 5.30 pm. The venue was Raja Rajeshwari Gardens function hall specially hired for conducting the camp by the Tarnaka Samiti. There were about 178 children and 29 pregnant & lactating mothers covered through this program. There were around two gynecologists, two pediatricians, one Dermatologist and One dentist who had come to check the patients. The beneficiaries were first registered. After which they were checked for their height, weight. A book has been given to each patient instead of a prescription so that their growth can be tracked. Children s nails were checked and the nails were clipped for those who had overgrown nails. They were also briefed on the need to keep themselves clean in all respects. Once the medical examination was conducted, they were given multi vitamins and tonics in accordance with the doctor s prescription. This was followed by distribution of Sai protein drink to all.

13 The children were then given a gift pack containing Sai protein pack, one quilt, one dress, Vaseline, one pair of slippers, a tooth brush, tooth paste and a pair of slippers. Children were instructed to open the tooth brush and tooth paste and demonstrated by the Sevadal on how to brush teeth and dental hygiene. Some of the Sevadal engaged themselves conversing with the children and narrating to them value based stories. The camp will be followed up by the Tarnaka Samiti by ensuring regular supply of Sai protein and tracking those cases which need advanced medical attention. There is a resident doctor by name Shailaja who has been serving for several years and who has promised to follow it up. The medical records of all the individuals are with Dr. Shailaja. A continuation of the programme was held on the 18 September 2011 at the Rajiv Gandhi Nagar Colony in Moula Ali. Iftar Party arranged to our Muslim Brothers on 28th August on the eve of Ramzan month at Saroornagar Mandir by Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations, Saroornagar Samiti. In all about 120 Muslim brothers participated, had fruits after breaking the fast at 6.45pm and had Namaaz followed by speech by our guest speaker Sri Shafi, All India President and founder member of UIRC, an Islamic Organization. He gave a detailed account about God and the Creator. This Party was organized to promote our Bhagawan s Teachings to respect all religions and our Love for all the Humanity without Discrimination. Our Organisations Sarva Dharma Culture was practiced in toto here at our Mandir.

14 86 Bhajans Concluding Ceremony at Ameerpet The concluding programme was performed on 30th September in Sathya Sai Prem Kutir. On that day in addition to Vedam and Bhajans BalVikas children of Jubilee hills performed a skit under the guidance of BalVikas teacher Smt Sita Muralikrishna, Prakash and Srinivas. On that day we took the privilege of honoring Sri V. K. Rao garu, ex chief secretary and advisor to governor by Smt & Sri T. Koteswar Rao Garu. In addition Sri V. K. Rao Garu is a staunch Swami devotee and the 2nd district president of Hyderabad after Desikachary garu. He is also the brother of Sri V. Pardhasaradhi Garu our earlier State President. He is 97 years old only. Our beloved Swami used to conduct meeting in his house also. Really we feel proud to honor him. The programme ended with cake cutting, jhoola and Aarathi. A memorable Eye Camp by the Kachiguda Samiti: (Photographs of Lord Sri Rama, Godess Sita ji Laksman ji & Hanumanji at the entrance of Tuljabhavan Temple, Hyderabad) *** Yet another memorable Sunday for Kachiguda Samithi as Bhagwan blessed this Samithi to have conducted a General Medical & Eye Camp of Free EYE, Sugar Testing at Tulja Bhavan, Kachiguda Hyderabad. Few photos are placed below together with a brief on the Medical Camp for kind information.

15 Banner of the Samithi Bhagwan s Photo at Eye Camp Regn of patients at Eye Camp waiting for their turn for Eye Testing Sevadal at Eye Camp Busy Opthomologists Patients waiting for their turn for Eye Testing A total number of 119 patients were registered (Allopathy) and diagnosed by the team of doctors. Freee Medicines were given to all the patients also, 23 reading Spectacles at free of cost were provided to the needy patients during the camp. In addition to these, free Spectacles also planned to provide to another 29 needy patients who were detected to be refractive and very special in nature. These 29 Spectacles have necessary to be ordered. Doctors at Genl Health Check up Camp Kum Archana assisting Ophthalmologists Patients waiting for their turn Left to Right Dr.Subramanyam, Dr Srinivas & Dr Laxmi presenting reading glasses to Beneficiaries

16 Lady Seva Dal (Pink saree) & Youth (White) Presenting Reading glasses to Beneficieries & A view of waiting patients at Eye Camp A view of waiting patients, Needy Patient Receiving Free Medicines & Team of Pharmacy at Eye Camp The team of doctors (Allopathy) include Dr C.Chandra Mohan, (Ophthalmology specialist) Dr Ranjit, (Ophthalmology specialist) Dr Srinivas Rao, (Ophthalmology specialist). 12 patients (5 patients during 2010) were detected for Cataract Surgery and were advised to go to Sadhu Ram Hospital on their own willingness for further course of action to avail free Cataract Surgery. The Samithi would like to thank Sri Subramaniamm garu, Convenor of Vanasthalipuram Samithi for putting best efforts in arranging Dr Ranjit, MBBS, DO (Ophthalmologist) and Dr Srinivas Rao, MBBS, DO (Ophthalmologist) and also, Dr. T.Dayal Singh garu, MBBS, FRSH( (London) for arranging his Senior Medical Officer, Dr C.Chandra Mohan,, MBBS, DO(Ophthalmologic Surgeon). The programme came to a conclusion with Mangal Aarti, Vibhuti Prasad distribution and later distribution of Swamy s Photos and a book called Inspired Medicine to all the Threee Ophthalmologists. Last but not least, we will be failing if we don t quote the experience we had in connection with the FREE EYE TESTING CAMP whichh is narrated bellow: In the beginning we were in a big dilemma as to how the eye camp would be successful without Samithi Doctors [Dr Ranjit, MBBS, DO (Ophthalmologist) ] whose Mobile was not reachable as the date of the FREE EYE TESTING CAMP was fast approaching. Since Swami is GOD, he knew all along the whole eye camp would be successful, because he planned it that way by granting us THREEE OPHTHALMOLOGISTS instead of only one what we expected initially. What we learnt from this memorable experience of our lives was that God is the Doer and we are all but his instruments. Sairam