It has been three years...three long years. Now that I am in the US, I have had the opportunity to witness the Aradhana Mahotsavam Celebrations Live from Prasanthi Nilayam on 23rd itself.
While I was watching the program and the two Krithis composed in veneration of the Sweet lord, I realized that the sting of pain that used to well up was completely absent.
I was enjoying the beautiful decoration of the Sanctum Sanctorum and the wonderful rendering of the Krithis.
I was parallel processing : why is the sorrow missing? Is it lost in the gala and beautiful decorations put up? Or was it that three years of missing has sunk in and I got used to the new Alter and the apparently empty Throne? Why is this change?
It did not take longer than a couple of moments that all these cannot substitute the beauty and presence of the Lord that I have previously witnessed. It was definitely something deeper. He is present.
Today on the day of Aradhana, CST, I was reading Sathyam Shivam Sundaram V. In the chapter "His Chosen Teachers" was a narration of Prof. Mukherjee. As I was reading the chapter and was actually soaking the narration of “His beautiful smile, innocence, piercing looks”, I was recollecting the beautiful memories and I had with Him. He was beauty personified. As these things were moving in my mind, I also felt the silent and majestic body, peacefully lying in state during these very days three years ago.
I as asked my self – what was beautiful? The physical body, or the One who was in it?
It is the One who was dwelling in that body that radiated all that joy, beauty and Divinity through it.
If so, where is He now?
He said many times, He is everywhere.
If He is everywhere, at all times, how wonderful it would be if I could Him in That State?
As I was ruminating on this, it more and more dawned on me that He is the only One. He is the One because which that body radiated Divinity, not only that body, but everybody is radiating Divinity.
As I continued to read, Prof. Mukherjee goes on to say that she realized that Swamy should not be confined to the body. She has realized the Avathar through Sai. This was some time in 2003/4 when the book was being compiled, when the physical was still a midst us. It took a 24/4/11 for me to realize this!
It is a true Aradhana to realize this Truth. It is only the limitations of Maya – “appearance of that which is actually not” makes us forget this Truth!
Concluding with this beautiful photo album: A compilation of Eternal Truths as declared by Sai the Sathya.
While I was watching the program and the two Krithis composed in veneration of the Sweet lord, I realized that the sting of pain that used to well up was completely absent.
I was enjoying the beautiful decoration of the Sanctum Sanctorum and the wonderful rendering of the Krithis.
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| Sanctum Sanctorum at Prasanthi Nilayam on Aradhana Mahotsavam Day 2014 |
I was parallel processing : why is the sorrow missing? Is it lost in the gala and beautiful decorations put up? Or was it that three years of missing has sunk in and I got used to the new Alter and the apparently empty Throne? Why is this change?
It did not take longer than a couple of moments that all these cannot substitute the beauty and presence of the Lord that I have previously witnessed. It was definitely something deeper. He is present.
Today on the day of Aradhana, CST, I was reading Sathyam Shivam Sundaram V. In the chapter "His Chosen Teachers" was a narration of Prof. Mukherjee. As I was reading the chapter and was actually soaking the narration of “His beautiful smile, innocence, piercing looks”, I was recollecting the beautiful memories and I had with Him. He was beauty personified. As these things were moving in my mind, I also felt the silent and majestic body, peacefully lying in state during these very days three years ago.
I as asked my self – what was beautiful? The physical body, or the One who was in it?
It is the One who was dwelling in that body that radiated all that joy, beauty and Divinity through it.
If so, where is He now?
He said many times, He is everywhere.
If He is everywhere, at all times, how wonderful it would be if I could Him in That State?
As I was ruminating on this, it more and more dawned on me that He is the only One. He is the One because which that body radiated Divinity, not only that body, but everybody is radiating Divinity.
As I continued to read, Prof. Mukherjee goes on to say that she realized that Swamy should not be confined to the body. She has realized the Avathar through Sai. This was some time in 2003/4 when the book was being compiled, when the physical was still a midst us. It took a 24/4/11 for me to realize this!
It is a true Aradhana to realize this Truth. It is only the limitations of Maya – “appearance of that which is actually not” makes us forget this Truth!
Concluding with this beautiful photo album: A compilation of Eternal Truths as declared by Sai the Sathya.
