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SUMMER COURSE in Indian Culture and Spirituality 2013 Dedicated with Love to Our Beloved Revered Founder Chancellor SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER LEARNING (Deemed to be University) SUMMER COURSE in Indian Culture and Spirituality 2013 Dedicated with Love to our Beloved Revered Founder Chancellor Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Dedicated with Love to our Beloved Revered Founder Chancellor Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Copyright © 2015 by Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam – 515134, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India All Rights Reserved. The copyright and the rights of translation in any language are reserved by Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (Deemed to be University). No part, paragraph, passage, text, photograph or art work of this book should be reproduced, transmitted or utilised, in original language or by translation, in any form or by means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or by any information, storage and retrieval system, except with prior permission, in writing from the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam 515134, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India. First Edition: March 2015 Content, Editing & Desktop Publishing by: Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning www.sssihl.edu.in Printed at: Vagartha, NR Colony, Bangalore – 560019 +91 80 22427677 | [email protected] SUMMER COURSE in Indian Culture and Spirituality 8-10 June 2013 | Prasanthi Nilayam Preface ost universities the world over set aside a few days during the beginning of each academic year to host orientation programmes for newly admitted Mstudents. They are designed to help students to engage with the values and traditions of the university, get familiar with the facilities and resources it has to offer, and serve as an introduction to the academic climate and expectations of the institution. Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, founded by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, is unique in this aspect. The focus of the university is to inculcate good qualities, mould character and instil Self-confidence in students preparing them to be better human beings who will be ideal examples of goodness and work for the benefit of society at large. To this end, the University has an intensive two-and-a-half day Summer Course in Indian Culture & Spirituality at the beginning of each academic year to orient students to Bhagawan’s educational philosophy and give them deep insights into what they could imbibe while pursuing their higher learning from this unique Institution. It aims at preparing students to make the best use of the extraordinary opportunities that lies ahead of them. The genesis of the event dates back to the early seventies, when Bhagawan Baba organized Summer Courses in Indian Culture and Spirituality for the benefit of students. The course then was usually three to four weeks long and would typically consist of a series of lectures on Indian culture, the essence of the scriptures and other spiritual topics delivered by learned scholars, senior devotees and men of esteem. The highlight however was the daily discourse by Baba Himself, delivered typically in the evening. The Summer Courses in this format continued through the seventies and after a brief hiatus (in the eighties), they continued into the nineties, until the last one in 2002. The current format of the Summer Course – two-and-a-half days during the second week of each academic year – has been in place since 2011. For the academic year preface 2013/14, the event was held from 8th to 10th of June 2013. Students and teachers from all four campuses of the Institute as well Sathya Sai Mirpuri College of Music, Sri Sathya Sai Higher Secondary School, Prasanthi Nilayam (Class XI and Class XII) and Sri Sathya Sai Gurukulam English Medium School, Rajahmundry participated. This year, the theme of the Summer Course was the Mastery of the Mind, based on the 1990 Summer Course discourses that Bhagawan Baba delivered. All morning sessions took place in the Poornachandra auditorium at Prasanthi Nilayam and commenced with invocatory Vedic chanting by students of SSSIHL. The evening sessions consisted of talks and music programmes by students of individual campuses, along with Vedam chanting and Bhajans in the Sai Kulwant Hall, Prasanthi Nilayam. After dinner, each campus of the institute held parayanam sessions, where senior academic staff and alumni would share with students their experiences with Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and the wonderful divine love and blessings He showered on all. This book chronologically represents the entire programme of the Summer Course in Indian Culture and Spirituality 2013. This includes all the speeches, interactive sessions such as the Parayanam sessions (experiences with Bhagawan Baba), panel discussions and situational analyses. Every effort has been made to keep the first person narrative intact, so that the reader can appreciate the personality of the speaker and the purport of his or her talk. The reason for publishing the proceedings of the Summer Course in the form of a book is threefold. First, it functions as a valuable reference publication for the staff, students and visitors of the university. Secondly—for the public at large—it serves as a wonderful introduction to Indian culture and spirituality. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the book is glittered with personal incidents that the speakers have had with Bhagawan Baba and in many instances highlights Bhagawan’s teachings on several spiritual topics. Preface 7 WELCOME NOTE Dr. Naren Ramji | 10 INAUGURAL ADDRESS Prof. J Shashidhara Prasad | 12 LESSONS FROM THE RAMAYANA FOR MODERN SOCIETY Sri Sanjay Sahni | 17 LESSONS FROM THE MAHABHARATA FOR MODERN SOCIETY Miss Lalitha Sarma R | 27 BHAJAN ANTAKSHARI Sri Amey Deshpande (Moderator) | 36 TRANSFORMATION – THE TRUE SIGN OF DEVOTION Sri Dhruv Vyas | 37 CULTURE IS CONCERN FOR OTHERS Sri G Aditya | 40 ALUMNI PANEL DISCUSSION – IDEAL SAI STUDENTS AND THEIR ROLE IN SOCIETY Dr. (Miss) P L Rani (Moderator) | 43 CONTENTS LESSONS FROM THE BHAGAVATAM FOR MODERN SOCIETY Sri S Sai Giridhar | 51 QUIZ ON “THE LIVES OF ALL AVATARS” as narrated by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Dr. Shashank Shah & team | 61 IMPORTANCE OF THE SUMMER COURSE IN INDIAN CULTURE AND SPIRITUALITY Kum Jasmine Rai | 81 GRATITUDE Sri Shravan Sai | 84 SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS EXERCISE Dr. N Siva Kumar (Moderator) | 89 VALEDICTORY SESSION Prof. (Miss) Madhu Kapani | 99 PARAYANAM SESSIONS - Experiences with Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba ANANTAPUR Campus Talks Dr. (Mrs.) T Dharma | 105 Ms. Neena Bardoloi | 110 Dr. (Miss) S Kanaka Durga | 117 Prof. Indrani Chakravarti | 122 Dr. (Ms.) Sahida Sharma | 129 Ms. Sadhana Pai | 133 PRASANTHI NILAYAM Campus Talks Dr. Hirok Changkakoti | 138 Sri Vinayak Kalletla | 147 Sri Kannan Murthy | 158 Sri M G Nandagopal | 164 BRINDAVAN Campus Talks Dr. R Raghunatha Sarma | 172 Sri Bishweshwar Prusty| 177 MUDDENAHALLI Campus Talks Sri Sai Surendranath | 185 Dr. A Sunil | 190 SSSIHL Summer Course 2013 Welcome note Dr. Naren Ramji Registrar, SSSIHL he underlying philosophy of the educational institutions founded and nurtured by Bhagawan is very unique. Let us revisit the underlying philosophy of our universityT in His own words: The Sai educational institutions have been established not merely to enable students to earn a living but to make them acquire good traits, lead ideal lives, and give them ethical, moral and spiritual strength. I have established them with a view to inculcate love and teach good qualities to students. They will learn here humility, discipline and faith. I have established these institutions to impart spiritual education as a main component and worldly education as a secondary one. Education should enable one to cultivate good qualities, character and devotion. The teaching of the university curricula is only the means employed for the end, namely, spiritual uplift, self-discovery and social service through love and detachment. This will be a Gurukula - a place where teachers and taught will grow together in love and wisdom - and like the ancient system of education, it will develop in its students a broad outlook and promote virtues and morals, which serve to foster noble ideals in society. This Institute will be a temple of learning where youth are shaped into self-reliant, contented and enterprising heroes of action and self-sacrifice, for the purpose of serving humanity. Students! Please have no doubt that you have been chosen by Bhagawan to study in His institutions; because Bhagawan has found that potential in you which He feels will blossom into the vision of this Institute. While we have the admissions tests and all these so-called worldly mechanisms for selection, eventually it is only Bhagawan’s will that has brought you here. This is true for all of us, including the teachers. The Summer Course is therefore a very apt beginning to the academic year. One that lays the spiritual foundation for the endeavours that we follow throughout the academic year. It marks the beginning and renewal of the sacred relationship between the student and Swami. welcome note Values are taught in our institution and also in many other institutions around the world, but what is the difference between them and us? It is my firm belief that values by themselves are fine but they become mere academic and not practiced due to lack of a spiritual foundation. In this divine institution, Swami laid a spiritual foundation via which He imparts values to us. This gives us the courage and confidence to practice them and face the world outside. Dear Students! This is a great opportunity and a very important facet of your lives. This kind of university life will never come back to you again. Some of you may spend two, three or five years here. Please don’t take this opportunity for granted; it is a very special opportunity given by Bhagawan to you to bring you close to Him. This university gives you a spiritual basis and most importantly, you can experience a spiritual relationship with God.
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