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Articles: Devotion | Between we and God
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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This happened nearly four decades ago. Swami landed in Mumbai after His fourteen day East African trip and was in a great hurry to visit Anantapur en route to Bangalore. It was June 1968. After just after a month, Swami returned to the city of Anantapur, the official capital and the biggest town of the district, to unfold to the world His advent’s one very significant mission. He was inaugurating a college for women in Anantapur. What He said on that occasion set the pace for the Sri Sathya Sai education mission.
'The prompting behind this College is not the search for reputation or the desire to propagate a cult, or the hope of monetary profit. Fame is a fickle figment! Reputation rots quite soon. Profit, when it is calculated in terms of cash, defiles. I have allowed this College to rise because it will install in the minds of the students, the ideals of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love - ideals delineated in the Vedas, described in the ancients scriptures, illustrated in the Epics, practised by countless generations and confirmed by experience, as best suited for individual and social progress. Every child born…has the right to know and benefit by this precious heritage….(just like) agriculture is for living; Atma-culture is for success in life.”
Three years later, Swami was in this city again, now to preside over the inauguration of the college’s magnificent new building. And what He said on that Guru Poornima day, the day dedicated to the Supreme Preceptor, in the presence of the then President of India and his wife, was as prophetic as it was profound.
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