Fond memories of bliss – Part 22

A few years ago, devotees of Sri Sri Swamiji had planned to celebrate Sri Sri Swamiji’s Jayanthi. They had made extensive arrangements to celebrate the program in the Ashram in a grand manner. Just a few days before the Jayanthi day, Sri Sri Swamiji ordained that the function be held at Bhuvaneswari Hall in T-Nagar, Chennai, instead of the Ashram premises.
The organizers were surprised by this order of His Holiness. ‘While the Ashram is spacious why is Swamiji asking us to shift the venue to a marriage hall?’, everyone thought. Sri Sri Swamiji read their mind and said, ‘There is going to be a heavy storm and rain here during that time’.

This statement was even more confounding to them as Chennai was then facing the worst drought and it had been ages since the rain gods even reminisced of the city!

Nevertheless, in adherance to the words of our Guru Maharaj, the venue of the Jayanthi celebration was at once shifted to the Mantap in the city and the whole event reprogrammed.

As Sri Sri Swamiji had predicted, on the very day of the Jayanthi, a great storm accompanied by heavy downpour lashed the city, blocking all roads and stopping all means of transport.

Yet, the devotees celebrated the Jayanthi of Guru Maharaj in as grand a manner as they had in the past years!