Special events to mark Sai Baba’s Maha Samadhi

ALLAHABAD: The members of Sri Satya Sai Seva Organisation of the district would observe the first anniversary of Maha Samadhi of Sri Satya Sai Baba on April 24. Starting the day with feeding lepers and doing various social work, the devotees have chalked out a detailed programme for the day.
Giving details of the programms, district president of the organisation and advocate of the Allahabad High Court Akhileswar Singh said that the women devotees of Sri Satya Sai Baba are reading the Sri Satya Sai Sacharitra for the past one week and it would conclude on April 24, the day when Satya Sai took Maha Samadhi in 2011 at Puttaparthy in Anantpur district of Andra Pradesh.
He said that Narayan Seva would be performed in the morning wherein over 500 lepers of two leper colonies near Sangam would be given food of their choice. Along with this, children of Missionaries of Charity and Mental Retardation Home, Ashok Nagar will also be given food, he added.
In the afternoon session, women devotees will conclude the “padh” (oral reading) of Sri Satya Sai Sacharitra which is been recited by these devotees for the last one week, said Singh. He added that Swami has done immense social work including setting up of two super-specialty hospitals, one at Puttaparthy and the other at White Field (Bangalore).
Lakhs of people are treated and operated upon free of cost regularly. Major heart surgeries, kidney transplant, etc., are done by experts free of cost. In fact, there is no billing counter in these hospitals.
Likewise, education from KG classes to MBA and PhD courses are conducted without charging any fees. Satya Sai University, a deemed university recognized by the UGC, is the only university in the country with NAAC A++ grading.
In the evening, members of the organisation and the devotees would participate in sarva dhrama bhajans that would be sung from 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm. The bhajan programme would concluded by Maha Mangal Aarti, he added.
Giving details of the programmes, district president of the organisation and advocate of the Allahabad High Court Akhileswar Singh said that the women devotees of Sri Satya Sai Baba are reading the Sri Satya Sai Sacharitra for the past one week and it would conclude on April 24, the day when Satya Sai took Maha Samadhi in 2011 at Puttaparthy in Anantpur district of Andra Pradesh.