Condensing multiple days into a single page, since the content is limited.
1992-07-03 - Friday - English class Video shows - how to speak, then one on wind surfing and told to write something on wind surfing.
1992-07-04 - Saturday - Found that PVR Subrahmanyam had clicked me when he clicked the boy doing arati - so I may get that photo (when I went to offer Prasadam).
1992-07-05 - Sunday - Social work in the morning 6 - 8. Once again as if a challenge. So, didn't eat or drink anything other than mouthfuls of delicacies offered by roommates*. Went to Trayee, saw its curved backside and the rose bushes, attended study circle, not so interesting.
Trayee Brindavan in 1992. Idyllic.
Played 4 games shuttle. Wimbledon seen on TV. Sang bhajan in mic**. "Shirdi Sai Parthi Sai (Hum ko deejo Premaamrit Dhaara)".
1992-07-06 - Monday - 2 AM got up and ate bread and biscuits. Then got a terrific dream of Swami calling me to a group in His room in Trayee, and me kissing Swami's feet and then me watching Swami washing something to give us.
Chem practicals, superb results with only a drop of reagent, very pure, with dropper stoppers. Tea at college itself.
*Roommates - At Prasanthi Nilayam and at Brindavan hostels, each room would have around 10-14 cupboards, and usually 10-14 students, one using each cupboard. The cupboards have a lockable area of 3 shelves and open out to a folding wooden desk.
The school hostel cupboards seen above are similar to our cupboards described above, only ours were plain wood, painted blue, older, while these are laminate, newer. From Sri Sathya Sai Higher Secondary School - Hostel
The open area above and below the cupboard can also be used for storage, like the lower one for our rolled-up bedding etc. At night, we would unroll the bedding on the floor next to the cupboard and sleep after "lights-out", which was strictly enforced at Brindavan. Some would take their bedding and go to sleep either in the dining hall under fans (the rooms did not have fans in those days) or on the terrace. The area over the dining hall was a terrace (B-floor terrace) available for us, and it had clotheslines to dry clothes too.
Most of the students would give clothes to the "dhobis", with a monthly rate of Rs. 35 per month or so. I started washing my clothes myself at some point - when Swami mentioned something in Trayee about doing our work ourselves and not depending on dhobis or something like that. My clothes washing consisted of soaking for half an hour in a bucket filled with soap-water - Ariel, Surf Excel etc were favoured for their effectiveness - and then rinsing twice by soaking in plain water, with very minimal scrubbing or squeezing - mostly drip dry. This procedure continued for many years, even after starting to work at Prasanthi Nilayam, until my parents moved to here and I got a washing machine for their room.
**Sang bhajan in mic - There would be bhajans at the Hostel in the Hostel Dining Hall (which was also the prayer hall for suprabhatam etc) when Swami was not in town. This was the case for the Prasanthi Nilayam hostels also until 2011.
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