A photo from 1992 from my photo album - mandir portico.
Plan of not sleeping after 3:50 am waking at Mandir. Bath etc till 4:50. Suprabhatam, Nagarsankirtanam.
Morning darshan - Swami - "Arre! Bangalore gang!" After very short interview, came out and saw the mats - "Reservation, reservation... What will happen if your brother sits in your place?" Then to Tat and others - "This one (Tat) wants to drive my car. This one (Manish) my aeroplane. What about Me?" (Manish's father was a pilot, later in-charge of Sathya Sai Airport). He asked us about Sports Meet programme, aside, to a guest, "They never tell me about the program. Girls also. Only on last day. This time no dangerous things." Described ATP Jeep jumping, motorbikes, tunnel of fire. "Wife" of Ruchir Sir "lecturer at ATP", "wife" of Gopi Sir Physical Instructor at ATP. (These were in a joking vein.) Then added, "There is no Physical Instructor at ATP, they do on their own."
Bhajan time all went inside, rest devotees. Trampoline boys interview. Swami quelled Tat's fears about participating as He had told him not to in a dream. But He said now, "Imagination." By evening, most of the boys came. Truck at Shed No. 40, unloaded (our sports meet stuff) till 2:30 pm, mini bath, darshan.
Swami came down aisle, talked about Bombay boys. In the morning, He had walked among us, talked of Warden not coming soon as his mother was sick and in the SSS hospital at Kadugodi. He had also told us not to sit there in the afternoon, but to go to the ground, but later "explained to Him" that practice starts only tomorrow.
Read Norman Lewis' "Word Power made Easy" (from Suresh, Hostel Library) up to 9 o'clock, "2 weeks' dose".
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