1994-11-21 - Monday - Karthika Somavara

Screenshot from this video - Chitta Chora Yashoda Ke Bal | Padma Bhushan KS Chithra | Sep 01, 2009 | Sri Sathya Sai Sangeet #56

In the morning, SSSIHL staff got a cake for You to cut. (The Karthika Somavara or Monday was the day of Your advent in 1926.) Then the gruelling session from 1 pm to 10:30 pm. Kavita Krishnamurthi, K. S. Chithra, Pt. Jasraj, Anoop Jalota, all sang songs on Swami, among others. Chithra 6 languages. P. V. Narasimha Rao came, Lalgudi Jayaraman's violin. Then they made You cut a cake and dropped petals on Your hair again, this time no one to remove them - Seshan tried, TVK Shastri (the person organising the BCIC concerts) pushed him away. So, Your Discourse 9:15 to 10:15 pm! with petals. P. M. and Seshan also spoke, also Justice Ranganathan and Shastri (mostly praising P. V. Narasimha Rao). Seshan also wanted to praise P. V., but he said, "Seshan is afraid of the Chief Election Commissioner". 

My specs broke (hinge) when I slept in the morning 10 to 11 - someone must have stepped on it.

I wanted to quarter that Shastri for troubling Swami so much - dropping petals (incomplete

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