Puttaparthy (Anantapur),
Oct.4: Hysteric crowds and overhanging clouds persuaded Sri Sathya Sai
Baba to postpone his promised Viswarupa Darsanam on Thursday evening.
There was chaos
at the Puttaparthy airport after Sai Baba devotees thronged the premises
to witness the Viswarupa darsanam of their master. They returned disappointed.
Sai Baba had earlier
given darsan to his devotees at Sai Kulwant Hall in Puttaparthy. After
the bhajan, he told his assistant Anil Kumar that he would give Viswarupa
darsanam at around 7 pm on the northeastern direction of the airport.
As soon as Mr.
Anil Kumar announced this, devotees ran towards the airport chanting
his name.
Television channels
also telecast the news and people in Puttaparthy locked up their houses
and ran towards the airport. Thousands also rushed to the area from
surrounding villages.
Vishwarupa spoiled
All the devotees
crowding the area focused their attention on the northeastern direction
in the sky.
In a fit of devotion,
some of them surrounded the car of Sai Baba and he could not come out.
Devotees did not relent even after members of Satya Sai Trust urged
them to sit down. Instead, they ran after the car.
A small stage
was set up before the car for Viswarupa Darshanam but Sai Baba could
reach the stage as devotees prostrated before him. He was forced to
remain in the car for about
an hour.
A short
while later, the office-bearers of the Satya Sai Trust announced that
the Viswarupa Darsanam was postponed because of the non-cooperation
of devotees and the cloudy weather. Sai Baba then
returned to his Ashram.
Sai
Baba devotees in other countries also called up their friends and relatives
in Puttaparthy to find out about the incident.
Because
of the rush, traffic on the road from Puttaparthy to the airport was
thrown out of gear. At one stage, doors of the airport had to be closed.
Police finally cleared the traffic to enable Sai Baba to return to his
Ashram.
Most
devotees expressed disappointment at not being able to see the Viswarupa
Darsanam.
Saibaba’s
‘vishwaroopa darshanam’ fails Staff Reporter The Hindu - Friday
5 October 2007
ANANTAPUR:
Thousands of people from Puttaparthi and surrounding villages, gathered
around the Sathya Sai airport near Puttaparthi town in the district
on Thursday evening, after an announcement was made in Prashanti Nilayam
that Sathya Saibaba would give ‘vishwaroopa darshanam’ in the sky
between 7 and 8 pm.
However,
the huge crowd had to return disappointed as the announced event did
not take place. Sathya Saibaba also went to the airport in a car waited
there for about 40 minutes before returning to Prashanti Nilayam. According
to the information reaching here, Saibaba did not come out of the car
as huge crowds surrounded his vehicle and it was not possible for him
to venture out of the vehicle in the absence of any police security
or the regular cordoning off of Sathya Sai Sevadal volunteers.
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