A fortiori

Ths Sathya Sai Arts and science college for women at Ananthapur came into existence on July 22nd 1968! The sathya Sai Arts and Science college at Whitfield, Bangalore came into existence on 9th June 1969! The Sathya Sai college at Prashanthi Nilayam came into existence in the year 1978! The Sathya Sai University started in the year 1981! Right from the establishment of the first of the colleges by Bhaghwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in the year 1968, He has been giving FREE EDUCATION to all the students which means there is no tuition fee, no lab fee, no library fee, no examination fee, no kind of fee at all! Moreover, discipline is the medium of instruction! People always feel that what comes free is always of poor quality! My teachers are some of the best! They are well read, totally committed, extremely articulate and highly qualified! We are steeped in values like humility, truth, peace and love! Service is a way of life here! The transformation that we undergo here is phenomenal! It is...

I stand in a crowd and yet a sense of loneliness engulfs me! I see familiar faces and yet there is a sense of unfamiliarity! It isn’t a friendly world that I see any longer! It has changed utterly and disastrously! I don’t see any of the faces from the past! I don’t see the faces that trusted me and loved me! It seems as though I am surrounded by a million smiling faces but the faces are blurred! They are close to me yet so far from the real me! I was convinced for some time that it was one big bad dream! I see the bad and the ugly and its many facets rising like the tsunami and engulfing into its lap the very young and the very old alike! I see faces spewing venom all around me! I see corruption! I see threat, I see malice and a chilling fear running up my spine! I ask myself – Where is fear? Isn’t it in the absence of God! I could feel Him holding my hand and with me as I was going through these chilling experiences! He was like the Mother intent on giving the required va...

I was enjoying speeding in my Alto oblivious to everything else other than the exhilarating feeling of watching the road ahead and the beautiful site of the winding roads hugging sometimes paddy fields and sometimes Mango groves! All of a sudden I noticed a car from behind trying to overtake my vehicle and for a while I intended to keep up my speed but then better sense prevailed over me. I moved to a side to give way to the other vehicle! As soon as the car occupants had overtaken me, I saw them giving Hifi to one another followed by a quick triumphant glance– very excited that they had overtaken me! My first reaction was – how idiotic!! During one of those chatty sessions with my colleagues the kind who dole out advices whether you want it or not! My colleague told me that I should stop commuting by my car as it was risky driving such a long distance everyday! He gave me two solutions – to commute by the transportation provided by the organization or to have a driver to drive my car...

I was enjoying speeding in my Alto oblivious to everything else other than the exhilarating feeling of watching the road ahead and the beautiful site of the winding roads hugging sometimes paddy fields and sometimes Mango groves! All of a sudden I noticed a car from behind trying to overtake my vehicle and for a while I intended to keep up my speed but then better sense prevailed over me. I moved to a side to give way to the other vehicle! As soon as the car occupants had overtaken me, I saw them giving Hifi to one another followed by a quick triumphant glance– very excited that they had overtaken me! My first reaction was – how idiotic!! During one of those chatty sessions with my colleagues the kind who dole out advices whether you want it or not! My colleague told me that I should stop commuting by my car as it was risky driving such a long distance everyday! He gave me two solutions – to commute by the transportation provided by the organizati...