Speech of HH Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji – Bangalore – September 9, 2012
Until now we heard the story of Shata Shloki Ramayana in kannada frm Prasad. Today in electronic media, the only famous stuff is movie songs. We don’t see spiritual things. The entertainment media are not good for the society. Entertainment was always there, even 100 years ago. Movie songs and dances too. But they had some meaning to them. Even nightclubs were there. These were only temporary or local. Their effect was not multiplying. Now it is multiplying. And back then, the elders used to tell people the bad effects of such things. Now it is the other way round. People are asking you to smoke and dance. Otherwise you’re looked at as anti-social. In such times, we propagated Shatashloki Ramayana. Everyone is surprised. Today the count crossed 13. People are afraid of number 13. Some English story has defamed number 13. Someone had a bad experience. Since then if there is a 13 storied house, it is daunted. Kaliyuga is like that. Bad propaganda carries fast. In these times if you say “Rama, Krishna”, who will listen? If we reached one lakh(one hundred thousand), it was a surprise. Swamiji was determined to do dharma propaganda in some way or the other. These days, people give money for religion conversion. They give food, arrange weddings. Swamiji thought why not we do something? Swamiji asked devotees to watch Ramayana. How much will devotees watch?
Swamiji said, don’t watch too much even the server is being blocked. Then Ravi and Shanti Anupindi bought a server just for this. We have enough server capacity as Facebook itself! That much save Anupindi did for us. His parents and sister are here. I’m happy. He even got fired! But He did this day and night. He was at home for 6 months. He still did it with a smile. Swamiji told him “this is also good for you”. He didn’t think about the future. Swamiji is everything for Him. When he was out of job, He took care of the server day and night. I’ll give him half the fruits of this. The other half to goes to people. Swamiji said don’t look watch that much but it took on like wildfire.
Gam team did a good job as well. Bangalore Ashrama devotees also looked well. Today also we had a festival at mysore. People didn’t sleep last night for arrangements. We celebrate birthday parties all night. This is World’s festival!
I won’t tell much about the miracles right now. They’re all in the comments. 3000 comments were good. 4000 comments were deleted because they were mundane. Good comments were retained, 3600 totally. 3000 comments are being made into a book. Nandana project is on now. Its like a festival to eyes and ears. This is a life festival. In May, we will have a test with 20 questions, 10 out of which you would have to answer. It is an easy test. Then we take a lottery and give prizes to 13 people. You can even download the videos. Like them, write comments. Those will go into a book too! It will become an international book. Don’t make excuses. Don’t say I didn’t know what to write. If you have to praise the lord, its sin to say I don’t know what to praise. You take boons right? You’re drinking water but you can’t praise the owner of the water? Not even thanks? Tell him thanks, and that you’re happy. What’s wrong in praising the lord that protects you? We’re so shy to even say thanks. This is because of Ego. We never thank the volunteers either. If we demand the volunteers its not good for you. When they’re serving food, if you demand, they won’t even serve you. You’re not a king. With courteous words, you get proper response. Swamiji is the owner of that food. You need to have gratitude for it. I get angry at people who demand,or comment about the taste of food. Well they eat a lot?! And then they comment on taste. We don’t have gratitude.
Similarly, for the God who protects us, we need to view his videos once. The sound goes into cosmics. Prabhu from USA has proved this scientifically. He went to NASA and took data. He proved that this cleaned the atmosphere. Shata Shloki did many miracles. People were saved from accidents.