Senior Citizens Dinner | Sathya Sai International Organisation Singapore

In commemoration of Swami's 93rd Birthday celebrations, the annual Senior Citizens dinner was held on 22nd November 2018 at the Foo Chow Building.

The programme began at 3.30 pm with the arrival of 200 senior citizens from several charitable homes in Singapore who were then treated to a 7 course vegetarian meal and entertainment by brothers and sisters from the Sai Family.

There were singing, dancing and interaction sessions with the senior citizens which were the highlights of the programme. The senior citizens were presented with goody bags at the end of the programme at 6.00 pm.

It was indeed a very Sai filled day spent with the Senior Citizens who left after the programme feeling very happy and grateful to all Sai brothers and sisters who showered love on them throughout the function thereby fulfilling what Swami had once said "Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray"- Sri Sathya Sai Baba.

For achieving anything in life two things are essential: firm faith and pure love. To experience pure, Divine love, you must be prepared to give up selfishness and self-interest. You must develop purity and steadfastness. With firm faith in the Divine, you must foster the love of God regardless of all obstacles and ordeals. You should never think that pleasure and pain are caused by some external forces; it is not so. They are the result of your own thoughts. There is no meaning in blaming others. If you develop love of God, that love will banish all sorrow and evil tendencies like attachment, anger and envy. One should pursue both spiritual education and secular studies. You have to realise that Nature is also a manifestation of God. Hence, Nature should not be ignored. Nature is the effect and God is the cause. Thus, you should recognize the omnipresence of the Divine in the entire cosmos.

Sathya Sai Baba