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2016/04

第十位神化身(15)

摘自：斯里沙迪亚赛峇峇（Kalki Avatar，即白马神化身或第十位神化身）的一个简明传记
编者：Col.S.K.Bose (Retd)

。。。承接第十四部

2000 - 多事的年头

斯瓦米在2000年安排了一个活跃的步伐。斯瓦米于2000年10月31日发起“斯里沙迪亚赛乡村服务”（Sri Sathya Sai Grama Seva），祂挥旗启动一队货车，装满一包包的食物和衣服并由学生们与教职员们负责分发给所有附近村庄的每一户人家，作为斯瓦米祝福过的食品去分发。因此开始了一个新的时代于乡村的提升以及所有斯瓦米的教育机构的乡村服务活动。其目的在于使到学生们和教职员们了解村民如何生活和他们所需要的是什么，以及尤其重要的是，尽可能做出一切让他们生活得好一些。

不到一个月之后的2000年11月18日那一天，斯瓦米为‘神识之光’博物馆（Chaitanya Jyoti Museum）主持落成典礼，作为一个有关斯瓦米的一生与使命的永久展览。目的在于让世人了解神化身出现在他们之中，及，人类如何从中获益而且在未来的日子中继续获益。

几天之后，在2000年11月20日，斯瓦米又为‘斯里沙迪亚赛密尔普利音乐学院’（Sri Sathya Sai Mirpuri College of Music）主持开幕典礼。这音乐学院也设有一个乐器博物馆。

班加罗尔的高等专科医院

2001年1月19日斯瓦米为第二所高等专科医院主持落成典礼，这一次是在班加罗尔（Bangalore）。它比早在九年前斯瓦米设立的，以四个心脏手术作为戏剧化的方式开幕的布达峇地医院还要大。这一次医院以传统方式举行开幕典礼，由当时的总理斯里阿特尔比哈利瓦兹巴义（Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee）点灯。在此，最贫穷者也同样的得到最好的，免费的医疗照顾。斯瓦米的医院唯一缺少的就是一个开账单的部门。

斯瓦米在仪式致辞时说我们应该为贫困者服务并且为社区服务。就是这服务从长远来看会护佑我们，因为服务贫困者就是服务神。因此，要服务贫困者并准备舍身以赴。这就是人今天应该做的事。祂进一步说，仅仅建立一所富丽堂皇的医院并不重要，除了富丽之外我们也需要福乐而福乐唯有在贫困者得到快乐和满足之后才会降临。这家医院是斯瓦米的医疗保健计划的巅峰成果。

真奈的水供

真奈（Chennai）的主要水供是来自东北季候风所带来的雨水，但这季候风变化无常而经常没带来雨水。到1950年，很明显的只有自基士拿河（河水由西南季候风所带来的雨水补充）所提供的水才足以缓解真奈的食水问题。及至泰米尔纳德邦的首席部长，斯里罗摩月（Sri M G Ramachandran），会见安得拉邦的首席部长，斯里罗摩劳勿（Sri N T Rama Rao），的时候，也就是1983年，此问题都一直没有进展。劳勿同意提供方便给罗摩月于其‘泰鲁固恒河计划’里头。在这计划里，生水首先会取自位于斯里赛拉姆（Sri Sailam）的基士拿河，然后，把水调到索玛希拉（Somasila）蓄水池。水从索玛希拉转运到干达乐鲁（Kandaleru）蓄水池，再从那里通过150公里长的运河把水送到靠近真奈的普恩地（Poondi）蓄水池，由此再转到真奈。干达乐鲁普恩地运河于1983年开始兴建，并在1996年由斯里卡鲁那尼提（Sri Karunanidhi）主持落成典礼。水从干达乐鲁蓄水池释放出来，可是只有小量的水流到普恩地。经过多年策划的梦想化为泡影。

然后在2002年1月，某种意料之外的事情发生了。在祂神圣讲道的过程中，那是班加罗尔高等专科医院第一周年聚会的活动，斯瓦米作了一个令到每个人都感到惊讶的宣布。斯瓦米说祂有意愿实行另一个计划。在马德拉斯（真奈）没有水供。有钱人可以从远处去购水，但穷人则负担不起。他们被迫喝坑里和泥潭里的雨水而导致健康受损。斯瓦米因此决定提供食水给马德拉斯（真奈）。

几个月之后，在斯瓦米的指示下，斯里沙迪亚赛中央信托承担起整治疏浚整个干达乐鲁普恩地运河系统的任务，并从干达乐鲁蓄水池开始。工程日夜赶工，而干达乐鲁蓄水池的容量增加了三倍。运河的外形根据水力学的需要而加以适当的设计。沙迪亚赛中央信托不计费用，只求完美。斯瓦米总共花费了20亿卢比使真奈的老百姓不再缺水喊渴。所有沙迪亚赛食水计划的完美处就是受惠者连一分钱都不必付。

哥达瓦里（Godavari）食水计划

有大量的水流入浩瀚的哥达瓦里河，然而住在河边的主要部落的村民们还必须为水而发愁。于是斯瓦米又再一次用自己神圣的双手把问题给扛下。人没有食物还可以生存，但没有水就不可能活下去。水是一个基本的必需品。在祂于2004年12月26日，对百善地格拉姆高等专科医院职员的讲道里，祂说祂已启动了一个费资6亿的工程。完工时的费用接近10亿。

又一次，一个简明扼要的指示被发到中央信托，要他们提供安全食水给哥达瓦里县东部和西部地区的大约550个乡村。这些乡村分布于河流两岸。在概念上，计划看似简单，但实行起来却又很复杂。所必须做的是通过水井从河里把河水纳入，然后净化与分配。由于大部分地带都是浓密森林，实行方面就显得复杂了。工作如火如荼展开，克服了所有障碍而于斯瓦米2005年的生日时，整个工程大约已完成了百分之八十，其余的也在不久之后竣工。

待续。。。

The Tenth Avatar

(A Concise Biography of Sri Sathya Sai Baba, The Kalki Avatar)
By: Col S.K Bose (Retd)

… Continue from Part 14

2000 – Eventful Year

Swami set a hectic pace during the year 2000. On 31 Oct 2000 Swami launched “Sri Sathya Sai Grama Seva” by flagging off a fleet of trucks laden with food packets and clothes and manned by students and staff for distribution to each and every house in all the nearby villages as Swami’s Prasad. Thus commenced a new era in village uplift and rural service activities of all Swami’s educational institutions. The aim was to make students and staff aware of how villagers lived and what their needs were and how important it was to do everything they could to make life a little easier for them.

Less than a month later, on 18 November 2000, Swami inaugurated the Chaitanya Jyoti Museum, housing a permanent exhibition on Swami’s Life and Mission. The aim was to make people aware of the presence of the Avatar in their midst and how humanity was benefiting thereby and would continue to benefit in future.

A few days later on 20 November 2000, Swami inaugurated the Sri Sathya Sai Mirpuri College of Music, which also housed a Museum of Musical Instruments.

Super Speciality Hospital, Bangalore

On 19 January 2001, Swami inaugurated a second Super Speciality Hospital, this time in Bangalore. It was even bigger than the Puttaparthi (Prasanthi Gram) hospital, which Swami had established about 9 years earlier in a dramatic manner with 4 heart surgeries. This time the hospital was inaugurated in a traditional manner with Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then Prime Minister lighting the lamp. Here, too, the poorest of the poor got the best medical treatment free of cost. The only thing Swami’s hospitals lacked was a Billing Department.

Speaking on the occasion Swami said that we should serve the poor and serve the community. It is this service which will protect us in the long run, because service to the poor is service to God. Therefore serve the poor and be ready to sacrifice one’s life. This was what man was supposed to do today. He added that it was not important to have merely built this hospital beautifully, but along with beauty we also needed bliss and that bliss could only come when the poor were happy. This hospital was the culmination of Swami’s Medicare programme.

Chennai Water Supply

Chennai receives water mainly during the North East Monsoon, but this monsoon is fickle and often fails. By 1950 it was clear that water from Krishna river (fed by the South West Monsoon) alone could relieve the drinking water problem of Chennai. Nothing happened till 1983, when Sri M G Ramachandran (MGR), Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu met Sri N T Rama Rao (NTR), Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. NTR agreed to accommodate MGR in his Telugu Ganga Scheme. In this scheme, water was to be first drawn from the Krishna river at Sri Sailam and then taken to the Somasila reservoir. From Somasila the water was taken to the Kandaleru reservoir and thence to Poondi Reservoir near Chennai through a 150 km long canal and from there to Chennai. In 1996 the Kandaleru Poondi canal was inaugurated by Sri Karunanidhi, the construction of which had started in 1983. Water was released from Kandaleru Reservoir, but only a thin trickle reached Poondi. Dreams laid over the years lay shattered.

Then in January 2002, something totally unexpected happened. In the course of His Divine discourse on the occasion of the first anniversary function of the Bangalore Super Speciality Hospital, Swami took everyone by surprise by making a most extraordinary announcement. Swami said that he had willed another project. In Madras (Chennai) there was no water. Rich people could buy water from long distances, but poor people couldn’t afford to do so. They were forced to drink water available in pits and puddles of rain water and spoil their health. Swami had therefore decided to supply drinking water to Madras (Chennai).

A few months later, on Swami’s directions, the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust took up the task of rejuvenating and invigorating the entire Kandaleru-Poondi canal system starting with Kandaleru Reservoir. Work went on day and night and the capacity of the Kandaleru Reservoir was trebled. A profile of the canal was properly designed in accordance with the requirements of hydraulics. The Sathya Sai Central Trust spared no expense, aiming at perfection. In all Swami spent about 200 crores so that the people of Chennai would not go thirsty any more. The beauty of all Sathya Sai Drinking Water Projects is that the beneficiaries did not have to pay even a single paisa.

Godavari Drinking Water Project

Much water flows through the mighty Godavari River, yet villagers living along the river, who are mainly tribals, have to struggle for water. Then Swami once again took matters in His own Divine hands. Man could survive without food but it was impossible to survive without water, which was a basic necessity. In His discourse to the staff of the Super Speciality Hospital, Prasanthi Gram on 26 December 2004, He said that He had started a project costing 60 crores. The final cost came to Rs. 100 crores.

Once again a crisp directive was issued to the Central Trust to provide safe drinking water to about 550 villages of East and West Godavari Districts flanking the river as it made its way to the sea. The scheme was simple in concept, but complex in execution. What needed to be done was to draw water from the river via intake wells, purify and distribute. The problem of execution was compounded by the fact that much of the area was heavily forested. Work started in full swing, overcoming all obstacles and by Swami’s Birthday in 2005, about 80% of the project had been completed and the rest of the project was completed shortly thereafter.

To be continued ….