Dear Practitioners 

Another wonderful year has gone by. We express our deepest gratitude to our Lord, Sathya Sai Baba, for all that we have learnt and accomplished in 2019. As we usher in the New Year, we pray for happiness, health and success for all; however, only a few of us stop to think and contemplate on what that really means. The key to purposeful living lies in the very meaning of that prayer. While Swami encouraged us to take a deep dive inwards and seek answers to these questions, He also gave us several clues for living a meaningful life. Swami says, “You should undertake service. In fact, the hands are given to you to serve humanity…. When you undertake good work, you enjoy peace in your life….God is not interested in worship and other sadhanas (spiritual practices)….God is interested only in love and service. If you can recognize the importance of these two sadhanas and conduct yourself accordingly, there can be no greater sadhana.” …Sathya Sai Baba, New Year Discourse, 1 January 2004.

I’m delighted to inform you that in 2019, we made good progress towards our long-term goals of bolstering the vibrionics organization while simultaneously enhancing systems and implementing rigorous standards for higher levels of quality in service delivery. Some great initiatives were launched and several others accomplished. Listed below are key highlights.

1.    Website content consolidation - a newcomer to our admin core team, Practitioner ⁰³⁵⁶⁰, has undertaken the great task of combining the contents of all 3 sites and streamlining it into 2 new websites, one for the public and the other for practitioners. He is being supported in this task by senior practitioners already playing key roles in administration.

2.    New candidates admission process and ongoing training - we have created a new category called Assistant Practitioner ‘AP’, to make the admission procedure simpler and much easier to help those who are not so computer savvy and are unable to follow the online correspondence course. To this end, a new abridged manual for APs has been compiled. This is also suitable for those who wish to attend a refresher course. We are looking to introduce video interviews for new applicants and online training for mentors/teachers via video conferencing, using Zoom.

3.    AVP manuals are now available in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and Telugu and the 108CC book has been translated into Marathi and Telugu.

4.    Our dedicated practitioners, on a rota system, have been holding regular vibrionics clinics in both Ladies and Gents Seva Dal buildings in Prashanthi Nilayam. In 2019, we treated a total of 12,714 patients in these two clinics. 

5.    Vibrionics Centre for Excellence - just before Swami left the physical plane I presented Him with our annual report with this mission/vision statement “With Bhagawan’s inspiration, blessings and grace, we aspire that vibrionics is made available in every village and every Sai Samiti of our motherland and the world over at zero cost. We pray to establish an Education & Research Centre to train teachers and practitioners and conduct research for further development of healing remedies. We pray that we become perfect instruments in Swami’s hands to accomplish the goals and tasks He has set for us.” Invoking Bhagawan’s blessings, after receiving His guidance in meditation, the land for building a dedicated Sai Vibrionics centre in Puttaparthi has been procured. We are in the process of submitting an application for planning with a view to start construction soon. So I invite all practitioners who wish to volunteer for specific tasks related to this project to reach out directly to me by email at [email protected].  

6.    International conference - If we have enough volunteers, we are planning to host the 2^nd International or European vibrionics conference, possibly in 2020. 

7.    Some practitioners have been holding awareness-cum-health camps as reported in the In Addition section of the newsletter. It is inspiring to see the impact of such camps. All interested practitioners can widen their opportunities for practice and also spread vibrionics by taking a lead and organising similar camps in different institutions, forums, establishments or offices, schools, colleges, temples, community centres and so on. After taking guidance from [email protected], talks can be given by senior practitioners, with the help of a PowerPoint presentation, not only about the benefits and preventive aspects of vibrionics, but also how one can become a practitioner. Additionally, every practitioner should strive to inspire at least one other interested person (most likely to be one of your patients) to become a practitioner.

Let’s plan on making 2020 a monumental year for ourselves and commit to pushing the boundaries for selfless vibrionics service. We can only do this by uniting ourselves to make a team. On 1 Jan 2003, Swami said “…Spirituality is not a business activity. Spirituality is a divine mansion. It is associated with unity. This unity in diversity alone will bring you happiness. I wish that you cultivate that principle of unity. It is only then that the service undertaken by you will acquire value and sanctity. https://saispeaks.org/article/244. 

I would like to end with Swami’s words “Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of Love and fill its fragrance amongst all living things.”

Wishing you all a holy and happy New Year 2020!

In loving service to Sai

Jit K Aggarwal