An Ode on Sai Geetha by Sri Raja Reddy

Truly, no other being ever captured Swami’s heart to the extent this elephant-devotee did. “If Swami is ‘Love in Action’,” says Sri Raja Reddy, a very senior Sai devotee, “Sai Geetha was ‘Devotion in Action.’”As one who had seen Sai Geetha when she arrived at the Ashram as a tiny infant nearly five decades ago and observed her grow into a majestic and magnificent devotee, Sri Raja Reddy in his ‘Ode to Sai Geetha’ says:

An Ode to Sai Geetha

Small you came, Big you became.
Big both in body & spirit
But, big in body, small in ego,
It is not for nothing
Sai named you ” SAI GITA”
For you have a MESSAGE
Apt for this AGE
Discipline and Devotion
Duty, Discrimination
Along with Determination
Your performance based upon,
Rain or Shine,
You led the Procession Good & Gorgeous
With gong on either side
Calm Majesty,
Spectacular but silent;
Spotting Swami in the crowd
In bubbling devotion you bowed!
Once duty performed
Back in your dear Abode
Receding back into Reticence!
For years and for decades
This went on and on !
You emulated Bhagavan
To make your life a Message
While Sai’s Life is Love in Action
Sai Gita’s Life, Devotion in Action
Your message, mute but eloquent,
Silent eloquence but elephantine
We miss you Sai Gita
For in your absence Missing
is intense
As being, sans air or water
Aeons ago, it was Gajendra Moksha
Then by Sai Vishnu
Now it is Gajarani Moksha
Given by Sai Krishna
With this as our solace,
A happy smile’s on our face.

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