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Sai Baba's 85th Birthday

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Sathya Sai Baba Swami celebrated his 85th birthday on 23rd November 2010. It is said that there were 1 million people staying at the ashram and around Puttaparthi. In the month leading up to the celebrations, RadioSai, the communications channel based at Prasanthi Nilyam, put out a daily video about Baba's life and message. The individual videos can be seen here Swami's good works are enough to earn him respect from all sections of society, from the top to the bottom. His birthday was attended by the president and the prime minister of India as well as many devout and celebrated followers.  His schools are treated as models for Indian schools and are encouraged by the government He has managed to bring fresh drinking water to more than  8m people – more than the population of Sweden. He has completed a scheme planned more than100 years ago to bring  reliable fresh water to Madras. His two free hospitals are models of their kind and almost certainly the la

Ecclesiastes

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us