One hundred years ago on October 15^th of 1918, Swami’s previous Avatar, Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi, took Maha Samadhi. The year, 2018 marks the centenary anniversary of the Maha samadhi of Shirdi Sai Avatar. To commemorate this event, we as the Sai Community had collectively undertaken the sadhana of Nationwide continuous Gayatri Mantra Chanting for 108 hours before the 7^th anniversary of the Maha Samadhi of our beloved Swami, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba on the 24^th of April 2018.  We repeated this sadhana again in October, before the Centenary Anniversary of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Samadhi on 15^thOctober, 2018.

This endeavor has been successfully implemented across our country from the east to the west coast of Canada from 12 AM on 11^th of October, 2018 until midnight on the 15^th of October. This project was welcomed with enthusiasm by the Sai devotees, with 680 devotees participating and completing 680 hours of chanting the Gayatri Mantra, where our original target was 108 hours!.

To put it in perspective, a calculation shows that on average four Gayatri mantras are chanted per minute = 240 per hour. Thus, we had collectively chanted: 240 x680 hours x 680 devotees = 110,976,000 hours. We have chanted 110 million, nine hundred and seventy six thousand Gayatris in the 5 days commencing from 11^th of October and concluding on the 15^th of October at midnight!

May this chanting of the Gayatri Mantra bring peace to the individual, the family, the society, to our nation and ultimately the whole world and the universe! We humbly bow at the divine feet of our beloved Lord to have blessed us with the strength and dedication to chant this mantra with love and faith and continue to benefit from chanting the Gayatri Mantra everyday of our lives!

Jai Sai Ram!

National Devotional Team