In Our Community
World Interfaith Harmony Week 2025: A Journey of Unity, Love, and Peace
The vibrant atmosphere of unity and shared purpose was palpable at the World Interfaith Harmony Week 2025 event, held on Saturday, February 8th at the Sri Sathya Sai International Organization in collaboration with Chinmaya Mission Toronto. The event’s theme, Faiths Together: Strengthening Love, Peace, and Community Bonds, brought together a rich tapestry of faiths and traditions in a celebration of shared humanity and understanding.
The Second Regional Youth Bhajan
On Sunday, February 2nd, Agincourt Sai Centre welcomed devotees from all around the region for the much-anticipated Second Regional Youth Bhajan, a vibrant and spiritually enriching event that followed the collaboration between the Toronto East Sai Centre and Agincourt Sai Centre, which began in October of last year. This gathering, held from 3:45pm to 5:45pm, brought together Sai devotees, especially youth, to sing in unison and bask in the divine vibrations of bhajans and devotional songs.
Maha Shivaratri Celebration at the Pickering Event Centre
On the evening of February 25th, 2025, devotees from various Sai Centres in Region 2: Toronto East, Agincourt, Sai Illam, Durham, Pickering, Malvern, and Victoria Park, gathered under one roof at the Pickering Event Centre to celebrate Maha Shivaratri, a night dedicated to Lord Shiva. The air was filled with devotion, love, and the unmistakable vibration of collective spiritual energy, as the Sai family came together for a night of unity, reverence, and divine offering.
Baby Wipes and Diaper Drive
As part of our outreach activities, we were looking for places where we could serve during the pandemic. A pregnancy center in Toronto that supports families for pregnancy and parenting had seen a dramatic increase in the use of their Care Closet at the Pregnancy Centre. The Centre provides families with diapers, wipes and formula as needed. In the past year, they saw a dramatic rise in the total number of visits, with the greatest need for wipes and diapers. The Ladies wing in collaboration with the Seva team initiated a project to collect wipes and diapers. The collection happened over a period of 2 months and at the end of May, we were able to collect around 4703 diapers and 7316 wipes.
SSE Christmas Drop
Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Toronto York Service team, in collaboration with the Education wing prepared and delivered 200 gift bags containing various holiday treats to each of the children’s homes.
SSE offering for SSSIO Ladies Day Celebration
It was August 25th when we received a request informing us of the opportunity for SSE children to be part of the Ladies day celebration 2020. The ask was to submit a storyline for a skit or drama based on the theme “Unity of Head, Heart and Hand”. The due date for submission was the first week of September. With all hands and hearts on deck, we submitted the first draft on September 4th.
95th Birthday Offering by the SSE children
As we were approaching 2020, the Education wing was eagerly thinking of ideas which could be translated as an offering to Bhagawan on His 95th birthday. Keeping in mind the SSSIO theme, “Unity is Divinity, Purity is Enlightenment” the Education Coordinators started canvassing for ideas. In the early spring of 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 changed our personal lives and we needed to be creative in our approach to support the devotees and children at our Sai Centres. We harnessed the idea of children writing prayers which were and are much needed during the challenging times we live in.
Menon Lojan – Grade 6 – Winner of Art Competion
Menon Lojan, a grade 6 student from the Sathya Sai School in Toronto has won 1st prize in the Consulate General of India (Toronto) Art Competition.
SSE Virtual Graduation Program
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of change in the world, and it was no different at the Toronto-York Sai Centre. Since the physical centre is temporarily closed to respect the safety of the devotees, SSE quickly improvised and adapted to an alternative online format for the remainder of the year. Despite all the obstacles, through Swami’s grace, the classes were a smashing success.
Easwaramma Day
Through this unprecedented time since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, lots of adaptation were made at many centres to move its activities to an online platform. Although gurus and students had challenges on how to commemorate Easwaramma Day and Aradhana Day in the usual festive manner, the Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Toronto-York was able to find a way to overcome it.