USA Pilgrimage Guidelines - Darshan Timings and Guidelines

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Darshan (Sight of the Lord) gives you liberation from all sins; Sparshan ( Lord’s touch) frees you from the effects of all your actions and Sambhasan (talking with the Lord) destroys all miseries. Your heart can attain purity through Divine grace. - Baba

Bhagawan has laid down the daily schedule to be followed in the ashram. Every activity of the ashram routine is suffused with deep spiritual significance. See the table below for the ashram schedule:

Time	Activity
5:20am.	Aumkar and Suprabhatham
5:40am	Veda Chanting and Nagar Sankeertan
Around 7:00am.	Morning Darshan, but Swami has been coming out around 9AM lately
9:00am	Bhajans
9.:0am.	Arati
10:00 to 11:00am.	Spiritual Talk
Around 3:00pm.	Evening Darshan
5:00pm.	Bhajans
5:30pm.	Arati
After evening Arati	Meditation for Overseas Devotees
7:45pm.	Video Show

Our group will assemble near the N-1 building by 5:50am and by 1:50pm in the afternoon. Changes will be notified at our first ashram meeting.
After necessary announcements, men and women will form two separate lines. Women will leave for darshan first, followed by the men.
The group will leave by 6am for morning darshan and 2pm for afternoon darshan.

Wheel-Chair/Chair in Darshan

We will obtain help from volunteers to transport devotees in wheel chairs to the darshan hall. Although we will request ashram officials to accommodate devotees in wheel-chairs along with the group, we will have to obey the rules of the ashram regarding this matter.

Prasanthi Committee – Daily Darshan Guidelines

Men /boys and Ladies/girls (infants and children below 6 may be with either parent) will line up separately by gender for morning and afternoon darshans approximately 45 minutes to an hour prior to the required seating timings provided to the U.S.A. Groups by Prasanthi Ashram Sai Kulvant Hall darshan seating convener.

U.S.A. devotees will meet at designated locations near North Building number 8 close to overseas accommodation area or in front of North Buildings 1, 2 and 3 the exact location will be determined based on the size of each group.

Devotee will need to line up and walk silently to Sai Kulvant Hall in a disciplined and orderly manner each morning and afternoon.

1. Every registered devotee will be provided with a badge which will include Darshan Id number by the registration team during registering in Puttaparthi upon arrival at the ashram.
2. Men, Young Adult Males and all Boys over 5 years old will be required to wear white shirt and white pants. Designated U.S A. scarves must be worn each day for 10 days during darshan.
3. Women, Young Adult Females, and SSE Group 4 or girls 16 and over to wear designated group Sari or same color uniform modest clothing covering full shoulders and length below the knee each day. Designated U.S.A. scarves must also be worn each day for 10 days during darshan.
4. Girls from SSE story group through Group 3 (ages 5 to 15) are required to wear white with shoulders completely covered and the length of the outfit must be beyond the knee to the ankle. Designated U.S.A scarves must also be worn each day for the 10 days during darshan.
5. Exception to the dress code specified above would be for Actors and Performers to wear their designated costumes or designated dress attire for performances in the Divine Presence of Swami for the cultural program only on the day during the darshan timing specified for the program.
6. The registration badge with the Darshan Id numbers will be used for both male and female devotees to provide fair seating for each of the 10 days in an attempt to give each devotee an opportunity to sit in the first row or within the first 5 rows at least once during the pilgrimage depending on the size of the group. This will also depend on the Group Darshan seating block allocated by the ashram to the U.S. A. Group. Cultural Program darshan seating will vary and will be planned separately depending on the cultural program blessed to be performed in the Divine Presence of Swami.
7. Devotees will be required to maintain silence during and after Swami’s Divine Darshans.
8. Devotees will be required to remain seated after each darshan and disperse from of Sai Kulvant hall in an orderly manner only after being indicated by darshan leaders.
9. Devotees not wearing U.S.A scarf or registration badge displaying their Darshan Id will be asked to sit at the very back of the group seating hence it will be wise to wear the designated U.S.A. scarf and registration badge displaying ones Darshan Id number for each darshan.
10. Registered U.S.A. devotees, assigned accommodation will have a designated Group Leader at each accommodation location to help facilitate timely pertinent communications from the U.S.A. Parthi Pilgrimage Council to devotees residing at each of the locations.