Rudram chanting
Over a thousand Youth from Karnataka, well trained in Rudram chanting, were blessed by Sathya Sai Baba to chant Rudram in the Divine Presence on the auspicious morning. During the chanting, we see Sai Baba on the verandah, as well as college boys passing out prasad.

Bhajans -- devotional singing
We see Sathya Sai Baba on the verandah as bhajans go on. For part of the bhjans, Sai Baba makes the rounds of Sai Kulwant Hall, mostly the college boys, talking letters and talking to a few people.

Darshan
Sathya Sai Baba gives darshan in the morning and evening on Sivarathri. Special Shivarathri cakes, prepared by the overseas group of devotees as well as by the students, were blessed and cut by Sai Baba before He came to the front of the verandah and sat, for a long while, granting blissful darshan.

Speeches
Former Vice Chancellor Sri SV Giri dwelled upon the significance of the sacred night, calling the festivity a cultural representation of the country, Bharath.

V. Srinivasan, All India President, Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations, expressed the greater benediction that befell the people assembled to celebrate the festivity in His Divine Presence.

Ajith Popat gave an electrifying speech, an appetizer warming up for the lofty divine discourse that was in waiting, which can be found here.