Management

Board of Governors

Sri Sathya Sai Sanskruthi Educational Society running the Abhyasa Residential School is headed by a distinguished Board of Governors comprising eminent members drawn from various walks of life. They guide and direct Abhyasa policies and ensure that Abhyasa maintains high-standards of quality education.

Message from Chairman

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba has operationalized the art of ‘Man-making’ propagated by Swami Vivekananda. In His infinite wisdom, Bhagawan has repeatedly stressed the need to firmly sow the seeds of character and culture in early childhood apart from merely informative education aiming at material success. Unswerving adherence to truth, unity of thought, word & deed and a sense of indebtedness to society should pervade the life of a person to make it meaningful. Material success should bring into our being a feeling of responsibility to share the fruits of success by distributing the same to the less endowed brethren. This thirst for serving society through loving ‘Seva’ generates ideas, creates talent, and promotes imaginative dedication to a meaningful course in one’s life. Respect for our own epics, culture, tradition, and heritage endows us with confidence and patriotic fervor. Such a purposeful life liberates and takes us nearer to Divinity.

The yearning desire of a few alumni of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning at Puttaparthi resulted in “Abhyasa Residential School” coming into being in an idyllic setting in Toopran. Smt and Sri Kalletla Rangadas garu and family dedicated themselves to the same as a service to Bhagawan. Sri Kalletla Vinayak and the team of devoted staff have been striving constantly to shape the school with such ideals stressing the need for value based education. We are humbly proud to say that Abhyasa has carved a special niche among the schools. The installation of state of the art teaching equipment and methodology has been a continuing effort. Many of our alumni have made us proud by winning laurels in academic and sports. It has a special place of recognition for cultural and social service programmes with even the United Nations Award for Excellence in Social Service.

With our prayer to Bhagawan for His Gracious shower of blessings on all — We, the Board of Governors, rededicate ourselves to His ideals.

Dr. Roddam Prabhakar Rao held many illustrious positions in the Government of Andhra Pradesh and India as The Special Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh at New Delhi; Director – Central Board of the State Bank of India, Member, LIC of India – Advisory Board South Central Zone, Member – Central Board of Film Certification, President of Andhra Music Academy and Vice-president of Hyderabad Cricket Association. He also served as the Managing Director of Andhra Pradesh Road Transport Corporation and is currently the Administrator of Sri Raghavendra Swamy Mutt, Manthralayam.

Dr. Roddam Prabhakar Rao
D.LITT (HON)
Indian Police Service (Retd.)
Director General of Police
Andhra Pradesh (Retd.)

Message from Director

Knowledge is as vast as the Universe. Even if someone were to spend every minute of hislife in the acquisition of knowledge, he would not even cover 1/7 of it. So what are we actually trying to teach our children by drawing-up syllabi, framing Courses and awarding Certifications?

Schooling has to essentially Prepare the Child for Life in such a way that he/she is able to find moments of Happiness all along the way and not just at the end of the road! By the time every parent realizes that Happiness cannot be measured by Success and Money, the child would have already completed its share of gruelling to prepare for another similar living that his/her parents have gone through…. A vicious cycle thus continues for another generation! The problems in the present education system began when the parents of students started interfering with it. In any profession, a practitioner is most often trusted to execute his expertise. But when it comes to schooling, parents are extremely overbearing about how their children should be taught or even treated by their teachers! Standardization and Commercialization of education commenced this way. Nativity and Creativity have taken the back seat and the result is a mass production of Uneducated Literates !

Abhyasa is an Institution that upholds the Right of every Child to discover itself to his/her fullest potential and evolve into a Complete Human Being under the observation of teachers who are just facilitators and guides. We have consciously chosen a residential form of schooling, as children need to be drawn away from the comfort of parental protection and put into ‘simulators’ that replicate the larger society. Can a child learn to swim by just dabbling it’s legs in water, without entering a pool? Similarly, how can a child learn to face Life without completely stepping out into the external world? “The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation“, said Kahlil Gibran.

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they do not belong to you.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts! You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you… For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let our bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For, even as He loves the arrow that flies, He loves also the bow that is stable!” – Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931)

Abhyasa is an Exclusive School – for those parents who can understand and appreciate the aforesaid Verses…. If you feel that you are one such enlightened parent, here is an invitation to give your child – the best of schooling… because your child is the best thing that happened to you in life! Abhyasa provides unlimited opportunities – through a wide spectrum of curriculum – for a Child to discover the World in all it’s vagaries and choose his/her goal for life, consciously and cautiously!

Vinaayaka Kalleetla