Sri Sathya Sai Baba

(1946)
Born 23 November 1926
Puttaparth, Madras
Presdency, Brtsh Inda
Died 24 Apr 2011 (aged 84)
Puttaparth, Andhra
Pradesh, Inda
Birth
name
Sathyanarayana Ra|u
uotation Love A, Serve A
Hep Ever, Hurt Never
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Sathya Sai Baba
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Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Teugu: born
as Sathyanarayana Raju (23 November 1926 -
24 Apr 2011
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) was an Indan guru,
sprtua gure, mystc, phanthropst and
educator.
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He camed to be the rencarnaton
of Sa Baba of Shrd, consdered a sprtua sant
and a reputed mrace worker, who ded n 1918
and whose teachngs were an ecectc bend of
Hndu and Musm beefs.
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The materazatons of vibhuti (hoy ash) and
other sma ob|ects such as rngs, neckaces and
watches by Sathya Sa Baba were a source of
both fame and controversy; devotees consdered
them sgns of dvnty, whe skeptcs vewed
them as smpe con|urng trcks.
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Photos of
hm are dspayed n mons of homes and on
the dashboards of cars, and ockets bearng hs
photo are worn by many as a symbo of good
fortune.
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Contents
1 Lfe
1.1 Eary fe and procamaton
1.2 Later actvtes and
estabshments
1.3 Od age, ness, and death
2 Beefs and practces of devotees
3 Ashrams and mandrs
4 Insttutons, organsatons and
pro|ects
4.1 Sathya Sa Organsaton
5 Reputaton for mraces and
carvoyance
6 Crtca examnatons
7 Crtcsm and controversy
8 Responses to crtcsm
9 References
10 Externa nks
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In 1940, Sathya Sa Baba
procamed hmsef to be the
rencarnaton of Sa Baba of
Shrd (pctured).
Life
Early life and proclamation
Amost everythng known about Sathya Sa Baba's eary
fe stems from the hagography that grew around hm,
the presentaton of narratves that hod speca meanng
to hs devotees and are consdered by them evdence of
hs dvne nature.
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Accordng to hs foowers,
then, Sathyanarayana Ra|u was born to Easwaramma and
Peddavenkama Ra|u Ratnakaram n the vage of
Puttaparth, n what was the Madras Presdency of Brtsh
Inda.
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Hs brth, whch hs mother Eswaramma
asserted was by mracuous concepton, was aso sad to
be heraded by mraces.
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Hs sbngs ncuded
eder brother Ratnam Sesham Ra|u (1921-1984), sster
Venkamma (1923-1993), a second sster Parvathamma
(1928-1998), and younger brother |anakramah
(1930-2003).
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As a chd, he was descrbed as
"unusuay ntegent" and chartabe, though not an
exceptona student, as hs nterests were more of a
sprtua nature.
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He was uncommony taented n
devotona musc, dance and drama, and an avd
composer of poems and pays.
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He was sad to be
capabe of materasng ob|ects such as food and sweets
out of thn ar.
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On 8 March 1940, whe vng wth hs eder brother Seshama Ra|u n Uravakonda, a
sma town near Puttaparth, Sathya was apparenty stung by a scorpon.
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He ost
conscousness for severa hours.
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Wthn the next few days there was a notceabe
change n Sathya's behavor.
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There were "symptoms of aughng and weepng,
eoquence and sence."
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"He began to sng Sanskrt verses, a anguage of whch he
had no pror knowedge."
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Doctors beeved hs behavor to be hystera.
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Hs
parents brought Sathya back home to Puttaparth.
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Concerned, they took hm to many
prests, "doctors" and exorcsts.
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On 23 May 1940, Sathya caed househod members and reportedy materased prasad
and owers for hs famy members.
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Hs father became furous at seeng ths, thnkng
hs son was bewtched. He took a stck and threatened to beat hm f Sathya dd not
revea who he reay was. To ths Sathya announced camy and rmy "I am Sa Baba", a
reference to Sa Baba of Shrd.
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He procamed hmsef to be a rencarnaton of Sa
Baba of Shrd-a sant who became famous n the ate 19th and eary 20th centures n
Maharashtra and had ded eght years before Sathya was born.
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Later that year, Sathya Sa Baba decared that he had no wordy reatonshp wth
anyone
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and, around ths tme, devotees began to gather to hm.
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In 1940, he began
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Sr Sathya Sa Unversty,
Puttaparth, A.P., Inda
to trave to Madras and esewhere n South Inda and soon had a arge regona
foowng.
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Later activities and establishments
In 1944, a mandr (tempe) for Sathya Sa Baba's devotees was but near the vage of
Puttaparth. It s now referred to as the "od mandr."
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The constructon of
Prashanth Nayam, the current ashram, began n 1948 and was competed n
1950.
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In 1957 Sathya Sa Baba went on a North Indan tempe tour.
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In 1954,
Sathya Sa Baba estabshed a sma free Genera Hospta n the vage of
Puttaparth.
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In 1963, Sathya Sa Baba suhered a stroke and four severe heart attacks.
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It s
beeved that he heaed hmsef of these n front of the thousands of peope gathered n
Prasanth Nayam prayng for hs recovery. On recoverng, Sa Baba gave a dscourse
announcng that he woud be reborn as Prema Sa Baba n the neghborng state of
Karnataka.
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He stated, "I am Sva-Sakth, born n the gotra (neage) of Bharadwa|a,
accordng to a boon won by that sage from Sva and Sakth. Sva was born n the gotra of
that sage as Sa Baba of Shrd; Sva and Sakth have ncarnated as Mysef n hs gotra
now; Sakth aone w ncarnate as the thrd Sa (Prema Sa Baba) n the same gotra n
Mandya dstrct of Karnataka State."
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He stated he woud be born agan eght years
after hs death at the age of 96.
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On 29 |une 1968, Sathya Sa Baba made hs rst and ony
trp overseas, to Kenya and Uganda.
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Durng a
dscourse n Narob, Sathya Sa Baba stated, "I have
come to ght the amp of Love n your hearts, to see that
t shnes day by day wth added uster. I have not come
on behaf of any excusve regon. I have not come on a
msson of pubcty for a sect or creed or cause, nor have
I come to coect foowers for a doctrne. I have no pan
to attract dscpes or devotees nto my fod or any fod. I
have come to te you of ths untary fath, ths sprtua
prncpe, ths path of Love, ths vrtue of Love, ths duty
of Love, ths obgaton of Love."
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In 1968, he
estabshed Dharmakshetra or Sathyam Mandr n
Mumba.
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In 1973, he estabshed Shvam Mandr n Hyderabad.
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On 19 |anuary 1981, n Chenna
he naugurated the Sundaram Mandr.
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In a 1993 ncdent, four ntruders armed wth knves entered hs bedroom, ether as an
assassnaton attempt or as part of a power strugge between hs foowers. Sa Baba
escaped unharmed. Durng the scume and the poce response, the four ntruders and
two of Sa Baba's attendants were ked. The omca nvestgaton eft unanswered
questons.
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In March 1995 Sathya Sa Baba started a pro|ect to provde drnkng water to 1.2 mon
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peope n the drought-prone Rayaaseema regon n the Anantapur dstrct of Andhra
Pradesh.
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In 2001 he estabshed another free Super Specaty hospta n Bangaore to
benet the poor.
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In Apr 1999 he naugurated the Ananda Nayam Mandr n Madura,
Tam Nadu.
Old age, illness, and death
After 2004, Sa Baba used a wheechar and hs fang heath forced hm to make fewer
pubc appearances. In 2003, he suhered a fractured hp when a student standng on an
ron stoo spped, and both the boy and stoo fe on hm. After that, he gave darshan
from a car or hs porte char.
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On 28 March 2011, Sathya Sa Baba was admtted to the Sr Sathya Sa Super Specaty
Hospta at Prashantgram at Puttaparth, foowng respraton-reated probems.
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After neary a month of hosptasaton, durng whch hs condton progressvey
deterorated, Sa Baba ded on 24 Apr at 7:40 IST, aged 84.
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Sathya Sa Baba had predcted that he woud de at age 96 and woud reman heathy
unt then.
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After he ded, some devotees suggested that he mght have been referrng
to that many unar years, rather than soar years,
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and usng the Indan way of
accountng for age, whch counts the year to come as part of the person's fe.
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Other
devotees have spoken of hs antcpated resurrecton, rencarnaton or awakenng.
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Hs body ay n state for two days, and was bured on 28 Apr 2011.
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An estmated
500,000 peope attended the bura, among them the Indan Prme Mnster, Manmohan
Sngh, Congress presdent Sona Gandh, Gu|arat Chef Mnster Narendra Mod and Unon
Mnsters S. M. Krshna and Ambka Son, as we as other potca eaders and promnent
gures.
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Potca eaders who ohered ther condoences ncuded the Indan Prme Mnster
Manmohan Sngh.
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The Daa Lama aso ohered condoences.
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Famous
crcketer Sachn Tendukar canceed hs brthday ceebratons.
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The Hindu
newspaper reported that "Sr Sathya Sa Baba's propagaton of sprtuasm and
preachng of Hndu phosophy never came n the way of hs commtment to secuar
beefs."
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The Government of Karnataka decared 25 and 26 Apr as days of mournng,
and Andhra Pradesh decared 25, 26 and 27 Apr as days of mournng.
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Beliefs and practices of devotees
Main article: 5athya 5ai 8aba movement
Sathya Sa Baba sad that hs foowers do not need to gve up ther orgna regon,
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sayng
"My ob|ectve s the estabshment of sanatana dharma, whch beeves n one
God as proptated by the founders of a regons. So none |sic| has to gve up
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Puttaparth, A.P.
Chatanya |yot Museum
devoted to the fe and
teachngs of Sathya Sa
Baba
hs regon or dety."
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Internatonay, Sathya Sa Baba devotees gather day, or weeky on Sundays or
Thursdays or both, to sng group devotona songs,
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prayer,
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sprtua medtaton,
servce to the communty (Seva),
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and to partcpate n "Educaton n Human Vaues"
(SSEHV)
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known as "8al Vikas" (Bossomng of the Chd), that can aso be descrbed as
Sa Sunday Schoo.
A prmary aspect of Baba's teachngs s the sprtua benet of darshan for hs students.
At that tme, Sa Baba mght nteract wth peope, accept etters, materaze and
dstrbute vbhut (sacred ash) or ca groups or ndvduas for ntervews. Devotees
consdered t a great prvege to have an ntervew and sometmes a snge person,
group or famy was nvted for a prvate ntervew.
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Ashrams and mandirs
Main article: Prasanthi Nilayam
Puttaparth, where Sathya
Sa Baba was born and ved,
was orgnay a sma,
remote South Indan vage
n Andhra Pradesh. Now
there s an extensve
unversty compex, a
specaty hospta, and two
museums: the 5anathana 5amskruti or Eterna Hertage
Museum, sometmes caed the Museum of A Regons, and
the Chaitanya jyoti, devoted excusvey to the fe and
teachngs of Sathya Sa Baba; the atter has won severa
nternatona awards for ts archtectura desgn.
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There s
aso a panetarum, a raway staton, a h-vew stadum, an
admnstratve budng, an arport, an ndoor sports stadum and more.
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Hgh-rankng
Indan potcans such as the former Presdent Dr. A. P. |. Abdu Kaam, former Prme
Mnster Ata Bhar Va|payee, Andhra Pradesh former Chef Mnster Kon|et Rosaah and
Karnataka Chef Mnster B. S. Yeddyurappa have been omca guests at the ashram n
Puttaparth.
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On Sathya Sa Baba's 80th brthday ceebraton, t was reported that
we over a mon peope attended, ncudng 13,000 deegates from Inda and 180 other
countres.
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Sathya Sa Baba resded much of the tme n hs man
ashram caed Prashanthi Nilayam (Abode of Hghest
Peace) at Puttaparth. In the hot summer he used to
eave for hs other ashram, caed 8rindavan, n
Kadugod, Whteed, a town on the outskrts of
Bangaore. Occasonay he vsted hs Sa Shrut
ashram n Kodakana.
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H n Prashanth Nayam wth
statues of Hanuman, Krshna,
Shrd Sa Baba, Shva, Buddha,
Chrst, Zarathustra.
Sr Sathya Sa Super Specaty
Hospta, Whteed (suburb of
Bangaore), Karnataka, Inda
Sathya Sa Baba estabshed three prmary mandrs
(sprtua centres) n Inda. The rst mandr, founded
n Mumba n 1968, s referred to as ether
"Dharmakshetra" or "Sathyam". The second centre,
estabshed n Hyderabad n 1973, s referred to as
"Shvam". The thrd centre, naugurated on 19 |anuary
1981 n Chenna, s referred to as "Sundaram".
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lnstitutions, organisations and projects
Sathya Sa Baba supported a varety of free educatona nsttutons, hosptas, and other
chartabe works n over 166 countres.
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The Sr Sathya Sa Insttute of Hgher Learnng
(now changed to Sr Sathya Sa Unversty) n Prashanth Nayam s the ony coege n
Inda to have receved an "A++" ratng by the Natona Assessment and Accredtaton
Counc (an autonomous body estabshed by the Unversty Grants Commsson).
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Sr Sathya Sa Unversty of whch Baba was the Chanceor, has three campuses, one at
Puttaparth for men,
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one at Whteed, Bangaore for men
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and one at Anantapur
for women.
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Hs charty supports an nsttute for Indan cassca musc caed the Sr
Sathya Sa Mrpur Coege of Musc. Baba's educatona nsttutons am to mpart
character educaton aong wth exceence n academcs wth emphass on human vaues
and ethcs.
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Sathya Sa Baba chared the Muddenaha-Sathya Sa Loka Seva Schoo and Sr Sathya
Sa Loka Seva Trust Educatona Insttutons n Muddenaha-Kanvenarayanapura
regons. In addton, a Sathya Sa Baba Unversty and Medca Schoo as we as a word
cass hospta and research nsttute are beng constructed on over 200 acres (0.81 km
2
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to serve the desttute popuaton. Baba sad that the campus w be modeed after
Puttaparth and w nfuse sprtuaty wth academcs.
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The Sr Sathya Sa Insttute of Hgher Medca Scences n
Puttaparth s a 220 bed facty that provdes free surgca
and medca care and was naugurated by Prme Mnster
Narasmha Rao on 22 November 1991.
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The Sr Sathya
Sa Insttute of Hgher Medca Scences n Bangaore s a
333 bed hospta meant to benet the poor.
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The
hospta was naugurated on 19 |anuary 2001 by Prme
Mnster Ata Behar Va|payee.
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The hospta has
provded free medca care to over 250,000 patents.
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The Sr Sathya Sa Genera Hospta was opened n
Whteed, Bangaore, n 1977 and provdes compex
surgeres, food and medcnes free of cost. The hospta
has treated over 2 mon patents.
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The Sr Sathya Sa Centra Trust runs severa genera hosptas, two specaty hosptas,
eye hosptas and mobe dspensares and conducts medca camps n rura and sum
areas n Inda.
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The Trust has aso funded severa ma|or drnkng water pro|ects. One
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pro|ect competed n 1996 suppes water to 1.2 mon peope n about 750 vages n
the drought-prone Anantapur dstrct n Andhra Pradesh.
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The second drnkng
water pro|ect, competed n 2004, suppes water to Chenna through a rebut waterway
named "Sathya Sa Ganga Cana".
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Tam Nadu Chef Mnster M. Karunandh
prased the Chenna water pro|ect and Sa Baba's nvovement.
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Other competed
water pro|ects ncude the Medak Dstrct Pro|ect benetng 450,000 peope n 179
vages and the Mahbubnagar Dstrct Pro|ect benettng 350,000 peope n 141
vages.
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In |anuary 2007, the Sr Sathya Sa Centra Trust sad t woud start a drnkng
water pro|ect n Latur, Maharashtra.
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In 2008, 2 mon peope n the state of Orssa
were ahected by oods. As a reef measure, Sr Sathya Sa Seva Organzaton, has but
699 houses as a part of ther rst phase n 16 vages by March 2009.
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Sathya Sa Baba's Educare program seeks to found schoos throughout the word wth the
goa of educatng chdren n the ve human vaues. Accordng to the Sa Educare ste,
schoos have been founded n 33 countres, ncudng Austraa, Mexco, the Unted
Kngdom and Peru.
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The Tmes of Zamba states, "The postve nuence of Sathya
Sa s unprecedented n the annas of educaton n Zamba. Sa Baba's educaton deas
as emboded n hs human vaues-based approach n educaton are an eye opener to
educatonsts n Zamba."
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In Canada, the Fraser Insttute, an ndependent Canadan research and educatona
organzaton, ranked the Sathya Sa Schoo of Canada as one of the top 37 eementary
schoos n Ontaro.
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The Sathya Sa Schoo scored a perfect 10 out of 10 n the
Insttute's overa ratng for academc performance.
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On 23 November 1999, the Department of Posts, Government of Inda, reeased a
postage stamp and a posta cover n recognton of the servce rendered by Sathya Sa
Baba n addressng the probem of provdng safe drnkng water to the rura masses.
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On 23 November 2001, the dgta rado network Rado Sa Goba Harmony was aunched
through the Word Space Organzaton, Unted States. Dr Mchae Oenkof Nobe (dstant
reatve to Afred Nobe and one of the patrons for the rado network) sad that the rado
network woud spread Sathya Sa Baba's message of goba harmony and peace.
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In |anuary 2007, an event was hed n Chenna Nehru stadum organsed by the Chenna
Ctzens Concave to thank Sathya Sa Baba for the 200 crore water pro|ect whch
brought water from the Rver Krshna n Andhra Pradesh to Chenna cty. Four chef
mnsters attended the functon.
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Sr Sathya Sa Super Specaty Hospta, Puttaparth, A.P., Inda
Sathya Sai Organisation
The Sathya Sa Organsaton reports that there are an estmated 1,200 Sathya Sa Baba
Centers n 114 countres.
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However, the number of actve Sathya Sa Baba
foowers s hard to determne.
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Estmates vary from 6 mon
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up to neary 100
mon.
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In Inda tsef, Sa Baba drew foowers predomnanty from the upper-mdde-
cass, the urban sectons of socety who have the "most weath, educaton and exposure
to Western deas."
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In 2002, he camed to have foowers n 178 countres.
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In 2011, shorty before hs death, he was sted by Watkins Review as one of the 100
most sprtuay nuenta peope n the word.
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Sathya Sa Baba founded a arge number of schoos and coeges, hosptas, and other
chartabe nsttutons n Inda and abroad, the tota vaue of whch s usuay estmated
at Rs. 40,000 crore (US$ 9 bon).
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However, estmates as hgh as 1.4 tron
rupees (about US$ 31.5bn) have aso been made.
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After hs death, questons about
the manner n whch the nances of the organzaton were managed ed to specuatons
of mproprety, wth some reports suggestng that sutcases contanng cash and/or god
had been removed from hs persona odgngs.
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On 17 |une 2011, omcas from the Sr Sathya Sa Centra Trust (founded as a chartabe
Trust n Inda, and egsated to act separatey from regous actvtes),
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opened hs
prvate resdence n the presence of government, bank and tax department omcas,
ncudng retred Supreme Court |udge A P Mshra and retred |udge of Karnataka Hgh
Court Vadyanatha, an assessor approved by the Income Tax Department, and former
Chef |ustce of Inda P N Bhagavat.
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In the resdence, whch had been seaed snce
hs death, they nventored 98 kg of god ornaments, approxmate vaue Rs 21 crore
(US$4.7m), 307 kg of sver ornaments, approxmate vaue Rs 1.6 crore (US$0.36m), and
Rs 11.6 crore (US$2.6m) n cash. The cash was deposted nto the Sa Trust's account at
the State Bank of Inda wth payment of government taxes (thus transferrng them from
regous gfts to Trust assets.) The god and other tems were nventored, assessed, and
paced n secure storage. In |uy, dstrct authortes found an addtona Rs 77 akh
(US$0.17m) n vauabes n another 4 rooms, ncudng vauabe watches.
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The tota
vaue s beeved to exceed 7.8 mon US doars.
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Aso found at Ya|urmandr were
many artces routney gven away as gfts n varous ceremones to devotees and those
who dd 'seva' (servce), ncudng thousands of pure sk sarees, dhots, shrts, 500 pars
of shoes, a arge number of sver and god "mangaa sutrams", and precous stones such
as damonds. There were aso 750 sahron and whte robes of the type Sa Baba wore,
and dozens of bottes of perfume and harspray whch he reportedy used before meetng
dgntares.
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In |uy 2011, a search of hs Bangaore-area ashram found 6 kg of god
cons and |eweery, 245 kg of sver artces and Rs 80 akh n cash.
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Paraes wth the transton after the passng of other ma|or gurus n Inda, for exampe
Osho (Bhagwan Shree Ra|neesh) or Mata Anandamay, suggest that the transton n
managng the arge Sa organzaton may not be easy.
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Reputation for miracles and clairvoyance
Devotees sad they observed Sathya Sa Baba manfestng vibhuti (hoy ash), and
sometmes food and sma ob|ects such as rngs, neckaces and watches.
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In books, magaznes, med ntervews and artces, Sathya Sa Baba's foowers reported
mraces of varous knds that they attrbuted to hm.
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Internatonay, devotees
reported that vibhuti, kumkum, turmerc powder, hoy water, Shva ngas, statues of
detes (brass and god), sugar candy, fruts, herbs, amrita (a fragrant, nectar-ke honey),
gems, coored strng, wrtngs n ash and varous other substances spontaneousy
manfested and materazed on the was, furnture, pctures and atars of Sathya Sa
Baba.
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Sathya Sa Baba's devotees aso beeved that he reeved
them from pan, by transferrng t to hmsef.
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The rst ever record of Baba's mraces by a foregner was made by Howard Murphet n
hs 1971 book, 5ai 8aba - Man Of Miracles.
|133|
The retred Iceandc psychoogy
professor Erendur Haradsson wrote n 1997 that he dd not obtan Sathya Sa Baba's
permsson to study hm under controed crcumstances, but that he nvestgated the
guru's aeged mraces and manfestatons through ntervews wth devotees and
ex-devotees.
|134|
Some of the reported mraces ncuded evtaton (both ndoors and
outdoors), bocaton, physca dsappearances, changng grante nto sugar candy,
changng water nto another drnk, changng water nto gasone, producng ob|ects on
demand, changng the coor of hs gown whe wearng t, mutpyng food, heang acute
and chronc dseases, appearng n vsons and dreams, makng dherent fruts appear on
any tree hangng from actua stems, controng the weather, physcay transformng nto
varous detes and physcay emttng brant ght.
|135|
Haradsson wrote that the
argest aegedy materazed ob|ect that he saw was a mangasutra neckace, 32 nches
ong, 16 nches ong on each sde.
|136|
He stated that some mraces attrbuted to Sathya
Sa Baba resembed the ones descrbed n the New Testament, but that athough heangs
certany gured n Sa Baba's reputaton, heangs dd not pay as promnent a roe n
Sathya Sa Baba's actvtes as n those of |esus.
|137|
Sathya Sa Baba expaned the phenomenon of manfestaton as beng an act of dvne
creaton, but refused to have hs materazatons nvestgated under expermenta
condtons. In a 1974 dscourse, he stated, "The optca sense cannot vsuaze the truth.
It gves ony fase and fogged nformaton. For exampe, there are many who observe my
actons and start decarng that my nature s such and such."
|138|
He sad of hs
"mraces", "those who profess to have understood me, the schoars, the yogs, the
pundts, the |nans, a of them are aware ony of the east mportant, the casua externa
manfestaton of an nntesma part of that power, namey, the "mraces"! Ths has
been the case n a ages. Peope may be very near |physcay| to the Avathar, but they
ve out ther ves unaware of ther fortune; they exaggerate the roe of mraces, whch
are as trva, when compared to my gory and ma|esty, as a mosquto s n sze and
strength to the eephant upon whch t squats. Therefore, when you speak about these
'mraces,' I augh wthn mysef out of pty that you aow yoursef so easy to ose the
precous awareness of my reaty."
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Critical examinations
In Apr 1976, H. Narasmhaah, a physcst, ratonast and then vce chanceor of
Bangaore Unversty, founded and chared a commttee "to ratonay and scentcay
nvestgate mraces and other verabe supersttons". Narasmhaah wrote Sathya Sa
Baba three etters that were wdey pubczed, n whch he pubcy chaenged hm to
perform hs mraces under controed condtons.
|139|
Sathya Sa Baba sad that he
gnored Narasmhaah's chaenge because he fet hs approach was mproper, addng
that "Scence must conne ts nqury ony to thngs beongng to the human senses,
whe sprtuasm transcends the senses. If you want to understand the nature of
sprtua power you can do so ony through the path of sprtuaty and not scence. What
scence has been abe to unrave s merey a fracton of the cosmc phenomena ..."
|140|
Narasmhaah's commttee was dssoved n August 1977. Accordng to Erendur
Haradsson, the forma chaenge from the commttee came to a dead end because of the
negatve atttude of the commttee, and perhaps because of a the fanfare surroundng
t. Narasmhaah hed the fact that Sathya Sa Baba gnored hs etters to be one of
severa ndcatons that hs mraces were frauduent.
|141|
As a resut of ths epsode, a
pubc debate raged for severa months n Indan newspapers.
|142|
Indan ratonast Basava Premanand stated n a BBC documentary that he had been
nvestgatng Sathya Sa Baba snce 1968 and that, n hs opnon, Sa Baba faked hs
materasatons. He sued Sa Baba n 1986 for voatons of the God Contro Act, ctng
Sathya Sa Baba's purported "materazatons" of god ob|ects. When the case was
dsmssed, Premanand unsuccessfuy appeaed on the grounds that camed sprtua
power s not a defense recognzed n aw.
|143|
The magcan |ames Rand wrote about
Sathya Sa Baba and Premanand, "Examnaton of ms and vdeotapes of Sa Baba's
actua performances show them to be smpe seght of hand, exacty the same as the
sort used by the other Indan |aduwaahs, or 'street con|urors.' Sa Baba has never
submtted to an examnaton of hs abtes under contros, so hs cams are totay
unproven. Parsmony appes here. Inda's eadng debunker of the cams of the god-men
who nfest that country, the famous Premanand, has dupcated a of Sa Baba's trcks
and tours the word demonstratng these feats."
|144|
A 1995 TV documentary Curu 8usters, produced by mmaker Robert Eage for UK's
Channe 4, smary accused Sathya Sa Baba of fakng hs materazatons.
|145|
The cp
from the m was mentoned n the Deccan Chronce, on 23 November 1992, on a front
page headne "DD Tape Unveils 8aba Magic".
|146|
However, Haradsson stated that, on
nvestgatng the DD vdeo, researchers dd not nd evdence of fake materasaton as
camed by Deccan chronce. Accordng to Haradsson, the vdeo was taken to a
company whch nvestgates corporate fraud. In spte of mprovng the granness of the
ow quaty vdeo wth enhanced ters and runnng t through advanced mage
processng systems, Haradsson stated the DD vdeo dd not provde rm evdence of
seght of hand.
|147|
In 1998, Brtsh |ournast Mck Brown stated n hs book The 5piritual Tourist that Sathya
Sa Baba's cam of "resurrectng" the Amercan devotee Water Cowan n 1971 was
probaby untrue.
|148|
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presented n the magazne lndian 5keptic, pubshed by Premanand.
|148||149|
Brown aso
reated, n the same book, hs experences wth manfestatons of vibuthi from Sathya Sa
Baba's pctures n houses n London, whch he fet were not frauduent or the resut of
trckery.
|131|
Brown wrote wth regards to Sathya Sa Baba's cams of omnscence, that
"skeptcs have produced documentaton ceary showng dscrepances between Baba's
readng of hstorca events and bbca propheces, and the estabshed accounts."
|148|
In December 2000, the magazne lndia Today pubshed a cover story about Sa Baba
wth aegatons of fakery made by the magcan P. C. Sorcar, |r.
|150|
Documentares
produced by the BBC and the Dansh Broadcastng Corporaton, anayzng vdeos of the
supposed mraces, suggested that they coud be expaned as seght of hand.
|151||152|
In hs book Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern 5tyles in the Hindu Tradition,
Lawrence A. Babb wrote about Sathya Sa Baba, "Whoever he s, he s certany more
than the mere parour magcan many of hs crtcs cam that he s."
|8|
Criticism and controversy
The Vancouver 5un n 2001 reported that Sathya Sa Baba tod hs adherents not to
browse the Internet due to aegatons rapdy crcuatng on varous Internet webstes
and n a few newspapers.
|153|
In a 2000 pubc dscourse, Sathya Sa Baba sad, "These
teachngs (the Vedas) are hghy sacred. Today peope are ready to beeve a that they
see on teevson and nternet but do not repose ther fath n the Vedc decaratons.
Internet s ke a waste paper basket. Foow the 'nnernet,' not the nternet."
|154|
Unvered charges eveed aganst Sathya Sa Baba by detractors and ex-foowers
ncuded money aunderng, fraud n the performance of servce pro|ects, chd sexua
abuse and murder.
|155|
In 2004, n the UK and nternatonay, the BBC and other natona
networks ared a documentary tted The 5ecret 5wami, as part of ts seres "The Word
Uncovered".
|156|
One centra theme of the BBC documentary was Aaya Rahm's sexua
abuse aegatons aganst Sathya Sa Baba.
|151|
The documentary ntervewed hm
together wth Mark Roche, who had devoted 25 years of hs fe snce 1969 to the
movement and aeged abuse by Sa Baba.
|151|
A spokesman for the BBC tod Asian Voice
that the documentary had gone to great engths to be baanced and far, and that the
story was one of a crss, and utmatey a betraya, of fath.
|157|
Another documentary,
5educed 8y 5ai 8aba, carred ntervews of abuse aegatons. It was produced by
Denmark's natona teevson and rado broadcast company, Danmarks Rado (DR).
Durng an ntervew wth Asian Voice magazne Ashok Bhagan, a trustee of the Sa
Organzaton n the UK, sad that the aegatons n the 5ecret 5wami documentary were
baseess and factess. Bhagan sad that devotees never met Sa Baba aone.
|157|
Nether Sathya Sa Baba, nor any organzatons assocated wth hm, have been charged
or convcted wth sexua abuse or any other crme n a court of aw.
|158|
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Devotees generay responded to aegatons, such as those of sexua msconduct, wth
outrght dena, assertng that former foowers were vndctve and not reputabe - cke
peope who one day sang Sathya Sa Baba's prases and then turned aganst hm when
some wsh of thers was not fued.
|159|
A second common response was that even f
some of the aegatons by crtcs were correct, they smpy acked the vson to
understand thngs n ther correct sprtua context, or were fang to understand the
meanng of lila, Sathya Sa Baba's dvne pay.
|159|
Devotee B Atken was quoted by The
Week as sayng that Sathya Sa Baba's reputaton had not been harmed by the negatve
stores pubshed about the guru. He sad that the more detractors raed aganst Sathya
Sa Baba, the more new devotees went to see hm.
|160|
In the artce Divine Downfall,
pubshed n the Daily Telegraph, An Kumar, the ex-prncpa of the Sathya Sa
Educatona Insttute, sad that he beeved that the controversy was part of Baba's dvne
pan and that a great regous teachers had to face crtcsm durng ther ves. An
Kumar aso sad that aegatons had been eveed at Sathya Sa Baba snce chdhood,
but wth every crtcsm he had become more and more trumphant.
|161|
In an omca etter made pubc n December 2001, Ata Bhar Va|payee (then Prme
Mnster of Inda and a devotee of Sathya Sa Baba
|109|
), P.N. Bhagawat (Former Chef
|ustce of the Supreme Court of Inda), Ranganath Msra (Char Person, Natona Human
Rghts Commssoner of Inda and Former Chef |ustce of the Supreme Court of Inda),
Na|ma Heptua (Presdent of the Inter-Paramentary Unon; UNDP Dstngushed Human
Deveopment Ambassador) and Shvra| Pat (Member of Parament, Inda; Formery of
the Lok Sabha & Unon Mnster) a sgned a etter whch stated as foows:
"We are deepy paned and angushed by the wd, reckess and concocted
aegatons made by certan vested nterests and peope aganst Bhagawan Sr
Sathya Sa Baba. We woud normay expect that responsbe meda woud
ascertan the true facts before prntng such caumny - especay when the
person s revered gobay as an embodment of ove and seess servce to
humanty. Snce ths professona ethc has not been observed by a secton of
the meda, we have eected to go pubc wth ths sgned statement."
|162|
The Times Of lndia on 26 December 2000 sad that Sathya Sa Baba "ashed out at hs
detractors n a rare dspay of anger" whe referrng to crtcsm pubshed n a magazne.
The Tmes quoted hm as sayng, "|esus Chrst underwent many hardshps, and was put
to the cross because of |eaousy. Many around hm coud not bear the good work he dd
and the arge number of foowers he gathered. One of hs dscpes, |udas, betrayed hm.
In those days there was one |udas, but today there are thousands. |ust as that |udas was
tempted to betray |esus, the |udases of today, too, are bought out to e. |eaousy was
the motve behnd the aegatons eveed at hm."
|163|
Sathya Sa Baba pubcy responded to the aegatons on 25 December 2000:
"Some peope out of ther mean-mndedness are tryng to tarnsh the mage of
Sa Baba. I am not after name and fame. So, I do not ose anythng by ther
fase aegatons. My gory w go on ncreasng day by day. It w never
dmnsh even a bt f they were to pubcze ther fase aegatons n the whoe
word n bod etters. Some devotees seem to be perturbed over these fase
statements. They are not true devotees at a. Havng known the mghty power
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of Sa, why shoud they be afrad of the 'cawng of crows'? One shoud not get
carred away by a that s wrtten on was, sad n potca meetngs or the
vugar taes carred by the prnt meda."
|164|
In 1974 n Sathya Speaks Voume 12, Sa Baba stated, "The Sa Prncpe, the Sa Dvnty
can never be ahected by any sander; t can never be shaken by any tactcs; ts progress
can never be hated. Do not pay heed to the barkngs you hear.Truth may be couded for
some tte tme by the fog of sander but, vctory s certan. The forces of hate w be
defeated by ther own wes; they dg for ther own downfa; ther acton resuts n
reactons, runous for themseves"
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