Why sathya sai baba died early

He is happy to be part of this project as he is aware that this was Baba's pet project. In fact, he has stated very clearly that he does not want to be part of the trust. But Sathyajit does not want to do so; he wants to spend the rest of his life at Puttaparthi. Reacting to allegations about Sathyajit administering sleeping tablets to Sathya Sai Baba in his last months, causing the religious leader to be listless, Madhav Suvarna said, "I don't believe that my nephew could do something like this, and even the members of the trust have clarified this.

He added, "I would like to add that there is no problem between my nephew and members of the trust. About the question regarding Sai Baba's prophecy about his own death going wrong, Suvarna said, "Six months ago, Baba had told Sathyajit that he wanted to leave early.

But Baba told him that it was time for him to go, that Sathyajit should stay back and take care of Baba's pet project. Our family has been closely connected with Sathya Sai Baba; he has even visited our house once and had lunch. At 9 am, he gets back to work on Baba's pet project, the Vidya Vahini.

His organisation has financed health and education projects, among them hospitals and clinics that claim to cure illnesses beyond the capabilities of mainstream medicine.

He was accused of faking some of the so-called miracles attributed to him and some former followers accused him of sexually abusing young male followers. The allegations were denied and he was never charged with any offence.

The hospital said his body would be available for public viewing on Monday and Tuesday before a funeral ceremony is held. In recent weeks, the hospital has been mobbed by groups of devotees praying for the guru's wellbeing. As his fame spread, stories circulated about his early years.

One said he was born by immaculate conception like Jesus Christ after a great sphere of blue light entered his mother. Another said he learned to recite Sanskrit after being bitten by a poisonous scorpion. He also claimed to have raised two people from the dead and cured his followers of many diseases and disabilities. Rationalists and skeptics who asked to study his purported miracles under scientific conditions were rebuffed. Sanal Edamaruku, president of the Indian Rationalist Assn.

He said everything could be solved by miracles and became the model for hundreds of other god men. But Sai Baba also inspired love and devotion among legions of powerful and powerless followers with an emphasis on education, public health and egalitarian values. In he suffered a stroke and four major heart attacks but survived. After he was in failing health and confined to a wheelchair.

A year later he suffered a fractured hip after a student on a stool fell on him. Over the years, several people alleged they were victims of sexual abuse during private audiences with Sai Baba. That is no great surprise, when one considers that Sai Baba did not speak any other language than Telugu and traveled only once in his whole life abroad — to visit his friend Idi Amin in Uganda. That was after I had demonstrated his miracles so often on TV shows that many kids in the streets could imitate them.

That he then spent a part of the great fortunes, swindled out of the gullible, for social development around his ancestral village, is highlighted now to present him as a saint. But, useful and welcome as hospitals, schools and drinking water projects for the poor may always be, this kind of alibi-philanthropy is well-known even to mafia-bosses.

It cannot be weighed against his crimes and the damage he has done to the Indian society. In December , I wrote a letter to the then President Dr. I demanded criminal investigations against Sai Baba. If his social development projects are meant to be indulgence to nullify his crimes, this procedure is unprecedented and unacceptable, I wrote. It is a shame for India that well-founded accusations and numerous reputed witnesses against Sai Baba are ignored without any investigation.

Do saffron clothes make an offender untouchable for the law? Do we have to tolerate that political protectionism raises its head so boldly, mocking India's democracy? Sathya Sai Baba caused great damage to India. His irresponsible political patrons corrupted the political culture of India.