Popular Spiritual leader Satya Sai Baba is no more. A formal announcement was made to this affect at Puttaparthi in Ananthapur district of Andhra Pradesh. Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences Director Dr A N Safaya told a crowded news conference that Sai Baba breathed his last at 7.40 this morning. He has been ailing at the super specialty hospital at Puttaparthi since the 28th of last month with multi-organ disfunctioning.A team of doctors and experts have been making all out efforts to improve his health condition all these days.
National Leaders across party lines are reaching Puttaparthi while thousands of Saibaba’s devotees are thronging the pilgrim town.Andhra Pradesh Governor E S L Narsimhan and Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy are reaching Puttaprthi by a special helicopter.
Satya Saibaba’s body will be kept at Sai Kulwanth hall at Prashanthi Nilayam from 6 Sunday evening till Tuesday for public to pay their last respects.
Saibaba was a popular Indian Spiritual guru with over 10 crore followers from over 175 countries across the world.
Born as Sathyanarayana Raju on 23 November 1926 in a poor agrarian family in a tiny village called Puttaparthi in the drought-stricken Ananathapur District, he declared him self as a reincarnation of great spiritual guru Sai Baba of Shirdi at his 14 years of age.
Sathya Sai Baba advocated the path of spirituality to one and all. Preaching for five basic values-love, compassion, truth, peace and non violence he soon became a popular spiritual figure and educator.
Saibaba founded several organizations which supported a variety of free education, healthcare and other charitable works in India and abroad.He spent thousands of crores of rupees to provide free education, health services and drinking water to hundreds of villages in the drought-stricken Raylaseema region and elsewhere in several states.
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