
his unprecedented contribution by way of civil infrastructure projects and achievements in the fields of health, education, disaster relief and other services to society which can be glimpsed in the extract from The Divine Grace (an informed portrayal of Baba by the independent publisher ‘India Today Group’, the full, extraordinary, India Today article is available here). t he profound knowledge and spiritual wisdom that he was able to teach in simple terms in the context of modern everyday living. (Many of these phenomena were researched and recorded by Howard Murphet in his book of insights “Sai Baba, Man of Miracles”) his amazing healing powers and astonishing daily materialisations for his devotees of tokens which Baba referred to as his ‘calling cards’.
the mystical events surrounding his birth, his supernatural giftedness as a child and his lifelong manifestation of loving omnipotence. So what made him different to any other precocious, self-absorbed teenager ? At the age of 13 he left school, moved out of his home to live in the garden of a neighbour and declared that he was embarking on a divine mission. Sathya Sai Baba was born in 1926 of a respected and devout family in a traditional rural village in the south of India. There is a vast range of literature and resources on Sai Baba, including YouTube videos and extraordinary eye witness testimonies and accounts. “Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.” – Sathya Sai Baba WHETHER you are a devout follower of Sai Baba or simply wonder why he is revered by millions worldwide, you are welcome to visit our Group in Oxford which is the most centrally located of the UK’s 36 different Sai Baba Centres.įOR THOSE to whom Sai Baba is little more than an intriguing name we would invite you to the briefest of insights : Indeed, many lifelong and determined sceptics, who visited his Indian ashram community to discredit him, left with a conviction as to his divinity.
HOWEVER, Sai Baba is a figure of modern times, who passed away recently, already a legend, and with a multitude of living witnesses and a wealth of incredible achievements that testify visibly to the power of a superhuman or divine being.
It is easy to react initially to the Sai Baba story as one does to a fantastic ancient scriptural fable, so fogged by time as to be easily dismissed as myth or legend. RANKS among those rare, extraordinary, figures in the history of mankind who, by their lives, challenge fundamental beliefs we may hold or provide enlightenment to our questioning.