sai baba live darshanA large number of devotees gathered outside the ashram once again to catch a glimpse of the memorial, which is placed exactly over the spot where the spiritual guru is buried.Sai Baba had died on April 24 from cardio-respiratory failure after spending nearly four weeks in a hospital run by his own trust.He was buried inside the Sai Kulwant Hall in a private ceremony on Apr 27, open to key relatives and members of his trust, while thousands of devotees watched it live on the screens put up outside the ashram, waiting with bated breath for the gates to be thrown open again.
The hall was where Baba sat, gave discourses and blessed people. Many years ago, he had apparently expressed desire to be buried within the hall itself.
As devotees watched on, Baba’s body was lowered in a seven feet-deep pit in the hall, which was then then filled with ‘Kuruskshetra matti’ (soil), salt, silver, gold and navaratnas (nine jewels).
He was the incarnation of god for his countless followers worldwide and after he died Indian cricket stars Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar, yoga guru Ramdev, Union ministers Praful Patel and Vilas Rao Deshmukh, Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh were among those who touched down on the tiny village to catch a last glimpse of Sai Baba.
The Andhra Pradesh government had constituted a five-member committee headed by Finance Secretary L V Subramanyam to look the affairs of Sai Baba’s charitable trust, the Sathya Sai Central Trust, which is believed to control assets of over Rs 40,000 crore.
Born on Nov. 23, 1926, in Puttaparti, Sai Baba was followed by an estimated 20 to 50 million people worldwide after claiming to be a reincarnation of spiritual guru Sai Baba of Shirdi at the age of 14.
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