"My life is my message," said Sathya Sai Baba, the last of the great Indian guru, philanthropist and educator, who passed away April 24 in just 85 years. After a month of inpatient hospital in Puttaparthi, in Andhra Pradesh, though he had told his followers that he would live up to 93 in good health.
Leaving millions of faithful around the world who thought he was immortal, in consternation and dismay - how can a god die? - And one of the largest business empires in India, Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, valued at about € 12 billion. Where in 1993 the government had tried to see clearly (as the Trust's budget is not transparent) so as to have opened an investigation to find out how he had Sai Baba to put on an empire that at the time was valued at $ 2 billion .
The suspicion was that the money did not come only from donations - on the part of followers, but also by corrupt politicians and famous personalities from the underworld - but was also laundered money. Bhagwan, that the Blessed One, as his followers call him, had proclaimed himself an avatar, reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi, in the last century, preached a discipline steeped in Hindu and Sufi elements, the more genuinely mystical tradition of Islam .
Some believe that Krishna, the cowherd god child surrounded by love. Others as Jesus, so that a group of Hindu radicals has compiled a list of similarities between the two: for example, were both born of a virgin and do miracles. But it was not the doctrine of Sai Baba, founded on universal principles common to many major religions - love, service to the next - to attract millions of followers, from the most humble to the Hollywood stars such as George Segal, the samples of cricket to people like Isaac Burton Tigrett, founder of the Hard Rock Cafe.
The fame of the Blessed One is based on healing touch, which attracted patients from files of miles across South Asia, and materialization. Would display Vibhuti, the sacred ash with which Hindus will mark the front, and the lingam, the phallus sacred. And even something much less spiritual as objects of gold, rings with precious stones, watches Rolex.
Over the years there have been controversies surrounding the movement and its guru, who has been accused of doing conjuring tricks and sexually abusing young believers, so that in 1993 some of his closest aides have tried to kill him. Despite all his fame and wealth have been growing and Sai Baba in 1973, he founded an empire in the middle between the spiritual and the economy, the Sathya Sai Central Trust, located at Prasanthi Nilayam, the main ashram in Puttaparthi.
It includes hundreds of acres of land, money and jewelry valued in millions of euro and a hospital on the hill behind, as well as several temples, two museums, two Indian restaurants and a western branch of State Bank of India, the national bank of India. Bhagwan did not stop here. He founded an institute of higher learning, schools and colleges of general education and music, the International School for Human Values in New Delhi, a medicine in Prasanthigram, in Andhra Pradesh, and Whitefield, Bangalore, which also function as hospitals, a publishing house and some eye clinics.
All free services to the poor, but where are moving rivers of money. Since the days before he died Sai Baba has opened the fight for who will lead the Trust, so that to find the future leaders are uncomfortable even high-profile personalities. The night of Sunday Bagwan appeared lawyer Gopal Subramanian, Assistant Attorney General of India, and told him to search his bedroom in the apartment complex to Yajur Mandir.
"There is a silver box. Open it and you will find instructions on how to direct the Sai Central Trust. " These revelations of Sai Baba Subramanian, on Monday morning he reported to his office. She was immediately called the police to open the complex, when it was sealed by a rumor that a few hours before the official declaration of death a few vehicles loaded with gold and goods had left the complex.
But when the team led by Deputy Inspector General Charu Sinha entered the spartan room of the master - a bed, a chair and a box of medicine - there was no tape. Subramanian is not the future head of the Trust. Intelligence agencies have written a report suggesting that Satyajit, the assistant of Sai Baba, and his personal physician Dr.
Aiyar have received death threats, so that the government of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, has suggested two do not appear in public for some time. Dr. Aiyar is harshly criticized by the followers for not taking the medical records of Sai Baba. Satyajit hand, is the favored candidate by members of the Sathya Sai Central Trust, which they see fit to direct.
Struggles for money and power, then. Threats. That's also what left Sai Baba, in addition to the millions of faithful around the world and the 3 km of followers in a row came to Puttaparthi to see him one last time. Who knows what would, he said: "I am the embodiment of divine love. There is no life without love, the lowest loves itself, at least.
It is God himself, so there are no atheists "and" in every one of you, let this be known, there is God. " 
Leaving millions of faithful around the world who thought he was immortal, in consternation and dismay - how can a god die? - And one of the largest business empires in India, Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, valued at about € 12 billion. Where in 1993 the government had tried to see clearly (as the Trust's budget is not transparent) so as to have opened an investigation to find out how he had Sai Baba to put on an empire that at the time was valued at $ 2 billion .
The suspicion was that the money did not come only from donations - on the part of followers, but also by corrupt politicians and famous personalities from the underworld - but was also laundered money. Bhagwan, that the Blessed One, as his followers call him, had proclaimed himself an avatar, reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi, in the last century, preached a discipline steeped in Hindu and Sufi elements, the more genuinely mystical tradition of Islam .
Some believe that Krishna, the cowherd god child surrounded by love. Others as Jesus, so that a group of Hindu radicals has compiled a list of similarities between the two: for example, were both born of a virgin and do miracles. But it was not the doctrine of Sai Baba, founded on universal principles common to many major religions - love, service to the next - to attract millions of followers, from the most humble to the Hollywood stars such as George Segal, the samples of cricket to people like Isaac Burton Tigrett, founder of the Hard Rock Cafe.
The fame of the Blessed One is based on healing touch, which attracted patients from files of miles across South Asia, and materialization. Would display Vibhuti, the sacred ash with which Hindus will mark the front, and the lingam, the phallus sacred. And even something much less spiritual as objects of gold, rings with precious stones, watches Rolex.
Over the years there have been controversies surrounding the movement and its guru, who has been accused of doing conjuring tricks and sexually abusing young believers, so that in 1993 some of his closest aides have tried to kill him. Despite all his fame and wealth have been growing and Sai Baba in 1973, he founded an empire in the middle between the spiritual and the economy, the Sathya Sai Central Trust, located at Prasanthi Nilayam, the main ashram in Puttaparthi.
It includes hundreds of acres of land, money and jewelry valued in millions of euro and a hospital on the hill behind, as well as several temples, two museums, two Indian restaurants and a western branch of State Bank of India, the national bank of India. Bhagwan did not stop here. He founded an institute of higher learning, schools and colleges of general education and music, the International School for Human Values in New Delhi, a medicine in Prasanthigram, in Andhra Pradesh, and Whitefield, Bangalore, which also function as hospitals, a publishing house and some eye clinics.
All free services to the poor, but where are moving rivers of money. Since the days before he died Sai Baba has opened the fight for who will lead the Trust, so that to find the future leaders are uncomfortable even high-profile personalities. The night of Sunday Bagwan appeared lawyer Gopal Subramanian, Assistant Attorney General of India, and told him to search his bedroom in the apartment complex to Yajur Mandir.
"There is a silver box. Open it and you will find instructions on how to direct the Sai Central Trust. " These revelations of Sai Baba Subramanian, on Monday morning he reported to his office. She was immediately called the police to open the complex, when it was sealed by a rumor that a few hours before the official declaration of death a few vehicles loaded with gold and goods had left the complex.
But when the team led by Deputy Inspector General Charu Sinha entered the spartan room of the master - a bed, a chair and a box of medicine - there was no tape. Subramanian is not the future head of the Trust. Intelligence agencies have written a report suggesting that Satyajit, the assistant of Sai Baba, and his personal physician Dr.
Aiyar have received death threats, so that the government of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, has suggested two do not appear in public for some time. Dr. Aiyar is harshly criticized by the followers for not taking the medical records of Sai Baba. Satyajit hand, is the favored candidate by members of the Sathya Sai Central Trust, which they see fit to direct.
Struggles for money and power, then. Threats. That's also what left Sai Baba, in addition to the millions of faithful around the world and the 3 km of followers in a row came to Puttaparthi to see him one last time. Who knows what would, he said: "I am the embodiment of divine love. There is no life without love, the lowest loves itself, at least.
It is God himself, so there are no atheists "and" in every one of you, let this be known, there is God. "
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