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	Sathya Sai Baba - History and origins
		Sathya Sai Baba (born Sathya Narayana Raju with the family name Ratnakaram [1], November 23, 1926 or October 4, 1929 is a popular, controversial Indian guru who has millions of followers and hundreds of Sathya Sai Baba groups in many countries.
		Sathya Sai Baba is the figurehead to a number of educational institutions and charitable hospitals, most notably the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning and the Sri Sathya Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, located within or near the main ashrams and Anantapur town.
		Sathya Sai Baba is the figurehead to a number of educational institutions and charitable hospitals, most notably the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning and the Sri Sathya Institute of Higher Medicine, located within or near the main ashrams and Anantapur town.
	www.experiencefestival.com /sathya_sai_baba_-_history_and_origins (1612 words)

	Sathya Sai Baba
		When the boy Sathya Narayana Raju born in or near the village Puttaparthi was in his teens, he claimed to be the reincarnation of the fakir Sai Baba who was not well known in that area at that time.
		Baba asserts that he is an avatar of God, and a reincarnation of Lord Rama, of Sri Krishna, and of Shirdi Sai Baba.
		Sathya Sai Baba can be seen in person performing what he claims are miracles daily in the form of materializations of small objects, for example jewelry such as bracelets, rings, watches and especially vibhuti (holy ash) and kum kum.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/sathya_sai_baba (3955 words)

	Sathya Sai Baba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sathya Narayana Raju Ratnakaram was born in or near the poor and isolated village Puttaparthi, Anantapur district.
		Sathya Sai Baba can be seen in person performing what followers believe to be miracles daily in the form of materializations of small objects, for example food, jewelry such as bracelets, rings, watches and especially vibhuti (holy ash) and kum kum (the red-colored powder used by Hindus to make the ritual mark between the eyebrows).
		Sathya Sai Baba is the figurehead to a number of educational institutions and charitable hospitals, most notably the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning and the Sri Sathya Institute of Higher Medicine, located within or near the main ashrams and Anantapur town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sathya_Sai_Baba (6493 words)

	Sathyam Shivam Sundaram - The Life of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
		Rama was the embodiment of Sathya and Dharma; Krishna, of Santhi and Prema.
		Baba recognised that the pundits must grow experienced in the art of explaining the essentials of the scriptural teachings to the masses in small easily assimilable doses that are relishing; He warned that, unless the Pundits took care to practise what they preached, their discourses would be exercises in sheer hypocrisy.
		Baba mentioned that the citizens of Rajahmundry on the Godavari were hoping that the meeting would be held in their town, since the Sabha was resolved upon 'on the sands of an island in the centre of the Godavari on Sri Ramanavami, last year'.
	www.saibaba.ws /avatar/sss/sss2.htm (17840 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sathya Sai Baba
		Another point of criticism is the unresolved killings of four men in in Sai Baba's private quarters in 1993.
		Michael Goldstein, International Chairman of the Sri Sathya Sai Organisations, stated in the documentary that it was against his "heart and conscience" to initiate or approve of a proper legal process to investigate the allegations against Sathya Sai Baba.
		Anti-cult activists consider Baba just one of many cult leaders, though an exceptionally successful one, with the usual sexual abuse, false claims about himself, false miracles, propaganda, mind control, and misappropriation of funds to enrich the coterie at the top of the organization.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sathya_Sai_Baba (4308 words)

	Sai Baba Movement \| Encyclopedia of Religion
		The Sai Baba movement is perhaps the most popular modern South Asian religious movement.
		While most of the available literature is hagiographical in nature, scholars have studied some aspects of the movement, including the figures of Shirdi Sai Baba and Sathya Sai Baba, the middle-class constituency of Sathya Sai Baba, and the movement's pedagogical innovations.
		Dattātreya's "interreligious eclecticism" is found in the Sai Baba movement: Shirdi Sai Baba was believed by his devotees to be an incarnation of Dattātreya, and Sathya Sai Baba has presented himself as an incarnation of the same figure (Rigopoulos, 1998, p.
	www.bookrags.com /research/sai-baba-movement-eorl-12 (224 words)

	The Sathya Sai Baba Movement
		When a person joins the Sathya Sai Baba movement or makes some personal commitment to Sathya Sai Baba, all that this involves gradually assumes a more and more important role in one's personal belief system, on the basis of which one increasingly tends to perceive and interpret everything.
		Sathya Sai Baba becomes, as he most explicitly tries to become in his constant assertions, the focus of a person's whole life.
		The Sai movements’ “critical mass”: All in all, there are very large numbers of people who have become so attached to SSB emotionally, mentally, socially and even in material terms, that the movement has developed a strong inertial impetus.
	home.no.net /anir/Sai/enigma/PaintingIn.htm (3299 words)

	Wikipedia bias against Sathya Sai Baba: Promoting an Anti-Sai Agenda by Andries Krugers Dagneaux
		However, say one word against Anti-SSB Activists and, all of a sudden, you are a "slanderer" and resorting to "ad hominem" attacks!
		to view an admission, from Andries, about being "bitter" with his involvement with the Sathya Sai movement (or "cult", as he calls it).
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	www.saisathyasai.com /baba/Ex-Baba.com/sathya-sai-baba-wikipedia-bias.html (2520 words)

	SASNET: New books/South Asia research
		It is centered on the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (b.
		However, the Dravidian movement's empowerment agenda left the dalits – 19 percent of the population – almost untouched.
		The author examines the history of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (Aligarh Muslim University) during the first twenty-five years of its existence, the period when the first generation of Muslims educated in English graduated from the college.
	www.sasnet.lu.se /newbooks.html (6305 words)

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		In the short item on Shirdi Sai Baba, the author again uses the (usually commendable) "is believed to be" construction rather than stating, as he does in his fascinating initial Chronology from 1744 to the present (on p.
		The culturally besieged élite minority that controls the Sai Baba organisation appears to be torn between subversion and subservience towards the government and its assurance of the ascendancy of Malay culture.
		The suggestion that the SSB 'Movement' was in tune with the needs of urban middle class Indians, who were experiencing anxiety in coping with the modernisation of their country.
	bdsteel.tripod.com /More/sbresearchbib1.htm?FACTNet (10920 words)

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