Sathya Sai Baba was the clearest example of an ideal life. It is quite obvious to me that Sathya Sai Baba is an Avatar who embodies the absolute fullness of divine consciousness. However, he was born in the human world, he incarnated in a human body and lived a wonderful human life. His life is the greatest example for each of us.
Sathya Sai Baba left his physical body at the age of eighty-four. For the last three or four years of his life, he was seriously ill. He was even driven in a wheelchair. According to independent researchers, by the end of his life he had about fifty million followers in various countries across the world.
Since Sathya Sai Baba energetically helped so many people, naturally his physical body began to fail, so at the end of his life there were big problems with his health. Every healer, no matter how great he is, partially passes the negative energy of his patients through his physical body.
I remember when Sathya Sai Baba was seventy years old, and even eighty years old. At that time, he looked great and was in great physical shape. With his excellent physical health, he gives us an example of the need to take care of the physical body, for it is a temple in which the soul temporarily dwells. Possessing perfect health, a person gets a good opportunity to fully fulfill his spiritual mission on earth.
Sathya Sai Baba never married, but at the same time, all his life, from childhood to old age, he paid great attention to his family. Sathya Sai Baba was very respectful toward his mother and father. When his parents passed away, he gave instructions to build a large tomb for them next to his ashram.
Sathya Sai Baba treated his brother and nephews, as well as his great-nephews and other numerous relatives with care and respect. All this is an example of how a perfect person should live because the Avatar is ultimately a perfect person. Sathya Sai Baba shows that a person following the spiritual path must fulfill his divine duties, which include taking care of his family.
Let’s look at Sathya Sai Baba’s financial activities. This is a very difficult question for some students and followers, because in the idealistic perception of some people it is very difficult to connect Sathya Sai Baba and money. It is necessary to treat money correctly and understand that money is a divine energy that the Lord God uses to develop and improve human civilization. In the Vedic tradition, the energy of money is personified by the beautiful Goddess Lakshmi.
Sathya Sai Baba Avatar, fulfilling a great divine mission, attracted colossal financial flows to himself. According to various sources, by the end of his life, Sathya Sai Baba’s fortune reached more than fifteen billion dollars. A lot or a little, judge for yourself. Such an amount, even in Europe at a very high price level, is huge. In India, where the price level of literally everything is absolutely low, fifteen billion dollars is a colossal fortune.
Sathya Sai Baba built a magnificent ashram where millions of people come from all over the world. He founded several universities, where he gathered the best teachers in India. In his native village, Sathya Sai Baba built two large modern hospitals.
In the city of Bangalore, he also built a large hospital, and equipped it to all modern standards. All Sathya Sai Baba clinics provide free medical care. He founded charitable projects that help large families and orphans.
Sathya Sai Baba established a drinking water supply system for several districts of Andhra Pradesh, which is absolutely unique in India, where the lack of drinking water is one of the main causes of disease among the villagers. Beautiful ideas alone, or good intentions to help people, are not enough – there must be large financial investments.
Sathya Sai Baba, like a magnet, attracted significant finances to himself, and then redistributed them to good deeds. In this too, Sathya Sai Baba was a perfect example us all. Sometimes people mistakenly believe that money is the cause of all evil, but in fact, money is one type of divine energy.
There is no sin in money; sin lies in the unwise use of money. Money is just an equivalent on the basis of which goods and services are exchanged in human society. With the help of money, houses and schools, scientific laboratories and art museums are built, industry and agriculture are developed, books are published, and films are made, churches and ashrams are built. Consider how many good deeds are done daily with the help of money.
There were millions and millions of people around Sathya Sai Baba who were spiritually transformed by his blessings. A huge number of people from different countries of the world were able to start the path of self-improvement and meditation.
Sathya Sai Baba never divided people into devotees and non-devotees, his divine love was so unconditional that it didn’t matter to him whether you considered yourself to be his follower or not. Sathya Sai Baba blessed everyone, both those who loved him and those who hated him.
He sent streams of his grace, light, and love to absolutely everyone. The transformation of human consciousness is the main masterpiece of Sathya Sai Baba, and in this he is a perfect genius.