Sai Baba for Sceptics
Baba's good works are enough to earn him respect from all sections of society, from the top to the bottom. His 85th birthday was attended by both the President and the Prime Minister of India His schools are treated as models for Indian schools and are encouraged by the government He has managed to bring fresh drinking water to more than 8m people – more than the population of Sweden. He has completed a scheme planned more than 100 years ago to bring reliable fresh water to Madras. His two free hospitals are models of their kind and almost certainly the largest free such facilities anywhere in the world Baba works tirelessly and travels hardly at all; he's only once been outside India – in 1968 to Uganda. He lives the simplest life, eating nothing but a little ragi (millet) and wearing a cotton robe. For the spiritual seeker, the is absolutely no money involved. In fact you can live in the ashram more cheaply that anywhere else in India and books and DVDs are cheap...