When this "Experts" talk..All I can do is just smile and nod my head..in agreement!!!Hehehehe.
In my mind I can't understand , why these people never take the trouble to find out more about Swami except for watching youtube(the negative parts) and documentry such as the Secret Swami by BBC( http://prem-ananth.blogspot.com/2011/05/secret-behind-bbcs-secret-swami.html) etc..and accepting that as the truth instead of some research on Swami's Achivements and Teachings.If Millions of People from ALL OVER THE WORLD follow him..then there might be something more to him that a Sleight of hand (Magic tricks)?Right?
"My Life is My Message" proclaims Swami..and I tell these people, it's all out there.Study his life and you will know the truth about who or what he is.Then you form your opinion either way..you would have earned that.
Let me help you detail some of his Divine Projects...Only Some as below;
1.Super Speciality Hospital Puttaparthi
A 1000 year project of service, love and compassion to aid and help suffering humanity.
Sri Sathya Sai Medical Trust provides free medical care to the sick and ailing with the dedication, commitment, love and the best of skills, so that they will be cured in body, mind and spirit. Our Mission is to provide high quality medical care free of charge to all irrespective of caste, creed, religion, and financial status in an atmosphere of love and care."
The super speciality hospitals (run by the Trust) follow the guiding principles laid down by Sathya Sai Baba.
Universal Healthcare: Healthcare should be available to all, irrespective of caste, religion, nationality, or financial status.
Decommercialized Healthcare: Healthcare should be delivered free of charge.
Human Values in Healthcare: Healthcare should be administered with Love.
Spiritualisation of Healthcare: The aim should be to heal the patient in body, mind and spirit, not merely to cure disease.
Sathya Sai Baba said in a discourse on November 23, 1991, "Many persons appealed to me to set up the hospital in an urban centre. There are many medical institutions run as a business in several cities. When any educational or medical institution is established, the sole aim is to make a business of it. There are few who are ready to set up such institutions to provide free facilities for the poor. Therefore, from the start we decided to set up a hundred-crore hospital near Prashaanthi Nilayam itself. Even as higher education is free here, "Higher medicine" also will be free. People spend some lakhs to get heart surgery done in the U.S. What is the plight of the poor? Who looks after them? Recognising this fact, we have launched this big hospital project. Whether it is heart bypass operation, or a kidney transplant, or a lung operation or brain surgery, everything will be done free."
2.Super Speciality Hospital Bangalore
Another “Temple of Healing” totally free of cost. I spent 10 days in this hospital and experienced it from the inside.Imagine, the doctors thank YOU so that they can earn their living and make God happy with their work.In this hospital I witnessed 3 trends in the patient profiles, a) the poorest of the poor receiving the best medical care in the world totally free of cost, b) the impossible cases that all others hospitals had rejected, and c), all the totally botched cases, the cases beyond repair being repaired spectacularly by doctors chanting God’s name..
A steady stream of patients reaches the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences’ super-speciality hospital in Whitefield, and has now touched a landmark of 2.5 lakh.
Most of them belong to the lower income group, and many come in from Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Africa and even some European countries. "The cases we have treated are from the economically weaker sections. Free healthcare and life-saving procedures have wider ramifications. It saves entire families from destitution," says Dr A.N. Safaya, director of the hospital, a unit of Sri Sathya Sai Medical Trust.
Since inception in January 2001, doctors here have performed complicated procedures in cardiac and neuro branches, with state-of-the-art technology. In commercial terms, the cost of treatment meted out free is around Rs 150 crore. Lakhs of patients depend entirely on the hospital.
"This hospital serves as a model. Many said it was not possible to offer this level of care free of cost, but we have done it," says Dr Safaya.
Here, holistic healthcare is the mantra. Procedures apart, thousands use the free cardiac out-patient care that is well beyond their means. Counselling is also part of treatment.
"Philanthropic bodies and lateral medical agencies should replicate this model," says Dr P.K. Dash, chief of cardiology. According to him, at least another 900 beds of tertiary care facility are needed immediately in Bangalore. "Cardiac treatment is beyond the reach of many and we have to bring it to them. It seems daunting, but it isn’t impossible."'
3.Sri Sathya Sai Drinking Water Supply Project, Anantapur DistrictWater provided free of cost to some 700 villages. Sai removing water born disease, drought and disaster.
It is in this context that Bhagavan Baba initiated a massive drinking water supply project in Anantapur district in 1995. This is now known as Sri Sathya Sai Drinking Water Supply Project.
It was Bhagavan's direction that schemes with reliable sources of water should be taken up even if the cost is substantial. It was a challenging task to provide drinking water to about 730 villages suffering from scarcity and excess fluoride. Pipelines were laid to a length of about 2500 km within a span of about one year.
The project was taken up in right earnest. Bhagavan created a special team for its efficient and quick execution. The work was entrusted to Larsen & Toubro Limited, a company which had the expertise in construction and project management and most importantly, devotion to Bhagavan.
It is the good fortune of the people of Anantapur district that Bhagavan Baba provided sufficient funds for the execution of such a massive drinking water project which was completed in record time by His grace.
Bhagavan was keen that the quality of work should be of a high order and that details like sand bedding under the pipes should be taken care of. Bhagavan's generosity knows no bounds and His love is as vast as His creation. Bhagavan makes no distinction between rich and poor, urban and rural. During the execution of the schemes, many representations were made to Swami for providing drinking water to additional towns and villages. In response to such representations, Swami directed that towns like Anantapur, Dharmavaram should be included. The scope of Bhagavan's project got extended and the cost of the project was about 300 crore rupees.
Sri Sathya Sai Drinking Water Supply Project started in March 1995 on war footing and became a reality when Bhagavan inaugurated the first phase of the project covering about 150 villages. The drinking water scheme to Anantapur town was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister on 18th November 1995 and pumping main to the Peddakotia - Puttaparthi line by the then President of India on 23rd November 1995 (70th Birthday of Bhagavan). The entire scheme was commissioned after stabilisation period and pure drinking water was supplied to about 730 villages from November 1996. By Bhagavan's grace, drinking water is now being supplied to all these places without any dislocation. The magnitude of the project can be gauged from the following figures: No. of villages covered 731, population benefited 9 lakh (ultimate design 12 lakh), project cost about 300 crore rupees, length of pipes 2500 km, overhead reservoirs 268, ground-level reservoirs 149, summer storage tanks 8, infiltration wells 20, booster stations 56, borewells 280.
Out of the 731 villages, 451 are covered by comprehensive schemes and the balance 280 villages by individual borewells as sources. Water is taken from assured sources like Tungabhadra canals, Penna Ahobilam balancing reservoir, Chitravathi river and infiltration wells in Penna and Hagari rivers.
To ensure proper maintenance of the completed schemes, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has formed an autonomous board, namely, Sri Sathya Sai Drinking Water Supply Board. Bhagavan's grace continued even during the maintenance phase of the project. Bhagavan allowed the use of materials from the Central Trust for maintenance, which helped in the supply of drinking water to all the villages.
4.Sri Sathya Sai Drinking Water Project for Mahaboobnagar and Medak Districts
After completion of the project taken up in Anantapur district, Bhagavan desired to provide drinking water to the people of two drought-stricken districts in Telangana region. The result is the implementation of drinking water projects in Mahaboobnagar and Medak districts at a total cost of about 60 crore rupees covering nearly 150 villages in Mahaboobnagar district and 179 villages in Medak district.
5.Chennai Water Project
The British failed, the Indian Government failed, but Sai succeeded in give 9 million people safe drink water will removing the devastating cycle of drought
During the year 2002, Bhagavan announced that He would provide drinking water to Chennai, which had been suffering from acute shortage of drinking water with continuous droughts. The city's population is about 5 million now and the projected population for the year 2021 is 6.75 million. The water supply is presently maintained at about 250 mid (million litres per day) for the city. Various alternatives to provide drinking water to Chennai were examined and it was finally decided to facilitate provision of drinking water from Krishna river at a cost of about 200 crore rupees by improving Telugu Ganga Canal.
Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, under the benign guidance of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. took up the scheme of improving the existing infrastructure of Kandaleru Poondi canal system through which the agreed quantum of 12 tmc of water at Tamil Nadu border could be conveyed. This scheme was not only to ensure full quantum of water being conveyed to Chennai city but also help irrigation of 3 lakh acres of land in Nellore and Chittoor districts of Andhra Pradesh. This was one of the most important schemes taken up on humanitarian grounds, which enabled supply of adequate drinking water to Chennai city, significant sections of its population being under the category of urban poor. The entire scheme was taken up at the request of Government of Andhra Pradesh to improve Kandaleru Poondi canal, which is now renamed as 'Sri Sathya Sai Ganga Canal by the Government of Andhra Pradesh as a mark of respect to Bhagavan.
5.Sri Sathya Sai Drinking Water Supply Project for East and West Godavari Districts
Bhagavan's mission to provide water to the poor continues and as a result, a major project covering about 500 habitations in tribal areas and uplands of East Godavari and West Godavari districts has been taken up at a cost of nearly 100 crore rupees.
The upland and backward areas of East Godavari, which are mainly inhabited by tribals and poor people, depend mostly on borewells and streams for their drinking water needs. The borewells are getting dry and water levels are going down year after year due to excessive usage of ground water. Further, the natural stream waters are bacterialogically unsafe and require treatment. Further, borewell water contains excess iron in some pockets.
It is proposed to provide drinking water to about 220 habitations covering a population of about 2.30 lakh, with provision for expansion for another 1 lakh population in East Godavari district. In West Godavari district, it is proposed to provide drinking water to its 220 habitations covering a population of 4.70 lakh. The surface water will be filtered through treatment plants and supplied to various habitations through pipelines. Two sources have been selected for drinking water. One is the Godavari river and the second Pamuleru, which is a tributary of Godavari and flows throughout the year.
The details given above concerning different projects convey the range and scope of work relating to drinking water supply by Bhagavan. There has been no parallel effort of this nature by any other charitable organisation. Bhagavan's is indeed a unique effort.
6.Orissa Housing Project
When too much water threatened peoples lives and washed away their homes – Sai responded.
A team under Bro Srinivas Snr. rushed to the flood plains of Orissa to co-ordinate and proved emergency supplies and start building 1000 new homes for the poorest of the poor.Swami took great pains to make sure that the floor height was between 3 and 5 foot above the ground and that the front doors pointed away form the path of any future flood waters. (On the 2nd of April 2009 hundreds of poor villagers flocked to Puttaparthi to thank Swami for His Flood Rehabilitation Housing Project)
7.Muddana Halli University Campus
In the year 2009 Swami had embarked on a new project of love and compassion for those in distress.
A new university campus that will enrol and start teaching its first intake in less than 5 months. FIVE MONTHS!While the chairman of GE India was building his company’s new complex in EPIP, Whitefield, he watched the Bangalore Super Speciality Hospital go from an open plot to a fully functioning hospital in no time at all. He could not believe that he, with the money, resources and know-how of one of the world’s giant companies had their own building project move at a fraction of the speed.
Again Divine Love and Compassion in action.
Unlike us that predict and talk about problems, Sai solves and dissolves impossible problems
Jai Sai Ram!!
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