Hindu holy man Sathya Sai Baba, considered a God living by millions of followers around the world died Sunday in a hospital near his Southern Indian ashram, said a doctor. He was 86.
Sai Baba had spent more than three weeks on the respiration of support and dialysis while struggling with the failure of an organ of many at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of higher Medical Sciences, close to his ashram in Puttaparti village in the State of Andhra Pradesh in South. He died Sunday morning, said the Director of the hospital Dr. A.N. Safaya.
Women sell garlands of calendula broke into tears outside the ashram when the news was announced.
In this April 10, 2010 file photo, Indian spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba looks at a function to respond to its loyal to New Delhi. (Mustafa Quraishi/Associated Press)The Saffron robe Sathya Sai Baba had a huge following with ashrams in over 126 countries. It has been said to perform miracles - magic and the articles of the rings and watches and the "vibhuti," a sacred ash that his disciples applied on their front - of his Afro-style oversized and quite dirty hair.
Supporters gathered to mourn in small groups in the alleys and streets surrounding the ashram, while some began the runoff in the temple complex where the holy man will be brought to lie in State until Tuesday.
Hundreds of thousands of worshippers are expected in Puttaparti for funeral of Sathya Sai Baba.
A heavy police deployment, in place for weeks as a condition of the worse guru, was assigned to barricades on the roads to restrict traffic in the village. Traders were urged to close to control the number of people near the ashram.
Born November 23, 1926, at Puttaparti, the guru was first named Sathyanarayana Raju.
In 1940, he says "avatar", or reincarnation, another Hindu, called holy man Sai Baba of Shirdi, a town in the West of the Indian State of Maharashtra, who died in 1918.
The Sathya Sai Baba was also mired in more controversy, with several reports on the allegations of sexual abuse and false miracles.
In 2004, a television programme by the British Broadcasting Corporation called the Secret Swami, interviewed at least two male followers Americans who claims the Guru had fondled the genitals and himself exposed to them, claiming it was part of a healing ritual.
The guru and his ashram always denied all reports of any wrongdoing, and he was never charged or convicted of a crime.
The holy man was never married and had no children.
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