Sathya Sai Baba Passed away

 

Spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba, revered by millions as an incarnation of god, passed away at the age of 86 on Sunday.

Sai Baba was suffering from multi-organ dysfunction and was undergoing treatment at the Sathya Sai Baba super-speciality hospital. He left his body at around 7.40 this morning due to cardi-respiratory failure.

He was hospitalised on March 28 following problems related to heart and respiration.

Meanwhile, thousands of devotees have been thronging the hospital following the death of the spiritual leader.

Born Nov. 23, 1926, in Puttaparti, the Sai Baba was first named Sathyanarayana Raju.

In 1940, he declared himself an "avatar," or reincarnation, of another Hindu holy man called the Sai Baba of Shirdi, a town in the western Indian state of Maharashtra who had died in 1918.