TY - GEN AU - Aitken, Bill TI - Sri Sathya Sai Baba: a life SN - 9780670058075 U1 - 294.5 PY - 2004/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books India KW - Spiritual life - Hinduism KW - Sathya Sai Baba N2 - Born to a poor family in the village of Puttaparthi in southern Andhra Pradesh, Sathyanarayan Raju was a bright, talented and confident boy whose charitable nature and religiosity belied his tender age. Deeply suspicious of his spiritual precociousness, his father made him go through a traumatic exorcism. But the boy already had a devoted band of followers and, when he was thirteen, announced that he was the shirdi sai baba reborn. Today, sri sathya sai baba has an estimated thirty million followers worldwide ER -