Shri Satya Sai Baba

Anyone who shows us the right path can be considered as God in this world and Shri Satya Sai Baba is God in person - believe it or not. . His enlightened devotees are numerous worldwide. A "quite" brief apercu of the famous "Baba" - who preaches only one religion which is the religion of love - follows. Venerated by hundreds of millions in India and abroad, the god-man Sai Baba - born on the 23rd November 1926 - is the greatest living Hindu guru and saint. As the incarnation of truth and righteousness he is equated with Rama and Krishna, and also with Kalki, the final avatar of Vishnu. Satya Sai has stated that he is the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi as well as an embodiment of the miraculous powers of Lord Shiva. He usually resides in his ashram, Prasanti Nilayam, which translates as "The Abode of Great Peace". The saint has devoted his life to the spiritual regeneration of India through the education of youth and the divine gift of his own holy darshan.

Baba - the miracles' god .... normally a psychic who specializes in `spontaneous' productions has a ready excuse when confronted by a skeptic demanding replication of the event under controlled conditions: He can say, among other things, that the event was as much a surprise to him as to everyone else, and he cannot just reproduce it on command. Or he can maintain that the `artificiality of the lab' is not conducive to psi powers; they happen in the normal course of events, not in the lab. However, neither excuse is open to Sai Baba, who claims to be omnipotent. If so, he could produce them anywhere! But Sai Baba has other excuses:
Sai Baba's Excuse for Refusing Scientific Tests: How can science which is bound to a physical and materialist outlook investigate transcendental phenomena beyond its scope, reach or comprehension? This is a fallacy on the face of it. One belongs to the material and the other to a spiritual plane. Science must confine its inquiry only to things belonging to the human senses, while spiritualism transcends the senses. If you want to understand the nature of spiritual power you can do so only through the path of spirituality and not science. What science has been able to unravel is merely a fraction of the cosmic phenomena; it tends, however, to exaggerate its contribution...
As I have said before, Dr. Narasimhiah and his group are like the Telugu men who to the cinema to see a Tamil film. They will see only the dancing, the fighting and violence, the heroes and villains, the star with a beautiful face and these kinds of superficial things, but they will lose the subtler aspects such as the music and the poetry, the plot, the dialogue, the jokes and the like.
However as I have said again and again, those who want to understand me are welcome here. It is the spirit of the investigation that is important. Foreign parapsychologists have come here and examined me in such a positive and constructive spirit. You have seen their reports. They do not write letters or make public demands.
Narasimhiah's approach was improper; that is why I rejected it. If it were not so, he would have been welcome.

Arati to Shri Sai Baba
Oh Sai Baba, we wave lights before You, the bestower of happiness to the Jivas. Give us - Your servants and devotees rest under the dust of Your feet. Burning (destroying) desire, You remain absorbed in Your Self and show the Lord (God) to the aspirants. As one feels intently, You give him experiences or realizations accordingly. Oh kind-hearted, Your power is such! Meditation on Your name removes our fear of the samsar. Your method of work is really unfathomable as You always help the poor and helpless. In this Kali age, You - the all-pervasive Datta, have really incarnated as Saguna Brahma. Ward off the fear of samsar of the devotees who come to You every Thursday so as to enable them to see the feet of the Lord. Oh! God of Gods, I pray that let my treasure be the service of Your feet. Feed Madhav and (you should utter your name here) with happiness as the cloud feeds the Chatak bird with pure water and thus keep up Your Word. Amen !

Origin of that picture of Jesus

In 1985 B.A., an Australian, made her first visit to the ashram of Satya Sai Baba in Puttaparti, India. She was one of many thousands who come every day to be in the presence of Sai Baba, an extraordinary avatar whose spontaneous miracles and all-encompassing love are world-famous. He is known for manifesting objects "out of thin air," such as rings and, especially, ash - which many of his followers carry in small packets.
The major event of the day at Sai Baba's ashram is Darshan, when Sai Baba walks among those gathered and gives them his blessing. While receiving Darshan, B.A. held up for Sai Baba's blessing a crucifix and a computer-generated black-and-white print-out of the Shroud of Turin. Sai Baba did not bless the crucifix, but took the page of computer paper in his hand and from it manifested a blank sheet of glossy photo paper. As he passed his hand over the paper, there appeared a color photo of Jesus. Later examination showed that the markings in the photo line up exactly with those of the Shroud of Turin.

Saints of the World

• Hindu Saints
• Christian Saints
• Islamic Saints
• Other Saints

Great Christian Saints and Masters of Devotion:

The seven Champions of Christendom:
Saint Anthony of Italy, Saint Denis of France, Saint James of Spain, Saint George of England, Saint Andew of Scotland, Saint David of Wales, and Saint Patrick of Ireland.
Some of the Patron Saints called upon in the hours of need and despair: Saint Aegidius (to forgive sins), Saint Barbara (patron of artillerymen, miners and prisoners; to ask for mercy and protection during thunderstorms), Saint Blasius (for throat problems), Saint Christophorus (when threatened by water, fire, thunderstorms, and infectious diseases), Saint Cyriacus ( to gain control over the ego), Saint Erasmus (patron of sailors and for problems with the abdomen), Saint Eustachius (for desperation and heavy blows of fate; patron of hunters; patron Saint of Madrid), Saint George (patron of England and of farmers), Saint Katherina (patron of scholars and students), Saint Margareta (patron of virgins and mothers), Saint Vitus (patron of youth and for epileptic problems).

Various Christian Saints:
Saint Anselm, Saint Augustine, Saint Elizabeth (Hungary), Saint Hildegard, Saint Benedict II, Saint Benedict Biscop, Saint Joan of Arc, Saint Januarius, Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Saint Ignatius of Constantinople, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint John of the Cross, Saint Pio, Saint Peter, Saint Patrick, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Sebastian, Saint Valentine, Saint Nicholas, Saint Lawrence, Saint Agnes, Saint Agatha, Saint Fabian, Saint Erasmus, Saint George, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Christina, Saint Bernadette, Saint Isadore, Saint Anastasia, Saint Alexander, Saint Bartolomew, Saint Barbara, Saint Neumann, Saint John Bosco, Saint Paul, Saint Andrew, Saint Elizabeth (Portugal), Saint Florian, Saint Maria Goretti, Saint Maria Croifissa, Saint Martha, Saint Matthew, Saint Matthias, Saint Stanislaus, Saint Victoria, Saint Luke, Saint William, Saint Stephen, Saint John, Saint Judith, Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Anthony the Abbot, Saint Anthony the Hermit, Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Saint Dorothy, Saint Daniel, Saint David, Saint Eugene, Saint Cornelius, Saint Helena, Saint Gertrude, Saint Germaine, Saint Gregory, Saint Ingrid of Sweden, Saint Beatrice, Saint Apollinaris, Saint Dominic, Saint Polycarp, Saint Conrad, Hildegard von Bingen.
Padre Pio was declared "VENERABLE" by Pope Paul 11 on Thursday, December 18, 1997. (Send in by C.) (Venerable means that the Catholic Church recognizes the outstanding qualities of someone on his way to full sainthood.) Padre Pio was known to heal, levitate during mass (observed by large crowds of people), and - as a stigmatist - he bled for about 50 years daily the amount of a large cup of blood out of his hands.

Great Hindu Saints and Masters of Yoga:
Jnana Yoga:
Shankara (great philosopher and exponent of Jnana Yoga)
Ramana Maharshi
Shankaracharya
Radja Yoga:
Patanjali (famous compiler of the Yoga Sutras)
Ma Yoga Shakti, Pandit R. Tiguanait
Bhakti Yoga:
Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Vivekananda, Sarada Devi, Brahmananda, Premananda, Turiyananda, Shivananda, Shree Maa, Mata Amritanandamayi
The Kriya Yoga Line:
Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar, Paramahansa Yogananda, Daya Mata, Roy Davis, Shibendu Lahiri.
Krishna, Rama
Satya Sai Baba, Muktananda Paramahansa, Sivananda Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo
Anandamayi Ma, Dattatreya, Jnanadeva, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Shivapuri Baba, Abhinavagupta, Bharata, Kabir, Namadeva, Nandanar, Tukaram, Auvaiyar, Meher Baba, Saibaba, Eknath

Great Saints of Islam and Sufism:
Yahja Mu'adh al-Razi, Mahmud Shabestari, Ibn Bajjah, Ibn Tufayl, Ibn al-Arabi, Mulla Sadra, Sahl at-Tustari, al-Husayn
ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and many more.

Great Saints of the rest of the world:
Shotoku Taishi (Japanese patron Saint of carpenters)
Siddharta Gautama (the Buddha or Enlightened One from India)
Okuni-nushi (a great Shinto Master)
Confucius (China)
Lao-tzu (China)
Irish Saints:
Saint Attracta, Saint Colman, Saint Colambanus, Saint Canice, Saint Laurence o'Toole, Saint Finnian, Saint Flannan, Saint Nicholas, Saint Fachanan, Saint Malachy, Saint Mainchin, St. Fintan, Saint Ita, Saint Kilian, Saint Eunan, Saint Nathy, Saint Felim, Saint Oliver, Saint Fergal
Orthodos Saints of Serbia:
Saint Sava, Saint Simeon, Saint Ostroski, Saint Petka
Black Saints:
Saint Pierre Toussaint, Saint Augustine, Saint Monica, Saint Benedict, Saint Moses, Saint Vieira, Saint Victor, Saint Gelasius, Saint Miltiades, Saint Porres.
Native Americans:
Saint Kateri Tekawitha
Patron Saints of England:
Saint Alfred the Great, Saint Edward the Confessor, Saint Margaret Clitherow, Saint Margaret Ward, Saint Thomas More, Saint Boniface, Saint Cuthbert, Saint Anne Line, Saint Sigfrid, Saint Richard of Chichester, Saint Bede the Venerable, Saint George
Patron Saints of Germany:
Saint Albertus Magnus, Saint Gertrude the Great, Saint Notburga, Saint Hedwig, Saint Radegunde, Saint Thiemo, Saint Matilda
Patron Saints of France:
Saint Adalbald de Ostrevant, Saint Adelaide, Saint Isabella of France, Saint Adelard, Ivo of Kermartin, Saint Jeanne de Chantal, Saint Agricola of Avignon, Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac, Saint Joan of Arc, Saint John Baptist de la Salle, Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, Saint John Mary Vianney, Saint Bernadette, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Claude de la Colombiere, Saint Leonard of Noblac, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Saint Genevieve, Saint Philippine Duchesne, Saint Gerald of Aurillac, Saint Rene Goupil, Saint Germaine Cousin, Saint Giles, Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Saint Therese of Lisieux, Saint Vincent de Paul
Patron Saints of Spain:
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Anthony Mary Claret, Saint Mary de la Cabeza, Saint Natalia, Saint Eulalia of Merida, Saint Dominic de Guzman, Saint Nunilo, Saint Peter Gonzalez, Saint Francis Xavier, Saint Isidore, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, Saint Turibius of Mogroveio, Saint John of Avila, Saint JoseMarie Escriva, Saint Vincent of Sarsgossa
Patron Saints of Hungary:
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Patron Saints of Portugal:
Saint Elizabeth of Portugal * Pascal Baylon
Patron Saints of Italy:
Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Jerome Emiliani, Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Saint John Bosco, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Saint Joseph Cafasso, Saint Joseph Mary Tomasi, Saint Angela Merici, Saint Joseph Moscati, Saint Joseph of Cupertino, Saint Clare of Assisi, Saint Angelico, Saint Julia Falconieri, Saint Castora Gabrielli, Saint Paula Frassinetti, Saint Anne Marie Taigi, Saint Luchesius,Saint Ansovinus, Saint Mary Gianelli, Saint Antonius of Florence, Saint Maria Bagnesi, Saint Benedict, Saint Maria Gabriella, Saint Maria Goretti, Saint Maria Mazzarello, Saint Peregrine Laziosi, Saint Mary Magdalen of Pazzi, Saint Catherine del Ricci, Saint Catherine of Bologna, Saint Catherine of Genoa, Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Frances of Rome, Saint Sibyllina Biscossi, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Saint Theobaldus Roggeri, Saint Mary Magdalena Bentivoglio
Catholic Saints of Jewish heritage:
Saint Teresia Benedicta