What an expreience it was..I had been to Puttapurthi to experience what many describe as a divine experience. I was craving to see Shri Stya Sai for some years...to be precised over a decade now. Before i write further let me confess that I am not a Satya sai follower...I dont claim to do so in future...I like many never had any knid of emotional attachment to him...but still I carried with me..curiosity to see him.

It all started..when one day I was watching a documentery made my Vir sanghavi was being telecasted on Discovery. It discussed both sides about Shri Satya Sai in detail...one called him a magician who was taking the whole world for a ride through his tricks...while the other looked at him like a god who had all the powers in the world to take care of their problems...the documentery was inconclusive and endedup stating that Things that are beyond comprehension of human mind or science may best be left to time or faith of people...and i carried that thought with me since then. The point was discussed among we friends once..One of us came out with a very logical reasoning to all the so called fan following around baba...It said that for a moment condem this man...consider that he is a magician...consider that he is taking the whole world for a ride...making fool out of millions and milions....but the fact remains that we can not make fool out of a few for a few minutes...if this man is able to do so..He is sure to bear qualities that we commoners may not bear...so grant this to man his due... no harm in worshiping an individual who has something special...something more that what u and me have....

With this background my visit to Puttaparthy and experience the aura of man called Shri Satya Sai was avery thought provoking. I was keen to observe and feel everything that I could. I consider myself sensitive enough to apperciate and absorb all that is positive around me...I may sometimes understand the negativity and discard it before it gets into my flesh and blood...Let me admitt that at the end of my journey I came out to be a very happy...spiritually rich...and contended man. Seeing a small village getting transformed into a lovely township..with a University...schools...music academy...world class sports complex...Air port...railway station and world famous super speciality hospital...all due to aura of one man. The vision of this man is to impart good value education to students at every level of learning..and when these children grow on to become successful Doctors...engineers...lawyers...leaders and professionals of tomorrow...would propogate these good value to mankind paving the way to evolution of a good society. The impact of this vision was evident...when u see the disciplined children and professionals graduated from university (I met a few of them) doing so well not only professionallly but personally too...These children get exposed to the best in the business...like Sunil Gavaskar...NBA Team...Narayana Murthy and so on...the list in un-ending...

I managed to get a glimpse of Shri Satya Sai only for a minute or so...but that minute seem to have changed me for a life. Not a word spoken or any special gesturing was done...but I felt so light after living through that moment...I felt as if all my stress and worries were downloaded somewhere...it was a feel of happiness...while i was trying to come in terms with fact that Shri Satya Sai was actually in front of me..i could sense tears in my eyes and were flowing uncontrollably...it was sort of happiness one achieves when god appears in front of you and asks you to seek anything u like...but the happiness of seeing god it self is so much and rest all appears to trivial...if that is what is called divine then i guess i went through one such experience...experience that made me spiritually stronger...temperamentally calmer and a better human being. The best part is, all this happened with out breaking the barriers of sanity of human mind.....heart...soul and mind ....in unison accepted the divinity of that experience...

The place Puttapurthy...the man Shri Satya Sai....simply great!