
Sai Baba had been to Gunaparthi in 1960, says Halagappa, a local villager and ardent devotee of Baba. This hope could pacify many people who are crying now in Puttaparthi’s vacant streets over Satya Sai loss. Both Srirangapatna and Mandya regions are filled with Sai Baba devotees and temples built by them. Baba will enter the child in a spiritual technique. There is just one village (Gunaparthi) starting with that name, say followers like Bhanuprakash Sharma believe the third birth was true. He will be an abandoned child picked up by a Besta (fisherman) and will be brought up as Prem Sai in due course a village named “Guna”. This is now publicized in his death on April morning at his own Hospital, as Srirangapatna now in Mandya district, but near Mysore (by rain). Again Mysore or Mandya have in common with Puttaparthi? In 1963 or thereabouts, Baba revealed to his biographies that he had a third Avatar in Karnataka due on banks of Cauvery.

They did not show any special likings for the second Avatar known as Satya (Narayana) Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, although the latter held devotees’ huge gatherings in Mahalaxmi Race Course grounds on a stadium named after a Gujarati leader, Vithalbai Patel and he sang many songs there like Kerala’s Amritanandamayi Maa, in Mangalore. But Mysore and Mandya? They are far cries for a Karma Yogi like Baba who declared he was none other than Shirdi Sai Baba in his former incarnation but Maharashtrians were not amused. He lectured in summer camps in Karnataka at Bangalore and Whitefield.

Well, he had his summer residence in Whitefield near Bangalore when Andhra was too hot to stay.

Puttaparthi: There are 3 buildings constructed by Sri Satya Sai bab, one in Maharashtra (Satyam), one in Andhra (Shivam-Hyderabad) and one in Tamil Nadu (Sunadaram) but none in Mysore.
