Puttaparthi (Andhra Pradesh) - February 9th, 2007

I am planning to stay here only two nights, to be able to see Sai Baba and experience that for myself. Many times a year this city attrack more than 50,000 people because of Sai Baba. He is supposed to be the main gury in India. In November 2000 he celebrated his 75 birthday and over a mollion people showed up.
Today I visited the main temple and saw him being driven inside the stage thru ramps and then being assisted into his wheelchair. He is a very small and fragile looking man at 82 years old, still wearing a big afro hair and orange tunic. He just went inside the small meditation temple and half hour later they drove him away.
It was actually hard to see him with thousands of people sitting on the floor of the huge main temple. I was hoping to hear a speech, but I realized that most people just want to see him and feel his presence.