Devotee Stories Archive

Power creates, sustains, or destroys. If it is exercised on the side of good, it is divine power; on the side of evil, demonic power. The earth oscillates like a spinning top, this side

The truest test of a Godman, according to the scholar‑statesman Dr. K. M. Munshi, is the capacity to instill faith in human beings. By this yardstick alone, there is hardly anyone to compare with

I am an executive in an American business organization, and I have a doctoral degree from a major university. So I am the kind of materialistic, over-educated person who would be considered most likely to

I first heard about Baba on an aircraft on my way back from England via Pakistan. An Englishman sitting next to me on the plane noticed that I was a vegetarian and a teetotaler. He

I am an American married to a Tamil man from Kodaikanal. In my first years with Swami, I spent a lot of time in Puttaparthi, but later Kodaikanal became the venue for most of the

Rosa Lina Munoz was born in Bogota, Colombia (South America) in a very spiritual and loving family. She first set eyes on Sai Baba in February of 1996 and it changed her life. With

Having taken birth in a Hindu family in Fiji, I was brought up worshiping many Gods and Goddesses. Thinking back, I recall that in the late 1960s someone had given my parents a picture

Many of us have celebrated numerous birthdays, and while we have blown out more and more candles on bigger cakes, our resolutions and wishes have `gone with the wind!’ Year after year we have

With the kind of encouragement and guidance Swami gave me, I started feeling the rhythms of a full-fledged photographer. Swami was gracious to see me established as His photographer. He kindly posed until I

In the 1970’s and 80’s Faith served as Prasanthi Nilayam seva dal, President of the Manhattan Center, SSEHV/Bal Vikas teacher, and co-chairman of the national bhajan committee, appointed by Dr. John Hislop. Presently she is

Karathalamalaka, in Sanskrit, means something that is clear beyond the slightest shadow of doubt, like a berry in your palm that all can see and none can deny. When Sri Sathya Sai Baba, at

I was walking down the street and coming to the street corner when a Ford van moving at high speed almost flew around the corner and came to a screeching halt. A man jumped out