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  1. Vault B at Kerala temple not to be opened today

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    / July 8, 2011 / 1 Comment
    The much awaited opening of Vault B at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram will not take place today. The Supreme court has postponed the discussion on the issue to July 14.      Artefacts and jewellery worth over 1 lakh crore has been found from the other vaults and...

  2. Divinity at service of humanity

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    / July 5, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By V R Krishna Iyer   Vivekananda illumined that every religion is the manifestation of divinity in man. Sai Baba in sublime simplicity observed that there is God in every man. God sleeps in the mineral, wakes in the vegetable, walks in the animal and thinks in Man. Therefore, God makes the...

  3. India’s richest God in God’s own country

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    / July 4, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Rahul Easwar   India is a land of ‘Gods’. Here Lord Ram fights the case for his janmabhoomi, another Lord Ayyappa welcomes 3.5 crore devotees but says no to young women, the Goddess Attukal devi is in Guiness book of World Record.    Now everyone across the world is...

  4. God can’t claim exemptions

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    / July 3, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir “The country talks about the Ambanis and the Tatas but I can tell you the net worth of what Sathya Sai Baba built is more than six lakh crore rupees. There are properties and establishments in 124 countries.”   When an ardent self-confessed devotee of Sathya Sai Baba...

  5. Does God need black money?

    Posted by E.Prasad Rao
    / July 2, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By E Prasad Rao   With the recent finding of cash and valuables at Puttaparthi, it is being suggested by many that the trust be run on the lines of TTD at Tirumala. While I do not want to comment on the way the funds received through ‘Hundi’ at TTD...

  6. Lord Jagannath, the Juggernaut

    Posted by Sujata Singh
    / July 1, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Sujata Singh  A Franciscan missionary, named Friar Odoric visited India in the 14th Century and wrote about his visit to Puri in a journal, which he published in Europe later. In his journal, Odoric wrote in detail about the huge chariot of Jagannath and how the devotees threw themselves...

  7. A `youthful’ Lord Jagannath

    Posted by Sujata Singh
    / June 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    The festival of the first appearance of the Lord Jagannath before his devotees is called `Netrotsaba or `Nava Yaubana (new youth). On the sixteenth day, the images in their new form after renovation become ready for public view.   People congregate for Nabajoubana Darshan or to set eyes on the...

  8. Ten roots that cure the Lord

    Posted by Sujata Singh
    / June 27, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Sujata Singh   During ‘Anabasara’, the Daitas offer to the Deities only fruits and water mixed with cheese, and Dasamula medicines to cure his fever. The devotees accept that after bathing with water drawn from 108 pitchers, the Lord needs to take rest. Like human beings they are considered...

  9. “No trust in Sai Baba’s Trust”

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    / June 24, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir “Your Sai Baba followed me to Croatia !” A senior colleague who had been coordinating special reports on Sai Baba for NDTV before she left on a trip to Croatia called to say she was in a small shop in a town called Split there, when all...

  10. Questions at Puttaparthi

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    / June 21, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Andhra Watch   He was known as one of the richest Godmen the country had ever seen, perhaps far richer than Mahesh Yogi and Osho Rajneesh. Yet when the Sathya Saibaba’s personal chamber in Puttaparthi, Yajur Mandir threw up a treasure trove of 98 kilograms of gold, 307 kg...

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