We have assembled all our resources, plus nearly 20 years of visiting Sathya Sai Baba at Prashanthi Nilayam, and compiled our resources into a book to guide new visitors to the Prashanthi Nilayam Ashram.

Our book is called Guide to Visiting Sai Baba

Guide to Visiting Sai Baba

This is an E-book, and has sections on

• Air travel to India, Airline Meals, keeping healthy
• New Bangalore Airport, immigration, customs and travel to Prashanthi Nilayam
• Ashram and Puttaparthi Township Accommodation
• Ashram Facilities
• Daily Activities
• What to wear
• Food, Canteens and keeping healthy
• Things to see and do
• Banks and other faciliities in Puttaparthi Township
• What to do with begging
• Sathya Sai Baba’s Love and Grace
• Going home
• Plus three Appendices, Taxi Operators, How to wear a Sari, and Accommodation in Puttaparthi Township

Our purpose in writing this book is to provide a comprehensive guide to the first-time visitor, (or going first time alone) to the main ashram of Sathya Sai Baba, Prashanthi Nilayam, the Abode of Highest Peace.

We hope that the information in this book (illustrated) will help those to begin to experience that peace on their journey, during their stay at Prashanthi Nilayam, and when they return home. The last section of this E-book has a short guide on what to do when you get home.

As with all books we have edited and written, we offer this to Sathya Sai Baba, and hope it is of benefit to all its readers.

The book is in Adobe PDF format, so requires Adobe Reader, any version from Adobe 5 and upwards. If you do not have Adobe Reader, then you may download this for free from the Adobe Website, www.adobe.com

The price is $US9.95

If you would like to purchase this book, then here is how:

Preparations and rehearsals are in train for the Sports and Cultural Meet on Sunday. It would seem Swami is visiting daily, so I took the option of waiting for Car Darshan this morning.

Main Road is cleared as the Police prepare for Swami to come in the car

Swami’s car emerges from the Gopuram Gate

The driver appears to be pointing something out

The Police escorts lead the way

Swami in the front seat, looking forward

Crowd follows Swami along Main Road

The Lord Sai Returns!

Police lead the way down Main Road, Puttaparthi

Seva Dals accompanying the Lord, doing their seva

Procession returns to Prashanti Nilayam…

For a full size photo of Bhagavan Baba in the front seat of the car, click here (opens in new window).

I keep on getting this feeling of change, here in Prashanti Nilayam.

Gone are the days of getting up at 5am and taking lines, and waiting to enter the darshan hall. The men’s lines go in at 7AM to a vast, empty darshan hall; some people throw their cushions down and go to breakfast in the Canteen and come back around 8.45; others just take a seat at the front and close their eyes. (more…)

It has been three and a half years since I was here last; many people tell me that. Puttaparthi changed in subtle ways. I look at devotees and villagers I have known for so many years and see how much people have aged. Makes me think about how much I have aged and the slow dimunition of hair on the top of my head, and how much of that is grey. I wonder, but. About change on the inside. After all, that is what it is all about. Transformation towards embodiment of that inherent divinity. 

The ashram, you ask? 

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It was a peaceful journey, probably the most quiet and relaxing journey sans mindful issues all the way to Bangalore. Bangalore Airport is HUGE, cool and super efficient. It is light, airy, with lots of open space and your first introduction to India is in the queue to get out of the airport. Noisy.

I felt the real impact of the new airport was noticeable in that there was a continuous smooth exit from the airport onto National Highway 7, the road to Prashanthi Nilayam. Many snake bends and twists on and off the roadway and diverts due construction (its on in serious - the highway is going to be duplicated the entire length to Hyderabad) … about the only thing I recognised was that dip in the road before the turn off to Puttaparthi.  (more…)