Prasanthi Nilayam is the residence of
Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, it is a sect, which has started in a small village,
Puttaparthi in India, but which went through a massive growth, and thus by many years got
in such an enormous size, that it can provide in a very prosperous economy for all
adjacent villages.
From all parts of the world, large
numbers of devotees come to this center for help, advice and blessings from Baba, for
spiritual or worldly matters, but more and more ex-devotees are
disappointed and return, when they find out that their 'Avatar' appears to be a magician
and a homosexual pedophile.
The way to Prasanthi
Nilayam
Prasanthi Nilayam is situated in Andhra
Pradesh, about 180 miles from Bangalore. Visitors can reach Prasanthi Nilayam by bus
(costs are 50 rps or one and a half dollar per person), or by cab (costs are about 700 rps
or 20 dollar per cab).
You can take the bus from Bangalore City Bus Stand -
Majestic (about 13 miles from Bangalore Airport), information about travelling by cab is
to be obtained at the Bangalore Airport Information Counters.
Prasanthi Nilayam has an airport too; you
can fly twice a week to Bombay and Madras.
Visitors can travel by train as well, from
Bangalore (or whatever important town in India) to Dharmavaram and take the bus to
Puttaparthi.
The complete address of Prasanthi Nilayam is:
The following guide of (mis)conduct shows
how a typical sect creates its own characteristics.
Guide of conduct in
Prasanthi Nilayam
1. Concentrate on activities within the
Ashram, and spend your time on Sadhana (spiritual occupations, like meditation, Japa, or
repeatedly pronouncing the name of God).
2. Do not make friendship with strangers,
but keep your contacts factual.
3. Please don't listen to rumors or advice
from outside, just go to the Public Relations Office for your inquiry.
4. Please be quiet, en keep children under
surveillance.
5. Don't leave the Ashram. All necessary
facilities are inside the Ashram, like canteens, bakery, supermarkets, post offices and
phones.
6. Be dressed in a clean, humble and sober
way. Wear suitable clothing, ladies with Western clothing, should have a shawl around
their shoulders, and wear long skirts.
7. Men and women do have separated seatings.
8. Form rows where this is necessary.
9. Remain on your seat during Arati and
after Darshan, until Baba leaves.
10. Take care of your personal properties,
like money, camera's and tape recorders.
11. Deliver every article you've found to
the Lost Property Office.
12. Cash and other valuable matters can be
safely stored in a safe-deposit in the Public Relations Office
13. Make use of the canteens, where food is
hygienically prepared. There is a Western canteen, an Indian canteen and a North Indian
canteen. Canteens are open for everybody who visits the Ashram.
14. Be careful that gifts of strangers, for
whatever purpose, cash or by any other means, given to individuals or to organizations
(except for specially authorized institutes, like the Sri Sathya Sai Trust in Prasanthi
Nilayam) and foreign deals (excluded are by banks authorized dealers) are not legally
granted. If you want to make a donation to the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, you'll have
to go the State Bank of India for special forms.
15. It is not permitted to every person or
organization, to collect money for whatever object.
16. Have respect for, and be aware of limits
of correct behavior in the environment where you live. It is your responsibility, when
your behavior, although may be innocent, causes bad reflections to others.
17. Be sure that your passport and visa
remain valid during the time you're in the Ashram.
18. All visitors should have enough cash in
order to fulfil their own needs during their visit in India. People who live at the cost
of other person are unwanted in Prasanthi Nilayam. Everybody is warned for persons who ask
money from visitors, claiming that they have had Baba blessings for it.
19. Rooms in Prasanthi Nilayam are allotted
to availability, as soon they are vacant, they will be raffled.
20. When your room is vacant, please report
the date to the Public Relations Office, to be sure that all taps and switches are closed
and that the room is empty. When you have closed your room, you have to deliver the key to
the Accommodation Office - only when you're sure that there has nobody left in the room.
21. Don't give anyone permission to enter
the room allotted to you, through the adjacent veranda, without special permission of the
Accommodation Office.
22. Don't bring cameras, binoculars, radios,
tape-recorders, metal objects, chairs, umbrellas, big handbags, nontransparent bags,
flowers or toffees to the environment where Darshan is held, and the Darshanhall itself.
23. Don't go outside after 21.00 PM, when
the light is switched off; it is forbidden to leave the Ashram after this hour.
24. Don't follow Sai Baba's car when he is
travelling, unless you have a special invitation for doing so.
25. Behave yourself in the presence of Baba,
and be an example for the persons that are around you. Don't walk or rush to Baba when he
is walking through the Ashram.
26. Leave your shoes outside, when you enter
the environment of Darshan, the Darshanhall and other important locations.
27. Pay attention to the fact that food,
water and energy are not to be wasted. Co-operate in maintaining orderliness, discipline
and the holiness of the Ashram
Activities in Prasanthi
Nilayam
The normal daily schedule in Prasanthi
Nilayam is:
· 4-50 a.m. Meditation, Omkar,
Suprabhatam en Nagarsankirtan
· 7-30 a.m. Darshan and
interviews
· 9-00 a.m. Singing Bhajans
· 4-30 p.m. Darshan and
lectures
· 5-30 p.m. Bhajans
· 9-00 p.m. Lights off!
All times change per season.
Darshan
Every morning Baba is coming out of the
veranda to perform Darshan; during Darshan he collects letters from devotees, listens to
personal stories, gives blessings and creates Vibuthi or other objects and gives them to
devotees for recovery from illness or for insight in spiritual matters.
During Darshan Baba selects the most
handsome boys fore an Interview; he is very fond of Western kids, especially young
blondes, men older than 35 year are definitely left out.
Interview
During personal interviews Baba advises on
personal and other matters, and gives blessings.
During these 'Interviews' Baba fingers and masturbates the boy - pretending this is done for spiritual intention - and under the same pretences they are often forced to have oral sexual contact with him.
Readings
At present Baba daily gives readings daily
in Prasanthi Nilayam. Most subjects are important matters like Character and Truth, which are exactly matters he
has already been tricking for more than 50 years.
Facilities in Prasanthi
Nilayam
Small unfurnished rooms with bath, toilet,
electricity and water, are allotted to devotees who have announced the Accommodation
Office. If there are no rooms available at the moment, devotees have to stay in the Large
Common Halls.
The Premises has a canteen for meals and
snacks. Foreign devotees that are not accustomed to Indian food, have a special canteen
(not to be seen on the map), where Western meals are served.
There is a store, you can't see it on the
map, where devotees can do their daily shopping’s.
Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications is a
bookstore where all Sai literature, available in all languages, can be obtained.
A hospital is available for during 24 hours
a day for urgent treatment; it is situated in the south of the Prasanthi complex.
Festivities in Prasanthi
Nilayam
· SSSIHL Sport Day on January
11
· Makar Sankranti in January
· Mahashivaratri in February
· Ramanavami in March/April
· Yugadi in April/May
· Guru Purnima in July
· Onam in August/September
· Ganesh Chaturthi in
August/September
· Janamasthami in September
· Dasara in October
· Deepavali October/November
· Baba's Birthday on November
23
· Christmas on December 25
Prasanthi Nilayam - The
Maps
Because of practical reasons the whole is
divided in four maps, they are situated in correct order and should be fixed to each
other.
Click on the images to enlarge them; the
spots on the maps are clickable too.
Puttaparthi
Prasanthi Nilayam Complex
Puttaparthi & Vidhyagiri
Vidhyagiri