Whether Satya Sai baba is 'real god' or not? The question are debated with emotional answers from the followers saddened by demise of their great soul. The present reactions amongst the followers also shows the respect the person generated by his activities. The rationalists may be right in pointing the magician like quality and acts of baba, on the pretext of creating long lasting impression.
From last 50 years of service or public life, he has reached the poor in his own way, as it would have been difficult for government to reach people. What made him to worshiped is the services he provided to people, generally poor in health and education. Mostly free, high quality and accessible to regions he served. His act of collection funds from donors (different than what we citizen give as 'tax') and making absolute utilization of the receipts makes him 'greater' service provider and allows people to respect his goals. We citizens or people of India, need proper care including food to poor, cloths, health, education and brotherhood. The baba provided all under his ambit, while the government agencies instead of following his development mantra, made themselves a follower of person called Satya Sai baba. We should not wonder, why people see so much of closeness to such great leaders and dedicated service providers who would do all their best to provide to people, when they see governments are not able to reach.
What makes people who follow such spiritual leaders not translating their learning to the acts they perform (honesty, dedication and sense of duty) in daily life? You may worship any god men or god, if you have performed your tasks as diligently as given and trusted on you, you would attain eternal peace. Instead, we might seek help but would shy away from helping those in need. Lakhs of money to the religious trusts are donated by most of so called powerful people and corporates, but these very people shy away from giving tax to the governments, or helping even the local governments. Of course in turn looks like oasis in desert.
Most of the religious institutions survive in feeding the poor and supplying their material needs to garner support and people follow those who help them in their needs whether material or spiritual. The diversity of nation by the cultural systems is good, but as long as we lack basic amenities and have million of hungry Indians the 'religiosity of development' would take place. It is sad people have lost faith in the government, who are supposed to be providers of the basic amenities, rarely civic voulenteers or people are found helping the local bodies like panchayats or municipalities. The religious institutions though helping in the social pain never partner with governments, as it has been done by various corporates. The outcome the faith is above governance, baba is above prime minister and diksha is above shiksha. We as nation love to hate governments, instead put high faith in some one who gives what is desired but never takes by rule of law unless its donation.
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