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over India and the world, but he also provides a high-quality, supportive ashram for their accommodation when they visit him. Millions come to the grounds. He accepts all with open arms, taking their pain while giving love and strength in return. We can stay at the ashram and eat well for a few pennies a day.
There are disciplined and inspiring daily activities at the ashram, including twice-daily devotional singing and darshan of beloved Baba. Thousands of service workers from all over India take turns volunteering their labor, assuring ashram cleanliness and the proper disciplining and functioning of all events. At any one time, almost 1,000 such people are working at the ashram. They are needed to serve devotees numbering anywhere from thousands at a quiet time to hundreds of thousands during special holidays and festivals.
Super Specialty Hospitals
Comfortable (though not luxurious) accommodations as well as free medical and dental care are available at the ashram. A world-class Super Specialty Hospital was built miraculously in less than a year. It is already recognized as one of India’s premier cardiac surgery hospitals. Since its establishment in 1991, advanced heart surgery has been performed on thousands of the land’s poorest. An even larger 330-bed Super Specialty
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthi Nilayam