# Sai Baba is dead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sai-baba-is-dead/579544>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 24, 2011, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sai-baba-is-dead/579544 "2011-04-24T09:31:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sai-baba-is-dead/579544/21 "2011-04-30T14:04:23Z")

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Unfortnately, I fear that his followers will continue believing in this fake.

Ashtayk, Anaamika is not entirely unknowledgeable about Indian culture. And neither am I. And I bet the two of us could round up a good number of Hindus who find the idea of cowdung ashes to be gross.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sai-baba-is-dead/579544/22 "2011-04-30T14:07:49Z")

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Never knew he was alive. I have never heard of him.

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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sai-baba-is-dead/579544/23 "2011-04-30T15:12:32Z")

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Sai-onara

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**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sai-baba-is-dead/579544/24 "2011-04-30T15:15:49Z")

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Is this the Baba who had an ashram a couple of hours away from Rajneesh’s ashram in Pune? Or a different one? I think I might be getting a couple of books mixed up in my head. There was a Baba who had a sort of ‘chosen daughter’ picked out among the children of his followers, and she left when she grew up, and I read her book.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sai-baba-is-dead/579544/25 "2011-04-30T15:27:26Z")

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Sai Baba’s HQ is in Andhra. And from what I understand, it’s not daughters he chooses.

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**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sai-baba-is-dead/579544/26 "2011-04-30T16:44:00Z")

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OK, different guy then. I had to reach back in memory and figure it out–I was mixing up _Cartwheels in a Sari_, about Sri Chimnoy, and _All the Fishes come Home to Roost_, about Meher Baba, neither of which is this Baba. It took me a while to sort it out. Sorry for the hijack.

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