PUTTAPARTI, India (PA) - of the thousands of people populated the Indian seat in the South of Sathya Sai Baba Monday, a day after the death of the Hindu religious leader who was revered by millions of people across the world.
His body was placed in a coffin of glass in a large room in his ashram or retirement spiritual Sunday, after his death at the nearby Sri Sathya Sai Institute of higher Medical Sciences where he spent almost a month on the respiration of support and dialysis.
The announcement of the death of 84 years has an effusion of grief of his followers, including Indian Government officials, who remembers him as a pious person who worked selflessly to help others with billions of dollars has been donated to his Foundation.
Monday, hundreds of volunteers - men dressed in white trousers and shirts and blue scarves and the women in saris and yellow scarves - guided the lament in a line ordered around the coffin which was decorated with flowers of calendula.
A portrait guru in his robes of mark life-size orange that stood on the coffin.
Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar, a long-time enthusiast, visited the ashram with his wife.
Police, widely deployed since Sai Baba was hospitalized on 28 March, controlled traffic and the crowds.
Hundreds of thousands are expected to last tributes to Puttaparti, where his body will be on display through Tuesday and a burial with top honors in the State is planned for Wednesday morning.
Sai Baba had a huge following with ashrams in over 126 countries and devotees in India, including placed top politicians, movie stars, world-class athletes and industrials.
It has been said to perform miracles, articles of magic jewelry, Rolex watches and "vibhuti" - a sacred ash followers applied to their front - of her wild curly hair halo.
But the Rationalist critics led campaigns against him, as a charlatan and his false miracles. Several new reports alleged that he has abused sexually devout - he has denied that the campaigns of denigration of the charges.
Born November 23, 1926, as Sathyanarayana Raju, said that a child to display a tendency to spirituality and unusual intelligence, which he expressed through music, dance and poetry writing and theatre.
In 1940, he says "avatar", or the reincarnation of another man of the Holy Hindu, called Sai Baba of Shirdi, a town in the West of the State of Maharashtra, who died in 1918.
In recent years health woes had forced Sai Baba to reduce public appearances. He survived a stroke and a series of heart attacks in 1963. In 2005, he began to use a wheelchair, and a year later he fractured hip when a student fell from a stool on him.
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