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Sai Baba Ashram: the Devine Disneyland of South India

Published October 08, 2010
Drew Tapley, Managing Editor & Writer

The Sai Baba Ashram in India is as close to a spiritual Disneyland experience as you can get, minus the guy in the Goofy outfit posing for photos. In fact, the Sai Baba ashram in Puttaparthi defies even Walt Disney’s active imagination with its bright pink, blue, and yellow painted buildings, ice cream stalls and hordes of robed “devotees” from every corner of the globe. It`s like being inside a birthday cake on top of a fully decorated Christmas tree. In terms of ashrams, this one is the world`s gold standard. The town of Puttaparthi, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, is what a university is to a university town. In other words, the town is the ashram. It was once a small, remote ...

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