Z Čech do Indie za Satja Aaí Bábou – Puchnarová Dana (2009)

The painter and graphic artist writes about her thrilling journey to the world's largest spiritual center, fulfilling her long-held life dream. Together with a small group of five friends from the Czech Republic, she set off to India to meet the most famous living spiritual teacher, Sathya Sai Baba, an avatar – an embodiment of Divinity – and experiences surprise after surprise from the very beginning. Based on her notes, she reconstructs all the circumstances and events she experienced with her friends during their stay in 1996 at the ashrams of Prashanti Nilayam (Kingdom of Heavenly Peace) and Brindavan, introducing readers to the remarkable facilities of the ashrams, which include architecturally impressive huge meditation halls, schools, universities, a museum of world religions, a planetarium, an international hospital with an airport, shrines, temples, meditation parks, its own publishing house and bookstore, and more. All of this has grown in a wasteland suffering from a lack of water, like a miracle, one of the many thousands of incredible wonders created by Sathya Sai Baba. The author writes about what she saw with her own eyes and what she found in the writings of Sai Baba. She describes the most interesting excerpts, delving into the rich literature about him and testimonies of actions – miracles – that are incomprehensible to the West, which this saint has performed since childhood. The book…