Will the Chairman of Trust Board be the Spiritual Preceptor?
SUMMARY We are fortunate in a way. Sathya Sai Baba did not have wife and children (known to the world). We need not see the internecine battles which have become ubiquitous in industrial families such as Ambanis, Bajajs, Birlas, Goenkas, etc. ELECTION OR NOMINATION TV channels and print media are engaged in speculating on who will succeed Sathya Sai Baba. Who will succeed? The relatives of Sathya Sai Baba, the one who is already in the Trust Committee , or even those who are outside it, may make an attempt. The non-Baba-relative Trust members may try to occupy the Chairman Post. At least two Congress MPs(one a liquor manufacturer/contractor and the other a cotton industrialist) seem to be interested in Government taking over the Trust and appointing a Government nominee as Trust Chairman. These two Congress MPs have their eyes on the Trust Board Chairman post of the T.T.D.(Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam - the second richest temple in the World, after Vatican). They do no...