Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday paid glowing tributes to departed spiritual guru Sri Satya Sai Baba, describing him as a personification of the high spiritual values of the human race.

The trustees of the Sri Satya Sai Central Trust that owns properties worth thousands of crores and runs projects and welfare schemes, vowed to continue the Baba’s legacy despite the enormity of the task ahead due to the absence of Baba’s personal guidance.

The mortal remains of Sri Satya Sai Baba will be laid to rest with full state honours at Sai Kulvant Hall in Prasanti Nilayam on Wednesday.
Baba’s last rites will performed between 9 am and 9.30 am as per Hindu rites and caste rituals. He will be buried in the same place where he used to address his devotees and give darshan for so many years. After the burial, a samadhi will be constructed for devotees to pay obeisance.

Sri Satya Sai Baba, whose message of universal love and brotherhood attracted millions of followers across the globe, was on Wednesday interred at the very spot from where he used to meet and address his disciples for years.

The Andhra Pradesh government has reportedly decided to observe the functioning of the Satya Sai Central Trust in the post-Baba era without any intervention, at least for now.

In his death as in his life, Satya Sai Baba united king and commoner as politicians, industrialists, cricketers and celebrities queued up along with thousands of mourners at Puttaparthi on Monday to p

A stream of VIPs, including cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar, Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, and over a lakh of devotees paid their last respects to the Baba at Prashanti Nilayam on Tuesday.

The issue of who will take over Sri Satya Sai Baba’s `60,000-crore trust will be taken up after the Baba’s last rites are completed on Wednesday.
Sources said that the current trustees will meet after the funeral and that they will go by the “aspirations of Baba”.

With devotees continuing to surge into the town to offer their homage to the late Sathya Sai Baba, authorities on Tuesday extended the final darshan timing till midnight.

The late Sathya Sai Baba's trusted aide Satyajit has been given police protection following intelligence inputs that he may be facing a threat to his life.

Satyajit, a native of Tamil Nadu, had b