Sathya Sai Baba/Bibliography

By Sathya Sai Baba
Note: the books often do not mention year of publication.


 * Bhagavatha Vahini - The story of God and his Devotees
 * Ramakatha Rasavahini. Part 1 - The Rama story, Stream of Sacred Sweetness
 * Ramakatha Rasavahini. Part 2 - The Rama story, Stream of Sacred Sweetness
 * Gîtâ Vahini: The Divine Gospel
 * Dhyana Vahini: Practice of Meditation
 * Dharma Vahini: The Path of Virtue
 * Jnana Vahini: The Stream of Eternal Wisdom
 * Leela Kaivalya Vahini: The Cosmic Play of God
 * Prashanthi Vahini: The Bliss of Supreme Peace
 * Prasnotthara Vahini: Answers to Spiritual Questions
 * Prema Vahini: The Stream of Divine Love
 * Sandeha Nivarini: Clearance of Spiritual Doubts
 * Sathya Sai Vahini: Spiritual Message of Sathya Sai
 * Sutra Vahini: Analytical Aphorisms on Supreme Reality
 * Upanishad Vahini: Essence of Vedic Knowledge
 * Vidya Vahini: Flow of Spiritual Education
 * Bhagavatha Vahini


 * Online Resource: Sathya Sai Speaks Series

Devotional literature

 * Antonov, Vladimir PhD "Sathya Sai — the Christ of Our Days", 'Zolotoy Vek', Saint Petersburg, 1997
 * Balu, V. and Shakuntala Balu Divine Glory -2nd Edition, Sri Satguru Publications(Delhi), ISBN 81-7030-640-X
 * Baskin, Diana "Divine Memories of Sathya Sai Baba" (1990) ISBN 1-878599-00-3
 * Priddy, Robert "Source of the Dream" Weiser Books (1998) ISBN 1-57863-028-2 (wrote a critical book as former follower)
 * Goldthwait, John "Purifying the Heart" (2002) ISBN 81-7208-339-4
 * Guillemin, Madeleine "Who Is In The Driving Seat?" (2000) ISBN 0-9583617-0-3
 * Hislop, John "My Baba And I" ISBN 81-7208-050-6 Available online (zip file, 787 kb)
 * Krystal, Phyllis "The Ultimate Experience" ISBN 81-7208-038-7
 * Mazzoleni Don Mario "A Catholic Priest Encounters Sai Baba" (1994) ISBN 0-9629835-1-9
 * Murphet, Howard "Man of Miracles" (1971) ISBN 0-333-91770-7
 * Padmanaban, Ranganathan "Love Is My Form" Sai Towers (2000) ISBN 81-86822-76-3
 * Sandweiss, Samuel H "Spirit And The Mind" (1985) ISBN 81-7208-056-5
 * Sandweiss, Samuel H. "The Holy Man ... And The Psychiatrist" (1975) ISBN 0-9600958-1-0
 * Thomas, Joy "Life is a Game – Play it" ISBN 81-7208-175-8

With much biographical material

 * Kasturi, Narayana "Sathyam Sivam Sundaram" Volume I (first published in 1961) Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust, ISBN 81-7208-127-8, II, III, IV (official biography but is in fact a hagiography)
 * Schulman, Arnold "Baba" (1971) Out of print. ISBN 0-670-14343-X.
 * Steel, Brian The Powers of Sathya Sai Baba (1999) ISBN 81-7646-080-X
 * Steel, Brian The Satya Sai Baba Compendium: A Guide to the First Seventy Years (Paperback) Weiser Books (February, 1997) ISBN 0-87728-884-4

Scholarly and scientific

 * Babb, Lawrence A. Sathya Sai Baba’s Saintly Play, in Saints and Virtues, J.S. Hawley (ed.), Berkeley, California University of California Press 1987, pages 168-186.
 * Shepherd, Kevin R.D. "Investigating the Sai Baba Movement: A Clarification of Misrepresented Saints and Opportunism" (2005) ISBN 0-9525089-3-1

Research of miracles

 * Beyerstein, Dale "Sai Baba's miracles: an overview", Published by Basava Premanand, Podanur, India, (1994)
 * Haraldsson, Erlendur PhD "Miracles are my visiting cards - An investigative inquiry on Sathya Sai Baba, an Indian mystic with the gift of foresight believed to perform modern miracles" (first published in 1987, 1997 revised and updated edition) ISBN 81-86822-32-1
 * Sharma, Arvind New Religious Movements in India in New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change edited by James A. Beckford ISBN 0-8039-8591-6, pages 228-231, 233

Critical literature by former followers

 * Brooke, Tal "Lord of the Air", first published in 1976 with a revised edition was released in 1990. Revised and renamed "Avatar of the Night" (1999) ISBN 1-930045-00-X
 * Brooke, Tal "Riders of the Cosmic Circuit" (1986) ISBN 0-7459-1217-6
 * Premanand, Basava "The Murders in Sai Baba's bedroom" (2001)
 * Priddy, Robert "The End of the Dream", published and edited by Basava Premanand, Podanur, India, (2004) (wrote a devotional book while still a former follower)

Journalistic

 * Brown, Mick "The Spiritual Tourist" Bloomsbury Publishing (1998) ISBN 1-58234-034-X