By: Shreyas Devaraj
Nittoor Srinivasa Rao (1903 -2004)
A Gandhian who lived for 101 years was Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka and went on to become the Governor. He never missed his visits to Sai Temple almost twice a week and he used public transport to travel. He claimed to be as simple as Sai Baba.
D. V. Gundappa
Popularly known as DVG, known for his Gandhian ideals founded the Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs. His formal education did not go beyond middle school but he was the author of several books. His magnum opus in Kannada “Mankuthimmana Kagga” is known as the common man’s Gita and bagged the Jnanapeeth Award and several other awards. This great Mahatma was given an honorarium of Rs. 180 per month but he did not encash any of these things. Even the award money of one Lakh in 1967, he handed it over to a public trust.
Sri Sainathuni Sarath Babuji
Right from his college days, he was drawn to Sai Baba and renunciated to become a Sai Pracharak and built an ashram close to Sai Samadhi Mandir at Shirdi. He has written several books on Sai Baba and also founded several temples. The greatness of these temples is that no cost is involved for worship and offerings from devotees. He passed away in Frankfurt in 2010
V Seetharamaiah
An outstandingly popular teacher in Economics and Kannada at the University
of Mysore, he was a great scholar and author of several books. His simplicity and adoration to Sai Baba are remarkable
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