saibabaexpose.wordpress.com remarks :- “A major problem in trying to understand Sathya Sai Baba’s life relates to relying heavily on ‘official’ material, such as the authorised ‘Sathyam Sivam Sundaram’ hagiogaphy by N. Kasturi, whose authenticity and reliability have come under serious scrutiny. A common misconception relating to the young Sai Baba (as Sathyanarayana Raju) is the assumption of his continuance of education in nearby Bukkapatnam, all because it happens to be the neighbouring town. Meticulous research by way of analysing all of Raju’s available school records show his education movements as follows:-
Puttaparthi – Kamalapuram – Bukkapatnam – Uravakonda
The reason given to account for such upheaval relates to how Raju’s parents entrusted the responsibility of his education to their eldest son, Seshama, who was a teacher by occupation and was himself frequently transferred around the district to teach. Consequently Raju followed his brother and lived in the same house along with him, his sister-in-law and her relatives. And so Raju was transferred from the Government-aided Elementary School in Puttaparthi to the Board Middle School in Kamalapuram. Thanks to Seshama’s disruptive transfers, he was transferred from there to the Samithi Elementary School at Bukkapatnam.
• Text on left of certificate reads:-
• Name of the school which the pupil is leaving: B.M. School Kamalapuram
• Name of the pupil: Ratnakaram Satyanarayana
• Date of birth as entered in the admission register: 4.10.1929 (Fourth October Nineteen Twenty Nine)
• Class or form in which the pupil was [unintelligible] at the time of leaving (in words): First Form
• Date of admission or promotion to that class or form: 11.6.40
• Date when the pupil actually left the school: 22.4.41
• Date on which application for transfer certificate was made on behalf of the pupil by the parent or guardian: 20.6.41
• Date of transfer certificate: 20.6.41″
