Sathya Sai Baba’s 1963 illness and alleged miraculous recovery

Record summary

In 1963 Sathya Sai Baba reportedly suffered a severe illness involving paralysis or stroke-like symptoms and later recovered publicly. Devotional accounts frame the episode as a voluntary assumption of devotees’ karma, a test, or a manifestation of divine power; skeptics and medical readers may interpret it as an ordinary illness followed by recovery. It is relevant to comparison because charismatic traditions often transform sickness into a theological narrative. The medical diagnosis, chronology, and precise statements attributed to Sai Baba should be established from contemporaneous reports rather than later movement literature.