Original sentence: At the age of eight, Satynanarayana Raju attended the higher elementary school in Bukkapatnam.The biography says that on March 8, 1940, Satynanarayana Raju started behaving "as if a scorpion had stung in his foot".Upon completion, he began high school in Uravakonda, some 120 km away
Edited sentence: " From the age of eight, Satynanarayana Raju attended the higher elementary school in Bukkapatnam." With the insistence of his aunt, Sathyam reluctantly accepted the pin."After advancing to the fourth standard, it became necessary to go to the school in Bukkapatnam since the school in Puttaparthi did not offer studies beyond the third.A municipal chairman also witnessed the phenomenon and presented Sathyam with "a collar pin made of gold.After returning to Kamalapuram, Sathyam was to begin school again.At the time he was to enter 6th standard, his elder brother, Seshama, took Sathyam to live with him and his wife in Kamalapuram.In a May 2000 discourse, Sathya Sai Baba describes what happened then, "He (Sathyam) left the house and went about ten feet when the collar pin fell (and) could not be found... The collar pin symbolised worldly attachment, and when it was lost, it was also symbolic of the end of the ‘Raju phase’ and attachments implied by it.Narayana Kasturi's biography says that on March 8, 1940, Satynanarayana Raju started behaving "as if a scorpion had stung in his foot".On a trip to Hampi with his brother and sister in law, while Sathyam was supposed to be looking after the couples luggage he was simultaneously seen by many in the Siva temple.Sathyam attended the local school in Puttaparthi until third standard.Two years passed.Upon the heartfelt request of his grandfather Kondama Raju, Sathyam lived with him for a time, helping with household duties and chores (cooking, cleaning etc)... An avid composer of poems, songs and plays, Sathyam also engaged in acting and dancing in school and community events.. In class, he said the morning prayers, and it was around this time Sathyam taught the local children how to read and write