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Sathya Sai Trust?s R.J.Ratnakar ? Long Police Interrogation. Intensive Inve
2011-06-26 01:18:00 Latest reports in the India n media reveal that the Anantapur district police have questioned a leading Sathya Sai Central Trust member, Sathya Sai Baba's nephew R.J. Ratnakar for over five hours. He has refused media interviews. Police have scheduled for Monday 27 June an interview with another prominent Sathya Sai Central Trust member, V. Srinivasan. As matters stand, there is glaring contradiction between statements of Srinivasan, who has admitted Trust involvement in extraordinary movements of cash, and of R.J. Ratnakar, who says that the money is actually from 12 donors, and can be explained. Information is abroad that R.J. Ratnakar has been attempting to involve a number of Sai Baba students in attempts to cover up certain of the financial irregularities, but that the boys and their families have refused to have anything to do with any improper dealings. See Hindu Times article, below. ----------------------------------------- ----------- For those with information, I can ... More About: Wealth , Scams
Andhra Pradesh Intelligence Watch On Sathya Sai Central Trust. AP Gvt Closi
2011-06-24 11:44:00 Well wisher from India emails us: "It looks like the Andra Pradesh govt is putting the squeeze on the Sathya Sai trust. It appears that the Govt has a definite strategy in mind over a period, and hence the politicians and govt officials have been cold shouldering the SB trust officials (besides giving a silent go ahead for slapping criminal cases against them). The government has already withdrawn 16 exemptions to the SB trust, regarding auditing, some taxes, publishing accounts, being supervised by a govt official etc, among others. Even assets like land as well as intellectual properties can no longer be sold by the trust without govt permission. At a high level meeting , Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy (who is not a devotee), brushed aside his cabinet's apprehensions that SB devotees may be offended by any Govt takeover of the trust. It is strongly indicated that the Govt is moving towards this decision, and the young AP Chief minister (a former state cricketer... More About: South Asia , Watch , Intelligence , Corruption
Could Sathya Sai Treasury Scandals Lead to India?s Watergate?
2011-06-23 05:11:00 I have listened to many country's national anthems. But, I must say, for purely musical reasons, the India n national anthem has long been my favourite. The melody unfailingly tugs at my heartstrings. Even so, when I listen to it these days, there is an extra freight-load of poignancy to it. I think back to the Indian homes, from rich to poor - n0, VERY poor - where I lived for lengths of time with Indian families - forever the honorary 'uncle'. Joys and sorrows well up when I hear the Indian national anthem, although I know some families equally dear to me wish that the words were, or were not, in the Hindi language. At the same time, whatever may seem to be the contraindicators, there can be few, if any, countries in which those of different persuasions can get along together. Too often, it is the hotheads whom we come to hear about. We don't always hear, for example, of how many Hindus risked their lives to save Sikhs who were set upon in pogroms, after two Sikh bodyguards ... More About: Scandals , Corruption , Puttaparthi
Picture Forms of Shaken Sathya Sai Baba Devotees Quitting En Masse
2011-06-22 10:56:00 Our Indian well-wisher has just reported: “News is constantly trickling in from Puttaparthi that Sai Baba devotees have been shaken by the huge haul of wealth in Yajur Mandir, as well as big cash seizures in the following days. Many SB devotees I know, real hardcore devotees that is, are not even attempting to defend ... More About: Picture , Karnataka , Andhra Pradesh
Even Bigger Stash, Secret Vaults, False Ceilings and Walls at Sai Baba?s As
2011-06-22 09:16:00 Our regular well-wisher from India has just emailed: "The Andhra Pradesh police have definite intelligence of the existence of secret vaults, and concealed storage in false ceilings and behind false walls in Yajur mandir, Sai Baba 's personal living quarters. They strongly believe that the wealth hidden there could be much more than what was actually found, perhaps on a staggering scale. More About: Secret , Puttaparthi , Top secret
Beth Rude. Ballad of a Child Protectrice. By Barry Pittard
2011-06-22 08:46:00 Beth Rude. (Ballad of A Child Protectrice). By Barry Pittard. I wonder if you ever knew That sweet old lady they call Beth Rude With her steady gaze and a cutting phrase Did she ever gaze at you? Was she ever rude to you? But she’s never rude to kiddies, who Come racing up to ... More About: Children , Rights , Child Abuse , Sexual Abuse
Sai Baba Treasure Scandals: His Big Political Protectors Now Run For Cover
2011-06-22 02:33:00 For some weeks, it has been evident to any careful observer, that the Andhra Pradesh government has been only too aware of troubles in the Sathya Sai camp that might grow too big to suppress. Indeed, it is a campfire that none can stamp out, and looks like becoming a raging forest fire. The critters are on-the-run. Most notably, there were a series of suspicious circumstances leading up to Sathya Sai Baba's death.These are being investigated, including by a human rights commission. Hopefully, all the attention given to the treasury scandals will not allow this aspect to drop from sight, as happened with the suppression of police evidence concerning the police killings in Sai Baba's bedroom in June 1993. What is more, prominent followers of Sathya Sai Baba are themselves deeply disturbed at the intense infighting within the Sai Central Trust, despite its repeated - and dishonest - denials. These devotees, too, are asking leading and uncomfortable questions, and consulting legal o... More About: Cricket , India , Political , Scandals , Corruption
Sathya Sai Trust In Vast Treasure Scandals: Secret Temple, Van, and Bus Sta
2011-06-20 14:04:00 If due diligence occurs, Andhra Pradesh police investigations will need to pursue, at a simple count, at least four lots of alleged Sai Trust illicit treasury violations. Up to the time of Sathya Sai Baba's death, there were previous reports of at least one truckload of treasure making its way out of Puttaparthi. But, then, the Sai Central Trust denied this allegation. I referred to this earlier, all too easily-forgotten report in my post of yesterday: Reports of Sathya Sai Central Trust Van Laden With Treasure Seized By Andhra State Police. A prominent spokesman for Trustees and the Council of Management, Venu Srinivasan stated: ?In the light of baseless, irresponsible and false accusations of defalcation of gold, valuable artefacts and even money, it is emphatically stated that the accusations are wholly untrue and it is believed these have been engineered by certain vested interests?. (Economic Times article: ?Baba had no successor in mind: Trustees, election for Sai T... More About: India , Scandals , Temple , Secret
Has Sathya Sai Baba?s Will Been Found? Which Will will Prevail? Divine Will
2011-06-19 10:36:00 In a communication just received, a private source of information relates: "Bhagwati is pro Satyajit and hence threatened to quit the trust, but was pacified. Day before yesterday in a trust meeting, several trust members walked out in a huff. Some trust members are being spied upon by Ratnakar's agents. My sources tell me that Trust legal advisor Naganand has actually admitted a will was found". I feel that we have reasonably, and at quite some length, exposed ex-Chief Justice P.N. Bhagwati ........ More About: India , South Asia , Sai Baba , Puttaparthi , Andhra Pradesh
After Decades of Dormancy, Some Indian Media Now Question Sathya Sai Baba
2011-06-19 03:09:00 Given that Robert Priddy's and my dear friend the late V.K. Narasimhan was once its Editor, I find a touch of irony in seeing that the Express Group is one of those beginning, if timorously, to venture a critical opinion on Sathya Sai Baba . With the honorable exception of India Today, our group has had to bust a gut and go blue in the face, in one futile attempt after another, to get leading Indian media to investigate Sathya Sai Baba and his cult. As I have recounted several times elsewhere, the Editor of one of the top Indian newspapers told me privately: Sai Baba and his people are too powerful to take on. In Indian press history, there are few Indian editors as respected V.K.N., who was a man of fine courage, decency and intellect. We both edited at Puttaparthi, and both of us had tasks, now and then, of weeding out utterance of Sathya Sai Baba that struck us as likely to cause confusion among the faithful. See my: The Quiet Weeding Out Of Sathya Sai Baba?s Embarrassing Sta... More About: Media , Question
Reports of Sathya Sai Central Trust Van Laden With Treasure Seized By Andhr
2011-06-19 01:04:00 FLASH This story seems only broken as yet via the India Today television news channel. Overnight (Australian Eastern Standard Time), a usually reliable source of ours with Andhra Pradesh-related police sources reported that Andhra Pradesh State Police have intercepted a Sathya Sai Central Trust van heavily laden with treasure, and arrested three. It seems that the driver has confessed to being an employee of the Trust. Key words noted in the India Today news segment include: "Puttaparthi cash haul"??. " huge cash seized from Sai Baba trust van"???. "Sathya Sai Trust van intercepted and huge cash haul in bags" ??" Van and occupants arrested in Kodikonda checkpost in Ananthapur" ....... "driver confesses being Sathya Sai trust van driver coming from Puttaparthi"??.. "cash seized being held on the spot" ...?currency counting machines being rushed to the spot" More About: South Asia , Wealth , Gurus
Sathya Sai Baba Buried Treasure: Media and Government Need To Probe Sai Cen
2011-06-18 10:01:00 The India n correspondent whom I mentioned in my blogs of the last two days has, in addition, raised a number of questions that may fairly be asked of the Sathya Sai Central Trust. - see: ?Secret Swami? (Late) Sai Baba: Vast Millions In Hoard Found Hidden In His Palace-Temple and: ?Secret Swami? (Late) Sai Baba: Vast ... More About: South Asia , Media , Government , Wealth
?Secret Swami? (Late) Sai Baba: Vast Millions In Hoard Found Hidden In His
2011-06-18 01:27:00 Yesterday, I blogged on an email we received from an India n correspondent long known to us, and included a number of links to the last 24 hours or so of Indian press reportage of the huge stash of money and valuables secreted in Sathya Sai Baba 's palatial private quarters. See: Sathya Sai Baba?s Residence Unlocked. Vast Treasury Uncovered. In the last two days, the Indian media has just tapped a treasury of potent news to shake up and down in its headlines. Of course, making up for lost time in factual reportage on Sathya Sai Baba is out of the question; for it has an extremely poor record of almost all sections in publishing critically on Sathya Sai Baba. But now - not least at a time when many Sai Baba devotees are starting to speak out and ask accountability and transparency questions - the Indian media can hardly fail to report properly on matters such as the huge treasure hoard just opened up, many unanswered questions about the circumstances of Sai Baba's illness and death... More About: Wealth , Secret , Gurus
?Rock Spiders? and Sexual Abuse of the Young
2011-06-17 13:07:00 Little Fly. By Barry Pittard She was 9, and she knew nothing 'Little fly,' 'Little fly' he called her As she writhed in his spider toils As kind Uncle with his charm enthralled her More About: Abuse , Poetry , Rock , Young , Molestation
Sathya Sai Baba?s Residence Unlocked. Vast Treasury Uncovered
2011-06-17 12:33:00 NEWS FLASH Note: I shall analyse India n media reports just to hand, and write further, tomorrow. Barry Pittard From India, one of our correspondents writes: “Sai Baba ’s official residence ‘Yajur mandiram’, built at a cost of around Rs 35-40 crores ( $9-10 millions) in 2006, was opened yesterday by the SSB trust members after having ... More About: Wealth , Gurus , Cults
Sathya Sai Baba Foretold He Would ?Die? Circa 2022. Further Archival Eviden
2011-06-14 02:16:00 Here is further evidence for the best known of the late Sathya Sai Baba 's predictions for the year of his death - circa 2022. See my blog: Official Sai Baba Documents Show His Death Date Prophecies Failed. Posted by Barry Pittard on June 12, 2011. Robert Priddy, former head of the Sathya Sai Organization, Noway, cites the writing of the Norwegian journalis, who reported a largely-attended public speech given in Sai Baba's presence. The speaker was Dr A. Murthi, a prominent Sai Baba devotee, and a member of the organizing committee for the Sathya Sai World Conference in 1998: The Future of Humanity. Thorbjørn Færøvik interviewed Dr Murthi: ......... More About: India , Prophecy , Puttaparthi , Andhra Pradesh
Official Sai Baba Documents Show His Death Date Prophecies Failed
2011-06-12 07:42:00 As inaccurate in blind faith mathematics as they are careless with so many other types of fact, a number of Sathya Sai Baba devotees have seriously tripped over themselves about his various death date prophecis. Many of them did not realise that he had made several conflicting prophecies. Exhaustive efforts of former devotee researchers such as Robert Priddy and Brian Steel and others have uncovered many instances of palpable absurdities which it is now too late for the Sai editorial weeders to conceal. These editorial puppets of Sai propaganda started all too late with their, so to speak, Weeders Digest - in which glaringly they have culled many embarrassing Sai Baba statements. Especially, the Australian scholar Brian Steel was all too fast off the mark for any of them. Thankfully, not all former devotees destroyed their large stack of back numbers of Sanathana Sarathi and other publications of the Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust, Puttapathi. More About: India , Show , Propaganda , Death
The Extreme Departure From Sathya Sai Baba?s Teachings By His Prominent Dev
2011-06-08 07:00:00 Over recent years, those leading the attack against former Sai Baba devotees and other critics have been noted for their vituperation, libel, harassment (including causing deep distress to family and children of prominent spokespersons), and more. These individuals are known to be connected with Sathya Sai Baba's leaders. See for example: Gerald Moreno. Ironically, their words constantly counter the teachings of Sathya Sai Baba, and this has severely cost them respect and cooperation from many Sai devotees who strive to live by his teachings. One of their cries is that critics such as Robert Priddy and myself are "India bashers". But there are many Indians who make the same and other criticisms of the moral foulness that infects a great deal of Indian life. For an immediate example, note the case of the Indian anti-corruption crusader, Swami Ram Dev, who has had, and continues to get, enormous coverage in the Indian media. He inveighs against corruption in a way profoundly abs... More About: Extreme
Baba Ram Dev?s Challenge to Indian Government and Corporate Corruption
2011-06-08 04:56:00 The Swami Ramdev challenge to high level government and corporate corruption in India is but one indicator of the type of institutional violence with which Manmohan Singh is ready to react (see Reuters report below) when confronted not by a handful of determined foreigners from various countries but by a popular swami from within India itself. Baba Ram Dev, like Mahatma Gandhi and other Indian leaders, resorts to the fast-unto-death means of getting his message across. An interesting comment appears at Live Mint.com and The Wall Street Journal: More About: Government , Corporate , Corruption
Sathya Sai Baba Claimed He Will Resurrect After 40 Days
2011-06-04 11:56:00 Amid the dust and decay of his many unfulfilled prophecies, Sathya Sai Baba died 25 April 2011. Yet he foretold that the most of the world would come kneel at his feet. And of course, he will remain dead. And, except for small parts of it, the world has never - despite all the propagandistic speeches given from the Puttaparthi stage saying that the whole world is becoming aware of his glory - been aware of him. It is only too likely, moreover, to adhere to its own multiplicity of belief systems, some of which profoundly disallow any such evangel as that of Sathya Sai Baba. Contrary to the beliefs rife among his devotees, both (supposedly) educated and the non-educated, he will resurrect. Some sections of the Indian press - hitherto loathe to publish inimically on Sathya Sai Baba - now report various claims, each report serving to show how deeply compromised in their blind belief his devotees are, including the current President, Prime Minister, and many central, state and local g... More About: Prophecy , Days , Resurrection
Sathya Sai Baba?s Death Falsifies Vivekananda ?Reincarnation? Story (Part 3
2011-05-31 11:58:00 Concluding the three-part series. This follows: Sathya Sai Baba ?s Death Falsifies Vivekananda ?Reincarnation? Story (Part 2) To refresh on our theme. Here are quotations for two of the most respected of all devotee writers on Sathya Sai Baba . Professor N. Kasturi, Sathya Sai Baba's official biographer, wrote: ?Vivekananda has come again; he is growing up in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). He will come to Me and join in My task.? Sathyam, Shivam, Sundaram, by Professor P.N. Kasturi. Part II, p. 130. 1960-61. And Howard Murphet, the Australian journalist and theosophist, who also interviewed various witnesses, including a young Sri Lankan Nalin Sedera, stated that in an interview in the late 60?s, Sai Baba told him and his wife, Iris: ?Vivekananda has been reborn in Sri Lanka. When his education and training are complete, he will help me with my mission. ? ?Sai Inner Views and Insight?, Chapter 10: The Rebirth of Vivekananda by Howard Murphet, Faber, VA, Leela Press, 1996, pp. 6...
Sathya Sai Baba?s Death Falsifies Vivekananda ?Reincarnation? Story (Part 2
2011-05-26 03:51:00 Continuing the three-part series. This follows: Sathya Sai Baba ?s Death Falsifies His Vivekananda ?Reincarnation? Claim (Part 1) It was early 1998. An idea struck me. I was then editing books by Sathya Sai Baba devotees and 'Spiritual Impressions', an internationally distributed magazine on Sai Baba published by Sai Towers in Puttaparthi. Since I had to go to Sri Lanka on another matter, why not see whether it was possible to meet the young man, Nalin Sedera? Were reports correct? Had Sai Baba's really said that Sedera was the great Hindu monk Vivekananda reborn, and that he would run Puttaparthi after Sai Baba had died? Or was this just one of countless stories that, from the moment of inception, race brushfire-like through the Sai community? Indeed, often distorted by the phenomenon often known as the 'chinese whispers' effect - the often unwitting embellishment of an account as it goes on being retold. Were there important witnesses? Well, yes, I thought. There was Kast... More About: Story
An Introspective Exercise For Fearless Sathya Sai Baba Devotees
2011-05-22 00:38:00 Sathya Sai Baba core leaders such as Dr Michael Goldstein, Dr G.L. Venkataraman and and others are deeply implicated in the massive cover up of a profoundly dark side of Sathya Sai Baba and the inner machinations of his religious empire. Those who have left, or are still having a crisis about whether to leave ... More About: India , Exercise , Propaganda , Fearless
Sathya Sai Baba?s Death Falsifies His Vivekananda ?Reincarnation? Claim (Pa
2011-05-17 03:14:00 Reportedly, Sathya Sai Baba told a young Sri Lankan man that he was the reincarnation of the great Hindu monk, Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902). The latter had traveled, briefly, to the West and made a large impression on both scholars and liberal laity alike. Given that the accounts of the writers Kasturi and Murphet are accepted ... More About: Death
The Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust and its Golden Casket
2011-05-10 14:13:00 I posted the following piece 14 February 2007. I shall remove that post - originally entitled: 'Sai Baba Exchequer Worth Billions Many Countries Donate' - and repost now. Since the news coverage from March 29, when Sathya Sai Baba was admitted to hospital and had an immediate pacemaker implant, there has been much discussion in India at large about the status of the Sathya Sai Central Trust .
Ex-Chief Justice of India: Sathya Sai Baba ?dictated my every single judgem
2011-05-04 00:39:00 In The Times of India article - ?Sai Baba , my god, dictated my every single judgment? - TNN | May 1, 2011, 03.22am IST - the former Chief Justice of India, P.N. Bhagwati, makes this extraordinary claim. He says: "As a professional, each time I would sit down to write a judgment at 5 ?o?clock in the morning, I was only writing what my god dictated. Bhagwan held my hand as I put pen to paper" One wonders how the pens of judges the world over ever manage to remain upright .... One may like to pause, then - perhaps with the aid of a soothing Indian tea - just to take in the unexpectness of all this. A Strange Notion: A Judge's Own Guru Is Above The Law One may also wonder what the case if any other judges in India of this or that guru other than Sai Baba (and there are plenty of gurus to more than go around in that land) were to do the same thing. And whether they, like Bhagwati, would also - subscribe to the notion that, since their guru is god dictating to them, that they, ... More About: Cults
On Sathya Sai Baba: Times of India, Ex-Chief Justice Interview. What Judge
2011-05-01 14:14:00 The sort of questions I'd like to be asking ex-Chief Justice of India , P.N. Bhagwati (I'll follow the present spelling), I have put in blue highlight. In his interview just conducted by the Times of India (on which he has long been a director, by the way), Bhagwati, about to head the late Sathya Sai Baba's Central Trust, makes a number of comments which cannot but alienate him from present and former Commonwealth judges, and, indeed, judges, lawyers and citizens far beyond. He says, for example, that for long, in writing his judgements, he has been receiving guidance from Sathya Sai Baba. The account he gives sounds very like automatic writing. If it was not, he needs to have been clear about what he means. Judge s are meant to be clear, are they not? He also shows some disconcerting lapses (???) of memory. He clearly say that because Sathya Sai Baba is God, there is no need for investigation of any allegations. More About: Lawyers
Indian Ex-Chief Justice: ?Wild, Reckless Claims? about Sathya Sai Baba
2011-04-29 02:12:00 Further Reading THE SATHYA SAI ORGANISATION?S DECEPTION AND PROPAGANDA EXPOSED (Part One) ? By Robert Priddy and Barry Pittard. And Part Two Three Four. Call for media and government investigation of Sathya Sai Baba General Excerpt From Public Petition (and introduction) Public Petition For Official Investigations of Sathya Sai Baba and His Worldwide Organization Subscribe in NewsGator OnlineSubscribe in BloglinesAdd to Excite MIXAdd Call for media and government investigation of Sathya Sai Baba to Newsburst from CNET News.comAdd to netvibesAdd to The Free DictionaryAdd to netomat HubAdd to Webwag Subscribe in a readerSubscribe to Call for media and government investigation of Sathya Sai Baba More About: India , Justice , Indian , Chief , Wild
BBC Exposed Sai Baba Top Aide?s And Indian Foreign Minister?s Ploy With UNE
2011-04-28 00:35:00 Below - in red highlight - are subheadings in the article: The Case of UNESCO?s Missing Media Advisory. Posted by Barry Pittard on March 15, 2007. This piece is about a watershed event, the involvement of UNESCO, in the history of former devotee exposure of the Sathya Sai Organization operation at the highest government levels. With the personal assistance of the then Indian foreign minister, Dr G. Venkataraman, Deputy world chairman of the international Sathya Sai Organization, and Sathya Sai Baba 's director of international radio made a concerted attempt to undo the successful representation to UNESCO of former devotees around the world. For a further glimpse at Venkataraman, see: Sathya Sai Baba's 'Minister of Propaganda' - Dr G. Venkataraman. The BBC assistant producer of 'The Secret Swami', David Saville, was able to expose the Puttaparthi-Indian Foreign Minister-UNESCO Director and Assistant Director nexus to undermine the democratic rights of former Sai Baba devot... More About: South Australia
Brian Steel Exposes Sathya Sai Baba On Glaring Historical Mistakes
More articles from this author:2011-04-27 07:19:00 Select writings from Brian Steel?s Extensive Opus. Sathya Sai Baba can be documented by any conscientious reader as having made contradictory statements and egregious historical and scientific blunders. These include his remarks on Jesus Christ and Martin Luther . For Steel?s detailed and sharply contextualized discussion, see: Sai Baba and Christianity . Some Observations (2002). Steel remarks here ... More About: India , Historical , Puttaparthi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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