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Sathya Sai Baba and Deception: Does Truth Catch Up In The End?
2011-02-05 01:04:00 Slowly but steadily - although both greatly aided AND greatly impeded by the internet - the awful facts about Sathya Sai Baba have been able to spread far and wide. Aided, of course, because no other communication method in history has had such impact on transmission. But impeded because, although the internet can spread the facts, it is also a 'wild west' in which consummate liars as well as those determined to speak the truth can reach the world. See my last post: Sathya Sai Baba?s Mastery of ?The Big Lie? The internet is both main street and back alley. Here, the blackguard can shoot down and murder or cripple those with a lifetime of integrity and service to their communities. It can make lies to seem truth, and truth to seem lies. Until he died in January 2005, Glen Meloy was my great friend and collaborator in exposing Sathya Sai Baba and his cult. By the time he left the Sai fold, Glen had been a deeply committed devotee of Sathya Sai Baba. He was a tireless worker and v... More About: Truth , Scams , Catch , Deception
Early Sathya Sai Baba Proselytizers
2011-02-02 20:14:00 The following article provides background and context relating to the growth of interest in Sathya Sai Baba from within the USA – circa 1965-1970. Brian Steel lists key American followers of this period who had already embarked in actively publicizing him in the USA. In Sathya Sai Baba, Elsie and Walter Cowan, and John Hislop. A Discredited 1971 ... More About: Early , Resurrection
Sathya Sai Baba?s Mastery of ?The Big Lie?
2011-02-01 04:00:00 Among the plethora of Puttaparthi untruths, there is the constant repetition, mantra-like and mind-numbing, from Sai Baba and many of his followers about the supposedly vast millions who follow him. He, like many other misleaders of the world, long ago mastered the strategy of what is often referred to as 'the big' lie. A scholar studying Sathya Sai Baba may consider some comparisons by looking at the US Office of Strategic Services war-time profile report on Adolph Hitler, (^ Hitler as His Associates Know Him ,OSS report, p.51, cited in Wikipedia: The Big Lie) which stated:
Manmohan Singh?s ?God? Fails History Test
2011-01-29 10:44:00 Is there even one decently educated history student in the West and much beyond, let alone scholar, who could subscribe to the following twaddle by the self-proclaimed omniscient, highest 'avatar' ever to have appeared on earth? The man, deemed to be God incarnate, at whose feet so many Indian Prime Ministers and Presidents and others in highest echelons of power in India and some way further have sunk! Indian PM, Manmohan Dresses Up For Sathya Sai Baba Indian PM, Manmohan Dresses Up For Sathya Sai Baba Those who honour India for what is great in her, cannot but hope that the young generation can - without falling at the feet of the 'gods' of materialistic wealth and futile power - see once for all how crippling their superstitious, guru-worshipping and star-gazing elders have been to India. But one case in point is the absurdity that many so-called professional individuals round Sathya Sai Baba blot known facts out from their minds. More About: History , Manmohan Singh , Test
Guru?s Partisans Banned From Editing Of Wiki ?Sathya Sai Baba? Entry
2011-01-24 00:39:00 Like 'democracy' itself, the Wiki pedia online encyclopedia can be a great idea. Against large odds, it has just reached its first decade of existence. Wiki is meant to be a vast knowledge base on almost an infinity of topics. Servers worldwide ensure that it is kept secure and online, and that anyone from anywhere, given that one is equipped with a computer and an internet account, can contribute. That is to say - supposedly - provided they adhere to certain laid-down guidelines and methods. There is also a system of arbitrators - dotted (some would say, far too sparsely dotted) round the world - who can assist contributors who fall into difficulty or dispute. The theory is that errors are wide open to be corrected by the original contributor or other users, if not at once then over time. Prima facie, what can be more 'democratic' than all this? The Wiki catch-cry is: anyone can edit. However, what suppose many cannot edit for nuts?! Alike, many lay and academic contributor... More About: New York Times , Editing , Sai Baba
Sathya Sai Baba and His Sect: Links to Critical Blogsites and Websites
2011-01-21 23:16:00 Sathya Sai Baba And His Sect: Links to Critical Blogsites and Websites . Including the following and many others ..... Sathya Sai Baba In Word and Action An extensive, highly organized site by the former long-time head and co-founder of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway. He was a notable contributer to the official organ, Sanathana Sarathi, whose writing was much valued by the Editor of this publication, his friend V.K. Narasimhan, a courageous and legendary India n journalist. More About: Cults
Indian Army and Police Torture: Wikileaks Revelations
2011-01-20 07:35:00 At Sai Baba's ashram at Puttaparthi in the south Indian State of Andhra Pradesh, one cannot but notice how - up to the top echelons - the ranks of the armed forces and police are to be seen represented in the mass pilgrimage there. For decades it has been so. These same Indian armed forces and police who flock to Sathya Sai Baba number many of those guilty of human rights violations, and the sort of atrocities referred to in the two articles from The Guardian, see below ... Where, then, is his restraining, so-called 'Divine Hand' on his countless devotees who are members of those barbaric forces? And on the governments who deploy them? Indian democracy? Yes, one may think it good idea .... The very forces of democratic law and order in India are far from reformed. His long-ago made undertakings to transform India are, at every level, refuse stacked on the tall pile of his many broken promises and predictions. More About: Police , Army , Revelations , Torture
Dr John Hislop: Sathya Sai Baba Both Fallible and Infallible
2011-01-15 01:16:00 Dr John Hislop, one-time top leader of the Sathya Sai Organization in the USA, and before that head of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi foundation in the USA, said that Sai Baba was fallible, but ... still infallible! To a mind not caught in the need to rationalize and justify the inexplicable, Dr John Hislop's notion of fallibility within infallibility is a case of psychological denial and of mental gymnastics at a far stretch. Like so many devotees, especially those close to Sathya Sai Baba, Hislop knew very well that Sai Baba told lies. Devotees, however, pass these off as, variously, "Baba's funny little ways"; "his sparing of our feelings"; his "Leelas" (meaning his divine sportiveness .... When writing, they use a capital 'L'); "his perfect 'Truth', but our human imperfection" which cannot see that he is teaching us some profound lesson, for example, in learning detachment; and more such Procrustean racking of human reason and commonsense. He exhorts that his devotees: "Love... More About: India , South Asia , Gurus
Police and Army Rapists Rarely Punished, Says Kavita Krishnan (Of AIPWA)
2011-01-11 00:48:00 Kavita Krishna, Secretary, All India Progressive Women?s Association, is one of those social justice reformers in India to whom I have at various times referred. Sathya Sai Baba forever preaches truth. right conduct and non-violence but here is an Indian woman who, among other terribly beleagered social justice advocates in India, risk life and limb. Like many other social reformers in India, she has pointed out: "Rape in police custody is very common in India, and in such cases, inevitably there is a huge cover-up and rarely at all has any police or army official ever been brought to trial in such cases". For many decades, visitors to Puttaparthi have seen Sathya Sai Baba surrounded by police and armed forces personnel all the way up to the top brass. His influence, then, in "cleaning up", to use his phrase, his "own backyard" before transforming the world has some severe limitations. These days, he is surrounded by Israeli-trained security personnel. The social justice a... More About: South Asia , Police , Social Justice , Army
V.P.B. Nair Told BBC Sai Baba Bedroom Killings Were ?Coldblooded Murder?
2011-01-06 11:49:00 In mid 2004, former Andhra Pradesh Home Secretary, V.P.B. Nair spoke to the BBC about the official corruption that attended the police killings in Sathya Sai Baba's bedroom in June 1993. He said he intended to take steps to get the case re-opened. But has he done anything of the sort? It is an odd irony that exposure of these killings at Puttaparthi, and the subsequent profound suppression of investigation, have been effectively left up to two individuals gifted with cussed unstoppableness - the late Basava Premanand in India and Robert Priddy in Norway. More About: Murder , South Asia , Censorship , Astrology
?God? (Sathya Sai Baba) Blunders On! ? On History
2011-01-02 02:04:00 Sathya Sai Baba 's blunders on history and science are big. For some science examples, see the articles cited at the foot of this page. Readers perturbed to see their friends, family or colleagues getting into the Sathya Sai Baba cult may consider - if the victims are not too far blinded - sharing such materials as highlighted in red, below. A great many educated people have learnt enough history to see what absurd nonsense is revealed in such claims of Sathya Sai Baba. Yet here is a man - of imperial wealth and vast sway over the minds of many, including those supposedly educated - who proclaims to the millions that he is all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful. And that he is the 'Avatar' (embodiment of God on earth) who will effectively transform the entire world in his own lifetime. Here is a man - and no god of any sort - at whose feet successive India n Prime Ministers, Presidents and other eminences, across a wide religious and political spectrum, have repeatedly fallen... More About: Religion , History , Hinduism
Sai Baba Breaks Down and Sobs At 85th Birthday Celebration (Video Footage)
2010-12-31 01:16:00 Over the years, we have received various reports of Sathya Sai Baba increasingly losing a composure that has been oft-noted in him for decades. But only recently has this type of behaviour been clear for all to see, and in video footage emanating from his own camp. During his November birthday, Sathya Sai Baba - in the midst of being praised for all the good he has done - broke down and sobbed deeply and for some time. To see this video, More About: Video , Religion , India , Celebration , Birthday
India, Corruption and Sathya Sai Baba and His Chief Servitors
2010-12-27 02:07:00 The person who wrote to me the following apparently comes from Andhra Pradesh, the State in South India where Sathya Sai Baba has his chief ashram in Puttaparthi. They commented on my previous blog: Wikileaks and Indian Troops Atrocities Reports. Sai Baba Fails To ?Clean Up Own Backyard?. In regard to India's endemic corruption, the person speaks of my 'inferring' by some convoluted logic that it parallels the causes for India's many sicknesses. It strikes me that the writer uses the notion "that it (the corruption) parallels" in a systemically misleading way. Surely a more helpful contextualization of the corruption issue to be seen in Sathya Sai Baba and his core servitors is a notion not of 'parallel' but of symptom. This is to say that - apart from the fact that corruption can be found in any social system - many of the Sai Baba-related corruptions are rooted in aspects deep-rooted in the Indian social system. It would, of course, be absurd to say that all the co... More About: South Asia , Chief , Astrology , Corruption
Wikileaks and Indian Troops Atrocities Reports. Sai Baba Fails To ?Clean Up
2010-12-19 00:44:00 This is but one of a number of huge issues erupting in India right at the moment. Every tragic year that passes shows that Sathya Sai Baba has not "cleaned up (his) own backyard", as he long ago promised he would do. India's security and well-being do not rest in the hands of her superstitious and corrupt leadership - many individuals of which gather around Sathya Sai Baba. They are in the hands of those who at every level actively and honestly struggle, with great sacrifice, against the venalities. ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- --------- WikiLeaks: India 'systematically torturing civilians in Kashmir ' US diplomats were given evidence suggesting India was systematically torturing civilians in Kashmir, according to leaked cables. Daily Telegraph. By Nick Allen, Los Angeles 12:17AM GMT 17 Dec 2010 More About: South Asia , Indian , Witchcraft
Is Puttaparthi Glitter the ?Shining India??
2010-12-15 23:31:00 Many are the demonstrably mistaken accusations thrown at those who have stood forth to expose Sathya Sai Baba and his international sect. For example, typically taking our remarks badly out-of-context, it is said that we are: "India bashers". But they do their cause harm; and we learn that many Sai devotees will have nothing to do with them - although we also know that some who are close to Sathya Sai Baba have assisted them in various ways. Indeed, the absurdity and intellectual dishonesty of their attempts to defame will not win them the favour of astute and questioning readers. More About: South Asia , Scandal , Mumbai , Scams
Police, Security and Sathya Sai Baba
2010-12-13 00:43:00 An array of media, scholars, government services, civic institutions, and many others read our writings. I have extracted the following links related to police and security from a Links page with brief commentaries on articles. That page has been assiduously compiled by Robert Priddy, and contains links to many articles he and I, and any other extensive writer such as Brian Steel, have written on an array of topics concerning Sathya Sai Baba and his cult. Note: Please kindly report any errors, updates, or suggest improvements. These overviews are very far from exhaustive ... See contact details under: Barry Pittard, at bottom of right hand sidebar. More About: Security , India , South Asia , Police , Corruption
Sathya Sai Baba Breaks Down and Sobs at 85th Birthday
2010-12-11 00:01:00 Confirming many reports of Sathya Sai Baba breaking down and weeping in more recent times, there is now brilliantly clear, revealing video footage for all to see. Robert Priddy has some instructive historical notes on reports of Sathya Sai Baba crying. He comments: "That Sathya Sai Baba sits and cries so much illustrates the absurd dishonesty of his years of boastful claims to be unmoved by any pain or pleasure! His tears are clearly not those of ecstatic joy as entire demeanour reeks of depression and decline. In the birthday evening video (excerpt 8 mins) one can see how he is more like a wooden idol than a living Divinity. How come that this supposed self-proclaimed infallible and ever youthful Avatar is in such a state? There will as usual surely be no answers from his staff or followers? all they can do is try to pretend that it is some kind of miracle of showing his humanity (well, it is not showing divinity)!" See: Sathya Sai Baba crying (video). Posted by robertpriddy o... More About: Birthday
Sathya Sai Baba Abuse Survivors: When ?Moving On? Can Be Staying Stuck
2010-12-05 23:01:00 Some former devotees of Sathya Sai Baba Sai Baba, though not most, get upset that many survivors of his sexual and other forms of abuse do not public. They make make the same kind of mistaken assumptions that Sai Baba's defenders make who ask e.g., where is all the proof? Both these reactions are ill-informed, inappropriate and insensitive. People who are badly traumatized - very typically - feel acute difficulty in being able to talk about their traumatic experience. One human reaction to trauma lack of awareness of the extent of what upheaval has occurred. Psychological denial, and wanting to 'move on' are common. See: On Leaving the Sathya Sai Baba Cult (Part 1.)- Ex Leaders and Rank-and-File and On Leaving A Powerful Global Cult. Sathya Sai Baba Example (Part 2) On Leaving A Powerful Global Cult. Sathya Sai Baba Example (Part 3) It is known that a great many survivors endure years in silence and shame at what has happened to them. The case of those who have suffered... More About: Abuse , Moving , Cults , Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
U.S. Psychologist Shirley Pike?s Moving Challenge To Sathya Sai Baba and Hi
2010-11-29 22:09:00 The Sathya Sai Organization faces yet more resignations, and also departure of those who leave without formally resigning. International coordinators such as Robert Priddy and myself (see sidebar at bottom right hand side of this page) are always happy to provide, from a wide database, contact details of those who have left and are willing to be contacted, and who reside in an area as close as possible to that of any enquirer. We have professional protocols to ensure that those who contact us are genuine. For individuals and families who have faced sore difficulties, we can also refer to very qualified, experienced professional counselers. People from many professions, trades and cultures have left Sathya Sai Baba , and down the years, have continued to show the same attitudes of service in their communities as they did when followers of Sathya Sai Baba. One of these is the child psychologist Shirley Pike (Ex-President, North Central Region: Ex-President Cedar Rapids Center, Iowa ... More About: Conscience , Moving , Psychology , Cults
Avatar of Deception: Sathya Sai Baba. 85, But Says He Will Rule World
2010-11-26 21:48:00 As the international Sathya Sai Organization knows to its immense cost (both financially and morally), many have left, having been able to analyse for themselves the many and terrible distortions of fact generated by Sathya Sai Baba and his core servitors. Many shockingly suffering individuals and families around the world have needed to perform no analysis at all, since they have been prime victims of Sathya Sai Baba's and his officials' grave misconduct. For those still in the throes of leaving the Sai cult, it is a time of profound emotional, intellectual and social upheaval. These afflictions cannot be expected to go away quickly. Those of us who have stuck at the job of exposure commonly find that leave-takers of the organization take a year or two, and sometimes much longer, to collect their thoughts in a consecutive way. Those who make a quick matter of transition to replacement life styles often say that they have 'moved on'. There is a whole psychological literature t... More About: World , Propaganda , Cults , Avatar
Sathya Sai 85th Birthday. Has Said He Will Soon Rule World, And Not Age
2010-11-24 22:13:00 THIS AILING MAN, SATHYA SAI BABA, HAS RECENTLY SAID THAT HE WILL SOON TRAVEL TO OTHER COUNTRIES. HE HAS ALSO SAID THAT SOON HE WILL BE RULING BE RULING THE WORLD Sathya Sai Baba has said: ?In the days ahead, the whole world will be obliged to come to Prashanthi Nilayam? (p. 320 Sanathana Sarathi ... More About: India , South Asia , World , Birthday , Manmohan Singh
Sick and Ailing Sathya Sai Baba 85. His Promises to Look Young Have Failed
2010-11-23 21:22:00 That age has its physical and mental ravages is not the point here. Who is not privy to these? .... To which Shakespeare's Hamlet refers in his famous soliloquy - ... "The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to." The only point here is that Sathya Sai Baba has made demonstrably unreal and false statements in regard to prophecies about his own physical state. At his 60th birthday, Sathya Sai Baba foretold that he would not physically age. But now look! And compare the various older photos with those only of the last days. The newspaper Eenadu is the largest circulated Telugu newspaper in Andhra Pradesh (the State where Sathya Sai Baba lives), and claims a daily readership of over 10 million. (See my article: Sathya Sai Baba?s Slurred Speech Due To Old Age. ?Eenadu? News Report). Eenadu reported: More About: Young , Promises
Sathya Sai Baba 85th Birthday No Celebration For Those He Has So Badly Hurt
2010-11-22 22:07:00 Amid a great deal of ostentiatious and wasteful pomp in a country wracked by poverty, squalor and corruption, Sathya Sai Baba celebrates his 85th birthday. See: Sathya Sai Baba 85th Birthday : state of India Posted by robertpriddy on November 21, 2010 Puttaparthi Sai Baba Celebrates 85th Birthday Posted by Barry Pittard on November 22, 2010 It is to be hoped that concerned families, friends and colleagues of Sathya Sai Baba devotees will make use of the list below - although the numbers of those who have left have grown greatly simce someone took the trouble to compile this one. The list can be shown to devotees whose Sai cult leaders have taken measures to depict as a "handful of disgruntled individuals" those former followers who have left Sathya Sai Baba for acute moral and spiritual reasons. The undying truth is that there are former followers from many countries, professions, trades and backgrounds who have made considerable sacrifices to bring the facts about Sathya Sai B... More About: Hurt , Celebration
Puttaparthi Sai Baba Celebrates 85th Birthday
2010-11-21 21:31:00 On 23 November, 2010, devotees from around the world celebrate Sathya Sai Baba 's birthday. Their consciences need to be challenged. They can be asked: How can they lend themselves to such wasteful displays of pomp and ceremony? How can those of them who have so cruelly rejected their once dearly beloved fellow devotees' whom they knew over decades to be good and decent human beings, proclaim that they are, as Sai worshipers, devotees of Truth, Love and Right Action? How can those India n government and other dignitaries, whom we know to have been apprised in detail of the many worldwide allegations against Sai Baba, look at themselves and their families with any honesty? For those prepared to look at a number of alternative views of how Sathya Sai Baba continues to bring India, in an aura of shame, to the notice of the world, the following is but the briefest selection of resources. More About: Wealth , Poverty , Birthday
Sathya Sai Baba?s Gross Exaggerations of Puttaparthi Crowd Numbers
2010-11-20 23:25:00 Robert Priddy (he for much longer) and I can fairly claim a friendship with the late V.K. Narasimhan, who had been, before he retired to Puttaparthi , the legendary and courageous editor of a number of India's top newspapers, such as 'The Hindu' and 'The Indian Express' and 'The Deccan Herald'. We would regularly sit together in his humble quarters at Puttaparthi, and he also received me as a guest in the family home in Chennai. Not long before VKN died, he instructed the hospital staff to allow me, even though considerable restrictions had been placed on visitation rights, to visit him at the Sathya Sai Superspeciality Hospital at Puttaparthi. I had been editing his book on the great French Jesuit philosopher and palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I had seen a Priddy note in which he took to task a Sai Baba apologist who typified those many followers who reveal deep and repeated flaws of reasoning that are simply not acceptable in any proper discussion. He wrote to ... More About: Numbers , Robert Priddy , Golden Age
Many Contradictions In Sathya Sai Baba Official Literature
2010-11-18 23:05:00 In countries right round the world, when people began leaving Sathya Sai Baba , one of the most typical and prompt responses was to get rid of all the paraphenalia that belonged to devotion to this guru. This meant: the books, the official newsletter, Sanathana Sarathi, the photos, rings, pendants and so on, which would otherwise bring back memories that would prove far more painful than joyful. Fortunately, since the books and publications such as Sanathana Sarathi, individuals of scholarly mind, such as Robert Priddy , Brian Steel and Alexandra Nagel, realised the importance of preserving documentation. Robert Priddy was a contributor to Sanathana Sarathi, and much respected by its editor, the reknown (retired) Indian newspaper editor, V.K. Narasimhan. Here are his articles, which state positions very different to what he has thought in the last decade. Priddy was co-founder and longtime head of the Sathya Sai Organization of Norway. For those who like to delve into archives, ... More About: Literature , Faith , Nelson Mandela
Disquiet In India On Sathya Sai Baba
2010-11-10 22:26:00 Despite profound a profound black ban by most of the India n media news inimical to Sathya Sai Baba and his cult, various forces of dissent in India continue to protest Sathya Sai Baba related visits involving high profile politicians. The two reports below are months apart. Note in the second report, our 'old' acquaintance, Shrivraj Patil, the former Indian Home Minister, one of a number of deeply disgraced former government officials who are devotees of Sathya Sai Baba, rates a mention. See my articles: More About: Maharashtra , Puttaparthi , Indian Politics
Obama India Visit: Will He Have More Serious Concerns Than Sathya Sai Baba?
2010-11-07 01:07:00 U.S. President Barach Obama and his wife Michele have just arrived in India for a 3-day visit. Key Sathya Sai Organization figures have long sought to influence leaders in the high echelons of power. See my article, which shows how a meeting between former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was narrowly averted: Barach Obama?s Visit To India: Will Sathya Sai Baba ?s Organization Try To Capitalize? Posted by Barry Pittard on November 1, 2010. The now sick and ailing Sathya Sai Baba has long promised that the world leaders will come to him, and that he will establish Ram Raj - that is rule the world as King of Kings, Lord of Lords. An earlier article quotes from an email by Anita Sharma, pictured below handing a photo of Sathya Sai Baba to Barach Obama. Srimati Sharma, along with her husband, was part of a host committe in Pittburgh for Obama in 2008. See: Does Obama Carry Sathya Sai Baba Photo In Wallet? Posted by Barry Pittard on March 29, 2009. Anita Sharma hands Sathya Sai ...
Barach Obama?s Visit To India: Will Sathya Sai Baba?s Organization Try To C
2010-11-01 04:27:00 To Attention: Anita Doll, Public Affairs Officer, US Embassy, Canberra, Australia. Dear Ms Doll,I write as an international coordinator of former followers of India 's most famous religious leader, Sathya Sai Baba . The wish expressed here is that President Barach Obama 's visit to India is not in any way used by the extremely powerful Sathya Sai Baba elements or sympathizers who occupy virtually every major power echelon in India. The way in which, with the assistance of senior diplomats, such usage was averted in the case of the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair visit to India is recorded here: Tony Blair Was to Visit Sai Baba. Plan Thwarted. We made successful representations to the UK government, which led - with almost last-minute advice from the British High Commission in Delhi to the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair - to the cancellation of a Blair visit to Sathya Sai Baba. Blair was within minutes of proceeding to Sathya Sai Baba's establishment at Whitefie... More About: Organization
On Deception: Phillip Adams Observes A James Randi Demonstration
More articles from this author:2010-10-31 00:00:00 In this weekend's 'The Australian' (30-31 October 2010), renowned broadcaster and journalist Phillip Adams relates an amusing episode during the visit to Australia from the famous U.S. magician and exposer of psychic scams, James Randi. In regard to anyone with a mind bent on deception - be it magician, politician, psychic, etc., - Phillip Adams ends his piece by commenting: "When they want you to look at A, look at B. He says that Randi took an unlit cigarette and put it on a desk, saying that: More About: Skepticism , Scams , Skeptics , Psychics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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