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Will Court Action Outside India Expose Hired Killers In The Sathya Sai Cult
2012-01-21 01:39:00 There is a matter about which I should shortly be able to write. I understand that arrests have been made, money trails unearthed, dangerous and bloody forces exposed through hard evidence and testimony, and that court actions are about to unfold. I am told that a major media force is now preparing a documentary. It will be interesting to see how the International Sathya Sai Organization reacts. Many death threats are, of course, bluffs. Some come from idle nutters who rant or bunglers who don't get very far. But it is important, nonetheless, to keep whatever tracks may have been left by all who threaten. In regard to some types of information, with the assistance of our relevant professional members, we deal with Interpol or other government agencies. In Australia, I have dealt with the (then) head of Interpol in Australia, Paul Weller, and senior officials in DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). Our USA members have dealt with the FBI and State Department, UK member...
Note From Former Lecturer To An Enquirer About Sathya Sai Education
2011-12-06 12:34:00 Since about 1999, former devotees’ replies to enquirers have been a great many. My closest colleagues and I go out of our way to assist those who enquire with courtesy. It seems very right to ignore those who are offensive. Why – when one has invested so many years in striving to pursue a decent ...
Sai Global Harmony Radio International Broadcaster Uses Anna Hazare?s Name
2011-11-25 04:16:00 I note that the international Sathya Sai satellite broadcaster, Sai Global Harmony, via the WorldSpace Radio Corporation, has just used a Sai cult member’s account of his ‘meeting’ with Anna Hazare, the courageous and greatly respected leader of the mass, pan-Indian campaign against endemic Indian government and corporate corruption. The Sai devotee claimed on-air that ...
Sathya Sai Baba Birthday Celebrations ? Barry Pittard articles: 2007 to 201
2011-11-22 13:34:00 Below, I have excerpted from my articles posted on or close to each Sathya Sai Baba birthday celebration. These go back to 2007, the year in which I began 'Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba. One of the key reasons why Robert Priddy and I continue to expose the Sathya Sai Baba cult is that his worldwide Sathya Sai Organization, though it is in vast public discredit and struggling to remain intact, continues to draw unwitting people into its thrall. Now and then, members of major international media continue to consult us, and find us unflaggingly truthful, carefully analytic and responsible, as do other organizations and persons who stand against cultic dangers to human well-being. Repeatedly, it is the many Sathya Sai Baba devotees who - abjectly forgetful of Sai Baba's constantly harped-upon preachments about love, peace and sweet-spokenness - break the teachings common to many religions and philosophical systems . Their commonsense and decency par...
Puttaparthi Sai Baba Birthday 2011 ? Where Have All The Golden Pomp and Cir
2011-11-20 02:29:00 The late Sathya Sai Baba's birthday celebrations occur on 23 November. As usual, around this time, there is an upsurge of visitors to this blogsite and that of Robert Priddy. However, in comparison to other years, the numbers are much down, very much as Sai Baba himself is forever down in the earth, and his devotees infinitely down in the dumps. After his death in on 24 April 2011, and the terrible fighting over managerial succession at Puttaparthi, and then the discovery - not of spiritual treasure but - untold hoarded treasure in Sai Baba's private quarters, the international Sathya Sai Organization is in vast disarray. See: ?Secret Swami? (Late) Sai Baba: Vast Millions In Hoard Found Hidden In His Palace-Temple and: Sai Baba: hoarding, secrecy, mistrust, powerlessness, deceit Since our work of international exposure via world leading media began in 1999, the cult has suffered regular resignation upheavals, including of foremost leaders. Indeed, many people leave informally....
Ex- Sathya Sai Baba Students Could Aid Sex Abuse Change In India. But Will
2011-08-05 06:45:00 A few years ago, I addressed an 'open letter' to my former Whitefield College Students. On re-reading, I see that its terms can fairly be addressed (give or take the occasion specific reference) to all alumni, past and present. There have been so many revelations of great and pervasive corruption both in Sathya Sai Baba himself and in many of his officials (especially his core servitors) that it may not go amiss to post this communication here. Thousands of Sathya Sai education alumni face a dilemma not only in their immediate communities but wherever they may settle or travel. It is hard to imagine a major education institution in which a founder and certain teachers and Trust officials have been so deeply embroiled in scandal. But when, with searching analyis and deeply thought-through remedial action, what can be so terrible can, with great good will, be transformed into something that is so wonderful. And these alumni, potentially, are faced with a great challenge. Examples ...
Clarity ? The Treasure Sathya Sai Baba Denied His Devotees
2011-08-02 05:26:00 There is nothing quite like clarity. Here is an excellent English-language Indian television report. It is good to see ordinary people who live and work in Puttaparthy being questioned for their views. They have large concerns about the veracity of Sathya Sai Central Trust officials. My reader might like to look at the far more convincing body language at the interviewees in the streets of Puttaparthi, than of Sathya Sai Central Trust officials: Sai Baba Trust money: Puttaparthi wants clarity (For this NDTV report, click on title above or on photo below) Puttaparthi citizens have grave trust issues about Sai Central Trust In the archives of various movements of dissent against authoritarian cults, there is, perhaps, nothing that so frequently recurs and obscures clarity like bad old-fashioned blindness to the testimony of those who have raised their voices. Dissenters almost get used to the strong tendency to fallacious argument, or else the refusal to study any writing whic...
Another Sathya Sai Baba Multi Million Haul Found At Puttaparthi
2011-07-20 02:16:00 As major litigation preparations unfold - particularly in regard to Sathya Sai Baba's officials, with the complicity of Indian, local, state and national governments, it does the Sai Baba cause no good that one extraordinary revelation follows another of his secret hoarding of Midas or Croesus like treasures. Andhra Pradesh revenue officials are now readying to seach further parts of the Puttaparthi complex, as well as other venues such as the ashram at Kadugodi. This ashram is, by the way, where I was a lecturer at the Sathya Sai college, Whitefield, via Bangalore (1978-79, teaching in without any remuneration at the behest of one who, all the while, unknown to me, was serially sexually abusing the students whom I loved, and am to this day determined to see, along with many other boys, before and since this time whose lives have been devastated), find a measure of justice. I say to all these boys: Now furnished with great financial and legal resources, a number of us have have ...
Towards Accountability Of Sathya Sai Baba?s Accomplices: A Call To Legal Ac
2011-07-16 12:59:00 A formidable legal challenge is being mounted against those who aided and abetted Sathya Sai Baba in what many say are heinous and immoral acts against boys and young men, what to mention other abuses. Among those connected with this legal action, which is very well-funded indeed, are those with compelling accounts of sexual and ...
Will Andhra Pradesh, South India, Only Appear To Address Sathya Sai Baba Sc
2011-07-11 23:14:00 Sathya Sai Baba certainly lives on, though not in the fashion in which his devotees commonly conceive. The revelations of scandal and duplicity among those left behind to clean up the unholy mess have kept coming. So far the Andhra Pradesh government has shown a number of signs of being accountable. Its police and revenue seems to have been doing their job. Even so, questions need to be driven here - for example, why did the AP government leave the Sathya Sai Trust un-superintended after the first massive haul of treasure was exposed? Why did it allow the Trust to appear to be a good taxpaying citizen when it allow the Trust to pay taxes on the vast millions of booty that has already be discovered? This government will be under much scrutiny. But then, again, how can one scrutinise governments notorious for secrecy and duplicity? So far the AP government has order some arrests, though we must notice that this has been of footsoldiers. Poor wretched minor players. Of the type who ...
Sathya Sai Baba Saga: Is There Too Little Indian Media Critical Analysis?
2011-07-08 16:21:00 Let my reader imagine that the following is a note of mine to an Indian media person seeking me out to assist in the development of a news story. It may take no prizes for diplomacy, but it is not far, I think, from the mood of both our former devotee network members from both India and other countries. First, Sai Baba and his key servitors on the Sai Central Trust and the international Sathya Sai Organization profoundly deceived and betrayd. From circa 2000, owing to both organized and informal activity of former devotees, a great deal of critical exposure of Sai Baba and his cult occurred. In some parts of the world, Sai Centers emptied, while, in general, many left, including many well-respected leaders. Next, allied with Sai Baba and his cult's officials, corrupt local, state and national government consolidated the evils done by their complicity in the cover up of the outrages - wide-scale sexual abuse by Sai Baba and some around him of boys and young men, Police executions ...
Sathya Sai Trust?s V.Srinivasan: Defending A Religious Empire Fallen. A Tor
2011-07-06 01:27:00 Unfortunately for Sathya Sai Trust spokesman V. Srinivasan and his (and Sathya Sai Baba's) already badly tattered credibility, Last Sunday, still more treasure was found in secret places in Sai Baba's private quarters. This time, the joint District Collector and her team searched for and found it. But, in a case of caught-out-yet-again, this lot of treasure DID NOT appear in the Trust's inventory, which the government of Andhra Pradesh had put the Trust on its Boy Scout's honor to make. Did the Sai Trustees obtain their spectacles or magnifying glasses from a manufacturer far superior to any the Trustees can manage to find? Srinivasan's earlier story was that huge amounts of money which police found being secretly removed by van and bus did not belong to the Trust but to twelve devotee donors.The India Daily reported (Tuesday 21 June 2011):
Yet Another Sai Yajur Mandir Treasure Haul. Stash Not In Recent Enforced Sa
2011-07-03 13:24:00 Police and other district officials had earlier voiced suspicions of still more undeclared secret stashes of wealth in Sathya Sai Baba’s private quarters. By Saturday, their suspicions proved correct. The Andhra Pradesh authorities now ask: Why was this additional treasure not included in the inventory Sai Trust officials made at the Yajur Mandir several days ...
Some Little Points That Get Lost Among Big Sathya Sai Trust Reassurances of
2011-06-30 14:47:00 Some random points, flow in and out of mind. Like the ocean – interesting to peer at, but not very drinkable: 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 ...
Sathya Sai Baba Scandal: RJ Ratnakar?s Body Language In NDTV Interview On S
2011-06-29 04:21:00 Although Sai Baba once famously wrote a letter in which he renounced his family - as renunciates in time-honored Indian tradition do, along with (except for those such as tantricists) his nephew RJ Ratnakar is at centre stage in the Sathya Sai Central Trust. In one moment, we are told that ex Chief Justice of India P.N. Bhagwati is head of the Sai Central Trust. Next thing, we learn that Ratnakar is at the helm. In fact, many Sai devotees see him as having usurped the rights of Sai Baba's chosen successor, Satyajit. Bhagwati himself had affirmed Satyajit. Word has now come through that Bhagwati, Chakravarthi (longtime Trust secretary, and the father of one of my students whom I most respected) and others have tended resignations, as have the highly reputed Dr A.N. Safaya, along with a number of doctors and nurses. See: Head of Sai Baba Mega Dollar Hospital At Puttaparthi Resigns. Others Quitting Jobs Too In viewing the video of the interview just done with NDTV (Indian) with Ratn...
Sathya Sai Trust?s R.J.Ratnakar ? Long Police Interrogation. Intensive Inve
2011-06-26 01:18:00 Latest reports in the Indian 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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...
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 ........
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...
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"
Sathya Sai Baba Buried Treasure: Media and Government Need To Probe Sai Cen
2011-06-18 10:01:00 The Indian 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 ...
?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 Indian 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...
Sathya Sai Baba?s Residence Unlocked. Vast Treasury Uncovered
2011-06-17 12:33:00 NEWS FLASH Note: I shall analyse Indian 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 ...
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: .........
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
Sathya Sai Central Trust Says ?millions and millions? of Devotees Worldwide
2011-04-25 08:29:00 Below is the report of The (UK) Guardian's report on Sathya Sai Baba's death yesterday morning. I shall exerpt from, and comment on, it.
Sathya Sai Baba Is Dead. Said He Would Rule the World and Die Aged 96
2011-04-24 14:23:00 Sathya Sai Baba died today, Sunday morning. A Puttaparthi hospital official says: "Sai Baba is no more with us physically. He breathed his last at 7:40am and died due to cardio-respiratory failure." The self-described fullest incarnation of God ever to visit the earth has been clearly documented as saying that he would live until circa 2022, aged 96. But 85 years of age cannot, by any miracle, be said to be 96. And well-documented promises that he would rule the world before leaving it have clearly not even begun to look at all likely. His devotees - with many sections of unquestioning sections the media following them - speak, as a Sathya Sai Central Trust bulletin of only days ago, of "millions and millions" of devotees around the world. See: Sathya Sai Trust Officials Say Sai Baba Out of Hospital Soon. Posted by Barry Pittard on April 16, 2011. This statement appeared in the long and anxiously awaited "Important Press Release by Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust", Friday, Ap...
Sathya Sai Baba Teaches: ?We are not this body?. Why Are His Devotees Such
2011-04-24 00:26:00 Cited several times in the Indian media's sudden, unaccustomed, large coverage of Sathya Sai Baba, are accounts of "eminent" Sai devotees stating that he will not die because he has promised to remain in the physical body until he is 96 years. Outside India, the notion of outstanding professionals giving credence to such way-out beliefs must seem strange. For the facts to sink in to a foreign brain, one has to live and work in India. One has to experience at first hand the sheer extent of superstition from top to bottom in that society of such mutual kindness and cruelty, beauty and tragedy. Valiantly, many Indians struggle on behalf of sense and reason, but what they face is formidable in the extreme. The Times of India reports: Sai Baba's devotees believe he will live for 96 years IANS, Apr 21, 2011, 03.45pm IST ...................
Sathya Sai Baba Hardly Alive. World Attention on Kate and William Instead
2011-04-22 03:38:00 To this point, reports in the Western media of Sathya Sai Baba health troubles are hardly to be seen. So much, then, for the untiring and misleading claims in Puttaparthi propaganda that Sathya Sai Baba is known and honoured by many millions throughout the world. No doubt, after no question of life-support apparatus can be entertained, and when it is announced that Sathya Sai Baba is officially dead, there will be some coverage of it in foreign media. (We shall add our efforts to that end). But this attention will be miniscule to focus on countless other events. At the moment, the 'world' is far more fixated on the upcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, April 29th, 2011. The talk is, and will be for many days, of St James's Palace, not of Sathya Sai Baba's palace at Puttaparthi. Here is the Indian Express report of Sathya Sai Baba's medical state, as of last night: Sai Baba's health worsens; prohibitory orders in Puttaparthi Thu Apr 21 2011, 09...
Sathya Sai Health Condition ?Very Critical?, Says Sai Hospital Head (21 Apr
2011-04-21 11:48:00 Indian media are starting to report that some Sathya Sai Baba forces favour his burial while he is still technically alive. Countries not steeped in the utmost superstition may find it hard to credit yesterday's bizarre news Yes, buried alive. When, then, exactly, is Sathya Sai Baba going - as he has long promised - to visit London, Malaysia, Rome and Southern California, USA?
Human Rights Commission Probe Fronts Andhra Government On Sathya Sai Baba T
2011-04-19 00:31:00 In the last hours, many Indian newspapers have run the story on the direction by the Andhra Pradesh Human Rights Commission to the State government to produce a report on Sathya Sai Baba's health condition. None too early in the piece, Sathya Sai Baba devotees themselves are now, at least via their lawyers, demanding answers concerning the workings of the Sathya Sai Central Trust. Readers of this blog, and that of Robert Priddy and of related websites, have long been presented with evidence of grievous lack of accountability in the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, and, at large, the international Sri Sathya Sai Organization. There are trust issues indeed. Since circa 2000, when the internet began to allow the rapid universal spread of information and communication, constant execration and libel have been heaped on the efforts of former Sathya Sai Baba followers to present a critique of the corrupt workings of the Sathya Sai apparatus. It is one of history's odd ironies that Sai de...
Downturn In Sathya Sai Baba?s Condition (April 17th 2011)
2011-04-17 23:35:00 Reports say that Sathya Sai Baba's health has relapsed. This is in marked contrast to to the optimistic view released by the Sathya Sai Central Trust last Friday. It stated: "In the latest review, as of today, the doctors attending on Him have expressed confidence that He is in a stable condition and is responding satisfactorily to the treatment being given to Him by the team of doctors, though somewhat slowly. They are confident that, if the progress continues to be stable and satisfactory as at present, it might be possible to shift Him from the hospital to His residence at Prasanthi Nilayam in about a fortnight". To follow the emerging picture, one must keep a careful eye on the dates. Today's Deccan Herald, 18th April (see below), indicates that there is no chance of Sai Baba's being removed from hospital, so serious is his condition. For a sense of the rapidly changing reports, I draw my readers' attention to the following reports in my last days' blogs. The latest rep...
Sathya Sai Devotees Suspect Foul Play In Guru?s Health Crisis. Seek Court O
2011-04-16 12:25:00 In some major Indian newspapers, there are now reports of Sai devotees taking action that challenges the conduct of those close round Sathya Sai Baba, including urgent recourse to law. They suspect the gravest chicanery practised by forces vying for control of Puttaparthi. Those accused number prominent members of the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust. If these followers can sustain their case, the chances are that the scandal will be very great. Hitherto, we have had utmost difficulty in getting any but the media outside India to investigate the Sai Baba cult. One of the foremost Indian editors privately told me: it is not possible to investigate Sai Baba - his people are too powerful. I may add that the mass circulation magazine India Today was a rare exception. One of the journalists associated with the India Today cover story, Vijay Jung Thapa, had to have security mounted (?close body protection?) during and for some time after he was involved in the exposure story on Sathya Sa...
Sathya Sai Trust Officials Say Sai Baba Out of Hospital Soon
2011-04-16 02:03:00 A Sathya Sai Central Trust "important press release" just to hand (see notice below) has begun to appear on various prominent Sathya Sai Baba related sites on the web. It notes that "for several days, His (sic) condition was a cause for concern". In other words, presumably, there is now NOT now cause for concern. But how can it be? Given his advanced age (supposedly 85 years, although this has been disputed in scholarly discussion), and the severity of his many symptoms, one might expect an even more reduced shell of his former self than hitherto. The bulletin refers to: "the spontaneous upsurge of prayers, bhajans, namasmarana, candle light processions of millions and millions of His devotees all over the globe for His very early and total recovery". I invite my dear reader to the simple expedient of sticking his or her head out the window just to check whether they can see any of it ..... If you should enjoy processions, some you may have to wait for Saint Patrick's Day in,...
Is Sathya Sai Baba?s Survival Divine? But Treatment Keeps Many Elderly Sick
2011-04-13 22:41:00 When contrasted with the critical and prolonged illness of Sathya Sai Baba, many texts from his discourses are to be seen as mere hyperbole or some form of belief system that he, who claims to be perfection itself, cannot sustain in his own case. He says: ?Desire to which you are too fondly attached breeds anger and its nefarious brood. Discard it and you can have perpetual youth! The Aanandha that the Aathman can manifest will keep age and ageing away!? Discourse of Sathya Sai Baba, Prashanthi Nilayam, 22 Feb 1971. Published by Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust. Although it is widely known that most of the Media in India will not go up against Sai Baba's and his core servitors' political and religious clout, the following two reports have a touch of realism about them - very different to the positive spin which one fails to find in official Sathya Sai Organization as well as in rank-and-file devotee responses to be seen across the internet. They leave out of account t...
BBC-Named ?The Secret Swami?, Sathya Sai Baba Hospitalized and Fighting For
2011-04-06 03:59:00 Sathya Sai Baba is now kept alive by ventilator and kidney dialysis. In having to report the health bulletins emitting from Puttarthi, the Indian media - so remiss in reporting anything inimical to Sathya Sai Baba, are, of course, given that he may die at any moment, going to have to do their best to get the facts right. However, with the rare exception like the mass circulation magazine India Today, it has signally failed to look for or tell the facts. There has grown the irony that NRI's (non-resident-Indians) can read of the revelations about Sai Baba of a sort suppressed in the Indian media. But millions in India cannot. It is the media outside India which has investigated the many and serious allegations against Sathya Sai Baba, such as wide-scale, serial sexual molestation of boys and young men, implication in the cover up of murders in his bedroom in 1993, and other scandals. Those wishing to investigate the antecedents of Sathya Sai Baba's physical and mental health pro...
Sathya Sai Baba?s Health Condition Again At Grave Risk
2011-04-05 03:35:00 In a matter of days, rosy reports emanating from official Puttaparthi sources about Sai Baba's condition are now shown to be either pipe dreams or deliberate gloss. Of course it is conceivable that his leaders who control the bulletins to the media, government and Sathya Sai Organization etc., are unable to believe that their guru can die very soon. He had long prophesied matters very differently. By a number of usually well-informed sources , we are told that there is a battle royal going on for control of his organization. We learn of serious chicanery among certain Sai Baba family members and others. Alert media, lawfirms and other investigators will need for example - very quickly, before witnesses are hushed up - to get hold of stakeholders who have been disaffected, and also those, including many leaders in India and abroad, who have resigned from the Sathya Sai Organization on a matter of ethical principle. Experts in law, media, etc., well know that, well-handled and cros...
Sathya Sai Baba?s Pacemaker Implant ? His Promised Health and Longevity In
2011-03-31 23:31:00 Increasingly sick and ailing over recent years, Sathya Sai Baba has said: ?Purity, patience and perseverance. With these three you are bound to acquire good health and bliss. You may believe it or not. But the truth is that these three are responsible for my health (Arogya) and bliss (Ananda)? (Sanathana Sarathi July 1995, p. 173) But, sadly for himself and his devotees, he is not all-powerful, as he proclaims himself to be. But all-senile. This decline into senescence, was of course gradual but not exactly, even when it became glaringly evident, a topic for public discussion among his devotees. Several years back, when our laymen's eyes spotted the physical changes, senior cardiologists and other doctors among our number confirmed our own naive-level, but realistic, observations. Even brief extracts from articles over time at this blogsite give unmistakeable evidence of what devotees cannot truthfully rationalize or wish away. Namely that their supposedly all-powerful guru has...
Sathya Sai Baba Hospitalized, Despite Hailing His Extraordinary ?Health?
2011-03-29 14:12:00 Stop Press! News of Sathya Sai Baba's hospitalization are breaking in these last hours. Only a sanitized version of health problems afflicting Sathya Sai Baba is possible. Any reader of informed chroniclers - such as Robert Priddy, Brian Steel, Serguei Badaev, Alexandra Nagel, myself and others - knows how we have extensively, and with much care, often documented, the tight control on propaganda emitting from Puttapathi and the leadership of the international Sathya Sai Organization. One of my most read articles is this one about the deputy chairman of that organization, and the director of Sathya Sai Baba's attempt to get radio broadcasts into every corner of the world: Sathya Sai Baba's 'Minister of Propaganda' - Dr G. Venkataraman. A Mahashivaratri 2000 report in Sanathana Sarathi, Sai Baba's official organ (distributed worldwide), unintentionally mocks the absurdity of Sai Baba's self-presentations regarding his health, of which, by long habit, he gives the rosiest...
What Is A Cult? Does Sathya Sai Baba Preside Over A Servile, Worldwide Cult
2011-03-21 04:12:00 Is the Sathya Sai Organization a cult? It is a fair question. No careless use of terms will serve us well. We might also enquire - perhaps of our own selves, more than anyone else, whether there are significant cultic elements in those institutions we may too readily deem 'mainstream' or liveable-with, or somehow 'rational', 'normal', and so forth. Does not the human mind tend to cling to certain presumed verities? How would we do traveling, for a while, without them? Even if such 'verities' had some substance to them, does the clinging in itself nullify any more profound nurturing of our being that we would wish to be mediated via our belief systems? I pose questions, here, rather than wish to plunge into answers. Perhaps it is our human readiness to come up with answers, and structures and tenets that traps instead of frees us. Perhaps we need, first, to posit, for the sake of argument or simply the fun of it, that we are trapped in our 'verities' and 'solutions'...
Indian Army Abuse ? A Young Indian?s View
2011-02-25 00:27:00 I received this note from a young person living in India. Interestingly, in this person's report, the Indian army comes off badly and not the police. In the years that I lived in India, many Indians had great respect for the army but widely despised the police for their cruelty and corruption. Whatever the case, Sathya Sai Baba is heavily surrounded by both police and army personnel all the way to the very highest echelons. These days, he is very fragile, his thoughts and actions unfocused, but he still rides around on his huge gold chariot, mounts his golden throne, and celebrates his birthdays with an enormously extravagant and wasteful pomp that attracts the scorn of most and the blinded fervour of his devotees.
Can Tomorrow?s Indian Citizens March Like Today?s Egyptians?
2011-02-13 01:01:00 Kind reader, please indulge me an acute understatement: Exposing Sathya Sai Baba, and that core of servitors who exercise control over his worldwide cult, has not been easy. Crowded around him, like a protective phalanx, have long been Indian presidents, prime and ministers, many ministers and civil service heads from both State and Central governments, Supreme and High Court judges, heads of police, the armed services, foreign service, foremost industrialists, financiers .... and a long list more of India's social, political and cultural elites. As I watched the footage of brave Egyptian citizens risking their lives to unseat a leader and government they believe have sorely betrayed the people, my mind reflected back to the courage ? to take but one example ? of thousands of Indian citizens who accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on the great salt marches.
Will V.P.B. Nair Keep His Word To BBC On Sathya Sai Baba?
2011-02-07 23:45:00 In mid 2004, former Andhra Pradesh Home Secretary, V.P.B. Nair spoke to the BBC in its 2004 television documentary - 'The Secret Swami' - 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. I again ask: has Nair done what he told the BBC that he would do? And, indeed, hope that Indian citizens ask him: Have you, as you told the BBC that you would do, made efforts to keep your promise to see that there is a proper investigation into the killings at Puttaparthi?
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...
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.
?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 Indian Prime Ministers, Presidents and other eminences, across a wide religious and political spectrum, have repeatedly fallen...
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,
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... |
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