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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...
Survivors ?Move On?? But Abusers Move On ? From Victim To Victim. And Must
2011-12-23 06:02:00 Tediously, phrases emerge from the mouths of those who could, but do not, speak out forthrightly about their experiences of spiritual and moral betrayal. Often, one hears them say, "I am moving on, now". But the abusers, the criminals, the bullies, don't move on. They thrive in the knowledge that their victims will, most frequently, move on. Essentially cowards themselves, they understand that other cowards will protect them ? by preferring the easy way out. By shutting up. By not calling a crime a crime. By abandoning any shred of self-respect. Those who, against unenviable odds, have continued year after year to expose Sathya Sai Baba and his soviet-style, authoritarian, worldwide cult too often see cases where those who speak of 'moving on' get into yet more self-entrapment. Out of one guru or cult's frying pan into another. Again, the problem of lack of self-respect. For some examples of those who were highly-respected leaders when members of the Sathya Sai Organization,...
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....
Occupy Movement Exemplifies Sathya Sai Baba?s Failure As Social Reformer
2011-11-10 02:53:00 In the next days, I shall look at aspects of the Occupy movements, many of whose manifestations show how profoundly Sathya Sai Baba and his international organization have failed. Sathya Sai Baba and his cult always failed to face political and corporate power. They themselves are part of the corrupt system. His successors now fight out power struggles among themselves. The international Sathya Sai Organization ?good works? philosophy plays perfectly into the hands of the power elites, who have nothing against charity. We all like to feel good. Big-name donors to the Sathya Sai cult are legion, especially in India, and from among the Indian diaspora worldwide. Amid untold golden glitter, the late Sathya Sai Baba said that, in his own lifetime, he would save and rule India and then the world Those in the Occupy movements are better educated than ever before, and thus able to use social media such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc., to great advantage. Sathya Sai Baba and his ...
Grooming underage boys by homosexuals and Sathya Sai Baba
2011-11-08 23:17:00 Norway ratified a law some years ago against “grooming” for sexual exploitation. Though it is directed at Internet attempts to seduce children, it applies with equal force to actual grooming, such as is known to have been carried out countless times by Sathya Sai Baba when he oiled the pubic areas and genitals of underage ...
Shiva-Shakthi and Sathya Sai Baba?s alleged self-healing in 1963
2011-11-07 22:53:00 Alexandra Nagel has written: “Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the famous Indian guru allegedly born in 1926 in Puttaparthi, a village in South India (now a thriving town) where he still resides in his ashram, Prasanthi Nilayam, ?the Abode of Supreme Peace?. He is visited daily by thousands of devotees from all around the world. ...
Belief and moralism in Sathya Sai Baba?s ?5 human values?
2011-11-06 23:26:00 Surely we should never let our beliefs stop us from doing what is right and good. Religious beliefs are founded on uncertainty – not on knowledge, but on believing – and are therefore no secure or final criterion of what is right or good. Actions motivated by religious beliefs often conflict with knowledge, and religious ...
Dr John Hislop. Vaunted ?Perfect Disciple? of Sathya Sai Baba
2011-11-06 10:38:00 Like so many devotees, especially those close to Sathya Sai Baba, ex-foremost leader of the Sathya Sai Organization (outside India), Dr John 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. Sai Baba long exhorted that his devotees: "Love (him) for (his) Mystery". (Of course, his editors and other devotee writers capitalized the 'h' in 'him' and 'his' ..... Hislop also well knew that many devotees were in confusion about his many lies, all his predictions which failed, as did so many of his promised cures and e.g., of placements at his university or his colleges...
Canadian ?Sugrim Singh?: claim that Sai Baba is using his body
2011-11-05 22:01:00 In continuation of the exposure by the Ottawa Post shown in yesterday’s blog, is a message (brown text) supposedly from Sathya Sai Baba himself ?speaking? from beyond the grave. It has been embraced by a large number of Sai Baba?s ever gullible followers around the world, since the claimant Dharamraj (aka?Sugriv? and Ram Singh) has ...
Dharmaraj Sugriv Singh, impostor denounced by Sathya Sai Baba
2011-11-04 23:37:00 The Ottawa Post has published the results of an ongoing investigation into the dealings of Ram Singh (aka Sugriv or Sugrim Singh as well as ‘Dharmaraj’ as a Canadian federal civil servant in an alleged billion-dollar scam and also into the disappearance of very large sums of donated money in the Sai Nilayam charity, which ...
Shirdi, Sathya and Prema Sai as one triple avatar?
2011-11-04 00:05:00 Sathya Sai Baba prophesied a further incarnation for himself as Prema Sai, thus to complete the task of the triple Sai Baba avatar. He represented Shirdi Sai as the embodiment of Shiva, himself as Sathya Sai as Shiva-Shakthi combined and Prema Sai is to be the embodiment of Shakthi. The date of arrival is uncertain, ...
Sathya Sai Baba Cult Now Distraught and Broken, Like Its Founder In Last Ye
2011-10-31 21:46:00 Former devotee outreach to institutions was enormous, an international effort in which people from many professional, trade backrounds put did their best, first of all to warn of the danger of boys and young men coming into the orbit of Sathya Sai Baba. As the participants compared their experiences, evidence ? sometimes gut-sickening ? fast mounted. Other crimes and ethical betrayals came to our notice. To those coordinating activities, such as Glen Meloy, Hari Sampath, myself and, as time passed, Robert Priddy, the sheer volume and richness of evidence allowed many striking confirmations of the veracity of accounts. Many witnesses clearly had no knowledge of each other. Still further, evidence came in from sources well beyond former devotees. Sai Baba had not only practised his sexual and other abuses on his immediate followers but on others who were spiritual seekers traveling through India from one ashram to another.
Women, Sathya Sai Baba and male chauvinism
2011-10-31 21:22:00 There is something suspicious about Sathya Sai Baba’s continual praise for Indian women (it is evident from the contexts of his outpourings that he is always referring to them, not foreign women). What first strikes the eye is the chauvinism in expecting women to look after the household, bring up children and can work at ...
Diversity of India causes doubt (Sai Baba)
2011-10-30 23:22:00 On the one hand, Sathya Sai Baba glorified India as the country with a diversity as magnificent beyond description (this is almost the logo of Incredible India tourist advertising). In another context, however, he says knowing the diversity is not worthwhile, it means “doubt, dissension and dispiritedness”! He never could make up his mind where ...
?Cutting the Ties that Bind? etc. by Phyllis Krystal
2011-10-29 23:28:00 Chris Doctor writes concerning my posting on Phyllis Krystal:- Though I heartily agree with the general purport of your posting, Robert, I think it is not altogether fair to say that Phyllis Krystal has based her life and work exclusively on Satyha Sai Baba. Fact is, she was well into higher planes of consciousness for ...
Mother Easwaramma?s ghostly visitations to Sathya Sai Baba
2011-10-28 00:11:00 One several occasions Sathya Sai Baba related at length and most bizarrely about visitations by the ghost of his mother, Easwaramma (alt. Eashwaramma). One such is shown in a scan of part of the discourse published in the official Sai Baba journal (see on right): Some time after that, I asked my good friend V.K. ...
Indian swami fully defends Sathya Sai Baba sexual abuse of children!
2011-10-26 20:47:00 What some Sathya Sai Baba followers say to affirm and support child sex abuse as a divine act continues to shock any decent person! On the other hand, most will probably laugh at the reasoning and marvel at the level of perverse-minded delusion and immorality that Indian swamis and other Sai followers who cannot deny ...
Delhi University in row over Ramayana epic
2011-10-25 23:29:00 The BBC reports on a major conflict essentially over whether the Ramayana is correctly represented by Hindus in India, or whether it has been changed and arisen in many different versions:- “ A row has broken out in the Indian capital over whether Delhi university should teach a controversial essay about the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. The ...
More false, impractical advice from Sathya Sai Baba
2011-10-24 23:46:00 Every so often I get comments and e-mails directing me to follow Sai Baba’s advice and speak softly, kindly, obligingly and not use harsh words. Many of these requests are from devotees who at the same time denounce, accuse, vilify, and attack me in very harsh terms, and sometimes denounce others in similar terms! It ...
India?s legal system covering up for many gurus
2011-10-23 21:12:00 Kristina Jure from Lithuania made a thought-provoking comment to yesterday’s posting as follows:- “I just was figuring out what impact on all of those who were present and involved in Baba?s sexual abuse did the cold blood murder episode could have. On their consciousness and subconsciousness? Their feeling of any security vanished then because they ...
Sai Baba on seeking pardon and accepting punishment
2011-10-22 21:27:00 “Actually, one should never seek pardon for the mistake committed. One should be prepared to undergo the punishment. Only then can one be free from defects.” Sanathana Sarathi August 2001 p 229ff Now we can say that Sathya Sai Baba kept his own words insofar as he never sought pardon for mistakes committed. He was ...
More Sathya Sai Organization propaganda on village regeneration
2011-10-21 23:58:00 Among recent events reported by SSB official news were the Grama Seva 2011 Project (28.09 – 5.10) See http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/-Pages/Announcements/CTPressRele-ase03aOct2011.html http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/-Pages/Announcements/CTPressRele-ase03aOct2011.html and Avatar Decalaration Day (20.10) http://www.saibabaofindia.com/2-0th-october-Avatar-Declaration--Day-Sri-Sathya-Sai-Baba.htm http://www.saibabaofindia.com/2-0th-october-Avatar-Declaration--Day-Sri-Sathya-Sai-Baba.htm. These two events taken together lead to a question about the meaning of the Grama Seva Project. As it was reported the Grama Seva as a project started in 2000, ...
Movie on Sathya Sai Baba launched
2011-10-20 22:14:00 A large number of films – sold mostly as videos – have already been made about Sathya Sai Baba – but none have had the success and world-wide audience that the BBC 1-hour documentary achieved. (See here). So his followers intend to try to make a full-length film to promote him as a philanthropist, miracle ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s last days
2011-10-19 15:09:00 A reminder of what was reported about the minders of Sai Baba while he was in “intensive care”, before they secretly took him off life support on Easter Sunday! The matter was never cleared up – the guilty parties remained as silent as the grave and the attempt of Naidu to get the matter brought ...
Sathya Sai Baba believed in Indian astrology
2011-10-18 21:01:00 Sathya Sai Baba was a believer in astrology (of the Hindu variation), as is evident from the scanned quotation here. The only way to protect oneself against the malign influences of the planets and stars, according to his view, was to follow the doctrine he prescribes here. One again, a bundle of sheer superstitious, unscientific ...
Sai Baba excused his many self-contradictions
2011-10-16 22:06:00 In a discourse (excerpt shown here) Sathya Sai Baba was clearly trying to explain away the many self-contradictions that are found throughout his published booklets and his endless public discourses. Unfortunately for him, though, his explanation that each person requires a different ‘teaching’ according to the spiritual circumstances etc. would only sometimes be valid when ...
Sathya Sai Baba: world to be united as Hindus by India!
2011-10-15 21:09:00 MORE RIDICULOUS PREDICTIONS BY THE ‘OMNISCIENT AVATAR’ “Today is Krishna Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna. I am making a promise today that the people of all the countries, viz. Pakistan, China, Germany, Russia will be united. That should be our goal. The goodness of Bharat will lead to this unity.” (p. 267 – Sathya Sai ...
Most predictions by and about Sai Baba failed
2011-10-14 18:01:00 Only one or two prophecies made by Sathya Sai Baba can be said to have come about… many decades ago he claimed that many people would eventually come to visit him. (On the other hand, many gurus may say that, and now and again one or two are proved right.) Otherwise, his predictions have invariably ...
Sathya Sai Organization Shields Its Accused Members From Investigation
2011-10-13 03:13:00 This lack of speaking up, of questioning, profoundly ails the organization. It is also why, for example, so many costly drives in luxurious venues fail. See: ?Secret Swami? Cult Recruits At Prime Public Venues Those of us who have stood forth have often been assailed by Sai Baba activists such as Gerald Moreno, of New Mexico, USA, who deride Sai Baba's accusers for not having succeeded in court actions. However, the difficulties the victims face are formidable. Many of them wish to hide what they regard as their sense of shame. They do not wish to suffer discrimination against them in their personal or professional lives. Many have friends or relatives still closely associated with the Sathya Sai Organization. Sadly, many of them will not reach out for professional counseling, even though offered excellently qualified professional counseling. These and other formidable obstacles are familiar to all those familiar with the years of denial and cover up in the case of such institu...
Hal Honig ? misguided copier of Sai Baba?s practices
2011-10-11 23:43:00 The group shown in the photo were taken in 1993 to see Sai Baba by one of his US devotees, Hal Honig of New York, about whom diverse reports of cover-up of homosexual behaviour have circulated. Speaking of genital oiling by Sathya Sai Baba, one of th whistle-blowers, Glen Meloy, wrote:- “…I first heard of ...
Hari Sampath, former insider on myths by Sathya Sai authorities
2011-10-10 21:42:00 Here I repost a most informative article written years ago by a long-serving security official at Sathya Sai Baba’s ashram. He got an insider view of much that went on due to his position in security, not least though knowing members of the Sathya Sai Central Trust. When the sex abuse allegations agaisnt Sathya Sai ...
Bon Giovanni & Ram Das Awle ? two very disturbed minds
2011-10-09 21:52:00 Ram Das Awle is an outright supporter of perverse sexual abuse, and justifies Sathya Sai Baba’s sexual abuse – in which he believes took place – and if you don’t believe it read his web page (of which the original has been preserved in secure copies in case he tries to delete or change this ...
Warnings against Sathya Sai Baba impostors
2011-10-08 21:06:00 Both in India and around the world there are many who try to claim association with Sathya Sai Baba or his institutions for their own ends, not least to obtain donations or to gain popularity, status etc. Interestingly, his warnings that all these claims are bogus were repeated at intervals against ever new claimants in the ...
Hinduism: the Vedas, river worship, fair skin and cows
2011-10-07 22:41:00 In his insightful blog on Sathya Sai Baba’s claim to be the famous ‘Saint of Shirdi’ reincarnated, Barry Pittard remarks on the highly speculative and not least superstitious culture that makes claims acceptable to so many: “Of all countries, India is the place where (other than in lunatic asylums of which all our countries have ...
Fall-out since the death of Sathya Sai Baba
2011-10-06 20:54:00 The following information was sent to me two days ago from a Russian source:- “A man from Russia went to Puttaparthi about a year ago. He wanted Sathya Sai Baba to bless some symbols and projects connected with a project he was promoting. He desperately needed a place on the veranda to contact Sai Baba to ask ...
Sai Ma ? contenders for the title ?Sai Mother?
2011-10-05 19:21:00 The first contender for the title ‘Sai Ma’ (i.e. “Mother Sai” or also “mother of Sai” was a Mrs. Nareng. Her claims have been definitively rejected by Sathya Sai Baba through his editor, V.K. Narasimhan, in the journal Sanathana Sarathi as can be seen below. An Australian devotee who lived around the Sai Baba ashrams ...
Sai Baba of Shirdi: Sathya Sai Baba?s Tall Claims (Part 1)
2011-10-05 09:52:00 A few days back, Robert Priddy posted about Sathya Sai Baba's claims to have incarnated the major Indian saint Shirdi Sai Baba. See: Shirdi Sai stated ?I am not God?, while Sathya misrepresented him For those interested in looking at a few of the issues involved in such spectacular claims, I shall, in the next few days, further give some comments and links. On his way to becoming his own notion of Avatar of all Avatars, did Sathya Sai Baba truly believe that he had incarnated in the 19th century in the north-west Indian state of Maharashtra? Or was he shrewdly aware of practising a deception? My own guess is that, like others who have extraordinary inner experiences, he may have been in the grip of very powerful aspects of mind - especially the right brain - of which we understand far too little. In certain unusual states of mind, an individual believes that extraordinary, real-seeming experiences are actually God's voice speaking out of a burning bush to Moses. Actually, Al...
Sathya Sai Baba?s political protégés and VIPs
2011-10-03 21:45:00 While still in the Sathya Sai Organization, we from Oslo were continually forced to notice that Sai Baba attracted not only good, sensible and pure persons, but also many of poor understanding and personal ambition (whether one called it ‘spiritual ambition’ or raw desire for special blessings, privilege and power). The people Sai Baba chose as his ...
Some postings recalling major Sai Baba issues
2011-10-02 14:07:00 Looking back across the 11 years of our conscience-driven work to expose Sathya Sai Baba’s hidden sides and covered-up crimes (which deceived us for so long), the number of daily postings added up to make it rather hard for many visitors to this site to know what to choose. Here are some varied postings that ...
Laughing while dying proves worth, said Sai Baba
2011-10-01 13:02:00 No one has claimed that Sathya Sai Baba laughed on his deathbed, on the contrary… he was unconscious most of the time while on life support and the last reliable (independent) report was about his “ tearful cry for help to his devotees to save him” on March 28th (according to ex-Minister Nagi Reddy) as his minders ...
Shirdi Sai stated ?I am not God?, while Sathya misrepresented him
2011-09-30 13:03:00 Shirdi Sai uttered ?I am NOT God but a humble servant of God?. Allah Malik. This statement runs totally counter to the claim by Sathya Sai Baba that Sai Baba of Shirdi was an avatar of God, the first in a trio of which Sathya Sai Baba claimed to be the second and most powerful. ...
Sai Baba on judging gurus? genuineness
2011-09-29 21:24:00 “The only test anyone can apply to a guru, of whatever kind, is whether his words are in harmony with his deeds. Gurus are to be judged by how words are put in practice.” (Sathya Sai Baba) Conversations… p. 18 new Sathya Sai Baba repeatedly gave a ‘guarantee’ of liberation from the wheel of life ...
Has the Sathya Sai movement ground to a halt?
2011-09-28 12:26:00 Since Sathya Sai Baba’s death under most suspicious circumstances, the chief medical causes which never having been documented (AIDS?) by any death certificate or due process – and not least since the dismal failure of one of Sai Baba’s most trumpeted prophesies, that he would live until he was in his 90s – the institutions ...
They?ve Banned the Bulls At Barcelona. By Barry Pittard
2011-09-28 02:42:00 I have been working on this song - words and music - since yesterday. It sprang from seeing the news reports about the banning of bullfighting in Barcelona, Spain. The incident recalled a repeated discovery of prominent figures in confronting the Sathya Sai Organization. Namely, that when you fight a hard cause, you essentially have to fight it pretty well alone. The crowds may cheer or give thumbs down. But one has to focus on the proper work, and not the pro or anti roars of crowds. And of the disappearance of many people from whom one might have wished to see better. Whether one believes in bullfighting or this or that cause or not, the true pain and joy, those great inseparables, is in the deed, and facing it no less than the worthy matador or bull. Those who dare are too few, and would dare regularly if only they knew the sheer satisfaction of making a stand. My supposition is that the prime activists in the fight for animal rights have far more in common with the matadors t...
Barry Pittard: incisive exposure of Sathya Sai Baba and company
2011-09-26 20:23:00 Please see the new page I have posted today on Bary Pittard’s invaluable work for over a decade on the SSB exposé (link here) Filed under: Cults, Gurus, Sathya Sai Baba Tagged: Barry Pittard
Some Key Themes In Studying Sathya Sai Baba Cult
2011-09-26 11:08:00 This post is a resource - especially for those such as former devotees as well as people considering leaving the international Sathya Sai Organization, and investigators such as journalists, scholars, and religious, political, civic and other institutions this cult's officials tend to approach. We have had notable success in presenting our evidence such that many responsible organizations refuse to have anything to do with them. Below, selected from a much large corpus, I give thematic headings and link details to, and brief quotation from, articles I have written over time. In turn, these pieces contain further recondite links.
The Long Journey: Exposing Sathya Sai Baba (1)
2011-09-23 11:14:00 The present writer was deeply devoted to Sai Baba for twenty-five years and taught for two years at one of his leading institutions, the Sathya Sai College at Whitefield, via Bangalore, South India. He greatly enjoyed this work, teaching many boys and young men in their three years' degree course. He lived around Sai Baba for several years while engaged in various voluntary social service activities, of which the college teaching was one. It is not the Sathya Sai Organization's good works that we contest. Many of former devotees gave hugely of their time and money in the belief that they served one who was the divine incarnate. Rather, the target of the critique is the long history of wrongdoing, and of its cover-up. And this by arguably India's most historically powerful and influential guru, and, of course, those of his servitors who have been in-the-know, and aided and abetted him. That is to say, who have known of the Sai Baba's serial sexual and other abuses, of the cover ...
Narendra Nayak: award-winning humanist with secular values
2011-09-22 23:33:00 Narendra Nayak works full-time as a propagator of the scientific spirit and an exposer of religious and pseudo-scientific myths, diverse Indian superstition and guru fraud – especially alleged miracles. He is constantly on the move throughout India visiting branches of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations, of which he is the National President. Under its ...
Professor Narendra Nayak: leading light of Indian rationalism
2011-09-22 17:02:00 Recently Narendra Nayak visited Oslo to attend the annual Humanists’ International Conference here. To his surprise, he was given the Distinuished Service to Humanism Award for exceptional contributions to the work of IHEU. On that occasion we also met and had valuable and interesting discussions, not least about the massive fraud and deception for which Sathya ... |
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