Sathya Sai Baba?s 84?th Birthday [2009]
2009-11-22 15:03:00 On Monday (23 November), Sathya Sai Baba’s 84th birthday will be celebrated at his ashram Prashanthi Nilayam. However, the only documentary and objective evidence available strongly indicates that this date is a falsification and that he was actually born on October 4 1929! This makes for what `Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland famously called an ...
Sathya Sai Baba, defender of the caste system
2009-11-18 11:14:00 ?The system of Varnas is ordained by the Vedas and so there can be no injustice in it; it is not an artifice invented by man.? (Sathya Sai Baba in Geetha Vahini, Ch. IX, p. 46 ) Sathya Sai Baba promotes himself as an unsurpassed renewer of moral and human values come to save India ...
A devotee reports on Sathya Sai Baba?s appeal and reputation
2009-11-17 14:24:00 Excerpt from a web page by N. Bhanutej of Puttaparthi From a handful in the 1960s, Sai Baba’s following today is anywhere between one crore and five crore. Sai Baba did not answer his critics. Narasimhaiah did not get an interview. But in a discourse, Baba said: “It is beyond you to know how or why ...
?The Guru Papers?: censorship and manipulative control of followers? minds
2009-10-28 09:09:00 Yet more quotations on gurus which apply with full force to Sathya Sai Baba, who inists he is perfect and pure, despite countless testimonies to the contrary! The title “The Guru Papers – Masks of Authopritarian Power” encapsulates the matter most succinctly. By holding gurus as perfect and thus beyond ordinary explanations, their presumed specialness ...
More from the Guru Papers ? on sexual abuse
2009-10-27 10:24:00 ‘The Guru Papers’ by Joel Kramer and Diane Alstead is a major work exposing the exploitation of authoritarian power by gurus. It is particularly relevant to the study of Sathya Sai Baba, who fits the bill for such a guru:- “When abuses are publicly exposed, the leader either denies or justifies the behaviors by saying ...
The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power
2009-10-27 00:52:00 by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad. Published: Frog, Ltd., Berkeley, California; 1993 Some quotes from Part One of the Guru Papers have been supported as having striking accuracy in describing cult gurus and the dynamics involved. This is not least true of Sathya Sai Baba, who fits the bill entirely as such a guru exploiting his ...
The Guru Papers ? and Sathya Sai Baba
2009-10-25 14:54:00 Sathya Sai Baba is a typical Indian guru both in his claims, his methods and the way he relates to those who become his followers. How well he fits the pattern of self-professing avatars, ’spiritual teachers’ and how typical are his methods of manipulating his followers can be see in great detail by studying the ...
Sai Baba: his life is his Message
2009-10-20 11:12:00 One of the main things that, beside his followers, still many think is in favor of Sathya Sai Baba are his “teachings”. Of course there are several ways to “teach” but at least in action he does not seem to teach a lot. Most objective people (including many devotees and followers) I know find ...
The beguiling half-truth, backbone of deceivers
2009-09-14 20:37:00 The inexpressible ‘Truth’ of which Sathya Sai Baba ever talks – which he says is both eternal and not graspable by any human mind (excluding his supposedly Divine mind) – is of such a transcendent and metaphysical nature that he admits it cannot even be expressed. Yet he constantly tells us he is telling us ...
Shirdi Sai Baba and more by Kevin R.D. Shepherd
2009-08-26 10:42:00 Through many independent publications of a high standard of philosophically-informed writing on a wide range of subjects, Kevin R.D. Shepherd has also given expositions of diverse interesting aspects of cultist figures and movements. The much revered figure of the Muslim ’saint’, Shirdi Sai Baba, gave rise to a tradition. As Shepherd writes: “The conflatory phrase “Sai ...
New exposé of Sai Baba?s front man, Gerald Joe Moreno
2009-08-25 10:29:00 After having been attacked by the constant would-be character assassinator, Joe Moreno, Kevin R.D. Shepherd responded in civil and reasoned terms. He was only attacked more despicably and unreasonably by Moreno. In stark contrast to this unqualified uneducated full-time cyber persecutor and person abuser Moreno, Shepherd is the accomplished author of numerous philosophical and ...
Astonishing Sai Baba miracle reported + video clip
2009-08-22 09:25:00 This is a story of the kind that spreads like wildfire among believers… and Sai officials do nothing to halt such rumours and sometimes they are the source of them or of supporting ‘testimony’ A very similar story was circulating in 1994 when I was present at the ashram. An Australian was said to have ...
Light on Sathya Sai Baba mythology origins + video
2009-08-09 16:10:00 Arnold Schulman was one of the early writers about Sathya Sai Baba. The book Baba was published by Viking Press, New York and was properly edited. Though he was no doubt perplexed by Sathya Sai Baba’s claims, and was inclined to give a favourable account, he was not devoid of a certain measure of investigative ...
Fleeting name, fame and Sathya Sai Baba
2009-08-06 09:38:00 History is replete with self-proclaimed God Emperors, Divine Avatars, World Saviours, reborn Christs… right up to the present day. Millions still believe that this or that person is wholly and fully God. The various Indian modern avatars or divine saviours include Ramakrishna, Meher Baba and any number of other claimants, each ...
Sathya Sai Baba: non-potent avatar
2009-08-04 14:17:00 SATHYA SAI BABA – IMPOTENT AVATAR? A distorted ‘vision of Sai’ was sent us in an e-mail from visionsb@tstt.net.tt, as follows, “… see for yourself the enormous control that this being has on the planet”. Of course, the overwhelming majority of people on ...
How were the infamous murders covered-up?
2009-08-03 12:01:00 The homicides of six devotees in Baba?s quarters in the temple of Prashanthi Nilayam of 6-6-1993 was never ?officially? solved, the investigations having eventually been quashed by the Indian Government in accordance with the ashram?s expressed wishes. The recently published 800-page book, Murders in Sai Baba?s Bedroom by the skeptic B. Premanand, exposes the ...
Dream visitations by Sathya Sai Baba?
2009-07-30 12:15:00 from “A CRITICAL SITE ABOUT SAI BABA” by Paul Holbach Specific issues # 2 Treated Arguments: Dreams, etc. STATEMENT: he is endowed with bilocation and telepathic powers, enters the dreams of anybody at his own will, that is to say: if you dream of him, it’s because he wants so (it’s his statement), ...
Sathya Sai Baba: lingam photos-liberation from rebirth
2009-07-23 11:03:00 Promises of liberation? In common with most other Indian gurus, Sai Baba has promised liberation from the cycle of rebirths to a number of his followers… sometimes in private, sometimes in public. That this is a much sought-after boon is perhaps hardly surprising, not least when considering the longing for salvation that is a ...
Sathya Sai Baba and the truth
2009-06-27 14:21:00 Nowadays current photographs of Sathya Sai Baba are not published on his official websites and very few photos are made available anywhere which show him in his increasingly decrepit looking present form. This is no doubt because of his many boasting pronouncements in the past to the effect that his health can never deteriorate since ...
Inscrutable, accounting to no man, Sathya Sai Baba
2009-06-24 11:36:00 “I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.” Sathya Sai Baba (US ed. of Kasturi’s Sathyam Sivam Sundaram Vol 3, page 315) Sathya Sai Baba insists that ones relation to him has to ...
Sai Baba believers? programmatic misinterpretations
2009-06-23 00:04:00 In the Sai movement there are set ‘explanations’ of everything about Sathya Sai Baba. The many ways in which one can derive some meaning from his various acts and oft-repeated phrases in English – and what it may be and to whom – have become an art for the initiated, who are ...
The Fame of Name and Person ? Sai Baba part 4
2009-06-19 14:08:00 “Miracles” are the bait: Sathya Sai Baba claims to perform countless major miracles, even that he could change “sky into earth and earth into sky”. Believe this if one can. He says “miracles are my visiting cards”, and indeed they are the bait which – if swallowed – hooks many so-called ’spiritual seekers’ who wish ...
Sai Baba?s humility and grandeur
2009-06-10 10:20:00 The following is an extract of a talk by Mirinalini Mata, direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, (Self Realisation Fellowship 1978, Cassette No 2402): “…There is one quality you will always find in the true guru and that is humility – that humility was in Master. He could speak even about Himself. He could even speak about ...
Sathya Sai Baba as world saviour
2009-06-09 15:52:00 “It was said that I have taken up this Form in answer to the prayers of sadhus (noble souls) and others… I have come, because ...
Sathya Sai Baba loved by all (video links)
2009-06-09 13:43:00 “Swami made it clear that He has no enemies. Every one loves Him. Many people may have some misunderstandings about Me but it is only their IMAGINATION.. I have no enemies.. I love all. I am always smiling. Many people think how can I keep smiling? I don’t like castoroil faces.. When you all are ...
Sathya Sai Baba as supreme servant of mankind
2009-06-08 10:27:00 “… ponder a moment on this Sathya Sai Manifestation; in this age of rampant materialism, aggressive disbelief and irreverence, what is it that brings ...
Murders in the Prashanthi temple ? reflections 1
2009-05-29 12:10:00 Concerning the 1993 murders in Sathya Sai Baba’s temple bedroom apartment SEE ALSO TRANSCRIPT OF BBC INTERVIEW WITH THE FORMER HOME MINISTER OF ANDHRA PRADESH – V.P. NAIR – ON THE MURDERS EPISODE, WITH SHORT VIDEO CLIP! (Click here) Two decades of experience of Sathya Sai Baba, mostly apparently very positive, led me to believe that he ...
World leaders and Sathya Sai Baba
2009-05-28 10:30:00 Sathya Sai Baba welcomes all important and rich persons, especially Presidents, Prime Ministers and royalty, always giving them full priority over all those who work selflessly for him, however spiritual they may be. For example, the despotic rulers, the super-rich King & Queen of Nepal, were blessed by Sathya Sai Baba as seen in the photo ...
Sathya Sai Baba and the Vedas ? part one
2009-05-20 21:14:00 Sathya Sai Baba makes the phenomenal claim that he is in reality the Almighty form of the Vedas (i.e. “Vedarupa“) [Sanathana Sarathi July 1974, p. 170] He writes and speaks much about them, that they are the result of sages’ (i.e. rshis) “high spiritual vision” including “body, mind and spirit” and claims that they reveal “astronomical ...
Sathya Sai Baba blessings
2009-05-14 13:22:00 Sai Baba has repeatedly stated in his discourses that he knows everything about everything and that nothing he does is without meaning. This opens for many ways of interpreting anything Sathya Sai Baba is seen to do, or does NOT do, as a blessing. There is a group indoctrination which begins as soon as one ...
Sathya Sai Baba and the Dalai Lama
2009-05-11 22:41:00 The Dalai Lama is known world-wide for his courage and often illumining and acceptable teachings, but above all for his life, which is truly a message of non-violence and standing for the truth and what is right. His righteous (dharmic) life has been in strict adherence to non-violence, seen in all he has done since ...
Sathya Sai Baba ? insider report
2009-05-09 12:32:00 A friend in Oslo, another ex-devotee, received an unsolicited e-mail from a Sai devotee – one of the several remaining Sai followers in Norway, an Indian immigrant who propagates her information from alleged ‘close friends of Swami’. I do not give her name and e-mail address are deleted so as not to embarrass her more ...
Sathya Sai Baba prophesies his death
2009-05-08 20:00:00 Sathya Narayana Raju (later Sathya Sai Baba) is reported by several devotee writers as having said he will die at the age 95 and/or 96 (in some places in India a person who is 95, yet is in-the 96th year, is said to be 96 years old.) On various occasions Baba has reportedly said in ...
Dreams of Sathya Sai Baba - imaginary or real?
2009-05-05 13:37:00 THE SELF-PROCLAIMED “OMNISCIENT” SELF-CONTRADICTOR OF PUTTAPARTHI, SATHYA SAI BABA, REFUTES HIS OWN TEACHING OF DECADES THAT HE ACTUALLY MANIFESTS HIMSELF IN PEOPLE’S DREAMS Some people claim to have seen God in their dream. Where is dream? Where is God? In fact, dream experience itself is not real. It is only an illusion. They are deluded to ...
G.J. Moreno?s ?senile dementia? slurs, avoidances & irrationality
2009-04-26 11:00:00 Gerald Joe Moreno is seriously at odds with medical opinion: For Joe Moreno, small errors I have sometimes made in my rapid writings are the clear symptoms of a very serious condition, namely “senile dementia”. He does not apply this medical diagnosis to his own errors, of course, which are many indeed… of which more ...
Gerald Moreno?s personal details removed from vishvarupa.com
2009-04-25 10:09:00 Joe Moreno claims that he never ever removed any page with personal details from vishvarupa.com. This is entirely false. He removed pages entitled AboutMe.html, ExperiencesSai1.html, ExperiencesSai2.html and ExperiencesSai3.html - all of which contained diverse details of a very personal nature. (See proofs below) The vishvarupa.com website was started by Gerald Joe Moreno - earliest known entry ...
Joe Moreno as ?sathyasaibaba? with smear campaign
2009-04-22 14:39:00 Having run a massive smear campaign against all critics of Sathya Sai Baba, Joe Moreno claims he is fighting a smear campaign against him! This is his tit-for-tat, back to front thinking all over. However, I and others who he has continually attacked are finally rebutting his massive years-long smear campaign against us - and ...
Joe Moreno?s schoolyard tit-for-tat attacks
2009-04-22 13:58:00 It is amusing that this self-styled “researcher” - Joe Moreno - has made schoolyard taunts about the current appearance of Barry Pittard, who he has never met - and whose photo he has never seen (though he did post one he presented as Pittard!). Moreno wrote “according to one email source, his face is heavily ...
Apartments in Prashanthi Nilayam and Brindavan
2009-04-21 23:48:00 Donors cannot become legal or de facto owners: Donors of large sums for the right to use an apartment at the Prashanthi Nilayam (Puttaparthi) and the Brindavan (Whitefield) ashrams once used to become ‘owners’ - but only in name, not in reality. Usually after some years, by paying an additional fairly moderate sum (by Western ...
Nectar of the Gods? Or tea rose essence & sugar water?
2009-03-29 13:14:00 Sathya Sai Baba’s liquid ‘amrit‘ (i.e. honey nectar), a supposedly holy substance like the Bible’s ‘ambrosia’, does have a distinctive odour. It can be collected by visitors from the doubtful ‘Thief’s Temple’ in South India near Mysore, run by a former baggage lifter called Halagappa, who has two small amulets with Sathya Sai Baba’s picture ...
Sai Baba declares he is Vishnu and Krishna come again
2009-03-07 08:09:00 Sathya Sai Baba’s overall claim to be the great Avatar come to save humanity - though also claimed by others - is taken to such lengths that no others can compete in delusions of grandeur:- “When dharma declines or rather, when those who have a duty to regulate their lives according to dharma lose faith ...
Corruption endemic under Sathya Sai Baba?s leadership
2009-02-25 12:54:00 The core of the organisation controlling and funding Sai Baba interests, the Sathya Sai Central Trust, is a tax and custom duty free institution by special allowance of the government. As a Charitable Trust it is not legally required to have any rules or guidelines. It is run entirely by the board, which always defers ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s early years
2009-02-11 14:34:00 Short VIDEO CLIP (only 420Kb) Basava Premanand tells of Sathya Sai Baba and his family in his early years The elderly grandfather of Sathya Narayana Raju (who took over the name Sai Baba) was a performer, as Prof. Kasturi stated in his official biography (Volume 1 (Satyam,Sivam, Sundaram). Under his guidance, the family troupe performed ...
Ignorance is bliss in Sai Baba?s ?teaching?
2009-01-26 09:16:00 If he know so much, why does Sai Baba not clear all doubts? Why does the self-professed omniscient Avatar not make known fully and clearly everything about his mission and answer every type of valid question and doubt that arises? Sathya Sai Baba gives various reasons for his not engaging publicly in explanations about his claimed ...
The mystery of Sathya Sai Baba
2009-01-25 10:32:00 Sai Baba says:- 1) no one can understand him or his mystery, not if all humanity combines in the effort for thousands of years. 2) that God can be known by anyone who follows his advice perfectly, practices sadhana and attains self-realisation, because God is in the heart and everyone is God. Logically, both cannot be true, yet ...
Good thoughts from India - re Sai Baba
2009-01-23 13:26:00 I received a comment approving my efforts from a blogger, on whose interesting blog I also then put a comment (see blog with comment here). He has chosen the pen-name ‘nitwit nastik’ and thus, as an agnostic, he also differs from so many self-important religious believers in my experience (and they are very many) in ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s literal stories from scripture
2009-01-22 10:18:00 COUNTLESS INDIAN ‘GOD-MEN’ AND GURUS HAVE PRONOUNCED THAT THEY ARE INCARNATIONS OF DEITIES LIKE KRISHNA, RAMA AND MANY OTHERS… BUT SATHYA SAI BABA HAS EXCEEDED THEM ALL IN INCREDIBLE CLAIMS! Sathya Sai Baba always speaks as if most of the events described in the Ramayana, the Mahabharata incl. Bhagavad Gita, and the Srimad Bhagavatha actually ...
No endorsement of US President by Sathya Sai Baba
2009-01-21 09:12:00 And no endorsement of Sathya Sai Baba by President Barack Obama either. The inauguration of the most powerful person in the world was NOT the inauguration of Sathya Sai Baba as ‘King of the World’ as prophesied by the spurious palm leaves and astrological hoo-ha of Shastri Narayana of Bangalore and taken up strongly by ...
Study of Sathya Sai Baba?s Miracles
2009-01-17 11:06:00 An on-line web paper (by Ted Powell) is adapted from the book “Sai Baba’s Miracles: an overview” by Dale Beyerstein. The extensive paper has considerable food for thought for any intelligent, educated person who is interested in Sathya Sai Baba. It is found at the BC Society for Skeptical Inquiry website here Sai Baba is an ...
Sathya Sai Baba books and publications
2009-01-16 15:38:00 Books and writings endorsed by Sathya Sai Baba There are hundreds of books about Sai Baba in English alone. Sathya Sai Baba has stated to his servitors like V.K. Narasimhan that he loves to read books by authors who praise him. He is lauded by most writers, not only to the skies, but to above ... |
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