Links Critical of Sathya Sai Baba: India?s Most Famous Living Guru
2009-11-01 22:09:00 Links to websites and blogsites critical of Sathya Sai Baba, India's most famous living guru, who claims to be God fully incarnate, come to save the world, effectively in his own lifetime
Sai Baba claims embarrass officials ? who cover them up
2009-09-29 15:16:00 The Sathya Sai Baba official website [www.sathyasaiorg] has recently been weeded of some of the main propaganda that it formerly contained. Among what were long considered the very most important items were four ‘key’ discourses given by Sai Baba where he makes his mega-claims about himself. For decades these have been seen by his officials ...
Dr G. Venkataraman, Sathya Sai Baba?s Nuclear Boon Companion
2009-09-29 00:18:00 Robert Priddy is the former long-time head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway and a retired philosopher in the Social Sciences, University of Oslo. He has written insightfully on the extraordinary, often procrustean efforts of Sathya Sai Baba's head of Puttaparthi propaganda programs to rationalise his beliefs in Sathya Sai Baba. Though not a physical (actually, nuclear) scientist like Dr G. Venkataraman, he has an abiding interest in the sciences, and how a certain variety of scientists, in a great minority but with unfortunate influence far beyond their importance, falsely use science to buttress up their religious claims. The following information may be of particular value for journalistic and scholarly investigators, and also those institutions and agencies which the Sathya Sai cult in many countries attempts to influence - but without portraying their real agendas. For those who may like to hunt and peck among Priddy's writings on G. Venkataraman, I have excerpted fro...
?The Secret Swami? ? BBC Film Footage and Transcript
2009-09-22 00:29:00 VIEW THESE EXCERPT TRANSCRIPTS AND VIDEO CLIPS FROM THE BBC TV DOCUMENTARY 'THE SECRET SWAMI':
Reply To Sathya Sai Baba Defender
2009-09-21 02:22:00 A former devotee received a note from one clearly upset at dissent from Sathya Sai Baba. Its mood is fairly typical of emails former followers receive. It may be noted that, apart from a minority of former Sai devotees who don't know their manners, there is a strong commitment to courteousy (just as, indeed, there is among Sai devotees too). The recipient responded as follows:
Sai Baba group claims miracles ? seeks donations
2009-09-20 20:22:00 The latest super-naive followers of the two Sai Baba’s in Queens, New York – also worshippers of various Indian deities besides – are claiming (with a video) that Sai Baba performed miracles at their temple by moving helium balloons about so that they “worshipped his feet”. The alleged ‘miracle’ (leela) is accepted totally uncritically by ...
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 ...
?What about the miracles?? Response To One Drawn By Sathya Sai Baba
2009-09-06 03:53:00 Recently, a writer, who had witnessed inexplicable phenomena occurring at a Sai devotee venue, asked me: what about the (Sathya Sai Baba-related) miracles that are happening around the world? I responded in terms close to the following. I shall now include some relevant links: The question is fair. It is one that many who have left Sathya Sai Baba have pondered over. I have not seen any satisfactory explanation. Typically, there is a quality of manifestation that cannot be explained. In my view, these phenomena are far removed from phenomena of the Ouija board type, what to mention many another variety studied by parapsychologists. I think that neither devotee nor non-devotee explanations can do justice to phenomena about which, in the scientific, rational sense, we can say very little. There is that arresting statement in the philosopher Paul Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus': "Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent".
Ignorance and religious mind control
2009-09-04 23:18:00 The following passage is a most interesting and actual comparison… … with acknowledgements to one of the most brilliant, knowledgeable evolutionary scientists and a civil and courageous person – defender of the rights of children not to be indoctrinated religiously. Of course, it is Richard Dawkins, whose new book everyone – especially anyone who believes ...
Donors and Would-be Donors Beware (Sathya Sai Central Trust Example)
2009-08-30 01:34:00 As the years pass, more evidence emerges of the very non-divine manner in which Sathya Sai Baba and his financial wing collect vast funds - particularly from wealthy donors. As with scams the world over, there are methods of 'spotting' - in this case, by ashram staff of visitors most likely to donate large sums. The admixture of 'miracles' - such as Sai Baba's 'materializing' of expensive rings or pendants etc., for the wealthy - is central to setting up of these traps. This operation involves the participation of the registration office, as well as Sathya Sai Baba's close servitors, many of them wealthy or those who have given away their wealth to him. Criminals and police forces often refer to this type of spotting as finding the 'mark' or victim to be set up. Donors and Would-be Donors Beware There are two classes of individual, and in some cases institutions, who have every reason to be looking at these issues. First, those who have already been donors to Sathya Sa...
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 ...
Lingam regurgitation ? new video clip
2009-08-12 21:28:00 In the above very brief streaming video clip (only 312 Kb), you can view the common feat of producing lingam-type stones from the mouth by fakirs and street illusionists. This one was filmed by a German crew I watched filming in 1990 at Brindavan ashram. The German commentary stated that Mustapha, the magician, earns his ...
Sathya Sai Baba On Magnetism. Science or Sai-ence?
2009-08-12 02:39:00 Sathya Sai Baba is wildly at odds with some of the most basic scientific facts. His jumping between from physical to metaphysical notions, vague at best, are at grave odds with the physics being taught in his colleges and universities - and in any respectable classroom. In an early blog of mine in 2007 - A Great Deceiver ? Laughable But Still Dangerous - I wrote: "Sai Baba?s many scientist followers must have to block their ears or don magical-thinking hearing aids when he opines on matters scientific. Some of his pronouncements are comic, to be sure. But the smile disappears from one?s face when considering that Sai Baba?s devotees number many leaders in the top power echelons of politics, government, the sciences, the judiciary, diplomacy, industry, finance, the arts, medicine, and so on. He speaks, for example, of the nature of magnetism" ..... Since then, Sai Baba's critical commentator's have noted many past and current absurdities .....
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 ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s Slurred Speech Due To Old Age. ?Eenadu? News Report
2009-08-02 12:26:00 That Sathya Sai Baba has made egregious historical and scientific blunders does not inspire confidence in his statements about pre-historical events. See my article: Huge Sai Baba Gaffes Various commentators have pointed to Sathya Sai Baba's 'turkey throat' and other signs of ageing in him, his episodes of falling over (one of which I have observed at quite close quarters along with many shocked observers at a Puttaparthi darshan), his uttering of inanities, his fits of crying, his walking round and round in circles, his blank stare and mask-like face, and so on.
Sathya Sai Baba?s ?divine magnetism?
2009-07-26 00:39:00 Sathya Sai Baba’s delusions of grandeur on the public record reveals him still to have much of his semi-literate villager?s ideas, holding discourses which reveal that the Divine Omniscience he claims does not stretch to magnetism, atomic physics, geophysics or a list of other subjects. His world-view is illustrated well enough in his discourse ...
Miracles ?With Bhagavan at Kodaikanal?
2009-07-24 13:06:00 Around 1988 I met Prof. S. Sampath [Vice-Chancellor Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Education, Vidyagiri.] At a ‘lecture’ he held for foreigners at Prashanthi Nilayam, he was clearly a fully indoctrinated follower of Sathya Sai baba, as his various writings show in full. I quote from his ‘With Bhagavan at Kodaikanal’ [Sanathana Sarathi June,1994 p.152 ...
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 ...
The magnet of Sathya Sai Baba?s ?lingam? miracles
2009-07-22 13:35:00 The Sathya Sai Baba Lingam Question: The production of lingams at the Shivarathri festival was discontinued in the 1970s, according to Sathya Sai Baba, because the crowds were too large and injuries were being caused. It is of note that Sathya Sai Baba started up the lingodbhava in public again when the allegations had broken ...
Close-up photo of Sai Baba ring materializing?
2009-07-21 12:25:00 A gold and enamel ring Sathya Sai Baba supposedly ‘created’ with a wave of his hand? THE APPARENT ‘MATERIALISATION’ OF ONE OF SAI BABA’S STANDARD RINGS (CAN BE SILVER OR 18 CARAT GOLD) WITH AN ENAMEL FACE SHOWING HIMSELF. MANY TAKE THIS PHOTOGRAPH AS PROOF POSITIVE THAT SAI BABA IS ACTUALLY MATERIALISING THIS OBJECT. THIS ...
Brian Steel On Sathya Sai Baba?s Credibility Gap. John Hislop Contributions
2009-07-16 01:58:00 In some ways, it is regrettable that scholarly habits can limit readership. It is fortunate that Brian Steel writes clearly. His background is in academic studies and teaching at a leading Australian university. His fairly lengthy January 2009 piece Sathya Sai Baba?s credibility gap: Contributions by John Hislop deserves to see light of day. One might well think that thoughtful readers who still adhere to Sathya Sai Baba would, nonetheless, still be among Steel's appreciative readers. Other readers who likely to find value in Steel's writing would surely include those who have left the Sathya Sai Baba fold who appreciate historic overviews of the movement of which they have been a part. The calmness and balance of the writing are key strengths.
Must Christians Believe in Miracles?
2009-06-23 21:52:00 The four Gospel narratives are filled with examples of Jesus performing miraculous acts. According to Matthew’s version, even his life began supernaturally, in that his conception was not the result of a sexual union. For most Christians, the picture of Jesus working miracles seems to be exactly what one would expect of a divine being -the ...
By: Sharp Iron
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 ...
BBC and Other Film Footage Shows India?s Top Guru Sathya Sai Baba Faking Mi
2009-06-10 23:16:00 The Sathya Sai Baba Organization has tried to stem a major exit from congregations via a role it internally refers to as 'the waverer's committee'. This wealthy and highly authoritarian organization, which seeks to infiltrate mainstream civic, religious, education and political venues, will not be so frank as to show the waverers the following videos. For the Sathya Sai Organizations recruiting drives in luxurious venues, See: ?Secret Swami? Cult Recruits At Prime Public Venues. For the dangers posed in its infiltration of unsuspecting communities, while concealing its agendas, and often from its own rank-and-file, See, Sathya Sai Baba Sect and Its Hidden Agendas. A Caution To truthfully go through these stark video revelations of Sathya Sai Baba cheating with his (so-called) miracles is to see why Sathya Sai Baba defenders like Dr G. Venkataraman and Gerald Moreno have raised profound smokescreens and engineered such markedly distorted 'pictures' of hundreds of former Sathy...
Sathya Sai Baba?s Failed Moon Miracle Under Heavy Cloud
2009-05-23 01:36:00 An article that has continued to gain many ‘hits’ long months after the posting at: http://barrypittard.wordpre-ss.com is: Sai Baba To Be Seen In Moon? But Where Was Moon? The almost acrobatic contortions of Sai Baba’s defenders are well-nigh tortuous to read. Perhaps they impart some kind of imagined bliss to those who habitually refuse to look carefully at the evidence ...
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 ...
Miracle of Miracles -- Arab States, like Israel, Fear an Obama "Engagement"
2009-05-06 16:16:00 UPDATING 5-7-2009Anti-Zionism is the anti-imperialism of foolsThe half-brights and all-dumbs and smart ignoramuses in the Obama Administration have run into a likely unforeseen obstacle to their obsessive dream of helping the Iranian ayatollahs obtain the Bomb. The six Arab sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf have. . . concerns [about this policy that] . . . sound strikingly like those coming from the mouths of Israeli officials.[AP, Salah Nasrawi, 6 May 2009]Like Israel, they fear the prospect of a fanatic Iran armed with nuclear weapons. Once upon a time the US claimed to fear nuclear proliferation. A treaty against nuclear proliferation [NPT] was duly drawn up and signed by most states, including Iran, which is now violating it. However, after years of European negotiations with A-jad's government over stopping nuclear weapons development, with deadlines repeatedly offered when Iran did not comply with previous deadlines, the new wet-behind-the-ears administration of Barack Obama decl...
By: Emet m\'Tsiyon
Miracles of Shirdi Sai Baba
2009-05-03 22:28:00 Miracles were day to day affair in Shirdi while Sai Baba was embodied and lived in a lonely village of Shirdi. The masjid which he lovingly called Dwarkamai ( Sacred Mother) was not a very good condition. Yet he chose the place for the sacred gold the place possesses.Speaking of miracles many happened in Dwarkamai.Dwarkamai was old and neglected building until Sai Baba chose to make it a place to settle down in Shirdi. Once Sai Baba was eating with fellow devotees. In the noon time few devotees would eat their meal with Sai Baba. When the lunch was being eaten, from the roof of the old building cracking sound was herd. Every one knew that the slab would come crashing down. Some of devotees took to their heals fearing of getting being crushed under the rubble of the collapsed roof.Sai Baba in the thundering voice called out wait, and continued to eat the afternoon meal. The close devotees who had Faith (Shraddha) in Sai Baba also continued to eat their meal along with Shri Sai Baba....
By: Shirdi Sai Baba
BBC Footage Exposes Fake Sathya Sai Baba Miracle
2009-05-01 10:47:00 See for yourself how exposing was the BBC crew's capture of Sathya Sai Baba collapsing after pretending to miraculously materializing a gold Shivalingam, and its exposure of his dithering performance. HERE . Film shot by others at the same occasion by those partial to Sathya Sai Baba was tightly suppressed
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 ...
Sathya Sai Baba and his Organization Permit Attacks On Ex-followers
2009-03-14 11:30:00 That Sathya Sai Organization members can turn such a blind eye, and so stultify their hearts, and yet still claim to be loving and truthful shows them to be a group that communities and institutions throughout the world need to be most wary of. As previously chronicled,Sai Baba's and his organization's hidden agenda is that he is to take over the world and rule it before circa CE 2022. Devotees are told not to mention this in any public interfaces
Sleight Of Hand. The Slightness of Sathya Sai Baba
2009-03-09 04:52:00 The magic tricks Sathya Sai Baba employs are a pale shadow of these. But they are comparable to what a clever enough amateur friend or aquaintance of ours (or perhaps we ourselves) can learn and perform. This blog has links to YouTube and other sources which show magic tricks performed by, and in some instances explained, by some of the greatest magicians of all times. These include: Harry Houdini,David Blaine,Lance Burton,
Right Hand. Sleight Hand. Watch Sai Baba Cheat With Sacred Ash (Film clip)
2009-03-07 23:05:00 Repeatedly, on footage of Sathya Sai Baba's apparent miraculous materialization, an observer - other than one stricken with blind faith - can see the same technique that is used by magicians the world over.
Censored Indian National Television Film of Sai Baba Cheating
2009-03-05 00:25:00 Watch Sathya Sai Baba as he is caught out cheating in the supposed materialization of a necklace. This is the August 1992 footage taken in Hyderabad by Doordarshan, India's national television and radio broadcaster. The Prime Minister of the time, P.V. Narasimha Rao, a Sai Baba devotee, stepped in forbade the showing of the film.
Does Sathya Sai materialize money?
2009-03-03 08:59:00 Here follows a brief excerpt in transcript from the TV documentary ‘LA HISTORIA DE SAI BABA (I)’ as shown in Argentina. It demonstrates the extent to which devotees believe in the reality of hearsay. Cristina is the TV interviewer and the Central Coordinator of the South American Sathya Sai Organization, businessman Leonardo Gutter, is the ...
BBC Cameras Catch Sai Baba Cheating With Gold Sivalingam. (Film Clip)
2009-03-01 23:31:00 'Shiva Lingam' so-called miracle. Filmed By BBC For Its Documentary 'The Secret Swami' at Maha Shivarathri Festival at Puttaparthi (2004) The carelessness with which Sathya Sai Baba botched his trick may be explicable by other serious mistakes, in the context of his declining mental and physical health
Sathya Sai Baba in hindsight
2009-03-01 14:56:00 I first wrote the following around 2001 in a web page: “Some of what I experienced of Sai Baba’s extraordinary and positive powers through many years is undeniable, even after the most rigorous sceptical investigations, and I do not regard him as any ordinary person. After much soul-searching and disturbing discoveries, however, I have simply ...
Howard Murphet on the ?Man of Miracles?
2009-01-27 12:28:00 Howard Murphet was once a budding Theosophist, also a devotee biographer of Shirdi Sai Baba, before he stumbled further along his spiritual path until he ended up with Sathya Sai Baba. After a few years he wrote a book in a popular and sensational style called “Sai Baba, Man of Miracles”. This book was one ...
Sathya Sai Baba Miracles, truth and misconceptions
2009-01-20 11:22:00 Dr. Acharya Yogeesh of the Hindu-Jain ashram was very negative about Sathya Sai Baba’s miracle claims, such as the production of ‘holy ash’ (vibuthi). He is a fairly standard type guru and is not very convincing when he tells that one can “never trust anyone” except oneself. In fact, he did not forward any new ...
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 ...
J. Jegathesan - deluded believer in Sathya Sai Baba
2009-01-15 23:28:00 Datuk J. Jegathesan (or Jagadeeshan, as he sometimes signs himself) has a degree in economy and has long been a top leader in the Sathya Sai organization of Malaysia. Here is the cover of one of his books which praises Sathya Sai Baba and links him to many weird and wonderful events in the ‘fourth dimension’, ...
Closest Sai Baba servant didn?t believe in miracles!
2009-01-12 08:42:00 Ex-Indian Army Colonel Joga Rao (deceased) was one of the closest helpers of Sathya Sai Baba for decades, so much so that he often lived in Sathya Sai Baba’s various apartments and could always come and go as he wished in Sathya Sai Baba’s rooms. He also very often presided over the conditions of the ...
Robert Priddy?s Ten Top Posts on Sathya Sai Baba, Jan 2009
2009-01-09 13:55:00 It is quite instructive to survey Robert Priddy's current ten Top Posts posts out of his great many articles on his blogsite at: http://robertpriddy.wordpress.c-om Below are the titles, accompanied by a quote from these.
Movie Review ? Samson And The Seven Miracles
2008-12-30 18:13:00 I was born far too late to be able to regularly enjoy those swashbuckling serial television shows. There were pirates and swordplay and adventures and other things like that. I prefer a good pirate book ? Robert Louis Stevenson being a perennial favorite of mine. Keira Knightly is the only reason I?ve been watching any ...
Many Power Brokers Follow Failed Prophet Sathya Sai Baba
2008-12-28 23:03:00 Even in most recent pronouncements, Sathya Sai Baba can be seen making prophecies that are bound to be falsified before long, just as, well before today (see Related Readings, below) his many other absurdities have been shown to be seriously unfulfilled. Much of this would not matter to non Sai Baba followers the world over. However, they had best know that cult members in many countries are in positions of power and influence
Apparently, the bar for Christmas miracles has been set a lot lower in my h
2008-12-18 17:27:00 One of the things I like best about shopping for Christmas is getting "stocking stuffers," those little, inexpensive presents that can be wrapped separately as a fun little thing, or actually put into a stocking for someone on Christmas morning.Like this year, I'm getting Middle and Sweetie and Oldest some nail polish as an extra little gift -- and, guys, listen up: You don't have to venture into that frightening make-up zone in the department stores to buy nail polish, because you can get it online through "Hello Gorgeous!""Hello Gorgeous!" is this site I found that sells things like OPI nail polish and nail accessories, like balms and nail files and... whatever it is that needs to be done to nails besides cut them occasionally, I guess. I don't know, because I'm a guy and all I do to my nails is cut them too short and chew on them.But Sweetie and Middle and Oldest like doing their nails, and I like getting them presents, so it's nice to be able to go online and just order th...
?No fear of bombs? in India, Said Sai Baba a Week Before Mumbai Terrorist A
2008-12-01 00:13:00 While India's and the world's self-promised 'Saviour' potters and dithers, just as the Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burnt. A little more than a week before the horrendous terrorist strike on Mumbai, Sathya Sai Baba made yet another of his statements which have been tragically faulted by events seen by an aghast world only a few days later (and, in fact, all along, by a long series of terrorist attacks in India - extraordinarily overlooked by Sathya Sai Baba in his reported statement
Indian God?s Birthday. Says Will Rule World. Photo
2008-11-21 01:36:00 The golden allure of India's 'God' Sathya Sai Baba, of Puttaparthi. Says he will first rule India, the the whole world. He turns 83 on 23 November 2008
Sathya Sai Baba worshipped by India?s P.M.s etc.
2008-11-18 12:14:00 Time for Indian Government leaders to take to their senses: The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, and his Minister for Home Affairs (Shivraj Patil) are known devotees of Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, who they visit and show the utmost respect. A man who has for decades repeatedly claimed he is God Incarnate (which is illegal ... |
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