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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....
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.
Bhagavad Gita and Facing Villains. Will Sathya Sai Alumni Speak Up? And Fig
2011-08-07 07:03:00 Especially to my former students at the Sathya Sai College, Whitefield, via Bangalore, South India, I would commend as worthy of some contemplation a few thoughts: A number of survivors of Sathya Sai Baba immoral depredations have shown much courage, and determination that, if at all possible, others do not suffer the same sexual abuse at the hands of Sathya Sai Baba and those around him. There remain those who by no means see Sathya Sai Baba's death as the end of the great betrayal. His co-abusers still thrive.They fight for the tinsel and the trash. In some of them gold glitters in their eyes. Others want the wealth to be used towards doing good. But the true good requires exactly what Sai Baba so often said - speaking truth. And speaking it fearlessly.
When Perfumes Reek: Lavish Scents, Shampoos etc., Among Sai Baba Secret Tre
2011-07-24 11:49:00 Public Petition For Official Investigations of Sathya Sai Baba and His Worldwide Organization Subscribe in a reader Subscribe to Call for media and government ————-212;————-;————&#-8212;———̵-2;————&-#8212;– Sunday 24 July 2011 Goods found believed to have been gifted by the devotees from across the world Perfumes, sarees form Sai Baba?s inventory Hyderabad, July 23, DHNS: French perfumes, ...
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 ...
Descriptive reports from earlier times at Puttaparthi with Sai Baba
2011-07-13 09:34:00 One of the ex-students who writes to me now and whose identity must still remain anonymous due recently sent the following:- It’s so wonderful to know that the expose wild-fire is spreading wildly through the dry desert like environs of Puttaparthi. So many good people left the ashram earlier keeping silent due to the dangers ...
Puttaparthi not what it was with ?heart ripped out?
2011-07-05 00:51:00 Alas for Puttaparthi, despite all, as First Post Economy posts the headline “Puttaparthi cancelled? Sai Baba’s death tests a town’s faith.” It is all the poorer inhabitants suffer first and most, most of their livelihoods having been totally dependent on the popularity of Sathya Sai Baba, which has waned and waned in recent weeks as ...
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 ...
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...
Sai Trust: irregularities & secrecy on Sai Baba?s death
2011-06-27 12:24:00 The unrest in Puttaparthi – and no doubt throughout the International Sathya Sai Organization – is surely not caused only by the financial irregularities that are under investigation but by the long history of secrecy, unaccountability and cover-up by the Sathya Sai authorities. The greatest cause for concern is certainly the manner of Sathya Sai ...
Andhra Pradesh Intelligence Watch On Sathya Sai Central Trust. AP Gvt Closi
2011-06-24 11:44:00 Well wisher from India emails us: "It looks like the Andra Pradesh govt is putting the squeeze on the Sathya Sai trust. It appears that the Govt has a definite strategy in mind over a period, and hence the politicians and govt officials have been cold shouldering the SB trust officials (besides giving a silent go ahead for slapping criminal cases against them). The government has already withdrawn 16 exemptions to the SB trust, regarding auditing, some taxes, publishing accounts, being supervised by a govt official etc, among others. Even assets like land as well as intellectual properties can no longer be sold by the trust without govt permission. At a high level meeting , Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy (who is not a devotee), brushed aside his cabinet's apprehensions that SB devotees may be offended by any Govt takeover of the trust. It is strongly indicated that the Govt is moving towards this decision, and the young AP Chief minister (a former state cricketer...
Could Sathya Sai Treasury Scandals Lead to India?s Watergate?
2011-06-23 05:11:00 I have listened to many country's national anthems. But, I must say, for purely musical reasons, the Indian national anthem has long been my favourite. The melody unfailingly tugs at my heartstrings. Even so, when I listen to it these days, there is an extra freight-load of poignancy to it. I think back to the Indian homes, from rich to poor - n0, VERY poor - where I lived for lengths of time with Indian families - forever the honorary 'uncle'. Joys and sorrows well up when I hear the Indian national anthem, although I know some families equally dear to me wish that the words were, or were not, in the Hindi language. At the same time, whatever may seem to be the contraindicators, there can be few, if any, countries in which those of different persuasions can get along together. Too often, it is the hotheads whom we come to hear about. We don't always hear, for example, of how many Hindus risked their lives to save Sikhs who were set upon in pogroms, after two Sikh bodyguards ...
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.
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 ...
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: .........
Puttaparthi becoming a ghost town?
2011-06-07 09:25:00 One cannot be but sorry for all those poor Indians whose livelihoods have been built around the popularity of Sathya Sai Baba, no more than one can be glad that the big money-making property tycoons – including Sathya Sai Baba family members and corrupt ‘officials’ – are suffering a major setback. The prospects for Puttaparthi ...
Brian Steel Exposes Sathya Sai Baba On Glaring Historical Mistakes
2011-04-27 07:19:00 Select writings from Brian Steel?s Extensive Opus. Sathya Sai Baba can be documented by any conscientious reader as having made contradictory statements and egregious historical and scientific blunders. These include his remarks on Jesus Christ and Martin Luther . For Steel?s detailed and sharply contextualized discussion, see: Sai Baba and Christianity. Some Observations (2002). Steel remarks here ...
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 to be ?resurrected? on Easter Day?
2011-04-23 14:00:00 From one of my Indian sources, a well known Indian who knows the inner working of the sb ashram and had been in the forefront of the sb expose for several years and known personally to me for years, I received this today: “As of 4 pm ( April 23rd)…the news coming through is the ...
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,...
Sathya Sai Baba on illness and death
2011-04-06 12:43:00 BREAKING NEWS: Despite the detailed statement by Dr. Safaya on all the steps taken to treat Sathya Sai Baba’s multiple illness condition, his all too reassuringly diplomatic style does little to dispel the seriousness of the guru’s critical condition. It is understandable that he would not paint the doomsday scenario for Sai Baba as the ...
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 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...
Sathya Sai Baba?s Mastery of ?The Big Lie?
2011-02-01 04:00:00 Among the plethora of Puttaparthi untruths, there is the constant repetition, mantra-like and mind-numbing, from Sai Baba and many of his followers about the supposedly vast millions who follow him. He, like many other misleaders of the world, long ago mastered the strategy of what is often referred to as 'the big' lie. A scholar studying Sathya Sai Baba may consider some comparisons by looking at the US Office of Strategic Services war-time profile report on Adolph Hitler, (^ Hitler as His Associates Know Him ,OSS report, p.51, cited in Wikipedia: The Big Lie) which stated:
Dr John Hislop: Sathya Sai Baba Both Fallible and Infallible
2011-01-15 01:16:00 Dr John Hislop, one-time top leader of the Sathya Sai Organization in the USA, and before that head of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi foundation in the USA, said that Sai Baba was fallible, but ... still infallible! To a mind not caught in the need to rationalize and justify the inexplicable, Dr John Hislop's notion of fallibility within infallibility is a case of psychological denial and of mental gymnastics at a far stretch. Like so many devotees, especially those close to Sathya Sai Baba, Hislop knew very well that Sai Baba told lies. Devotees, however, pass these off as, variously, "Baba's funny little ways"; "his sparing of our feelings"; his "Leelas" (meaning his divine sportiveness .... When writing, they use a capital 'L'); "his perfect 'Truth', but our human imperfection" which cannot see that he is teaching us some profound lesson, for example, in learning detachment; and more such Procrustean racking of human reason and commonsense. He exhorts that his devotees: "Love...
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...
Is Puttaparthi Glitter the ?Shining India??
2010-12-15 23:31:00 Many are the demonstrably mistaken accusations thrown at those who have stood forth to expose Sathya Sai Baba and his international sect. For example, typically taking our remarks badly out-of-context, it is said that we are: "India bashers". But they do their cause harm; and we learn that many Sai devotees will have nothing to do with them - although we also know that some who are close to Sathya Sai Baba have assisted them in various ways. Indeed, the absurdity and intellectual dishonesty of their attempts to defame will not win them the favour of astute and questioning readers.
Sathya Sai Baba crying (video)
2010-12-10 16:55:00 “Tears should be shed only for God and not for anyone else. Whatever one’s grief one should not shed tears. Tears may flow out of joy or enthusiasm or ecstasy, but not from a feeling of sorrow.” [Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 28 - Ch. 10, p113] See the short video clip from his 85th birthday ...
Sathya Sai 85th Birthday. Has Said He Will Soon Rule World, And Not Age
2010-11-24 22:13:00 THIS AILING MAN, SATHYA SAI BABA, HAS RECENTLY SAID THAT HE WILL SOON TRAVEL TO OTHER COUNTRIES. HE HAS ALSO SAID THAT SOON HE WILL BE RULING BE RULING THE WORLD Sathya Sai Baba has said: ?In the days ahead, the whole world will be obliged to come to Prashanthi Nilayam? (p. 320 Sanathana Sarathi ...
Puttaparthi Sai Baba Celebrates 85th Birthday
2010-11-21 21:31:00 On 23 November, 2010, devotees from around the world celebrate Sathya Sai Baba's birthday. Their consciences need to be challenged. They can be asked: How can they lend themselves to such wasteful displays of pomp and ceremony? How can those of them who have so cruelly rejected their once dearly beloved fellow devotees' whom they knew over decades to be good and decent human beings, proclaim that they are, as Sai worshipers, devotees of Truth, Love and Right Action? How can those Indian government and other dignitaries, whom we know to have been apprised in detail of the many worldwide allegations against Sai Baba, look at themselves and their families with any honesty? For those prepared to look at a number of alternative views of how Sathya Sai Baba continues to bring India, in an aura of shame, to the notice of the world, the following is but the briefest selection of resources.
Sathya Sai Baba?s Gross Exaggerations of Puttaparthi Crowd Numbers
2010-11-20 23:25:00 Robert Priddy (he for much longer) and I can fairly claim a friendship with the late V.K. Narasimhan, who had been, before he retired to Puttaparthi, the legendary and courageous editor of a number of India's top newspapers, such as 'The Hindu' and 'The Indian Express' and 'The Deccan Herald'. We would regularly sit together in his humble quarters at Puttaparthi, and he also received me as a guest in the family home in Chennai. Not long before VKN died, he instructed the hospital staff to allow me, even though considerable restrictions had been placed on visitation rights, to visit him at the Sathya Sai Superspeciality Hospital at Puttaparthi. I had been editing his book on the great French Jesuit philosopher and palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I had seen a Priddy note in which he took to task a Sai Baba apologist who typified those many followers who reveal deep and repeated flaws of reasoning that are simply not acceptable in any proper discussion. He wrote to ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s claims of financial poverty, non-ownership and self-sacri
2010-11-12 19:16:00 “Some people are so mean-minded that they do not want to understand and appreciate the sanctity associated with the activities. Have any of them been able to accomplish even one-thousandth part of what Sai baba is doing? No, no, no! It is only Sathya Sai Baba who has undertaken such noble tasks without a trace ...
Disquiet In India On Sathya Sai Baba
2010-11-10 22:26:00 Despite profound a profound black ban by most of the Indian media news inimical to Sathya Sai Baba and his cult, various forces of dissent in India continue to protest Sathya Sai Baba related visits involving high profile politicians. The two reports below are months apart. Note in the second report, our 'old' acquaintance, Shrivraj Patil, the former Indian Home Minister, one of a number of deeply disgraced former government officials who are devotees of Sathya Sai Baba, rates a mention. See my articles:
Wolf Messing and Sathya Sai Baba: Serguei Badaev and Brian Steel Articles O
2010-10-22 23:52:00 One of many instructive cases that challenge Sai Baba's self-presentation are his references, across time, to an alleged meeting of himself and the Polish psychic Wolf Messing. The more scrutiny that is given - other than by the eyes of blind faith - to many of Sathya Sai Baba's pronouncements about history and science the more a rational reader is struck by the occurrence of error, contradiction and lack of clarity. An editor at the Invigilator blogsite has noted: "The text previously posted about Wolf Messing by Alexandra Nagel on this blog (written in 2004) has been removed since researches by expert investigators - entirely independently of all Sathya Sai Baba connections - have proven almost his entire biography to be a concocted myth. This information only emerged after new hitherto unknown sources became available. showing that the world has been totally misled by the claims put forward by Wolf Messing and Mikhail Khvastunov. In his thorough article summarizing these ma...
The BBC?s ?The Secret Swami? (Sathya Sai Baba) On YouTube: A Tamil Version
2010-10-20 22:26:00 Calling Tamilians .... Kindly pass the word along. Someone has posted a Tamil version of the BBC's ''The Secret Swami'on YouTube. Amusingly, someone else has gone to all the effort of flooding the consecutive YouTube pages with quotes from Sathya Sai Baba.
Murders in The Abode of Supreme Peace temple ? 1
2010-10-15 18:30:00 In case anyone might forget these horrendous murders and their cover-up by the Government of India, the graphic description needs to be circulated once again. This murder case will haunt Indian authorities for decades to come, and very rightly so. It is not even one of the most serious miscarriages of justice, because no form ...
Suicides for ?not getting Sai darsan? etc.
2010-09-28 10:42:00 Deaths by accident, suicides and murders have occurred quite regularly at Sathya Sai Baba ashrams or in connection with his darshan (or lack of it). Even his closest servitors have suffered unnecessarily and died in great pain (Prof. Kasturi, V.K. Narasimhan, Kutumb Rao), while his biggest donor’s wife, Barbara Sinclair, died in a taxi crash ...
Beatings, torture and killings by Police in India
2010-09-25 15:38:00 Police bestiality, legal and official corruption in India today India?s government has spent billions of dollars (some – incl. the BBC – report it may eventually amount to 50 billion) on the Commonwealth Games – wealth that should instead have been for the common people instead in this land of the greatest human calamities. The ...
The Puttaparti Police expansion and Sai Baba
2010-08-22 14:55:00 V.J. Ram (aka Janakiram) was a senior Indian CID officer who received the President’s Police Medal for having solved many difficult cases. His book on ‘The Godmen of India’ is extremely revealing, especially as regards the long history of criminal incidents connected to Sathya Sai Baba and his coterie. His sensational book is about several ... |
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