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Mariana Caplan on grief over guru Sathya Sai Baba
2012-02-04 16:06:00 It is with good intentions, no doubt, that Mariana Caplan – a psychologist involved with so-called ‘religious spirituality’ wants to contribute to helping people whose teachers die and ease their transition and grief. I must take exception, however, to her assertion that – even if these teachers employed fraud as part of their teaching – ...
Sathya Sai Baba ?materialization? fraudulence transparent on videos
2012-01-31 20:45:00 Prashanti Nilayam is supplied regularly with cow-dung ash ‘vibuthy’ manufactured in a Palani factory It is known that tons of vibuti are ordered by Prashanthi Nilayam from Palani (near the foot of the Kodai mountain in Tamil Nadu) where ‘vibuty’ is manufactired in quantity. I was friends with a former Seva Dal servitor, Krishna Panjwani of Bombay – ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s personality
2012-01-26 16:42:00 It would be interesting if any Sai devotes were able to refute (on any other basis that Sathya Sai Baba’s own claims about himself) that his own words and behaviour throughout his life fit very neatly into the descriptions of a God complex, megalomania, grandiosity, and narcissistic personality disorder. I happen to know the entire ...
Zealot laws to protect politicians and religious figures (like Sai Baba)?
2012-01-21 10:49:00 The Narasimha Rao government declared Sathya Sai Baba to be an official ‘national treasure’, while covering up the murders in his bedroom apartment that were master-minded by his close servitors while he stood by and ignoring the many credible and consistent sworn testimonies and affidavits presented to the Supreme Court of India of sexual abuse ...
Are prayers to Sathya Sai Baba effective?
2012-01-20 20:01:00 Prayer plays a central role in the doctrine of Sathya Sai Baba, as one might expect. His overall claim regarding prayers is that all of them, by whoever and to whatever saint, prophet, deity or God, eventually arrives at his own feet. He has pronounced himself to be the Deity of Deities. Even deities and ...
Events at Sathya Sai Baba ashrams illustrating the sick culture there
2012-01-19 14:08:00 The following excerpts from my diary notebook (1995) at Prashanthi Nilayam are representative of the kind of talk and tales which constantly circulated there.As one sees, murders were never reported and most residents did not even know of them when they happened while they were in the ashram, so carefully were all facts concealed whenever ...
Michael J. Hollander ? Longtime Ardent Sathya Sai Baba Apostle
2012-01-18 22:22:00 Amid the many poison-pen attacks that those who have stood forth to tell the truth about Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide cult have to endure, it is with marked relief that one receives mail from those whom one knew long ago and held in high regard. Such an email has just come from Richard ...
Michael J. Hollander: A Sathya Sai Baba Preacher of ?Woe-Unto-The-Wicked?
2012-01-16 03:04:00 I remember Michael Hollander This was in the early 1970's, when I taught for two years at the Sathya Sai College (1978-79) and heard that Sai Baba had selected a woman named Faith, a leader in a New York Sai center, as a wife for Hollander. At a time when very few westerners lived around Sai Baba, she came to spend prolonged time in quiet, focused spiritual retreat. She, her fellow devotees said, preferred to live, spiritually speaking, "married only to Swami". But, regarding him as all-knowing and all-seeing, she could not but comply with his wishes. I was quickly summoned to be some-sort-of 'best man' at this small wedding. I was aware of Michael Hollander as a rather robust, enthusiastic bhajan singer, who was very eager to lead bhajans (conducted from approximately 9am to 5pm) during Thursday and Sunday lunch-times when the experienced singers retired for lunch. Sathya Sai Baba conducted Michael and Faith's wedding in his interview room at the Whitefield campus. I can sti...
Light on critical dissent on spiritual claims ? such as in the Sai Baba cul
2012-01-14 12:47:00 A most excellent resource for those interested in the increasing world problem of cults, especially religious or ‘spiritual’ cults is found at http://www.fwbo-files.com/Co-fC.htm#Ex. It contains a succinct but extensive overview of most of the difficulties involved in the investigation and exposure of cults. The first article on that web page is so insightful that I take ...
Glen Meloy, David Bailey and Sai Baba VIPs
2012-01-12 16:12:00 Glen Meloy, a long-term faithful US follower of Sai Baba, who died in 2005, became a dissident when he learned through US Sai devotees who had told him of being sexually abused by Sathya Sai Baba. He was made the object of sexual libels, but not to the same extent as was David Bailey. This is ...
?The Guardian? on Sathya Sai Baba?s life and demise
2012-01-09 12:31:00 The following account is probably close to what will become the average assessment of Sathya Sai Baba in future, excluding the still considerable, but shrinking, cultist following. There is nothing that followers can do to counteract the criticism of their dead God, they cannot litigate for fear of the many adverse facts and sworn testimonies. ...
The Secret Swami is the most viewed Sai Baba critical documentary
2012-01-07 21:28:00 See short video clips and transcripts of the BBC documentary ‘The Secret Swami’ and with food reason, as it was the edited result of 80 hours of film recorded around the world -though reduced into 1 hour and excluding much highly damaging testimony from sexually abused followers due to the strict requirements on time and compact ...
Defenders of Sathya Sai Baba and ?vested interests?
2012-01-05 16:43:00 From time to time a few of those who were connected in one way or another ? and also some who remain so after his most unpropitious demise ? try to defend his failing reputation in the face of the major scandals that have followed him, especially since the worldwide sexual abuse testimonies from 1999 ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s private life
2012-01-02 14:23:00 Persons who belief in Sathya Sai Baba’s many preposterous claims and who have been allowed near to him for some time or in come capacity now and again make pronouncements about his which are based on their own delusions about his private doings. He managed his staff most carefully – letting those who could be ...
Time Magazine on Sathya Sai Baba
2011-12-29 12:44:00 At least this international news outlet got a rather larger number of the facts right, though its exposure is still very far from complete. His claim that the sexual abuse allegations were merely the “cawing of crows” cannot stand up against the massive sworn testimony by young men around around the world… he would have ...
Sathya Sai Baba lacked a true sense of humour and self-irony
2011-12-25 00:16:00 Among the most uncritical of ‘blind’ devotees was Peggy Mason of the UK, ‘who wrote a book (The Embodiment of Love’) and ran a magazine devoted to Sathya Sai Baba. Before she found Sai Baba, she had been deeply involved as a contributor to the fringe magazine in UK called ’Psychic News’, which dealt with spirits, ...
Sai Baba major catastrophe predictions (failed)
2011-12-22 10:46:00 Catastrophe predictions were reported as being made by Sathya Sai Baba on numerous occasions, of which a few were more well-known than other. In private interviews he would show people maps (allegedly ‘materialized’) – or globes which showed the earth after a major global catastrophe – land masses changed and partly disappeared etc. Transcript of the ...
Sai Trust member K.R. Prasad spread untruth by Sai Baba
2011-12-19 23:42:00 The entire apparatus around Sathya Sai Baba always spread disinformation and presented a false picture of many projects and events while no Sai officials did (or still do) anything to correct proven false ‘information’, and especially the constant flow of rumours of every kind. Reported miracles and leelas are NEVER investigated or in any way contradicted, ...
Sathya Sai Baba Miracles reconsidered ? part 1
2011-12-17 16:41:00 Many people who returned to visit Sathya Sai Baba at his ashrams, often regularly, will give accounts of miracles they claim to have witnessed, or at least the minor miracles usually known as ‘leelas’ (playful acts by the divinity). Not a few regard almost anything unusual as a miracle or interpret the most trivial everyday ...
U.S. Astronaut O?Leary visited, then rejected Sathya Sai Baba
2011-12-14 19:02:00 First comes a mail sent to Paul Holbach about the U.S. former astronaut (who never actually went into space, but who trained and wrote many learned articlesPaul Holbach is known for promoting Professor Dale Beyerstein’s deep investigations of Sathya Sai Baba’s claims (see here) Here follows a transcript of notes I (Robert Priddy) made in 1995 ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s miracles ? the veil lifted further
2011-12-12 22:50:00 As I have pointed out already in numerous connections, all the collected techniques of attracting and exploiting followers in the guru and godman tradition in India have been handed on through millennia to successors. Probably to a greater extent than any other priesthood in human history, the Vedic tradition and its many subsequent branches and departures is ...
Sai Baba blessed me with His grace and a baby boy
2011-12-12 20:48:00 Following is a very heart touching leela of Shirdi Sai Baba, which a devotee sincerely wants to share with this blog readers. i have added some relevant links to the writing. Om Sri Sai Nathay NamahI sincerely request the team to allow this article to be published, as it will give immense strength and confidence to all baba's children who are still waiting for his amazing blessings, which CAN make their lives take a BIG U TURN!!!! JAI SAI RAM Shirdi Sai Baba came into my life in 2005. Although i knew about him a few years before but getting to understand him only came in 2005. It was the same year my mother-in-law was visiting us from india, and we went to his temple together. Although i had no intention of opening my heart to him but as soon as i saw him i bursted out crying (One of the 8 types of spiritual ecstasies). I had been trying for a child for quite sometime now without any success. I had a miscarriage in 2003 and was unable to conceive after that. As soon as i saw baba...
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Sai Baba?s death still under scrutiny
2011-12-08 16:57:00 One of the many unresolved, covered-up issues about Sathya Sai Baba’s last days and death is still in the minds of some Indian media people. Sai officials? secret collusion over the death of Sathya Sai Baba Filed under: Sathya Sai Baba
Sai Baba?s death still under scrutiny
2011-12-08 16:57:00 One of the many unresolved, covered-up issues about Sathya Sai Baba’s last days and death is still in the minds of some Indian media people. Sai officials? secret collusion over the death of Sathya Sai Baba Filed under: Sathya Sai Baba
Baby Sai Baba not rocked by cobra in cradle
2011-12-01 01:03:00 Sathya Sai Baba's elder brother let an inquirer know that he was not a follower of his brother (no doubt a difficult position to make too public since he lived near the ashram and was surrounded everywhere by the true believer cult. He debunked the story of the cobra which supposedly appeared under the baby Sai's cradle and rocked him! Another of the countless exaggerations of fact to make things seem miraculous!
Baby Sai Baba not rocked by cobra in cradle
2011-12-01 01:03:00 Sathya Sai Baba's elder brother let an inquirer know that he was not a follower of his brother - no doubt a difficult position to make too public since he lived near the ashram and was surrounded everywhere by the true believer cult. He debunked the story of the cobra which supposedly appeared under the baby Sai's cradle and rocked him! Another of the countless exaggerations of fact to make things seem miraculous!
Sathya Sai Baba?s bent judge, P.N. Bhagwati is shamed
2011-11-28 00:14:00 Sathya Sai Baba’s extremist supreme court judge, whose level of integrity leaves everything to be desired, has once again shown himself to be a selfish conniving manipulator in the least honourable of India’s more broken democracy. His intelligence and probity came under scrutiny when he manipulated the Supreme Court judges to throw out in peremptory ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s bent judge, P.N. Bhagwati is shamed
2011-11-28 00:14:00 Sathya Sai Baba’s extremist supreme court judge, whose level of integrity leaves everything to be desired, has once again shown himself to be a selfish conniving manipulator in the least honourable of India’s more broken democracy. His intelligence and probity came under scrutiny when he manipulated the Supreme Court judges to throw out in peremptory ...
Sai Baba 86th birthday anniversary a virtual washout
2011-11-26 21:21:00 Indian news media are remarkably silent about the 86th birthday anniversary celebrations of Sathya Sai Baba on 23rd November. None of the major newspapers have coverage of the event, though the Hindu has a brief article. Even the official International Sathya Sai Organization website (http://www.sathyasai.org/) was not updated after 21 November this year, and has ...
Sai Baba 86th birthday anniversary a virtual washout
2011-11-26 21:21:00 Indian news media are remarkably silent about the 86th birthday anniversary celebrations of Sathya Sai Baba on 23rd November. None of the major newspapers have coverage of the event, though the Hindu has a brief article. Even the official International Sathya Sai Organization website (http://www.sathyasai.org/) was not updated after 21 November this year, and has ...
Meditate on Sathya Sai Baba ? or be spanked
2011-11-25 12:26:00 CLICK TO READ MORE http://www.globalpost.com/dispa-tch/news/regions/asia-pacific/i-ndia/110531/india-atheism-relig-ion-non-believer Filed under: Sathya Sai Baba
Meditate on Sathya Sai Baba ? or be spanked
2011-11-25 12:26:00 CLICK TO READ MORE http://www.globalpost.com/dispa-tch/news/regions/asia-pacific/i-ndia/110531/india-atheism-relig-ion-non-believer Filed under: Sathya Sai Baba
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...
Sai Baba?s failed predictions, doubtful birth date, doubtful age, doubtful
2011-11-21 23:28:00 In the run-up to what is claimed by all pro-Sai websites to be Sathya Sai Baba’s 86th birthday (though all official Sai sources also claim that he really lived until age 96 – measuring it out in “lunar years”) one must remark that there is no proof whatever that he was born on 23rd November ...
Sai Baba?s failed predictions, doubtful birth date, doubtful age, doubtful
2011-11-21 23:28:00 In the run-up to what is claimed by all pro-Sai websites to be Sathya Sai Baba’s 86th birthday (though all official Sai sources also claim that he really lived until age 96 – measuring it out in “lunar years”) one must remark that there is no proof whatever that he was born on 23rd November ...
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....
Lest one forget the nature of Sathya Sai Baba?s behaviour with male youth
2011-11-17 00:02:00 After 11 years , the daily postings here now add up to over 1000 (with already well over 1 million visits). This makes it hard for many visitors to this site to know what is here and what is generally more important. to choose. Some of the sex abuse testimonies – which are most credible to ...
Bala Sai ? new Sai Baba imitating impostor
2011-11-13 22:42:00 The number of gurus in India who are clearly imitating the logos, style, behaviour, bhajan (women and men apart) and arathi sessions of Sathya Sai Baba (right down to the same hand movements) continues to surprise. Here is a particularly unimpressive young “guru”, so far with straw huts but no doubt an aspirant to name, fame, wealth ...
Sai Baba as ?Man in the moon? with bogus miracles
2011-11-12 22:42:00 Few incidents are more telling against Sathya Sai Baba and his devotees than the “darshan on the moon” incident, which received enormous coverage, both in the naive Indian press and the yet more naive websites which promote Sathya Sai Baba at all costs, always without a single breath of questioning or critical thinking and never ...
Sai Baba & Tigrett at the Mystic Inn of the 7th Ray!
2011-11-11 22:59:00 The bizarre antics of Isaac Tigrett (outright defender of underage sex abuse) have reached a new height. The 170 secrets he was vouchsafed so as to express the living will of Sathya Sai Baba were much-trumpeted (and much ignored by all Sathya Sai officialdom and devotee members of the Organization) are now beginning to emerge. ...
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 ...
Sathya Sai Baba 86th birthday celebrations
2011-11-10 00:04:00 Usually around this time of year Sai Baba sites start enthusing about the coming Birthday celebrations, how the world will be coming to ‘His feet’ and which Indian luminaries are expected to be present. However there is, as far as the Internet goes, a dearth of news information on preparations for the 86th birthday (how come 86? ...
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 ...
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 ... |
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