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Sathya Sai Baba?s effect on India?s future most negligible
2012-02-09 10:10:00 Now Ramachandra Guha, renowned historian and author of India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy, is close to concluding that instability is India’s destiny. Mr Guha argues that democracy and nationhood in India face six complex challenges. They are: Large sections of the population in the restive north-eastern states and in Indian-administered Kashmir ...
India Today advertisement to promote Sathya Sai Baba ? a sly move
2012-02-07 20:37:00 Sathya Sai Baba’s star as the Godhead Incarnate and a pure and perfect omniscient and omnipotent being (also no less than ‘Creator of the Universe’ – see here) has been sinking rapidly in recent decades, for his publications have played down his megalomaniac claims as far as possible and promoting instead the social projects his ...
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 – ...
Keith Crichlow, Isaac Tigrett and ?mystical number seven?!
2012-02-03 17:49:00 The beef-burger salesman and Hard Rock Café millionaire Isaac Tigrett has set himself up as the conveyor of the ‘living will’ of Sathya Sai Baba, who he alleges told him to promote his own ashram as a ‘spiritual school’ in the Coorg area, the project being called “The Mystic Inn of the 7th Ray”. Despite this, ...
Customer Disservice ? Where Greed Is All Good
2012-02-03 01:05:00 Sathya Sai Baba, no differently to many other teachers in many traditions, inveighed against greed, anger, selfishness, and so on. This he did through constant harping in his discourses and interviews. There lacked imaginative, challenging and effective ways to transform society, which he had long said he would revolutionize within his own lifetime. He is dead. But then mere preaching is dead which fails to galvanise and transform. When I taught for two years in Sathya Sai Baba's Whitefield college (via Bangalore, South India), there was an almost utter dependence on rote learning. Nonetheless, I have always deeply appreciated that Sai Baba ensured that I was able to innovate, and that he and a small number of his senior staff protected what I was doing from certain 'education' neanderthals in that college. Not that the unregenerate staff members failed to produce results acceptable in Indian terms, which were much the legacy of Lord Macauley, no matter how much Sai Baba, fro...
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 – ...
Prashanthi Nilayam: suicide (?) by hanging & an unexplained death
2012-01-28 14:03:00 The many deaths that have occurred at Sathya Sai Baba ashrams through the years, including murders, suicides and unaccountable accidents, have been covered up to the maximum by the accomplices of ‘the Secret Swami’ himself. Now that he too is dead and gone forever, the suicides certainly continue – possibly murders too, as an attempt ...
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 ...
Vinay Rai, Suresh Kait Minister Kapil Sibal promote censorious obscurantism
2012-01-23 23:35:00 The Delhi High Court case against 21 web servers continues. Fortunately, not all legal minds in India put the Hindu nationalist religious agenda of minister Kapil Sibal’s, HC judge Suresh Kait and billionaire Vinay Rai’s before democratic values in the media, freedom of speech and human rights. An excellent and intelligently informed overview of the situation is given ...
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 ...
Will Court Action Outside India Expose Hired Killers In The Sathya Sai Cult
2012-01-21 01:39:00 There is a matter about which I should shortly be able to write. I understand that arrests have been made, money trails unearthed, dangerous and bloody forces exposed through hard evidence and testimony, and that court actions are about to unfold. I am told that a major media force is now preparing a documentary. It will be interesting to see how the International Sathya Sai Organization reacts. Many death threats are, of course, bluffs. Some come from idle nutters who rant or bunglers who don't get very far. But it is important, nonetheless, to keep whatever tracks may have been left by all who threaten. In regard to some types of information, with the assistance of our relevant professional members, we deal with Interpol or other government agencies. In Australia, I have dealt with the (then) head of Interpol in Australia, Paul Weller, and senior officials in DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). Our USA members have dealt with the FBI and State Department, UK member...
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 ...
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 ...
Michael Hollander, bigot preacher of preposterous, untested beliefs
2012-01-10 16:28:00 Michael Hollander is a classical example of what occurs when one became enamoured of a guru and his cult during a period of confused youth disturbed by seriously broken family relations and his consequent search for ‘the’ meaning of life and his discovery of one he feels was a divine father figure, according to what he ...
?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, ...
Survivors ?Move On?? But Abusers Move On ? From Victim To Victim. And Must
2011-12-23 06:02:00 Tediously, phrases emerge from the mouths of those who could, but do not, speak out forthrightly about their experiences of spiritual and moral betrayal. Often, one hears them say, "I am moving on, now". But the abusers, the criminals, the bullies, don't move on. They thrive in the knowledge that their victims will, most frequently, move on. Essentially cowards themselves, they understand that other cowards will protect them ? by preferring the easy way out. By shutting up. By not calling a crime a crime. By abandoning any shred of self-respect. Those who, against unenviable odds, have continued year after year to expose Sathya Sai Baba and his soviet-style, authoritarian, worldwide cult too often see cases where those who speak of 'moving on' get into yet more self-entrapment. Out of one guru or cult's frying pan into another. Again, the problem of lack of self-respect. For some examples of those who were highly-respected leaders when members of the Sathya Sai Organization,...
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 Trust accounting ?leela??
2011-12-19 00:16:00 During the time of Sathya Sai Baba’s 70th birthday celebrations and thereafter, my wife and I met diverse devotees in Prashanthi Nilayam, Brindavan and Bangalore. Our host in Bangalore, Mr. V. Ramnath (‘Ramu’) of the IAS, was a friend of the Sathya Sai Central Trust, Mr., Prasad of Bangalore. He had been invited to a ...
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 ...
Dr. Michael Nobel?s failed ?new? Nobel Prize
2011-12-15 20:46:00 In 2007 Dr Michael Nobel (born as Michael Oleinikoff), a great grand-nephew of Alfred Nobel, attempted to start a prize - the so-called ?Dr. Michael Nobel Award?. Interesting that his name was changed to emphasize his distant relationship to the world-famous Alfred Nobel, a name on which Dr. Michael has repeatedly tried to capitalize since then – and ...
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 ...
Kushwant Singh on prayer and meditation
2011-12-10 09:54:00 Kushwant Singh is one of India’s most astute observers of the religious pressures, superstitions and confusions that reign there – not least as regards the sexual satisfactions so widely testified as taken by the’ former Descended Godhead’ Sathya Sai Baba (now divinely deceased). Here is what he wrote recently about prayer and meditation… to which ...
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
BBC on India?s anti-corruption activists & Anna Hazare
2011-12-06 14:53:00 The BBC reports on the popular anti-corruption campaigns in India: “Indian democracy: one man, one bribe. Salman Rushdie’s famous quip has rarely been more apposite. The scale of corruption in modern India is astounding. The size of bribes and kickbacks is enormous, the stories of corruption astonishing, and the audacity of corruption’s big players ever ...
BBC on India?s anti-corruption activists & Anna Hazare
2011-12-06 14:53:00 The BBC reports on the popular anti-corruption campaigns in India: “Indian democracy: one man, one bribe. Salman Rushdie’s famous quip has rarely been more apposite. The scale of corruption in modern India is astounding. The size of bribes and kickbacks is enormous, the stories of corruption astonishing, and the audacity of corruption’s big players ever ...
Indian Ex-Chief Justice Bhagwati ? by a former contact
2011-12-04 00:04:00 A good friend of mine, an Indian gentleman living in Europe, wrote to me after the exposure of Former Chief Justice P.N. Bhagwati in the Indian press (my recent blog: Sathya Sai Baba?s bent judge, P.N. Bhagwati is shamed) Corruption by an ordinary man may have some impact on the whole but when a judge is corrupt he ...
Indian Ex-Chief Justice Bhagwati ? by a former contact
2011-12-04 00:04:00 A good friend of mine, an Indian gentleman living in Europe, wrote to me after the exposure of Former Chief Justice P.N. Bhagwati in the Indian press (my recent blog: Sathya Sai Baba?s bent judge, P.N. Bhagwati is shamed) Corruption by an ordinary man may have some impact on the whole but when a judge is corrupt he ...
Sathya Sai Power Brokers and Cover-up agents
2011-12-02 11:48:00 The following gallery of persons endorsing and who have variously conspired with Sathya Sai Baba in promoting misinformation, deceptions and crimes that have been covered up – from which they have used their influence to protect him – is not complete, but it contains come of the continuing supporters. Filed under: Sathya Sai ...
Sathya Sai Power Brokers and Cover-up agents
2011-12-02 11:48:00 The following gallery of persons endorsing and who have variously conspired with Sathya Sai Baba in promoting misinformation, deceptions and crimes that have been covered up – from which they have used their influence to protect him – is not complete, but it contains come of the continuing supporters. Filed under: Sathya Sai ...
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!
Dr. Michael Goldstein of the Sai Org. an irresponsible cover-up agent
2011-11-29 21:54:00 Dr. Michael Goldstein, International Chairman of the Sathya Sai Organization for about 2 decades, demonstrated his total failure as a medical doctor in refusing point blank to apply duty of care and mandatory reporting of widespread sexual abuse claims against Sathya Sai Baba. This denial surfaced in an aggressive and very nasty attack on the ...
Dr. Michael Goldstein of the Sai Org. an irresponsible cover-up agent
2011-11-29 21:54:00 Dr. Michael Goldstein, International Chairman of the Sai Organization, a doctor claiming to specialise in sex abuse, has always been in total denial of the facts - which have been known to him from many US and other followers - of Sathya Sai Baba's decades of sex abuse of young men an boys. His position as most influential foreigner chosen for the Sai Org. is due to his total obedience to Sai Baba's every word, whatever the contrary fact and testimonies. The BBC exposed him totally by finally filming his true face with a hidden camera.
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 ...
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
Logic and semantics textbook ? learn to think incisively and critically
2011-11-24 17:17:00 COMMUNICATION AND UNDERSTANDING by Robert C. Priddy Oslo University 1982 (published internally, Office of Foreign Students) Official textbook for Foreign Students preparing for the Examen Philosophicum examination under the administration of the author from 1982 – 1985. Communication and Understanding by Robert Crichton Priddy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the ...
Logic and semantics textbook ? learn to think incisively and critically
2011-11-24 17:17:00 COMMUNICATION AND UNDERSTANDING by Robert C. Priddy Oslo University 1982 (published internally, Office of Foreign Students) Official textbook for Foreign Students preparing for the Examen Philosophicum examination under the administration of the author from 1982 – 1985. Communication and Understanding by Robert Crichton Priddy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the ...
Sathya Sai Central Trust gets away with it again.
2011-11-24 11:41:00 The Sathya Sai Central Trust has begun to publish some of its affairs, but only after massive pressure from the press, public and, though they do not mention the fact, from devotees, who have written many press comments about their secrecy, non-transparency, non-accountability. From the interview (below) one can clearly deduce that the flow of ... |
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