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 ...
End of the Sathya Sai Baba Dream
2009-09-24 16:16:00 In 2000 I resigned as National Contact person of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway after 18 years fulfilling that role. This was no easy decision, since I did not believe that the allegations of sexual abuse could be true, even though I knew that Sathya Sai Baba was deeply involved in the massive cover-up ...
Truth In Action: David and Faye Bailey Vs Sathya Sai Baba
2009-09-24 12:20:00 For several months of each year, the British pianist David Bailey taught music at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning in Puttaparthi, founded in November 1981,which became the Sri Sathya Sai University. For a number of years, Bailey was in a unique role – a westerner with extraordinary access to Sathya Sai Baba, who also assigned him to envoy duties to a number of countries, which is a role he has assigned to very few, such as Indulal Shah, V.K. Narasimhan, Dr V.K. Gokak, Dr S. Bhagavatham, Dr D.J. Gadhia, Dr Michael Goldstein, J. Jadadeesan, Professor Al Drucker. David Bailey’s wife, Faye, prior to marrying him, had been prominent in the functions of the Sathya Sai Organization in Australia. Sathya Sai Baba arranged their marriage and officiated at their wedding. David and Faye Bailey. Authors of 'The Findings'. An historic and lengthy indictment of Sathya Sai Baba, by two former and very close disciples Great was their – and indeed the...
Archbishop of Canterbury and Sathya Sai Baba
2009-09-22 12:34:00 Question: what is the connection between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sathya Sai Baba? Answer: None whatever (not least since neither has ever so much as mentioned the other). In short, another world-wide religious institution which totally ignores the self-professed God Incarnate and unifier and Saviour of Mankind under the banner of Hindu Sanathana dharma (proclaimed by ...
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:
German Sathya Sai Baba Expose Website Re-gears
2009-09-19 10:08:00 We congratulate the editors of the new German Sai Baba expose site to have their old url again, which is: http://www.exbaba.de
Rewriting events with slant ? Sathya Sai Baba officialdom
2009-09-18 18:01:00 The Akhanda Bhajans continued through the night and the next morning, Bhagawan arrived in Sai Kulwant Hall at 6.20 a.m. After going around the hall granting Darshan to everyone, He took His seat on the dais. Around 6.45 a.m or so, one could sense that something was in the offing as ...
Sathya Sai sees Hanuman as a real figure
2009-09-17 10:31:00 Hanuman, a great devotee of the mythical Rama, was a ‘monkey man’ who supposedly jumped dozens of miles – and also carried a whole mountain so a healing herb could be picked from it. And he makes very clear that this is no myth for Sai Baba. Sathya Sai sees Hanuman as a real figure ...
The Sathya Sai Baba Cult? infiltration of SWARA
2009-09-15 21:21:00 Below here is a transcript of the TV coverage of a public demonstration led by the manager, other staff and numerous clients of the Brisbane institution SWARA (the Pink Twins’ Sathya Sai Baba service project. The reason for the protest is clear from the content. It resulted in the departure of several of the staff ...
?BILD? Story. ?Guru Wants Sex? (Sathya Sai Baba)
2009-09-13 02:24:00 The article below, in which Jens Sethi recounts being sexually abused by Sathya Sai Baba, is from the magazine 'BILD' of Munich on 21st August, 2000. Wikipedia states that 'BILD' is "the best-selling newspaper in Europe and has the sixth-largest circulation worldwide". About a year earlier, NEXUS Magazine (Australia), August-September 1999, featured three articles on Sathya Sai Baba, containing serious allegations. One of these was the testimony of a German husband and wife, Jens and Gurprit Sethi who had been devotees, but had left him.The other articles were the testimony of Terry Gallagher, (who, on principle, had resigned as head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Australia) and Hans de Kraker, also Australia, who had likewise investigated allegations of Sathya Sai Baba's serial sexual abuse of boys and young men. Kraker was, for a number of years, head of the Western Canteen at Puttaparthi
Wikipedia harassment by pro-Sai Baba activists
2009-09-12 15:01:00 For the sake of setting the record straight concerning harassment on Wikipedia, I repost the following points from the Requests for Arbitration discussion. Note that user SSS108 is Gerald Joe Moreno, who still energetically radiates his attacks on all dissidents and critics of Sathya Sai Baba:- Statement by M Alan Kazlev I was a devotee of Sai ...
Twin Towers disaster & Sathya Sai Baba
2009-09-11 10:20:00 Today it is 11 years since the Twin Towers disaster. The International Chairman of the Sathya Sai Organization made a claim which is an offense to those who died in the 9/11 disaster and their families, stating that none were devotees of Sathya Sai Baba who only saved those of his followers who should ...
?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".
Donations to Sathya Sai Central Trust misused by/for directors etc.
2009-09-02 08:44:00 Since Sathya Sai Baba claims to own nothing whatever, and since Dr. G. Venkataraman and K. Chackravarti co-administer finances as Central Trust members, one must ask whether he and his cronies on the Trust have literally rewarded themselves with free cars – in short, self-serving seva? at the expense of those who the ...
Sathya Sai Baba ? some key teachings
2009-09-01 14:15:00 Among an endless stream of contradictory statements by Sathya Sai Baba, the following few are quite striking:- “I do not ask anybody for any help. It is Sathya Sankalpa (Will of Truth); what I am doing is good. If one undertakes any good work, it is bound to fructify. It is My goodness that attracts all ...
A searing testimonial about Sathya Sai Baba
2009-08-30 18:16:00 From : Australia Source: Hans de Kraker Subject : PERSONAL EXPERIENCES Date: Friday, 19 May 2000 From: Hans de Kraker Re: Sai Baba Dear David, Faye and Glenn, Long time no hear! Finally I have taken the time to put some of my experiences with The Great Deceiver on ...
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...
The caste system of India & Sathya Sai Baba
2009-08-29 10:31:00 One of Sathya Sai Baba’s most bandied aphorisms states: “There’s one caste, the caste of humanity“. That is fine, but why therefore does he support the Indian caste system? He says he “must condemn the hatred between castes and religions” (Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 4, p.84). “Varna or what we call caste, is a convenient ...
Would Serious Sathya Sai Baba Devotees Read Gerald Moreno?s Attacks?
2009-08-27 01:15:00 How could any Sathya Sai Baba devotee - of those many who are decent and sincere – bear to read Gerald Joe Moreno’s writings? The constant welter of the latter’s constant, strident, vituperative and demeaning posts to the Internet can, even at a quick glance, be gauged by the titles of but a small portion of his links, ...
How does Sathya Sai Baba help anyone?
2009-08-24 18:40:00 Such a major mythological story has built up around Sathya Sai Baba that he manages to attract people to himself from far and wide, He wants to direct them toward God, divinity and no doubt would like to help them with their personal and spiritual problems. As soon as anyone who has rad all the ...
R.D. Shepherd Exposes Sathya Sai Baba Defender Gerald Moreno
2009-08-24 01:43:00 I refer to the independent British scholar Kevin R.D. Shepherd. His older website - http://citizeninitiative.com/ - cites academics of renown who have supported his work, such as the eminent British psychologist, Robert H.Thouless, (1894-1984)who wrote the best-selling "Straight and Crooked Thinking". Shepherd has just put online another website - www.kevinrdshepherd.info. It deals with topics on which he has written widely - philosophy, religion and psychology. Although Kevin Shepherd has never had affiliation with Sathya Sai Baba or his worldwide movement, nor friendship with former followers of Sathya Sai Baba, one section deals with Gerald 'Joe' Moreno, a highly aggressive, vituperative, defamatory pro Sathya Sai Baba defender, who works with assistance - they in the background - from prominents well as rank-and-file Sai Baba personnel in different parts of the world.
Sathya Sai Baba?s actions constantly belie his words
2009-08-23 13:26:00 Sathya Sai Baba judges others as “zeroes” and always implies that, by contrast, he is a hero. He claims his actions must precede words, and not deviate from them. But he continually fails to measure up to this himself, as anyone who dares think a genuinely independent thought about him can discover. For example, his ...
New Zealand Lawyer Exposes Official Cover Up of Killings In Sathya Sai Baba
2009-08-20 01:33:00 Long before worldwide allegations of Sathya Sai Baba?s serial sexual abuse of boys and young men began to surface in earnest ? circa AD 2000 ? notable individuals shocked by signs of cover up ? started to analyze situations, and leave the Sathya Sai Baba camp. For an example of early investigators, see the article by Warren C. Pyke LLN (Hons.) LLM (VUW), Barrister, New Zealand 3-3-1993: Sathya Sai Baba Murders Evidence (A New Zealand Barrister Analyses Police Evidence). Another earlier investigator of various serious allegations against Sathya Sai Baba was Terry Gallagher, an agricultural scientist and businessman who, in consequence of his findings, resigned as head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Australia. See: Terry Gallagher?s Testimony
Sathya Sai Baba Man Gerald Moreno and Fact-Changing
2009-08-19 01:44:00 I direct my readers to an article just posted by Robert Priddy, retired academic of the University of Oslo and former head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway. He writes: ... "the pro-Sai extremist Joe Moreno claims that ?anti-Sai activists? withheld the transcript of the second part of a phone conversation which David Bailey had with Thomas Wiehe of Sweden. This is entirely untrue. Both parts of the phone conversation were transcribed from the start. Surely one of the worst cases of Internet libel is that of the Gerald 'Joe' Moreno. It is known that he cooperates with those around Sathya Sai Baba, both prominent and rank-and-file individuals. That Sai devotees would support one who so constantly uses language of a kind that Sai Baba's own discourses abundantly inveigh against more than suggests a desperation by many of his devotees to see their guru defended at any cost.
Sathya Sai Baba ? disclosure of damaging facts
2009-08-18 22:00:00 An oft-repeated claim by Sathya Sai Baba, parroted by devotees, is that many kinds of unfair and undocumented accusations have been levelled against Sai Baba through the years, both by sceptics and followers who are dissatisfied or disappointed by unfulfilled expectations as to Sathya Sai Baba ’s attention etc. This is based on Sathya Sai ...
Sathya Sai Baba hospital dental inspection ? video
2009-08-16 23:32:00 Sathya Sai Baba has claimed that “all healing comes from God” and insists that the only sure and secure route to health is by leading a pure life, worshipping God, avoiding sin and a host of other fundamentalist injunctions… yet he had to get his devotees to build and endorse worldly hospitals. To see the ...
Sathya Sai Baba and longevity
2009-08-14 23:35:00 Sathya Sai Baba’s translator and wilful spreader of untruth, Anil Kumar, that Prof. N. Kasturi lived for 100 year They Lived For 100 Years< “Bhagavan was telling us the other day that those who lived here with Him lived for 100 years, every one of them. He gave an example of Professor Kasturi. When Bhagavan went ...
Video of Sathya Sai 1996 ? important teaching
2009-08-13 12:22:00 Sathya Sai Baba’s made a speech during his own 70th birthday celebrations, while future Prime Minister and devotee Manoman Singh sat and looked as if he absorbed his great universal teaching, in this instance that we should not pray to rivers for water but to rain! How very interesting! Self-proclaimed God Incarnate prays to the ...
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 .....
UK Sathya Sai Organization?s New Age leadership
2009-08-11 21:47:00 One has to wonder why this organization has chosen as its leader a person who exhibits all the signs of an unbridled New Age spirituality, Reverend Rosemary Perry? Probably, having a ‘reverend’ – ordained as an Interfaith Minister - is seen to help this embattled cult’s credibility as not being overwhelmingly a Hindu-oriented religious sect. ...
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 ...
Senior Indian Policeman (Rtd) Speaks Out About Sathya Sai Baba Murders Cove
2009-08-07 12:11:00 As the years have passed, the Government of India and the Government of Andhra Pradesh have not been able to silence all police personnel. One who has refused to shut up is a senior, retired policeman V. J. Ram, whose work as a detective won him a Presidential Medal. He has spoken out against the massive cover up of the police killings in Sathya Sai Baba's private quarters, when Sathya Sai Baba and his brother (the late) Janaki Ramaiah (who was on the Sathya Sai Central Trust) had charge of events soon after the slayings occurred.Those who wish to know more about V.J. Ram's work are welcome to contact me (my details are obtainable by clicking on the tab - Barry Pittard
Fleeting name, fame and Sathya Sai Baba
2009-08-06 09:38:00 History is replete with self-proclaimed God Emperors, Divine Avatars, World Saviours, reborn Christs… right up to the present day. Millions still believe that this or that person is wholly and fully God. The various Indian modern avatars or divine saviours include Ramakrishna, Meher Baba and any number of other claimants, each ...
Sathya Sai Baba: non-potent avatar
2009-08-04 14:17:00 SATHYA SAI BABA – IMPOTENT AVATAR? A distorted ‘vision of Sai’ was sent us in an e-mail from visionsb@tstt.net.tt, as follows, “… see for yourself the enormous control that this being has on the planet”. Of course, the overwhelming majority of people on ...
Sathya Sai Baba Is Fast-ailing
2009-08-04 04:20:00 What will the fast-ailing Sathya Sai Baba do? Rub oil or vibhuti on the surface of his multiple infirmities, and do all that he has for so long promised? That is to say: Bring the world to him, even before he dies Harmonize the world's major religions Save the world from enormous catastrophes Lift a whole mountain range Travel the world Fly through the air Put humanity on what he calls 'the royal road' to righteousness And so much more ....
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.
Hiding from all scrutiny ? Sathya Sai Baba
2009-08-01 23:07:00 “Actually, one should never seek pardon for the mistake committed. One should be prepared to undergo the punishment. Only then can one be free from defects. When a person commits a serious offence, he is put in jail. He is released only after he undergoes punishment for the required period. Likewise, if you want redemption, ...
Sathya Sai Baba and India?s nuclear arsenal
2009-07-31 11:18:00 Sai Baba has repeatedly condemned both the possession of atomic weapons and those countries which develop them, calling their leaders ‘moral dwarves’ and saying that only those countries which produce them will suffer from them (that was before India’s exploded its first nuclear device). Despite this, the man who developed the first rocket delivery ...
Dream visitations by Sathya Sai Baba?
2009-07-30 12:15:00 from “A CRITICAL SITE ABOUT SAI BABA” by Paul Holbach Specific issues # 2 Treated Arguments: Dreams, etc. STATEMENT: he is endowed with bilocation and telepathic powers, enters the dreams of anybody at his own will, that is to say: if you dream of him, it’s because he wants so (it’s his statement), ...
Sathya Sai devotees in total denial
2009-07-28 16:41:00 No one can observe Sathya Sai Baba’s activities sufficiently to know that he is not guilty of the many charges of sexual molestation. No one – apart from young men who sleep in his quarters – know what he does at night. Despite this, the former Prime Minister of India, Vajpayee, and Chief Justice ...
Brian Steel On Dr John Hislop?s Gift From Sathya Sai Baba ? Idol claimed to
2009-07-28 02:52:00 Although the alleged miracles of Sathya Sai Baba appear to be endless, there are a few which have especially captured the popular imagination and devotion of many of his followers, irrespective of their levels of education. One of these is the iconic crucifix, which Sai Baba ostensibly materialized for Jack Hislop at the mahashivratri festival in1973. Sai Baba told him that he - by his divine powers - fetched the wood on which the idol is hung from the wood of the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified. Among commentators, Brian Steel has done especial service in portraying the sheer impact and spread of the works of Sathya Sai Baba's early apostles and popularizers. Especially prominent among these are Dr John Hislop (the first Sai Baba organizational leader outside India), Howard Murphet, Dr Samuel Sandweis, Phyllis Krystal.
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 ...
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 ...
Brian Steel Demythologizes Early Foreign-led Sathya Sai Baba Myths
2009-07-23 01:08:00 My previous blog was: Brian Steel On John Hislop?s 27 Years as Sathya Sai Baba?s Spokesman. It refers to the article article: Sathya Sai Baba?s credibility gap: Contributions by John Hislop. (Brian Steel. January 2009). This latter article is a scholarly, most readable and quite long article. Recognizing that many of my readers have heavy demands on their time, I shall select what I think are some of the key lines of his investigations. The reader may like to pick and chose among these - or else, of course aim to read deeply into Steel. At the moment, I am drawing attention to some more recent work of Steel, whose books while yet a follower of Sathya Sai Baba were highly-regarded, as they are now by ex-devotees and other critics of the Sathya Sai cult. Those who have time - perhaps for exhaustive academic, media investigative or book preparation purposes - will find Steel's work indispensible. It is vast and rigorous.
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 ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s gross lies in public ? with photo
2009-07-19 16:50:00 On of his most despicable lies was in the ‘unforgiving Christmas discourse’ in 2000 (a time to celebrate the greatest teacher of forgiveness in history!!) where he accused many identifiable persons saying, “Why are they doing this propaganda? Even this bad propaganda is for money. All these bad thoughts are for money only. Even these ...
The ashrams of Sathya Sai Baba
2009-07-18 18:37:00 Rigorous security checks, body searches (sometimes invasive), strict and bossy orders that must be obeyed, undisciplined and most pushy crowds, minimum space, and very long waiting are all features of the Sathya Sai Baba ashrams. The ashram is a place where the newcomer is largely left by other devotees to fend for him or herself. Seldom ...
Brian Steel On John Hislop?s 27 Years as Sathya Sai Baba?s Spokesman
2009-07-18 02:07:00 In my recent note Brian Steel On Sathya Sai Baba?s Credibility Gap. John Hislop Contributions, I drew attention to Brian Steel's scholarly article which deals with a seminal figure, Jack Hislop, in the spread of the Sathya Sai Baba movement: Sathya Sai Baba?s credibility gap: Contributions by John Hislop. (Brian Steel January 2009). Steel refers to the controversial Walter Cowan ?resurrection? in 1971, mentioning the refuting evidence presented by Professor Erlendur araldsson , B. Premanand, (the late) Professor Dale Beyerstein. For decades, these critical points met with no satisfactory explanations from the Sathya Sai Baba camp, and yet a great number of devotees rejoice in this so-called miracle of resurrection, as they do in so many 'miracles' of their guru, which, however, keep on being disproved by film footage of excellent provenance
Sathya Sai Baba ? kindness and thankfulness
2009-07-16 22:39:00 “We should help even those who have harmed us. This is the vow of Sai. No matter if some people criticise or ridicule Me, I will always look at them with kindness.“ (Sanathana Sarathi June 2002, p. 166). “There are many who are hostile towards Me. Many ridicule or criticise Me.” (ibid) First thing ...
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. |
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