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India?s ?Emperor? Sai Baba. By His Lavish Spending Ye Shall Know Him
2008-11-22 22:45:00 Sathya Sai Baba has said that the world should come to him with empty hands. On the other hand, he has succeeded in getting many to come to him with their hands full of gold. The Golden Age of The World Sai Kingdom Is At Hand That gold is now flashing more than Disneyland-like at Puttaparthi, as ...
Sai Baba 83. Has Said He Will Rule World
2008-11-22 01:44:00 Incredible (literally) golden opulence abounds - flashily and gaudily - at Sathya Sai Baba's 83rd birthday celebrations in Puttaparthy, Andhra Pradesh, South India. This guru - whom many believe to be the most powerful and wealthy in India's long history of gurus - proclaims that he will first rule India and then the rest of the world - all in his own lifetime.
Sai Baba?s Imperial 83rd Birthday Celebrations Photo, Puttaparthi, India
2008-11-20 22:57:00 Gold and Glitter of Imperial Pomp Tagged: Birthday celebrations at Puttaparthi
Two vague, unworkable ideas Sathya Sai Baba promotes
2008-11-19 14:15:00 Sathya Sai Baba preaches - but never really teaches - because his ideas are too vague, over-generalised and often in conflict with fact and proved theory. In common with other sects and cults in other religions, he relies most heavily on countless abstractions which are woven into a traditional dogma to try to make people ...
When Facts Fly The Coop of Massive Cover Up
2008-11-18 02:54:00 Given the sensitivity, the anguish, and difficult situations regarding family, job, studies and so on, a great amount of testimony in the hands of former devotees of Sathya Sai Baba has had to be withheld from public view.
Brian Steel?s Surprise Visit To Sathya Sai Baba?s Ashram
2008-11-11 23:17:00 With a scholar’s eye for detail, Brian Steel, former follower of Sathya Sai Baba and author of significant books related to him, has just returned from a brief visit to Puttaparthi. For busy readers who may not have time to read the lengthy, although crisply written, article, I shall digest portions, along with a few ...
Ex-NASA Scientist and Wife Test Sathya Sai Baba?s ?Grace?
2008-11-09 01:48:00 Referring in their talks to Jaani Drucker's rape in an official Sathya Sai Center, they both held that Jaani is not her body. She is only in a dream. Not being her body, but the eternal Atma, Jaani was never raped. All is the Lord's Grace
Puttaparthi and Cover Up of Health Hazards
2008-11-05 23:45:00 Since matters of life and limb are entailed, every traveler appreciates honesty about conditions involving health. For example, proper notification by governments, tourist venues, businesses, and various other instrumentalities. Once Sathya Sai Baba’s highest profile western follower, a lecturer at his university at Puttaparthi, and a roving ambassador for him internationally, David Bailey has related: “I ...
Sathya Sai Baba excuses father for murder of son
2008-11-04 16:17:00 V.K. Narasimhan told me that Sathya Sai Baba had once, during a discourse, said words to the effect that, if a man’s son did not obey his father (in some matter?) it would be better that his father poison him, These words were printed in the Telugu version, but Narasimhan omitted them from the English ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s deluded psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Sandweiss
2008-11-04 15:37:00 V.K. Narasimhan told me that Baba had once, during a discourse, said words to the effect that, if a man’s son did not obey his father (in some matter?) it would be better that his father poison him, These words were printed in the Telugu version, but Narasimhan omitted them from the English version. ...
Tigrett?s donation to Sathya Sai Baba Super-speciality hospital
2008-11-01 12:27:00 Directly recorded diary notes - October 1990 Scans of recorded information on the size of the donation for the Puttaparthi ‘Super-speciality’- hospital, plus information on embezzlement of a large part of it. Diverse notes on darshans and Sai snooper Sanjay Chibber and more. &-#160;
Sathya Sai Baba?s Self-generated Mythos
2008-10-30 01:43:00 At the cost of much effort in scanning the originals, Robert Priddy is gradually posting a wide cross-section of his diary material. This he gives in parallel, with his handwritten entries on one side and a typed version, with his current added comments, on the other. Robert Priddy visited Puttaparthi many times and was one of ...
Indulal Shah and Indian Government Cover Up
2008-10-27 02:18:00 Indulal Shah, of Mumbai, India, was replaced by Dr Michael Goldstein, of Covina, California, as world convener of the Sathya Sai Organization. Shah more recently retired from his chairmanship of the Indian organization. There is a mass of documentation indicating that, following the police killings in Sai Baba’s bedroom June 6, 1993, he presided over a massive ...
Feminine Spirituality | Inspirations and Wisdom
2008-10-24 23:52:00 "And the Mother,the prototypeof all existence,is the Eternal Spirit,full of beautyand love."- Kahlil Gibran"The paradise is under the feet of mothers."- Prophet Muhammad"Happy are you that you hunger for the truth, for I will satisfy you with the bread of wisdom. Happy are you, that you knock, for I will open to you the door of life. Happy are you, that you would cast off the power of Satan, for I will lead you into the Kingdom of our Mother's angels, where the power of Satan cannot enter."And they asked him in amazement: "Who is our Mother and which Her angels? And where is Her Kingdom?"Jesus replied: "Your Mother is in you, and you in Her."- Jesus Christ in Essene Gospel of PeaceThe Valley of Spirit never dies. It is named the Mysterious Female. And the Doorway of the Mysterious Female is the base from which Heaven and Earth sprang. It is there within us all the while; Draw upon it as you will, it never runs dry.- Tao Te Ching 6"God is never seen immaterially; and the vision of H...
Sathya Sai Baba - murders and fraud exposed
2008-10-19 17:06:00 Some new postings:- Miracle Man or petty magician? Will the real Sai Baba please standup The meeting between P.C. Sorcar Junior and Sathya Sai Baba has now become the stuff of legend, and Dr. Bhagavantam reportedly denounced Sai Baba as a fake towards the end of his life. Sai Baba and the News Media- ‘The Week’ coverage ...
Isaac Tigrett. Wealthy Promoter of Superstition
2008-10-15 00:18:00 Former Norwegian head of the worldwide Sathya Sai Organization Robert Priddy exposes a superstitious belief of Isaac Tigrett, one of Sathya Sai Baba’s key financial backers. Tigrett is an immensely wealthy U.S. citizen, who walks with some of the most powerful leaders in the world. Businesses he has built include famous institutions such as The Hard Rock Cafe ...
Two Indias. Barry Pittard Reflects On India Days
2008-10-12 04:29:00 During the number of years I lived in India, I was able to see across-the-board social uplift work in some of India’s poorest villages. One of my strongest observations was the manner in which, for many years, one outfit refused to accept financial input from abroad. A great emphasis was laid on challenging the consciences ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s editor V.K. Narasimhan - 1
2008-10-11 23:22:00 Had it not been for my many long conversations with the once-famous Indian journalist V.K. Narasimhan over a decade, and the many matters he told me about in confidence, I may not have come to realise the sheer extent and depth of Sai Baba’s deceptions… not least his undoubted involvement as an accomplice - along ...
Satya Sai?s Prashanthi Nilayam harassing Westerners
2008-10-05 12:41:00 A report from a person living in Puttaparthi who has become a non-devotee via a most reliable source known to me (both wish to remain incognito for obvious reasons) says that Westerners are not visiting as before. They are being hounded out, and Visa authorities, the local and the national governments are helping in ...
Miracle at St. Anna (2008) R 160min
2008-10-05 08:59:00 Miracle at St. Anna (2008) A.k.a. Miracolo a Sant’Anna is directed Spike Lee (Malcolm X (1992), The Original Kings of Comedy (2000), 25th Hour (2002)) based on James McBride’s novel who also wrote the screenplay for this movie. The plot: Miracle at St. Anna is loosly based on actual massacre at Sant’Anna di Stazzema in August of ...
God?s presence and God?s absence
2008-10-01 19:15:00 This post has not much really to do with spirituality and play but I think it’s worth writing about anyway and it’s my blog! I used to agonise about periods when I felt I was “without God”. There have been long periods in my life when I found or felt I didn’t have a tangible connection with God. The first of ...
It?s only a game
2008-10-01 18:52:00 I have been thinking about sport quite a bit recently, how it fits into the canon of play, how its place differs in different kinds of society etc. I really enjoyed the olympics and para-olympics and was really proud of our teams and their successes (second only to China in the para-olympics). My own involvement ...
Datuk J. Jegathesan - on Sathya Sai Baba Miracles
2008-09-20 23:33:00 Self-Delusions in the Malaysian Sathya Sai community In ‘Journey to God - The Malaysian Experience with Sai Baba’, one the guru’s most privileged devotees for decades, Dato’ J. Jegathesan, lists various supposedly miraculous cures by Sai Baba which he had investigated, if only superficially (not with any scientific control of alleged ‘medical’ evidence). It ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s broad lunatic fringe
2008-09-19 23:54:00 Robert Favour - a Dutch former follower of Sathya Sai Baba met various devotees who can only be described as belonging to the ‘lunatic’ part of the movement, as follows:- “- Once in India we had two English friends visiting us, who both believed they had been Maria Magdalene in a previous incarnation. They did not ...
Sathya Sai Baba Continues To Ail
2008-09-12 04:20:00 Mrs Geetha Reddy, Tourism Minister of Sathya Sai Baba’s State, Andhra Pradesh, had to provide a helping hand to the supposed Divine Hand of one who said that we would not see him age after his 60’s birthday. Devotees honest enough to admit it would have to attest that he has made many mistaken prophecies ...
Belief-o-matic results
2008-09-09 18:35:00 I have just done the Belief-o-matic which tells you what religion you are (in case you didn’t know). It actually tells you more what denomination you are to be accurate. Anyway, here are my results and I was amused to learn that i was more Scientologist than nontheist as I would put any belief or non-belief ...
?World Hindu? by 2030. VHP?s Singhal Reports Sathya Sai Baba Told Him
2008-09-09 01:59:00 One of India’s most powerful Hindu nationalist leaders, Ashok Singhal, who has an international profile in the Hindu world, has just told an assembly of political and religious luminaries in Delhi of a prophecy he says Sathya Sai Baba shared with him. The Organiser, September 14, 2008, reports: “… Shri Singhal also threw light on how ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s Greatest Achievements
2008-09-08 11:01:00 Sathya Sai Baba is hailed by many devotees and others - not least politicians and leaders in India - for great social achievements. This is not surprising by comparison with the continued desolation of India’s poor and suffering masses in that the leaders show themselves incapable and outright unwilling to give any priority to the ...
Derren Brown?s Magic Trumps Sathya Sai Baba?s
2008-09-08 04:18:00 Would Sathya Sai Baba be happy to let the students in his education system see Derren Brown, the great British magician? Or devotees to start to consider that he (SSB) is not all that he has proclaimed himself to be - which is the ALL, incarnated in the fullest expression of the Divine in the ...
The World?s ?Small? and Forgotten Peoples
2008-09-06 00:34:00 In my previous blog, I wrote of how Sathya Sai Baba - despite decades of stating that he will lead a spiritual revolution unparalled in mankind’s history - has profoundly failed to engage the world. ‘The backyard’, India, that he said he would first “clean up” is in parlous state. He says that the world ...
When Disasters Overtake S. Sai Baba?s Promises
2008-09-04 14:51:00 There are Sathya Sai Baba devotees in some of the highest echelons of power in various countries. Their faith in him may be touching but not likely to be fulfilled. Despite various statements such as that that he would not age or get sick, he looks fragile and decrepit, increasingly muttering oddities and making egregious ...
Exposing Worldwide Sathya Sai Baba Cult (Sept 08,i)
2008-09-04 01:17:00 The following, mostly short, articles have appeared at: http://robertpriddy.wordpress.c-om and http://barrypittard.wordpress.c-om and, in one case, at Robert Priddy’s main website - Sathya Sai Baba In Word And Action in the last few days. The following information is compiled at: http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/HOM-E/Sai_Baba_news.htm where there is an extensive list of blogs and articles, with the latest updates clearly noted. Barry Pittard. 4 September, ...
Human Rights World Report 2008. India In Sore Shape
2008-09-02 04:25:00 The Human Rights Watch World Report 2008 is in marked conflict with Sathya Sai Baba’s promises made over many decades. He has said that he would first save India and then the rest of the world - this within his own lifetime. His millions of followers hear his blatantly untrue statements but remain silent and blindly ...
Michael Goldstein?s Chilling 9/11 Remarks
2008-09-01 01:25:00 Chairman of the worldwide Sathya Sai Organization, Dr Michael Goldstein of Covina, southern California - once in an email widely circulated to the Sai cult devotees - made extraordinary statements about 9/11. Become A Sai Devotee And Get Terrorist-Proof Here is the statement from Dr Goldstein, a medical doctor of Covina, California, USA. A second reading may be ...
?World Avatar? Sathya Sai Baba?s Troubled Trail
2008-08-31 00:42:00 In any clear reading of the officially published works of Sathya Sai Baba, there are zig-zagging trails of anomaly. The Troubled Trail One sees glaring contradictions, unfulfilled prophecies and broken promises. The multi-colored and pretty ‘balloons’ that he has for so many decades floated - supposedly for the delight of all humanity - keep on popping, ...
Sathya Sai Baba Says He Dislikes Pomp
2008-08-28 21:09:00 Of pomp, Sathya Sai Baba declares a dislike: “Let Me tell you this now itself: I do not like this pomp and show. I do not derive any joy out ...
God?s Love is Like a Punch in the Gut?
2008-08-23 17:32:00 Wow! I know this may be old news for many of you but my wife just told me about this guy, Todd Bentley. Bentley is supposedly some sort of Canadian charismatic faith-healing preacher with a rather sordid past (not that his past should matter much - some of the world’s best teachers carried pretty heavy baggage). ...
By: Sharp Iron
Re-arrangements and apologies
2008-08-21 11:06:00 First of all apologies - I have not blogged a word about the Olympics. That’s pretty poor as it really is one fo hte best examples of human kind at play in a (largely) healthy way. However, fear not! I am planning to incorporate it into a post about the way that the games we ...
Small Turnout In Russia for Solzhenitsyn
2008-08-07 13:22:00 Vale Alexander Solzhenitsyn! It may be argued that the genuine models of moral excellence are great and visionary but flawed individuals, rather than those such as Sathya Sai Baba, the failed ‘God’ who would be King of Kings. One may find it surprising that people’s sectarian views could not be raised above, and a tribute paid ...
?God?s? Ex-Shah, Indulal Shah
2008-07-30 02:50:00 Indulal Shah, of Mumbai, India, was the world head of the Sathya Sai Organization, and, previously, for decades, the head of the Indian wing of that organization. In June 1993, at the time of the Puttaparthi police killings in Sathya Sai Baba?s bedroom, Indulal Shah rose to his height in adroit and politically powerful suppressive actions ...
Undisputable facts about Sathya Sai Baba by BBC
2008-07-26 17:25:00 Among the many facts that cannot be disputed in the BBC documentary ‘The Secret Swami’ are the following items of major importance:- 1) Sai Baba’s public lie exposes him as a total charlatan In 2004, while being filmed by the BBC during the Shivarathri festival, Sathya SaiBaba failed to produce the expected golden egg-shaped ‘lingam’ from his ...
Timothy Conway Ph.D on: The Crucial John Hislop Letters
2008-07-24 05:00:00 Timothy Conway Ph.D, of Santa Barbara USA, has written a response to a vehement critic. Conway's response is a model of decency, self-restraint and patience notwithstanding the attempt at assassinating his character
The Non Miraculous Benefit of Who and What is Different
2008-07-20 00:57:00 The interested reader can readily find a whole literature concerning the scientific investigation of miracles and other alleged supraphenomena. (I shall soon blog on the issue of the alleged Shirdi Sai Baba miracle, said to have occurred in Bangalore on July 18, 2008, courting such headlines in the Indian national press such as the Times ...
Legalistic Abuse: Catholic Church And Sathya Sai Organization
2008-07-18 22:54:00 Many of my readers will be quick to see certain striking parallels between, respectively, core powerholders in the Roman Catholic Church and in the International Sathya Sai Organization. In the Australian Broadcasting Corporation report, I have highlighted in red some salient points. As development continues in the Australian story about the Foster family’s years’-long fight for ...
Self-documented Folly of India?s Would-be God
2008-07-10 09:38:00 It is sobering to consider that Sathya Sai Baba’s influence extends into powerful corners, and his marked deficiencies reveal the worthwhileness of exposing his human rather than any divine qualities. One of the benefits of Brian Steel’s extensive examination of official Sathya Sai publications is that we can see with considerable impact the extraordinary ignorance, inconsistency ...
Shirdi Sai Baba?s name hi-jacked by Sathya
2008-07-06 16:50:00 Barry Pittard has written: ?Some readers may be interested in unraveling the mass of Sathya Sai Baba?s own confusions and contradictions (e.g., with regard to dates and details of characteristics of himself as compared to Shirdi Sai Baba), concerning his extraordinary pronouncements?. The reference to the work of Brian Steel is most apt. This Australian scholar ...
Sathya Sai Baba Bans But Permits Foot Touching
2008-07-04 23:42:00 At the Bal Vikas conference in Prashanti Nilayam in 2001, after sixty years of offering what he deems to be his Holy Feet to be touched, Sathya Sai Baba declared that he was not going to allow padnamaskaar to anyone anymore. This is reported on an official Sathya Sai Organization web page at http://www.saibaba.org.hk/step6-.htm). As is ...
After Leaving A Cult. Or ?Moving On?
2008-07-02 01:47:00 It is a very great untruth put out by Sathya Sai Baba’s key leaders and by his proxy supporters on the Internet that former devotees are now something other than what they, for many decades, were - decent, compassionate, hardworking members of their professions and trades in their wider communities. See Sathya Sai Baba ...
Sathya Sai Baba World Cult At Odds With Itself
2008-06-28 10:01:00 One of the distinctive phenomena that independently confirm voices critical of Sathya Sai Baba and his cult is that his movement is eroding from within. Sathya Sai Cult At Odds With Itself Some of his followers have made progress in thinking their way out of this particular variety of ‘the guru trap’. They do not have to ...
A Strong India Can Bless The World
2008-06-20 20:07:00 In my years in India, I saw at close hand the work of one talented and highly motivated Indian group with which I did volunteer social work, attaining that deep wish fired ever since I was 16, when I became deeply inspired by the life of Mahatma Gandhi. The founder of the work (who sought no ... |
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