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Robert Priddy On Jaani Drucker, As Sathya Sai Baba Cultist In Denial
2010-05-12 04:06:00 Robert Priddy has just blogged the article: Jaani Drucker ? wild claims not supported by her actions , Posted by robertpriddy on May 11, 2010. He refers to my series quoting and commenting on correspondence between Jaani Drucker and myself: Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence) Part 1 Exchanges of views on how rape and sexual abuse affect the real person or whether they merely affect the body, as is held by rape victim Jaani Drucker. Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 2 Jaani Drucker continually responds to neither to the spirit or the letter of her claim that " happy to discuss and debate issues" rather flatly rejecting all points on the ground that she knows the ultimate truth. Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 3 Jaani Drucker evades Pittard's contention that those who have had such traumatic experiences need to reach out to an experienced, qualified profession, and th...
Maya, Advaita Vedanta with Remez Sasson
2010-03-27 22:56:00 The five senses make us feel that the world is real. Seeing the solidity of the objects around us, feeling the impact of the senses, it is hard to deny the validity of what we see. Everything looks real and we never stop to question this reality.The mind is attached to the five senses and accepts everything as real without questioning. When we bump into a table or a wall and we feel pain, it is difficult to say that we are imagining it. When we see with our eyes, hear sounds, smell, or when we feel heat or coldness, we accept these sense impressions as real.Some say that the world is an illusion, Maya in Eastern terminology. Can we accept this when everything looks so real? Can we regard the world as imagination?We need the five senses and the mind to be conscious of the world, which means that the world is dependent on them. Without the senses and the mind the world does not exist for us.If we say that a real thing is something that always exist with no gaps, then the outside world...
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Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence)
2010-02-23 22:30:00 Continuing from: Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 2 .... , my response to Yaani Drucker, who claims on her website to be enlightened, and to "Have truth, will travel". She has explained that her "rape experience happened in 1985, in a house next to the Stanton Sai Center, on the same property as the Sai center in S. California". I have suggested to her that those who have had such traumatic experiences need to reach out to an experienced, qualified profession, and that it is a dangerous undertaking to recommend a course of action which relies on faith or notions of enlightenment alone. She replied: "Is it necessary for a rape victim to receive professional counseling? This assumes that psychology/ psychotherapy has answers that ABSOLUTE TRUTH does not".
Vedanta: Why did it take the C of E so long, and what now for its mining po
2010-02-06 10:03:00 Although welcome, the sale of the Church of England's shares in mining company Vedanta, announced yesterday, was long overdue. There are two clear questions that emerge from this. read more
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Sathya Sai Baba?s Former Devotees. A Personal Note
2009-04-06 00:55:00 Against a formidable instinct in human nature, most former devotees have, for not far short of two decades, refrained from striking back at those who have so massively vilified and defamed them.
Shirdi Sai Baba and Sathya Sai Baba
2009-01-04 19:02:00 Drawn by deep alienation from Western materialism, and the attraction of a timeless Indian spirituality, especially in regard to respect for other beings irrespective of race, caste or creed, I lived for a number of years around Sathya Sai Baba. I had also a great love for Shirdi Sai Baba
?No fear of bombs? in India, Said Sai Baba a Week Before Mumbai Terrorist A
2008-12-01 00:13:00 While India's and the world's self-promised 'Saviour' potters and dithers, just as the Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burnt. A little more than a week before the horrendous terrorist strike on Mumbai, Sathya Sai Baba made yet another of his statements which have been tragically faulted by events seen by an aghast world only a few days later (and, in fact, all along, by a long series of terrorist attacks in India - extraordinarily overlooked by Sathya Sai Baba in his reported statement
Sathya Sai Baba, 83. Health Critical. Some Key Links
2008-11-26 01:54:00 A select resource for critics, scholars, media investigators, and also those questioning their way out of affiliation with Sathya Sai Baba, India's most famous - and infamous - religious teacher and his international Sathya Sai Organization
Sathya Sai Baba Video. Too Weak To Cut Birthday Cake
2008-11-24 23:03:00 See videos which reveal Sathya Sai Baba, in November 2007, as unable to cut his birthday cakes any longer. See revealing photos. For some time, he has had a mask-like face, suggestive of a degenerative disease. These images completely falsify his own statements in recent years that he would not age
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.
Sathya Sai Speaks. ?I Do Not Like This Pomp?
2008-11-21 02:32:00 Sathya Sai Baba, at whose feet many in the highest echelons of India's power elite fall, has said he will save India and the world within his own lifetime. He turns 83 on 23 November, and would need, surely, to get a hurry-on ...
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
?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 ...
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 ...
Guess Who’s Laughing..Vedanta owner Anil Agarwal !
2008-04-30 05:40:00 Sesa Goa: Commodity King Anil Agarwal is laughing all the way to the Bank UK based billionaire Anil Agarwal, the owner of NYSE listed Vedanta Resources is having a day out in the Sun. All his publicly owned entities Sterlite, Sterlite Tech, Hindustan Zinc, Balco and Sesa Goa have ...
Vedanta moulds plan to set up IT firm
2008-04-22 21:45:00 Metal and mining major Vedanta Group may come out with an IT (information technology) services company, according to sources.9 Vote(s)
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Famous editor confronted Sathya Sai Baba
2008-03-30 21:37:00 There were very few persons who knew Sathya Sai Baba since he began his so-called ‘mission’ to save humanity who dared so much as to question anything he said. One of those was V. Ka narasimhan, the once world faoums editor of the Indian Express group of newspapers, who defied Indira and Sanjay Gandhi over ...
Recommended Reading: Vedanta
2007-12-10 20:11:00 Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List Selected Topics Vedanta All styles of yoga are part of the Indian Hindu Vedanta spiritual tradition. (...)
Vedanta bid talk adds weight to FTSE rally (FT.com via Yahoo! News)
2007-11-23 10:35:00 London equities rallied on Friday, as rumours of Chinese bid interest in Vedanta Resources brought the full weight of the mining sector behind the advance.
Is Humanity One Big Cult?
2007-10-13 12:16:00 There is a fundamental mistake that defenders of those accused of serious abuse keep on making. Accusations of substantive abuse do not have to be proved. They have to be investigated. An organization that does not have genuine policies and practices of transparency and accountability is per se condemned. Many Exposés of Cults Reveal Same Abuses and Rationalizations Statements ...
Muslim Leaders Initiative Bold. Sai Baba?s Efforts Fail
2007-10-12 15:22:00 An extraordinary cross-section of mainstream Muslim clerics, theologians and academics have acted in a way that Sai Baba and his mega wealthy worldwide cult have profoundly failed to act. This failure needs to be made very clear within the interfaith movement. The members of the Sathya Sai Organization which has attempted to interact with it, can be challenged to ...
Sai Baba Fails To Appear In Moon, IANS Reports
2007-10-05 02:26:00 In the last hours, many Sai Baba devotees have received yet another of many setbacks to expectations that he would perform, as he has so many times promised, this or that great miracle. Of course, my dear reader may have noticed that at least Sai Baba’s afro hairdo has been seen quite clearly on the moon on ...
Why Might There Be Religious and Political Disconnects?
2007-09-25 10:40:00 These short extracts from Shantanu Dutta’s article, Power of godmen, can provide a stimulus for discussion on the issue - are godmen (and godwomen, one supposes) beneficial or baneful or an intriguing mixture of both? (see extract below) Of a statement by TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) president K. Chandrasekhara Rao, Dutta says: “Apparently (it) indicates that in the political mind ...
Three day international Congress of Vedanta to be held in US
2007-09-11 10:55:00 About 100 philosophers from India, the United States and Canada are assembling for a three day conference of the International Congress of Vedanta to be held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio later this month. Social
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Robert Priddy (3) Friendship With V.K. Narasimhan
2007-08-30 04:37:00 Robert Priddy says that he found some devastating facts from one of Sai Baba’s very closest confidants in the 1980s and 1990s. This was V.K. Narasimhan (d. March 2000). This remarkable man, whose history of standing courageously up (many fine citizens were flung into jail!) as a newspaper Editor to Indira Gandhi during the 21-month 1975?1977 ...
P.N. Bhagwati, India?s Ex-Chief Justice: Wild, Reckless Claims
2007-08-28 02:29:00 P.N. Bhagawati, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, a key figure on the Sathya Sai Central Trust (India) has also long been on the Board of Directors of The Times of India. In a joint public letter (December 2001), Bhagwati along with the former Prime Minister of India of the right wing BJP, A.B. ...
Robert Priddy (2). The Protection of the Young and Innocent
2007-08-22 11:29:00 Disaffection from a powerful belief system is often a slowgoing process, particularly when there has been adherence to a charismatic figure. And this, moreover, when many followers experience states difficult to understand for those who undergo them as it is for even sympathetic scientists. Going on then, to expose to the public an institution’s and ...
Vedanta Group to set up Cancer Hospital in Raipur, Chhattisgarh | INRnews
2007-08-14 08:38:00 Raipur, India, August 14, 2007 - The promises made to the people and the state of Chhattisgarh by Vedanta chairman, Anil Agarwal one year ago on the occasion of signing a MoU between the State Government of Chhattisgarh and Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd. (BALCO), for setting up a 1200 MW coal based power project have all been met.
India Lead World? Sai Baba Says Yes. Robert Priddy No
2007-08-13 04:53:00 Sai Baba has many times said that, as a result of his appearance as the Avatar of all avatars (divine incarnations), India will lead the whole world in spirituality and the peace of mankind, and that he will guide this whole process, to be essentially accomplished in his own lifetime. Robert Priddy has some terse words ...
Love Thy Neighbour | Teaching of Vedanta
2007-08-12 16:20:00 The whole teaching of Vedanta stands for one thing - that is love. Five hundred years before the advent of Jesus the Christ, Buddha taught: 'Hatred is never cured by hatred, but by love. This is the everlasting ethical law.'And what is love? Love means expression of oneness.Jesus the Christ said: 'Love thy neighbour as thyself.' But Jesus did not explain why we should love our neighbours as ourselves. That explanation you will find in Vedas, in the Vedanta philosophy, in the Upanishad. The Upanishad, which are the earliest writings of this universal philosophy, teach that we should love our neighbours as ourselves, not because they have done us some good or been kind to us, but even if they have spoken unkind words, even if they have taken wicked steps against us, even if they are spiteful and jealous of us, still we should love them because we are one with our neighbours in spirit.There is only One Spirit. The apparent man seems to be different and separated from that Universa...
Super-Rich Indian Gurus who don?t deliver what they promise
2007-08-08 12:34:00 Billionaire Non-delivering ‘Spiritual gurus’ The ‘many-billion dollar question’ is not really so much how Sai Baba has generated such huge coffers, for this is almost ‘par for the course’ for Swamis, gurus and temples in India. Tirupathi is reckoned to be the most fabulous as to wealth, and the Puri Temple of Jagannath is not ...
Sai Baba No Shiva. Gold From His Gut Is Regurgitator?s Trick
2007-08-05 05:08:00 Within Hinduism, the Shiva lingam can represent the wonder and majesty of creation-dissolution, a symbol of limitlessness. See Wikipedia, under ‘Lingam‘: ‘The term lingam is sometimes used synonymously for shivalingam or sivalingam a specific type of icon or altar representing the god Shiva’ In Sanskrit, this object is often called a lingodhbhava. In India, especially in the south, ...
Inequality before the law in India
2007-07-28 03:57:00 Robert Priddy, retired academic (Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Oslo) was the head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway - see his Wikipedia reference. His article Avoidance of the law in India gives links to BBC and other sources that illustrate how hard it often is, especially for those without great wealth and political clout, to ...
Criticism of Sai Baba No Reflection On Hinduism
2007-07-24 23:47:00 Many Sathya Sai Baba devotees assume that any questioning of him equates to a denunciation of Hinduism. However, Hindus at large do not make this assumption in the least. A major national Hindu leader has emailed me (December 5, 2006) in the terms I quote below. (Except to those in the responsible media who may wish to ...
Some Key Cultic Responses To Critics
2007-07-23 23:28:00 I think that the following list - which is suggestive rather than exhaustive - will contain pointers to behaviours repeatedly found by any who expose a powerful cult. * Legal manipulations, so that a leader or his organization cannot be further proceeded against * Use of a cult’s considerable financial resources and political, religious or civic clout to ...
Cost Of Cover Ups Can Far Exceed Hoped-for Benefits
2007-07-22 21:48:00 A great irony of cover-ups is this - that once they have been exposed, the initiators of the abuses sustain a cost far greater than would have attended the prompt admission of the initial misdeeds - and genuine, exhaustive measures to address the abuses. Tragically, “cost” may be multiply defined - and in far from money terms ...
Judge warned: Crippling disease won?t stop pervert
2007-07-21 04:52:00 Some devotees of Sathya Sai Baba - the ’God’ worshipped by so many of India’s top power brokers (and others beyond) who faces worldwide accusations of large-scale, serial sexual molestation of boys and young men - claim that he could not possibly offend, if he ever did, because of his age and physical incapacity, and that therefore his current ...
Sai Baba?s ?Miracles? Panned In Newsweek
2007-07-18 23:08:00 From his observations of YouTube footage, in a Newsweek debate, Sam Harris opines that Sai Baba’s so-called miracles reveal him to be “a stage magician”. This view accords with that of many former Sai Baba devotees - who speak out about it - and of many devotees - who shut up about it. You can see ...
A Duke Stops An Emperor. Edinburgh Routs Sai Baba
2007-07-09 02:32:00 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh is pictured before and after his harrowing linking with Sathya Sai Baba It is intriguing to find that a mere Duke can stop an Emperor in his tracks. To their considerable cost, the “secret swami” - as the BBC (see HERE for video footage) has called India’s and the world’s would-be Emperor Sai Baba, the ...
My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy. Part 6, Final
2007-07-08 00:08:00 Satya Purcell?s serialized account ?My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy? - subtitled Murder in the ‘Cathedral’! (Or Sai Baba’s Mandir) - concludes with Part 6., at: http://www.Exbaba.com. It was Sathya Sai Baba, arguably India?s most famous - or infamous - guru who named this son of Sharon and Gary Purcell, who were among foundational figures ...
When ?Divine? Magnetism Becomes A Dead Weight
2007-07-06 04:30:00 Sai Baba’s alarmingly many scientist and other (supposedly) intellectual followers must have to block ears and eyes when he opines on matters scientific. Heavily rose-tinted glasses can be particularly helpful. He speaks, for example, of the nature of magnetism. Here, Sai Baba’s educated devotees provide a modern example of the Hans Christian Anderson story of the Emperor New Clothes ...
If Not For Whistleblowers
2007-07-04 07:10:00 (Tal Brooke front left) In 1970, in the U.K., Tal Brooke published Lord of the Air, which, evidently because Sai Baba’s people have such political clout, was banned in India. It was re-written and published as Avatar of Night. Paperback: 400 pages. End Run Publishing; December 15, 1999. ISBN: 193004500X. During the fourteen months that Brooke lived close to ...
Satya Purcell?s My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy, Pt 5
2007-06-28 23:18:00 Satya Purcell?s serialized account My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy continues, Part 5. Also known as Sathya, Sathya Sai and Satch, Satya Purcell?s account is being serialized during May-June 2007 at: http://www.Exbaba.com. It was Sathya Sai Baba, arguably India?s most historically famous - or infamous - guru who named this son of Sharon and Gary Purcell. The ...
BBC Caught UNESCO Head Bowing To Indian Government
2007-06-26 04:06:00 BBC Enquiries Confirm Collusion Between UNESCO, Indian Government and Sathya Sai Organisation The BBC spent many months of intensive preparation for its documentary The Secret Swami (2004), exposing Sathya Sai Baba and his extremely wealthy and powerful worldwide cult. Unfortunately for the credibility of the UNESCO Bureau of Public Information, the BBC went to it, well-armed ...
Wealthy Americans Prepare Mansions For ?God?s? Visit
2007-06-25 02:15:00 The English poet Alexander Pope had an exquisite appreciation of situations like desperate devotees clinging to forlorn hope in the face of Sai Baba’s many broken promises to visit places, like Rome, Southern California, the UK, Malaysia, etc,: Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest Below is an email from a foremost Sai Baba critic, ...
Corrupt Indian Judges Stonewall Case Vs Sai Baba
2007-06-23 04:39:00 In 2001, the celebrated Indian advocate Kamini Jaiswal (who was a lawyer for the famous ‘Bandit Queen’ Phoolan Devi) attempted to mount, pro bono, a case against Sai Baba on behalf of a former Sai Baba devotee, Hari Sampath. Jaiswal’s reason for applying for the case to be pled in the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi ...
Vedanta delays offer to buy 20% shares from Sesa Goa investors
2007-06-16 15:11:00 Vedanta Resources plc, India`s biggest producer of copper and zinc, delayed offering to buy a further 20% of Sesa Goa Ltd after acquiring Mitsui & Co`s controlling stake in the Indian iron-ore mining company. “It`s a procedural delay and we`re waiting for a letter of approval from the Securities & Exchanges board of India,” said Sheetal ...
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Dalai Lama: Forgiveness does not mean forgetfulness
2007-06-15 01:07:00 At the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Australia, July 14, 2007, the 14th Dalai Lama spoke to a capacity, 15000 audience. Several large screens throughout the auditorium meant that people were able to see him close up. This well reinforced a remark that someone had made - that he was “radically informal”. It was true - he had a ...
Sai Baba, Kubla Khan, Citizen Kane, Bill Gates et alia
2007-06-07 09:23:00 For more lavish pics of Sai Baba’s Imperial splendour, see below. (Are we seeing the rise or decline of the Showman Empire?) In the director-writer-actor Orson Welles’s great movie classic Kane, one can, it is true, note certain differences between the U.S. newspaper proprietor William Randolf Hearst and Welles’s and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s creation Charles Foster Kane. For decades, the differences ...
Serial Sex Molestation and Bedroom Killings. But Much More
2007-06-06 05:11:00 For several months in 2004, former Sathya Sai Baba followers coordinated internationally to advance our grave concerns to BBC 2, This World. (A list of some major issues is at the end of this article) These involved many serious allegations against Sai Baba and his worldwide mega rich and influential cult, the Sathya Sai Organization. Many had dedicated decades ... |
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