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Getting Ready for Ascension Day
2012-05-07 09:00:00 A Gathering Voices Post by Don McKim I?ve always been a theological fan of the Ascension. This key concept is passed over briefly in the Apostles? Creed in just four words: ?He ascended into heaven? (three, in Latin: ascendit ad coelos). It marks the transition between the earthly life of...
Accidental Spirituality
2012-05-05 12:59:00 I did not have a religious or overtly spiritual upbringing, in fact the subject of God was conspicuous by its absence. I am grateful to my family for not forcing any beliefs on me, for deliberately letting me choose my own way, but it seems quite funny now looking back on my first encounters with religion, and my childly interpretations of them, not really having a clue what any of it meant inwardly. I suppose my late development in a spiritual sense was partly down to the fact that I was not destined for a Christian path, and yet as I grew up in England and America, my exposure to spiritual teaching was naturally through Christianity. A First Encounter with Christianity My first encounter came via an afternoon film in the style of a soap opera. Its leading lady had a disappointing romance, and travelled a long way from home by herself. She came to a stone house with gates at the front, where a much older lady answered the door, wearing a cape and a long matching headscarf. ‘Why ...
Holy Week Weeds*
2012-04-02 15:45:00 Sara Miles writes of the busyness of Holy Week, the chaos, the time demands larger than time, as presently constituted, can allow. She speaks of the feeling of being overwhelmed, describing the feeling as being in the "Holy Week weeds". To whelm is to flow or heap up abundantly. Google...
The way to true spirituality
2012-04-02 04:40:00 always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. (2 Corinthians 4:10, 11 NASB)
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It?s Class and Practice, Stupid!
2011-12-21 17:00:00 ?You?re deceiving yourself! Even if you did believe in God, it would make no sense to believe alone. You?d have to believe in him the same way the poor do; you?d have to become one of them. It?s only by
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Economics Contra Spirituality
2011-12-17 17:00:00 Last December 10, a fellow jeepney passenger, an old man sporting round glasses, a Taqiyah cap and a Rasputin-like goatee, began a conversation with me while I was on my way to the assembly area of the International Human Rights
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Is The Herb Ashwagandha Or Winter Cherry Good For Your Health?
2011-11-21 01:22:00 In this article I need to speak about Ashwagandha. Ashwagandha is a very potent herb employed in Ayurveda, which is an ancient and powerful medicine program from India. You should know that this herb... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Belief and moralism in Sathya Sai Baba?s ?5 human values?
2011-11-06 23:26:00 Surely we should never let our beliefs stop us from doing what is right and good. Religious beliefs are founded on uncertainty – not on knowledge, but on believing – and are therefore no secure or final criterion of what is right or good. Actions motivated by religious beliefs often conflict with knowledge, and religious ...
Dr John Hislop. Vaunted ?Perfect Disciple? of Sathya Sai Baba
2011-11-06 10:38:00 Like so many devotees, especially those close to Sathya Sai Baba, ex-foremost leader of the Sathya Sai Organization (outside India), Dr John Hislop knew very well that Sai Baba told lies. Devotees, however, pass these off as, variously, "Baba's funny little ways"; "his sparing of our feelings"; his "Leelas" (meaning his 'divine sportiveness' .... When writing, they use a capital 'L'); "his perfect 'Truth', but our human imperfection" which cannot see that he is teaching us some profound lesson, for example, in learning detachment; and more such Procrustean racking of human reason and commonsense. Sai Baba long exhorted that his devotees: "Love (him) for (his) Mystery". (Of course, his editors and other devotee writers capitalized the 'h' in 'him' and 'his' ..... Hislop also well knew that many devotees were in confusion about his many lies, all his predictions which failed, as did so many of his promised cures and e.g., of placements at his university or his colleges...
Dharmaraj Sugriv Singh, impostor denounced by Sathya Sai Baba
2011-11-04 23:37:00 The Ottawa Post has published the results of an ongoing investigation into the dealings of Ram Singh (aka Sugriv or Sugrim Singh as well as ‘Dharmaraj’ as a Canadian federal civil servant in an alleged billion-dollar scam and also into the disappearance of very large sums of donated money in the Sai Nilayam charity, which ...
A New and Old Beginning
2011-10-13 17:08:00 I’ve not posted anything here in quite a while. I’ve been busy with school and life. Rest assured, though… I have not stopped contemplating One Higher Power. Below is the text of a paper I wrote for my very first Philosophy class this Summer. I hope you enjoy it, and I ...Show Your Support. Please Visit the Site and Our Sponsors!
Some Little Points That Get Lost Among Big Sathya Sai Trust Reassurances of
2011-06-30 14:47:00 Some random points, flow in and out of mind. Like the ocean – interesting to peer at, but not very drinkable: There is glaring contradiction between statements of Srinivasan, who has admitted Trust involvement in extraordinary movements of cash, and of R.J. Ratnakar, who says that the money is actually from 12 donors, and can ...
An academic?s response to revelations about cover-up of sex abuse etc.
2011-06-16 15:55:00 The following comment on my exposure of Professor Erlendur Haraldsson’s off-handedness regarding sexual crimes etc. (yesterday) was submitted on 2011/06/15 at 2:27 pm Hello Robert, Thank you for divulging this material. It must have been difficult to decide to take this step. I can only surmize how disappointed you and your wife must have felt ...
Sathya Sai Baba and ?Thought for the Day?
2011-06-02 17:41:00 A standard feature of Sathya Sai Baba ashrams was the notice blackboard entitled “Thought for the Day” where one of the clerks in his information office chalked up one or another quotation from Sai Baba’s discourses, choosing something as the fancy took him (it is always a ‘him’ holding office at the ashrams). Devotees would ...
Sathya Sai Baba education in Satyajit?s hands
2011-05-04 16:33:00 The division of the spoils goes on – mostly behind tightly closed doors – but Satyajit, Sathya Sai Baba’s No. 1 ‘boyfriend’ and roommate for so many years has been allocated some responsibility… not one which promises any serious financial gain. Money matters will be kept for the Trust panjandrums and several cover-up, corrupted persons ...
Sathya Sai Baba devotees? fervour and press reactions
2011-05-02 22:02:00 The debate in India is developing slowly towards some kind of near-sanity about their omnipresent ‘godmen’ as they call them (though the godwoman Amma is also a top player). This is, however, confined to the more respectable media outlets, and some of the top newspapers have to be said to be sticking to myth beyond ...
Sathya Sai Baba News ? Funeral problems
2011-04-27 01:53:00 The funeral ceremony caused massive disturbances of one kind and another. Due to the Indian authorities’ total disregard of the well-being of the populace, which was demonstrated by their usual ultra-tight security arrangement for VVIPs, those in Puttaparthi were cynically left without food or drink! Here is the report from The Times of India, Apl ...
Sathya Sai Baba ? succession ploys
2011-04-25 12:51:00 For those still in denial, Sathya Sai Baba actually died, yes, at April 24 at 7 a.m. Indian Time and one should rest assured that will not be resurrecting himself! Claimants to be a reincarnation of Sathya Sai Baba will certainly arise, (i.e. as ‘Prema Sai’ indeed, a few already have!!). For this is poor ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s death ? no miracles
2011-04-24 08:55:00 The death of Sathya Sai Baba was wrongly predicted by him, he did not live into his 90s as he prophesies on numerous occasions! Yet another false boast, and one which confounds all the devotees who blindly believed his words and in his divinity. He died a sick man, in more sense than one! As ...
Sathya Sai Baba to be ?resurrected? on Easter Day?
2011-04-23 14:00:00 From one of my Indian sources, a well known Indian who knows the inner working of the sb ashram and had been in the forefront of the sb expose for several years and known personally to me for years, I received this today: “As of 4 pm ( April 23rd)…the news coming through is the ...
Sai Baba devotees and surreal death-bed scenarios
2011-04-23 13:59:00 Times of India PUTTAPARTHI: A sense of surrealism pervades this small town with a population of 25,000. ”He is god. He will overcome this phase and start giving darshans. That’s my belief, you may not believe this but I do,” asserted trust secretary and mover and shaker K Chakravarthi to TOI. “He has divine powers to ...
Spirituality Online Via SpeakingTree.in – An Indiatimes Foray
2011-04-19 10:02:00 Now there is one more way you can strengthen your faith through a Spiritual Network called Speakingtree.in. It is reported that the site is gaining lot of attention from spiritual seekers. Part of a Times of India initiative which started with a supplement issue with Sunday Times of India its online avatar was launched in November last year. Since then it has roped in Spiritual Masters like Shri Shri Ravi Shankar, Deepak Chopra, Maulana, Andrew Cohen , Thich Nthat Hanh and many more. The Spiritual interactive forum have 15000 spiritual blogs posted every month. And there are around 8 categories with 300 articles. It is said that with the help of this spiritual site spiritual seekers can cope up with worldly pressures and connect with their faith. It is quite evident that web is dominating our lives in every possible way and it has reached in the prayer services too. We have earlier reported that prayers services can be booked online along with live stream videos of the temple. Th...
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Sai Inner Views and Insights ? Howard Murphet
2011-03-18 16:53:00 In the acknowledgement to his last book ‘Sai Inner Views and Insights”, Howard Murphet writes of, ‘my growing public around the world’ (p iii) which shows his ego was alive and well (i.e. “ego” as the bane derided by ‘the avatar’ to the n’th degree). Murphet was blind, bereaved and in depression at the time ...
Sex & Spirituality: Lesbians in Church
2011-02-19 07:23:00 This is about a community of women, who have found companionship with women, and they all love God. Period. They pray. They worship. They work. They mother. They teach. They shop, cook and clean. And yet they are condemned for who they love.
Puttaparthi enthusiasm as reported by Salon.com
2011-01-28 10:36:00 As a journalist, Michelle Goldberg visited Sathya Sai Baba’s ashram and made an independent assessment of what she learned there. Among other things she wrote:- Swami’s job isn’t to make you happy Darshan is just about the only event that occurs at the ashram. There are no indoctrination or even meditation sessions. Aside from strict ...
More exorbitant claims by the ?Avatar of the Age?
2011-01-25 09:47:00 Sai denies that he speaks through anyone p.114f Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 5 Comment: Yet he has also affirmed that he spoke through Lucas Ralli and others! Sai distinct; no identification with anything p.81 Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 2 Comment: Not least by far, he is strongly identified with his name and fame – see ...
Some of Sathya Sai Baba?s false claims about himself
2011-01-23 11:38:00 Sai, a mirror reflecting what you are – Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 14 p. 42 Comment: but what if we are not invalids, child abusers, murder cover-up accomplices? Sai achieves any task p. 98 Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 2 Comment: He never works, for a start. The failures of many of his projects are well-documented…. ...
SATHYA SAI BABA IN INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ? CONT.
2011-01-22 14:42:00 THE GUARDIAN UK – the paedophilia claims and the Duke of Edinburgh awards BRITISH NEWSPAPER REVIEWS OF BBC DOCU. ‘THE SECRET SWAMI’ The Observer, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Daily Mirror, Time Out etc.. THE HINDUSTAN TIMES – VIR SANGHVI In which the sexual allegations against Sathya Sai Baba are ...
Key media reports on Sathya Sai Baba
2011-01-20 20:36:00 ‘THE SECRET SWAMI’ BBC DOCUMENTRY – EXCERPTS – TRANSCRIPTS & KEY VIDEO CLIPS SECRET SWAMI Increasing numbers of former followers are alleging that Sri Satya Sai Baba, India’s biggest spiritual leader, has sexually abused them or their families. This World investigates. U.S. DEPUTY OF STATE WARNING TO TRAVELLERS iN 2001 The US State Department issued ...
Secret, undercover Sathya Sai Baba and cult
2011-01-17 21:36:00 Sathya Sai Baba and all his willing publicists still allow nothing to emerge which gives insight into the nature of the publicly unaccountable Sathya Sai organization, Sathya Sai Central Trust or events that occur within the ashrams. No minutes or records are available from official meetings in any of his organizations or trusts, no accounts ...
Harassment and stalking by Gerald Joe Moreno
2011-01-15 22:36:00 The above points cover some aspects of Gerald Moreno’s enormous concentration on my person and writings, always with the intent to discredit anything on any pretext, however remote from what is reasonable or true. He studies my work like the devil studies the Bible! And I am not the only target for his bile, far ...
Isaac Tigrett & a fake ?crystal skull? Sai Baba ?materialized?
2011-01-15 22:27:00 The lunatic fringe is alive and well at Sathya Sai Baba’s ashrams – and it is on centre stage too with one lunatic forerunner – the former US millionaire of the Hard Rock Cafe, Isaac Tigrett. Tigrett has stated that Sathya Sai Baba ? who Tigrett worships as God Incarnate etc. etc. ? gave him ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s unsurpassed claims
2011-01-12 06:30:00 The absurdity of what are surely the most excessive claims of divinity made by any living person becomes constantly more evident. A majority of those who have invested their faith – and not least their prestige – in this fraudulent Godhead are still unable to bite the bullet or break the spell. As the facts ...
The Divine Avatar came to save India first, then humanity
2011-01-02 11:31:00 Securing oneself seems to be even primary to saving India! Here is the palatial “Divine Residence” – one of Sathya Sai Baba’s many, probably the best and most well-protected…a bigger and better luxury residence at Prashanthi Nilayam – into which a large part of the donations intended by donors for the uplift of India go! ...
Gerald Moreno attacks devoted, reverential worship of Sai Baba?s feet
2010-12-31 11:16:00 Concerning Sai Baba devotees’ worship of his so-called “Holy, Lotus Feet”, I once referred to the virtual hysteria of many followers at darshan (when Sai Baba walks by) to get to his feet by hook or by crook, as feet fetishism. Soon thereafter my greatest critic and self-appointed enemy, Gerald Joe Moreno, contrived a whole ...
Christmas past ? Sathya Sai and Christianity
2010-12-30 22:17:00 In Sathya Sai Baba?s Christmas Discourse, 1996, he made preposterous statements about Christianity and Islam preceding the time of Christ by 350 years… and more of that sort. All the most embarrassing statements were omitted by astute editor V. K. Narasimhan from the official journal Sanathana Sarathi, nor was it printed in the official version ...
?The Grist Mill? on Sathya Sai Baba
2010-12-28 13:41:00 Here is a great satirical blog by a wide-awake Indian blogger! Filed under: Cults, Godmen, Gurus, India, Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Baba, Spirituality Tagged: Bhagavan Satya Sai., Sathya Sai Baba, The Grist Mill
Sathya Sai Baba followers censor all critical comments they can
2010-12-28 13:20:00 Most of the comments I made on a YouTube video which had been posted by a convinced Sai Baba devotee (username ‘godisone15) were selectively removed by him (or her), no doubt because they document the errors in his/her statements from Sathya Sai Baba’s own journal, which he always read and approved in those days (a ...
Sathya Sai Baba Christmas, Santa Claus and forgiveness
2010-12-23 10:42:00 Sathya Sai Baba as “Father” of Jesus Christ who is supposed to have sent his son down to earth (at Christmas) blotted his copybook badly in his discourse on Christmas Day, 2000. He railed against his critics as being ‘demons’ and ‘thousands of Judases’ and slammed his fist down on his lectern in the Prashanthi ...
Nithyananda claims he is Ramakrishna reborn!
2010-12-17 15:25:00 The Swami who is indicted for rape and ‘unnatural sex’ is now claiming to be the reincarnation of the famous supposed ‘avatar’, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. It does not bother him, evidently, that it emerged in later years that Ramakrishna was most likely involved in homo-erotic acts. Nithya calls himself Ramakrishna’ (Express Buzz) Naveen Ammembala First ...
Faith Schools ? Sathya Sai Baba ?Educare?
2010-12-16 15:43:00 Sathya Sai Baba schools – his so-called ‘Educare’ institutions figure among the many ‘faith schools’ which have increasingly been adopted in many Western democracies. These ideas have even been partly included in the British educational system, despite the guru being under the shadow of many accusations of crimes and deceptions. Several of his schools have ...
?Seeking Divinity? ? talks by Dr. John Hislop
2010-12-14 14:50:00 This is a compilation of his articles and speeches by associates in the Sathya Sai Society of America, Tustin, California, published in 1997, one year after his death. John Hislop was the major promoter of Sathya Sai Baba in the USA and elsewhere, whose first book (Conversations with Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba) attracted many ...
Sathya Sai Baba crying (video)
2010-12-10 16:55:00 “Tears should be shed only for God and not for anyone else. Whatever one’s grief one should not shed tears. Tears may flow out of joy or enthusiasm or ecstasy, but not from a feeling of sorrow.” [Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 28 - Ch. 10, p113] See the short video clip from his 85th birthday ...
?My Baba and I? by Dr. John Hislop ? Sai Baba miracles
2010-12-05 22:31:00 The second book by Hislop on Sathya Sai Baba contained many much more extraordinary materials about alleged Sai miracles that Hislop claims to have experienced through many of his years of being a follower. The scan from the preface on the right sets the tone of the book, which tone I characterize as a the ...
FOUR RECENT BLOGS
2010-12-03 13:14:00 FOUR RECENT BLOGS ON THIS WEBSITE – CLICK ON EACH IMAGE TO OPEN EACH BLOG Hislop’s “Conversations with Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba” Sathya Sai Baba – the Indian Government’s God Incarnate The promised Golden Age of Sai Baba - Sathya Sai Baba 85th birthday – State of India Filed under: Cults, Godmen, Gurus, India, ...
Swami Nityananda chargesheet: rape and unnatural sex
2010-12-02 20:35:00 Nityananda’s pleas rejected by Karnataka High Court. In a short video, indiatimes.com reported reported in a short video (2/12/2010) “The Karnataka High Court has rejected a plea by self-styled godman Nityananda for furnishing him a copy of the charge sheet by the CID in connection with the rape case. The CID has filed a charge ...
?Conversations with Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba? by Dr. J. Hislop
2010-12-01 12:29:00 ?Conversations with Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba? (1978) was written partly from recordings of interviews with Sai Baba, partly from notes and memory. This book soon became more or less the Bible of nearly all Sathya Sai Baba devotees. This came about despite the fact that numerous books Sai Baba?s own discourses were available. In ...
Who, what is Sathya Sai Baba?
2010-11-30 08:56:00 In one of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction books, ‘The Final Odessey’ he wrote a small cameo which is almost exactly a description of Sathya Sai Baba. This book was first published in 1997, about 2 years before the many scandals about Sai Baba broke on the Internet. Arthur C. Clarke lived in Sri Lanka ...
Will Saience ever replace science?
2010-11-26 19:06:00 Sathya Sai Baba calls his doctrines ‘saience’, most likely a semi-pun invented for him by Prof. N. Kasturi. This is supposed to be the true doctrine of the creation and wonders of the universe, contrary to natural science and all the knowledge that has come from anything other than Indian or other scriptural sources. Such ...
Sathya Sai Baba ? the Indian Government?s God Incarnate
2010-11-23 19:59:00 How can anyone with an active and questioning mind – who is not a religious guru fanatic – overlook the degeneration which stands out like a sore thumb, when Sai Baba has claimed he is always smiling, that nothing can affect him due to his self-claimed ‘purity, patience and perseverance’? The facts are known: as ... |
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