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Sathya Sai Baba: Symbol Of A Vastly Corrupt India Resistant To Reform

Published on 2012-05-15 18:22:55

For over a decade, many of Robert Priddy's and my articles have insisted that the changes Sathya Sai Baba promised for India (much less - and more megalomaniacally still - the world) have not happened. The combined forces of a huge array of India's power elites - including many successive Indian Prime Ministers and Presidents - who so often visited him - profoundly failed to go within light years of following his teachings about truth, right conduct, peace, love and non-violence. He himself f [..] > read more

India’s Prayers, Chants and Nuclear Stance

Published on 2012-04-30 06:11:12

Is India – the country which Sathya Sai Baba said would lead the world into a “Golden Age” of prolonged peace and well-being – well-justified? Certainly, India escalates its nuclear armament preparations, including long-range  nuclear missiles with multiple warhead capacity, and development (especially hand-in-hand with Russia and France) of a nuclear flotilla.  On one level, [...] > read more

The Sathya Sai Organization’s Treatment of Dissidents: A Desertion of Ethics and Spirituality

Published on 2012-04-23 06:34:23

Among other reasons, there is a much less reported reason for the success, at a very deep and far-reaching level, of the former Sathya Sai Baba devotees' long and gruelling exposure of Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide cult. This has been the response from non-devotee family members, friends, neighbors, and school, college, university, professional, trade and other and associates of devotees. They had no compunction in consulting the internet and in judging the critical offerings on the basis [..] > read more

Documented: Sathya Sai Baba’s Harsh Chauvinism Against Women

Published on 2012-04-16 19:56:40

The extent to which devotees endured Sathya Sai Baba’s misogyny is truly appalling. It is yet another of a great many instances which show how, in cases of charismatic leaders, human beings sacrifice their intelligence, commonsense and humanity.  See my last post:  Sathya Sai Baba’s Ignoring of Women. And Especial Focus On Boys and Young Men.   Barry [...] > read more

Sathya Sai Baba’s Ignoring of Women. And Especial Focus On Boys and Young Men

Published on 2012-04-12 05:19:14

Today, in tribute to motherhood, I wrote a lyric. I have long noticed how so many mothers pass themselves off, in self-diminishment, as "just a mother". For inspiration, I used an instrumental piece of music by Sir Karl Jenkins, the great contemporary British composer: 'Children of Dannu'. You may like to sing the words along with the music, HERE: Sathya Sai Baba's endless harshness are the very antithesis of the profound tenderness Sir Karl Jenkins expresses in 'Children of Danu' (a [..] > read more

Sathya Sai Baba Failed To Face India’s Endemic Corruption. Or Support Key Agencies of Real Change

Published on 2012-03-22 05:47:12

Like most days, yesterday, I worked on a song (See lyrics below). It reminded me – quite beside the immediate purpose of the piece, incidentally – how profoundly Sathya Sai Baba and his officials were utterly bound up, beside their own day-by-day autocratic practices, with some of the most corrupt and suppressive agencies in India. [...] > read more

The One Per Centers

Published on 2012-02-09 21:19:30

The One Per Centers.  By Barry Pittard. 8 February 2012 … Somebody’s grabbed a calculator They’ve got it all worked out – There’s 1 per cent owns nearly all the money And the little bit left is ours … I guess that I’m not a 1 percenter I suspect the percentage machine Neglected to tell [...] > read more

Customer Disservice – Where Greed Is All Good

Published on 2012-02-02 18:05:10

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 Whitefiel [..] > read more

To Tend Mother Earth. A Lyric

Published on 2012-01-22 03:45:30

In my blog of last Thursday, I observed that: "I have just returned from a forum, hearing from some of the top environmentalist scientists in the world that the vast ecological troubles threatening the planet are not the concoctions of crack-brain doomsayers. They are very real. Blinded by narrow economic advantage, many governments, corporations and others dangerously ignore compelling scientific data going back forty years. Sathya Sai Baba did not address these immense threats to the planet [..] > read more

Will Court Action Outside India Expose Hired Killers In The Sathya Sai Cult?

Published on 2012-01-20 18:39:15

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 [..] > read more

Michael J. Hollander – Longtime Ardent Sathya Sai Baba Apostle

Published on 2012-01-18 15:22:16

Many poison-pen attacks assail those of us who stand forth to tell the facts about Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide cult.  So it is with some relief that one receives mail from those whom one knew long ago and held in high regard. Such an email has just come from Richard in the USA, [...] > read more

Michael J. Hollander: A Sathya Sai Baba Preacher of ‘Woe-Unto-The-Wicked’

Published on 2012-01-15 20:04:24

I remember Michael Hollander This was in the early 1970's, when I taught for two years at the Sathya Sai College (1978-79) and heard that Sai Baba had selected a woman named Faith, a leader in a New York Sai center, as a wife for Hollander. At a time when very few westerners lived around Sai Baba, she came to spend prolonged time in quiet, focused spiritual retreat. She, her fellow devotees said, preferred to live, spiritually speaking, "married only to Swami". But, regarding him as all-knowi [..] > read more

Traveller’s Aid

Published on 2012-01-08 20:38:00

I wish a Happy New Year to all. I am thankful that, since early 2007, many hundreds of thousands of readers have visited this blog. Each of us plants seeds that grow, hoping they will turn out well, no matter what the terrain - parents, their children; teachers, their charges; visionaries, their creations, and so on. We can all grow a tree that will become a bone-sore weary traveller's aid. Possibly more than at any other time, the world - whose population late last year exceeded seven b [..] > read more

Survivors ‘Move On’? But Abusers Move On – From Victim To Victim. And Must Be Opposed

Published on 2011-12-22 23:02:19

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 callin [..] > read more

Note From Former Lecturer To An Enquirer About Sathya Sai Education

Published on 2011-12-06 05:34:28

Since about 1999, former devotees’ replies to enquirers have been a great many. My closest colleagues and I go out of our way to assist those who enquire with courtesy. It seems very right to ignore those who are offensive. Why – when one has invested so many years in striving to pursue a decent [...] > read more

Sai Global Harmony Radio International Broadcaster Uses Anna Hazare’s Name In Propaganda Efforts

Published on 2011-11-24 21:16:00

I note that the international Sathya Sai satellite broadcaster, Sai Global Harmony, via the WorldSpace Radio Corporation, has just used a Sai cult member's account of his 'meeting' with Anna Hazare, the courageous and greatly respected leader of the mass, pan-Indian campaign against endemic Indian government and corporate corruption. Allowing for social, political and cultural differences, there are strong comparisons to be drawn between the Indian struggle against corruption among the elite and [..] > read more

India’s Billionaire Cricket Star Tendulkar Scores Poorly In Sai Baba’s Game

Published on 2011-07-03 19:53:56

It is rare that Sai Baba makes news outside India. Sunday's Daily Telgraph (UK) has just published a useful run-down on the recent revelations of vast clandestine treasures being found in Sathya Sai Baba's private chambers. (See Further Reading, belo > read more

Yet Another Sai Yajur Mandir Treasure Haul. Stash Not In Recent Enforced Sai Central Trust Inventory

Published on 2011-07-03 06:24:03

Police and other district officials had earlier voiced suspicions of still more undeclared secret stashes of wealth in Sathya Sai Baba’s private quarters. By Saturday, their suspicions proved correct. The Andhra Pradesh authorities now ask:  W > read more

Some Little Points That Get Lost Among Big Sathya Sai Trust Reassurances of Transparency

Published on 2011-06-30 07:47:30

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 > read more

‘Face the Nation’ Audience Poll, India – 87% Hostile to Gurus Like Sathya Sai Baba

Published on 2011-06-29 05:30:05

From India, an informant writes to us: Yesterday, the Sai Baba debate was again featured on CNN-IBN’s flagship show, Face the Nation, hosted by top TV journalist Sagarika Gosh-Sardesai. FTN is one of the most watched programs in the country. Th > read more

Sathya Sai Baba Scandal: View RJ Ratnakar’s Body Language In NDTV Interview On Sai Trust ‘Transparency’

Published on 2011-06-28 21:21:49

Although Sai Baba once famously wrote a letter in which he renounced his family - as renunciates in time-honored Indian tradition do, along with (except for those such as tantricists) his nephew RJ Ratnakar is at centre stage in the Sathya Sai Centra > read more

Child Protectrice, Beth Rude, The Goddess Sathya Sai Baba Forgot

Published on 2011-06-27 18:50:42

Beth Rude. By Barry Pittard. 2011. I wonder if you ever knew That sweet old lady they call Beth Rude With her steady gaze and a cutting phrase Did she ever gaze at you? Was she ever rude to you? But she's never rude to kiddie > read more

Indian Media and Governments Heedless of Decade of Foreign Media and Sai Baba Critics’ Revelations

Published on 2011-06-26 22:21:42

Each day, major sections of the Indian media feature glaring revelations about Sathya Sai Baba's and key Sathya Sai Central Trust officials. The Andhra Pradesh government is now stepping in - for example, closing down 16 charitable exemptions long ac > read more

Head of Sai Baba Mega Dollar Hospital At Puttaparthi Resigns. Others Quitting Jobs Too

Published on 2011-06-25 20:34:20

I only met Dr A.N. Safaya once, when I lengthily interviewed him at the Sri Sathya Sai Superspeciality Hospital for the Puttaparthi-based magazine 'Spiritual Impressions', which is distributed internationally. My impression was of a gracious, deeply > read more

Sathya Sai Trust’s R.J.Ratnakar – Long Police Interrogation. Intensive Investigations Continue

Published on 2011-06-25 18:18:40

Latest reports in the Indian media reveal that the Anantapur district police have questioned a leading Sathya Sai Central Trust member, Sathya Sai Baba's nephew R.J. Ratnakar for over five hours. He has refused media interviews. Police have scheduled > read more

Andhra Pradesh Intelligence Watch On Sathya Sai Central Trust. AP Gvt Closing In

Published on 2011-06-24 04:44:53

Well wisher from India emails us: "It looks like the Andra Pradesh govt is putting the squeeze on the Sathya Sai trust. It appears that the Govt has a definite strategy in mind over a period, and hence the politicians and govt officials > read more

Could Sathya Sai Treasury Scandals Lead to India’s Watergate?

Published on 2011-06-22 22:11:23

I have listened to many country's national anthems. But, I must say, for purely musical reasons, the Indian national anthem has long been my favourite. The melody unfailingly tugs at my heartstrings. Even so, when I listen to it these days, there is > read more

Picture Forms of Shaken Sathya Sai Baba Devotees Quitting En Masse

Published on 2011-06-22 03:56:36

Our Indian well-wisher has just reported: “News is constantly trickling in from Puttaparthi that Sai Baba devotees have been shaken by the huge haul of wealth in Yajur Mandir, as well as big cash seizures in the following days. Many SB devotees > read more

Even Bigger Stash, Secret Vaults, False Ceilings and Walls at Sai Baba’s Ashram? Police Searching

Published on 2011-06-22 02:16:37

Our regular well-wisher from India has just emailed: "The Andhra Pradesh police have definite intelligence of the existence of secret vaults, and concealed storage in false ceilings and behind false walls in Yajur mandir, Sai Baba's personal l > read more

Beth Rude. Ballad of a Child Protectrice. By Barry Pittard

Published on 2011-06-22 01:46:47

Beth Rude.  (Ballad of A Child Protectrice). By Barry Pittard. I wonder if you ever knew That sweet old lady they call Beth Rude With her steady gaze and a cutting phrase Did she ever gaze at you? Was she ever rude to you? But she’s never rude > read more

Sai Baba Treasure Scandals: His Big Political Protectors Now Run For Cover

Published on 2011-06-21 19:33:39

For some weeks, it has been evident to any careful observer, that the Andhra Pradesh government has been only too aware of troubles in the Sathya Sai camp that might grow too big to suppress. Indeed, it is a campfire that none can stamp out, and look > read more

Sathya Sai Trust In Vast Treasure Scandals: Secret Temple, Van, and Bus Stashes

Published on 2011-06-20 07:04:34

If due diligence occurs, Andhra Pradesh police investigations will need to pursue, at a simple count, at least four lots of alleged Sai Trust illicit treasury violations. Up to the time of Sathya Sai Baba's death, there were previous reports of at l > read more

Has Sathya Sai Baba’s Will Been Found? Which Will will Prevail? Divine Will or Earthly Will?

Published on 2011-06-19 03:36:47

In a communication just received, a private source of information relates: "Bhagwati is pro Satyajit and hence threatened to quit the trust, but was pacified. Day before yesterday in a trust meeting, several trust members walked out in a huff. > read more

After Decades of Dormancy, Some Indian Media Now Question Sathya Sai Baba

Published on 2011-06-18 20:09:31

Given that Robert Priddy's and my dear friend the late V.K. Narasimhan was once its Editor, I find a touch of irony in seeing that the Express Group is one of those beginning, if timorously, to venture a critical opinion on Sathya Sai Baba. With t > read more

Reports of Sathya Sai Central Trust Van Laden With Treasure Seized By Andhra State Police

Published on 2011-06-18 18:04:04

FLASH This story seems only broken as yet via the India Today television news channel. Overnight (Australian Eastern Standard Time), a usually reliable source of ours with Andhra Pradesh-related police sources reported that Andhra Pradesh State > read more

Sathya Sai Baba Buried Treasure: Media and Government Need To Probe Sai Central Trust

Published on 2011-06-18 03:01:07

The Indian correspondent whom I mentioned in my blogs of the last two days has, in addition, raised a number of questions that may fairly be asked of the Sathya Sai Central Trust. - see:  ‘Secret Swami’ (Late) Sai Baba: Vast Millions In Hoard Fo > read more

‘Secret Swami’ (Late) Sai Baba: Vast Millions In Hoard Found Hidden In His Palace-Temple

Published on 2011-06-17 18:27:46

Yesterday, I blogged on an email we received from an Indian correspondent long known to us, and included a number of links to the last 24 hours or so of Indian press reportage of the huge stash of money and valuables secreted in Sathya Sai Baba's pal > read more

‘Rock Spiders’ and Sexual Abuse of the Young

Published on 2011-06-17 06:07:57

Little Fly. By Barry Pittard She was 9, and she knew nothing 'Little fly,' 'Little fly' he called her As she writhed in his spider toils As kind Uncle with his charm enthralled her > read more

Sathya Sai Baba’s Residence Unlocked. Vast Treasury Uncovered

Published on 2011-06-17 05:33:28

NEWS FLASH  Note:  I shall analyse Indian media reports just to hand, and write further, tomorrow.  Barry Pittard From India, one of our correspondents writes: “Sai Baba’s official residence ‘Yajur mandiram’, built at a cos > read more

Sathya Sai Baba Foretold He Would ‘Die’ Circa 2022. Further Archival Evidence

Published on 2011-06-13 19:16:46

Here is further evidence for the best known of the late Sathya Sai Baba's predictions for the year of his death - circa 2022. See my blog: Official Sai Baba Documents Show His Death Date Prophecies Failed. Posted by Barry Pittard on June 12, 2011. > read more

Official Sai Baba Documents Show His Death Date Prophecies Failed

Published on 2011-06-12 00:42:52

As inaccurate in blind faith mathematics as they are careless with so many other types of fact, a number of Sathya Sai Baba devotees have seriously tripped over themselves about his various death date prophecis. Many of them did not realise that h > read more

The Extreme Departure From Sathya Sai Baba’s Teachings By His Prominent Devotees

Published on 2011-06-08 00:00:54

Over recent years, those leading the attack against former Sai Baba devotees and other critics have been noted for their vituperation, libel, harassment (including causing deep distress to family and children of prominent spokespersons), and more. > read more

Baba Ram Dev’s Challenge to Indian Government and Corporate Corruption

Published on 2011-06-07 21:56:20

The Swami Ramdev challenge to high level government and corporate corruption in India is but one indicator of the type of institutional violence with which Manmohan Singh is ready to react (see Reuters report below) when confronted not by a handful o > read more

Sathya Sai Baba Claimed He Will Resurrect After 40 Days

Published on 2011-06-04 04:56:28

Amid the dust and decay of his many unfulfilled prophecies, Sathya Sai Baba died 25 April 2011. Yet he foretold that the most of the world would come kneel at his feet. And of course, he will remain dead. And, except for small parts of it, the world > read more

Sathya Sai Baba’s Death Falsifies Vivekananda ‘Reincarnation’ Story (Part 3)

Published on 2011-05-31 04:58:17

Concluding the three-part series. This follows: Sathya Sai Baba’s Death Falsifies Vivekananda ‘Reincarnation’ Story (Part 2) To refresh on our theme. Here are quotations for two of the most respected of all devotee writers on Sathya Sai B > read more

Sathya Sai Baba’s Death Falsifies Vivekananda ‘Reincarnation’ Story (Part 2)

Published on 2011-05-25 20:51:23

Continuing the three-part series. This follows: Sathya Sai Baba’s Death Falsifies His Vivekananda ‘Reincarnation’ Claim (Part 1) It was early 1998. An idea struck me. I was then editing books by Sathya Sai Baba devotees and 'Spiritual Impr > read more

An Introspective Exercise For Fearless Sathya Sai Baba Devotees

Published on 2011-05-21 17:38:44

Sathya Sai Baba core leaders such as Dr Michael Goldstein, Dr G.L. Venkataraman and and others are deeply implicated in the massive cover up of a profoundly dark side of Sathya Sai Baba  and the inner machinations of his religious empire. Those who > read more

Sathya Sai Baba’s Death Falsifies His Vivekananda ‘Reincarnation’ Claim (Part 1)

Published on 2011-05-16 20:14:23

Reportedly, Sathya Sai Baba told a young Sri Lankan man that he was the reincarnation of the great Hindu monk, Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902).  The latter had traveled, briefly, to the West and made a large impression on both scholars and liberal lai > read more

The Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust and its Golden Casket

Published on 2011-05-10 07:13:59

I posted the following piece 14 February 2007. I shall remove that post - originally entitled: 'Sai Baba Exchequer Worth Billions Many Countries Donate' - and repost now. Since the news coverage from March 29, when Sathya Sai Baba was admitted to > read more

Ex-Chief Justice of India: Sathya Sai Baba “dictated my every single judgement”

Published on 2011-05-03 17:39:16

In the Times of India article – ‘Sai Baba, my god, dictated my every single judgment’ – TNN | May 1, 2011, 03.22am IST – the former Chief Justice of India, P.N. Bhagwati, and now to be head of the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, makes th > read more

On Sathya Sai Baba: Times of India, Ex-Chief Justice Interview. What Judge Would So Opine?

Published on 2011-05-01 07:14:30

The sort of questions I'd like to be asking ex-Chief Justice of India, P.N. Bhagwati (I'll follow the present spelling), I have put in blue highlight. In his interview just conducted by the Times of India (on which he has long been a director, by > read more

Indian Ex-Chief Justice: “Wild, Reckless Claims” about Sathya Sai Baba

Published on 2011-04-28 19:12:01

Further Reading THE SATHYA SAI ORGANISATION’S DECEPTION AND PROPAGANDA EXPOSED (Part One) – By Robert Priddy and Barry Pittard. And Part Two Three Four. Call for media and government investigation of Sathya Sai Baba General Excerpt Fr > read more

BBC Exposed Sai Baba Top Aide’s And Indian Foreign Minister’s Ploy With UNESCO

Published on 2011-04-27 17:35:35

Below - in red highlight - are subheadings in the article: The Case of UNESCO’s Missing Media Advisory. Posted by Barry Pittard on March 15, 2007. This piece is about a watershed event, the involvement of UNESCO, in the history of former devotee > read more

Brian Steel Exposes Sathya Sai Baba On Glaring Historical Mistakes

Published on 2011-04-27 00:19:59

Select writings from Brian Steel’s Extensive Opus. Sathya Sai Baba can be documented by any conscientious reader as having made contradictory statements and egregious historical and scientific blunders. These include his remarks on Jesus Christ an > read more

Sathya Sai Baba – The Man Who Would Be ‘King of Kings’

Published on 2011-04-26 18:30:35

From November 1975, continuing until October 1999, I was inspired by a series of remarkable situations to become a devotee of a Sathya Sai Baba. In early 1978, he asked me to teach at his college at Whitefield, via Bangalore,South India. My words bel > read more

Health Professional Comes Out On BBC: Sai Baba sexually abused him when young

Published on 2011-04-25 18:34:20

I dearly wish that, with the great many thousands of visitors to this blogsite and that of Robert Priddy, there will be those who can come out with their experiences of sexual and many other forms of abuse at the hands of Sathya Sai Baba. There is > read more

Sathya Sai Central Trust Says “millions and millions” of Devotees Worldwide. But Who Counted?

Published on 2011-04-25 01:29:48

Below is the report of The (UK) Guardian's report on Sathya Sai Baba's death yesterday morning. I shall exerpt from, and comment on, it. > read more

Sathya Sai Baba Is Dead. Said He Would Rule the World and Die Aged 96

Published on 2011-04-24 07:23:06

Sathya Sai Baba died today, Sunday morning. A Puttaparthi hospital official says: "Sai Baba is no more with us physically. He breathed his last at 7:40am and died due to cardio-respiratory failure." The self-described fullest incarnation of G > read more

Sathya Sai Baba Teaches: ‘We are not this body’. Why Are His Devotees Such A Police Security Problem?

Published on 2011-04-23 17:26:30

Cited several times in the Indian media's sudden, unaccustomed, large coverage of Sathya Sai Baba, are accounts of "eminent" Sai devotees stating that he will not die because he has promised to remain in the physical body until he is 96 years. Out > read more

Barry Pittard’s Articles Most-Sought During Sathya Sai Baba Health Crisis (Part 1)

Published on 2011-04-23 01:39:42

In that the links may be useful for readers - especially those new to, or less familiar, with this blogsite - I shall give below a list of Urls (Part 1 of 3) at this blogsite which, as I can see from an internal statistical read-outs, are getting sol > read more

Andhra Opposition Want Release of Gvt Spies’ Reports On Sathya Sai Baba

Published on 2011-04-22 06:36:34

One may raise the question: why would four very experienced Andhra Pradesh intelligence operatives between them keep round-the-clock watch, that has been continued unabated for four years, on affairs at Puttaparthi? What else might they wish to kno > read more

Sathya Sai Baba Hardly Alive. World Attention on Kate and William Instead

Published on 2011-04-21 20:38:16

To this point, reports in the Western media of Sathya Sai Baba health troubles are hardly to be seen. So much, then, for the untiring and misleading claims in Puttaparthi propaganda that Sathya Sai Baba is known and honoured by many millions througho > read more

Sathya Sai Health Condition “Very Critical”, Says Sai Hospital Head (21 April)

Published on 2011-04-21 04:48:41

Indian media are starting to report that some Sathya Sai Baba forces favour his burial while he is still technically alive. Countries not steeped in the utmost superstition may find it hard to credit yesterday's bizarre news Yes, buried alive. > read more

Human Rights Commission Probe Fronts Andhra Government On Sathya Sai Baba Treatment

Published on 2011-04-18 17:31:41

In the last hours, many Indian newspapers have run the story on the direction by the Andhra Pradesh Human Rights Commission to the State government to produce a report on Sathya Sai Baba's health condition. None too early in the piece, Sathya Sai > read more

Indian Lawyers Challenge Sathya Sai Baba’s Central Trust On Secrecy and Foul Play

Published on 2011-04-18 03:45:05

In the last days, there has fast emerged a major new turning point in the Sathya Sai saga. A climate is emerging in which Sai Baba devotee appointed lawyers are seriously looking at what their clients aver is the severe unaccountability of Puttparthi > read more

Downturn In Sathya Sai Baba’s Condition (April 17th 2011)

Published on 2011-04-17 16:35:18

Reports say that Sathya Sai Baba's health has relapsed. This is in marked contrast to to the optimistic view released by the Sathya Sai Central Trust last Friday. It stated: "In the latest review, as of today, the doctors attending on Him have ex > read more

Sathya Sai Devotees Suspect Foul Play In Guru’s Health Crisis. Seek Court Order

Published on 2011-04-16 05:25:07

In some major Indian newspapers, there are now reports of Sai devotees taking action that challenges the conduct of those close round Sathya Sai Baba, including urgent recourse to law. They suspect the gravest chicanery practised by forces vying for > read more

Sathya Sai Trust Officials Say Sai Baba Out of Hospital Soon

Published on 2011-04-15 19:03:37

A Sathya Sai Central Trust "important press release" just to hand (see notice below) has begun to appear on various prominent Sathya Sai Baba related sites on the web. It notes that "for several days, His (sic) condition was a cause for concern". > read more

Is Sathya Sai Baba’s Survival Divine? But Treatment Keeps Many Elderly Sick Alive

Published on 2011-04-13 15:41:58

When contrasted with the critical and prolonged illness of Sathya Sai Baba, many texts from his discourses are to be seen as mere hyperbole or some form of belief system that he, who claims to be perfection itself, cannot sustain in his own case. He > read more

Sathya Sai Baba. Stable But Still Critical, his doctors say

Published on 2011-04-11 15:42:25

Medical bulletins emitting from Sathya Sai Baba's medical team say that 85 year-old patient's condition is still critical but stable and with some improvement. The sheer convergence of top Indian medical expertise at Sathya Sai Baba's bedside from > read more

BBC-Named ‘The Secret Swami’, Sathya Sai Baba Hospitalized and Fighting For Life

Published on 2011-04-05 20:59:35

Sathya Sai Baba is now kept alive by ventilator and kidney dialysis. In having to report the health bulletins emitting from Puttarthi, the Indian media - so remiss in reporting anything inimical to Sathya Sai Baba, are, of course, given that he may > read more

Sathya Sai Baba’s Health Condition Again At Grave Risk

Published on 2011-04-04 20:35:13

In a matter of days, rosy reports emanating from official Puttaparthi sources about Sai Baba's condition are now shown to be either pipe dreams or deliberate gloss. Of course it is conceivable that his leaders who control the bulletins to the media, > read more

Pacemaker ‘Avatar’ Says ‘I am not this body’. Worried Devotees Pray For His Body

Published on 2011-04-02 18:05:55

As of 28 March 2011, we have a pacemaker avatar. The Lord of Lords, the Avatar of Avatars. The now hump-backed, immobile faced, golf-cart carried God on earth. He says that all the world loves him. But of course most people in the world at large have > read more

Sathya Sai Baba’s Pacemaker Implant – His Promised Health and Longevity In Doubt

Published on 2011-03-31 16:31:28

Increasingly sick and ailing over recent years, Sathya Sai Baba has said: “Purity, patience and perseverance. With these three you are bound to acquire good health and bliss. You may believe it or not. But the truth is that these three are responsi > read more

Sathya Sai Baba Hospitalized, Despite Hailing His Extraordinary ‘Health’

Published on 2011-03-29 07:12:04

Stop Press! News of Sathya Sai Baba's hospitalization are breaking in these last hours. Only a sanitized version of health problems afflicting Sathya Sai Baba is possible. Any reader of informed chroniclers - such as Robert Priddy, Brian Steel, > read more

Is Sathya Sai Organization ‘Education’ Really Education?

Published on 2011-03-24 16:29:56

There are many means by which the Sathya Sai Organization spreads its influence in communities throughout the world.  In regard to education, one is in-house, and introduces children of Sai devotees to the major world faiths, but emphasises prima > read more

What Is A Cult? Does Sathya Sai Baba Preside Over A Servile, Worldwide Cult?

Published on 2011-03-20 22:12:19

Is the Sathya Sai Organization a cult? It is a fair question. No careless use of terms will serve us well. We might also enquire - perhaps of our own selves, more than anyone else, whether there are significant cultic elements in those institutions > read more

‘Marie Claire’ Magazine: April 2011. Sathya Sai Baba Still Further Exposed

Published on 2011-03-14 04:04:09

In the article: 'Holy Man Or Hoax', the world-famous 'Marie Claire' magazine has just furthered the exposure of Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide cult. Writing for the Australian edition of 'Marie Claire' (April 2011), the British journalist who > read more

Sathya Sai Baba’s Institute of ‘Higher Learning’. Independent Professional Assessment Needed

Published on 2011-03-09 14:57:55

Self-praise is no recommendation. Sathya Sai Baba's public discourses, and many speeches by those around him, keep hailing the supposed glories of his education system. It would be useful if there were an authoritative, independent assesment. Bu > read more

Sathya Sai Baba In Fits of Sobbing: Video Footage Confirms Earlier Accounts

Published on 2011-03-04 14:56:43

In the years following November 1975, the year in which I first read of him, I increasingly thought that Sathya Sai Baba was transforming Indian society, and would transform not only India but many individuals from countries around the world. And thi > read more

Indian Army Abuse – A Young Indian’s View

Published on 2011-02-24 17:27:51

I received this note from a young person living in India. Interestingly, in this person's report, the Indian army comes off badly and not the police. In the years that I lived in India, many Indians had great respect for the army but widely despised > read more

Many Notable Sathya Sai Baba Cult Leaders Resign

Published on 2011-02-17 18:05:17

One of the potent, indirect damages to the Sathya Sai Organization comes via the concerned activities of very large numbers of those who are non-devotee family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers in the professions, business, fellow college and s > read more

Can Tomorrow’s Indian Citizens March Like Today’s Egyptians?

Published on 2011-02-12 18:01:51

Kind reader, please indulge me an acute understatement: Exposing Sathya Sai Baba, and that core of servitors who exercise control over his worldwide cult, has not been easy. Crowded around him, like a protective phalanx, have long been Indian p > read more

Will V.P.B. Nair Keep His Word To BBC On Sathya Sai Baba?

Published on 2011-02-07 16:45:22

In mid 2004, former Andhra Pradesh Home Secretary, V.P.B. Nair spoke to the BBC in its 2004 television documentary - 'The Secret Swami' - about the official corruption that attended the police killings in Sathya Sai Baba's bedroom in June 1993. He sa > read more

Sathya Sai Baba and Deception: Does Truth Catch Up In The End?

Published on 2011-02-04 18:04:38

Slowly but steadily - although both greatly aided AND greatly impeded by the internet - the awful facts about Sathya Sai Baba have been able to spread far and wide. Aided, of course, because no other communication method in history has had such im > read more

Early Sathya Sai Baba Proselytizers

Published on 2011-02-02 13:14:37

The following article provides background and context relating to the growth of interest in Sathya Sai Baba from within the USA – circa 1965-1970. Brian Steel lists key American followers of this period who had already embarked in actively pu > read more

Sathya Sai Baba’s Mastery of ‘The Big Lie’

Published on 2011-01-31 21:00:05

Among the plethora of Puttaparthi untruths, there is the constant repetition, mantra-like and mind-numbing, from Sai Baba and many of his followers about the supposedly vast millions who follow him. He, like many other misleaders of the world, long > read more

Manmohan Singh’s ‘God’ Fails History Test

Published on 2011-01-29 03:44:32

Is there even one decently educated history student in the West and much beyond, let alone scholar, who could subscribe to the following twaddle by the self-proclaimed omniscient, highest 'avatar' ever to have appeared on earth? The man, deemed to b > read more

Guru’s Partisans Banned From Editing Of Wiki ‘Sathya Sai Baba’ Entry

Published on 2011-01-23 17:39:11

Like 'democracy' itself, the Wikipedia online encyclopedia can be a great idea. Against large odds, it has just reached its first decade of existence. Wiki is meant to be a vast knowledge base on almost an infinity of topics. Servers worldwide ensur > read more

Sathya Sai Baba and His Sect: Links to Critical Blogsites and Websites

Published on 2011-01-21 16:16:09

Sathya Sai Baba And His Sect: Links to Critical Blogsites and Websites Sathya Sai Baba In Word and Action An extensive, highly organized site by the former long-time head and co-founder of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway, Robert Priddy. > read more

Indian Army and Police Torture: Wikileaks Revelations

Published on 2011-01-20 00:35:13

At Sai Baba’s ashram at Puttaparthi in the south Indian State of Andhra Pradesh, one cannot but notice how the ranks of -  up to the top echelons – the armed forces and police are to be seen represented mass pilgrimage. For decades it ha > read more

Dr John Hislop: Sathya Sai Baba Both Fallible and Infallible

Published on 2011-01-14 18:16:25

Dr John Hislop, one-time top leader of the Sathya Sai Organization in the USA, and before that head of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi foundation in the USA, said that Sai Baba was fallible, but ... still infallible! To a mind not caught in the need to ra > read more

Police and Army Rapists Rarely Punished, Says Kavita Krishnan (Of AIPWA)

Published on 2011-01-10 17:48:21

Kavita Krishna, Secretary, All India Progressive Women’s Association, is one of those social justice reformers in India to whom I have at various times referred. Sathya Sai Baba forever preaches truth. right conduct and non-violence but here is an > read more

V.P.B. Nair Told BBC Sai Baba Bedroom Killings Were “Coldblooded Murder”

Published on 2011-01-06 04:49:02

Although there are many socio-cultural differences that argue against taking the analogy too far, there is a sense in which younger generations of educated Indians face similar difficulties to the children of the generation whose parents served Ad > read more

‘God’ (Sathya Sai Baba) Blunders On! – On History

Published on 2011-01-01 19:04:24

Sathya Sai Baba's blunders on history and science are big. For some science examples, see the articles cited at the foot of this page. Readers perturbed to see their friends, family or colleagues getting into the Sathya Sai Baba cult may consider > read more