The Dalai Lama and Sathya Sai Baba

Please consider the following list of questions as a little quiz.
If the answers are not immediately evident to you for one reason or another, they are listed at the bottom of the list. The fuller reasons and further documentation for the correct answers can be found in the article here

1) Which of the two – Sathya Sai Baba or the Dalai Lama is always humble and treats others as equals

2) Which of the two is open to questions and never makes fun at the expense of his questioners?

3) Which of the two is open to genuine dialogue with his critics and is respectful of them.

4) Which of the two seeks publicity only for the cause of a suppressed people and culture, not for any personal praise or self interest?

5) Which of the two actively practices non-violence and has never been involved in covering up murders on his own premises?

6) Which of the two revels in pomp and tinsel, is constantly sitting on silver thrones, golden chariots?

7 ) Which of the two constantly emphasises his service to others, his self-sacrifice and that no one is doing one thousandth of the service he is doing?

8 ) Which of the two lays claim to total spiritual and moral superiority over all living persons on earth and in every other realm?

9) Which of the two blessed golden statues of himself, and allows donations to go to build costly ‘museums’ and other buildings glorifying himself with blazoned images of himself and his sayings?

10) Which of the two is subject to the abuse and libel of a powerful state which employs torture and killing of his supporters?

11) Which of the two is protected by security guards at all times and cannot be approached by anyone except his servitors without body searches and the use of metal detectors?

12) Which of the two is never patronising and never harangues people for being impure and under the sway of inhuman and demonic forces?

13) Which of the two avoids the press or replying to them in any form unless vetted in advance and also descries investigative press writings about himself as ‘false flights of the imagination’ and demonises journalists who question him as spreading slander?

14) Which of the two is known to associate with criminals, such as the brutal dictator Idi Amin or the corrupt embezzling exile Bettino Craxi?

15) Which of the two has been accused in substantial and detailed testimonies of sexual abuses of a large number of Indian and foreign boys and young men?

16) Which of the two is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, while the other was put forward for the same honour by India’s government but whose candidacy was mentioned only by a few supporters?

[[Should there be a shadow of a doubt as to the correct the answers, they are:

1) Dalai Lama 2) Dalai Lama 3) Dalai Lama 3) Dalai Lama 4) Dalai Lama 5) Dalai Lama 6) Sathya Sai Baba
7) Sathya Sai Baba 8 ) Sathya Sai Baba 9) Sathya Sai Baba 10) Sathya Sai Baba 11) Sathya Sai Baba 12) Dalai Lama 13) Sathya Sai Baba 14) Sathya Sai Baba 15) Sathya Sai Baba 16) Dalai Lama!]]

And, once again, the fuller reasons and further documentation of the correct answers can be found in the article here

Sathya Sai Baba claims that he, as Full Avatar of God, has sixteen special qualities. The above 16 questions make for a fitting comment on his ‘special qualities’.

[Don’t be ‘the weakest link’]
see also http://barrypittard.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/china-courts-dalai-lama-olympic-good-spirit/