Sai Baba’s Mission to Save India

Consider the unsupportable claims of Sathya Sai Baba that his “Divine Mission” – which cannot possibly fail – is to clean up India before doing the same for the rest of the world! He is acclaimed by so many Indian Prime Ministers, Presidents as a holy and divine personality, an infallible spiritual master and a God Incarnate, who they have proclaimed officially to be an Indian ‘National treasure’!

Sathya Sai Baba has long claimed that his “Divine Mission” cannot possibly fail So far neither he nor those who follow him have accomplished very little indeed in changing India, as proved by many horrifying statistics over poverty and a wide range of ill that still haunt most of the long-suffering Indian populace. He is now wheelchair-ridden and reportedly partially senile octogenarian. These elitist, well-heeled Sai devotee politicians are largely responsible for most of the continuing mega-problems of the state of India. Sai Baba himself told in an interview (where Mr. V. Ramnath of the IAS was present) that India is not a poor country, only the sum equivalent to India’s massive debt is hidden in Indians’ Swiss bank accounts!

Take a lookat one problem, India’s battle against AIDS:-

NEW DELHI, India, 30 November 2006 – “On the eve of World AIDS Day, former US President Bill Clinton and Sonia Gandhi, one of India’s leading politicians, launched India’s first National Paediatric Programme on HIV and AIDS. During the launch, Mr. Clinton noted that as many as 11,000 people are infected by HIV daily, and children represent a significant number of cases.”

Number of AIDS orphans

• There are over 15 million children orphaned by AIDS around the world.
• Experts believe that millions more orphans remain unaccounted for in India, China and Russia.
• At least 10 million more children will be orphans by AIDS by 2010.

A universal difficulty in obtaining accurate data may be that individuals fail to report child labour participation during surveys, for fear of persecution. UN statistics shows that there are ‘2.5 million people in India living with HIV, according to new estimates’, UNAIDS (2007, July 6th), ) of which countless thousands are children!

HIV and AIDS are but one of India’s crises. Unlike Sai Baba, the world in general knows that India- despite its improved economy – is still full of the homeless, of slum cities, beggars of every kind and the land where the degradation of human beings exceeds all limits of decency. Harrowing reports of killings, violence, unrest, injustice, and worse continue to come forth on the international media. The pavements of polluted cities are home to the poorest of the poor, lepers, limbless mendicants deformed horribly in childhood into broken-legged ’spidermen’ and head-narrowed ‘rat-headed children’ and other pitiful shapes and forms – for the purposes of begging. See more here

Note also that India’s progress is being hindered by Sathya Sai Baba promoting belief in black magic , in fabulous ancient myths and superstitions which are patently not real and many other false beliefs besides.

See also Sathya Sai Baba’s “divine teaching” on sexuality
Sathya Sai Baba’s unfulfilled promises about orphans

India: God-driven or God-forsaken