Does Sathya Sai materialize money?

Here follows a brief excerpt in transcript from the TV documentary ‘LA HISTORIA DE SAI BABA (I)’ as shown in Argentina.  It demonstrates  the extent to which devotees believe in the reality of hearsay. Cristina is the TV interviewer and the Central Coordinator of the South American Sathya Sai Organization, businessman Leonardo Gutter, is the devotee telling the stories:-

TAPE 0063 14:20 -14:38 VHS 001964 08:99 09:12:40 to 09:69 SB interview with devotees De 14:49:10 hasta 15:43:11 Inserts: Gutter’s eyes 00:27:15 Cristina listening 00:34:55:00 Gutter listening: 00:35:30 Cristina’s eyes: 00:35:47 VHS 001964 From 10:00 to 10:15 Baba hands ring to adepts

“Some young men from Argentina went there with one way tickets. He told them to return to their country to live and study. The young men told him that they had no money for the return ticket and Sai Baba stretched his hand an what was amusing was that one kid had to give each a bill…The bills were stuck together, like a photo that has just been developed…and he would give one to each…when he finished distributing them… Cristina: Are these regular legal bills? – Legal bills. When he finished distributing them, the one he owed 300 dollars to had 300 more than the other one. Cristina: How can you be sure that the money that Sai Baba materializes is legal? – Well, the people who have received it, has used it and they have not had any problems. They’re legal … Cristina: But, money has a serial number – It is absolutely incomprehensible. They are absolutely normal…The only difference is that they look as if they had just been made. The investigator Basava Premanand took Sai Baba’ case to court years ago because of violation of the Gold Control Act that restricts the making, possession, sale and transfer of gold. Cristina: But where do they come from? If you explain this at a bank, they are going to say that you are laundering money… – It’s incomprehensible… Once, people from the government of India, from the tax department, came to see him because Sai Baba not only materializes money, but precious stones, necklaces, rosaries and then they came to question why Sai Baba makes gifts of these to many people who leave India. Sai Baba gave these two persons an audience. He stretched his hand and in front of them appeared a small mound of precious stones and when the inspectors saw this they fell at his feet and asked for forgiveness…” Note: This fantasy story has circulated in different guises through the Sai movement’s monkey telegraph… as can be seen here ———————————————- The Judge at the Court, Y.V. Anjaneyulu, a Sai devotee, rejected the case presented by Premanand because those articles “were materialized through spiritual powers”. See here

See transcript of Part Two  of A Sinning God here

and Sathya Sai Baba exposed in Argentina