Puttaparthi becoming a ghost town?

One cannot be but sorry for all those poor Indians whose livelihoods have been built around the popularity of Sathya Sai Baba, no more than one can be glad that the big money-making property tycoons – including Sathya Sai Baba family members and corrupt ‘officials’ – are suffering a major setback. The prospects for Puttaparthi have never looked worse – and this applies also to those other resorts Sai Baba frequented – the Whitefield ashram and college complex near Bangalore – has an economy based mostly on foreign and local visitors wanting to see Sai Baba.Even Sai Baba’s summer resort town, Kodaikanal, will struggle much from the absence of foreign income in the summer month or more it was crowded with rich visitors.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/sathya-sai-baba-death-puttaparthi-struggles-for-survival/1/139541.html

Reports on the situation after Sathya Sai Baba’s departure from it all – and the collapsed credibility of the Trust he left behind are several in the Indian press. India Today continues its article (see right) with the words “Puttaparthi is not a ghost town. Not yet. But there are telling signs everywhere. The bustling town in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh has all but come to a standstill. The locked gates at the private airport, the empty cavern that was once an active bus stop, the taxi and autorickshaw stand with vehicles but no passengers and the all-pervasive and omnipresent gloom in the town bear a silent testimony to the travails of the residents struggling to come to terms with the loss of their patron saint, Sathya Sai Baba.”

“The problem with Puttaparthi has always been that it functions around Baba. Even when he was alive when he travelled to live in Whitefield in Bangalore or the Kodaikanal ashram, Puttaparthi would become a ghost town. His devotees would follow him. That was our off-season. Now we have a permanent off-season,” says Dhanush, whose family has lived here for over 50 years. A month after Sai Baba’s demise, the flood of visitors has reduced to a mere trickle. In the past month, nearly a dozen Internet cafes have shut shop.” Most businesses such as Internet cafes, real estate companies, markets, Kerala ayurvedic centres and the quintessential handicraft shops have all been hit by the downslide after Baba’s demise. “During season, we earned about Rs 8,000-10,000 every day. We could afford to wait out the lean months. In the last month, we haven’t managed to make even Rs 100-200 a day,” says Dhanush, who works for a property developer.”

Vinod Kumar runs a family handicrafts business said: “Now there is absolutely no business. We are a family of 12 and the future looks scary.” As he waits for the odd customer, he remembers an old story: “Someone once heard Baba predict that after he passed on, Puttaparthi would be inhabited only by dogs and monkeys. At the moment that’s my greatest fear.”

Erlendur Haraldsson and Robert Priddy on Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba devotees refer to Professor Erlendur Haraldsson in an attempt to suggest that this scientist is a believer in his ‘divine miracles’. Haraldsson did investigate the Sai movement in the 1970s, but nowhere will one find any such endorsement in his writings.

My wife and I have known Erlendur Haraldsson since 1989, when we first met him in Bangalore and have through the years met him about 8 times – in India and Norway, during which we have had many discussions of Sathya Sai Baba, most recently this year (2011). I can assure all that he is in no sense anything like a follower of Sathya Sai Baba, nor does he endorse the supposed materializations as ‘miracles’. When first I met him, I believed that the materializations were genuine and much more besides. Haraldsson was unable to hide his skepticism about much of it, but was always civil about it, though he did say he thought I was over-interpreting many things, as – indeed – I now know most certainly that I was (i.e. in following Sai Baba’s directions to the letter such as “hear, see and think only good” – understood by all to apply to faith in Sai Baba’s claims above all else). Haraldsson always strives to be most precise scientifically, as is seen in his ongoing investigations of alleged rebirth and spirit mediums, as well as his debunking of both Swami Premananda and Gyatri Swami.

In his book, Haraldsson recorded what he observed and what others told him, without drawing any definitive conclusion on whether the various phenomena were proven as genuine. Nor has he ever endorsed Sathya Sai Baba’s materializations or other claimed paranormal phenomena as being miracles. Despite this, the use of Sai Baba’s own statement “Miracles Are My Visiting Cards” as the title of his book as originally published seems biased towards belief in miracles (later changed to “Modern Miracles” which is little better). It is fully documented that, when he first visited Sathya Sai Baba together with another para-psychologist – Karlis Osis – in 1973, they wanted to carry out controlled experiments on Sai Baba’s supposed ‘miraculous materializations’, but were firmly denied any such thing by Sai Baba.

Haraldsson’s investigations proved Sai deceptions: Sathya Sai Baba’s claim of having resurrected Walter Cowan from the dead, which one can read about in his book ‘Modern Miracles’ was clearly disproved by Haraldsson’s witnesses. (p. 250 – see text here). At that time, criticism in English publications of Sai Baba’s amazing claims were extremely few and the large hagiographic literature predominated, so Haraldsson deserves praise for his unashamed unearthing of the truth about Walter Cowan and Co. That material is never referred to by Sai Baba followers, who no doubt wish it would disappear.

Since this blog was posted, I have posted another major blog with a full account and explanation of what Professor Haraldsson had told me already 10 years ago, which I have not published due to our long friendship… not until events have made it unavoidable from my viewpoint to keep quiet about such important ‘secrets’ thinking of the many victims of Sathya Sai Baba’s huge abuses of trust and his known homosexual activities.

The Rajah of Venkatigiri’s Account, as Reported by Haraldsson:: The Rajah of Venkatigiri’s Account of the alleged resurrection of Radhakrishna by Sathya Sai Baba, as Reported by Haraldsson: The present Raja of Venkatigiri was in Puttaparti at that time. When asked about this incident, he told me that he remembered it well. He had been with the swami when Mr. Radhakrishna’s relative came to tell Sai Baba that he was dying. About an hour after Mr. Radhakrishna allegedly died, the swami came down from his room at last and said to them: `Don’t fear, nothing has happened.’ They waited outside the room while the swami went in. When he opened the door and called them, they saw that Mr. Radhakrishna was alive and talking slowly. The Raja did not see Mr. Radhakrishna while he was allegedly dead. Haraldsson, p. 249. http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/23/dbbook/3resur.htm

Professor Dale Beyerstein commented on the above as follows:-   Given (1) that no medical doctor is supposed to have pronounced Radhakrishna dead at any time during the sequence of events in question, (2) the patient was muttering semi-coherently through the night before his alleged resurrection, and (3) even Murphet withdraws the claim that he was in the medical sense dead prior to Sai Baba’s visit, the inescapable conclusion is that Mr. Radhakrishna was not in the medical sense dead prior to Sai Baba’s visit. What is required, clearly, to establish a resurrection from the dead claim is a case in which it is at least alleged that the patient was found to have been dead by a doctor. These accounts of the Radhakrishna case, then, are of principal interest as an exhibit of the low standards in accuracy, consistency, and reliability of devotee reports of the miracles. He was dead three days, an hour, six days, and not at all. Somehow one expects a slightly higher standard of accuracy in reporting, if a claim is to be taken seriously by the scientific community; and if this is the best to be expected of oral reports and memories, one expects at the very least a higher standard of interest in sorting out what happened on the part of the devotees putting out the story for public consumption.

The ability also to bi-locate has been claimed for Sathya Sai Baba and other spiritual figures, such as the famous Catholic Pater Pio of Pietrelcina, Italy (1887-1968, now Saint Pio of Pietrelcina). Parapsychologist Prof. Erlendur Haraldsson tried to investigate these highly controversial claims of Sathya Sai Baba’s bi-location but, though he could not substantiate them, he lent them some credence even by presenting the claims which could not be tested in any way. All accounts he obtained were anecdotal and/or hearsay, some being very meagre, others more detailed. Haraldsson classified such reports as ‘apparitions’ as in para-psychological  terminology, many of which have been recorded by para-psychologists (over 10% of questioned persons in general are supposed on statistical grounds to have such an experience at least once in their lifetime).

However, particularly since 2000, good reasons have arisen to question the preparedness of Haraldsson and Osis in the 1970s for study of deceptive sleight-of-hand, suggestion techniques and misdirection of attention to observe were never well enough prepared or stringent enough to uncover any fraudulent Sathya Sai Baba’s productions. Though Haraldsson had visited magicians for tips about fraud, he never detected what many others have. For example,  – such Sai Baba misdirected attention in various ways while he reached behind himself for objects under his cushion, which he later pretended to materialize. This was done, for example, by saying something unusual to a person at the back of the room, so all heads turned to see who it was. Nor did the parapsychologists realize that many shops in South India produce exactly the same kind of ‘diamond’ rings, medallions and pendants that Sai Baba supposedly ‘materialized’ (all most certainly having synthetic stones, which the investigators did not ascertain either), for Haraldsson discounted there being a supplier without serious investigation. It is now known how items were smuggled in to Sai Baba by helpers (not hard to guess either!). Several disaffected followers had seen and reported a number of typical objects behind the cushions on his chair in the interview room, while one ex-student has told how he came across a box of such objects while cleaning in Sai Baba’s private quarters at Kodaikanal. 

Perhaps yet more embarrassing for Haraldsson, he completely failed to question the production of the lingam from the mouth on Shivaratri days, which he attended at least twice, even though this trick was invented by Houdini (see here) and copied by a large number of Indian street magicians and fakirs (see video of the same lingam trick). That must be considered a major research lapse. The use of misdirection, powerful suggestion, cold reading and other techniques by Sai Baba has since been reported by a large number of persons from interviews and sleight-of-hand has been filmed on various occasions quite conclusively. Haraldsson told me he was not concerned with examining or commenting on these – nor even did he watch the copy of ‘the Secret Swami’ I gave him. He holds that his being used within the Sai movement as an endorser of the paranormal phenomena due to his neutral conclusions is not of his doing.

Haraldsson’s last venture into the arena of discussion about Sathya Sai Baba was his attempt – with Richard Wiseman – to analyse the famous ‘faked materialization ‘ video which appeared briefly on Indian TV’s national channel Doordarshan. He concluded that there was no definitive evidence of faking… but nor could he reasonably exclude the possibility. In short, he seemed (in the eyes of followers) to endorse Sai Baba’s genuineness but did not definitively do so. Since then he has ignored all the video and other evidence that have been available on-line for years… he even referred to them briefly to me last time I spoke with him as ‘internet rumours’, which shows he has not even looked at most of them at all.

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Haraldsson was challenged by the ex-follower and very determined exposer of Sathya Sai Baba’s miracles, Basava Premanand, to which he made one reply. The issues raised were not really confronted by Haraldsson, as one can see from the series of e-mails here:-

Letter dated 7-11-1987 from Erlendur Haraldsson.

The Appearance and Disappearance of Objects in the Presence of Sri Sathya Sai Baba – Erlendur Haraldsson and Karlis Osis

Letter dated 27-11-1987 to Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson

Letter dated 5-2-1988 – Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson

Letter dated 22-1-1988 from Mark Plummer, Executive Director, CSICOP, Buffalo, to Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson

Letter dated 25-4-1988 to Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson

Letter dated 16-5-1988 – Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson

Letter dated 4-6-1988 to Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson

Further posting about Erlendur Haraldsson and his negative views on Sathya Sai Baba to come later, concerning the ‘double rudraksha’ he received from Sai Baba, the sleight-of-hand videos, the Sai Baba sexual allegations on which EH has remained silent about since he wrote his book (researched in the 1970s) where he did most briefly mention one report of homosexuality by Sai Baba.

Sai Baba contradictory death predictions documented

Some have questioned whether the generally accepted age that Sai Baba predicted for his life span was 96 years. This is partly the entire issue of Sathya Sai Baba’s true age and conflicting predictions of his own death is a tremendous embarrassment to the Sathya Sai Central Trust and Sai Organisation. It has been shown definitively that he did predict a much longer life span for himself; namely, in 1960 when he said he would have to live in his body for 59 more years (which would make him 92 or maximum 93 at death). He actually only reached the age of 84 years (23/11/1926-24/4/2011). That he celebrated his 85th birthday in 2010 is due to the Indian way of stating a person’s age as ‘entering his 85th year’ – which means 84 years since birth in the normal usage. (To add to the confusion – to the further embarrassment of the Sai authorities - his school records indicate that he was born 4-10-29 and not three years earlier! Later wilful falsification of the date is suspected for numerous reasons)

I knew that I had read a discourse in which Sai Baba stated he would live until 96 years of age, but could not trawl enough of them to find that quotation. However, thanks to a search by sceptic Ganapati Rao Pudipeddi, that source has been located:-

The 96 year prediction is, of course, a contradiction of his predictions made in 1960 (and again in 1961):-

Were these two contradictory statements not enough, consider this report by the investigator Erlendur Haraldsson
from his book ‘Miracles are My Visiting Cards’ (aka ‘Modern Miracles’):-

YET ANOTHER CONTRADICTORY PREDICTION! SAI BABA WAS TRYING TO COVER MANY OPTIONS - BUT HE FAILED ENTIRELY AS HE ONLY REACHED 84 YEARS OF AG

How long did Sathya Sai Baba actually live?
Sai Baba on his death – with reports of his words to Ratan Lala etc.
Sathya Sai Baba reckoned in calendar (solar) years, not ‘lunar years’
Sathya Sai Baba’s (un)Birthday (not born on 23 November 1926)

More defeats for the Sai Baba ‘lunatic core’

The Times of India put out an example of ‘fringe lunacy’ which now seems to dwell at the core of the belief system of many devotees (in India at least). The entire report was typical speculation presented by some followers as fact … and events have obliterated this fanciful belief along with many others. See the scan of the article below here.

 How could a major newspaper consider it worth reporting such preposterous rumours  as “Baba said he would return stronger”?  It may have pulled in readers among desperately hoping devotees to sell more papers, but it could also be due to the shadow of former High Chief Justice Bhagwati – a corrupt ex-Supreme Court Sai devotee judge who is involved with the Times of India and has for decades been a Sai Baba official too.

Yet another of the endless lunatic fringe ideas that pervade the entire Sathya Sai Baba cult. The credibility of Sathya Sai Baba is now totally damaged in the eyes of the wide world, not only because of the widespread accusations of his sexual abuses – as investigated by UNESCO and the US State Department (having used the CIA & FBI no doubt) and resulting in their warnings and as portrayed by two of his brave, outspoken accusers on the BBC World documentary ‘The Secret Swami‘. The blind belief of his followers is a result of a massive hoodwinking and cover-up exercise stretching over 6 decades.

He is hailed by many as a philanthropist, especially the lunatic element (like Mr. David Wolff) – but he never actually worked or earned a penny of what was expended, it was all given by well-meaning people mostly wanting to improve the lot of the poor, suffering and undereducated. These are the actual philanthopists. (I can even count my wife and I among their number over 16,000 pounds sterling, worth much more back in the 80s and 90s.). Sathya Sai Baba said he had no property, no monies – so how could he really have been a philanthropist? He did accept gifts on a large scale and squirreles them away in his various luxury apartments, as all the world now knows… these goods – like 5,000 watches, huge amounts of dried fruit and biscuits – both long past the sell-by date, was stored up in his 5 by 5 meter bed and were never given to anyone.The amount of money expended and dozens of top doctors from near and far by plane and helicopter – and the massive security employed for weeks – wasted on this controversial and fallacious ‘godman’ was disgusting when one considers how most of the poor have hardly any health care or even the vital necessities of a proper living (other than the benefit of the sun’s warmth). He is hailed by many as a philanthropist – but he never actually worked or earned a penny of what was expended, it was all given by well-meaning people mostly wanting to improve the lot of the poor, suffering and undereducated. These are the actual philanthopists. 

Sathya Sai Baba’s promise of world peace & a golden age discredited

Sathya Sai Baba makes predictions in private interview situations, knowing that they will spread like wildfire as uncontrollable rumours. Then, when the predictions fail, which they invariably do, there is no documentary proof that he made them, and devotees dare not confront him or what he says in any way. The same with many of the leelas and miracles, they are very important to the Sai Baba legend and are mixed up with disinformation, a clever technique at which Sathya Sai Baba is adept and he uses his unwitting collaborators to propagate.

SATHYA SAI BABA'S FAILED PREDICTION FROM 2002 OF WORLD PEACE BY 2007

In 2002, a long-term devotee who was on her 31st visit to see Sathya Sai Baba, had a private interview (in the rear room) which she reported on the Internet (see http://www.saibaba.ws/reports/connieshaw.htm) and which is reproduced here:-

Now that 2008 has long passed by and international war continues in Afghanistan. Outright war also occurred in Russia’s horrific invasion of Georgia in response to it’s attack on separatists in part of its sovereign territory, namely South Ossetia. Further, an air war between NATO and Libya continued in 2011, and one may also point to several major civil wars, such as in Dafur, Indonesia, the Congo area and diverse smaller warring conflicts in African states. The so-called ‘war on terror’ is also being actively pursued and the US Congress is to pass a law defining cyber attacks as war, giving the right to respond militarily.

As to the Golden Age and transformation of human consciousness etc. it has been heralded for decades by Sathya Sai Baba but, when failing to occur, has repeatedly been promised for a new and later date. One example:- Rita and Robert Bruce were told by him about practically instant transformation of people’s consciousness after his 80th anniversary But that anniversary was celebrated in 2006! Now we have outright war between nations and still major conflicts displacing millions within nations. What kind of transformation is that? (see The Golden Age of Sai Baba)

Disinformation: “It  involves the deliberate, calculated dissemination of equivocal data, partially true, partially erroneous, in order to conceal something, to deflect attention in one or another peripheral or tangential direction. But the best lies are always embellishments or variations of the truth, not total fabrications. The most effective disinformation is always structured around a core of validity.” (from The Messianic Legacy by Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln London 1968)

Sathya Sai Baba has claimed he is the Director behind the scenes of all that happens on the world stage and often stated that events that are inexplicable – or seem evil – to us are all part of his ‘maya’ (i.e deceptive appearances), ‘his Divine sport’ (i.e. leela). This level of disinformation surely surpasses anything the biggest propaganda agencies of the last century have produced. It would be amazingly inexplicable that about 7 Indian Prime Ministers and 5 Presidents have endorsed this charlatan Godhead, were it not for the obvious fact that they have seen his influence as important for their electorate in Andhra Pradesh and  subsequently other Indian states and also because he was the biggest foreign currency earner in India for decades. That the Sathya Sai Central Trust was granted total freedom from customs and excise duties and taxation – and even now does not have to make public any accounts of its countless transactions, or meeting minutes – have no doubt made it an Eldorado for money launderers and corrupt politicians, though its secrecy is so tight that this cannot be proven or even investigated! Note that the importance for the Indian economy of payments to the funds of gurus with followings outside the country is essential, and that India’s main source of foreign earnings is via them.

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There are any number of prophecies by Sathya Sai Baba which signally failed to come about – a list of links for those not acquainted with these gives the documentation and proofs in each case:-

Sathya Sai Baba failed prophesy as the ‘great saviour of mankind’  – eg. Sai Baba being ‘king of the whole world’ from AD 2000, Muslims recognizing him 9 years before his passing, and the whole world visiting Prashanthi Nilayam.
Sathya Sai Baba prophecies on his own death date – wrongly
Sathya Sai Baba as world saviour Well-known proclamations by Sathya Sai Baba are quoted on how he intends to save the planet and humanity… as well as some of his more incredible prophecies which have so far not come to pass.
Prophecies about Sathya Sai Baba in the Suka Nadi etc. Each prophecy is considered for its likelihood of having been made and its validity
Bogus Prophecies about Sathya Sai Baba
Sai Baba soon to fly unaided in the sky?
Sathya Sai prophesied as ‘king of the world’ from 2000
Sai Baba prophesies he will lift “a whole range of mountains“!
Sai Baba prophesies – Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus
Prophesies about Sai-Avatar Bogus Persian prophetic texts, and Nostradamus’ prophecies
The Pope to preach Sai Baba’s message?

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Sathya Sai Baba and ‘Thought for the Day’

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 stand and write down everything religiously as if Sai Baba had just ordained those very words as highly relevant to the day in hand! Of course, the many absurd and outrageous – or otherwise apparently ‘untoward’ statements were strictly avoided in favour of the more bland, superficial and mostly vague generalizations, like those about God, the delusions and bad behaviour of most people, the worthless, unreal world and Sai Baba’s own ‘mystery’. But not, for example, this;-

 

Thought for the day 'Drugged and sick to death of it all'

“Almost 90 percent of the so-called devotees are, in fact, deceitful. Earlier, it was quite different; the devotees were few, but they were genuine devotees. Nowadays, there are too many self-seeking cheats masquerading as devotees. First thing in the morning, they adorn their forehead with Vibhuti, wrap a scarf round their neck and roam about freely in the guise of devotees. Even the stray dogs scrounging around for something to eat are better than such fake devotees!” (Sathya Sai Baba – speech at the International Seva Conference 22 July 2002)

Comment: The stray dogs are certainly without a master now.  Hari Sampath, a former security officer at Prashanthi Nilayam ashram, wrote earlier :- “After 76 years of the “avataric mission”, by which time 2/3 of the world was expected to be his devotees according to him, now he has said that 90 % of his devotees are worse than stray dogs !! What an extraordinarily honest admission ! What a failure in world transformation , when Sai Baba has not even transformed a small fraction of his devotees! I guess that all devotees now know that the “avatar” thinks 9 out of 10 are worse than stray dogs, and deceitful frauds. All I can think of is: as the Master, so the disciple!”

from 'Sanathana Sarathi' - January 2002, p. 22

This is a more entertaining quotation, perhaps; one of Sai Baba’s many erroneous interpretations of the origins of certain words and phrases. The English expression “Goodbye” never arose from ‘good boy’ at all, but is an abbreviated form of ‘God be with you’. One would have thought he would have known that, at least! Rather depressing for believers that a ‘bad boy’ is forever doomed, one would think. Yet considering what is known, who would have wanted to become one of Sai Baba’s ‘god boys’?

Sathya Sai Baba’s prediction about Vivekananda’s rebirth proven false

In a most engaging and revelatory three-part blog series, Barry Pittard – former teacher at Sathya Sai Baba’s Whitefield College near Bangalore – recounts all the facts concerning how Sathya Sai Baba’s Death Falsifies His Vivekananda ‘Reincarnation’ Claim. Pittard met the young man in question in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1998, which meeting left no doubt that Sai Baba’s declaration was a most unwelcome event in his life, one he rejected completely.

In his attempt to install himself as the Incarnate Godhead, Sathya Sai Baba spread a vast network of rumours and made more excessive claims of divinity than anyone has made in recorded history. Many of the stories he repeatedly embroidered try to represent him as a figure of mythical proportions, relying very much on claims about his role in the lives of divine figures in religious scripture and mythology.

One such invention aimed to appeal to the large Hindu community and diaspora in the West, was his telling a young Sri Lankan man that he was the reincarnation of the famous Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), who had impressed the West at the Parliament of Religions, Chicago, in 1893. In an interview – urging secrecy – but knowing full well that such a sensational piece of news would spread like wildfire among his followers and become part of the accepted history, Sathya Sai Baba predicted that this young man would come to aid him in his mission in 2021… but Sai Baba is dead as of April 2011!

To investigate how prevalent rumours spread by Sathya Sai Baba and his supporters are, and how central they are to the mythology about him, see here

Sathya Sai Baba’s rumour mill a mainstay of the cult

Rumours are a mainstay of Sai Baba’s fame Remarkably, however, his ashrams and movement are certainly far more subject to rumours and unconfirmable stories… and Sathya Sai Baba is in fact the chief rumour monger himself

Sathya_Sai_Baba Rumours, failed predictions and false promises Distant healing, rumoured predictions by Sai Baba of world catastrophe circulated and reported widely, not quashed by SB (attracts many fearful devotees to his supposedly invulnerable ashrams)

Deceptions, rumours and lies by Sathya Sai Baba He is known actively to spread rumours enhancing his ‘mystery’

Use of rumours to gain Sai Baba followers The rumour mill is a key instrument … Sai Baba and his inner coterie Rumour and delusion spread by Sai Baba

Disaster stories told by Sai Baba to impress visitors Many of the unconfirmable and uncontrollable rumours are an important part of his attraction, not least to those who fear disasters and move to his ashrams

World catastrophe predictions from Sai Baba Up until the late ’80s, a set of predictions of a coming world catastrophy were circulated most openly among followers, allegedly told to 18 students by SB at his former college in Ootacamund

Catastrophe predictions reported – Shivarathri discourse in 1991 where Sai Baba massively berated the ‘rumour-mongers’ by almost never takes any steps to refute the rumours himself.

Sathya Sai Baba prophesies and rumors on Islam – on the Imam Mahdi Prophecy as described by an Iranian devotee ‘Irani Ma’. The “Mehdi Moud” Prophecy Revisited (BrianSteel)

Idi Amin [The Last King of Scotland] and Sathya Sai Baba - That Sai Baba influenced Idi Amin to delay expulsion of Indian residents Uganda is a cherished myth

Sai as Soothsayer predicts world peace – Sai Baba has long predicted complete world peace and a Golden Age, (and has given the final date as 2006 see here)

Sai Baba bogus story of holy ancient cave and yogis in the Himalayas – Unconfirmable stories are spread in the shape of rumours to suggest that … Patal Bhuvaneshwar cave rumours came later

Failed Prediction of earth axis shift by Sri Satya Sai Baba – Sai Baba came to realise that he had gone too far with his rumour mill and caused the withdrawal of a report in ‘Spiritual Impressions’

 Typical Sai apologist – Rita Bruce Sai-VIP a rumour monger – Claimed her dreams of disaster were precognitive – but also reported years ago on their lecture trips to foreign countries that SB has told of an era of love and light to come very soon.

Dr. Naresh Bhatia and Sai Baba – Rumours were set going in Puttaparti to discredit Dr. Naresh Bhatia as a seducer, after he had accused Sathya Sai Baba of violent anal sex with an underage boy

Eternal Heritage Museum accident – three US devotees died – Typical rumours have been put about by officials on the ‘disaster in which three US devotees died

Prince Charles, Princess Diana and Sathya Sai Baba visit – Rumours were spread that Prince Charles had secretly visited Sai Baba in the late 1980s – but SB denied any visit in an interview

Sathya Sai and claim of ‘virgin’ birth – The rumour on how Sai Baba was born without physical conception: his own account is at ods with that of his mother, Easwaramma

The infamous rumour-spreading Christmas Discourse by SSB in 2000 He has long preached how negative rumours are like boomerangs, but then he sets going the absurdly false rumour that those who accused him did so for money, like Judases – but without a shred of evidence!