Sai Baba temple in Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad bombing?

In February 2013 there was another bomb blast at ‘the’ Sai Baba temple in Hyderabad, killing 16 persons and injuring 114. The original bomb plan would have see an estimated 50 deaths. It was claimed that it was the Student Islamist Movement of India that carried out the outrage, but not confirmed since no further information is found on-line as to any results of investigations. The news outlets simply stated it was a ‘Sai Baba’ temple, but do not specify whether this was Shirdi or Sathya. It so happens it was a Shirdi Sai Baba temple. The media evidently assume that Shirdi Sai Baba is the one which crowds visit and is known to all so they did not need to specify this? If Islamists are so opposed to Shirdi Sai Baba, who was a Muslim (though clearly not a strictly fundamentalist one), they would be more so towards Sathya Sai Baba, who was primarily a Hindu, and a Hindu nationalist to boot.

Original plan was to bomb Sai Baba temple in Dilsukhnagar A major lead that has emerged in Thursday’s Hyderabad twin blasts investigations — in which 16 people were killed and 114 injured . “The original plan was to carry out an attack at the Sai Baba temple; and had this been executed we would have seen over 50 deaths. As per the information available the plan was to plant three bombs at the temple area. However, due to the visit to the temple by the commissioner, security was high and there was heavy police presence. This made the group change its plan at the last minute and plant the bomb on bicycles away from the temple area,” a NIA source says.
Hyderabad blasts: 60 hours of CCTV footage crucial to case
Hyd blasts: Ammonium nitrate procured locally, say cops
Dilsukh Nagar’s second tryst with terror  That blast was blamed on the Students Islamic Movement of India, which was allegedly taking revenge after it was banned by the Union government. The case was handled by the Andhra Pradesh crime investigation department. During the course of the investigations the police found that members of the SIMI  had coordinated with some Lashkar-e-Tayiba officials, namely Syed Aziz and Mohd Azam, and carried out that attack.

Independent report on the 1993 murders in Sai Baba’s rooms reconsidered

In light of the eyewitness testimony by Eileen Weed (‘Divya’) that she has posted the Internet in 2012, the confusion about the killing of the four devotees who knifed two attendants to death in a fight to stop them intruding, the report by a co-student of one of the four murdered devotees emphasises the facts that the ashram most successfully suppressed in the aftermath of the horrendous night of 6 June, 1993. One fact which was reported at the time, but which great efforts were made to conceal, was that the four who were later shot by police, had actually been caught by a mob of villagers and students, were bound up and beaten to death with sticks. 
Van:Glycine Cytogenetics, University of Illinois  (GlycineUI@UIUC)
Onderwerp:Real story of attempt to kill Satya Saibaba     Original Format Discussions:soc.culture.tamil Datum:1993-08-10 11:44:49 PST

Following is a brief description of the recent incident that took place in Puttaparti (Sri Satya Saibaba’s Asram): (no offense intended to the followers of Satya Saibaba) Probably many of you know that there was an incident on 6th of June, 1993 in Putaparti (SRI SATYA SAIBABA’S ASRAM) where few men were alleged to have attempted to assassinate Saibaba. At least 4 men were killed (by police firing) that night and 2 other murders were committed some time earlier at `Saibaba’s Asram’. The police in their first investigation report (FIR) sated that they had to shoot the 4 men that night (6th June) only for self-protection. However, the pictures taken by several news paper reporters clearly indicate (described in EENADU and ANDHRA JYOTHI – daily news papers) otherwise – the 4 men were killed by extensive physical beating (by wooden sticks and other kinds of manhandling) prior to the police shooting as evident from the position of bodies, blood stains, twisted and broken limbs, etc.

During this process two other men (Mr. Boyapati Raveendra Babu and Mr. Santaram Prabhu) who were alleged to be part of a gang, with the 4 men killed, in conspiring to kill Saibaba that night, went out to get some cigarettes at a stall nearby. While they were out side, they heard several rounds of firing (police) and tried to get back inside (Saibaba’s living quarters) to see what happened. By then, all the premises of Saibaba’s living quarters were closed and no one was allowed to get in. Raveendra and Prabhu (the two men out side) were friends of the 4 men killed inside and they were all part of night security crew of the Asram.

These six people, being part of night security team, were aware of several clandestine operations that go on in the Asram. Raveendra (one of the men out side) says that he was actually a prime witness of two murders that took place several days before this incident. The organizers of Saibaba’s all financial management and day-to-day activities (committee members of `Stya Sai Trust’) seem to know that these six men were aware of their operations and planned to get rid of them that night. Raveenda and Prabhu who went out side, after hearing the firing and trying to get back in, soon learnt that four men were killed and that they were also targets of the killing that night. After realizing this they fled and stayed under-ground for over a month.

SOME BACKGROUND: Raveendra Babu (one of the accused) was my class-mate during under-graduation in India and a very good friend. I also know his father and mother. About 10 years ego his father and mother sold what ever property they had and joined Saibaba’s Asram and became devotees of Sri Satya Saibaba. Raveendra Babu finished his Bsc (Agriculture) in 1980 and worked in seed companies for few years. Finally, a couple of years ego he also joined Saibaba’s Asram and started living there. I visited India two times during 1987 and 1988 and met him several times. He was the same guy I knew during my undergraduate studies and a couple of years after that — “he was religious and a man of high moral and ethical standards”. His parents are some of the nicest people I know.

Coming back to the story — about thirty days after fleeing from Puttaparti, Raveendra and Prabhu surrendered to Nagpur police on July 7th and revealed the real story of who is mainly involved in killing the four men on 6th of June. According to Raveendra and Prabhu the main hand in all this was that of Saibaba’s brother Mr. Janaki Ramaiah and some of his men (Saibaba him self not included). It seems that the entire show at Putaparti is run by these men (Satya Sai Trustees) and that Saibaba himself is just a baba who chooses to ignore all these operations. According to news papers Saibaba himself stated that “it (the incident that night) was simply a friction between two gangs and not an attempt to kill him”. However, police (of Ananthapur) did not pursue the investigation in that direction. Police (and Satya Sai Trustees) are accusing Raveendra and Prabhu of attempting to murder Saibaba. According to Raveendra and Prabhu – Ananthpur police and also several Congress leaders were actually working for the Saibaba Trust Committee members. This is the main reason (according to several news paper reporters, Raveendra and Prabhu) why the police did some major cover-up operation in this incident (and several other unexplained disappearances of people before). There seem to be some big-time misappropriation of trust funds by the committee members. After hearing to all this, if I were a donor of funds to the Satya Sai Trust (Fund) – I would certainly take a hard look at how the money is being appropriated! Especially, the money sent from abroad ($$) in the form of cash or travellers checks are reported to be misused (directly going in to the pockets of the organizers!).
The organizers seem to have been making outrageous statements openly – such as: It is they who made Satya Sai a “Baba” and that they can even kill Satya Saibaba himself and still run the show (keep getting funds, etc.) just with his tomb.

According to EENADU news paper the Satya Sai Central Trust Committee comprises of: The Chairman – Saibaba, Secretary – Narayanan, Members – Aarevi Janaki Ramaiah (baba’s younger brother), K. R. Prasad, Indulal Shaw, Srinivas, Bangalore Rajamata, Justice P.S. Bhagavati, Justice Balakrishna Raj, Administrator – Colnal Jogi Rao. The trust has an estimated assets of over Rs. 2,000 crores.

On 7th of July, Raveendra and Prabhu were arrested and were charged with attempt of murdering Saibaba. Raveendra and Prabhu still seem to have a good deal of respect for Saibaba. They state that they simply want to expose the people behind all the wrongdoings and that they never had any intentions or reasons to harm Saibaba himself. Andhra Pradesh Civil Rights Association, OPDR, IFTU, ICF, Arunodaya, PDSU, PUCL, Chaitanya Mahila Sangham, AISF, and several other social and student organizations were planning to organize a meeting in support of Raveendra and Prabhu in Vijayawada on 25th of July – I don’t have any further news about this meeting! Raveendra and Prabhu’s case was being conducted in Penugonda. According to the latest news (July 13th) Raveendra and Prabhu were in Judicial custody.

I have several news paper (only Telugu) cuttings. If any of you are interested please write to my following E-mail address: (please include your postal address) krishnak@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

(Note) Unfortunately  the author of the above is no longer contactable at the above mail address) The materials were first published on ExBaba.com
See also Sai Baba and brother ordered planned murder of devotees, 1993

See comment by Vitaliy Gordienko questioning the account:-
“Interesting material indeed. But seems strange that students (4 who is dead and 2 who’s survived) claimed have no intentions against SB directly. It is really possible to suggest that with such claims they just wanted to escape terrible prosecution. As it known, some of them (if not all) were close to SB before, which means – under sexual usage and with full knowledge about cheating and other fraud going on. After all – Could they really have no intentions against sb personally? Strange…”

Reply from Robert:-
The background for their attempt to see Sai baba (which all agree they intended, whatever else) was that the organiser of the whole episode, Vijay Prabhu, who was not in the temple grounds when the knife fight took place was the security chief of Prashanthi Nilyam. He attested later that he the aim was to inform Sai Baba about the financial corruption and many bad things done by the clique around SB which virtually ruled the ashram, including Radhakrishna who was his valet and closest servitor at that time. Prabhu was excluded by Radhakrishnan and his gang from even meeting SB and he believed fully that SB had given him signs (in answer to his mental questions, I suppose) that he should carry out his plan. As to the others involved, it is reported that at least Mahajan was being sexually abused and so each of them would have also had different motives, though it was told by boy relatives who were allowed in the crime scene – to SB’s sister and Eileen Weed on the night of the murders – that the intruders had no intention of harming Sai Baba. Sai Baba actually contradicted his younger brother and others who claimed it was an attempt on his life, saying that no such thing was intended.

My Life is My Message & Sai Baba

The words ‘My life is my message’ are very well-known in India and are inscribed on Mahatma Gandhi’s tomb. Sathya Sai Baba expropriated them for himself, as is seen from this:-
“Once, while Gandhi’s train was pulling slowly out of the station, a reporter ran up to him and asked him breathlessly for a message to take back to his people. Gandhi’s reply was a hurried line scrawled on a scrap of paper: “My life is my message. It is a message which does not require the vast stage of world politics, but can be put into practice here and now, in the midst of daily life.” (p. 140 in “Gandhi, The Man, The story of His Transformation” by Eknath Easwaram, US, 1997, Nilgiri Press)

Better to practice silence and appear wise than to give discourses and prove you are not. (In view of the many thousands of  Sathya Sai Baba’s self-enhancing discourses, what became of  ”Silence is the language of the realised”?). Sai Baba was a master at presenting himself  as infinitely perfect, loving, compassionate, pure, chaste, harmless, and being beyond all human understanding for thousands of years. Never an admission of the slightest imperfection, and of course not of any of his countless mistakes, broken promises, lies, failure, deceptions (or sexual abuses and murder involvement). All of this detracts greatly from any good he may have done that was not only in his own best interests. The following quotes bear on his actual words and actions, constituting the actual message of his life:-

“O what a goodly outside falsehood hath! ” Shakespeare (from ‘The Merchant of Venice) A most pertinent comment on the cunning deceptions of Sai Baba’s ideology and the wall-to-wall propaganda and disinformation as promoted by his cordon of self-interested corrupt profiteers and wrong-doers.

“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men.” Matthew 6:2.  Sai Baba’s inordinate boasting about his selfless service exceeding anyone else’s by a factor of a thousand. In short, calling himself anything good he could think of.

“Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.” Herbert Spencer. If the Sai Baba cult is easily seen to be the virtual acme of hero-worship… and self-denigrating servility by his coterie of myrmidons, lackeys and retainers.

“Great liars are also great magicians”  and  ”There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavour, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland.” Adolf Hitler   Sai Baba was also definitely great at lying and also quite a magician at times. Hitler’s rigid ‘milestones’ were all the same as what Sai Baba constantly endorsed, showing himself to be an authoritarian and traditional Hindu nationalist rather than representing “the caste of humanity” and the universal teacher he pretended he was –  and a strict authoritarian puritan in word, though his own deeds spoke otherwise.

“Men willingly believe what they wish.” Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico  What better proof of this is to be found in the desperate rationalizations and fancies of all remaining devotees and supporters of Sai Baba? Now they have to hang onto the belief that Sai Baba will either unexpectedly resurrect himself or will usher in a Golden Age of universal peace and be reborn as Prema Sai  as if it were a foregone certainty. 

“There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.” Tennyson Honest doubt was not allowed in the slightest degree by Sai Baba nor his authoritarian minions – cringing believers who would do anything whatever he said whom he selected to run his affairs.

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.”  Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 1988), paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott To deceive people to believe – in his godhood was Sai Baba’s contribution to history… he predicted the whole world would believe, but one can now see that this is ludicrous and far beyond the bounds of possibility.

Sai school did not check teacher credentials

An update on the Bitti Mohanty saga of false identity and forgery

Click on image to go to source. This indicates that Sathya Sai educational institutions do not vet those who apply to teach there at all properly.
Excerpt from the Indian Express – click image to go to source. Once again, the carelessness and depravity of police in India is exposed.

Padnamaskaar or following the truth – by Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba demonstrated continual inconsistencies and discrepancies between word and action. One small example is his sudden decision that ‘touching the (holy?) feet’ (padnamaskaar) was a mistake, one which he had made every day through his life for up to 70 years! However, it was almost directly (a few months) after his pronouncement (see scan from his journal) that he again encouraged it. The images show some of the scores who did padnamaskar on Sai Baba’s last birthday.

A pronouncement by Sai Baba about touching of his feet, which he soon never followed!

Feet-worshippers at Sai Baba’s birthday in 2010

Eileenweed said – April 4, 2013 at 12:26 pm
I was living in Parthi and remember well, the day that the announcement came that sb would no longer be allowing padanamaskar. Most devotees were in depressed turmoil at the change. It is true that it was strictly enforced by the security around him, for some months. His feet were zealously guarded and no one was allowed to touch his feet during darshan or functions. Who knows the reason? Could have just been a painful ingrown toenail he wanted to protect! Or could have been reaction of the negative rumors online at that time. Fact is, after awhile everyone seemed to have forgotten and the feet-touching made a revival and all went on as it did before. We all commented about it amongst ourselves and thought it was a strange reversal but figured, “The Lord has answered our prayers!”

Reply from Robert: It was published on two occasions that the deceased mother, Easwaramma, had ‘visited’ Sai Baba and his bedroom boys (!) in a ghostly form and advised him against trusting devotees, such as at darsan. On one occasion she told him he should not let people touch his feet as they could poison him. On another occasion (as reported in Sanathana Sarathi August 2001, p. 232) he said the following: 

“Early in the morning one day, mother Easwaramma was standing at the door in her usual form. I asked her. ‘Why did you come?‘ She said. ‘Swami. I have come here with a prayer to You. You are omnipresent and omniscient, but You have to control one thing‘! ‘What is that?‘  Swami asked. She said. ‘Devotees and students offer handkerchiefs to You. But, heeding my prayer, please do not receive handkerchiefs from everybody. The times are not good. The handkerchief may be tainted with poisonous stuff.  In the usual course, You use the handkerchief to wipe Your nose and mouth. So, You may receive handkerchief only from those on whom You have confidence and trust as good devotees. Do not accept from all and sundry.’

Some months after this discourse, I was discussing with my long-standing friend and confidante, V.K. Narasimhan, the editor of Sanathana Sarathi, who passed away in March 2000 after long sufferings. While he was alive I had to keep quiet about many things he told me so as to protect him from unscrupulous elements at the ashram, he had jealous enemies there and his personal security could have been at considerable risk.

Aura of Divinity? Frank Baranowski on Sathya Sai Baba

Dr. Frank Baranowski (died 2002) was an American regression therapist, specialized in research on auras, the energy patterns that surround all living beings, and worked at the university of Arizona. He was supposedly an expert in bio-magnetic field radiation photography. He has photographed and interpreted the auras for numerous men and women using the ultra-sensitive Kirlian camera. He saw and met Sathya Sai Baba in the 1970s and claimed he saw a vast aura around him. His perceptions are quoted in the commentary to the Richard Bock film ‘Aura of Divinity’ (1970s 2 parts)

Dr. Baranowski is widely quoted as having written or stated: “Now, I have always been able to see the human aura. The auras around average people extend as much as three to five feet. Auras are composed of every imaginable colour and these colours change as a person’s emotional, physical and mental states change. In general, whenever the colour blue is evident in a person’s aura, it is an indication of deep spirituality; green is a healing color; yellow indicates high intelligence; and red means anger or frustration. The colour pink, which is rarely seen, typifies a person capable of selfless love, and this was the colour that Sathya Sai Baba had around Him. The aura around Sathya Sai Baba went beyond the building reaching thirty or forty feet in all directions. Never having seen any aura like this before, my first reaction was to look for fluorescent lights, which may have been shining on Him. But as I watched, the beautiful pink energy pattern moved as He moved; there was no doubt that this was His aura. I have had the pleasure of meeting such personalities as ex-president Gerald Ford, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, and Pope John Paul II, and I have studied their auras as well as tens of thousands of others, I say this not as a testimonial but as a fact; not one person I have ever seen has an aura to compare to the size and colour of Sathya Sai Baba’s aura. “http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/Pages/Devotees_ Experiences/Transformation_The_Aura.htm

“In 1939, Semyon Kirlian discovered by accident that if an object on a photographic plate is subjected to a high-voltage electric field, an image is created on the plate. The image looks like a colored halo or coronal discharge. This image is said to be a physical manifestation of the spiritual aura or “life force” which allegedly surrounds each living thing. Actually, what is recorded is due to quite natural phenomena such as pressure, electrical grounding, humidity and temperature. Changes in moisture (which may reflect changes in emotions), barometric pressure, and voltage, among other things, will produce different ‘auras’.” http://skepdic.com/kirlian.html In summary, “The human body does, in fact, give off certain radiations, including weak electromagnetic emanations (from the electrical activity of the nerves), chemical emissions (some of which may be detected, for instance, as body odor), sonic waves (from the physical actions within the body), etc. Paranormalists sometimes equate these radiations with the aura (Permutt 1988, 57-58), but they do not represent a single, unified phenomenon, nor have they been shown to have the mystical properties attributed to auras.” Kirlian photography of the human aura has been scientifically discredited as pseudo-science, and has been used in lucrative business in speculative New Age ‘spirituality’ and outright fraud by mountebanks. http://www.csicop.org/si/show/aura_ photography_a_candid_shot/ and http://www.indian-skeptic.org/html/is_v02/2-9-9.htm

Leicester Sathya Sai school & Michael Goldstein’s dismissal

The slogan of this private faith school, where almost only for Indian devotees of Sai Baba send their defenceless children in Leicester is “a centre of human excellence”.

According to a series of reports I have received about the situation there, this could hardly be further from the real situation. That the children ARE defenceless is shown by the reports, which led to a closed public investigation, that the headmistress employed physical abuse against the children of some parents, who complained to the relevant social services. Dr. Michael Goldstein was handling the matter, but his method of cover-up evidently did not satisfy the higher Sai authorities in India so – even though he was selected personally by Sai Baba himself, this ‘divine edict’ was changed by those now in control of the Sai Baba legacy.

From: Richard G Malolepsy <rgmalolepsy9@gmail.com>

To: rgmalolepsy9@gmail.com
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 10:23 AM
Subject: Communication – Sri Sathya Sai World Foundation

From: Chandradas Cangaeretnam [mailto:drchandradas@gmail.com]

Sai Ram Regional Officers, Center Presidents, Officers and Young Adult Representatives, Contacts and advisors,

Please share the following important letter from Dr. Narendranath Reddy, Chairman of the Prasanthi Council, and Director of the Sri Sathya Sai World Foundation, with your center members at your next center meeting.

In Sai’s Loving Service,

Dr. C. Chandradas.

President – Sri Sathya Sai Baba Organization of America, Pacific South – Region 8.

__________________________________________________________

Regional Officers:

President. Dr. C. Chandradas (661) 341 1046-Email - drchandradas@gmail.com

Vice President. Rohan Balasuriya (310) 702 2971-Email - RohanLBa@aol.com

Devotional. M. Srinivas (805) 523 8348 - msrinivas3@hotmail.com

Education. Eric Wing (805) 200 7512 - eric.wing@sbcglobal.net

Service. Sri Jeevaprakash (949) 285 0822 - sri.jeeva@gmail.com
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Om Sri Sai Ram.

Dear sisters and brothers,

Greetings of Loving Sai Ram to all of you from Prashanthi Nilayam.

We witnessed the glorious 87^th birthday celebrations of our loving Lord Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in Prashanthi Nilayam. Devotees from around the world participated in the festivities and experienced the Divine presence.

I would like to share an important announcement with all of you.

During the meeting of the directors of the Sri Sathya Sai World Foundation on November  24, 2012, in Prashanthi Nilayam, Mr. Gary Belz was appointed as Chairman of the Sri Sathya Sai World Foundation effective November 24, 2012, by the unanimous decision of the directors of the Sri Sathya Sai World Foundation.  He serves as a Director of the Sri Sathya Sai World Foundation and served as secretary of the Sri Sathya Sai World Foundation. Mr. Gary Belz owns and operates recording studios in Nashville, Memphis and Los Angeles. He has served on many boards including the Board of Regents of Columbia College of Chicago, Convention and Visitors Bureau of Memphis and several music industry associations. He was a founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative and was on the White House task Force for South Asia during the Clinton years. He has been an ardent devotee of Swami for more than two decades and has been a member of the USA Council of Sri Sathya Sai Organization. We pray to Swami to shower His choicest Blessings on Mr Gary Belz and give him guidance and strength to discharge his new responsibilities for the highest good.

Dr. Michael Goldstein, our past chairman of the Sri Sathya Sai World Foundation, has carried out his extensive duties over many years with an intense dedication to please our Lord Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Dr. Goldstein remains an inspiration to devotees for his one-pointed focus on Swami. We thank him for all those years he was available to devotees around the world to help and guide them on many policies of the Sathya Sai International Organisation. We all remember his intense love, dedication and devotion to Swami and His mission. We look forward to being the beneficiaries of his ongoing advice, insight and wisdom.

Let us resolve to move forward in His Divine Mission and work in unity with love and harmony. Let us practise His message of love all and serve all in our daily life and reach the summum bonum of our life.

Jai Sai Ram.

With loving regards,

Dr. Narendranath Reddy

Chairman, Prasanthi Council

Director, Sri Sathya Sai World Foundation

<2012_11_24 SSSWF Communication.pdf>

Sathya Sai Baba – tragic delusive mini-world

Some of the 78 comments made after Vishal Arora’s article on SB ‘The Land of Illusion’. A considerable majority of the comments were by Indian contributors in favour of the article and against Sathya Sai Baba. 

A brief initial selection from the comments pages on Vishal Arora’s article ‘The Land of Illusion’

See many more of those comments here

Dr. Bhatia reconfirmed his sex with Sai Baba and worse

Prabhakar Kamath has written an interesting article on how abused Sai Baba followers suffer from ‘the Stockholm syndrome’  Here is an excerpt:-

Here is a classic example of how Sai Baba controlled the mind and behavior of a highly educated doctor by the name of Naresh Bhatia as reported by Vishal Arora in Caravan magazine dated June 6^th, 2010:

I read his account in the Daily Telegraph and several Internet forums; I wanted to meet the now 59-year-old Dr Bhatia. I went to see him in his house in Noida. The tall, fair man received me very gently and offered me a seat on a veranda next to his living room. There was a six-foot tall poster of Sai Baba on one of the walls. I wondered why he still had a picture of him.

I told him I wanted to know about his relationship with Sai Baba and whether or not the reports on the Internet were true. “What did you find in Puttaparthi?” he asked. I told him many of his former devotees wouldn’t make accusations against Sai Baba. I also complained that there seemed to be no real consequences for Sai Baba. “No action will be taken against him. Nothing will happen to him,” remarked Dr Bhatia. “I will suggest that you do not write the article.” I thought it was his pessimism.

“But why do you think nothing will happen to him?” I asked. “He is God,” he replied. “Is what I have read on the Internet about you untrue?” I asked. “Everything is true,” he said, “but so what?” The bell rang and he went to the door and came back with his colleague. I thought it would be difficult to have a frank conversation now. But Dr Bhatia carried on.
See more at  http://nirmukta.com/2010/06/12/god’s-own-stockholm-syndrome/

What Dr. Naresh Bhatia, a long time favourite of Sathya Sai Baba, told Mick Brown of the Daily Telegraph was reported as follows:-

“Among those people named in The Findings is Dr D Bhatia, the former head of the blood bank at the Sathya Sai Super Speciality Hospital, who, it is claimed, had a longstanding sexual relationship with Sai Baba. Bhatia resigned from his post at the hospital in December 1999 and is now an administrator at a hospital in New Delhi.
Contacted by phone, Bhatia said that he had become a devotee of Sai Baba in 1971, at the age of 20, and that he had had sexual relations with Sai Baba for a total of ’15 or 16 years’. In that time, he said, he was also aware that Sai Baba had relations with ‘many, many’ students from the college and school, and with devotees from overseas.
Bhatia said he had never questioned Sai Baba over his conduct, or Baba’s explanation that it was ‘God’s activity’. ‘Devotion,’ said Bhatia, ‘doesn’t need any justification. In my philosophy of life, everything good and everything bad belongs to God. That is my belief, and that is why whatever he does, does not affect me in that way.’ Was he saying that he still believed Sai Baba is God? ‘Yes.’”

Dr. Bhatia wrote a book about his experiences of Sai Baba entitled “Dreams and realities face to face with God” (which reflects his belief fully). After he was threatened with physical harm and forced to leave Prashanthi Nilayam, Bhatia’s book was immediately taken off sale at the Sathya Sai Baba Book & Publications Trust, and it was withdrawn and all existing copies were remaindered by the publisher, Jack Scher – since deceased – another egocentric millionaire follower of Sai Baba who had so to speak ‘bought into’ a verandah place by setting up a publishing co. for Sai books in the US called ‘Leela Press’.  V.K.Narasimhan was instructed to publish the disclaimer about Dr. Bhatia in Sanathana Sarathi.
See full coverage of the Bhatia case here

Mohanty’s SaiBaba-VIP lied!

Latest up-date. Liars and more liars!

Deception by trickery: psi investigators Osis and Haraldsson

A well-researched paper entitled ‘Deception by subjects of psi research’  points out that psi researchers are overwhelmingly untrained in the many illusions and stage magic techniques, which in practice means that they are as easily confused or duped as the average member of the public. The book by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, not being based on any scientific investigation but only on observation and collective hearsay, falls into the category of unfruitful psi investigation, and Hansen’s paper refers to Hodgson who pointed out that “When scientists report their observations in professional journals, they imply that they have the technical competence to make the observations and the expertise to evaluate them. Failure to report the lack of such a background is deceptive to the reader.” (HODGSON, R. (1894). ‘Indian magic and the testimony of conjurers’. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 9, 354–366). Haraldsson maintained that there was no proof of fraud by Sai Baba, nor that his powers were a proven fact. However, his book was rather overwhelming in its presentation of positive, (yet unconfirmable) reports by devotees of countless and often wholly incredible miracles by Sai Baba. Haraldsson made few critical comments on these reports. He further defended SB against the claim of visible fraud when he was seen on a famous video to fumble a supposed materialization of a necklace. All this eventually led a majority of Sai Baba followers to believe that his manifestations were genuine. No comments were made by Osis or Haraldsson on patent untruths, vast exaggerations or other deceptions done by Sathya Sai Baba, which seems suspect considering that he was a major deceiver of people.

Hansen continued: In the case of Sai Baba, it can be noted that Christopher 1979, pp. 114-116) described a number of events suggesting trickery.” (see CHRISTOPHER, M. Search for the Soul. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.)  Haraldsson and Osis were only spectators of the supposed ‘materializations’, even though they had briefly visited a few magicians, and the book ‘Miracles are My Visiting Cards’ consisted very largely in reproduction of anecdotal evidence gathered by Haraldsson among Sai devotees, though including a few who had left Sai Baba’s fold. Hansen again: “The knowledge and background of witnesses must be considered. Some people will be more reliable observers than others, and this is especially true when attempting to detect trickery. For instance, most experienced magicians have watched thousands of simulations of paranormal events. Further, they have spent years studying such methods. Hodgson (1894)” It is of note that neither Osis nor Haraldsson referred to nor sought the assistance of some of India magicians who had investigated Sai Baba, not least son of P. C. Sorcar – the most famous ‘father of Indian magic’. P. C- Sorcar junior, who had even copied manifestations of vibuthi etc. in front of Sai Baba, whereupon he was ejected from the ashram! (see Sai Baba: Miracle Man or Petty Magician)
Or also http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20001204/cover3.shtml

Lingam regurgitation – new video clip

 ’Deception by subjects of psi research’  (source materials)

Child sex abuse in India and Sathya Sai Baba

The National – by Suryatapa Bhattacharya March 17, 2013
Until recently, public discussion of child sexual abuse had been taboo in India, even though it is a well-documented scourge. A government-sponsored survey in 2007, based on interviews with 12,500 children in 13 states, reported serious and widespread sexual abuse.

“Children are sexually abused by relatives at home, by people in their neighbourhoods, at school, and in residential facilities for orphans and other at-risk children,” it said.
Public anger shows there is a demand for “answers, accountability, and that the authorities have yet to learn their lessons about to how to deliver effective justice on time”, said Soumya Bhaumik, from the Centre of Social Research in New Delhi.

Read more: http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/south-asia/protesters-lift-lid-on-child-abuse-in-india#ixzz2NisxHjHc

Self-Deception As a Coping Mechanism among Victims of the Sai Baba Cult

According to Dr-Prabhakar Kamath, Sai Baba satisfied his sexual appetite by abusing innocent children with complete disregard to consequences to their welfare. He wrote: “Sexual abuse serves another purpose for Sai Baba: Dominating these children and converting them into his lifelong devotees and henchmen. In a sense, the sexual abuse is ritual castration by means of which he is telling them literally, “From now onwards I have you boys by the balls.” In a highly shame-oriented society such as India, victims feel a great deal of shame to admit that they are sex abuse victims, and they are fearful of exposing such a powerful and revered person. This is further made difficult because of social pressure from victim’s fearful well-wishers; fear of corrupt police who do not hesitate to torture or murder accusers in cold blood; distrust of incompetent prosecutors, and lack of faith in the judiciary incapable of separating state and religion.
Almost all these children grow up bodily but not mentally, and they become Sai Baba’s lifelong followers who meekly submit to his demands. Their total submission to Sai Baba is rooted in self-deception.

Down-on-their-knees daily dose of darshan  Sai Baba reinforces their slavish mentality by means of gifts materialized by magic, rewards, public praise, bribes and intimidation. Sai Baba becomes the central figure in their lives, and they become almost totally incapable of critical thinking when it comes to their relationship with him as exemplified by Dr. Naresh Bhatia in the Caravan article by Mr. Arora. Fear of Sai Baba dominates their lives. Almost all their actions are dictated by what they think Sai Baba would want them to do.
Just in case anyone see this who does not know the extent of the sworn testimonies and confirmed reports about the following, see Many young men claiming sexual contact with Sathya Sai Baba

See also the blog by Chris Doktor of May 3 last year How Do Victims of Sai Baba Cope? for an extra introduction and professional commentary on Dr. Kamath’s views on this subject. 

Sathya Sai copycat Bala Sai under fire

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A friend wrote to me that in the video interview conducted in Telugu about the exposure of Bala Sai Baba, at least one of the guests is also against Sathya Sai Baba. A big percentage of Indians no longer believe in all the fakery of the gurus and they are finally taking courage and speaking out! There is still some backlash, however, such as utterly scandalous case raised against Sanal Edamaruku over his exposure of the filthy “holy” water dripping from a Church statue! Yet previously – especially after PM Vajpayee and ex-High Chief Justice Bhagwati endorsed Sathya Sai Baba in an infamous open letter attacking his critics, the Indian media were in the pocket of the Sathya Sai Baba people

Notes from the video: ” From a long time back, Bala Sai has been deceiving the devotees from Kurnool, again this year for Sivarathri he has tried to deceive the people and most importantly, trying to attract foreigners. When people don’t question, it is easy to trick them. There are two types of people who go to him and to such fake gurus: the ones with real devotion, who don’t question the real nature of the trickery that goes on; and those who come for various financial benefits. All these types of people are copycats of Sathya Sai Baba. (“Magic Baba” words were displayed across the screen.) ‘We’ll see how he does the fake magic’ – a person demonstrates how easy it is to “create” vibhuthi and lingams. The difference between these magicians and street magicians is that the Babas do lingams and the street performers bring forth things like eggs! Because Hindus consider items like lingams sacred, the people who appear to create them are blackmailing the devotees: “See how much power I have!” And the devotees give millions of rupees in donations. (At 7:20 the second guys says:) “These types of materialization’s are not in our Puranas – spitting up items, gifting those disgusting things to devotees, these types of guys created such things – first Puttaparthi Sai Baba, and now the copycats. They are deceiving the devotees.”

Bala Sai Baba is truly a transparent Sathya Sai Baba copycat to a hilarious extent  down to almost every smallest detail. How anyone can not see through this as a scam to make money is quite surprising.

Bala Sai Baba’s henchmen were transporting large amounts of banknote by auto-rickshaw (tempo) when the police discovered it. The passenger fled and was not caught.
The police at Andhra Pradesh police headquarters in Lakdi-ka-pul area nearby seized the money and investigations continue. The Bala Sai Baba Trust, a city-based charitable organization, was slapped with a notice by the state’s Income-Tax Department, asking them to furnish details of cash worth Rs 6.75 crore.  (i.e. Rs. 6, 750,000) See Times of India article and tax notice details.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-11/hyderabad/35049346_1_auto-rickshaw-driver-police-headquarters-cash

Sai Baba’s Bitti Mohanty and the police

Text from Times of India article – click on image to go to source

The Times of India published the following text yesterday. Interestingly it includes the remarkable statement “Police have not been able to establish with certainty whether Biti had stayed at the Prashanti Nilayam since the administration do not maintain records about devotees visiting the ashram.”

We all now know that Prashanthi Nilayam was a hive of secrecy, cover-up, crime and total unaccountability operating under the protection of Prime Ministers and Supreme Court judges, but there are witnesses who have spoken out about Mohanty in Puttaparti, including the former headmaster of Puttaparthi’s Deenajanodharana School, Rama Rao who arranged for him to be a teacher there! (See source).  Is perhaps yet another police cover-up underway? Remember that huge bribes were paid and blackmail was used after the infamous murders in Sai Baba’s bedroom in June, 1993 and also consider how the illicit money taken from Sai Baba’s secret hoard found after his death were the subject of charges.. of which soon nothing more whatever was heard!

“… the whole world will be obliged to come to Prashanthi Nilayam” Sai Baba

 

The whole world??

Indeed, considering Sai Baba claimed “In the days ahead, the whole world will be obliged to come to Prashanthi Nilayam” (p. 320 Sanathana Sarathi December 1991) the photo is less than convincing! It is a tiny handful  in global perspective. The captive audience is no doubt just that, including many aged and failing people who, after half a lifetime or more cannot give up their dependency on their cherished delusions and remain in denial. Many almost certainly are local villagers attracted by the traditional handouts of free prasad and a free meal after the night’s fast too!

After writing this to the person who sent me the photo, I  received the following in reply : “We must not forget that at least 1/3 of that crowd are kids and teachers from the schools – forced to attend, whether they want to or not! (Notice the matching saris on the ladies side). Most of the chair people, I suspect, are the decrepit permanent residents who stick on, until death do them part.”

“The whole world will be transformed into Sathya Sai Organisation and Sathya Sai will be installed in the hearts of one and all.” (Sanathana Sarathi, January 1999 – page 16)

You are going to witness the divine glory of Swami unfolding in the days to come. He will attract the whole world. There won’t be place for people to stand even. You can see it for yourself, what a great change has occurred during the last one month! (Discourse 16 March 2003)