Introducing the Latest ‘Subtle Sai’ – Achintya Amma!

The latest devotee who claims Sathya Sai Baba is speaking through her – a pretender of a pretender! – is another former student of his college – but this time, it’s a woman! This lady, Achintya (which means “beyond comprehension”) Amma, claims to be getting messages direct from her dead pedophile guru.

She graduated from the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning in Anantapur and lives in Bangalore with her husband Mr. Siva Prasad, a graduate of the sai college in Puttaparthi, as detailed in a Facebook post on ‘Sai Bliss’.

A somewhat blurry and jumpy video posted online shows Achintya Amma garlanded by devotees and given ‘pada puja,’ worship of her feet, which she seems very delighted indeed, to receive.

Achintya Amma joins a crowded field of already over a dozen ‘Prema Sais’ (supposedly the third and final sai incarnation-to-come) and many more imitators of sai baba, which has proven to be a very lucrative get-rich-quick scheme for the industrious people who, like the original sathya sai baba, were corrupt enough not to have a conscience.

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

Sai Gita’s untimely end amid decadence at Prashanthi Nilayam

The e-mail posted on Yahoo saibabanews group – apparently by an American called Alex – shows how unregulated and entirely out of gear with all that Sathya Sai Baba said about his ‘Abode of Supreme Peace’ and how perfect it all was. The death of the young elephant Sai Gita seems to have been a result of the greed of the ashram administrators:-

As to trying to get any information from the administrator of groups in the Sathya Sai Organization, it was ever thus… far too many office-bearers, whether Indian or from most other countries, behaved like small condescending Napoleons, deigning to take notice of members’ interests only when it could advance their own status. Otherwise they behaved like any minor counter clerk, doing what they were told from VIPs above, who themselves were doing what they were told from ‘on high’. In short, a completely self-defeating organisational culture which allowed the type of people that Sai Baba characterised as ‘big egos’ and ‘VIPers’ etc. to dominate others. Sathya Sai Baba gave such people privileges because he knew they dared not go against his advice (i.e. demands clothed in a velvet words)  and would do almost anything whatever, especially to defend him and cover up all the crimes and injustices that sprang up under his leadership.

Good persons did once flock to Sathya Sai baba, it was that who built his mini-empire for him and did all the service work and self-sacrifice about which he constantly talked and boasted as his own doing. There were always a large number of people who were definitely deserving of the epithet Sai Baba used often in interviews about others not present, namely ‘bad man!’

The book by Smt. Vijayamma which the e-mailer praises so much actually tells about Sathya Sai’s uncontrolled behaviour and criminal actions in his early years, such as his relentless regular physical beating of Vijayamma’s own baby son! How anyone can condone that is unthinkable – as are many other things she reported him as doing at other person’s expense.

The e-mail ends with a reminder that the politicians and businessmen represent the ‘era of Kali’ (i.e. of decadence and degeneration) who are accepted warmly at the ashram and given the best places. The writing is confused, thus exhibiting the strong feeling of disgust and let-down driving its writer.

See also review of Vijayamma’s book ‘ANYATHA SARANAM NASTHI – Other than you refuge there is none’