Sathya Sai Baba as Nobel Peace Prize Candidate

Hunger for top international recognition of Sathya Sai Baba thwarted

Sathya Sai Baba ill-concealed hope of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was backed by Prime Minister Vajpayee’s Indian Government! The chance of this was strongly hinted at by the Sai Baba himself, saying: in his Discourse
“They are giving the Nobel Prize to many people. The man who gives the Nobel Prize is coming here on the 22nd November. The ones who will show this to the whole world, TV people, are all coming here on the 22nd.” The Times of India reported further (24-11-2001) – making massive factual errors: “Dr Michael Nobel, Head of the Nobel Institution and Director, Worldspace, told the Times of India, the things that Baba has done is simply amazing and this channel will spread his message to the world. He said there would be an explosion of his teachings. I am confident it will have a lasting impact. Dr Nobel said the channel now offers the reach to take his message to billions in the world.”

Michael Nobel is neither the son nor the grandson of Alfred Nobel but is his great grandnephew. He is not the Head of the Nobel Institution – was actually an executive of a foreign company contracted by the Sathya Sai Organization to set up the ‘Sai Global Harmony’ satellite radio station! In short – he was a paid contractor for the promotion of Sathya Sai Baba. But despite this billions of the world population remain in blissful ignorance of Sathya Sai Baba and his message today, as can be seen by the virtual total lack of coverage in current serious – or even popular – media [outside India]. Dr. Michael Nobel is involved with the administration of an appeal body supported by Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to collect funds for peace purposes. This is in no way connected to any Nobel Prize-giving Committee. Dr. Michael Nobel and the organization he promotes received a hard rap over the knuckles as follows:

“…the organizers received a disturbing fax from The Nobel Foundation in Sweden. It advised them that Mr. Nobel had been voted out as head of the Nobel Family Society at a meeting in August of 2006 “mainly because of his unauthorized activities and involvements in the name of the Nobel Family Society.” And it threatened legal action against those involved in creating “The Dr. Michael Nobel Award”, as Mr. Nobel had indicated it was to be named.”

See (The Nobel Prize that Wasn’t – New York Times )
The Nobel Peace Prize award is the sole preserve of the Norwegian Government. Famously, the cosmopolitan Alfred Nobel would not trust his countrymen (the Swedish authorities) with such a task and ensured that a Peace Prize Committee was to be elected by the Norwegian Government, their decision being final. Norwegian professors of philosophy are the only persons allowed to forward a candidate (apart from Nation States). The Norwegian Committee have been informed privately about the dark sides of Sathya Sai Baba and his shady involvements, and the 1 hour Danish documentary ‘Seduced’ about Sathya Sai Baba’s fraudulence and the sex abuse allegations was shown three times on prime time on Norwegian National Television (NRK). There was also his warm appreciation of Dictator Idi Ami who Sai devotees falsely claimed agreed with Sai Baba to delay the expulsion of the Indian population from Uganda. Nor did visits to Sai Baba by the convicted Italian prime minister Bettino Craxi or the mafia backer Italian PM Andreotti help much. This sort of reputation is surely just the ticket to sink a Nobel Peace Prize candidate without trace?

Sathya Sai Baba was inextricably involved in a gruesome murder incident in his bedroom apartment in June 1993, which was never cleared up because his followers, Narasimhan Rao and S.B. Chavan quashed the CBI investigation when it began to near a result and stopped a Supreme Court petition. Neither this – nor many other substantial sex allegations against Sai Baba stopped the Indian Government under A.B. Vajpayee – a long-term devotee himself – from proposing him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Such isolation from international opinion and values is an indictment of ex-Prime Minister Atal Vihari Vajpayee and his cronies who defended Sai Baba from all allegations without have made the slightest investigation of the mass evidence (as shown beyond any doubt by Basava Premanand’s correspondence with the authorities (see here: Premanand challenges Vajpayee to come clean)

The moral standing of anyone who may receive the Peace Prize must be beyond suspicion and crispy clean. How could the Norwegian Nobel Committee award it to anyone who supports the vastly increasing militarism and nuclear arsenal of the Indian Government? No way! Sathya Sai Baba does so through his patronage during 20 years in his ashram of the ‘father’ of India’s atomic bomb (Dr. Bhagavantam, deceased) and his warm personal and public support with the designer of the latest nuclear delivery missiles – ex-President Abdul Kalam

See also Nobel Prize for Sathya Sai Baba