There are two approaches to the question ‘Does Sathya Sai Baba exercise his will over all major events in the ashram, or are there persons who can do things over which he is powerless?’ The first part of this alternative question seems to be answered yes by most residents, especially the less educated ones. Most ashram officials speak as if Sathya Sai Baba was in total control through his directives and interventions. Prof. N. Kasturi expressed this view in many of his writings.
Applied to the murders scenario, Sathya Sai Baba makes himself thereby fully responsible for the events that took place within his jurisdiction as ‘Divine Director’ and absolute King-God ruler of the ashram. V.K. Narasimhan was in no doubt, however, that Baba is powerless to control events, even those within the ashram, even within his own apartments. One example illustrates Sathya Sai Baba ‘s ‘impotence’: before the 70th birthday celebrations, Narasimhan had suggested to him that inviting the Indian President to them was unnecessary and only caused major problems with the Black Berets security arrangements that made devotees suffer huge, life-threatening crushes and endless delays. Sathya Sai Baba had replied that he could do nothing, for the President himself decided to visit. Also, he (Baba) had said to his close servant and editor of his journal, V.K. Narasimhan, that “one thing I cannot do is to make a person choose to do good.” That is part of the reason why Narasimhan did not reject or leave Sai Baba when the executions of the four intruding devotees were organised by his younger brother for it seemed to him that Baba could not even influence his own relative! This viewpoint could absolve him from responsibility as accomplice to the murders, being unable to control the actions of those ashram and Sathya Sai Central Trust members, as well as his younger brother Janaki Ramiah, in blackmailing the police into shooting in cold blood, one by one, the four trapped and virtually unarmed intruders.
Worse still, Sai Baba evidently can’t control his own sexual appetites… and anyone who wishes to know the facts should confront Mr. Al Drucker with questions as to what he has told privately about distraught parents of US devotees who visited him in his rooms at Prashanthi told him about their sons’ being sexually assaulted by Sathya Sai Baba. Add to that the damning testimony which no one can doubt is genuine given by the Rahm family and Mark Roche on the BBC film ‘The Secret Swami’. While boasting that the Central Trust is beyond all suspicion, Sathya Sai Baba was unable to stop the many financial kickbacks and embezzlements that have taken place under his nose by Colonel Joga Rao, Mr. Suri, Mr. Narayanan, and various others who he has sacked from the Central Trust or other offices within his outfit some months after his discourse pronouncements. In short, Sai Baba has little or no control over anyone who does not do what he says, even in his own ashrams and not even among the great majority of his blind followers.
See my previous posting too – Sai Baba’s impotence.
See also Public Petition for Official Investigations of Sathya Sai Baba and his Worldwide Organization
(Spanish version PETICIÓNPÚBLICA PARA INVESTIGACIONES OFICIALES
Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed 