The following information was sent to me two days ago from a Russian source:-
“A man from Russia went to Puttaparthi about a year ago. He wanted Sathya Sai Baba to bless some symbols and projects connected with a project he was promoting. He desperately needed a place on the veranda to contact Sai Baba to ask him for blessing and so he asked the all-Russia coordinator for help. He was refused. He got very angry with this Sai-VIP and warned him that if he did not help him to get a place on the veranda, he would tell everything to Sai Baba dissidents and the information would be posted on a critical site. Next day he was sitting on the veranda.
From time to time I get some information about the people with whom we were together before leaving Sai Baba. Almost all of them stopped visiting the centre and its office activities. The man who got onto the veranda told me recently that he was not going to visit Prashanti Nilayam in the future because it would not have any sense for him. “Sai Baba is not there now”, he said. Another couple of Russian devotees who live in the ashram for a long period left Puttaparthi for the north of India. Another Russian lady who we knew from 1997 said that the ashram is empty spiritually without SSB and now she is traveling across India visiting other ashrams. There are evidently increasingly difficult differences among Sai Baba followers.”
Search interest on Sathya Sai Baba via Google has steadily been going down for the last 3 months. In September the number of searches is about half of what was in July. http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Sathya%20Sai%20Baba&date=today%203-m&cmpt=q