Crowds have gathered in Puttaparthi today to take advantage of the free food distribution. Politicians are also taking advantage – by advertising their devotion and hopefully to amass more votes. They have tied balloons around town with their pictures on one side, and pictures of the shamed guru on the other.
Of course, everyone with even half a brain knows this is no auspicious day by any account. Among Sathya Sai Baba’s many failed, self-aggrandizing predictions his assertion he would live and stay healthy at least until this very day in 2020 (or even 2021!) loomed large. One need only read this 2015 account to be in the clear: https://robertpriddy.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/sathya-sai-baba-anniversary-of-death-april-24-2011/.
Instead the unsaintly saint died an ignoble death more than nine years ago! (See https://robertpriddy.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/sathya-sai-babas-death-no-miracles/.)
Only those who are willfully uninformed or are blind faith devotees still believe this is a day to be celebrated. To every levelheaded person this gaudy spectacle is little more than hot air and make believe in this South Indian style Disney multi color Fairyland.
See today’s video from Puttaparthi HERE
