Articles from Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed

Blind Belief in Sai Baba causes human injustices
2008-02-01 08:33:51
Devotees of Sai Baba develop the ability to look and not see so before long their eyes play tricks on them… devotees as if dying of thirst in a desert where they see lakes and gushing waters. They badly need to temper their naive and foolish idealism with inquiry, critical thinking and standards of human justice. I have seen many cases of people in crisis entirely due to the having invested everything in their belief in Sai Baba, which they cannot give up any longer without a psychological crisis at best. Relatively few of the those most heavily involved - the so-called VIP’s in Sathya Sai Baba’s institutions and Sathya Sai Organization - have had the courage to confront the overwhelming evidence of fraudulence, sexual molestations and murder cover-up. They prefer to keep their heads in the sand as much as possible. No longer being capable of explaining away the huge amount of evidence against Sai Baba, his unfulfilable pronouncements, failed prophesies and unkept ...

Prophesy about Sai Baba both bogus and failed
2008-01-30 08:49:13
The Sai Baba propaganda and misinformation machine continues to make much of a prophesy said to be found “In an ancient Arabic book by name “Mehdi Moud” in which the prophesies made by Prophet Mohammed were recorded many centuries ago, it was mentioned that God Himself would descend on earth in human form…” (quoted from saibabaofindia.com website) See what the saibaba of india web site states on-line… or read this excerpt:- “His hair will be profuse [etc. etc.. .]” and ”He will live for 95 years on earth. In the last twenty years of His life time He will be the king of the whole world but at that time (A.D. 2000) only two-thirds of the world will believe Him. Muslims will only recognise Him nine years before His passing away from the world”. However, the said book is not known or shown to exist anywhere and the translation recognised by the Sai ashram (and quoted in the Chaitanya Jyothi Sai Baba Museum) is a faked tr ...

Sai Baba’s tennis stadium another white elephant?
2008-01-23 07:23:24
The Hindustan Times report on the aborted Sai Baba-sponsored tennis tournament between India and the Phillippines Click to see screenshot of the report The failing Sathya Sai Baba and his mini-imperium created yet another fiasco early in January (2008) by messing up the international tennis tournament between India and the Phillippines in the Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Tennis stadium (especially built to attract tourism and thereby doubtless to regenerate the failing cash flow in the coffers of the Sathya Sai Central Trust due to loss of overseas donations). That Sathya Sai Baba is failing both in physical power and ’spiritual’ attraction is shown by the new reliance on sports events to attract visitors. Strange indeed that the ashram authorities caused the cancellation of the tournament on the grounds that Sai Baba’s indisposition disabling him from blessing and inaugurating the event would be ‘inauspicious’. The loss of prestige and the investment ...

IS SAI BABA’S FOLLOWERSHIP INCREASING?
2008-01-20 11:17:20
The travel writer, William McKay Aitken (aka ‘Bill’ Aitken) refers to the chagrin of the “international apostate detractors” of Sai Baba, as being added to by “the ongoing booming growth of his mission”. He even implies a causal link between criticism and success: ” The more they rail against the saint, the greater, it seems, is the number of people who flock to have his darshan.” (see his text here) This is patently ridiculous on several counts. Firstly, Sai Baba does not consider himself a saint, nor do his followers, for he claims to be an utterly infallible, omnipotent God, and one who is utterly pure and cannot ever speak untruth! Aitken is clearly too uncomfortable with that fact to proclaim it himself… reducing Sai Baba to the level of a mere ’saint’. Aitken also wrote: “I have been forced to revise my opinion and accept that this person does not say he is divine to the exclusion of others. What he sa ...

Major sabotage by Sai college teacher averted, including murder threats against Basava Premanand
2008-01-16 10:26:15
A former Sai college student, who subsequently became a teacher at the Sai College in Puttaparthi - Murali Krishna Yachendra - carried out an extensive major sabotage attempt against critics of Sathya Sai Baba. He started with an entry submitted to the International Sai Petition claiming he was a sex abuse victim. This was investigated, firstly by e-mail questions - and he followed-up with mails about sex abuses and much more. He was asked by the current Sai petition administration to contact Barry Pittard and Basava Premanand with his ‘information’… which led to a very long set of e-mails in which he compounded his lies to such an extraordinary extent over many months, involving a number of other (fictitious) sexually abused students from different e-mail addresses and IPs. He claimed knowledge of massive sex exploits, murder plans and embezzlements by Sai Baba and his institutions or hired assassains, promising documentation in full. NB! Sai Baba offered huge cas ...

Sai Baba’s Service Projects (Seva) and Bill Aitken
2008-01-12 06:44:21
Sathya Sai Baba says one should not do service to impress (Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 28, p. 341) and he deplores “the egoism and poisons the Seva of even veterans in the field, who go about extolling themselves as founders and promoters” (Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 1, p.97). Yet he is ever extolling himself as a founder and promoter of service projects. In his booklet Jnana Vahini, Sai Baba criticises “self-aggrandisement; when self holds sway over the heart, no deed worthy to be styled Service can emanate.” (p.34). So what about Sai Baba’s self-aggrandisement? Some of the documentation of his words and actions and those of his organization are summarized in the following web pages:- – Sathya Sai_and_His_Service ; Sai Baba on His Public Service ; Sai_Baba’s_Service_Projects_and_Publicity ; Sathya Sai Organization malpractices overview — The travel writer and Sai-devotee Bill Aitken has tried to throw mud against those who document the abov ...

The Sathya Sai Vibuthi-Abishek showpiece mere fakery?
2008-01-10 16:03:29
Sathya Sai performs ‘vibuthiabishek’ in the 1970s, aided by Kasturi William ‘Bill’ Aitken, the Sathya Sai hagiographic writer wrote about exposé writers saying: “They will claim that all of Sathya Sai Baba’s materialisations are phoney. However, this cannot stick either, because millions have witnessed the outpouring of vibhuti at Shivaratri.” Far from all former devotees claim that all Sai Baba’s materializations are mere fraud. I still have an open mind on the matter myself since I obviously cannot prove the fraudulence of all of the reported events, though I am utterly convinced from many testimonies, reports from friends, film and other materials that massive fraudulence has been done by Sai Baba. I am also aware of the truly ‘hypnotic’ power of suggestion, as has been demonstrated amazingly by Derren Brown, for one. The much-filmed ‘Shivarathri miracles’ showpiece of former days - a stream of ash (’v ...

William ‘Bill’Aitken’s dishonesty in full bloom
2008-01-09 05:40:40
Aitken writes of the alleged sexually abused and other exposé writers: “Probably because of the intensity of their hate, when it comes to a serious, forensic examination of their allegations, they resort to bluster and evasion instead of hard facts. Smearing sexual innuendo is a traditional ploy but on failing to substantiate their charges, the critics switch to another unrelated subject.” – This is one of the most tendentious presentations ever of what critics of Sai Baba are claiming. It is simply not based on fact, and there has never been any serious forensic examination either of the murders issue or the sexual allegations, because all attempts have been blocked and terminated by authorities right up to the Prime Ministers and Presidents of India. Aitken falsely insinuates that there is no proof about Sai Baba’s sexual abuses, referring to the charges as ’sexual innuendo’. Tell that to the BBC team who researched the matter across the globe ...

William Bill Aitken’s base attacks on serious critics
2008-01-07 14:25:48
The Sathya Sai apologist William McKay Aitken (Bill Aitken) excelled himself with patronising wisdom in ‘This Week’ when he wrote: “…no amount of reasoning is going to take you nearer to the meaning of life and understanding of the pre-eminence of love. We are born to find this liberating truth in ourselves. (Finding fault in others is not so urgent!)”. Let us consider the last part here [on urgency in exposing faults]. It would seem that Aitken wants to put down those who have truly found many faults in Sai Baba. Evidently, he does not think it ‘urgent’ that he finds fault in Sai Baba, even though it is the simplest matter to do so if one is an open-minded researcher. But then - as if in the same breath - Bill Aitken hastens to write plenty about the faults of others who do with many excellent reasons find fault in Sai Baba. One can view Aitken’s lengthy fault-finding rant here – The self-imposed suppression of facts in se ...

William McKay (Bill) Aitken’s academic shortcomings
2008-01-02 14:39:18
William Aitken was presented as “an expert in comparative religion” in a pro-Sai Baba propaganda article in ‘The Week’ (27 November, 2005). However, since he has no papers or books within the academic discipline to his name, the claim is very hollow. An expert would have to refer to a person fully immersed as a career in the discipline in universities or research institutes who has published monographs or at least published research articles on the subject. This he certainly has not done for, instead, he chose the path of a free-lance writer of travel books about India and ’spirituality’ based on his experiences of the Hindu culture.Comparative religion, however, is not the discipline for promoting variants of ’spirituality’, especially not those untestable and very doubtful claims by gurus, yet in his book on Sathya Sai Baba Aitken does just this. Brian Steel points out how Aitken gives a “passionate endorsement” of Sathya ...

Sai Baba appearances on the moon
2008-01-02 08:17:54
Someone wrote a comment to me saying that Sai Baba never said he would appear on the moon. This is a typical symptom of denial and disinformation. It is an attempt to explain away the undeniable facts of the matter so as to retain faith in this deceiving guru and self-declared incarnation of all Divine entities rolled into one! What does Sathya Sai Baba say about it now? Nothing!! Nowhere can one discover that he has denied it or mentioned it at all. As all who have been close to him know, he only lets people know what he wants them to believe. He answers only those questions he wishes, and ignored most questions. His officials are remarkably silent about the entire issue. Even were they to make an announcement, one could be almost certain it will be a deception. They are notorious for twisting the facts about him (particularly when he repeatedly has broken his hip, his arm, lost an eye etc. some claiming he is in full vigour and perfect health (though anyone can discover how ...

Bill Aitken, bogus ‘religious expert’ on Sai Baba
2007-12-31 05:27:38
William ‘Bill’ Aitken Clip from ‘The Week’ magazine - claim that Aitken is an ‘expert —– From Brian Steel’s fair and incisive review of Aitken’s book, I conclude that isolation from critical academic environments and Aitken’s path into religious enthusiam has led him away even from elementary methodology and comparative and neutral standards of research and evaluation of religions. That he attacks all critics of Sai Baba as if they were all under one umbrella, incluing Prof. Narendra Nayak (see here ) in such an ill-informed and untruthful manner as he did in ‘The Week’ also reflects very badly on his honesty and general competence. —– As Aitken wrote in ‘The Week’: “Recently, Marianne Warren published her Ph.D thesis, Unravelling the Enigma, arguing that since Shirdi Baba was a Sufi, Sathya Sai’s claims to be an incarnation of him are totally misplaced. This illustrates the ...

Sathya Sai Baba’s Christmas message
2007-12-24 06:41:32
Glum look, the spirit of Christmas Past - but no doubt his Spirit of Christmas Present is grimmer ANNIVERSARY This is the 7th anniversary of Sathya Sai Baba’s message on Christmas Day in 2000. His continued pretence at radiating nothing but love and light broke down completely on that day when he railed against his critics as ‘thousands of Judases’ and slammed his fist down on his lectern in the Prashanthi Nilayam temple (mandir). He lied that his accusers (of serial sexual molestation including rank pedophilia) were acting for money. Of course, he gave no evidence whatever, none exists because it is untrue! (See his damning message and further evidence here) That was how Sathya Sai Baba celebrated the supposed birthday of a person, Jesus of Nazareth, who preached forgiveness and turning the other cheek! But Sathya Sai Baba qualified himself with Untruth, Libel and unrelenting threats to his critics (many shameful rebirths etc.!) INDIAN GOVERNMENT BELIEVE SAI &lsqu ...

Sai moon miracle again
2007-12-16 07:10:00
On the ‘Indian Muslims’ website we find the following entry:- Sai Baba on the Moon “Submitted by Sai Keet Ong (not verified) on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 07:42 On the 4th of October, Sai Baba told His translator, Prof. Anil Kumar, that He was going to give Vishwa Viraat Roopa Darshan, which means Cosmic Darshan. This has already been carried out, cause television news all around the world concentrated on Sai Baba. That is Vishwa Viraat Roopa Darshan.” This is typical of the cosmic exaggeration of naive and somehat incoherent Sai followers. Television news around the world has certainly not concentrated on Sai Baba’s moon miracle. On the contrary, news in India concentrated on the total failure of the announced appearance of Sai Baba on the moon. Further, there was no Vishwa Viraat Roopa Darshan whatever - anyone who knows the Bhagavad Gita will understand that such an alleged ‘vision’ has nothing whatever to do with appearing on the face of the moon. ...

Sai Baba on the Moon videos
2007-12-14 16:20:16
http://www.masala-skeptic.com/2007/12/moonstruck.html This is a comment by someone with a common sense and a sense of humour! And it has links to two videos of the supposed “moon darshan”:The first one is very ]jumpty’ and there are clearly clouds passing and changing the appearance of the moon. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3bf23_saibaba-on-the-moon-27102007 The second one claims to be “an analysis” when it is simply subjective ink-blot imaginings: - http://www.dailymotion.com/tamgofree/video/x3bnp9_swami-on-the-moon-analyse_news I have already shown how quite other faces can just as well be seen - Jimi Hendrix, a serial killer called Tookie Williams, and another face… one can easily see maps of parts of Asian, even India there… and God knows what else. This is must see stuff… it proves that some people believe anything, see anything hear anything… all according to what they want to see, hear, believe. As if it made ...

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