To denounce people in public with an angry face, beating the lectern while so doing, and later to say: "There is no trace of anger or hatred in Me and hence everyone loves Me" (Sanathana Sarathi September 2002, page 257f). Well, "everyone" is extremely far from the truth! Does he really imagine in his intense, protected, narcissism those who have been deeply abused by him love him? Or the 5 billion-plus people who have heard nothing about him? (Date: 10-11-02).
Sathya Sai Baba proclaimed again in the same August discourse, is a directly laughable claim which would suggest how little he knows of the real world! He is no Queen Elisabeth, can't even measure his fame against David Beckham or Sean Connery! Does he actually think the 1.4 million Chinese have even heard of him, or most of the world’s 2 billion Christians, 1 billion Muslims, not to detail countless others who care nought for an Indian swami? If so, he is completely out of touch in an eternal world of his own imagining.
"Strange rumours are spread at times. Someone says that Sai Baba is angry with X or Y. But I bear no ill will against anyone, and nobody is against me. Everyone loves and none hates me." (p. 262) What does he say, nobody? But why then did he also say,
"Disregard every manner of adverse comments" (adverse to what, to whom. Can you guess?) However, having himself abused many of his ex-followers as 'Judases' - and threatened them with lifetimes of shame - in his Christmas 2000 discourse Sai Baba goes on to say,
"... we should disregard abuse and hold to our righteous ideals firmly." "Love even those who abuse you. I am a standing example of this." (p. 267) (What variety of abuses might he have in mind?) The gramophone record is stuck in the same old groove:
"Rough diamond acquires value as it is cut and polished. In the same way, abuses turn into ornaments." So if or when abuse might occur, this rule works both ways, may we suppose? Grand stuff!Sathya Sai also said a number of questionable things in the same discourse,
"Today is Krishna Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna. I am making a promise today that the people of all the countries, viz. Pakistan, China, Germany, Russia will be united. That should be our goal. The goodness of Bharat will lead to this unity." (p. 267). This makes any well-informed person think both how vague and how extremely unlikely Baba's 'promises' often are. Does he mean that through India’s offices all countries of the world will join in one union, like a glorified USA or EU? Devotees will doubtless interpret this prediction of the current alliance against terrorism between countries who now agree they are going to war against the terrorists.But Sai Baba specifically included "the people of all the countries". Even Israel, Palestine, Irak, Iran? Would it were so! But even conveniently united efforts on the political scene against a common external enemy come and go according to circumstances… unlikely to last, as with everything, as I have heard said somewhere! So what does Sai Baba actually mean by Bharat? A non-existant country at present, only existing maybe in some distant past, or a future not yet here or in the imagination, even? Surely he can't be talking about the India we know of today, corrupt from top to bottom. How can such a nation, where most human rights are totally disregarded for the great mass of its population, conjure forth all this goodness that will unify the world? Well, only the Lord knows, what with the massive and blind retributive killings by Indian forces of innocents in Jammu/Kashmir and of Nagas in the East, with its persistent and repressive caste system, widespread colour discrimination, ever-repeated murdering of Dalits, Moslems, Christians, tribals and the still very widespread burning of brides, repression of women's rights, slavery of millions of landless bonded labourers and its ca. 20 million child labourers? It’s a nice thought, but is not Sai Baba fanciful now... or, as he says of his critics 'imaginative'?
Sai Baba loses his cool and lies blatantly about his critics!
"There are some jealous and petty minds who do false and imaginary propaganda. I take no note of this" - but he noted that he does notice just there!
He sees the need to combat what he knowing lies is 'imaginary propaganda' and so he must have been moved to notice it to respond like this! All can see that Sai Baba badly wants to limit the damage to his movement and especially to foreign donations.
"In the single family of humankind, where is the room for jealousy or hatred? These are all imaginary." I suppose Baba means among Arabs, terrorists, the most jingoistic Americans perhaps? He is still offering the pseudo-philosophy of 'whatever you imagine, is true for you'. This may be an effective way of influencing those who can't face the staring facts... and so choose to follow that old, old trick of mental enslavement, 'The guru is never wrong, doubt only yourself!'The present writer was unable, for obvious reasons, to sustain faith in Sai Baba's statements or many of his much-blazoned activities. Even though he may perhaps pretend and practice fraud in many cases – I have had at least one indubitable experience of Sai Baba's real manifestations (the number of genuine phenomena has lessened considerably since my full critical faculties returned to normal) Though I have had proofs of his exceptional psychic or para-normal influences (few of which I doubt), I have come to know that he is by no means infallible, nor is it possible that he all that he claims to be. He seems to possess so-called 'siddhi' powers, which many others have done (and often people of a non-spiritual nature). Further, he has dark sides of which even some very frequent interviewees have no knowledge. Though I have never noticed sexual behaviour on his part, the evidence from many countries through decades has piled up to an extent where abuse cannot seriously be denied.