Many are the times Sathya Sai Baba has claimed that he is the omnipotent creator of the universe. He first proclaimed his Divinity to the wider public in 1968 - as the Incarnation of God - in what has been called 'The Milestone Speech' where he also stated: 
"There is nothing that divine power cannot accomplish. It can transmute earth into sky and sky into earth".
Sahya Sai also claimed: "It is beyond you to know how or why I create things. The objects that I create, I create them by my will, the same way I created the universe." Quoted in 'The Week' 27th November, 20065.
To make sure that nobody questions any of this he also stated: "Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember, nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand." (Sanathana Sarathi, August 1984)
Consequently most devotees believe that he can do anything whatever (some even believe he can do whatever is impossible too!). They do not try to understand, IF they are good devotees. Therefore they believe anything he says without the remotest questioning of his wisdom...
It is common for devotees to say of anything tht occurs - from a tsunami to a spilt drop of milk "It is Swami's Will".
This is particularly noticeable at the ashrams, where believers think that Sai Baba exercises his will over every single event that occurs there. Everything that befalls a seeker is the will of Sai Baba, everything is "His Blessing" - very often it is a blssing in disguise, as many very bad things befall many people there. But thes are "spiritual lessons" or "tests of faith by the guru"
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 becomes fully responsible for the events that took place within his jurisdiction as 'Divine Director' and absolute King-God ruler of the ashram. Kasturi's sucessor as editor of Sanathana Sarathi - the famous journalist V.K. Narasimhan - was in no doubt, however, that Sathya Sai Baba is powerless to control events, even those within the ashram, even within his own apartments.
One example illustrates Sathya Sai Baba's helplessness before events prior to the 70th birthday celebrations in 1995, Narasimhan had remarked to Sai Baba that inviting the Indian President to them was unnecessary for it always caused major problems. The special force, the Black Berets, made devotees suffer huge, life-threatening crushes and endless delays due to their insensitive and heavy-handed security arrangements. Sathya Sai Baba had replied that there was nothing he could do about it! The Indian President himself had decided to visit!
In another connection, Sai Baba told Narasimhan, that "one thing I cannot do is to make a person choose to do good." That is part of the reason why Narasimhan - a pragmatist - did not reject or leave Sathya Sai Baba when the executions of the four intruding devotees were organised by Sathya Sai Baba 's younger brother! It seemed to Narasimhan that Baba could not even influence his own younger brother! This viewpoint was supposed to absolve Sathya Sai Baba from responsibility as accomplice to the murders, neither being able to dictate the actions of those Sai Central Trust members and ashram officials, nor those of his younger brother Janaki Ramiah, who blackmailed the police into shooting down the four young men - trapped and virtually unarmed intruders - in cold blood, one by one in a huge hail of bullets.
Sathya Sai Baba is unable to walk more than a few staggering steps supported by his male students. He has to use one of a wide variety of epensive hi-tech wheelchair or buggys. This is because of his having had a hip-joint replacement and ignoring the various doctors' orders as to how properly to recover from it. However, nowadays devotees say that all this is just a part of "His Divine Play" his "leela"... he is "doing sadhana" (though he has proclaimed firmly that he never prays nor does any spiritual disciplines because he is God Himself and is himself the giver of the boons that supposedly result from such sadhanas. One has to wonder at the degree of gullibility that such people will adopt so as not to be plunged into doubt and feel the pain of realising that they have been conned so thoroughly in so many ways!
In his infamous Christmas Day Discourse in 2000 when he thumped his lectern in anger at his detractors (a most unforgiving harangue to celebrate the advent of Christ), he complained that he and his works are not appreciated as they should be! Such megalomaniac moanings have increased, while he is affected by the rightful descriptions and comments concerning his many wrongdoings and absurdities at least so much that he points out how well he keeps a smiling face despite the heavy criticism. This is hardly the talk of an Omnipotent Being beyond all praise and blame... and he does not often smile either, as his morose or blank epression shows most of the time he is seen. Close confidnates have even reported that he sits and crys in private most of the day (see 'Report on Sai's Condition' here)
Please go to the Public Petition for Official
Investigations of Sathya Sai Baba and His Worldwide Organization
(Spanish
version PETICIÓN
PÚBLICA PARA INVESTIGACIONES OFICIALES DE SATHYA SAI BABA Y SU ORGANIZACIÓN
A NIVEL MUNDIAL)