INDIA PLAGUED BY DEEP SUPERSTITIONS - BLACK MAGIC & WITCHCRAFT
- a review of current witchcraft problems in India and how Sathya Sai Baba aggravates the issue
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Black magic is a primitive superstition which is firmly supported by the self-proclaimed avatar, Sathya Sai Baba. Seeing he and his 'teachings' are worshipped by Supreme Court judges, Prime Ministers and Presidents of India, is it any wonder that this country cannot remove the dreadful ignorance of so many of its citizens, as is documented here? See for example Sai Baba's statements in his published discourses from his series 'Sathya Sai Speaks' as follows: |
Of course, there is magic in the world both white and black; but, the manifestation of Divine Power must not be interpreted as magic. Can the crow's egg and the cuckoo's egg be identified as belonging to one class? Sathya Sai Baba - Vol 10. p. 261 (click to view) | All kinds of silly stories were circulated when I was ill! Some people feared that when I went to the South recently, some black magic was inflicted upon Me and that the stroke was the consequence. Let Me tell you that nothing evil can affect Me. Nothing. Sathya Sai Baba - Vol 3. p. 93 (click to view) |
In the above we see that Sathya Sai Baba sustains dangerous false beliefs which in India can and do cause the worst kind of social ills, including many horrific murders of suspected witches. The influence of Sathya Sai Baba in India is also very considerable among the poor as well as ruling classes. Many of his utterances provide persistent and strong support for base superstitions - like the evil eye, black magic and many other proven false beliefs. One superstitious practice of his is the strict observation of (supposedly!) auspicious and inauspicious times of the day for traveling or starting new projects! His reinforcements to superstitious belief speak for themselves - at least to those who are not given to believing anything that suits their fancy or whatever they are told by this self-instated 'omniscient' Incarnation of Godhood. Below I present independent documentation by National Geographic Channel and the Mumbai High Court of some of the current consequences of these primitive forms of ignorance. Sathya Sai Baba is one of those many ignorami who sustain and spread false beliefs about the powers of black magicians and witches (i.e. female black magicians). He is on record in various books by devotees of having told followers that they have been attacked by black magicians, and that he has saved them from black magic! See some examples of many, as follows: (all light blue text is direct quotation) |
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Howard Murphet has written many fanciful things which have contributed vastly to the popularity of Sathya Sai Baba, but few of them surpass his confused and speculative account of how Sathya Sai Baba's legs were (apparently!) paralysed by a black magician. This is in his book "Sai Baba Avatar - a new journey into power and glory" According to Murphet, a yogi (whose name and location are not revealed) with strong hypnotic powers which, among other things, he used to seduce women, told a young American that he "could dominate a pupils' mind and will absolutely - given time. A pupil so completely dominated could be sent out to murder anyone the tantrist desired out of the way. The American added it was known to several in the ashram that one pupil was being trained, conditioned and overshadowed by the tantrist for the purpose of killing Sai Baba. As the dark hates the light that overpowers it, the black magician hated Baba who frustrated many of his designs." (from Chapter 9 - 'The Lord's Legs'). Murphet connects this yogi's murder plans - without evidence or cogent reasoning of any kind - to the paralysis of Sathya Sai Baba's legs! According to Murphet, Sai Baba eventually decided to cure himself of this paralysis as he allegedly once did when he cured a week-long paralysis of the left side of his body." All this is accepted as Murphet as Gospel, as usual in his case, without a hint of critical thinking or questioning of any of it. |
One particular demon was most adamant. No blows or threats would make it budge. Watching Swami from a distance, with hearts filled with pity, we would curse the demon. Obviously, it was a stubborn demon. It would go on shouting and heaping abuses. Swami looked fatigued after all that beating. Lifting her up by the hair, Swami swung her round and flung her to a distance as if she were a ball. Her body hit the wall and came back and fell at his feet. Speechless with terror, we clung to the wall. She had a very sturdy build. How was He able to lift that weight? Didn't He (as Krishna) in the bygone days, lift up the Govardhan mountain on His little finger? We were all intensely watching Swami. His body was drenched in Sweat. He was sweating profusely. His eyes were bloodshot and looked terrible. Holding her by the hair again, He shouted "Will you leave at least now? Have you learned your lesson?" "Alas! Enough! Don't beat me anymore. I will go away. I won't come back again." Saying these words, quivering and shaking, the demon ran away. From the centre of the woman's head, Swami forcibly plucked out a few hairs. There was a sharp thorn-like formation under those hairs. Swami beckoned to the husband of the woman and showed it to him and said something to him in a low tone. He then gave the order for her to be escorted inside. Swami was panting for breath. His face still looked fierce. When we were peeping at Him from a corner, He smiled at us. That was enough. Immediately, we swarmed around Him. Meanwhile, the woman's husband came out, and Swami told him, "It is not only a case of being possessed by a demon. Someone cast an evil spell on her. "Black magic was used and a magician was hired to do all sorts of pujas to make her lose her wits. There is no need for fear now". The husband fell weeping at Swami's feet. Later, Swami created a talisman and, inserting into that the hairs He plucked. He closed it, and tied it around the woman's neck. To our question, "Do demons really exist, Swami?" He gave the reply, "Yes! Those who committed suicide, those killed in accidents, those who met with an untimely death, all these will be roaming around like ghosts. A demon cannot go near someone who is strong. It goes near the weak and makes fools of them like this. Sometimes, a man remarries when the first wife dies. The first wife, who died with desires unfulfilled, 'possesses' the mind of the second wife and tortures her like this. Sometimes, where a lot of property is involved would-be heirs, to get that property, hire magicians to make the owner of the property go mad. There are many reasons like this". He drove away demons this way, physically, only for one year. Later, He just used to give vibhuti prasadam and, with that, send the demons away. (Anyatha Saranam Nasthi - Other than you refuge there is none by Smt. Vijayakumari, Chennai 1999, p. 40-1) |
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In yet another highly overdone hagiographic account 'Lokanatha Sai' by M.N. Leela, [signed in 1995 by Sathya Sai Baba and thus authenticated] we find the following account which again proves that has been spreading superstitions about black magic: "Swami called my mother and others separately and said that a black magician had done havoc to my father: on that Friday when my father went early morning with bailiff and removed his shed put in our land at Guindy. He also said. "Dig the spot where you find broken pots and remove the remains of goat and chicken etc and throw them off. Now he is fully recovered, but the aim of the sorcerer Is to drive him mad and ultimately kill him." (p. 151) See scan of the excerpt and cover etc. |
What is important to realise is that all these accounts are published and approved by Sai Baba's own press - even signed by him -. This can only add to the superstition about black magic which Sai Baba promotes. His promises to protect devotees from such powers are also a clever means of creating a strong dependency and thus underlying anxiety - for if one questions him on this, then the implication is that he may withdraw his protection due to lack of faith! This is a key to the 'guru trap'. Sathya Sai Baba is widely known to instil fear by various such subtle means in most of his followers, as anyone who knows many of them well can attest. |
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The police authorities do
not always take any action to protect persons persecuted for witchcraft.
This is shown by the petition (by |