SAI BABA FAKE 'DIAMONDS'
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Rings with green (and white) stones exactly like those Sathya Sai Baba pretends to 'materialize' are available in quantity on the internet, and at many indian jeweller shops. What Sathya Sai Baba pretends are 'green diamonds' (which, if genuine, would be literally worth a fortune each) are synthetic sapphires or even cheaper artificial gemstones. The synthetic gemstones are worn by many of the more prominent and 'favoured' Sai devotees, such as Dr. M Goldstein, Chairman of the International Sathya Sai Organization.

It seems likely that Sathya Sai Baba never gave anyone a genuine diamond? All proof is lacking,  which would be easy to obtain from any fully accredited diamond expert. Yet none has ever been forthcoming! When Queen Margarethe of Denmark’s personal jeweler, Mr. P. Hertz of Copenhagen, examined my supposed ‘green diamond ring’, he said he could not be entirely sure that the green gem (about 5-6 carats) was a fake unless he could open the 18 carat gold casing in which it was set so that the rear of the stone was concealed. When I allowed this, he found the stone to be a synthetic sapphire (originally worth about US $10 or so at the time in India – or perhaps even less, since such stones are now being advertised on the Internet for tiny sums). It’s brightness had been enhanced by a piece of greenish tinfoil behind the stone, protected by the rear casing. (The assay was photographed and also filmed in Copenhagen, see here) The tinfoil was arranged so that the appearance of a vague silhouette of a head would appear in the stone when seen from certain angles (as seen in the images above).  One can just about imagine it is Sai Baba’s fuzzy head. (However, devotees are experts at imagining he is everywhere and miraculously omnipresent etc. which influenced my mind for some time until I studied how it was a reproducible effect with the correct shading and light. (full account here) One giveaway that these alleged “diamonds” are not real is the wear and tear they mostly show after being worn for a few years. I saw this on the green gemstone of Mrs. Maynard Ferguson, which was scratched so much (from washing up, she said) that it was very dull. Those green stones which are synthetic sapphires are, however, very hard and are less prone to damage being somewhere near as hard as diamonds. Diamonds NEVER scratch (unless sometimes under much pressure by other diamonds), but they can chip and shatter if hit hard, and tiny bits can fracture off around the edges. (See documentation here).

  
Many important politicians, judges, famous sportsmen and – of course – Sai Baba VIPs and other devotees wear Sai Baba greenstone gems, eveidently in the belief that they are the genuine thing! Such persons include T.N. Seshan, former President of the Electoral Commission of India, Mr. Indulal Shah - former Chairman of the International Sathya Sai Organization. The present Chairman of the world-wide Sathya Sai Organization,  Dr. Michael Goldstein flaunts one, and also the eccentric devotee ‘schoolmaster’, Mr. Victor Kanu, who runs an authoritarian Sai school in Zambia. Such a ring  - almost identical to the one I wore here – is still worn all the time by a former friend Mr. Robert Bruce (who – since I informed him about the discovery about my ring, cut me off totally. This is how all believers behave, bar none… this is the expression of their much-vaunted ‘love for others’). When comparing our two green stones, Robert Bruce informed me that some Australian ‘expert’ on opals had said that these were worth about 5 or 6 million dollars each! Many Indian Ministers wear supposed “Sai Baba diamonds” - white or even ruby coloured sometimes. Interestingly, there is NOT A SINGLE DOCUMENT, reliable or otherwise, stating that any such stone is genuine. It may yet be that Sai Baba actually did give the occasional real diamond away to the very most important Indian leaders (for he could fear they might otherwise expose his fraudulence. Besides, he could easily afford it out of the massive donated funds he receives for 'helping the poor and suffering' which he mostly uses for quite other purposes!) 

Various angle shots of the 'fake diamond' Sai Baba gave to Robert Priddy in 1986 The stamped silver medallion (known to all as a 'Sai dollar') was given his wife.	Fake 'Green diamond' ring and other 'diamond' rings claimed as being 'materialised' by Sathya Bai Baba for Alaya Rahm.

BELOW IS A SCREEN CAPTURE OF ADVERTISMENTS FOR GREEN DIAMONDS ON E-BAY