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NEW V.K.N. on Sai Organization (1994 Brindavan) + Al Drucker's banishment Scan of directly recorded notes from my long Brindavan stay 1994 - about V.K. Narasimhan, his scepticism about the Sathya Sai Organisation plus news of the banishment that day by Sai Baba at interview of Alvin and Yaani Drucker for all Sai connections

NEW Isaac Tigrett, Sathya Sai Baba and the crystal skull The Sathya Sai worshipper, Isaac Tigrett, has - or had - from his guru-go a crystal skull which he believed could affect the very balance of the cosmos and much more besides... a good belly-laugh for the sane among us!

NEW Sathya Sai apologist J. Jegathesan and suicide A face-saving mail to devotees by J. Jegathesan about a son's suicide raises some fundamental and important questions about the relations between him, his son and Sai Baba.

NEW The fall and fantasies of Sai Baba supporter, Isaac Tigrett Isaac Tigrett, supporter of Sathya Sai Baba who believes is a sexual abuser, and who has acted more and more strangely in recent times, has taken up residence in the Puttaparthi ashram.

NEW Satya Sai’s Prashanthi Nilayam harassing Westerners Western visitors to Sai Baba's ashrams are experiencing that local and the national governments are causing hindrances to their visits through visa problems and other discouragements.

The suicide of Sathya Sai devotee Jegathesans' son - part 2 Malaysian ex-devotees of Sathya Sai Baba translated a newspaper article on the suicide of Jegathesan's son in Kuala Lumpur. This tragic incident inevitable raises questions as to the possible reasons behind such a disasterous family life (the boy's mother had died some years earlier) and why Sai Baba gave no help whatever.

Sai promoter, Malaysian cover-up man, J. Jegathesan On Jegathesan's attempts to get Sai followers to 'plug their ears' to avoid learning any facts about Sai Baba's many deceits, false claims and prophesies or his numerous alleged crimes.

The Sathya Sai Organization's basic systematic deceits Playing down Sathya Sai Baba's gigantic claims to be God the Father and Creator of the Universe etc., the Sathya Sai Org. tries to cover up very basic facts, also concerning the alleged sex abuses and criminal involvement of their Lord and master

Dr.G. Venkataraman - physicist 'explains' Sathya Sai Baba Dr. G. Venkataraman rambles on denigrating scientists and science and promoting Sathya Sai Baba - as God descended to earth - and his most spurious speculations ('teachings') about an invisible beyond.

G. Venkataraman's out-dated and fallacious ideas - part two
Propagating Sai Baba's anti-scientific views, Dr. G. Venkataraman - former physicist - attacks science and scientists in general for the usual sins that religionists hold them to be committing. These I refute at some length, as called for.


Sathya Sai official Jegathesan's son's suicide - part 1 One of the sons of long-term Sathya Sai official and devotee J. Jegathesan jumped from a 5-storey building to his death, though he was a 'favourite' of Sathya Sai Baba. Read the pathetic account circulated by Jegadeeshan.

Deluded believer in Sathya Sai Baba - Datuk J. Jegathesan Excerpts on mediums, healers, deities and trances from 'The Fourth Dimension' by Jegathesan shown and commented on.

Datuk J. Jegathesan - on Sathya Sai Baba Miracles Self-Delusions in the Malaysian Sathya Sai community as promoted by J, Jegathesan, staunchly blind
Sathya Sai Baba supporter and believer in mediums, spirits, ghosts and the 4th dimension

Sathya Sai Baba’s broad lunatic fringe The lunatic fringe around Sathya Sai Baba is very considerable, as all long-term office-bearers know very well. Some examples are pathetic, some amusing too.

David Bailey's 'The Findings' its consequences The chief whistle-blower on Sathya Sai Baba's deceptions and sex abuses in recent times was David Bailey with 'TheFindings' - which began a flood of testimonies, allegations and exposures of the deceits and frauds of this 'world avatar'.

Murder and repentence at Prashanthi Nilayam
Among the numerous reported murders at Sathya Sai Baba's ashrams through the decades, few are as remarkable as that perpetrated on Sai Baba's personally chosen gatekeeper Kumar. It is of the stuff of which horror films can be made.

IAS official and Sai devotee V. Ramnath libels Robert Priddy Despite his having been a lifelong official of the Indian Administrative Service, Mr. V. Ramnath attacks me - also using vile language - for having rejected his Lord and Master, Sathya Sai Baba, as a deceiver and abuser of faith and more besides. His diatribes demonstrate the ignorant superstition of many a Sai devotee.

Sathya Sai Baba Ashram Notebooks of Robert Priddy Scans of the notes made in situ providing an authentic resource for scholars and other serious students of the exposure of Sathya Sai Baba.

V.K. Narasimhan's doubts of Sai Baba's powers, avatar claims etc. Record of notes (scanned) made directly after long conversations between VKN and the Priddys in 1996

V. Ramnath on Mr. M.K. Kaw, Secretary of Civil Aviation Report of an IAS official, Mr. V. Ramnath, to the Priddys about the Sai devotee Mr. M.K. Kaw, who built and donated (on behalf og the Indian Government) the jumbo-capacity airport to Sathya Sai Baba - both now being white elephants.

Has Sathya Sai Baba Moved An Inch To Clean Up His Yard? The ailing Sathya Sai Baba has long said that he will first clean up his own ‘backyard’, India, before regenerating the whole of mankind prior to his death around 2022. Enough said!

Sathya Sai Baba Continues To Ail Reports keep coming of him exhibiting quite senile behavior, and his minders making - sometimes very absurdist - efforts to cover up for his debility.

Account of experiences with and relating to Sathya Sai Baba Barry Pittard's account of his disillusionment with Sathya Sai Baba - the process of reconsideration it started and subsequent developments

Prostitution in Puttaparthi at clinic run by Dr. Samba Shiva Rao, one of Sai Baba prominent veranda guests and a Sai Baba servitor. Account posted by a former follower of Sathya Sai Bab about how he was subtly solicited for sexual services at the said clinic.

‘World Hindu’ by 2030. VHP’s Singhal Reports Sathya Sai Baba Told Him A major Indian leader has just shared publicly a prophecy he says Sai Baba shared with him. Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists and a thousand competing sects may take note!

Sathya Sai Baba's Greatest Achievements Looking at the track record of Sathya Sai Baba's social achievements, one sees that it falls very far below what he has promised since the 1960s for India and the world. The works - all done by followers (not by Sathya Sai baba himself, of course) are subject to many of the failures, faults and corruptions of many Indian social undertakings.

Overwhelming evidence and disillusion over Sathya Sai Baba More circumstantial evidence to add to the already overwhelming evidence of Sathya Sai Baba's alleged serial sexual molestations.

The World’s ‘Small’ and Forgotten Peoples Apart from constant preaching that he will lead a spiritual revolution unparalled in mankind’s history, Sathya Sai Baba's impact on thinkers in the sciences, economics, politics, and so forth is microscopic, while his much flaunted projects in India and elsewhere are on a relatively vanishing scale in world terms.

When Disasters Overtake S. Sai Baba’s Promises Given Sathya Sai Baba's failed promises to stay in perfect health and looking young, how can any reliance be put in his promises of 1. First saving India and 2. Saving the rest of the world - and all this within the span of his own lifetime?

Sathya Sai Baba descended to ’save India’ Despite his predictions of cleaning up India's problems, the poor suffer just as ever. The prominent Editor of Tehelka, S. Thakur, expert on Bihar's 100 millions, points out that the poor have not received any trickle-down benefit from India's recent boom.

Sai Baba says his close servants live for 100 years However the very closest long-term attendants including his official biographer, Prof. N. Kasturi, his editor of his journal V.K. Narasimhan, Kutumba Rao, his pujari Padmanabha Shastri, Kanhaia Jee, and many another died well before reaching 100 years.

Sathya Sai Baba's untruths about his never-failing perfect health He claims always to have total perfect health and freedom from illness, but numerous facts belie his claims, even his own words do.

Human Rights World Report 2008. India In Sore Shape World report 2008 in marked conflict with Sathya Sai Baba’s promises made over many decades. He has said that he would first "save" India and then the rest of the world - this within his own lifetime.

Michael Goldstein's chilling remarks Goldstein states that no Sai baba devotees were victims of the 9/11 World Trade Centre terrorist attack. He claims "His Miraculous Intervention on behalf of His devotees is clearly evident… They were either late or never arrived…"

Sathya Sai Baba and India in-depth study Many issues covered, such as India's profound levels of corruption and superstition, other issues that thinking Indians have great concern about like the appalling record in human rights, casteism, endemic corruption, attitudes towards women etc.

Sathya Sai Baba - Proof of the pudding Does Sai Baba ever lift a finger to look after his food, clothing, rooms, cars or anything? Yet he claims he receives NO service whatever from anyone! Further he says he has always respected everyone - but he has attacked his critics with base lies and demonised them. He claims the whole world respects him, but which of his critics do? And how can billions who have never heard of him respect him?

‘World Avatar’ Sathya Sai Baba’s Troubled Trail The eyes of faith are blind to the absurdities - or, if the oddities are pointed out to his believers, they will justify them in one way or another - for example, by citing his oft-stated saying “Love Me for My mystery”. The Procrustean bed works by both breadth and width.

Sathya Sai Lies - part one
A new series documenting and commenting on lies and untruths told in his writings and/or discourses by Sathya Sai Baba, who alleges he always speaks only truth and is omniscient as to past, present and future! He has no money or properties - but then he speaks of giving money himself! He does not publicise himself, but he does so on a huge scale constantly. He claimed his critics take money to defame him, but none are known or shown to have every accepted money from anywhere.

Sathya Sai Baba Says He Dislikes Pomp One of the world's most avid consumers of pomp and circumstance, golden thrones, sumptuous apartments - seen in countless photos on the Internet - claims he does not like it, but he either sets all of it in motions himself, or gives his blessing to such suggestions by others.

Miracle of the two Sai Babas How a gullible man from Australia thought he had experienced a miracle, and how this imaginary 'miracle' convinced another that Sathya Sai Baba is the Godhead he claims to be

Sathya Sai Baba vs. Richard Dawkins The standpoints of Sathya Sai Baba and the world-famous genius of genetics and biological evolution could hardly be more opposed. The essence of this difference is shown here.

Conversations with Rita and Robert Bruce - Joy Thomas' trials at Prashanthi Nilayam and more

Russia's war on Georgia and Sathya Sai's predictions In 2002, Sathya Sai Baba was recorded in a group interview as saying that all war would be at an end on earth by 2007, and that the Golden Age would begin then. The war between Russia and Georgia alone is more than enough proof of the fraudulence of his prophesy.

Smear Campaign against critics of Sathya Sai Baba Robert Priddy comments on attacks on critics of Sathya Sai Baba by internet libellers, a shameless copyright infringer and dirty trick exponent who use character assassination in the attempt to divert attention from the countless allegations of deceptions and crimes by Sathya Sai Baba.

Blind persons who seek cure from Sathya Sai Baba Reports circulated for decades that Sathya Sai Baba cures blindness have caused countless blind persons to travel to India hoping for a cure. V.K. Narasimhan, who was privy to everything in the ashrams while he lieved there for 1980 till 1998 told me that he had never seen anyone get a cure, nor met a blind person who had been cured by Sathya Sai Baba. He went blind in one eye himself, despite taking an operation on Sai Baba's advice and having 'holy ash' applied to his eye by this bogus Lord of Creation.

Prayers to 'Bhagavan' Sathya Sai Baba Driven by naive belief, Sai followers unthinkingly accept trivial everyday incidents as miracles just because they accept the false belief that Sathya Sai Baba causes everything that happens. They pray to him for advancement, peace in their families and to help them pass exams. Some hopes!

Experiences of Sathya Sai Baba devotees Simple people report miracles based on the simplest events, and - because they want to believe that they are protected in every detail of their lives by Sathya Sai Baba.

Concerning an Indian Administrative Service Officer, V. Ramnath Refutation with relevant details of a personal attack by V. Ramnath, an officer of the IAS who first warned me of covered-up facts about the 1993 murders in Sathya Sai Baba's bedroom.

CNN-IBN Reports Action On Corrupt Indian Gurus CNN-IBN carries a report by Sanal Edamaruku summarising some recent cases of sex abuse and other crimes by Indian swamis and gurus.

Visiting Sathya Sai Baba ashrams (photos) Information for visitors to Sathya Sai Baba's ashrams - facts that one cannot find out except by hard experience because the ashrams are always written about in most glowing and gushing terms - a self-censorship all devotees impose on themselves (so as not to be banned)

Avatars: Rama and Krishna reborn as Sathya Sai Baba? The Ramayana tells stories of deities and demons, and Sathya Sai Baba preaches that the stories about Rama are true - despite their fabulous and litersally incredible nature! He claims to be the reincarnation of both Rama and Krishna, as do so many other gurus.

Sathya Sai Baba identified with man-lion Narasimha As if to convince villagers of his nature as an 'avatar', young Sai Baba reportedly appeared most convincingly as if he were a lion-man (like the avatar Narasimha). He has also put on raging countenances to correct or cow his servitors, and a strong element of fear is evident in those close to him.

‘God’s’ Ex-Shah, Indulal Shah In The Hindu, June 10, 1993, it was reported: “When press persons met Mr. Indulal Shah, chief functionary of the Sri Sathya Sai World Trust, he said, ‘the matter is purely internal and we do not wish to have any law enforcement agency investigating into it.’”

Sathya Sai confirmed ten avatars Though claiming to be The Universal teacher of this Age, Sathya Sai Baba preaches the Hindu belief in God incarnating in human form. This is totally contrary to Islam, which admits of no representations or embodiments of Allah, and also to Christians, for whom only Jesus is a Divine personage, the Son of God - not God as such?

The BBC and the 1993 murders The notorious murders in Sathya Sai Baba's bedroom and the criminal investigations that were quashed and covered up at the highest level of government will not go away.

Undisputsable facts about Sathya Sai Baba by BBC The chief facts of importance in exposing the deception and fraud by Sathya Sai Baba by the BBC in the documentary 'The Secret Swami' are listed and explained, with links to all relevant transcripts and documentation.

Sai Baba miracles Are miracles - such as the Shirdi Sai Baba statuette in Bangalore which supposedly opened an eye - what they seem. Is belief in miracles anything more than belief? How do they improve the world or the person who believes in them to solve the real problems faced?

Sathya Sai Baba Educare teaching The oft-repeated supreme aim of Sathya Sai Baba's "spiritual teaching" is to cause the mind to die! Literally, erasing all sensory impressions and knowledge of the world in favour of a supposed omniscient understanding of the entire universe. This idea is behind attempts to attract followers to Sai aba through child and youth 'human values' education or so-called 'Educare'.

The Two Sai Baba’s and Miracles. (Intro) Miracles and supraphenomena are commonly reported around the globe in connections both with religions or without. What we take for granted are the vast achievements of human beings without miracles, which far outshine apparent so-called 'miracles', none of which have been scientifically controlled or validated.

Legalistic Abuse: Catholic Church And Sathya Sai Organization The Pope's recent apology about sexual abuses in the Catholic Church while visiting Australia has not been matched by Sathya Sai Baba... who is most widely accused of sexual abuses of young males.

Unique Shirdi Sai photo - privately owned At an orphanage in Sri Ranga Patna, near Mysore, a man called Halagappa has a photo of Shirdi Sai Baba which is apparently unique (i.e not available in public). He attributes the phenomena of ash and nectar are miracles granted by Sai Baba, but there are many good reasons for doubting them.

Sathya Sai Baba as the Vedic Trinity: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva The excessive claims of Sathya Sai Baba are without any bounds whatever. He says he is all Deities rolled into one, the Father who sent Jesus, God Incarnate, Shiva and Shakti in full manifestation and much more.

Miracles vs. Magic - Sathya Sai Baba Vir Sanghvi, a leading modern journalist in India, challenges Sathya Sai Baba miracles and his devotees denials of the overwhelming sex abuse allegations against him.

International awards and Sathya Sai Baba Sathya Sai Baba has received no International awards, but his devotees in the Indian Government submitted his name to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. However, his track record is so soiled in so many ways - and is so well publicised - that his chances for that are nil.

Sai Baba's Mission to Save India Despite having promised long since to clean up India - before saving all humanity, Sai Baba is still worshipped by India's top politicians, though India is still a land of major calamities! AIDS is but one of the huge problems Sathya Sai baba has never addressed.

Sai Baba's health - miracle or self-sacrifice? The second hip fracture Sai Baba suffered (in 2003) was operated but caused him to be stuck to a wheelchair for the remainder of his days. Untruths flourished so as not to lose followers and to cover-up the scandal: that the omnipotent avatar could not heal himself.

Sathya Sai miracle of transformation of India? Sai Baba has long promised to clean up India and solve its sufferings and problems before he dioes likewise for the whole world. He has not long to live, but India is still suffering the direst of calamities, among which are AIDS, extreme poverty, killings and violence for racial, religious, sexual and physical abuse of children etc.

Self-documented Folly of India’s Would-be God Huge discrepancies - true schoolboy howlers with colossal historical/religious error - are found in the "Omniscient" Sathya Sai Baba's published discourses. This is a man of many "stories" indeed!

Sathya Sai Baba teaching on sexuality Total abstension from sex by all unmarried persons is Sai Baba's requirement. Minimum sex in marriage is advised.
Otherwise, this self-proclaimed Universal Teacher has nothing to say about sexuality - a fundamental human drive which raises countless social and moral issues. Homosexuality and AIDS are totally taboo subjects for what must be obvious reasons (to non-believers).

Sathya Sai Baba Bans But Permits Foot Touching in 2001, Sathya Sai Baba said that his practise of 60 years, of offering what he deems to be his Holy Feet to be touched or kissed, should stop. Because it causes a sense of distance between man and God (i.e. him!)

Sai Baba promised Rs. 100,000 to orphan parents Sathya Sai Baba was amazed to hear that an Indian mother took her own life because she could not support her child. Where has he been all along? In ashrams like Prashanthi Nilayam (Home of Cloud Cuckoos), protected from the real world and living without a care, well provided for and insulated from ordinary people, surrounded by yea-savers. Did he hand any money out? Who could ever tell!

Shirdi Sai Baba's name hi-jacked by Sathya There is research showing the difference in values and teachings between Shirdi Sai Baba and that of Sathya Sai Baba, who has usurped his name and to do so made unfounded claims that Shirdi Sai predicted he would be reborn as Sathya. This is rejected by the main Shirdi Sai Sanasthan.

Sathya Sai Baba's foreknowledge of events? How did Sathya Sai Baba know in advance, as he has stated in a public discourse he did, of the coming murders of six persons in his own bedroom? An overview of the infamous 1993 incident where four devotees were murdered in cold blood in his bedroom by a blackmailed Puttaparthi police.

Sathya Sai Baba as ‘The Divine Mother’ Shocking evidence in a hagiography by a life-long devotee of Sathya Sathya Sai Baba on his draconian punishment of her son while a baby boy - relentless, frequent beatings!

Sathya Sai Baba Bans But Permits Foot Touching After 60 years of offering his supposed 'holy feet' to be touched and kissed, Sathya Sai baba realised that it cause a sense of seperation between himself and others! So he banned it, but still permitted it to happen despite that. Typical of his complete disunity of word and action!

Undiscovered Photo of Shirdi Sai Baba Interesting photo of the so-called 'saint of Shirdi' has surfaced. Shirdi Sai Baba must not be identified with Sathya Sai Baba, who has with some success usurped his name and fame by taking the name Sai Baba.

Sai Baba's miraculous omnipresence? A Sathya Sai devotee's experience of a miracle of omnipresence by Sathya Sai Baba is easily explained. Some 'cold reading' was probably involved, which is demonstrated superbly by the UK illusionist Derren Brown.

After Leaving A Cult. Or ‘Moving On’ Barry Pittard considers the psychological questions raised by those who become disafected of a guru or leave a cult. Where these people are non-selfish voluntary workers, they are inclined to find new outlets for their services, sometimes in other spiritual organizations, sometimes not.

Sai Baba promised vast miracle soon There is not so long left for Sathya Sai Baba - at age 82 - to perform his greatest miracles as promised - that is, to life an entire mountain range and to fly through the sky unaided.

Global disaster predicted - or not? Among the many rumours Sai Baba starts in interviews (demanding it be kept private) are numerous predictions of a coming global disaster. Despite his cautions, he surely knew that many would spread the information - and he had reports of it spreading. yet he waited over a decade before having to refute this - in the best known prophesy case.

Sathya Sai Baba World Cult At Odds With Itself The erosion of the Sathya Sai Baba cult from within - the sigs of the inevitable decline of its influence and some reason for this.

Sathya Sai Baba miraculously 'shows' 10 avatars Fabulous, unconfirmable stories are related as sheer fact by Sai Baba biographers Prof. N. Kasturi and Ra. Ganapati. Sathya Sai Baba - himself claiming to be an avatar, is claimed to have shown all the former Indian avatars to people in visions and 'illusions'.


Professor Anil Kumar, Sathya Sai Baba's 'left-hand' man Sathya Sai Baba sets the strictest moral standards as regards sexuality - no sex outside marriage, chastity while unmarried, minimum sex even within marriage. Yet he has a philanderer as one of his closest servitors and his interpreter, Professor Anil Kumar!

Sai Baba seen in ritual fire (photo) An example of a supposed 'miraculous manifestation' of Sathya Sai Baba in the ritual fire (homa) to which offerings to the gods are made by Hindu devotees. It requires imagination and belief to see it as anything special!

‘Secret Swami’ Cult Recruits At Prime Public Venues So as to recruit new followers and members, big money is spent on promotion at expensive venues. This sect that Sai Baba promised would cover the universe, however, has not made noticeable progress since he was exposed.

Believing in Sai (photo) and spiritual growth Sathya Sai Baba's claimed omniscience makes some followers lose all sense and reason in favour of faith in him. But simple explantions lie behind many - if not all - of his supposed 'miracles'

A Strong India Can Bless The World Barry Pittard on Mahatma Gandhi - India's greatest inspirational leader

Shirdi Sai Saint’s Fame Spirited By Puttaparthi The hi-jacking of the revered saint of Shirdi's name - Sai Baba - by Sathya Narayana Raju of Puttaparthi has been questioned widely, such as by the scholar Marianne Warren.

Sathya Sai Baba - amazing sun miracle photographed? Sathya Sai Baba is presented in a photograph as holding the sun in a space between his two hands. A close look shows that some kind of double exposure is involved, such as is possible with almost any normal graphic editing software.

Sathya Sai Baba as 'Divine Mother - photos Sathya Sai Baba has a long history of cross-dressing, not least wearing saris, and even today wears a more female -looking attire than male clothes. The many sexual allegations against him indicate that this is not a coincidence.

 Shirdi Sai Saint’s Fame Spirited By Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Baba - originally called Sathya Narayana Raju - usurped the name of the famous saint of Shirdi, Sai Baba, when he was 17 years old. The hi-jacking of a revered saint of Shirdi has been questioned widely, such as by the scholar Marianne Warren.

Outright defenders of sexual abuse by Sathya Sai Baba Abject rationalisations by Sai devotees of crude sexual abuses they attribute to Sathya Sai Baba. These defenders of sexual abuse have had pages on-line for years, but the Sathya Sai Organization has not commented, but their pages are circulated within the Sai movement.

Ex-king Gyanendra of Nepal & Sathya Sai Baba Two different persons are worshipped as the Incarnation of Lord Vishnu... ex-king Gyanendra of Nepal and Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi. Both are suspect, both have powerful accusations against them. The former murdered King of Nepal - himself seen as Lord Vishnu - and his Queen are said to have worshipped Sai Baba.

Sathya Sai water projects The projects to bring water to deprived areas and to Chennai were financed by Sai Baba followers worldwide. Though fruitful, much waste, corruption and unpredicted developments occurred, which it is now taboo to mention in the Sai movement, or even in the Indian press.

Miracle story - Sathya Sai Baba Sathya Sai Baba is credited with a miraculous healing of his fractured leg - yet all the indications are that there was not fracture - even his own statement to that effect! Professor Anil Kumar - his interpreter and true believing blind follower relates the old story yet again.

Sathya Sai Baba Miracles - with photos As with many of the amazing Sathya Sai Baba miracle stories, they do not stand up to the slightest independen investigation. Not only has not one of them been tested and found genuine by any independent scientists, but fraud has frequently also been shown to be involved, as in the rescue of an airplace over the Atlantic ocean.

How many million Sai devotees? Why the unreasonable fixation on grossly exaggerated numbers of adherents of Sathya Sai Baba? It proves nothing whatever as to goodness or truth - but is largely the result of indoctrination and entrapment through hearsay, clever propaganda and other techniques.

Sai Baba's self-glorification and his disparagement of others On Christmas Day, 2000, Sathya Sai Baba angrily denounced his critics with abuse and lies, while congratulating himself on his own achievements

The Sai Cult Trumps At Law, but is just a ‘Bookshop’ The Alaya Rahm case was wirhdrawn due to a legal technicality, there was no body in the US to sue, and Sathya Sai Baba could not be sued outside India, where he has government and Supreme Court protection.

Sathya Sai Organization damage-limitation after BBC exposure Organized attempts to done down the presentation of Sathya Sai Baba's miracles and excessive claims. Also, after the BBC documentary 'The Secret Swami', Dr. Goldstein set about strict controls of what members of the organization could tell the media (see his instructions).

BBC Hidden Camera in ‘Secret Swami’. Ethical? In 'The Secret Swami' the team had to film with a hidden camera to get the elusive chairman of a world organization, Dr Michael Goldstein of Covena, California, to face grave questions. This exposed his true nature as anything but sweet and softly spoken.

Deception against Sathya Sai Baba Sathya Sai Baba was roundly deceived by a Swedish imposter, Dr. Michael Nobel. Both his vaunted 'omniscience' and any plain common sense he has left failed when Sathya Sai Baba proudly announced how his own majesty had attracted Dr. Nobel, a far relative of Alfred (who was later denounced officially for announcing he would award four new Nobel Prizes). But Sai Baba did not realise with whom he was dealing - and employing

Sathya Sai Baba lack of awards
In hope of getting prestigious international award, Sai Baba and/or his officials jumped the gun. He has received no important awards so far, nor does he stand a chance, it appears, neither for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize, nor yet an Asturias Award.

Sathya Sai Baba as Nobel Peace Prize Candidate Sathya Sai Baba got excited by the visit of Dr. Michael Nobel (the great grandnephew of Alfred Nobel), thinking he might help get the Nobel Peace Prize for him. However, the Swedish Nobel Foundation complained of Dr. M. Nobel's attempts at meddling in the Nobel awards and threatened legal action.

Sathya Sai Baba official website deceit exposed In an attempt to deceive followers, the Sathya Sai authorities reposted an article in an archive on their official website - an entry which they were earlier Having been forced by the Duke of Edinburgh's representatives to remove bogus claims of a Duke of Edinburgh award to Sathya Sai Baba from their official website, the Sathya Sai authorities waited and sneakily reposted the article in an archive on their official website. Such attempts to cover up serious (and laughable) errors and wilfully deceive followers and visitors to their sites are not uncommon. No debate or comment which is not 100% positive is ever allowed on any official website or document.

Study of ideas of eternal, unconditional, selfless love How the idea of love is 'sublimated' to an otherworldly realm and become anti-life and a subtle means to manipulate and control people both by secular interests and even more so by religions and cults.

Recorded talk with V. K.Narasimhan during 70th birthday of Sai Baba VKN's view on numbers attending (FAR below Sai Baba's estimates) and on his having to edit out Sai errors from the journal, plus Sai Baba's private directions to Central Coordinators concerning the organization and the price of rooms for delegates to his conference, who were originally invited for free logding etc.

Sai Baba's teachings and education in academic isolation Through political clout, Sathya Sai Baba got his Institute of Higher Learning recognised as an University. However, the whole social and academic environment is based more on fixed values and indoctrination than any kind of educational research or dialogue, being a law unto itself isolated from the world community of open debate.

The Dalai Lama and Sathya Sai Baba Systematic comparison of the personalities of the 14th Dalai Lama and the Indian supposed God-guru Sathya Sai Baba, examining their circumstances and behaviour, their personal qualities and public relations. Further, the facts are summarised in sixteen brief questions on my blog here.

Joseph. Early Sathya Sai Baba Whistle blower When devotees of Sathya Sai Baba finally bite the bullet and understand that the sex abuse allegations are true, they begin to recall incidents which shocked them at the time but which their powerful faith enabled them to rationalise or even simply push aside. Such is the case of Joseph, who Barry knew - a very shocking treatment by Sai Baba's 'Seva Dal' acting as true goondas to suppress a whistleblower.

Inescapable and undeniable recorded facts in the documentary by the BBC Though there are some small inaccuracies in the 1 hour film (which one fanatical, obsessive defender of Sai Baba - even while believing him to be a sexual abuser - disingenuously claims are major flaws!), they are of absolutely minimal importance compared to the overriding facts that are simply recorded for all to see and hear.

Conny Larsson is interviewed in 'Cyprus Today' He is a best-selling author in Sweden and tells about sex abuse by Sathya Sai Baba, and about his new book about to be published 'Flower Power,The Beatles, Maharishi and I''. See also Conny Larsson interviewed in 'Cyprus Times' where he recounted his extraordinary life story in brief.

NEW Sathya Sai Baba: Questionable Stories and Claims. Part 2 Blatantly incorrect, capricious, misleading, based on erroneous beliefs and unfettered imagination are some of the characteristics of the stories told by Sathya Sai Baba as if they were factual truth.

Sai Baba Researchers’ Huge Debt To Scholar Brian D. Steel By winnowing this enormous mass of varied documentation currently available about the guru Sathya Sai Baba, his 60-year spiritual Mission and his organisation, the former follower and author of a major Sai Baba bibliography - Brian Steel - makes it possible for anyone more readily able to separate fact from fantasy and research from propaganda in the interests of a fair evaluation of the complex Sathya Sai Baba story.

The Sathya Sai Organization’s Damage-limitation efforts Documentation of the Sathya Sai Organization's disingenuous efforts to hide the most megalomaniacal proclamations of their 'Divine Lord Incarnate' and to spin his profile for the consumption of more educated people.

The Dark Underside of some prominent Hindu gurus Bogus gurus or swamis are many in India today. Though bringing them to justice is hindered by police and judicial corruption in India (as reported by The Times - see below), not all gurus are criminals, sex abusers or involved in murder. However, more and more are being charged and convicted by some Indian authorities. See also The Indian Guru Issue On India Interacts

‘The Times’ reports on gurus, sex, money, power In the last two decades, many Indian gurus have been convicted of murders,
sex abuses, embezzlement, swindle, bogus healings and fraudulent 'miracles'. The Times reported on the latest example of this tendency, in Kerala.

Sathya Sai Baba: Questionable Stories and Claims. Part 2
Examination finding inaccurate, misleading or confusing information and blatantly incorrect facts on a variety of subjects including his biography, religion and science, and named individuals

Supercool Indian Gurus Under Fire
Looks at some of the super gurus who have come under serious attack for crimes, are indicted or are already imprisoned.

Sai Baba - mankind to blame for every natural disaster
Blaming natural disasters on scientists who explore nature to increase their own "unrestricted enjoyment", Sathya Sai Baba makes himself a laughing stock - an ignoramus who claims to know everything without exception.

Burma cyclone and China earthquake - Sai Baba's views
Top Indian politicians - PMs and Presidents - worship Sai Baba, who claims ALL natural catastrophes are caused by the bad conduct of mankind (cyclones, earthquakes and tsunamis!) How can they even remotely quietly condone such ignorance and religious superstition?

Sai Baba World Cult Leaders Fail To Meet Concerns on Libel The Sathya Sai Organization singularly failed, year after year, to meet deep concerns of many former devotees and equally failed to act on a recent open letter to the Prashanthi Council about their condoning libel and character asassination on a large scale.

Dangers to the lives of critics of Sathya Sai Baba Murders, murder attempts, burglaries and criminal sabotage have been used against critics of Sathya Sai Baba. The unaccountable Sathya Sai institutions and organization do not even condemn these clandestine methods by those who defend them.

Tehelka.com on Godmen in Andhra Pradesh The Indian website Tehelka-com published an article about sex abuse remarks on the similaries between various Andhra Pradesh godmen and how they are protected from prosecution, not least Sathya Sai Baba.

Photos of Sathya Sai Baba - Shirdi Sai Baba
Comparison of well-known photographs of Shirdi Sai Baba and Sathya Narayana Raju (who took the name Sathya Sai Baba) give a graphic comparison of the genuineness of their practise of personal renunciation.

Photo of Sai Baba materializing "diamond ring" and vibuti production
Showing the process in detail and examining the evidence

Information on Sai's prediction of his death by Ratan Lal, and other incidents

Sathya Sai Baba: Questionable Stories and Claims, by Brian Steel. Part 1 Ignoring all this familiar belief-centred information, concentrate on valuable insights into SSB’s self presentation to his devotees and the world, mainly in the 35 volumes of his translated and edited Telugu Discourses (Sathya Sai Speaks), published and widely marketed amongst devotees by the Sathya Sai Organization over the past 50 years. You may be surprised...

Sai Baba on wise and mad monkey minds
Sathya Sai Baba picks on interviewees to say they have worse than 'monkey' minds, but 'mad monkey minds'. He wants no one to see, hear or speak anything bad ("evil") about anyone or anything, but really he means about himself (he speaks ill of others himself)! All this is part of his cover-up activity.

The Goa murder case cover-up, and similar events concerning Sathya Sai Baba
The Goa murder case is still unsolved due to protection by police authorities of a top person - which is a known proven failing in various states of India, not least Andhra Pradesh where Sathya Sai Baba escapes prosecution due to top level protection.

Lunatic Devotee claims he is Prema Sai
Another amusing farce around Sathya Sai Baba - the premature birth of his next incarnation, so-called Prema Sai Baba, in the form of a divine Internet surfer!

Sathya Sai Baba’s Unique Avatarhood Hi-jacked
Having proclaimed himself the only 'full' (i.e. 'poorna') avatar of this Iron Age of Kali, Sathya Sai Baba is now claimed to have blessed a book by a woman who claims to be the Shakthi half of the poorna avatar! These absurd and megalomaniac claims are making Indian leaders who worship the 'Sai avatar' yet more of a laughing stock than ever.

More sexual abuse evidence against Sathya Sai Baba
Yet another reliable witness tells of a warning he received about Sathya Sai Baba from Swami Muktananda after adjudicating in a case where two of his young boy disciples were sexually abused by Sathya Sai Baba! Yet another instance is also reported.

Dr. Jack Hawley - defender of the indefensible, business consultant turned religious cult indoctrinator
Writer of pseudo-management, pseudo-religious tracts whose dealings with the truth leave a lot to be desired

Scan from the Indian Skeptic 15-03-2008. The notorious kidney theft carried out at Sathya Sai Baba's 'Super-specialty' Hospital in Puttaparthi is evidently being suppressed by the Andhra Pradesh judiciary, which has many Sai Baba devotees.
Kidney thefy at Sathya Sai Hospital

The British Press on the BBC’s ‘The Secret Swami’ film
Few documentaries that the BBC has commissioned in recent years have received such unanimous praise from commentators in the British media as 'The Secret Swami' - exposing the sexual abuses and other deceptions Sathya Sai Baba has visited upon his followers.

Evidence of a mendacious activist on the Internet
Links to pages showing how a pro-Sai activist working full time to defend the Sathya Sai Organization and Sai Baba through character assassination of all his many critics, including many alleging victims of Sathya Sai Baba's sexual abuse and independent commentators

LINGAM EMERGENCES AT SHIVARATHRI -'THE LINGODBHAVA'
Summary of the supposed significance of the lingodbhava and an examination of evidence, with video clips

SAI'S PROMISES OF ETERNAL LIBERATION
Not least to those who saw lingams emerge from his mouth at Shivarathri. However, Sathya Sai Baba promised Dr. John Hislop, his leader of the Sathya Sai Organization in the USA for decades, that he would attain 'liberation' from the wheel of life. Years later he told him to his dismay that he has to be reborn again. This is but one example of Sai baba's broken promises.

V.P.B. Nair. B.Premanand. R.Priddy: Sai Baba Bedroom Killings
Media, institutional, academic and other third party investigators are being made aware of the sheer extent of the evidence of criminal cover up by successive Indian governments over the years of the Puttaparthi police killings in Sathya Sai Baba’s bedroom

Banking on Heaven - the sectarian snare
The promise of heaven (salvation, liberation etc.) is so powerful as to blind followers to moral values, especially those who are tired of life and hope for a better world in the afterlife!. There are many similarities between the Warren Steed Jeffs polygamous cult and the Sathya Sai Baba sect, such as alleged sexual crimes by the figureheads, indoctrination, male chauvinism and more.

Will India clean up its Augean police and political stables
The Indian police and government's attempts to quash the murder of Scarlett MacKeown sends the same signal long observed, cover-ups to the highest levels in India, none more successful - and yet notoriously damaging - than that of the found young men executed by police in Sai Baba's bedroom.


The Sai Organization’s ritual ‘interaction’ revealed
In an attempt to create the illusion that the Sathya Sai Organization listens to its members and replies, a bogus 'interactive panel' demonstrates in its selectivity and non-answering techniques how cultist it really is.

Cult Exposure. By Their Documents Ye Shall Know Them
Barry Pittard's explanation on how the whole notion of interaction among Sai Baba followers in his organization can be seen as false by any reader not enmeshed by cultic (non-) thinking.

Personal libel as an attempt to avert serious criticism
To avert attention from the grave facts about Sathya Sai Baba and his Organization, its supporters saturate the Internet with attacks on critics, attempted character assassination on a large scale, web pages and blogs full of purposive side issues, nitpicking details and false statements galore of a very libelous nature.

Famous editor confronted Sathya Sai Baba
One of Sai Baba's closest contacts with the 'outside world' of India - famed chief editor V.K. Narasimhan, contradicted him over advaitic teaching (among other things). Having died in 2000, Narasimhan left Sai Baba without a single realistic corrective to his excesses of ignorance and ill-judgement.

Earlier postings:

Catholic priest unfrocked for Sai Baba worship
Sai devotees spread false prophesies about Sai Baba and the Pope
More prophetic propaganda to bolster Sai Baba - misusing Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus


Moon lunacy: hundreds see Sai Baba appear on the face of the moon


Robert Priddy's many former contributions to the Sai journal Sanathana Sarathi
For the sake of completeness, the text of many articles and scans of relevant content pages are given

Sai Baba's and what V..K. Narasimhan really thought about him, the murders, the ashram etc.
A new series of scans of my diary/notebook pages from the past documenting what I was told by V.K.Narasimhan and others see here
Sai Baba on reality and the spiritual search
How he supposedly reflects as a cosmic mirror, and HENCE how we only can know a reflection of our own selves, but never him as he is. The ultimate Divine Conspiracy to deceive us all!

The dangers of global or religious cults On indicators of cultism of various degrees and ranking cults
Why the Sathya Sai Organization is a cult
Complete point-by-point refutation of Sai hagiographer
Rita Bruce's claims that it is not a cult and more on her mistaken beliefs
Blind Belief in Sai Baba causes human injustices
The continued covering-up of all sufferings, untoward incidents, suicides, missing persons, and murders at Sai Baba ashrams by all official and foreign office-bearers in the Sai Organization causes many injustices against which victims are powerless.
Prophesy about Sai Baba both bogus and failed

Sai Baba is heralded as becoming King of the World for the last 20 years of his life, which is allegedly from 2000 to 2020! This bogus prophesy is STILL trumpeted around by believers in his Divinity.
The international tennis show
at Puttaparthi botched by Sai Baba
The match between India and the Philippines at the Puttaparthi Tennis Stadium early in January was aborted after crowds were in place and TV already on air. The reason, confirmed by Indian national TV's sports director was that Sai Baba was indisposed and could not bless and inaugurate the match. But the official reason given was 'power failure'. see photos here
Article about Sai Baba's University
which documents that it is all propaganda, since it doesn't rank on any recognised or independent scale of academic excellence. Serguei Badaev reports that the Russian Sathya Sai Baba forum posted news from a person in the ashram at present who says that Sai Baba often misses morning darshans.

The former Shivarathri 'abishek' vibuthi miracles - fakery cannot be excluded

       
International Cricket and The Secret Swami

Scan and transcript of notes: V.K. Narasimhan on Sai Baba's alleged boyhood visits to famous saints
and on his driver's suicide and on printing and editorial problems

'Behind the Clown's Mask' by Conny Larsson
R. Priddy's review of the book now published in English

Recorded notes on New Year's day 1996 - disillusion and V.K. Narasimhan
Surveillance and Security at Sai ashrams
Dangers and warning about other things of which one should be aware before visiting

Extravagant misuse of donated funds and wasteful showpieces at Sai ashrams

The self-proclaimed Sai-loving Scotsman turned Indian, William Bill Aitken, wrote a book about Sai Baba, which has been reviewed most adequately by Brian Steel and found sorely wanting... Three articles on Bill Aitken and his relation to Sathya Sai Baba, the truth and other issues are found here:

Bill Aitken, bogus ‘religious expert’ on Sai Baba

William McKay (Bill) Aitken’s academic shortcomings

William Bill Aitken’s base attacks on serious critics
Champion tennis to boost 'spirituality' at top guru's ashram?
Sai Baba - miraculous or disastrous?
Is Sai Baba’s Governmental Influence ‘Miraculous’?


Some of Sathya Sai Baba's students are making fun of him - see here.

The author and ex-follower, Brian Steel, has posted by far the most comprehensive bibliography on Sathya Sai Baba so far available - An Annotated Bibliography for Research on Sathya Sai Baba  (in Three Parts) . He has just extended this major task by adding a third part of the Bibliography. All is impressively accurate and well documented, with fullest possible details of publication place and date and other identifications. It is also neutrally inclusive of both all Sai Baba pro-Sai literature/hagiography and the critical literature.

This is a resource for serious researchers (i.e. those who actually want to view both positive and critical views about Sathya Sai Baba and his movement).
Under the title New Factors for Researchers to Consider Brian Steel examines the use of other media than literature in the promotion of Sathya Sai Baba and the public responses he and his organization have made to criticisms.

Timothy Conway Ph.D. refutes an aggressive and vituperative cult defender's absurd, concocted claims definitively! The contents of infamous Dr. John Hislop's sex abuse cover-up letters were NEVER altered... and only Hislop had the original, because he sent out only xerox copies of them to centre leaders in the USA, with instructions to destroy them after reading. Nonetheless one set of copies survived (at the San Francisco Sathya Sai Centre).

The Sathya Sai Central Trust tries to dump the Sathya Sai Airport white elephant on the market
This airport was constructed and financed by the Indian Government - without it being clear how much was spent. through the then Secretary for Air M.K. Kaw (see 'Sathya Sai Airport - White Elephant for Sale' here). The Sathya Sai Central Trust - which is an entirely tax-free charitable trust - in now evidently losing a lot of money and is trying to offload it onto someone else. The Indian Airport Authority has already lost vast sums on the airport, which has saw no use for many years, followed by a very low turnover (mostly only 3 planes a week - a loss for the authorities). Whoever buys is will not have the tax-free benefits and will be dependent on the capricious Sai Baba, who leaves Puttaparthi and his ashram virtually deserted when he suddenly without warning goes away for long periods each year. Ca. 110 kilometers from Bangalore (and 70 kms from the coming new airport at Devanahalli), it is hard indeed to see how it will sell, unless the 2,000 acres of land added onto it as a temptation to property speculators is worth it. However, Sathya Sai Baba is well over 80 and has been a stricken invalid for years now, so speculators must hope he lives until age 93 or 96, both of which ages he has predicted for himself on different occasions. After his demise the bottom will doubtless fall out of his 'ashram market'. See here G R Gopinath, who pioneered low-cost flying in India with Air Deccan, denies having tied up with a Mumbai-based public figure to put in a bid.


WHAT! NO MOON MIRACLE?

The single most searched main news item that has concerned surfers interested in Sai Baba issues (i.e." moon miracle" with "Sai Baba") is undoubtedly the remarkable October 4 failed miracle that was announced beforehand by Anil Kumar to the crowds at Prashanthi Nilayam - that Sathya Sai Baba said he would appear on the face of the moon and that he would give 'vishwarupa darshan'. This was to occur - strangely enough - at the Sathya Sai airport in Puttaparthi. Crowds of a couple of hundred thousand devotees and other - many of them villagers from surrounding areas - turned out within hours and were so unruly that Sai Baba could not even reach the podium to give darshan, remaining stuck in his car for about one hour. Needless to say, no miracle of any kind occurred - the moon remained invisible behind clouds and not one soul is reported as receiving the greatest divine vision possible, the Vishwarupa darshanam that Krishna supposedly gave to Arjuna.

It was later announced by the ashram authorities that the miracle was "postponed., No doubt this try at damage limitation will mollify many of the blind believers in Sathya Sai Baba. However, one lunatic blogger has claimed that no such things were promised! Why did hundreds of thousands flock to the airport then? Was it not announced from the veranda by Sai Baba's very close servitor and translator Anil Kumar? Why was it later also officially announced as having been "postponed"? Read all about the big blunder:-

Thousands disappointed as Sai Baba’s ‘moon miracle’ fails
No moon buggy ride for Sai Baba yet

Is Indian ‘Godman’ Sai Baba’s Moon Waning Still Further?
Sai Baba postpones moon buggy ride
Sai Baba Fails To Grant Great Moon Vision. Endangers Crowds
No moon buggy ride for Sai Baba yet

Did Sai appear on the moon?

Faked photo by devotee to 'prove' Sai was clearly visible on the moon on October 23

Why does India invest in moon rockets when one could get there with Sai Baba's mantric help?

Other kinds of Sai Baba moon miracle - which are said to have worked o.k.


Devotees' crackpot attempts to deceive the public about the announced 'moon miracle' continue

Student devotees and other immature persons have sent e-mails out - including to an ex-devotee- with a constructed image of Sai Baba on the face of the moon as a representation of what was actually seen (it is claimed!). Everyone involved having signally failed to photograph such a stupendous event (suspicious in itself), its originator says he 'created' it - it is clear that used and altered an image of Sai Baba he took from elsewhere and superimposed in onto a manipulated full moon. He has claimed he and his family/friends actually saw the face of Sai Baba on the moon very like the image!
A lot of fuss is still being made to try [in vain] to cover over the failure of Sai Baba to perform the miracle he had instructed his servitor Anil Kumar to announce, by people claiming they have seen the miracle since then etc. What hope or help is there for anyone who actually believes what an entire world - including many thousands of astronomical telescopes - have not so much as mentioned once (and Sai Baba's propaganda minister, Dr. G. Venkataraman, the semi-pro interpreter of astronomical phenomena as all being divine Sai Baba events -

G. Venkataraman – Chief propagandist for ‘God’ G. Venkataraman is keen to imprint on his readers that, in studying anything about science, they are observing “The Glory of God”. This is, of course, an assumption and is not even a testable hypothesis, being a vague (undefined and indefinite) conception which is entirely non-operational.
Apologist for Sathya Sai Baba The only top Sai official who has ever even mentioned the many allegations against Sai Baba - and then only after a period of six years or more had gone by - is Dr. G. Venkataraman. He has shown his true colours, however, in having written a document full of cover-up and false statements.
Dr. G. Venkataraman of Radio Sai
is silent about this [and with good reason!] All this demonstrates quite excellently that Sai Baba followers constantly read anything into anything - even see what are told to see or simply want to believe they have witnessed. Miracle hunger is surely a kind of disorder of the soul.