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2002 ADDITIONS
December 28, 2002
CRACKDOWN
ON 'PREYING' CULTS
Sunday Mirror - December 22, 2002
December 27, 2002
Man arrested for carrying explosives
inside Satya Sai Baba ashram in Puttaparthi
December 10, 2002
NEWS UPDATE: Newindpress.com
November 22, 2002
President to be the chief guest at convocation of Satya Sai Institute
December 8, 2002
MEANWHILE: OLD MANTRAS AND NEW
SOFTWARE SIDE BY SIDE
Article of Dec 3 by Shashi Tharoor in the
International Herald Tribune
POSTINGS AT
OTHER WEBSITES REGARDING ARTICLE IN NY TIMES
December 7 2002
18 BASIC MYTHS ABOUT THE GURU
SATHYA SAI BABA
(AND MUCH MORE)
by Brian Steel
December 3, 2002
A FRIEND IN INDIA TO ALL THE WORLD
Article of Dec 1 in the New York Times and responses from
former devotees.
Please note additional responses are being posted daily-
last update Dec. 9
Link to Brian Steel's latest writing:
Part 1 of the NEW Chapter 4 of
"The Guru From Puttaparthi. An Alternative View"
Devotees and their Contributions to the 'Purna Avatar ' Myth.
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/Devotees4.htm
November 22, 2002
SAI BABA'S
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
November 21, 2002
The secretive and authoritarian Sathya Sai
Organisation
by Robert Priddy
"When I was still a devotee, I wrote
very positively about the Sathya Sai Organization (such as in my pro-SB book ‘Source of the Dream’).
However, I had not then learned the extent of deceit and wrongdoing in the top
leadership in the Central Trust, the ashrams and by Sathya Sai Baba personally. I was
strongly self-censoring about all events and experiences that jarred with the
very idealistic image I had of the SSO, but I now know that I was had been led
very largely to confuse the ideals with realities. My criticisms are not
directed as the many that make genuine efforts in the name of the SSO. At the
ground level, where I mostly applied myself, I saw much excellent work done,
almost despite repeated pressures and irrelevant distractions that came from the
higher level leadership."
November 12, 2002
SURVEILLANCE, SECURITY, SECRECY
in SB's ashram, institutions, organizations
by Robert Priddy
Link to a new article by Brian Steel
"SB and the Psychics: A Case of Mistaken Identity?"
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/sbpsychics.htm
November 11, 2002
MORE
SIGNS OF CORRUPTION IN INDIA'S GOVERNMENT
Excerpts from an article in the The Wall Street Journal
contributed by Dennis Hanisch
November 1, 2002
DOWNGRADING
THE DIVINE
by Brian Steel
Further National Variants of "Who is SB?"
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/morphing.htm
Brian Steel
For the time being, this Note should be read as an
appendix to my Notes on "Downgrading the Divine" . Eventually, both Notes will
be joined with any other evidence that comes to hand, hopefully from readers, in
an article to be called "The Corporate Downsizing of Divinity?"
Sathya Sai Baba: Man of Many Stories
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/storyman.htm
Brian Steel
What is new on the Posting Boards
Why Isn't SSB a Role Model for Young People?
by Dennis Hanisch
Excerpts taken from The world of
gurus by Vishal Mangalwadi
October 25, 2002
SELFLESS SERVICE CANNOT BE MONOPOLISED
by Serguei Badaev
MIRACLE SPECTACLES
A letter from Sweden
"My
subscription to Sanathana Sarathi does not expire before 2003, so the
journals continue to come ...
A year and a half ago, each number made me very happy, (it was like a greeting
from SB)...
but I read with quite other eyes now.. and I look at the pictures of SB with
different eyes..."
Oct 23, 2002
IN THE DEVIL'S
CAVE
The most recent report on
SB's behavior during private interviews
as related by a Dane ex-devotee
Link to a new
article by Brian Steel
"More Messing"
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/stories4Messing2.htm
The author's attention has been drawn to the fact
that SB recently decided to liven up a Discourse in honour of
Krishna (31 August 2002) by retelling his Wolf Messing story in its third
incarnation. The previous shorter versions
are to be found in his Discourse of 22 November 1980 - Sathya Sai Speaks,
XIV, Chapter 57, pp. 364-366;
LIMF, p. 48; and in R. T. Kakade and A. Veerabadhra Rao's Shirdi to
Puttaparthi, pp. 159-160.
The July 2002 commentary on the earlier versions can be seen at
'Paranormal References: Wolf Messing and Kirlian (Revised)'.
October 16, 2002
DRIVING LICENCE AT THE AGE OF NINE
by Brian Steel
NEWS
Phyllis Krystal visits a Sai Baba group in
the Netherlands
October 11, 2002
"UNOFFICIAL" PROPAGANDA
Reiterating Baba's divinity
by Brian Steel
October 6, 2002
Link to a New Article
by Brian Steel
"The "Mehdi Moud"
Prophecy Revisited".
A detailed and fresh attempt to settle the
unresolved controversy about
SB writers' claims (not SB's!) that the Prophet Muhammad prophesied
SB's Advent as the Imam Mahdi, allegedly describing many striking
characteristics as proof.
Brian Steel's Website:
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/Prophecy.htm
October 6, 2002
CONCLUSIONS & COMMENTARIES
Baba's miracles and the profound
experiences of former devotees
by Elena E. Hartgering
October 5, UPDATE
MEDIA NEWS
THE TIMES OF INDIA, OCT 4, 2002
BRITISH LAW
AGAINST SAI BABA SOUGHT
October 4, 2002
Letter from Barry Pittard to the
Minister
of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Great Britain
September 30, 2002
On SB’s second discourse
at the international seva conference in Prasanthi Nilayam, July 2002
by Reidun Priddy
September 29, 2001
TO SEE WITH OPEN EYES
by Serguei Badaev
September 28, 2002
Brian Steel writes:
"Arnold Schulman's 'Baba' - an Embarrassment for the SSO?"
- "Such rare pieces of evidence as those offered in good faith by Schulman (who
refers to himself throughout the book as 'the writer') in this rather neglected
work are invaluable for anyone who wishes to check
the veracity of the monolithic official SB story"
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/Schulman.htm
September 26, 2002
OPEN LETTER FROM BARRY PITTARD
TO PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA, HON. A.B. VAJPAYEE
Posted with author's permission
Link to the most recent article
in Brian Steel's Home Page
"SB and Christianity. Some
Observations."
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/Jesus1.htm
September 26, 2002
A short comment by Brian Steel
September 19, 2002
No.60
SB's SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITALS
AS TWO-FACED PROJECTS
by Serguei Badaev
September 18, 2002
THE
MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR QUESTION
by Robert Priddy
September 15, 2002
THE 'OMNISCIENT' SAI BABA’S MASSIVE IGNORANCE OF PHYSICS EXPOSED
Two articles give point-by-point rebuttals of Sai Baba's
amazingly ignorant
twaddle in two discourses, one about magnetism, another about atoms:
The first, on magnetism, is from the discourse on Mahasivarathri, 2002.
The second, on the atom, is from SB's discourse on Guru Purnima, 2002.
The following are
excerpts
from the verbatim translation of the premsai website's version.
The comments are by Jorge Reyesvera, an ex-devotee from Latin America.
SAI BABA AND MAGNETISM
From the discourse on Mahasivarathri 2002
SAI BABA AND ATOMS
Based on the verbatim translation of the
premsai website's version
of SB's discourse on Guru Purnima, 2002.
September 11, 2002
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS OF A DOUBTING
DEVOTEE
by Reidun Priddy
September 5, 2002
DEATH OF A DEVOTEE IN PUTTAPARTH
by José Santiago from Venezuela
August 26, 2002
AUTHORS SAI BABA LOVES TO READ
SB loves
books by authors who praise him, not only to the skies, but to above the highest
heaven. He ‘showers grace’ upon those who write only massively
rose-coloured accounts of himself.
by Robert Priddy
MONUMENTAL
CONFUSION ABOUT
'THE DOER' OR WHO DOES WHAT
"Though
SB supports and repeats the ancient teaching about the divinity of everyone,
this teaching is not as it seems. He preaches tirelessly to make devotees
dependent on him for discovering their own divinity, as by constant prayer to him,
repetition of his name, worship of himself which he very willingly accepts etc."
by Robert Priddy
August 21, 2002
ANSWER TO SPAMMER &
OTHER COMMENTARIES ON PETITION
August 14, 2002
COMMENTARIES BY AN EX DEVOTEE FROM
VENEZUELA
August 10, 2002
FALSE PROMISES OF
HEALTH AND PROTECTION
"SB
capitalises on people's uncertainty and ignorance of anything to do with
real truth by ever reaffirming to people that they are uncertain and ignorant."
by Robert Priddy
EXCERPTS FROM B. PREMANAND'S BOOK
"MURDERS IN SB'S BEDROOM"
August 7, 2002
KALESHWAR...ANOTHER DIVINE INCARNATION?
by Brian Steel
SAI BABA'S MISSION: WORDS AND
FACTS
by Serguei Badaev
'CALUMNI' CONFIRMED
by Andries Krugers Dagneaux
August 3, 2002
COMMENTARIES BY DENNIS J. HANISCH
July 29, 2002
"SB's Claim to be the Reincarnation of Shirdi Sai
Baba"
by Brian Steel July 2002
The evidence in the article strongly indicates that this claim is unconvincing.
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/Shirdiessay.htm
July 28, 2002
SB's 'MEN IN SUITS'
by Robert Priddy
Robert Priddy takes a good look at the
VIP's of Prasanthi Nilayam
"...however big fish they are! He (SB) makes
them function as some kind of middlemen, like bishops, between him and devotees...
while at the same time both he and they deny that this is their role, even while practising it. This is the typical all-permeating 'duplicity' of Sai Baba's
teaching and practice."
THE EXPENSIVE G.P. ANTICLIMAX
by Brian Steel (and informers)
LINK TO NEW ARTICLE BY BRIAN STEEL
In his new article, "SB's Claim to be the Reincarnation
of Shirdi Sai Baba",
Brian Steel has drawn on recent research for his new (ongoing)
website book"The Guru from Puttaparthi. An Alternative View of Sathya Sai Baba"
to present a collection of clues, evidence, and hypotheses which challenge the
validity of this basic claim by SB.
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/index.html
July 25, 2002
FACTS FROM UNDER THE CARPET
by Robert Priddy
Mr. Priddy exposes some interesting
facts about life in Prasanthi Nilayam:
"Newcomers who have read some of the many gushing, over-rosy books about SB's
supposed perfection, purity and total overview and divine control of his ashrams
and the intimate detail of everyone's lives, expect 'The Abode of Supreme Peace'
to be either a paradise or at least a place where people are more virtuous, kind,
fair and civil than elsewhere"
July 24, 2002
SATHYA SAI ORGANIZATION
DIVINE TOOL OR SIDE EFFECT?
by Serguei Badaev
July 14, 2002
3 ARTICLES BY ROBERT PRIDDY
"THE IMPOTENT AVATAR?"
"SB'S 'CATCH 99': YOU CAN'T WIN!"
"HOW MOST INDIAN GURUS OPERATE"
July
7, 2002
Sai Baba: Shiva or
Sadhaka?
by Sanjay K. Dadlani
NEWS:
Contributed Article:
Guruji at Diamond Jubilee of All India Sai Samaj
July 1, 2002
The
Abuse Revelations by
Sai-devotee, Dr. N. Bhatia,
by Robert Priddy
NEWS - Educare Program in Australia
NEWS-
Is the Bangalore S.S. Hospital in need of funds?
June 22, 2002
BELIEVERS IN SAI BABA CAN'T UNDERSTAND
MANY SIMPLE THINGS
by Robert Priddy
June 8, 2002
TREATISE ON FREEDOM AND
FATE, CAUSE AND CHOICE
by Robert Priddy
FREE WILL AND FATALISM IN SAI BABA'S WORLD-VIEW
by Robert Priddy
THE SATHYA SAI ORGANIZATION
AND THE INTERFAITH MOVEMENT
by Serguei Badaev
WHAT IS HAPPENING ON POSTING BOARDS?
June 5, 2002
CHARLES AND DIANA RUBBISHED BY SATHYA SAI BABA
by Robert Priddy
May 30, 2002
A NEW ARTICLE BY BRIAN STEEL
May 27, 2002
IS SAI BABA's
TEACHING REALLY UNIVERSAL OR SECTARIAN?
by Robert Priddy
May 27, 2002
TWO
ARTICLES BY ROBERT PRIDDY
A
FEW OF SAI BABA’S TRADITIONAL VIEWS ON WOMEN
&
TWO RECENT QUOTES FROM SAI BABA’S WONDERFUL WORLD
May 27, 2002
TWO MORE ARTICLES BY ROBERT PRIDDY
WHAT IS THE POINT OF A 'TEST OF
FAITH'? &
MORE TESTS AND
TRIALS - SELF TRANSFORMATION OR SELF DECEPCION?
May 27, 2002
SENSATIONAL
INSIDE REVELATIONS
ABOUT THE SAI BABA COTERIE & THE 1993
MURDERS RECEIVED FROM V.K. NARASIMHAN,
FORMER EDITOR OF SANATHANA SARATHI
by Robert Priddy
May 21, 2002
Public Petition for Official Investigations
of Sathya Sai Baba and His Worldwide Organization
May 16, 2002
SAI BABA'S LINGUISTIC LEELAS
by Serguei Badaev
May 15, 2002
Can you identify anyone in this picture?
May 8, 2002
ABOUT P.M. VAJPAYEE, SAI BABA, RAMA,
RAVANNA
May 2, 2002
SAI BABA COULD BE PUT ON UK BLACK LIST
Hindustan Times, 27 Aug, 2001
April 30, 2002
CIRCULAR FROM INDULAL SHAH
ABOUT TALKING TO THE MEDIA
April 30, 2002
FOLLOWING THE LEADER TOO FAR
AND COMPENSATION CASES
April 23, 2002
"SEDUCED", TRANSCRIPT OF DANISH TV
CONTROVERSIAL DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SAI BABA
April 17, 2002
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH
AND THE SATHYA SAI ORGANIZATION
by Glen Meloy
April 15, 2002
COMMENTARIES BY ROBERT PRIDDY
April
12, 2002
MORE DISCREPANCIES IN SAI BABA'S WORDS
by Serguei Badaev
THE LINGAM QUESTION
Part I & II
by Robert Priddy
SAI BABA GOOD AND EVIL
by Robert Priddy
April
4, 2002
THE SAI
ORGANIZATION EN DENMARK AS GIVEN UP ATTEMPT TO BUY THE
Arresødal Castle
April 2, 2002
2 Articles by Robert Priddy
FAILURE OF THE SATHYA SAI
'EDUCARE PROGRAMME' IN AUSTRALIA
COLONEL JOGA RAO A NON-BELIEVING KARMA YOGI!
March 30, 2002
ANOTHER ONE OF THE INNUMERABLE
PERSONS WHO LEAVE SAI BABA
by E. C. Owen
March 18, 2002
EVIdENcE OF UNNATURAL THINGS IN HIS BEDROOM,
TOLD BY SAI BABA
by Robert Priddy
March 13, 2002
3 Articles by Robert Priddy
My credo,
why I am writing these pages and where I stand
ON HOW PERCEPTIONS
AND INTERPRETATIONS
OF SAI BABA FORM
BELIEF AND
MANIFESTATIONS
March 7, 2002
UK's PARLIAMENT CONCERNED
ABOUT
MOLESTION OF MINORS BY SAI BABA
March 4, 2002
DIVINE SIN
by Alejandro Agostinelli
Translated from article in Colombia's magazine "Gatopardo"
March 3, 2002
CAN WE TRUST THE CENTRAL TRUST?
by Serguei Badaev
February 28, 2002
INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER
& OTHER GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS VOUCH FOR SB IN A SIGNED DOCUMENT
February 27, 2002
UPDATE SB's VEDIC CHART
by Doug Riemer
February 26, 2002
SB'S DISCOURSES. MORE NONSENSE
by Brian Steel
February 25, 2002
SB'S EXAGGERATIONS IN NUMBERS
excerpt from an article by Robert Priddy
February 24, 2002
ON THE KUNDALINI ISSUE
February 21, 2002
RUMOURS, GOSSIP, ALLEGATIONS and TRUTH
an article by Brian Steel
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