(5) Sai
Baba a "false god"
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:10:32 +1000 From: <lightning@flexinet.com.au>
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/articles/barrynorajones.html
Nora
Jones's Life Is His Message: Sai Baba Damage Control Movie Set to
Backfire
Barry Pittard
Sunday, September 5, 2004
http://www.saibabafilm.com/index.asp?action=page&name=8
Sai
devotee film financiers, Rowdy Productions, are calling for up to US
ten
million dollars to make a movie, "My Guy." (This is the heroine's
name for
Sathya Sai Baba). ... Rowdy says "We have an interest from
Norah Jones' agent
for the lead role and will be pursuing this
option."
This is the westerner daughter of big Sai devotee Ravi
Shankar, the Indian
sitar maestro. A usually reliable source reports
that, in disobedience to his
guru's teaching, he divorced Nora Jones's
mother, and also that he
heart-breakingly and belatedly allowed Nora -
somewhat - into his life.
Actually, Nora Jones is noted as a
singer, not an actor, but the Rowdy people
say they "feel that the
soothing voice of Norah Jones will heal the audience
and carry Sai
Baba's message worldwide."
He who would be Lord of Lords now relies
on Tinsel Town to trumpet his claims,
having failed so extensively that
he needs a mere slip of a Hollywood lass to
help buttress up his
venture.
The closest he has got to world fame, the BBC documentary
'The Secret Swami,'
spreads his infamy instead. (See transcript: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/programmes/this_world/transcripts/secret_swami17_06_04.txt).
Sathya
Sai Baba's motto: "My life is my message" takes on a meaning far
from
his intention. Under conditions of great damage control, alas poor
Nora
Jones's life is his message.
However, the more our Exposé
succeeds the more the Sai forces react and, as we
increasingly see,
make ludicrous blunders costly to themselves, even when they
think they
are proacting. In this instance, the more they promote the movie
the
more their cause will draw unwelcome attention from a world media
that:
· is ever more aware of the worldwide allegations against the
Sathya Sai Baba
cult
· will see through the blatant Sai
propagandistic attempt to show that 'all
roads lead' not to Rome but to
Puttaparthi
· relishes dramatic tension as the essence of a good
story, and is thus primed
to report the clash of causes between an
authoritarian mega cult and former
devotees who stand for truth,
transparency and accountability,
· will eagerly report on the
expanding global coalition of all major
religions, humanists,
rationalists etc., that will expose this would-be
usurper of both
divinity and human reason.
Let the Sai movie moguls golf-cart their
"guy" onscreen or show the
'omnipotent Avatar' staggering on his
botched hip-joint replacement! Let us
not expect that these Sai film
makers will shoot him with the honesty of the
BBC cameras in 'The
Secret Swami' documentary. Here he blathers
incomprehensibly, e.g.,
about collapsing on mahasivrati night after
miraculously manifesting
three tonnes (or it might be tons! - a significant
difference) of gold
from himself: "Out of the stomach emanated Shiva Lingas of
the weight
of three tonnes/tons. That's the reason why some strain on the face
and
the body."
Let Rowdy Productions show scenes like that, or show him
losing his temper,
cursing us, and pounding his rostrum in the
Christmas Day 2000 discourse!
The false god's extremity is Man's
opportunity. That is, the opportunity to
expose the false, and to speak
and feel truly, without the assistance of
golden thrones, golf-carts or
crutches. Or even Nora Jones's opportunity - to
listen to the cries of
anguish from Sathya Sai Baba's victims in many parts of
the world.
Instead of taking on another father figure bound, for a second
time, to
deliver her far too little, far too late.
--
Peter
Myers, 21 Blair St, Watson ACT 2602, Australia ph +61 2 62475187
http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers
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