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MILLIE PHILLIP'S MANISFESTO - Answer to FINDINGS
Faye, as you see, I wrote a direct letter to David. When we ended our coffee chat, he had so brought out the maternal in me, that I hugged and kissed him. I don't do that often.
As for your ramble, it requires something different, for it set my teeth a-grinding, with its crude lies and mishmash of aborted truth, so an older woman to an older woman, let's begin with your sanctimonious declaration of sorrow, but have to act, especially as you are a mother of boys. Do you really believe that all boys are raped by Swami? And if you really appreciate the brief you are causing, why not stick to the truth, and let the viciousness go. (Faye, is it true that that one of your sons remains a confirmed Sai devotee?) For in reading your expose, all I could think was that Swami had turned two nice people into vipers, simply to show them what ego creates. Without money, without work, and, to your chagrin, finding you had no valuable Sai jewellery to fall back on, your only option is to try to make yourselves messengers of esoteric, manipulated, truth propaganda. In short, an attempt to become more important and gain status and money.
Instead of a glib merging of a mindless smear campaign, that - you hope - will give credence to lies, (see Hitler/Goebbels) I promise to stick to the Truth. No more. No less.
The 60 MINUTES programme, which I watched (did you?), was more like a pantomime than reporting. Their manifester, laughingly, put his hand into a pot to smear and drop ash, into a man's hand. There was never any question of his being able to manifest vibhuthi. Nor were they critical of Swami, whom they mentioned and whose Darshan photographs they showed. But, while we are on the subject, please explain to a dumbbell like me, HOW: OK Swami has a tablet cunningly hidden (where?) oh yes, between the 3rd - 4th fingers, which He crushes to create powder. He pours it into a hand, but then he closes his fingers and reopens to pour into another and another and another. How?? You too must have seen Him pouring vibhuthi into more than 20 hands at a time at interviews. I have.
OPEN WOUND HEALING?
One of my friends, a trained nurse, at my direction, poured vibhuthi onto her raw wound. It hurt like blazes, and became beetroot red. NEXT MORNING THE WOUND HAS HEALED. The 10 stitches came out days ahead of time, and on her aged paper- fine skin.
There was not a sign of an operation, and instead of the predicted loss of movement - she had full use of her hand and fingers. But then, Swami loves her, for she has an unselfish heart. By the way, did you ask Phillip how the hole the primitive, small, Sai hospital got into his foot was free of pain and healed and scarless in 2 days?
Jewellery bought in the Puttaparthi village and elsewhere So? Give us the name of the jeweller. Don't be shy; stick to the truth and facts. Not made from GOLD? Piggy. I have only heard Him say "gold" a few times when He has manifested. It was the so gullible David, who coyly told the British journalist, on video, he had counted 64 facets on the diamond Swami had manifested for him. Yes, counted every one! But why, in heaven's name, would David confuse a facet with a karat? Do you know how big a 64k stone would be? I have some large diamonds, no let me tell you. It would weight about 1 kilo. And on David's pudgy fingers???
Back to your video, you butted into babble something about the marvel of your marriage, but forgot to mention, Baba once closed the door on you when you were about to enter for the meeting with your future in-laws!
So a jeweller showed you how a face could be seen in coloured glass. Is that why you came to Sai? For trinkets? What about your pride that you had been with Him at Shirdi? Or has David learned Shirdi was also a child molester?
Robes and tinkling? Well, I've never heard tinkling when He goes to get a robe for someone. More people than you two have sat there. Others surely have as good hearing. My robe, and the others I have seen given, were handed with both His Hands underneath, and NOTHING in them when it was handed over. As to you two being blessed to see Swami transfer jewellery from Him, robe on His lap. Wow! You ARE the chosen! Others, more intelligent than you, have not seen this sleight of hand. Well why did you keep it a secret for so long? Why not denounce him there and then, or leave the Ashram in disgust?
HEALING:
David, you are plain unlucky or just blind, or more likely simply chosen to play this Judas role. I have several experiences of instantaneous healings on my own body, including last April, when He put His Hand on my left forehead, to make a lazy muscle that had defied treatment, disappear. No more thoughts of plastic surgery … no more visiting doctors who advised forehead lifting in a 4-5 hour operation. As to others, well, you know hundreds of books are full of personal experiences of miraculous and instantaneous healing. But does this convince one who only wants to see dirt and build up a following of the demented-with-hats?
Why are you sad about Maynard Ferguson, or the healing He has not given to the frail ones? Do you really believe he is here to heal us all - remove all pain and care? End death? Is this why you have turned from Him? Because He has given you responsibilities that, you are too immature to handle? So He cannot/will not cure the cancers that distress you. Little David and Faye, who cannot bear the thought that life, is hard and real, and not necessarily wonderful. Unless, of course, Swami gives you the blesseing of detachment and a knowledge all religious teach: Not my will, but Yours.
The throwaway line of Faye's health - such unsubstantiated garbage. What, how, when, and does it really matter, whether she heard Him correctly, or did what she was told correctly? Read the pile of books available from people who bless the healing that has come into their lives.
Please show where Swami says He lives on rice and chappattis? No human could remain healthy for long on such a diet. My next door neighbour is His cook. I know He eats little (just look at His size) and selects from a variety of Indian dishes. It's never hidden, nor does He pretend otherwise. I met the retired Chief of Police who runs a Sai centre, which Swami visits annually. He stays the night in their guesthouse (no little boys). She complained, despite the time she devotes to cooking for Him, that He eats so little! Again, bitter childish innuendo.
So, what if the three kings was, or is not true? Is this really world-shaking news? Was it incorrect in the translation, the hearer or the need to give listeners what they wanted? And does it really matter to anyone who is not looking for nits to pick?
Who cares whether lights confer divinity? Everyone has a light around them. We are all divine. He says so.
SUPER SPECIALTY HOSPITAL
How many hospitals will you donate to, or set up? Who in recorded history has financed the institutions Sai has? Apart from those we know about, there are as many hidden charities He supports, so why carp? Do you think Swami has a hidden cache He keeps for His old age? Do you object that He lives like a silver-tail in some splendid castle and flits from one source of pleasure to another? You question what happens to the huge sums of money. How much have you donated, to carp about its use? I've donated with great joy, and seen what it has done to alleviate the misery of the people who were without money and hope. AND incidentally alleviated the pain of Westerners who have gone to the SS hospital for treatment they could not afford at home!! For SS hospital doctors treat only need regardless of cost. AND you yourself once told me of some remarkable healing you heard about.
RENAL DEPARTMENT CLOSED?
Well, the doctor who sat near you criticized the hospital! Did you ask him why, as a medic, who taken the Hippocratic Oath to save lives, remained there? Why not work in a hospital he respects? You know there are many, many doctors who could be earning huge incomes in Australia, and elsewhere, who chose to work at the SS hospital for a pittance, and worse, compel their families to live in smidgen rooms and under primitive conditions? Faye, you know the wife of the Italian, specialist doctor - sits opposite us with her small daughter, which against all medical opinion, she could not conceive, but for Swami. I was there when she laid the 3-day babe at His Feet in thanks. You know they have two, now teenage boys who go to the Sai school. Have they been molested? How about Dr Pavan, on the verandah? Faye, you surely know his medic wife, both had good practices in Australia, their children at university. They would be millionaires, but Pavan chose to go where he could SERVE. And now has collected a book of hospital, miracle recovery stories which, so far, Swami has not freed for publishing. By the way, did you hear he took a movie of Sai disgorging the Lingam this year? NO vomit of food or other trivia, only a stream of light that turned solid. He showed it at the large Strathfield auditorium at the Sai seminar. Ask for a copy. Just might surprise you.
SAI WATER PROJECT
Which David took it upon himself to "investigate" and "prove". A regular Sherlock Holmes too, but where are the witnesses, photographs? And why did you appoint yourself as the do-gooder, what do you hope to gain? (Why not donate the money - if you spent it - of travelling around to the needy? We all know many villages refused to maintain their pipelines and dams and that the project was handed over to the Indian government to maintain. As to devotees with gastric disturbances, did they drink water before coming to the Ashram, eat outside the ashram, eat unpeeled fruit? David - Grow up! Some intelligent people are reading this tosh and you are making an awful idiot of yourself.
FINANCIAL TRICKERY
and you two, - boy and girl scout/guides asked to help! Why do Phyllis Krystal, Arthur Hillcoat and others, not have such encounters? Why is it, wealthy woman I am, is never asked for donations? Why is it that I was ostracized by Swami for three years after Ramananthan reported me for asking for donations for the trust I set up (It was not true)? If at retreats and meetings, new devotees are told, Swami does not need money, etc. Well you know it's against the Sai Rule. He openly says: Where money is mentioned, I am not there! Michael Goldstein once told me it would be better if every Sai organization closed, than for Sai to ask for money!!!! And knowing my love for Him, my wealth, why oh why, has no one ever given me something to include in my substantial will. I have no idea what down school is or what it matters. And why anyone would confuse inheritance tax deduction with giving money to Sai is too big a mystery for this business brain.
PERSONAL PROBLEMS, LETTERS GIVEN AND NO VISIBLE RESULTS
My experiences have been so very, very different. But what do you hope to prove? And why would you expect Swami to cure/alter/make happy everyone who comes to Him? Can such an attitude be adult?
SEXUAL PROBLEMS
Please tell us why these youngers can talk only to you? Parents all ogres?? As for masturbating and collecting in a handkerchief, putting in His pocket - Are you a voyeur to be told these things? And exactly where is Sai's pocket? All you told me when we met at Sai Towers coffee, was that you objected to Swami grabbing the boy's genitals, which you claimed to have seen IN PUBLIC. Something left YOU speechless? A book written in the 70s? What of the many hundreds, written since? World travelers? At whose expense? Sai invitations? David, did you, the favourite, have sex with Him? Why not? Surely, a late starter in marriage, with an older lady, would wish to experiment? Forgive the scepticism, but to the outer world, it is just not feasible that you are the chosen one whom people from every corner of the world would be asked the same thing over and over again. Do your draw filth and psychotics like a magnet and iron? And how can you explain that, being told all that ugliness about Sai and little boys. You did nothing? Why wait till now???
THE MASSACRE
Ex-students tried to kill Him? Don't you think a serious murderer would succeed? Any modern gun would pick him out in a flick of a finger. He is twice daily a walking target. Whitefield and Prashanti are surrounded by windows. Doubt you'd need to be a good shot either. As for the bodies found in His room. Robin James, long time Ashram resident, who incidentally also has two teen-age sons who have only ever gone to Sai schools, told me he helped with the clean up, said the four bodies were on steps or below the temple steps. He said it was like a slaughter yard. Buckets and buckets of blood. The police just shot at everyone. (Swami told us, after the deaths at the Unity match, that the police had the same character as criminals) Story going round at that time was, the attempt was connected with the Islamic anger at the destruction of their mosque and the erection of a Hindu temple at Ayodhya. By killing Sai, it would start a religious war that Islam would win. Who will ever know? Fact is, Sai is in control of His own destiny.
People on the verandah agree Swami has sex for His benefit? And they continue coming to the Ashram and sit on the verandah? What kind of people are you? Why, oh why do you not give the names of those who confide ONLY in you? Surely they will not return to Sai and so are free to disclose whatever they want.
SCHOOLS
Am at a loss to answer. 20,000 rupees is about $AU800. But I have spoken only to parents who do not pay any school fees. The Indian man who lives in London, where he is making big money and with a mother in the ashram has 3 boys 8-12 at Sai schools, says they attended FREE of charge. Why would you believe Sai School is for local lads? Swami has told us openly He is training India's future leaders. Do you expect them to be dullards? Career guidance in India? Give me a break, we are talking of a 3rd world country with a billion people. AND did you get career guidance. Did you get a job after you left school? Is this why you hid under obtaining more and more degrees?
So Faye is critical of the gold leaf on the temple ceiling. A Thai prince gave it. Should Swami have refused the gift of love, to please Faye? And if you offered to give anything, would He have said: No, I want something else? Did you ever notice the love that pours out of Him? Of the equillion times He repeats the Darshan round, patiently taken envelopes, patiently listens, pats, Who would do it?
MAYNARD/MASON PLAYING THE TRMPET?
Do you think Swami was drunk, lost His marbles? Why not ponder on the meaning, maybe it was that Mason now in Him could play the trumpet? As for using you to tune in for information. Such ego. American/English. The way you go on I too thought you more American than British. So? But what a pity the over 100 "close encounters" did nothing for your spiritual self. Because you see THAT'S what Swami is all about. Maybe you got too close to Him to see that what He was teaching: You are God, detachement leads to it and ego, envy, greed are a curse to be eradicated.
TERRY GALLAGHER
Well his brother-in-law and wife are still devotees. Does it matter what one does and another doesn't? Ultimately all will have to decide for themselves. Long standing devotees? Apart from the dead. How about Phyllis Krystal who you advise has absconded but is now visiting with a group of Sai leaders in Russia and other Eastern countries, Arthur Hillcoat, Goldstein, Howard Murphet, Sandweiss, Honig, etc, etc, etc.
VIBHUTHI ON PHOTOS
Well mine are inside the glass. So what trickery do you think I did? And what scientific background have you for this "research"?
SWAMI DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT?
How many times I have wondered what He meant; only to discover sometimes years later, when the "Eureka" knowledge came. It's called the learning process. The bringing us further on our Godward journey. Or did you miss that bit?
So you advocate meditation, yoga, and other ashrams. Good. Go there! Anything that will help you become one of life's jewels should be followed.
DR. BHATIA
It's a great pity he did not make this statement BEFORE he was dishonoured for selling hospital blood. And if he was having sexual relations with Baba - and did not want to - why did he not depart? Or if he wanted it, but still believed Him Divine, why bitch now?
INDIAN WEBSITE NO NAME
It's of the order of the crude staff of the 60 MINUTE programme. So why did this young man stay on? And why is it that the students we see around Sai are ALL respect and devotion? Is it that Swami is such a good lover? AND exactly when does Swami carry a "kerchief?" The only ones are on His chair, or handed by an attendant. If He wishes to wipe His Face, He does it with the sleeve of His gown. I've said earlier, OK the powdering action BUT in heaven's name explain exactly how HE pours with fingers open, closes, pours again and again. As for giving gifts when receiving letters. NEVER. Only vibhuthi is manifested during Darshan. Manifesting of jewellery happens only at interviews. So in the Sai museum one sees Swami's manifested lingam? (I don't know) What I do know is that Dr John Hislop, a lifetime devotee - till death at 98 - wrote what he saw. One lingam came out, complete with a 3 leg metal stand. Another time he actually witnessed the lingam coming from the mouth as a blue light that coalesced.
STUDENTS LIVE HORRIBLE LIVES
Why do they ALL remain? Why did I see a young man at an interview weep to stay and work for Swami, why did Swami counsel him to use his education, go out to work? Why did the young man's mother attend for this discussion?
Most that follows is rubbish, however the one serious question from Italy: What did Baba mean in the beginning even Romans were Jews? While suggesting Baba didn't know what He was talking about, deserves an answer. Surprise, surprise this Jewish devotee, who has read up on her religion, knows: Before Jesus came on the scene, there were many, many woman households which practised Judaism. They were tired of the plethora of divinities, wanted to pray to the One without a name. Problem was, that whilst women could be Jewish, the men could not, without circumcision. A tall order without anaesthetic! Had the Rabbis of old sold bargain basement Judaism, the world would have been Jewish. I hope your Roman Catholic doubter is a reader, for that's what Swami meant. He does not read, not enter into ecumenical discussions.
PROPAGANDA MACHINE?
How do they create such rubbish? I begged for information to raise money for the Super Specialty Hospital for the Trust. I formed in Australia. Went to the very department in the hospital, NOTHING, I was sweetly told they do not collect these things. There were articles if I went to the newspaper archives in Bangalore! The same thing has just happened to me in Whitefiled for the New Hospital, of which few know anything about. Yes, the one the Indian Government asked Swami to build on land they donated. See what kind of a sewer can be made of this. And David thinks the author of the above garbage is a clear-thinking researcher. Well, Well.
SCIENTISTS BECAME DEVOTEES TO MAKE MONEY
Exactly how? Let scientists in to PROVE? Not long ago they made names for themselves by pompously telling us the atom was not divisible. What about the ones who said thaliodomide was good for us? So what have the eminent scientists proved? Dr. Haraldsen had his try. No one can "prove or disapprove". I am certain my photographs changed. I watched Swami's hair turn yellow and blue. People have grown into my photographs. Photographs changed as we watched. So is this a miracle? For me the miracle is the way I feel inside. The way I can handle my life's problems, how defeat or victory have become meaningless.
IS SWAMI DIVINE?
Of course, and the age of the guru has been there for eons.
Doesn't Swami tell us the only guru that matters is the one within? Doesn't he tell us he has come to bring us to the God within us? Doesn't he tell us I am God, but you are God too, only you don't know it? Let me conclude on the stories I hear (faulty hearing?) Whitefield two years ago was overrun by a swarm of monks who worship Vishnu. Their temple is visited by over 2 million yearly, (a very famous temple, TI…) Seems the young monk who went in to take the blanket off the idol in the morning was startled to find the feet were warm, He ran. When a monk of sufficient seniority came to look at the idols. He saw it had the same Baba. Swami sent them back to worship in their own way. At Puttaparthi last year, I saw a melee near the Ganesha Gate. A crowd of rowdy men scuffing. Being India the crowd quickly grew. My Indian neighbour Hem translated. An old man sat at Darshan near a young man. The old man's letter which Swami took asked for 100 rupees to return to his mountain retreat from which he had come to visit Sai. The young man's' letter, asked for help in something painfully personal. Swami took the young man's' letter and threw it onto the lap of the old man. (As you said He is a heartless, vicious creature), The old man refused to hand it over. Swami had given it to him! It ended before blood was shed by an outsider opening the letter. It contained nothing more than 100 rupees.
Faye if you can't act like God, at least try to act human. For exactly what do you expect to achieve other than a dirty kind of notoriety? A virus like yours runs for a time before it disappears, believe me you will be relegated to forgotten dust. History will remember Sai for His achievements. One of which incidentally is you. For all you are doing is playing His game, His Leela for whatever reason He has chosen. I do not approve of your actions but respect the God within you so, let all do Swami's bidding.
Worship the God that is within us all.
Swami tells us man has two eyes. The ancient sages regarded "Speak Truth and adhere to Righteousness" as the two eyes. Today man has lost these eyes and is helpless.
OM SAI RAM
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