Refuting Deceptive 'News' About Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Released On Anti-Sai Websites
AUGUST 2002
A Visual Guide:
- The Article Is True Or Mostly True And Seems Sincere.
- The Article Has Truths And Untruths And Seems Insincere.
- The Article Is False And Has No Proof To Support It.
- The Article Is Fluff, Filler Stuff, Not Relevant.
SATHYA SAI BABA NEWS (With Updates And Comments):
Sai Baba's Mission: Words and Facts
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/ Sai%20Baba's%20Mission%20Words%20and%20Facts.htm
Comment: Serguei Badaev tried to argue that since there are indicators that show that India is not progressing that Sathya Sai Baba is failing in his mission. Of course, if Serguei was given a choice of living in India 50 years ago as compared to now, I wonder which one he would choose? It is undeniable that India is emerging as a country with vast potential in the medical, scientific and computer fields. Furthermore, Serguei references the years 1970 through 1988. Click Here to view one article (out of many) about the fact that India has experienced great economic growth since 1992. Is this due to Sathya Sai Baba? If we are to use Serguei's logic, the answer would be "yes". If Sathya Sai Baba is to blame for the lack of economic development, then I guess Sathya Sai Baba is responsible for India's economic successes. Is Serguei Badaev willing to give Sathya Sai Baba this credit as well? The answer is "no".
A Brief Additional Note on the Discourses
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/additionalnote.html
Comment: Click Here to view my response to this article.
Authors Sai Baba loves to read
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/authors.html
Comment: Robert Priddy admitted he exaggerated Sathya Sai Baba's qualities and intelligence. This is not surprising, considering Robert Priddy's keen propensity to exaggerate, which now includes his current Anti-Sai stance.
The Betrayal Scenario (Recovery Article)
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/betrayal.html
Comment: A cut and paste from a Yahoo group.
90% sb devotees worse than dogs: SB
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/dogs.html
Comment: It is true that there are many "devotees" who seek name and fame and say that Sathya Sai Baba speaks and acts through them, etc. Hari Sampath failed to reveal the context to Sathya Sai Baba's words. Baba talked about those who claim to be representatives who spread his message. Sathya Sai Baba said that 90% of such people are deceitful. The original discourse was given on July 22nd 2002.
Re: 90 % sb devotees worse than dogs: SB
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/dogs.html#Re: 90 % sb devotees worse than dogs: SB
Comment: Sathya Sai Baba talked about those who claim to be representatives who spread his message. Sathya Sai Baba said that 90% of such people are deceitful. The original discourse was given on July 22nd 2002. Consequently, Andries Krugers Dagneaux is drawing incorrect conclusions about Hari Sampath's misleading article.
Epitaph for Raju by Mr. Jaap C. Hutte
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/epitaph.html
Comment: Jaap C. Hutte obviously had some extra time on his hands and decided to write an inscription that is supposed to be put on Sathya Sai Baba's epitaph. Another article that reveals the profound depth of hate and bitterness that motivates Anti-Sai Activists.
All that glitters is not gold
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/gold.html
Comment: This is basically Robert Priddy venting his anger, making all sorts of unsubstantiated claims of sexual abuse, etc. Click Here to view my Witnesses Section.
How the 1993 murders returned to haunt us
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/haunt.html
Comment: Click Here to view my article about Robert Priddy's lamentable investigation into the 1993 police shootings and how he resorted to embellishing newspaper clippings, lies and speculations to formulate his conspiracy theory.
How we lost faith in Sathya Sai Baba
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/howwelostfaith.html
Comment: An article published in the Indian Skeptic. Basava Premanand is incapable of objective reasoning, in my opinion.
Kaleshwar...another divine incarnation?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/kaleshwar.html
Comment: Another article about Kaleshwar, written by Brian (nitpicker extraordinaire) Steel.
People management SB-style
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/management.html
Comment: Another article from Robert Priddy, regurgitating the same stuff over and over again ad nauseam.
Swami misuses money once again
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/misuses.html
Comment: Repeated from ExBaba.com's Letters Section. Click Here to read my response to this article.
Is Sai Baba's teaching progressive and constructive, or outmoded and revanchist?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/outmoded.html
Comment: Robert Priddy cricized Sathya Sai Baba's teachings. Robert Priddy devoted a full chapter entitled Understanding Baba's Teachings in his book, Source Of The Dream. Robert Priddy claimed that he spent "many years" studying Sathya Sai Baba's teachings. At that time, Robert Priddy had nothing but praise for Baba's teachings and even made an index titled Back to the Source that contained 18,000 "separately-detailed entries". To formulate an index with Eighteen Thousand Separately-Detailed Entries would require vast study and research into Sathya Sai Baba's teachings. Robert Priddy now talks about Sathya Sai Baba's teachings as if they are primitive, unintelligent gibberish. However, here are some quotes from Robert Priddy and what he had to say about Sathya Sai Baba's teachings in Chapter 22 of Source Of The Dream:
"It is truly impressive how, wherever Sathya Sai Baba has spoken and whatever his audience, his vision has always had a one-pointed focus...Unlike other major educators or spiritual masters whose lives are known from youth, Sai Baba has never had to modify any tenets of his public teachings or to develop them through time. Such confident consistency is truly striking...Baba's way of teaching is unique and uncommonly attractive, in its dealings with everything from everyday problems to the deeply mysterious, from the most serious questions of life to the humorous. No one to my knowledge gives such directly simple, yet deceptively deep and subtle, answers to the most enigmatic of questions, nor does so in more straightforward and powerfully-convincing ways than does Baba...No spiritually-interested person who reads Sai discourses or writings can fail to be impressed by the clarity and simplicity of these teachings, which bear comparison with any known higher spiritual teaching...Some insights surpass those to be found in any scripture or comparable work known, at least, to the present writer...His words - written or spoken - bear the force of conviction of certain knowledge, of totally self-confident omniscience, which can be observed in many different ways. Some of his declarations are entirely unprecedented in human history and are of such surpassing authority that they could surely not have been made by any ordinary human with such impunity."
These comments, by Robert Priddy, adequately refute his current position on Sathya Sai Baba's teachings. Despite claiming to have assiduously studied Sathya Sai Baba's teachings, Robert Priddy is now saying that all of his research was incorrect. This puts Robert Priddy in a tenuous position. Either Robert Priddy blatantly lied about Baba's teachings or Robert Priddy is admitting he was brainwashed, gullible, naive, impressionable and unintelligent. So which is it, Mr. Priddles?
Sai Baba's preference for foreigners during interviews
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/preference.html
Comment: Repeated from ExBaba.com's Letters Section. Click Here to read my response to this article.
A Premature Prema Sai or Just Local Competition?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/premature.html
Comment: An article about Swami Kaleshwar and Brian Steel's typical sarcastic remarks.
Support of Baba for the the Cast System
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/supportcast.html
Comment: Repeated from ExBaba.com's Letters Section. Click Here to read my response to this article.
A 'teacher' who won't explain what devotees can't understand
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/teacher.html
Comment: Sathya Sai Baba often encourages people to search for his/her own truth and answers instead of relying on the Guru. The only truth we rely on is the truth we find in our search for it. Sathya Sai Baba acts as an inspiration and a focal point for his devotees, but all spiritual progress is due to the disciple's efforts. No religion has been able to fully explain the mystery of God, the Universe and the soul.
Truly three million persons of flesh and blood!
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/whopper.html
Comment: There definitely was not 3 million people at Sathya Sai Baba's 70th birthday celebrations. I was there. Although Robert Priddy attributed this number to unnamed friends and Robert Bruce, I heard the number of 3 million was obtained from the cooks who claimed that was how many chappatis were made. Obviously, the number of "3 million" was a rumor. Not everyone who went to Puttaparthi on Sathya Sai Baba's 70th birthday celebrations went to the Hillview Stadium (which has a capacity of about 250,000). So the number could very well have been higher. Robert Priddy even talked about how he and his wife were horribly caught in the massive crowd because it was so huge.
Letter from Jose Santiago
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/jose.html
Comment: This link is duplicated from the Letters Section.
Evil Has Increased under SSB's Reign
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/reign.html
Comment: This link is duplicated from the Letters Section.
Evil Has Increased Under SSB
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/reign.html#Evil Has Increased Under SSB
Comment: This link is duplicated from the Letters Section.
Evil Has Increased Under SSB's Reign (2)
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/reign.html#Re: Evil Has Increased Under SSB
Comment: This link is duplicated from the Letters Section.
Re: Evil Has Increased Under SSB's Reign
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/reign.html#Re: Evil Has Increased Under SSB
Comment: This link is duplicated from the Letters Section.
Excerpt from B. Premanand's book "Murders in SB's Bedroom"
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/excerpts.html
Comment: Click Here to view my article about Basava Premanand.
SB primary school in Kuala Lumpur closed due to non-registration
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/schoolclosed.html
Comment: An unsubstantiated allegation from an anonymous person.
Italian internetsite www.exbaba.it online within 24 hours !
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/welcome.html
Comment: An article announcing the ExBaba site in Italian.
'Calumny' Confirmed
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/witnesses/andries.html
Comment: This link is duplicated from the Witnesses Section.
An interesting site from Steven Hassan and Lama Surya Das
http://www.freedomofmind.com/resources/responsibility/outline.asp
Comment: A non-working link to an Anti-Cult Site.
False promises of health and protection
http://www.saiguru.net/english/last_updates/
Comment: A link to the SaiGuru.net main index page.