Refuting Deceptive 'News' About Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Released On Anti-Sai Websites
FEBRUARY 2007
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):
- A most warm appreciation of the monster African dictator, Idi Amin!
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/articles/babavenkataramandamin.html
Comment: In a discourse, Sathya Sai Baba talked about his visit to Uganda in 1968 and said that Idi Amin greeted him with much devotion and introduced him to his numerous wives. Dr. C.G. Patel (a Sai Devotee) was Idi Amin's physician and that is how Amin came to know of Sai Baba. When Baba visited Africa, Idi Amin had not yet taken over as dictator. According to Dr. Patel and Dr. Gadhia (Sai Devotees who lived in Africa at the time) Sathya Sai Baba promptly warned them to sell their belongings and leave the country. A few years later, Idi Amin pulled his coup and began his murderous rampage telling Asians they must leave the country. Dr. Gadhia, who heeded Sai Baba's warning, sold all his belongings and escaped to London where he was able to start a new practice. Dr. Patel did not heed Sai Baba's warning and lost his property (but was able to escape). While in Uganda, Sathya Sai Baba was also seen speaking to natives in their mother tongue of Swahili.
On the ExBaba site, a "merged picture" of Sathya Sai Baba was creating in which a photo of Idi Amin was superimposed on the picture to make it look like he was sitting next to Sai Baba. Of course, Anti-Sai Activists are well known for promoting and creating these types of pictures and they actually think it is funny. However, when the same is done with them, they whine, whimper and throw shrieking hissy fits. For example, see: Ref 01 and Ref 02.
- Sai Baba as a Charismatic analysed and exposed by an Italian website
http://www.bible.ca/tongues-kundalini-shakers-charismastics.htm
Comment: Apparently, Anti-Sai Activists are easily confused with the "ca" located in the URL and stated it is an Italian website. It is actually Canadian, hence the "ca". The link in question resolves to a fundamentalist Canadian (not Italian) Christian webite that talks about many gurus, not just Sathya Sai Baba. The section about Sathya Sai Baba starts off with a completely untrue statement, claiming that Sathya Sai Baba was the successor to Bhagwan Nityananda. Sathya Sai Baba is not the successor to Nityananda. Swami Muktananda was the successor to Nityananda. If this fundy Christian site can't get their basic facts right about Nitayananda and Sai Baba, what to say about their numerous other inaccuracies and generalizations? It is also amusing that the ExBaba site is citing a fundamentalist Christian site against Sathya Sai Baba (which they have done before). See my article: Christian Movements Against Sathya Sai Baba & Hinduism.
UPDATE: After pointing out the fundamentalist Christian agenda by the ExBaba site and their shabby research, they promptly removed this link from their site.
NEW BLOGGED ARTICLES: February 2007 Update:
- The Ullrich Zimmermann Lie From Barry Pittard
- Another Ullrich Zimmermann Lie By Barry Pittard
- Barry Pittard: Free Press Release Sites: Deception - Part 1
- Barry Pittard: Free Press Release Sites: Deception - Part 2
- Barry Pittard: Over 100 Sworn Affidavits Against Sai Baba?
- U.S. Psychotherapist comments on Zimmermann Testimony
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/shortnews/psychotherapistnote.html
Comment: This is yet another solicitation for Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai conspiracy blog against Sathya Sai Baba. Very much like glitzy tabloids or deceptive infomercials that resort to sensationalism, Barry Pittard posted a blurb from an alleged and anonymous "psychotherapist" who made observations about Ullrich Zimmermann's alleged experiences with Sathya Sai Baba based on viewing one of the three videos about him.
Of course, one cannot believe anything Barry Pittard has to say considering that he falsely claimed that Zimmermann was 14 years old when he had his "white tantric" experiences with Sai Baba (he was actually 21 years old and an adult). Barry Pittard also blatantly lied (and has refused to correct) his false statement that Zimmermann claimed Baba performed oral sex on him. An utter and gutter untruth!
Barry Pittard is the type of shameless and pathetic liar who is desperately trying to make a fraudulent case against Sathya Sai Baba because the truth simply does not argue in his favor.
It is amusing that Barry Pittard has allegedly been able to obtain a psychotherapists opinion about Zimmermann (a person he/she never met but viewed on a video) and yet Alaya Rahm (with the assistance of a well-known lawyer) could not obtain the testimony of any psychotherapist on his behalf (Reference). Funny how a "psychotherapist" throws his/her weight around, all the while hiding behind the guise of anonymity (something deemed hypocritical when done by Pro-Sai Activists or Sai Devotees). Anti-Sai Activists are such a confused lot, it is hard to take any of them seriously.
NEW BLOGGED ARTICLE: February 2007 Update:
- The "Photographic Evidence" Lie Perpetuated By Dadlani, O'Clery And Priddy
- Sai Baba and Idi Amin, 'The Last King of Scotland'
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/articles/
sathya_sai_baba_and_idi_amin_both_psychopaths_and_liars_of_the_worst_sort.html
Comment: Like piranha in a feeding frenzy, Anti-Sai Activists are still desperately trying to infer guilt through one-time association between Sathya Sai Baba and Idi Amin. The fact of the matter is that Idi Amin never publicly endorsed or mentioned Sathya Sai Baba and Baba never praised or eulogized Idi Amin. Baba simply recounted his adventures in Africa and spoke more about the wild animals there than he did about Idi Amin. Anti-Sai Activists live in a Humpty-Dumpty world where their group of mealy-mouthed carousers do nothing useful but act very much like tabloid sensationalists.
- The Spirit of Christmas - Sai enthuses over Idi Amin
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/articles/barryamin.html
Comment: The link name is too funny: "BarryAmin". This is yet another link soliciting Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai conspiracy blog. Pittard has been deliriously spamming numerous free-post sites and forums with his rhetoric and propaganda. Pittard seems to be sensing an impending doom and is desperately struggling to get somewhere instead of nowhere (which has been Barry's embarrassing track-record for the past 7 years). Keep flailing your arms and huffing and puffing, Barry. People don't believe tabloid sensationalists who are associated with Anti-Semites and Holocaust Deniers. As a matter of fact, even after exposing the very disturbing Anti-Semitic ties of Duncan Roads and the Nexus Magazine, I was told that Barry Pittard recently published another article in Nexus! Tsk.
NEWS: February 2007 Update:
Another Anti-Sai Nut: Keeping in tune with several profoundly mentally disturbed defamers of Sathya Sai Baba (like usedbybaba, Sanjay Dadlani, Tony O'Clery and Barbara Dent), I came across a very strange post by a person who calls himself "loohan". Not only does "loohan" believe that he can psychically "program" areas of land with his mind to create demon and ET "prisons", he also believes in the "Illuminati" (a secret society comprised of blood-sucking, shape-shifting reptilians from another planet). This is what "loohan" had to say about Sai Baba on his blog:
"June 2, 2006: Sai Baba. I see they have posted more 'new' pics of His Holiness, also all at least 6 weeks old. About 40% down the page is a pic of the Anointing One. To his left is a dark-skinned man, to his right a white man, squatting. The dark guy is his witch #5, the white guy #4. Right below that are 4 little girls, dancing. The 2 front ones are sexually abused. I pulled out the sex demons they had from vaginal injection. I am confident that medical inspection would show they are not virgins. The bottom pic has the same 2 witches, too. His female ones are not on this page.
I found a clone they are working on to replace Baba. Baba's 'spirit' (insectile) is history, so it won't be the same person except in appearance. I stuffed the clone full of parasites, which made his location very easy to dowse. He is in a house on the SE corner of Mesnes Rd. and Wordsworth Ave., Marylebone, Greater Manchester, WN1, UK. I don't think the clone is ready for action yet for another couple months, so i can beat up on him at my leisure."
Believe it or not, this is not the first time that various people have claimed that Sathya Sai Baba has been (or will be) "replaced" by a clone. The "clone conspiracy" explains Baba's youthful appearance.
Even after all these years, I have yet to find one Anti-Sai Activist of sound mind. They are all (without exception) nit-picking, paranoid, babbling and negatively obsessed individuals who attempt to portray themselves one way in private and another way in public. Perhaps that's why no legal cases have ever been filed against Sathya Sai Baba in India. Anti-Sai Activists can't find a lawyer that thinks alleged victims are credible. One would think that a lawyer would leap at the opportunity considering how often Anti-Sai Activists keep saying that Baba's "empire" is worth billions of dollars. Even money-hungry lawyers won't touch Anti-Sai Activists or alleged victims. Ever wonder why?
- Watershed Year For India-U.S. Relations, says Rocca
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/shortnews/watershed.html
Comment: This is another link soliciting Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai conspiracy blog. This time around, Barry Pittard tries to twist the facts regarding an article entitled "Watershed Year For India-U.S. Relations, says Rocca. From: report by Ela Dutt, House International Relations Subcommitte for Asia & the Pacific. Source: Indian American Center for Political Awareness. Updated on 05 February, 2007" (Ref). Needless to say, this article has absolutely nothing to do with Sathya Sai Baba. Baba is not mentioned (directly, indirectly or otherwise) in the article. Pittard is desperately trying to associate Sathya Sai Baba with irrelevant news stories. For example, see my blog article entitled Free Press Release Sites: Deception - Part 1. Barry Pittard also quoted an article that said, "India’s courts are estimated to have a backlog of some two million cases". Needless to say, it doesn't matter if there was a backlog of a billion cases. There is not even one single case that has been filed against Sathya Sai Baba by any alleged victim, first-hand, in India. Therefore, there are no "backlogged cases" against Sai Baba whatsoever. Barry's Anti-Sai rhetoric and propaganda continues. Just as I predicted it would (Ref).
NEW ARTICLES: February 2007 Update:
Exposing the truth about the Sathya Sai Baba Wikipedia articles and how they are being controlled, influenced and dictated by Anti-Sai Activists, critics and ex-devotees:
- Wikipedia Links
- The Truth About The Sathya Sai Baba Wikipedia Articles
- Sathya Sai blunders into political furore by talking of sin
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/shortnews/babablunders.html
Comment: Sathya Sai Baba simply expressed his views about a separate Telangana state and a few people got very upset, behaved like bratty children and generated publicity. That's it. Needless to say, many others have expressed the exact same opinion as Baba did (Ref) and nobody threw hissy fits because of their comments.
- Myths about Sai's influence over Idi Amin
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/articles/mythsaboutidiamin.html
Comment: A tabloid-like conspiratorial article written by Robert Priddy about Sathya Sai Baba and Idi Amin. Since Amin claimed he had a dream that God told him to nationalize all the houses and expel Asians, Robert Priddy tried to associate Amin's dream with Sathya Sai Baba (although Amin never professed devotion to Sathya Sai Baba and never said even one single word about him). There are numerous people who are psychologically unstable who claim to dream about God. Are we to believe that just because a person claimed he/she dreamed of God, they actually did? Apparently, Robert Priddy thinks so (talk about gullible). So although Amin may have been temporarily carried away with devotion for the Indian Guru who drew great crowds and commanded great respect from Africans, Amin's devotion obviously and apparently did not last. This is evidenced by the fact that Amin never said one word about Sathya Sai Baba and never professed to be a devotee. Robert Priddy would like for others to think otherwise.
What is funny about this is that when Baba made comments about meeting other people (like Wolf Messing), Anti-Sai Activists called Sai Baba a liar and attempted to discredit him. However, when it comes to Amin, Anti-Sai Activists accept Baba's words as the solemn truth and attempt to use his words to discredit him. "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" cult-like tactics. In Priddy's typical hateful and bitter way, he questioned that perhaps G. Venkataraman "admires Idi Amin for his lead in such censorship and cover-up?" Considering Priddy's lamentable track-record with the truth and his adamant refusal to correct his numerous lies and embellishments, perhaps Priddy "admires Idi Amin for his lead in censorship and cover-up?" Robert Priddy and the case of the pot calling the kettle "black".
- Call for Government and Media Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/shortnews/callforgovernmentandmediainvestigation.html
Comment: This is a page essentially spamming links to Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai Conspiracy blog (where he tells his pathological lies unabashedly and refuses to correct his bold-faced lies even when publicly scolded about them). Anti-Sai Activists have recently renewed their smear campaigns against Sathya Sai Baba in a frenzied fervor. In seven years and counting, Anti-Sai Activists made no leeway against Sathya Sai Baba. After constantly reminding Anti-Sai Activists of this basic fact, they are now vainly struggling to get somewhere besides nowhere. These critics keep stomping their feet, raising a huge dust cloud, hoping to deceive others into thinking there are smoke and fire when there is neither. No court cases. No charges. No convictions. No formal complaints filed in India. No nothing! How's that for a track record? This is the cold hard truth and a bitter pill that Anti-Sai Activists simply can't stomach.
NEW WEBPAGE: February 2007 Update:
For many months now, Anti-Sai Activists have been claiming that I own the sathyasaibaba.com domain. This is a bold-faced lie. This propaganda is being perpetuated by Conny Larsson & Co. Click Here to view a screencap where Conny Larsson & Co falsely state (numerous times) that I am the owner to the sathyasaibaba.com domain. Why is it that Anti-Sai Activists continually get their facts wrong and refuse to correct their disinformation even when confronted with the truth? Needless to say, I am on record as denying ownership or affiliation with the sathyasaibaba.com website. I think it is about time Anti-Sai Activists stop spreading their lies and reference their claims with factual information. This goes to show how poorly ex-devotees research their information before spreading it as the gospel truth. How much worse it must be with Sathya Sai Baba? I already know the answer to that question.
NEW COMMENT: February 2007 Update:
Typical Anti-Sai Sleaze: For those who want to know the truth about Anti-Sai Activists and their coterie of sexually focused deviants, take a look at the following screencap (taken from the quicktopic forum: 01 - 02) that shows how Anti-Sai Activists typically respond to their critics:
Since I was not familiar with the term "wang" (as used in the context above) I decided to research it. It should come as no surprise that the only Anti-Sai Activist who has used the term "wang" before (in the same context) is Sanjay Kishore Dadlani (the fully exposed pervert, boot fetishist and Jesus-sex fetishist). See For Yourself. Sanjay also happened to use the exact same term "Yum Yum" on his killuminati blog (just like user did above: Ref).
MAJOR UPDATE: I was right about Sanjay Dadlani making the posts above. See the following new article:
- Sanjay Dadlani's Violent And Gay Slurs On QuickTopic
NEW COMMENT: February 2007 Update:
Tony O'Clery (the Anti-Sai Activist and ex-devotee who claimed that everyone in his family are psychic, that he hears voices in his head, that he can see dead people and that he enters demon trances) recently duplicated an article from Sanal Edamaruku (an Indian rationalist, atheist and critic of Sathya Sai Baba) on the QuickTopic forum, for which he gave the title "INDIA'S PRESIDENT IS IN ALL LIKLEHOOD A GAY PEDOPHILE LIKE HIS GURU" (Ref). This once again goes to show how loosely and how willingly Anti-Sai Activists are willing to accuse and libel others without proof. If they do this against others (myself included), what does this say about the integrity of their claims against Sai Baba?
- Tony O'Clery Defames Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam - Wordpress
- Full comment on Sai Baba as described by Ullrich Zimmermann
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/articles/robertpriddyullrichzimmermann.html
Comment: This article is essentially a long, rambling, babbling and fanatic diatribe written by Robert Priddy about Ullrich Zimmermann. Priddy decided that his conspiracy theories weren't far-fetched enough and apparently wrote this glitzy, tabloid-like article (full of erroneous speculations and unsubstantiated claims) to quench his thirst for revenge. The end result is that Priddy ended up shooting himself in the foot (many times over) and then stuck his shot foot in his mouth (many times over). Since Priddy's article is packed full of misrepresentations and ungrounded speculations, I will comment on the main points only.
Priddy began his article by congratulating Ullrich Zimmermann for his honesty and openness. After praising Zimmermann for his honesty and openness, Priddy then systematically invalidated all of Zimmermann's miraculous experiences with and positive statements about Sathya Sai Baba. Although Zimmermann claimed that Baba does possess genuine paranormal powers, can materialize objects and can "tune in" and know anything at will, Robert Priddy offered alterative explanations for Zimmermann's miraculous experiences (essentially invalidating his testimony and calling him a liar and insinuating that what Ullrich claimed he experienced he really didn't). Of course, in the world of conjecture, anything is possible. It is also possible that Zimmermann really didn't have "white tantric" experiences with Sathya Sai Baba and he created false memories while drunk at a "wine ceremony" (Zimmermann originally recalled his alleged experiences at a wine ceremony) and while attempting to please his newfound guru, Ramtha (an alleged 35,000 year old ascended master channeled through the psychic medium, JZ Knight) who commanded him to "teach Sai Baba a lesson".
Priddy painted a fantastic picture of Ullrich Zimmermann being (past tense) an indoctrinated believer involved in a "personality cult" who was a victim of projection, programming, possibly hypnosis and possibly being under the influence of psychoactive drugs delivered into his system through an oil treatment (nevermind the fact that Baba's hand is covered in oil and he would also be affected by psychoactive drugs if any were present in the oil)! Priddy also failed to give an explanation for the miraculous cure that Zimmermann attributed to his non-sexual oil treatment. Of course, if one can dismiss Zimmermann's miraculous experiences as false memories created through hypnosis or psychoactive drugs, one can similarly dismiss Zimmermann's alleged sexual experiences as false memories created through hypnosis or psychoactive drugs. Attempting to explain away Zimmermann's miraculous experiences, Priddy provided alternative explanations that explained away Zimmermann alleged "white tantric" experiences with Sai Baba. It was all self-induced delirium through hypnosis and psychoactive drugs! Thank you Mr Priddles! When Zimmermann related favorable opinions about Baba, Priddy reinterpreted Zimmermann's words. However, it is amusing to note that Zimmermann (at the time of the making of the videos) was an indoctrinated believer in another "personality cult" (Ramtha) and was still a victim of projection, programming, possibly hypnosis and the effects of alcohol! Priddy praised the testimony of Zimmermann (a "true-believer") and bashed the dishonesty and unreliability of true-believers at the same time!
Although Zimmermann did not say that he felt ashamed of his experiences (he even claimed it was an "honor" conferred on him), Priddy twisted Zimmermann's words and said that one could not discount "the effect of unmanageable feelings of disgust and shame in thinking about the sexual function after such an encounter with Sai Baba". Zimmermann never said anything even remotely resembling Priddy statements. Priddy obviously felt the need to put a negative slant on Zimmermann's testimony because Zimmermann's comments about his "white tantric" experiences were, for the most part, entirely favorable (Zimmermann's main complaints about Baba did not have to do with his alleged "white tantric" experiences).
It is also amusing that Priddy attempted to give alternative explanations for the miraculous "genital switch" stories attributed to Sathya Sai Baba by several people. Robert Priddy apparently played around with his own genitals and discovered that by "pulling of the penis back from behind" makes it appear as if there is no penis in front. Priddy said this is a fact that "all males know or can discover" and is "not at all difficult to do". First of all, not even one person who claimed to have experienced the miraculous "genital switch" said that Baba reached behind himself or that he fidgeted in any way. All Baba did (allegedly) was either snap his fingers or clap his hands. That's it. I would like to see Priddy pull his genitals "back from behind" through a full-body gown. Secondly, Ullrich Zimmermann claimed that he put his hand deeply into Baba's groin and he thoroughly felt Baba's crotch and he felt a vagina. Also, according to Tal Brooke (whose stories have never been corroborated in 30+ years), a man named "Patrick" claimed he had coital sex with Baba. It is also significant to point out that all of the alleged victims who claimed to have seen Baba's genitals never reported anything unusual or distorted about them. No one claimed seeing evidence of hermaphroditism. As a matter of fact, several people claimed that Baba was not a hermaphrodite but that he literally and miraculously transformed his genitals with a snap of his fingers or a clap of his hands. Robert Priddy also hypothesized that the "genital switch" stories may also be the result of hypnosis. If this is true, it may also be true that the perception of having sex with Baba was also the result of hypnosis. Notice how Priddy's explanations are self-serving, selective and are exclusively applied to his speculations?
Priddy also made comments supporting Sathya Sai Baba's paranormal abilities. As a matter of fact, even after becoming an ex-devotee, Priddy said "Some of what I experienced of SSB's extraordinary and positive powers through many years is undeniable, even after the most rigorous skeptical investigations, and I do not regard him as any ordinary human being. I have simply had to realize that his actions in the worldly and human sphere are not infallible and are not always setting a perfect example for others" (Ref). Despite this fact, Priddy tries to argue that Satya Sai Baba is a fraud and lousy magician. Priddy also said that Baba has "inexplicable psychic powers", is "psychically sensitive" and can materialize "apports"! Of course, it's comments like these that leave the door open just enough to compromise Priddy's entire argument against Sathya Sai Baba's paranormal powers and abilities. Priddy claimed that Baba cured him of a spinal ailment that he suffered from for many years, which often incapacitated him with severe pain. Priddy also attributed the following cures to Satya Sai Baba:
About two days before we were to leave for India at last, our much beloved black tomcat came up to us and began staggering about in an awful way. One-half of his body appeared to be paralyzed, so he could only half-drag himself to us.
In spontaneous sympathy I called out to Sai Baba straight away and after some minutes of watching this truly sorry spectacle, I thought of trying vibuthi on him. Previously he had always avoided any attempt to give him this ash, but I did not recall this and immediately took a pinch of it from the mantelpiece shrine and went up to him. Before I could apply it, a tiny speck of it dropped from my fingers by mistake and landed right on his nose! He leaped up as if an electric current had gone through him and shook his whole body.
Immediately, all signs of paralysis were gone, and he circled around a bit before making off on an excursion through his little door as if nothing had happened. He never did get the rest of the vibuthi applied. The tiniest speck was clearly sufficient. Had our cat not been cured, we would hardly have been able to leave for India two days later, or certainly not without much sadness.
(Talking about his Mother) She had suffered nearly six years of constant back pain by the time she was 81, when I arrived there in January 1983 to find she was now taking no painkillers at all. When I asked her why, she replied: "What pain?" and she couldn't even remember having had the accident that had caused it! Even though her memory was much impaired, I found the absence of pain almost incredible. My uncle confirmed that she had taken no pain killers for months. I later told people, "It's a miracle," not imagining at all how directly miraculous it really was. For ten days or so I observed to my pleasure that my mother evidenced no signs of pain whatever. Yet the inexplicable fact simply wouldn't quite sink in. It was a relief to me, nonetheless.
After that, it was seven months before I was able to fly over to visit her again. By then here memory had deteriorated so much that she could not even remember who I was. She even asked me if she had been married and to whom. Once a very talkative person, she was quite silent and accepting of everything. Although I knew she was still very much herself, in some remarkable way she was very far away too.
One evening, asking me to sit beside her on the sofa to talk, she asked if I knew who the person was who had visited her in the clinic. It soon became clear that someone she felt was very special had come to see her while she was being examined by a team of doctors at the clinic where she was under regular observation for perplexing new symptoms. "He was really so nice -- wonderfully charming!" was what she said, more or less. She thought he was either an African or an Indian. He had smiled very beautifully at her, she said, but the strange thing was that before he departed he uttered the words: "You will have no more pain!" I asked her if her pain had stopped thereafter, and she couldn't even remember having had much pain! But she was most eager to find out who it had been!
I thought only of the swami, who still lived in England, for he had spoken to me of my mother. I also knew that he had once unexpectedly appeared at the bedside of a devotee in hospital to instruct her and her doctors very strictly that to perform a cesarean operation would be wrong, adding that the child would be born the following morning without complications, which did indeed occur as he had predicted.
The swami was over six feet tall, was bald on top, and sometimes wore a saffron orange shirt. In trying to establish if it were him, I asked my mother about all of these points. She insisted he was short, hardly taller than her own shoulder height. Nor was he balding, no, he had lots of hair -- really a lot of it, and she gestured firmly to illustrate what amounted to a full Afro-style hair. Finally, he was wearing the same color as the doctors on either side of him, white. I asked if they had said who he was, or if they had spoken to him, but she said they had not. He had just walked up into a space between them where they stood around her, and he had been so nice, so very nice. This she repeated, still wanting to know who it could have been. I had to say that I did not know!
How it was that I did not consider Sathya Sai Baba, I simply cannot understand! His picture, which of course shows his Afro-style hair and in which he wears a long white robe, had been central on our shrine for about five years. I had also read that Sai Baba is very short in physical stature. The thought that it might have been him had once flashed through my mind, but I had to also rejected this notion in a flash. I felt it was completely improbable in our case, for I had already long since begun to consider him with awe and virtually as an unattainable person for one such as I.
Less than a week later I returned to Oslo and, after entering our house, greeted the picture of Sai on the shrine as usual. Not until that moment did I remember: I had stood at that very spot sometime the previous autumn in great sadness and cried out to Sai Baba to help my mother because of all her suffering! I recalled that my plea had been: "No more pain! No more pain!" Also, I had prayed that she might soon die peacefully, as she had long wished herself. My intense cry of anguish for her sake had come straight out of me and, once uttered, had simply left my thoughts until this very moment, about one year later!
The realization that such a great figure as Sai Baba must actually have appeared to my mother, for all intents and purposes, materializing himself for her, was stunning, and it took time for this to sink in properly. In short, at this one stroke, Sai Baba became the definitive fous of my seeking and the sadguru supreme for me. He gently stepped into the foreground of my life, into the place in which the swami had stood. The subtlety of the miracle in all its intricate ramifications took days, weeks, and even months to become clear to me. For example, it is just as amazing to me even now that my mother should have been able to recall the incident so well, or to think to ask me who it was, considering that she hardly mentioned a thing else during the whole visit. It proves to me what a wonderful impression Baba made on her. I am quite certain that I had never shown her a picture of him because she had been distubed by my previous connection with the swami in England. The chances that she had seen Baba's form pictured in any other connection were absolutely minimal.
About ten days later I was still wondering how to explain to her who it had ben and how to convey to her the huge significance of being visited by an incarnation of God from India. Then I received the news that she had died peacefully in the hospital, on October 2, 1983, without suffering, after a period of unconsciousness. So the other part of that "prayer" had thus also been answered.
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. While a devotee, 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 have required vast study and research into Baba's teachings. Robert Priddy now talks about Baba's teachings as if they are primitive, contradictory, unintelligent gibberish. However, here are some quotes from Robert Priddy and what he had to say about SSB'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 Baba's teachings. Despite claiming to have assiduously studied Sathya Sai Baba's teachings, 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".
Priddy also repeated many of his well-known lies, including his "Green Diamond" lie, lies about V.K. Narasimhan (a Sai Devotee to his death), the 1993 "murders" and new lies and claims about Joga Rao (a Sai Devotee to his death). Priddy selectively cited Prof. E. Haraldsson about Walter Cowan's alleged resurrection, yet wholly dismissed Haraldsson's numerous first-hand interviews and statements by devotees and ex-devotees who attested to amazing, unparalleled and mind-boggling miracles attributed to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba like levitation (both indoors and outdoors), bilocation, physical disappearances, changing granite into sugar candy, changing water into another drink, changing water into gasoline, producing objects on demand, changing the color of his gown while wearing it, multiplying food, effecting healings, giving visions, giving dreams, making different fruits appear on any tree hanging from actual stems, controlling the weather, physically transforming into various deities and physically emitting brilliant light. Devotees and ex-devotees also attested to seeing Baba materialize: vibuthi, lost objects, statues, photographs, Indian pastries (both hot and cold), food (hot, cold, solid and fluid), out of season fruits, new banknotes, pendants, necklaces, watches and rings. Priddy casually embellished the number of entries in his index "Back to the Source" from 18,000 entries to 20,000 entries. Robert Priddy claimed that it took Zimmermann 18 years to discuss his alleged experiences with Sathya Sai Baba. Actually, Ullrich Zimmermann discussed them about 8 years later, not 18.
With so many embellishments, contradictions and distortions of the truth, how can anyone trust anything Priddy has to say? Priddy is clearly angry, bitter and vindictive and has lost all credibility.