Refuting Deceptive 'News' About Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Released On Anti-Sai Websites
JULY 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):
Addendum to 'Sai Baba: Shiva or Sadhaka' by Brian Steel
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/Addendum%20to%20Sanjay.htm
Comment: The proposed "Love Is My Form (LIMF)" volume series is not approved by the Sri Sathya Sai Organization or Book & Publications Trust. LIMF is a private venture, by R. Padmanaban and a group of "researchers" from Sai Towers (a lodging facility outside the ashram). LIMF (Vol. 1; published in 2000) documents the first 25 years on the life, miracles and teachings of Sri Sathya Sai Baba. When it comes to alleged discrepancies, LIMF is cited by Anti-Sai Activists as an accurate reference. When it comes to first-hand testimonies of astounding miracles attributed to Sathya Sai Baba, LIMF is disregarded as inaccurate reference. As a matter of fact, Sanjay Dadlani has often cited LIMF to support his arguments against Baba. After citing LIMF Sanjay turns 180-degrees and bashes LIMF as "bullshit" and being written by Sai devotees who are all "liars", etc. Anti-Sai Activists are such a confused group, it is difficult to take any of their criticisms seriously.
More Pieces of the SB Biography Jigsaw Puzzle: 1940 - 1945
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/More%20Pieces.htm
Comment: Brian Steel.
The Planned Avatar?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/The%20Planned%20Avatar.htm
Comment: Brian Steel.
My Pain of Sai Baba
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/Yahoo!%20Groups%20%20sathyasaibaba2%20Messages%20Message%2025602%20of%2025619.htm
Comment: A cut and paste from a Yahoo group.
The Expensive G.P. Anticlimax
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/anticlimax.html
Comment: Brian Steel citing yet another one of Sathya Sai Baba's heavily edited English discourses and using it as evidence for what Sathya Sai Baba literally and accurately said in Telugu. Click Here to view my article about Brian Steel and his flip-flopping about Sathya Sai Baba's words and discourses.
The Abuse Revelations by Sai-devotee, Dr. N. Bhatia.
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/bhatia.html
Comment: I mailed Mick Brown about his alleged interview with Dr. Bhatia and he told me that he was given a phone number to someone in India, who claimed to be Dr. Bhatia. In response to my question on how he verified it was Dr. Bhatia, Mick Brown told me "some things, you have to take on trust"! There is no independent confirmation that the person that Mick Brown spoke to was Dr. Bhatia. Dr. Bhatia has remained completely silent about his experiences with Sathya Sai Baba after he was evicted from Prashanti Nilayam. Dr. Bhatia's alleged conversation, with Mick Brown, contradicted a prior article attributed to him. Dr. Bhatia said he was still a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba and despite this alleged admission, Dr. Bhatia is only willing to talk to critics and Anti-Sai Activists. All of this reeks of lies, deceit and subterfuge.
Facts from under the carpet
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/carpet.html
Comment: Robert Priddy again discussed his disenfranchisement with Sathya Sai Baba and cited the 1993 police shooting and his grudges against VIPs, etc. Nothing new.
No. 2: SB's "Catch 99": You can't win!
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/catch.html
Comment: This article is actually about Robert Priddy's "catch 29", where Sathya Sai Baba can't win no matter what. In this article, a man prayed to Sathya Sai Baba for a house and happened to win the lottery. Robert Priddy said this was not due to Sathya Sai Baba, but due to chance. Of course, if the man did not win the lottery, this would have shown how Sathya Sai Baba does not answer prayers. So no matter what happened, Sathya Sai Baba could never win. This points to Robert Priddy's ceaseless excuse-making to justify everything and anything against Sathya Sai Baba.
Sathya Sai Organisation. Divine Tool or Side Effect?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/divinetool.html
Comment: Serguei Badaev argued that the Sathya Sai Org did not develop smoothly. Are there any international organizations that have developed smoothly? Just because Sathya Sai Baba criticized the Sathya Sai Org at various times, Serguei wants us to believe that Sathya Sai Baba's praise of the organization was exaggerated. Sathya Sai Baba will often make such criticisms to correct faults in leaders or power trips held by groups in the organization. No matter what Sathya Sai Baba does or says, Anti-Sai Activists see faults and failings. If Sathya Sai Baba is critical all the time, something is wrong. If Sathya Sai Baba is praising the Sathya Sai Org all the time, something is wrong. If Sathya Sai Baba praises and/or criticizes the Sathya Sai Org, something is wrong. Despite all these criticisms, Serguei Badaev believes the unsubstantiated and unverifiable claims made by Robert Priddy about V.K. Narasimhan, a Sai devotee to his death. Consequently, Serguei Badaev's article shows his inclination to blindly believe unsubstantiated and unverifiable claims made by critics.
No. 4: Do not be Beguiled and Bothered by SB!
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/donotbeguiled.html
Comment: Robert Priddy (3 years after writing this article) is still bothered by Sai Baba after being beguiled for 18 years when he was a sycophantic Sai devotee.
No. 6: The most excessive claims ever made?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/excessiveclaims.html
Comment: This article discusses the alleged Hislop Letters.
- Alaya Rahm Self-Dismissed His Own Lawsuit Against The SSB Society
- A Scathing Response To Critics About Alaya Rahm's Failed Lawsuit
- The Rahm Family - Allegations Examined
The Answer from Dennis Hanisch
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/hanisch.html
Comment: A reference to the QuickTopic forum, where anyone can post anything they want, as many times as they want, at any time they want and using as many fake names as they choose.
No. 3: How most Indian Gurus operate
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/howindian.html
Comment: Robert Priddy repeating himself again. Same unsubstantiated claims. Nothing new.
No. 1 The Impotent Avatar? (A new series of regular postings)
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/impotent.html
Comment: Click Here to read my article about Robert Priddy's conspiracy theory about the 1993 police shootings.
Kalam makes low-profile visit to Puttaparthi
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/kalam.html
Comment: Quotes from a talk by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Omniscience?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/omniscience.html
Comment: Brian Steel nitpicking away.
Sai Baba: Shiva or Sadhaka?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/sanjay.htm
Comment: Click Here to view my article about Sanjay Dadlani. Consequently, this article was not only motivated by hate, it was also written by a person who openly lies and shamelessly tries to deceive the general public.
No. 5: SB exposes himself further in discourse
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/sbexposes.html
Comment: Click Here to view my article about Brian Steel (which also applies to this article by Robert Priddy).
Why persons like Sai Baba are burdened with unusual sexual desires
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/sexdesires.html
Comment: Some quotes from David Deida, author of "Finding God through Sex". I am uncertain why the ExBaba admin felt the need to reference this book (nor do I care to find out if they found God after reading it).
Believers in Sai Baba can't understand many simple things.
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/simplethings.html
Comment: Link does not work.
No. 7: How the SB form binds and stunts the devotee
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/stunts.html
Comment: Robert Priddy (again) quoting an email correspondence with an unnamed friend. Robert Priddy's unnamed friend happens to believe that Sathya Sai Baba is "probably a denizen of the Djinn plane" who is "very tricky, they can zoom about on the Astral and change form and are not to be trusted as they can be both divine and demonic"! Nice to know Robert Priddy has intellectual friends who are not gullible and so easily brainwashed like Sai devotees! ((laughs))
Sai Baba of India Pedophile Subangel Prophet
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/subangel.html
Comment: An article by an unnamed person who believes in automatic handwriting, UFO's and other strange, eccentric metaphysical beliefs and stated that Sathya Sai Baba is a subangel based on the teachings of a Christian mystic and Hindu mystic.
SB's 'Men in suits'
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/suits.html
Comment: Robert Priddy bashed VIPs and asserted his superiority over them by saying they have "observably weak intellects". Odd that Robert Priddy would bash VIPs as his alleged friend, V.K. Narasimhan, was also a VIP. Robert Priddy said, of VIPs:
" I find them mostly unconvincing personalities and too dummylike as devotees. They doubtless really want to believe the best and contribute to the best of all. But they are being duped too and are instrumental in drawing others in to be 'converted' and to get their minds 'washed clean'. There is another term for this long-term, disinformative and psychically-backed religious conversion: it is 'brainwashing', nothing less".
Despite this belief, Robert Priddy continually referenced V.K.Narasimhan, who used to be the most prominent V.I.P.
Guru Busters on Argentinean TV
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/gurubusters.html
Comment: This link is duplicated from the Letters Section.
The God of Big Things
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/bigthings.html
Comment: A quote from Lonely Planet (not to be confused with the planet Anti-Sai Activists dwell on, but an actual publication).
A bogus reincarnation claim?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/bogus.html
Comment: A link to Brian Steel's site.
Danish documentary re-telecast
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/broadcast.htm
Comment: A cut and paste from a Yahoo group.
SB's Claim to be the Reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/claim.html
Comment: A link to Brian Steel's site.
The Exposé is not helping Educare in Australia
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/educare.html
Comment: An email from Yeshwanth Enjeti about an Educare seminar with alleged poor attendance.
Is the Bangalore Hospital in need of funds?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/funds.html
Comment: An unsubstantiated claim made by an anonymous "very reliable source in Australia".
Notes on the Responsibility of Writers of Sathya Sai Baba Books
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/justreleased.html
Comment: A link to Brian Steel's site.
Thorbjörn Meyer television news interview
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/meyerinterview.html
Comment: An interview with Thorbjörn Meyer who rightly points to the fact that no one has seen these alleged 20 affidavits from sexual abuse victims. After a lapse of a few years, Robert Priddy is now claiming that there are only 10 alleged "affidavits". The other ten mysteriously disappeared.
- Alaya Rahm Self-Dismissed His Own Lawsuit Against The SSB Society
- A Scathing Response To Critics About Alaya Rahm's Failed Lawsuit
- The Rahm Family - Allegations Examined
More of the same
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/moreofthesame.html
Comment: An appropriately title, except in relation to Brian Steel.
Three new articles from Brian Steel
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/newsteel.html
Comment: Links to Brian Steel's site.
New temple dedicated to Sai Baba in Colombia
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/newtemple.html
Comment: Just as the title said.
Some Real Statistics
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/realstatistics.html
Comment: Funny that Brian Steel would point out the decline in posts at the SaiUnity Yahoo Group. At least they received more posts than the Anti-Sai Yahoo Groups: SaiBabaExposed (which closed down after no activity for a year) and the ExBaba Yahoo Group which has been up since 2001 and has only 2 members with no posts The SaiUnity Yahoo Group had over 3,000 posts.
Repeat of Controversial TV Documentary
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/repeat.html
Comment: Major Update: View the following responses:
- Alaya Rahm Self-Dismissed His Own Lawsuit Against The SSB Society
- A Scathing Response To Critics About Alaya Rahm's Failed Lawsuit
- The Rahm Family - Allegations Examined
Scribes seek probe into Baba criticism by press council
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/scribes.html
Comment: Click Here to view my article about the 1993 police shootings and Robert Priddy's lies, deceit and dishonesty.
The SB Seva Conference and The Guru Purnima Festival
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/sevaconference.html
Comment: Brian Steel talked about an abscess and mumps that Sathya Sai Baba said he undertook for the sake of one of his devotees. Sathya Sai Baba recovered from these ailments. Brian Steel also said that Sathya Sai Baba sounded "dyspeptic, angry, disappointed and confused". Ironically, Brian Steel's sounded "dyspeptic, angry, disappointed and confused" in his email correspondence with me.