Refuting Deceptive 'News' About Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Released On Anti-Sai Websites

OCTOBER 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):

- Contra Cult Crusaders Need to Communcate and Coordinate
http://www.rfjvds.dds.nl/ex-baba/engels/shortnews/barrycultcrusaders.html

Comment: More obsessive and repetitive stalk-material from Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai Conspiracy blog. At least Barry correctly identified himself and ex-devotees as "crusaders".

- Is Indian ‘Godman’ Sai Baba’s Moon Waning Still Further?
http://www.rfjvds.dds.nl/ex-baba/engels/shortnews/barrybabawaning.html

Comment: More obsessive and repetitive stalk-material from Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai Conspiracy blog.

- Sai Baba Fails To Grant Great Vision But Endangers Crowds
http://www.rfjvds.dds.nl/ex-baba/engels/shortnews/barrybabaendangerscrowds.html

Comment: More obsessive and repetitive stalk-material from Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai Conspiracy blog.

- Muslim Leaders' Initiative Bold. Sai Baba's Efforts Fail
http://www.rfjvds.dds.nl/ex-baba/engels/shortnews/barrybabafails.html

Comment: More obsessive and repetitive stalk-material from Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai Conspiracy blog.

- The Secret Swami. BBC Docu. Review. Condensed
http://www.rfjvds.dds.nl/ex-baba/engels/shortnews/barrysecretswamidocu.html

Comment: More obsessive and repetitive stalk-material from Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai Conspiracy blog.

- 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

- Sai Baba's failed moon darshan creates major furore among devotees and the public
http://www.rfjvds.dds.nl/ex-baba/engels/shortnews/babasfailedmoondarshans.html

Comment: This is ridiculous. There was never supposed to be a “Moon Darshan” because the Moon was a quarter-crescent and waning. Like gullible sensationalists, Ex-Devotees took off with poorly researched newspaper articles and refused (and continue to refuse) to research this matter in depth. There was no “major furore” among devotees or the public. This page contains links to Barry Pittard and Robert Priddy's Anti-Sai Conspiracy blogs.

- To Be Seen In Moon? But Where Was Moon?
http://www.rfjvds.dds.nl/ex-baba/engels/shortnews/barrymoon.html

Comment: More inaccurate, obsessive and repetitive stalk-material from Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai Conspiracy blog.

- New Sai Baba expose site: Sathya Sai Baba In Word And Action
http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/

Comment: Yet another Anti-Sai domain from Robert Priddy. See:

- Robert Priddy & The saibaba.org.uk Domain

- New Sai Baba expose site: Sathya Sai Baba - The Truth
http://saibaba-invigilator.blogspot.com/

Comment: You guessed it. Another Anti-Sai blog from a faceless and anonymous Anti-Sai Activist. There is a strong suspicion that Robert Priddy is involved with this blog.

- Is Humanity One Big Cult?
http://www.rfjvds.dds.nl/ex-baba/engels/shortnews/barrybabahumanity.html

Comment: More obsessive and repetitive stalk-material from Barry Pittard's Anti-Sai Conspiracy blog.

Some quotes from Barry Pittard:

"Accusations of substantive abuse do not have to be proved. They have to be investigated. An organization that does not have genuine policies and practices of transparency and accountability is per se condemned."

Although Anti-Sai Activists absurdly claim that the accusations against Sathya Sai Baba are "substantive", they have never vindicated their alleged "substantive" accusations in a court of law in India. This fact argues more in favor that the accusations against Sai Baba are non-substantive. Even money-hungry lawyers will not touch alleged victims. To Date: every single alleged victim has refused Barry Pittard's offer of free "world-class legal resources" (Ref). Therefore, the entire Anti-Sai movement is a mirage, a cloud and an illusion based on nothing more than allegations made by six non-anonymous people who have never filed a basic police complaint in India (even though they wish to bring Sai Baba to justice).

"Statements such as that an organization's founder and his or her core leaders have never been brought before a court are crude and dishonest in the extreme".

Neither Barry Pittard or any other critic can provide even one document or court file that proves that Sathya Sai Baba or the Sai Organization have ever been officially charged for alleged sexual improprieties. Therefore, the only "crude and dishonest to the extreme" person is Barry Pittard, who fraudulently attempts to deceive others into thinking that Sai Baba and the Sai Org have been officially charged with crimes when they have not.

"Cult defenders persistently employ a number of blunt tools: demeaning, name-calling, demonizing, slandering, stalking both on and off the Internet, intimidation, distortion and misinterpretation of what has been said. They muck-rack like McCarthyites, and attack individuals, quite commonly for faults they have not committed, instead of address issues".

Barry Pittard hypocritically whines about the numerous tactics allegedly used by "cult defenders" to attack former followers. The overwhelming majority of verifiable information proves that ex-devotees are the ones who resort to all of the gutter tactics that Barry Pittard blindly pointed out in others. Barry Pittard openly endorses, promotes and associates himself with the vicious liar, pervert and defamer Sanjay Dadlani. Barry Pittard waged vicious smear-campaigns against high-profile Sai Devotees (i.e., Dr. Sunny Anand and Rabbi Zeller) who have never said one word against him or other ex-devotees. Barry Pittard outed a Sai Devotee (Hal Honig) as allegedly being a homosexual, publicly accused him of running a pedophile ring from his apartment, published vicious hearsay rumors from an anonymous informant against him, notified the New York Mayor's Office (which allegedly issued a case number) against him and notified Interpol against him! Of course, Honig has never been charged with (or formally informed of) any crime subsequent to Pittard's complaints over seven months ago. Barry Pittard then whined, sniveled and hissed about "cult defenders" "stalking" others "both on and off the Internet". Therefore, Barry Pittard's alleged sensitivities to muckraking is one huge pseudo-moralistic and hypocritical pretense.

- Sai Baba's promised appearance on the moon "postponed"!
http://robertpriddy.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/no-moon-buggy-ride-for-sai-baba-yet/

Comment: More obsessive and repetitive stalk-material from Robert Priddy's Anti-Sai Conspiracy blog. It is amusing how Priddy blindly grasped at the first newspaper articles he read and immediately believed them like a desperate and gullible child. Although there is some truth to this story, it was never meant to be a "moon miracle" (the moon is currently a crescent moon and waning). Therefore, Priddy's asinine comments about Baba's fuzzy outline being visible in the full moon would only be pertinent if the moon was actually full. It wasn't.

RadioSai reported:

"Prof Anil Kumar was asked to announce that today, all could see the Vishwa Viraat Roopa - Cosmic Form - towards the airport till 7 pm. Bhagawan then moved towards His residence. Half of Prasanthi Nilayam made a beeline for the airport, and at 6.15, Bhagawan also emerged from His residence and proceeded to the airport. There, Swami's car was surrounded by devotees and had difficulty moving around - Swami could not come out of the car completely due to the crush of the crowd. After around 45 minutes at the airport, Swami started back to His residence, the car making it's way very slowly through the road which was clogged with people and vehicles."

AndhraCafe accurately reported the events (as confirmed to me by people in India):

Hysteric crowds force Sai Baba to differ Viwa Rupa
"Puttaparthi (Anantapur): Hysteric crowds and overhanging clouds persuaded Sri Satya Sai Baba to postpone his promised Vishwarupa darshanam on Thursday evening.

There was chaos at the Puttaparthi airport after Sai Baba devotees thronged the premises to witness the Vishwarupa darshanam of their master. They returned disappointed.

Sai Baba had earlier given darshan to his devotees at Sai Kulwant hall in Puttaparthi. After the bhajan, he told his assistant Anil Kumar that he would give Vishwarupa darshanam at around 7 pm on the northeastern direction of the airport.

As soon as Mr Anil Kumar announced this, devotees ran towards the airport chanting his name.

Television channels also telecast the news and people in Puttaparthi locked up their houses and ran towards the airport. Thousands also rushed to the area from surrounding villages.

All the devotees crowding the area focused their attention on the northeastern direction in the sky. In a fit of devotion, some of them surrounded the car of Sai Baba and he could not come out. Devotees did not relent even after members of Satya Sai Trust urged them to sit down. Instead, they ran after the car.

A small stage was set up before the car for Viswarupa Darshanam but Sai Baba could not reach the stage as devotees prostrated before him. He was forced to remain in the car for about an hour.

A short while later, the office-bearers of the Satya Sai Trust announced that the Viswarupa Darsanam was postponed because of the non-cooperation of devotees and the cloudy weather. Sai Baba then returned to his Ashram.

Sai Baba devotees in other countries also called up their friends and relatives in Puttaparthi to find out about the incident.

Because of the rush, traffic on the road from Puttaparthy to the airport was thrown out of gear. At one stage, doors of the airport had to be closed. Police finally cleared the traffic to enable Sai Baba to return to his Ashram. Most devotees expressed disappointment at not being able to see the Viswarupa Darsanam." (Reference)