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Sathya Sai Baba - "Lord of the Air", "Avatar of Night"

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From: "Peter Myers" myers@cyberone.com.au

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Subject: Sathya Sai Baba - "Lord of the Air", "Avatar of Night"

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 06:53:31 +1000 From: lightning@flexinet.com.au

My latest project is an article exposing links between Tony Blair and A.B.
Vajpayee (with the current Indian government likely to be no better)
concerning Vajpayee's successful gambit in getting Blair to stamp on a solid
number of Labour MP's who we had managed to get onside to raise questions in Parliament.

I was a lecturer in SSB's first (and very prestigious) college outside
Bangalore back in 1978-79. I was not aware of his sexual molestation of boys
and young men at that time, but when I did investigate after October 1999, I
found the evidence overwhelming. Not only that, there was also his implication
in police executions in his private quarters, vast financial corruption, etc.

Two friends of mine and I are spearheading a global campaign to bring these
issues to light.

I was about to write to you and let you know that his intelligence and
security apparatus has training programs in Israel, although I have not begun
to investigate this angle.

I've just spent nearly eight months as a consultant to the BBC, which has made
a very good documentary, aired June 17, and soon to worldwide, 'The Secret Swami.'

At the moment, I am looking at some pretty tantalising Blair government connections.

Barry

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Sathya Sai Baba Exposé: An Update

Date: 09-30-03

Document

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2003

By: Barry Pittard, Australia.

Email: bpittard@beachaccess.com.au

Copied from: http://www.saiguru.net/english/news/030925exposeupdate.htm

The three articles published by the international magazine Nexus,
September-October 1999, on accusations against Sathya Sai Baba, India's most
famous guru, were seminal. These alleged his serial sexual molestation of
young males from different countries, and other acute betrayals of spiritual trust.

Independently of extensive investigations by former devotees, Nexus
publisher-editor Duncan Roads tested many Sai Baba-related sources. He writes,
"I personally interviewed victims and parents. I used to be a believer and I
denied these accounts as fiction, UNTIL I INVESTIGATED THEM." (Email to me,
Sunday, June 15, 2003 12:15 AM, posted http://www.exbaba.com/, June 16,
"News,"). As we advanced our own worldwide investigations and campaign of
exposure, Duncan Roads's confirmation of the integrity of the evidence, and
printing of the articles, was certainly a morale-boost.

Sathya Sai Baba's dissenters are often those who were closely, and for many
years, connected with his organisation's vast-scale, worldwide devotional,
educational and social work. From May 1999, former devotee activists - such as
retired management consultant Glen Meloy (above all), USA, and software
engineer Hari Sampath, now India/at the time green card-USA - led hard-won
campaigns to bring the facts to international attention via the media,
governments, police, sexual abuse authorities, etc.

Clearly losing his nerve in response to our intense government, police, media
and internet pressure, Sathya Sai Baba's discourse on Christmas Day 2000 did
far from celebrate Christmas themes, such as wishing 'peace and goodwill to
all men.' The Times of India, December 26, 2000 headlined: Sai Baba Lashes Out
at His Detractors. He called his dissenters "cawing crows," "demons," and
thousands of "Judases." He extensively boasted his social works (actually,
they are overwhelmingly those of his devotees). Jealousy and reception of
money motivated us, he said. Very terrible is the karmic future he evoked for
us: "Betrayal of God is the worst of all betrayals. It will not be atoned no
matter how many births are experienced!"

In his chanted introduction to the discourse, he says, "Forbearance is the
real beauty in this sacred land of Bharat (India)." Throughout, there was no
hint of his practising what he has so often preached at other times: "We
should help even those who have harmed us. This is the vow of Sai. No matter
if some people criticise or ridicule Me (sic), I will always look at them with
kindness." (Sanathana Sarathi June 2002). Not that we have harmed him, for he
has harmed himself by refusing to face the allegations in a law-abiding way.
Nothing suggested a Christ-like forgiveness. To question his claims to Godhood
is to be forever damned.

Well before formal Exposé activities, which are mainly those of former
followers of Sathya Sai Baba, the late Dr Abraham T. Kovoor, the Sri Lankan
Rationalist who lived in India for many years, mounted public challenges to
Sathya Sai Baba. So have member organisations of the International Humanist
and Ethical Union, http://www.iheu.org, which has NGO Special Consultative
status with the United Nations as well as the Council of Europe. India's most
renowned rationalist and former Vice Chancellor of the University of
Bangalore, South India, Dr. H. Narasimhaiah, a scientist, set up a
twelve-member academic committee "to investigate rationally and scientifically
miracles and any other verifiable superstitions." However, Sathya Sai Baba
refused to co-operate. Some IHEU member organisations wish to stage an
international conference on Sathya Sai Baba in a leading city of the world.
Its Executive Director Babu Gogineni has emailed me, Thursday, 6 March 2003
7:45 AM, "Officers of the London-based IHEU have many times voiced their
concern at the impunity with which Sathya Sai Baba operates, untouched by the
Indian criminal justice system. It considers the allegations of paedophilia
against him as gravely as it considers similar accusations against the
Catholic and other clergy in the West." He says that one of the IHEU's
concerns is the personal danger to its activists from fanatical followers of
the guru, especially in India.

B. Premanand, of TV "Guru Buster's" fame, and fellow Indian Rationalists,
among other gutsy actions, tried and failed to expose Sathya Sai Baba in
court. Sri Premanand has formed a Committee for Scientific Investigation into
Claims of the Paranormal (CSICP). He mounted a court action in Sathya Sai
Baba's state of Andhra Pradesh, in which the High Court Judge Anjaneyulu,
known to be Sai Baba's devotee, ruled that the law requiring a license to
produce gold does not apply to Sathya Sai Baba, who, he determined,
materialises his gold from a divine realm:
http://www.indian-skeptic.org/html/saigold.htm. B. Premanand has published a
searing, erudite 800-page book on the 1993 police executions, Murders in Sai
Baba's Bedroom, B. Premanand. 11/7 Chettipalayam Road, Podanur. 641 023 Tamil
Nadu, India. See also Robert Priddy's writings on this topic mentioned later
in the present article.

In 1970, Tal Brooke published "Lord of the Air," which was banned in India and
subsequently re-written and published as "Avatar of Night." Paperback: 400
pages. End Run Publishing; December 15, 1999. ISBN: 193004500X. During the
fourteen months he lived close to him, Sathya Sai Baba conferred on him, as he
was later to do with David Bailey (q.v.), a rare closeness - rather too close
for comfort, it would seem. It was too easy for both Western and Hindu Indian
Sai devotees to allude to his adoption of a born-again Christian faith, and to
pass off his accounts of Sathya Sai Baba's sexual escapades as those of a
jaundiced, badmouthing fool. (I used to think of him in these terms, too). In
actual fact, Tal Brooke is author of nine books and is listed in Marquis Who's
Who in the World (Volumes 12 & 13), Contemporary Authors (Vol. 93-96), and The
International Who's Who of Authors. The famous English intellectual Malcolm
Muggeridge highly praised his work. Glen Meloy (q.v.) has correctly identified
Tal Brooke as the 'original whistle-blower.' In fact, he has shared vital, as
yet unpublished information with Glen Meloy and me, and undertaken to reveal
it at a time when it will have maximum impact.

In the mid to late nineties, almost a lone voice, the Italian Paul Holbach, in
his second language English, provided the first, consecutive, incisive
questioning of Sathya Sai Baba. He withdrew his website, took to other
preoccupations but permitted the larger part archived at the Exbaba website: http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/articles/p_holbach/eng/main_e.htm

Devoted to Sathya Sai Baba for twenty-five years, I spent a few years around
him and for two years taught English literature at all levels in a voluntary
capacity (1978-79) at his college in Whitefield, via Bangalore, the first of
several large boys' colleges Sathya Sai Baba founded. Along with a large
network of those formerly associated with his work, and as a matter of
simplest conscience, I now assist with exposure activities.

Unless the phenomena are powerfully challenged, Sathya Sai Baba is all too
likely to pass into history hailed as a world teacher and savior. His devotees
are legion in all the top Indian power structures. Slavishly, they, and
millions of Indians, sink at his feet, declaring him a national treasure - the
greatest divine incarnation ever - and believe him when he says that he will
save the entire world, with India leading the rest of us. Heavily armed state
and federal police forces and his own security and intelligence force, some of
them specially trained in Israel and the USA guard him with a protection
tighter than a drum. Why would they not? In the form of foreign currency, he
brings billions into India, and his organisation sets up projects that Indian
governments of all persuasions have frequently failed to implement.

Powerful incentives to belief are the ostensible miracles. But not all such
phenomena related to him - such as sacred ash (vibhuthi) that pours from his
venerated photos and other apparently miraculously manifesting objects -
submit to rational explanation, no matter how grimly rationalist antagonists
persist in superficial analyses. These phenomena occur worldwide in devotees'
homes and other venues. I have had a great many such experiences, and opine
that rationalistic analyses, in this, although not in other directions, fall
short. But dogmatism from both believers and rationalists only hinders
rational exploration of such phenomena.

The Indian power structure, including most sections of the media, constantly
obstructs legal and other efforts by the Exposé, with the honorable exception
of India Today and Vijayavihaaram, the latter with its unique and brave
Editor, Ramana Murthy. Several of us, including those with excellent
credentials, have written to the Indian President, Prime Minister and hundreds
of parliamentarians, embassies, high commissions, and media. Reflecting
shamefully on their country, they remain mute, showing rank irresponsibility
and failure of courtesy. Some Indians who could help a lot do not, being
afraid to offend the status quo. They fear falling out of favor with family,
friends, workplace, and so on. You would not think it was the land of the
Freedom Fighters, nor of the Vedas, which, as the brave Swami Vivekananda
said, ring out with the notion of fearlessness.

Indeed, the instrument of the subpoena may need to be used in cases such as
that of Dr Naresh Bhatia, former head of the Blood Transfusion Unit at Sathya
Sai Baba's multi-million dollar Super Specialty hospital at Puttaparthi. Dr
Bhatia has given us accounts of his own homosexual liaisons with Sathya Sai
Baba, and of his eventual protest at Sathya Sai Baba's sexual abuse of his
college boys, including a young boy in 7th Standard (not, as is sometimes
misreported, a seven years old boy). In discussions in his own New Delhi home
with Stephen Carthew (q.v.), he has clarified the issue of the boy's age, and
has said (including in emails to me) that he still regards Sathya Sai Baba as
his guru. (As Swami Chidananda, the institutional successor of the famous
Sivananda of Rishikesh once told me, when I sought his guidance after an
Australian woman had come to me distressed at hearing rumours of homosexual
practices by Sathya Sai Baba, there is a long Indian tradition of surrender to
one's spiritual guru, even when serious flaws are discovered). Spiritual?!
Privately, Dr Bhatia relates that he does not rescind on his earlier accounts
but will not repeat them because of concern for the safety of those involved.
We also understand that he has, in exchange for the release of his
possessions, entered into an agreement with the Puttaparthi ashram authorities
to remain silent. What fearlessness!

In India, paedophilia is a still far more tabooed topic than it is in Western
countries. Nor would boys involved in such a scandal look too good in the
arranged marriage sphere. However, a few courageous Indians work to expose
Sathya Sai Baba. This input is crucial, as it is important for activists to
lead the action within the culture that they understand best. Hindus active in
the Exposé, such as the Tamil-Australian former devotee Jeyendran Soma, a
civil engineer, feel that Sathya Sai Baba profoundly misrepresents and defames
Hinduism, even while seeming to extol it. They point to the contradictions and
muddles that he makes with the Hindu scriptures, many of which bungles can be
shown to have been quietly removed by his translators. These Hindu men and
women, assisted by distinguished scholars, are now taking these matters to the
leading Hindu councils in the world. Smallish but very determined groups
campaign to reveal the many accusations against him.

We are now much further advanced, with two extensive general websites,
http://www.exbaba.com (Dutch, English and Italian) and http://www.saiguru.net
(English, Spanish, Russian, and Polish). A widely representative Sai Baba
Exposé group, Just Seekers of Truth (JuST), uses a professional public
Petition website, http://www.PetitionOnline.com/saibaba/petition.html. You too
can sign it.

Welcome is the emergence of critical, prolific scholarly writers with their
own Sai Baba Exposé websites: see, Robert Priddy (Norway),
http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma and Brian Steel (Australia)
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/index.html. For an overview of critical
materials, you may consult, In the Shadow of Sathya Sai Baba at:
http://www.saiguru.net/english/last_updates/shadowindex.htm. Under "Studies"
on the http://www.exbaba.com site, there is a navigator to: "'Important
studies from critical authors since 'The Findings.'"

The 'findings' referred to were those of husband and wife David (UK) and Faye
Bailey (Australia), formerly two exceptionally prominent devotees, both
authors of strongly selling books on Sathya Sai Baba, who ceased their
devotion as they kept discovering compelling evidence for sexual molestation
and major fraudulence of various kinds. An English concert pianist, David
Bailey taught music at Sathya Sai Baba's university at Puttaparthi, and made
frequent trips there from 1994, and was a popular keynote speaker at official
Sai devotee gatherings round the world. I think that 'The Findings' would
profit from very rigorous documentation and witnessing of sources, such as the
Hyderabad jeweler said to provide objects that Sathya Sai Baba 'materialises.'
See also, 'Personal Experiences of David Bailey,' http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/witnesses/david.html

Among penetrating contributions are those of Alexandra Nagel (Holland) and
Serguei Badaev (Russia). The latter has, for example, documented glaring
failures in financial accountability within the Sathya Sai Organisation. He
was President of the Moscow Sathya Sai Centre, National Sathya Sai Education
in Human Values Coordinator and Deputy Chairman of the Central Council of
Russian-speaking countries. A formidable ex pro-Sai polemicist is Sanjay
Dadlani, a UK university student in computer sciences, who changed sides, and
now conducts a former devotee discussion board,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sathyasaibabaexposeforum (Non-members must go to
this web address and the other Yahoo group addresses, mentioned below, to join
up). One of Sanjay Dadlani's concerns is the prospect of Sathya Sai Baba
making (as he has promised) a move to the world stage. The concern is not
misplaced. Already on air is a 24-hr digital radio broadcasting station,
inaugurated by Sai Baba on November 23rd, 2001 on the day of his 76th
birthday. http://www.sathyasai.org/radio/radio.html. According to a Sai Sathya
Organisation prospectus, it is beamed at India and neighboring countries,
Africa, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, and non-northern
parts of Europe, with plans to cover South America this year, and then the USA.

Also useful, amid somewhat moderated sparks flying, is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sathyasaibabadiscussionclub. A rather 'heavy'
and crowded board is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sathyasaibaba2/messages.
Participation in these fora may sometimes be a more accurate, if melancholy,
reflection of one's IQ than Stanford-Binet tests. Sadly, a site well run by
Anthony Thomas, Quick Topic, was repeatedly spammed and destroyed by Sathya
Sai Baba followers untypical of those very decent devotees most of us have
known down the years. Its archives can still be accessed at:
http://www.quicktopic.com/8/H/qYarJBpGLW7G6. A similar fate attended the
website of a sensitive young woman, Keenan Cheney, who for the sake of her own
psychological wellbeing withdrew from the persistent outpourings of pro-Sathya
Sai Baba vitriol, a concoction some of his devotees regularly offer us to
drink. Also pivotal to our effort are highly qualified and respected sexual
abuse professionals well apprised by Sai Baba's victims and their families.

Not the slightest evidence exists of any attempt by him or his organisation to
curb the many and incredibly hateful activities of certain Sathya Sai Baba
devotees in their attacks on us. With the extremely rare, immature exceptions
- with whom most of us will not allign our efforts with - former devotees have
comported themselves throughout with great forbearance. Since Sathya Sai Baba
has forbidden his devotees to view the allegations on the Internet, we have no
means of seeing his devotees well-represented in any discussion.

Much of Sathya Sai Baba's fraudulence has been exposed. For example, videos
shot by well-known devotees show him, on careful analysis, faking
materialisations. The Sai Baba-appointed US videographer James Redmond's vast
video footage is a prime case. Some devotees have acknowledged seeing Sai Baba
cheat, but say that it is his test of their faith. However, it may be a
mistake to miscalculate strong evidence for some of the supra-rational
phenomena. These often convince otherwise rational human beings that humanity
is in the presence of a great spiritual benefactor. If he makes a move to
charismatically charm the world, and the powerful appearance of miracles
continues, whatever be its causation, we need to ensure that civil reality and
law triumph over the thirst for the miraculous. We need to ensure that
national police forces have plentiful sworn affidavits, so that they can be
fully equipped with arrest warrants in any country with its own victims where
he may decide to travel.

A common response to the three Nexus articles was that they had the 'ring of
truth.' One of the authors was Dr Terry Gallagher, an agricultural scientist,
and formerly highly respected leader of the Australian Sathya Sai
Organisation. Some comments of his are at:
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/witnesses/terry.html. Dr Gallagher's
efforts to properly investigate the allegations of sexual molestation had
been, long previous to the Nexus article, heavily suppressed by T. Sri
Ramanathan, the head of the Sathya Sai Organisation of Australia and Papua New
Guinea. Dr Gallagher resigned on the basis of high principle, as have many
others since, the world over. He also told me that he had, all in vain,
extensively presented evidence for sexual molestation to Valmai Worthington,
of Queensland, Australia. She is a prominent organiser of many groups (young
males included) who visit Sathya Sai Baba (I was in one of them, leaving
Brisbane, Australia November 14, 1997). Indeed, I have compelling evidence
that in a Worthington-led group a young man (known to me) had his genitals
touched by him, and an exceptionally credible eyewitness is able to attest to
this fact under oath.

One of the Australians with direct personal accounts of sexual molestation by
Sathya Sai Baba is Hans de Kraker, a graphic arts business consultant, who
formerly managed the Westerner's canteen a Puttaparthi. He relates to me that
he reported his experience to one of the foremost leaders in the Australian
Organisation, Dr Sara Pavan, a senior Sydney anaesthetist, who, he says, did
not give him a proper hearing and said that it is better "not to speak of such things."

In thus totally disregarding the complaints by parents, boys and young men
about sexual molestation, many officers of the Sathya Sai Organisation
derelict their duty of care at both the individual and Organisation levels.

Another highly respected leader, Stephen Carthew, a documentary filmmaker,
formerly the Spiritual Co-coordinator for South Australia, shortly after the
Nexus article, submitted that the allegations be discussed by the rank and
file. After speaking to a number of families who accessed him to alarming
first-hand reports of sexual molestation by Sathya Sai Baba, he too was deeply
shaken, and called a formal meeting of devotees in Adelaide. Summarily, T. Sri
Ramanathan, a retired, ex-Sri Lankan commercial lawyer who now works for the
Law faculties of both the University of Sydney and the University of New South
Wales, cast him out.
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/carthew.html. On Mother's Day
1999, Stephen Carthew had also dared to suggest to a South Australian Sathya
Sai Organisation's ladies' group - who, he tells me, warmly endorsed his
speech - that the Organisation was highly male chauvinistic. Worldwide, other
courageous and truthful individuals have received the same draconian
treatment. For a similar bloody-minded casting out of a former top leader of
the Russian Sai Organisation, see Serguei Badaev's report, http://saiguru.net/english/articles/10disqualification.htm.

As of Tuesday noon Eastern Australian Standard Time, September 2, 2003, the
Petition signatories number 470. (There is the encouraging sign of an
increasing number of Indian names beginning to appear, giving India as their
country). These include former devotees from many countries. Some of them had
spent well over two decades closely involved in Sai Baba's work. Some held key
positions. It outlines allegations against Sathya Sai Baba, notably those
relating to serial sexual abuse of minors and young men and Sai Baba's
complicity in police executions in his private apartments at Puttaparthi on
June 6, 1993. It calls for a properly constituted official enquiry and
pressure by governments around the world. See Robert Priddy's "Faith-shaking
events - the 1993 murders," http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/VKN1.htm. For
other Priddy contributions on the police killings, see also:
http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/ExtraMurders.htm and
http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/Murders.htm. His page at
http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/moremurders.htm has texts of transcripts
from Indian newspapers in 1993/4.

Coming from many countries, cultural and educational backgrounds, we
increasingly expose him and his accomplices in major venues. Requiring immense
effort and networking, we precipitated well-researched articles in the press
of many countries. These include: Australia (The Age), Canada (Ottawa Citizen,
Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun), Denmark (BT), Chile (Gatopardo), Germany (Bild,
Focus), Holland (Trouw), India (India Today), U.S.A. (Salon.com), U.K. (Times
of London, Daily Telegraph), Sweden (Göteborgsposten), . National broadcasters
have joined in Denmark (on radio news and talkback, and thrice on TV), Norway
("Seduced" was thrice shown on national TV on Saturday nights), UK (BBC radio)
and Australia (ABC radio), as well as several installments of Alejandro
Agostinelli's documentary in Argentina (Azul TV), and Dutch radio and TV.
Under tight wraps are some upcoming, major media exposures.

On January 30, 2002, Danish Broadcasting aired Øjvind Kyrø's 54-minute
documentary on the Sai Baba Exposé, "Seduced," with a number of repeats. Major
TV interests in the world have now purchased "Seduced." Millions more will see
it quite soon but the program schedules we wish to keep from the cunning and
increasingly desperate Sathya Sai Organisation. Promptly, the municipal
authorities rescinded the sale to Sai Baba devotees of the famous castle
Arresødal in Copenhagen, which was to have been used as a 'Sai international
school.' Though money is supposed to speak all languages, the US $6 million
did not speak Danish! (On excellent information, I assert that Bob Bozzani, a
high roller and key Sathya Sai Organisation leader in the USA, Bob Bozzani,
would have difficulty denying that the money came from him! He, by the way,
has been given by Glen Meloy (q.v.) and others ample evidence of Sathya Sai
Baba's sexual molestations, and ignored it). "Seduced" brought out a terrible
thirst for several litigation actions against Danish Broadcasting by Central
Co-coordinator for Europe and Co-coordinator for Russian-speaking countries
Thorbjörn Meyer, and the Danish businessman Jørgen Trygved, who was also
Chairman of the 'Sai international school' fund board.

It was a litigious thirst that Danish Broadcasting, proud of its journalistic
professionalism, refused to cater to, and the courts of Denmark are clearly
unwilling to slake. As of April 9, 2000, right on the heels of my open and
successful activity in getting the University of Adelaide to cancel the Sai
National Conference 2003, the same thirst has gripped T. Sri Ramanathan in
Australia, who has formally threatened litigation against me, and falsely
declared that I have violated the telecommunications act.
http://www.saiaustralia.org.au/release/100.html (This 'uncopybale' document
was copied into http://www.exbaba.com/.). No matter that, over the years,
Sathya Sai Baba has repeatedly inveighed strongly against litigation.

After investigating our submissions, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Flinders, South Australia, cancelled his University's high-powered delegation
which, with UNESCO (Paris), was to co-sponsor an education conference in human
values in September 2000 at Sai Baba's main ashram, at Puttaparthi. After our
very strenuous submissions, UNESCO withdrew. On September 9, and again in more
detail on the 15th, it posted a Media Advisory:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001017142401/http:/www.unesco.org/education/hig
hlights/media_advisory.htm . The Advisory cited lack of consultation by the
Institute of Sathya Sai Education; the unethical scheduling of some sessions
at his ashram, instead of outside it; and the inclusion of some delegates
without their prior consent. Above all, it stated, "The Organisation is deeply
concerned about widely reported allegations of sexual abuse involving youths
and children that have been leveled at the leader of the movement in question,
Sathya Sai Baba." As Glen Meloy (q.v.), others and I were privy to the
correspondence, we know that UNESCO moved only after first obtaining reports
from the French National Police (the Sureté).

The US State Department's 'India - Consular Information Sheet,' November 23,
2001, in a way that clearly points to Puttaparthi, warns of reports of sexual
abuse of males by the religious teacher there. No doubt for legal-political
reasons, the Travel Advisory avoids naming Sathya Sai Baba:
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/warning.html. However, via
extensive direct contact, Exposé co-coordinators know exactly where the State
Department and FBI continue to stand, the high seniority of those officials
involved, and what actions they are able to take should this guru dare to
fulfill his long-time promise to enter the USA.

The Indian Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, and three high-profile
co-signatories of a public letter say that our contentions are "wild, reckless
and concocted allegations made by certain vested interests and people against
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba."
http://www.saiguru.net/english/news/020927openletter.htm. Owing to Exposé
leaders informing him well, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has
written a letter assuring the Hon. Tony Colman MP, that he will not meet Sai
Baba, http://www.saiguru.net/english/news/ukwarns.htm.Strong national
parliamentary action is being prepared in the UK and Australia.

Within a near-miraculous three days apart, the New York Times, Nov. 1, 2002
http://www.saiguru.net/english/news/021201nytafriend.htm and the International
Herald Tribune, November 3,
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/articles/taroorsarticle.html ran
completely different, most unbalanced stories favourable to Sathya Sai Baba;
likely stimulated by his newly re-vamped propaganda machine. Shashi Tharoor
who wrote the IHT story was formerly chief assistant to the UN head and a
former Indian diplomat. Keith Bradsher was runner up to a Pulitzer Prize in
journalism in 1987. With a lameness suggestive of the incredible
unprofessional sloppiness for which NYT has recently been so thoroughly
exposed, Keith Bradsher, in a five months' overdue letter, has written to me,
Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:52 PM: 'I had done two Internet searches before
writing my story. While I found stories mentioning Sathya Sai Baba, I did not
find any articles then mentioning the allegations. Last December, following
notes from you and others, I alerted New York and our New Delhi bureau about
the allegations, so we will be aware of them if new evidence surfaces or
Sathya Sai Baba is in the news again.' Was Bradsher blind? Anyone neophyte
doing the simplest web search in recent years would have immediately seen
references adverse to Sathya Sai Baba. Despite ignoring for five months the
appeals made by both Sai Baba's victims and supporters from around the world,
Bradsher expresses no regret, nor show any desire to make amends for his
chronically imbalanced article.

Recently, the American ex-astronaut Dr Brian O'Leary told us that he had, as a
result of documentation Andries Krugers Dagneaux (Holland) and I had sent him,
cancelled his appearance in Chennai, which would have highlighted Sathya Sai
Baba, and that he was terribly sorry that his good name has been misused by
Sai devotees, and promptly took action with those concerned, so as to prevent
this attempt to co-opt happening again. See under
"News,"http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/directlytonews.html, posting for
Tuesday February 18, 2003.

In the UK, four years ago, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester
stopped Sathya Sai Baba sect meetings, as have the authorities of the
University College of London, Downey House public school, and Lord Wandsworth
College. At Glastonbury, acting on documentation from a very eminent former
devotee, the Catholic bishop banned from its premises the well-known Ramala
Centre, founded by high-profile Sai devotees David Jevons and his wife.

By warning educational authorities and municipalities, we are stopping, the
setting up of Sai schools. The Sai School in Hartford, Connecticut, USA,
although fully sanctioned by education authorities to commence operation, was
closed by the intervention of several activists who petitioned for its
closure. So that they can cancel arrangements, owners of Sathya Sai Baba
meeting venues, such as schools and community organisations, are shown the
abundant evidence. This action constitutes defeat at the hands of the very
communities the Sathya Sai Organisation would wish (for example, via its
stealthy secular Human Values push) to win unto itself.

A new project is geared to put the facts at the disposal of renowned immensely
influential 'New-Age' writers/educators, such as Dr Wayne Dyer, Dr Doreen
Virtue, Dr Phyllis Krystal - and those publishers, bookstores and associations
who promote their work - who write and speak favorably about Sathya Sai Baba.
To note see the early effects of successful negotiations with the Unity
Church, which extends throughout the world, and which has promoted Dr Dyer's
books, see: http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/shortnews/barryunity.html.

In Australia, we ensured the cancellation of the Sai National Conference
scheduled at the University of Adelaide, April 18-25, 2003. The
Vice-Chancellor appointed a senior staff investigator to explore the matter,
and within the month cancelled venue, catering arrangements, and handed the
money back. South Australia's leading newspaper The Advertiser, Tuesday
February 18, 2003, stated: 'South Australian Sai Baba leaders say the
allegations are unproven and plan to continue with the event, vowing to fight
the university's cancellation.' Sathya Sai conference spokesman Ken Soman told
The Advertiser, `We have an arrangement with the university and we are paying
the student union $30,000 to cater the event.' Again big Sathya Sai dollars
refused to speak all languages. http://www.saiguru.net/english/news/030224univadelaidecancels.htm

Yet, for many weeks, the Sai Organisation maintained its Conference website,
http://www.saiaust.org/speakers.htm (now withdrawn but fortunately archived on
the http://www.exbaba.com (here)and http://www.saiguru.net websites). None of
the invitees agreed to attend as special guests. Yet for many weeks, the
authors mentioned on the website, T. Sri Ramanathan and Ken Soman, claimed to
have invited the Prime Minister, Premier, Lord Mayor and Roman Catholic
Archbishop. The Lord Mayor told me that he had not in fact been invited!
Michelle Virgo, the Chief Administrator for the South Australia Premier Mike
Rann told me, "We did receive an invitation. We looked at it and said mm mm,
no!" Archbishop Philip Wilson's private secretary told me that, in response to
our documentations, "The Archbishop is discussing the matter with his
advisors: the Moderator of the Curia, the Chair of the Multifaith Group etc."
She soon got back and reassured me that the Archbishop certainly would not
accept any invitation by the Sathya Sai Organisation. The Advertiser also
confirmed refusals of these same individuals to attend the conference.

In meticulously apprising the invitees of the allegations, including the offer
of access to victims and their families, we supplied many professional
references, including our highly credentialed sexual abuse counselors and an
internationally eminent legal authority. No doubt following one of its typical
modus operandi, the Sathya Sai Organisation, used the big names, spuriously,
as an additional drawing card, and to add respectability to the event. High
level patronage would look 'good' on subsequent booklets of the Sathya Sai
Organisation, and help it ingratiate itself further into an unwary Australian
community at large. Why, by the way, did the Sathya Sai Organisation not have
the courtesy to include the Federal Leader of the Opposition, or distinguished
religious leaders besides the Roman Catholic Archbishop?

In his public discourses, Sathya Sai Baba makes worsening bloopers - which he
simply can't hide. We can laugh, or cry, at his capers, even while his
audiences, deserting all commonsense, applaud. In his article "SB and
Christianity. Some Observations," the Australian Scholar Brian Steel has well
exposed Sai Baba's anachronistic understanding of Judeo-Christian history:
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/Jesus1.htm. Some of Sai Baba's pronouncements
noted here are absolute howlers. For example, "Because of so many groups
there, they all attempted even to harm Jesus. Romans on one side. Catholics on
the other side. Luther on another side. There were so many groups that went on
changing." By "many groups there," he means: at the time of Christ, which he
gives as being 350 years before the time we understand Jesus to have lived.

Not least, he has made the most garbled, contradictory and unscientific
statements about magnetism.
http://www.saiguru.net/english/articles/56Bmagnetism.htm. In his public
discourse March 13, 2002, he told thousands that his divine magnetism holds
him to the ground, impeding his feet and hand movements: "So when I put My
foot down, the whole foot stuck to the ground. It is a little hard to lift a
foot that is stuck. Wherever I walk, it sticks there. Whatever is held, it
sticks to My (sic) hand. This magnet is not in everyone like this. This magnet
is so powerful only in Divinity." Sanjay Dadlani (q.v.) comments: he has
worsening osteoarthritis! (To signify Godhead in their master, the
capitalisation of personal pronouns is rife among Sai devotee writings).

A headline at the pretended objective
http://geocities.com/the_sai_critic/expose.html, a key pro-Sai Baba website,
boasts "Exposé Is Over." In fact, it has scarcely begun.

Barry Pittard. Email: bpittard@beachaccess.com.au