It is a shame for India that well-founded accusations and numerous reputed witnesses against Sai Baba are ignored without any investigation. If his social development projects are meant to be indulgence to nullify his crimes, this procedure is unprecedented and unacceptable, I wrote. I demanded criminal investigations against Sai Baba. Abdul Kalam, one of Sai Baba’s ardent supporters, which was never answered. In December 2005, I wrote a letter to the then President Dr. It cannot be weighed against his crimes and the damage he has done to the Indian society. But, useful and welcome as hospitals, schools and drinking water projects for the poor may always be, this kind of alibi-philanthropy is well-known even to mafia-bosses. That he then spent a part of the great fortunes, swindled out of the gullible, for social development around his ancestral village, is highlighted now to present him as a saint.
SAI BABA TELUGU QUOTES TV
That was after I had demonstrated his miracles so often on TV shows that many kids in the streets could imitate them.
On his 80th birthday, Sai Baba’s supporters announced that he would turn from a miracle man to a philanthropist. That is no great surprise, when one considers that Sai Baba did not speak any other language than Telugu and traveled only once in his whole life abroad – to visit his friend Idi Amin in Uganda. In fact, the huge foreign donations to Sai Baba stood in contrast to the comparatively modest number of active foreign devotees and the sometimes quite weak foreign branches, some of them residing in private homes. Others were seeking financial support or wanted to get rid of ill-gotten black money: the empire, it is alleged, was based on money laundering, using foreign devotees and branches. It was a way to the top jobs and a way to get things done. Many joined the club because it was working as a powerful syndicate spreading its tentacles all over the political system. Some came to rub shoulders with the prominent. Many of his high society devotees came to serve their own vested interests. Sathya Sai Baba had a special modus operandi that was the key for his astonishing success and the root of his enormous clout. Over the years, he managed to attract a galaxy of India’s rich and powerful, among them ministers, prime ministers, presidents, chief justices, top industrialists and superstars. However, he did not only fascinate poor and uneducated villagers with his fraudulent performances. As son of a village tantric he was familiar with the hand sleights and tricks of the trade. Sathya Sai Baba insisted in all seriousness that he was god, the creator of the universe, and “proved” his divinity with a couple of small “miracles”. Numerous cases of alleged sexual abuse and murder are yet to be investigated, not to mention the financial secrets of his empire. Nor was he ever booked for any other crime he was accused of. But due to his political protectors he was never held responsible for his crimes against public reason. I succeeded again and again in exposing him publicly as a fraud, as did some other rationalists. In my judgment, this is his greatest crime. At a time when scientific progress led to great social and economic leaps, and scientific awakening started spreading all over India, Sathya Sai Baba launched a “counter revolution” of superstition, supported by irresponsible politicians and other public figures who should have known better. His devastating influence on reason and scientific temper caused huge setback to the country. Too great is the damage that he did to India. But I think Sathya Sai Baba’s case qualifies for an exception. Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba, who died on 24 April 2011 aged 85ĭe mortuis nihil nisi bene, they say: say nothing but good of the dead. May it be an eye opener for the millions of gullible people whom he misguided and deluded. And till the last moment, many of his devotees clung to his word and waited for a miracle.
He had predicted at a public gathering at his head quarters in Puttaparthy, in 2000, and repeatedly many times, that he would die at the age of 96 only. When Sathya Sai Baba died on 24 April 2011 at the age of 85 years, he proved once again that miracles and predictions fail.
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