Wishing only to
serve Sathya Sai Baba as my spiritual master with the utmost
love and devotion, I taught hundreds of his students at his
Whitefield college, making my door ever open to them, and did
social service among the blind and other afflicted, year after
year, for exceptionally long and demanding hours without wishing
for or taking a penny in recompense, living a very frugal,
simple and quiet life, and was in good standing with both the
devotee and local Indian community. Until the NEXUS
article, I did not in the least connect my casting out in July
1982 with my mentioning of the allegations of homosexual
activity by Sathya Sai Baba. Such, alas, was my over-weaning
faith in the Three Wise Monkeys principle. Though it has its
merits, it is often the worst counsel when it comes to social
responsibility. Truth is also about speaking out; otherwise, all
that is civil is crushed underfoot by all that is uncivil.
As I read the German
husband and wife Jens' and Gurprit Sethi’s harrowing story, the
‘penny’ dropped. (You can read their account at:
ex-baba/engels/articles/nexuspdf/SaiBaba%20Exposed.pdf ).
I now realised the obvious! That it was
feared that I would spread my concerns, that I might speak to
others beyond Howard Murphet and Richard Bayer, and that to
prevent any chance of this I was being got rid of as fast as
possible. Stories of others - which just keep on coming - attest
to the reasonableness of such a surmise. For, after witnessing
and speaking up about serious irregularities at Puttaparthi and
Whitefield, others too have been summarily thrown out.