Norah Jones’s Life Is His Message:
Sai Baba Damage Control Movie Set to Backfire
Author: Barry Pittard
Email:
lightning@flexinet.com.au
Sent: Sunday, September 5, 2004
Reference: http://www.saibabafilm.com/index.asp?action=page&name=8
Sai devotee film financiers, Rowdy Productions, are calling
for up to US ten million dollars to make a movie, “My Guy.”
(This is the heroine’s name for Sathya Sai Baba).
Their website states “as
the interest grows we will be in a much more commanding
position to negotiate with the best and most sought after
actors in Hollywood.”
However, the
“best and most sought after” movie stars tend come at a much
higher price! Thus we may expect to see either top stars
acting gratis or contracting for a share in any profits the
movie may make.
Rowdy says “We
have an interest from Norah Jones’ agent for the lead role
and will be pursuing this option.”
This is the westerner daughter of big Sai devotee Ravi
Shankar, the Indian sitar maestro. A usually reliable source
reports that, in
disobedience to his guru's teaching, he divorced Norah Jones’s
mother,
and also that he heart-breakingly and belatedly allowed Norah
- somewhat - into his life.
Actually, Norah Jones is noted as a singer, not an actor, but
the Rowdy people say they “feel
that the soothing voice of Norah Jones will heal the
audience and carry Sai Baba’s message worldwide.”
He
who would be Lord of Lords now relies on Tinsel Town to
trumpet his claims, having failed so extensively that he
needs a mere slip of a Hollywood lass to help buttress up
his venture.
The
closest he has got to world fame, the BBC documentary ‘The
Secret Swami,’ spreads his infamy instead.
(See transcript:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/programmes/this
_world/transcripts/secret_swami17_06_04.txt).
Sathya Sai Baba’s motto: "My life is my message" takes
on a meaning far from his intention. Under conditions
of great damage control, alas poor Norah Jones's life is his
message.
However, the more our Exposé succeeds the more the Sai forces
react and, as we increasingly see, make ludicrous blunders
costly to themselves, even when they think they are
proacting. In this instance, the more they promote the movie
the more their cause will draw unwelcome attention from a
world media that:
·
is ever more aware of the worldwide allegations against the
Sathya Sai Baba cult
·
will see through the blatant Sai propagandistic attempt to
show that ‘all roads lead’ not to Rome but to Puttaparthi
·
relishes dramatic tension as the essence of a good story, and
is thus primed to report the clash of causes between an
authoritarian mega cult and former devotees who stand for
truth, transparency and accountability,
·
will eagerly report on the expanding global coalition of all
major religions, humanists, rationalists etc., that will
expose this would-be usurper of both divinity and human
reason.
Let the Sai movie moguls golf-cart their “guy” onscreen or
show the 'omnipotent Avatar' staggering on his botched
hip-joint replacement!
Let us not expect that these Sai film makers will shoot him
with the honesty of the BBC cameras in ‘The Secret Swami’
documentary. Here he blathers incomprehensibly, e.g., about
collapsing on mahasivrati night after miraculously
manifesting three tonnes (or it might be tons! – a
significant difference) of gold from himself:
“Out of the stomach emanated Shiva Lingas of the weight of
three tonnes/tons. That’s the reason why some strain on the
face and the body.”
Let
Rowdy Productions show scenes like that, or show him losing
his temper, cursing us, and pounding his rostrum in the
Christmas Day 2000 discourse!
The false god’s extremity is Man’s opportunity. That is, the
opportunity to expose the false, and to speak and feel
truly, without the assistance of golden thrones, golf-carts
or crutches. Or even Norah Jones’s opportunity – to listen
to the cries of anguish from Sathya Sai Baba’s victims in
many parts of the world. Instead of taking on another father
figure bound, for a second time, to deliver her far too
little, far too late…