Dangerous to Rationalize Rape. A major Sathya Sai Baba Follower’s Example

 

Posted by Barry Pittard on February 16, 2010

Dangerous to Rationalize Rape. A major Sathya Sai Baba Follower’s Example

  

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"My reply to Ms Drucker's first email to me is here: 

Barry Pittard Replies To Sathya Sai Center Rape Survivor’s Note To Him

Posted by Barry Pittard on February 8, 2010

I wrote back to her, with no reply, so I posted the above article. Having now seen the latter, she emailed just yesterday to say: 'I did not see your e-mail to me, so it must have gotten into my spam folder'. Her reply is scarcely a reply at all. Although her website states that she “has truth, will travel” and that she is happy to discuss and debate issues, she avoids responding to the issues I raised. 

Why will she not properly discuss or debate?"

"Jaani Drucker extends such a notion in public discourse and across her website. It appears plain that Jaani Drucker is deliberately side-stepping points I put to her. Like so many well-informed Sai devotes, she entirely skirts issues but does not deny that he has long engaged in the actions that the rest of the world calls sexual abuse".

"This is not what responsible parents will want their young to hear. It is not what mental health professionals think, aware as they are of how belief systems can be hazardously used to put survivors of abuse into states of denial.

"Moreover, it strikes me that Jaani Drucker herself makes a very big assumption. Namely, that she has reached that high plateau of non-dualistic self-realization (in ancient Indian reckoning, that of advaita), which classic eastern spiritual texts say very few beings achieve (e.g., the Bhagavad Gita)".