Sai Baba’s
Un Divine Downfall
Date: 11-18-07
By: Ex Baba admin
Barry Pittard's blogsite Home Page
is:
http://barrypittard.wordpress.com/
He has posted the article:
Sai Baba’s Un Divine Downfall
http://barrypittard.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/sai-babas-un-divine-downfall/
For the busy reader, this is a condensed version of
Barry Pittard's longer article The Decline and Fall of
the Showman Empire.
(In footnotes, a link is also given to The Secret Swami. BBC
Docu. Review. Condensed. This is a shorter
version of his article: The BBC’s The Secret Swami - A
Revision
There are also hotlinks to BBC video footage).
Quotes
"The present writer (email: bpittard(at)optusnet.com)
can provide journalists and other investigators with a slew of media
and academic contacts who can verify that the Sathya Sai
Organization is a prime example of a cult in hiding from the media
and others wishing to examine it. This is why the BBC obtained a
difficult to gain sanction from its senior managment and Legals to
use a hidden camera on the world chairman of Sai Baba’s
orgnanization, Dr Michael Goldstein of Covina,
California"
"Read his discourses - simply that - and the contradictions, the
absurdly non-scientific and blundering historical statements (now
excised where possible by his editors, but archived by academics
Robert Priddy and Brian Steel, see below) will demolish him"
"The Duke of Edinburgh Awards - owing to, in this sort of issue, a
not very experienced or competent UK CEO, Peter Westgarth -
was slow off the mark. However, after very high level
representations from our side, the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
trustees and Prince Philip’s Private Secretary, Brigadier Sir
Miles Hunt-Davies KCVO, CBE, realized that a serious matter was
at hand. Questions were also raised by some powerful citizens,
including a former Home Minister, Tom Sackville. The Duke of
Edinburgh Awards required of Dr G. Venkataraman, at an
official Sai Baba website to take down the triumphant - but absurdly
mistaken - information that the Duke of Edinburgh Award had been
awarded to Sai Baba himself. See link below for: A Duke Stops
An Emperor. Edinburgh Routs Sai Baba"