At ‘Call For Media and Government Investigation of
Sathya Sai Baba’, see the article:
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“It strikes me that the writer uses the notion "that it (the
corruption) parallels" in a systemically misleading way. Surely a
more helpful contextualization of the corruption issue to be seen in
Sathya Sai Baba and his core servitors is a notion not of 'parallel'
but of symptom. This is to say that - apart from the fact that
corruption can be found in any social system - many of the Sai
Baba-related corruptions reflect aspects deep-rooted in the Indian
social system. It would, of course, be absurd to say that all the
corruptions to be seen in one part of a social fabric are replicated
in every other instance. For example there are Sathya Sai
Organization programs which serve human beings without
discrimination on the grounds of caste or creed. A discussion would
need to be complex, and attempt some weighting of relevance among
phenomena often encountered in India as guru worship, demagoguery,
casteism, nepotism, and elitism of various kinds, superstition and
dependence in matters such as astrology (not least among the
elites), vast social inequality, dowry, and so on ....”
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