What Is A Cult? Does Sathya Sai Baba Preside Over A Servile,
Worldwide Cult?
At 'Call For
Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba', see the
article:
Posted by
Barry Pittard on March 21, 2011
QUOTES
"Is the Sathya Sai
Organization a cult? It is a fair question. No
careless use of terms will serve us well. We might also enquire
– perhaps of our own selves, more than anyone else, whether
there are significant cultic elements in those institutions we
may too readily deem ‘mainstream’ or liveable-with, or somehow ‘rational’,
‘normal’, and so forth...
...Perhaps it
is our human readiness to come up with answers, and structures
and tenets that traps instead of frees us. Perhaps we need,
first, to posit, for the sake of argument or simply the fun of
it, that we are trapped in our ‘verities’ and ‘solutions’. I
short, to see what the trap might look like – before we can ever
hope to see what the freedom might look like. It may be that,
after searching self-scrutiny, any significant freedom that may
be glimpsed may be too much for us to bear…
Here is a possible useful, and very brief, attempt at getting
to a definition of a cult…"