SATHYA SAI BABA - WORLD-WIDE EXPOSURE OF REPORTED SEXUAL ABUSES BY THE 'SECRET SWAMI'

A documented overview of the history and extent of the alleged sexual abuses by Sathya Sai Baba and the questions they raise



Part 1 - The Great Scandal Has Come to Stay

http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/6/SaiSex2.htm#rev1

1 A long history of reports through decades
 2 The cover-up of allegations about Sathya Sai Baba's sexual behaviour
3 'The Findings' by David Bailey - once the top favourite foreign devotee - released the floodgates for testimonies
4. Deceptions and failed prophesies revealed.....
 5. Strong circumstantial and corroborative evidence
 6. Sai Baba knew he would some day be caught out, saying, "A great scandal is coming"


The unaccountable, secretive nature of Sathya Sai Baba and his organization

 Had Sathya Sai Baba - plus his various officials - opened up to genuinely independent investigation and responded frankly and honestly to vital questions about his activities, there might have been some room left for doubt about the more serious accusations against him. However, the likelihood of this happening is absolutely minimal... not least after the major cover-up from the highest levels of the Indian power structure of murders in Sathya Sai Baba's bedroom at night in 1993, the documented and undenied presence there of an underage male student at the time, and the intensive cult of secrecy which has often been shown to be endemic to all Sathya Sai Baba's ashrams and official bodies.

The one great fear of all those implicated in the cover-up - and of a great many of the devotees - is that this matter will successfully be brought to court. Even outside India, any court case connected to Sathya Sai Baba could open the opportunity of presenting the wide-ranging and detailed evidence and sworn affidavits by young men claiming sexual abuse by him. However, for Indians who were so misused to stand up or raise a legal case is beyond their means and the risks that can be taken. Against such a powerful and protected person with such enormous funds behind him and being fully backed by Prime Ministers, other heads of state and many rich and powerful persons in many countries of the world, is demanding above and beyond the financial funding and socio-political influence of these younger persons in India. Before the many allegations of sexual crimes, Sathya Sai Baba remains guiltily silent and evasive. Though his guilt is not formally proven in court, nor is his innocence.

In this situation, the main recourse of victims and their helpers is presently the investigative international media. The first-hand directly-presented accounts of being sexually abused by Sai Baba by highly articulate young men in interview with highly-respected national broadcasters (Danish TV) were neither denied nor challenged by Sai Baba (or his chief minions). This fact itself speaks a loud and clear 'message'. Further, these brave persons who spoke out cannot bring Sai Baba to court because he stays well out of harm's way in India, where he has demonstrated that he exercises decisive influence over the judiciary and government. But the first-hand testimonies are also backed up by an ever-accumulating mass of circumstantial evidence, some of which is to be presented in concise form in the forthcoming texts. While the accused hides away in absentia and safe from Indian courts, the court of humanity at large has now sufficient direct and corroborative evidence to make up its mind on the matter.

Devotees who cannot face the truth will doubtless continue to follow Sathya Sai Baba's edicts like"See only the good" and "Hear no evil" - and other such clever self-defences Sai Baba has long inculcated in them, which we now see functions well to protect himself from their scrutiny. However, it taxes the imagination to see how anyone can follow such impossible fact-defying edicts permanently without becoming deeply stuck in a web of untruth and hypocrisy, at the least where Sathya Sai Baba is involved.

Sathya Sai Baba has claimed to be divinity and purity itself claiming that the only way to judge people's words is by their actions, and that the validity of his entire teaching rests on his Divine Nature... but in view of the indubitable allegations, his greatest abuse becomes the abuse of people's faith, not only in him but in what he teaches under his slogan "My Life is My Message" (which he also plagiarised from Mahatma Gandhi).



A long history of reports through decades: In various interviews stretching over several decades, Sathya Sai Baba (Sathya Sai Baba) has informed of a coming huge scandal about him, which clever bit of precautionary 'fall-back' against the day it actually came has since deceived many into doubting and/or ignoring the mass of facts and credible, courageously-published accounts. If, as very widely reported, he engaged in constant sexual activity, he then would certainly have realised that even he, with his very secretive and power-wielding confederates, could most likely not keep it a secret for ever. Thus, he would have tried to prepare the ground against the day it came out, so as not to lose too much prestige, or too many followers and donors as a result. It has actually come out on a number of occasions in different parts of the world, at least since the 1970s.

One major question about what are alleged by Sai followers to be 'rumours' about his homosexual activities remains: How could such allegations arise from so many countries and individuals over decades, independent of one another, and backed up by many written accounts and signed affidavits by alleged victims, and by television interviews with such victims made by reputed national broadcasters who investigated the matter? By examining in some detail the history of these allegations, one can better decide whether or not these instances can be a case of 'no smoke without fire'.

Due to the general difficulties prior to the 1990s web revolution of locating or contacting other ex-devotees spread around the world, the scandals that broke remained fairly local and did not become widely known, especially throughout the Sai movement, which is systematically compartmentalised precisely so as to maintain intternal control and censorship on all dissent of any kind. Accounts of Sai Baba being a homosexual and paedophile have circulated in diverse circles in  India  during the 1970s (to be summarised here later). His predilection for homosexual relations was reportedly widely known in Puttaparthi when he shared his rooms with a young man called Krishna (they were called 'Radha-Krishna' where they went together everywhere hand in hand, according to the long-term worshipper Vijayamma). Mrs. Bitten Nelson of Denmark firmly indicated what has been known all along to many villagers, none of whom dare say a word about it due to the huge power wielded threateningly by the Sai Baba camp.

 The scandals about sexual abuse of male students among Malaysian devotees around 1980 which caused resignations from the Org. in Malaysia, apparently was very little known in the West. The following information was sent to me by a person who wishes to remain anonymous, having distanced himself socially from all connection with Sai Baba. "When I became aware of Sai Baba's activities on some male Malaysian students studying at the Sai institutions in Whitefield and Puttaparthi, I carried out my own inquiries and dropped out from that movement. So did many devotees in Malaysia f these male students, I am unable to reveal their identities. It is not fair to them. I remember having advised them in 1980 to keep their identities confidential and not be overzealous since they have lives to lead and they should forget about what had happened to them. An American boy, Terry Scott, who was a contemporary of these Malaysian students, left the Sai College together with the rest of the Malaysians. There were many devotees who left the cult. Those holding office in Sai organisations in Malaysia did not do so but quite a number of them may have quietly slipped out of the cult."

Barry Pittard also writes of another former Australian devotee, Connie R. of Cooma, in the State of New South Wales , who visited a Malaysian devotee family during a stopover to India .She said that she heard a disturbingly authentic cassette tape of an Indian Malaysian boy's account of sexual molestation by Sathya Sai Baba. The boy had attended the Sathya Sai college at Whitefield, where Pittard had taught for two years. Horrified, his parents had withdrawn him from that institution. Convinced of the truthfulness of the account by the boy and by the family, and deeply disgusted, Connie R. cancelled her trip.
 (View document)

Likewise, a scandal about sexual abuse of a Greek boy in the Sai College in  Greece  and similar accounts in  Yugoslavia  in the 1980s did not reach or affect other countries in Europe . Meanwhile, a major scandal arose independently in the  USA  in the early 1980s about which the leader of the US Sai organisation, Dr. John Hislop, wrote letters to leaders in the Sai Org. there advising them to suppress the facts as unconfirmed. Again, in  France  and  Belgium  around 1990, there was apparently much talk about Sai Baba being a homosexual, which only seeped through to some followers in a few other countries. Only when the Internet provided the means for communication between alleging victims spread and isolated here and there, did the world-wide exposé of Sathya Sai Baba's various activities begin to come together from 1999 onwards.

 As long ago as the 1970s, Sathya Sai Baba told two 'old-timer' American devotees (one was 'Vidya', a lady known to many followers and the other a long-term US resident of Prashanthi Nilayam) that the day would come when the number of devotees would dwindle to very few. (This did not happen, however, until after his death in 2011). He also told other interviewees similar things now and again, such as that "a great scandal is coming". By the 1980s, when Tal Brooke published his first whistle-blowing book on the sexual abuses of students and foreign young men (Avatar of the Night), Sathya Sai Baba would most likely have read the increasing signs - or been advised by some of those relatively few Indians who do not turn a blind eye to such practices - that it would eventually lead to his exposure. His warnings of coming scandal went on until the late 1990s in interviews, such as when, for David Jevons was present (as he has posted on his website). (However, some time after the above was posted, David Jevons deleted this from his website! This is typical, damage limitation by trying to bury all acknowledgment of any whiff of scandal they previously mentioned around Sai Baba).

 A most lucid comment on these "predictions" came from Mr. John Bright, whose account of being sexually molested by Sathya Sai Baba is found on various websites (but if removed, and also here), referring to what the British 'psychic' Craig Hamilton-Parker (a believer in Sai Baba) had replied to him on his website as follows:-
"...you mentioned that Sai Baba told a woman in an interview that she would be able to get an interview whenever she wanted in the future because devotees would be leaving him in droves. (When I was in India I heard something along similar lines). You seem to use this as evidence of Sai Baba's omniscience as well as a way to discredit these stories of sexual molestation. I will simply say this; if you were a molester in Sai Baba's position and you knew that the word was getting out or was likely to get out and that people were talking, what better way to cover your tracks and conduct damage control than to say such things?
 He is killing two birds with one stone - he creates the illusion that his knowledge is born of omniscience when it comes to pass and at the same time he discredits these stories of sexual molestation. His prediction comes not from omniscience but from the knowledge of what he is doing to young men in his private interview room and the knowledge that it is leaking out."



http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/6/SaiSex2.htm#rev1

Part 2 - Smoke Not Without Fire - Claims and Evidence of Serious Molestations

http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/6/SaiSex3.htm#the6

 6 The 'oiling' of genitals of young males by Sathya Sai Baba
7 Major abuse testimonies world-wide by young men and their relatives
8 More "Good Chances" for Sex with the Avatar


The Genital 'oiling' of young males by Sathya Sai Baba: Many Western devotees believe that Sathya Sai needs to rub naked genitals vigorously and voluptuously to kiss young men and boys so as to raise their kundalini (i.e 'dormant sexual-spiritual energies')! This is a travesty of so-called 'kundalini yoga', which has long been widely practiced in India  and requires absolutely no 'massaging' of genitalia or kissing. Meanwhile devotees proudly claim and believe that Sathya Sai Baba never touches females. Others known to me who are thought to be 'very important persons' in Sai circles (only) still privately defend Sathya Sai Baba's sexual abuse as 'healing' or- more ridiculously - as the repayment/working off of 'terrible past karma', which they see as a great boon for his victims to get! These views, intended to exonerate Sathya Sai Baba from any blame as a sexual molester and pederast, have been published on the internet by someone calling himself Ram Das Awle and are circulated widely among those very puzzled among the blindly faithful who are nonetheless aware that the sexual allegations have real substance. The belief that whatever Sathya Sai Baba does to a person is for his own good, is held by many followers and expressed openly by some! This would include the anal rape of underage boys, as reported by Dr. Naresh Bhatia who described carrying out a medical examination of a young Sai student who he said he found had been raped by Sathya Sai Baba. Sai followers therefore view the great mass of mankind to be misguided that this is a bad thing, since they are defending as 'divine' a low form of depravity.

The fantasies engendered by Sathya Sai Baba's claims easily turn black into white. Both values and facts become gradually more and more distorted by devotees who have got caught up in Sathya Sai Baba's catch-22, pick-and-choose menu of teachings by his powerful manipulations of their desires and dreams, his flattery, primadonna behaviour, great chutzpa, and his all-embracing megalomaniacal claims and pretensions etc.

The many and detailed descriptions by former male devotees of Sathya Sai Baba's various homosexual advances and behaviour towards them, the series of good-looking young European men who have gone through the Sathya Sai Baba 'centre of attention' experience are almost self-explanatory. I say only 'almost' because a number of defendants of Sathya Sai Baba in the Sathya Sai Organization are conducting a damage-limitation misinformation campaign, not least because some of the leaders have admitted in public that they know that Sathya Sai Baba 'anoints' young men's genitals in secret and afterwards warns them to tell no one about it. One leader - Thorbjørn Meyer - has carefully described this unasked for genital manipulation an "age old Indian oil ceremony", without being able to produce even a fragment of documentation for this from Indian scripture or reliable historical sources. Even if he had, it would surely just amount to a primitive and perverted superstition. Another word for 'anoints' could well be 'interferes physically with' or 'sexually molests' young men's genitals. There are yet other verbal alternatives. Such an act is more likely a testing of sexual availability or a prelude to seduction, such as are described in sexual psychopathological works. As soon as we confront these matters from the viewpoint of a propaganda-free, normally non-prejudiced standpoint, they take on a fairly easily understood character.

Major abuse testimonies world-wide by young men and their relatives: Sharon Purcell was a devotee for 32 years and together with Elsie and Walter Cowan, Fritz and Victoria Ellis and her then husband, Gary, started the first official Southern California Center in the hilltop home of Elsie and Walter in the Cowan Heights section of Tustin , California. Sharon and Gary Purcell were told by Sathya Sai Baba to name their child Sathya, which they did. In 1993 Sathya Purcell went to  India  with Hal Honig's group of boys. One week later, Sharon followed her son to  India  with her friend, Jill, where they had an interview with Sathya Sai Baba. Later, Sharon reported to others, including a long term office-bearer, Glen Meloy, that Sathya Sai Baba had molested 3 of Sathya's friends in private interviews which caused him to tell her that he no longer believed in Sai Baba. One of the boys in his group, whose genitals were oiled by Sai Baba, was Josh Kintz, son of Mahri and Bruce Kintz, long term members of the former Cherry Valley , California Center under the leadership of the late Joy Thomas and now currently active members of the Hemet , California Center. A third boy was also molested in this way. Sharon Purcell also knew Mark Roche well, who has courageously and wholly convincingly testified on the BBC documentary 'Secret Swami' to Sai Baba having tried to gratify his desire for oral sex with him in 1976 when Mark was a young man and believed him to be the God Avatar, as all the others in the group did, including Dr. J. Hislop and Mr. & Mrs. Cowan. Since then I resumed contact with Mark Roche, who my wife and I knew very well during a long stay near Bangalore and Kodiakanal in 1994, and there can be no doubt whatever to my mind that he is telling the truth, not least for the sake of helping those those who are defenseless victims of Sai Baba's sexual proclivities.

 Sharon , a founder member of the Sai Organisation in California , knew some of those had been forced into sex by Sai Baba and, discovering this 'incredible' fact, left him and his organisation well before the internet revelations took place and she contributed to them via Glen Meloy. Would a person who had devoted her time, energy and become so deeply involved take such a step for no reason? She is just one example of over 100 unselfish persons working for the good of all as other ex-office-bearers in the Sai Organisation who have done the same. Her son, Sathya 'Satch' Purcell later gave a detailed account of his experiences in six parts, beginning at this link.

 The results of their inquiries in various countries were first seen on BBC Channel Two on June 17th, 2004 . The only direct statement that Sathya Sai Baba made was "Swami is pure"! and that was a private assurance to the top leader of the international Sai movement, Dr. M. Goldstein, who has gone on record reporting it. He accepted it at face value without any further questions, explanations or investigations. Thereafter he returned unopened all mail from all former leaders in the US Organisation who tried to contact him making complaints of sexual abuse. In the BBC documentary 'Secret Swami' Goldstein tells that Sai Baba told him that if he wanted to fight "gutter people", he would have to go into the gutter, so he should forget it. Goldstein claimed that he is a knower of human nature and tried to intimidate the young lady interviewer by vehement finger-shaking and a forceful attitude. He said that he is a doctor: "I am a consummate professional", and claimed he can tell infallibly by looking at young men whether they have been sexually abused! Viewers judged that he came across as an authoritarian ego-inflated 'doctor from hell' with raw conceit and aggression seldom seen even on TV (for it was filmed with a hidden camera so he would show his true nature). He is the Number One rich and powerful mover and shaker of the Sai Organisation, which also speaks volumes about its despotic internal nature.

 An entirely undisputed and shockingly clear account of major sexual abuse by Sai Baba was made on film, firstly on 'Seduced by Sai Baba' (Denmark 2002) and secondly in 'Secret Swami' by the BBC (June 2004). The young man, who was underage at the time, is Alaya Rahm, son of Al Rahm, who provides support and his side of the episode. He and his family tell most convincingly of his ordeals at the threatening hands of Sai Baba. The despicable actions of Goldstein are documented beyond all doubt on screen. This documentary amounts to a transparently damning indictment of Sathya Sai Baba as a fraud, a suspected murder accomplice and a homosexual abuser. Their experiences and findings were fully in accord with those of the Danish documentary of 2002.

 This footage shows the deceitful and conceited totalitarian and fanatical nature of Dr. Michael Goldstein, which is shared by many leaders in the Sai Organisation. The following is an excerpt from the Danish documentary:


In 1989 when I was 15 years old I went to  India  for three weeks. And on that trip I had four interviews. And in the third interview he actually asked me to untie my pants. And he forcibly pulled my pants down and with his bare hand grabbed my groin and rubbed some oil on the side of my scrotum. And I went again on the following year, and on that trip when I was 16 years old, SB called me again for a private interview. At that point I was even actually more uncomfortable because it seemed like this had already taken place, there is no reason why it needed to take place again.
 ...he waved his hand and turned it over and showed me some oil. And he started to rub it on my testicles and started kissing me. And as he was kissing me, he started kissing me deeply, you know. And I started tensing up and, you know, not understanding what was happening. But it seemed to me as if SB was trying to make my penis erect.
 "One time he had his robe almost completely off and he tried to have anal sex with me, because he came from behind me and started climbing up on top of me, you know, and being that I'm so much taller than him, in order to keep prevent it from happening, I just stood straight up and didn't allow him to do anything, you know, and I kind of kept pushing him away and keep him there until ??... I know, I want to talk to you, I want to be with you and I love you. He said, "You don't love me? You don't love me?" And I would say, "No, I love you, but I just don't want to have sexual relations with you."
 ... But every time we would go back into the personal room, his wants got to be very intimate. And he was constantly having me take out my penis and he would hold it, sometimes put it in his mouth and look at me, and then ask me to do the same thing or push my head down and lift his robe up. And I was gagging and almost about to vomit. And, you know, that was probably the most mentally break down type of thing I've ever done in my life, because if I didn't feel like at that time, like my life or my family's happiness or … was depending on it, I wouldn't have done it. But my mentality at that time … I felt like it was a life or almost death situation. You know, this was God in human form, but that was my mental program - this is God in human form. How could I deny him what he was trying to make me do? There must be some deeper reason or deeper meaning that what I see."
 What really helped me was when I had some conversations with some other people who had had similar experiences. Because I felt, that if they had had experiences as intense, or close to as intense as mine, I could talk to them about it more openly than I could talk to my dad. So we had talked about it, and all the people that I had talked about it were equally confused about it as I was. However, also equally brainwashed and allowing it to continue to take place. So I would say that finally I decided that I was not going to put myself into that position again, because life without SB was going to be a better life." See full transcript of the whole interview.

Timothy Conway Ph.D. - Follower for 22 years, President of the Sathya Sai Baba Center of San Francisco from 1982-4 wrote and posted the following:

"We now have trustworthy reports from over two dozen credible eye-witnesses (and sworn affidavits from many of them) indicating that probably hundreds of young men and boys have been molested (far beyond "touching the perineum") and/or forced to perform oral sex and masturbation on Baba over the last 30 years or more. Baba has masturbated them and sometimes performed oral sex on them, sometimes to the point of ejaculation.
 Baba has threatened to deny interviews to many of the boys' parents if the boys resist his sexual predatory behavior. He has paid or bribed most of these male youth for sexual favors and for their silence with money, rings, watches, etc.-- up to $10,000 for one boy (an American youth well known to several former members of our Santa Barbara Sai Center). Baba has also evidently gotten angry at and berated those male youth who try to resist his molestations or who fail to become aroused when Baba is molesting them. He verbally manipulates and coerces them to engage in sex with him.
 It's clear that Baba is not "detachedly" "raising the kundalini" or "healing old sexual karma" of these male youth. (If this were the true reason, why is he denying young women and girls, older men and non-preferred younger men this "healing touch"?) Rather, Baba appears to be caught up in terrible lust and attachment: eyewitnesses describe him making "moaning" and "gurgling" sounds, thrusting his pelvis and erect organ toward the boys and young men, grabbing them when they try to move away, trying to persuade them how "lucky" they are to be having this "great opportunity." See full letter

Many very serious allegations of sexual misconduct - including extreme sorts - have been made openly and in public by a number of named persons. There are over score of detailed accounts of molestations to be found on the web which are credible and have mostly been checked by those ex-devotees who, like myself, have investigated this issue as fully as we could for years. In the following one reads short excerpts of key statements from web postings on several sites.

Several more accounts from around the world alleging sexual molestations by Sai Baba have - in addition to some of those detailed here - been formally signed as depositions or affidavits and are securely in the keeping of a professional person who is willing to be contacted ( such as via this website) for further validation by formal authorities and international bodies, lawyers and serious media persons.

Afshin Khorramshahgol (Iranian) - I travelled to India three times, from 1991 to 1993. On my first visit to IndiaI was already a devotee of Sai Baba and believed he was God.
 I had a total of seven private interviews in the first two trips. In the first private interview Sai Baba asked me to undo my pants and drop my underwear.
 Since I believed he was God I did as he asked. He had already ‘materialised’ oil and he applied it in the area between my penis and anus. In every private interview after the ‘initiation’ private interview, Sai Baba asked me to drop my pants and underwear, and he would rub my penis. Once he was rubbing it so hard it was obvious to me that he wanted me to get an erection. I was busy talking to him about my problems, the problems of my country Iran , and my family’s problems, and I was asking him for his blessing for all of them.
 I was not interested in sex or anything, especially with a guy, and so my penis did not grow, now matter how hard Sai Baba tried. Finally, he gave up and threw my penis up and turned away with a very angry face and mumbled something. When he turned back to me, he told me to put my pants on again and the private interview was over.
 You may ask why I didn’t stop Sai Baba doing what he was doing if it was so obvious to me that he wanted me to get an erection. Due to my being brainwashed... (etc.) See posting of the document.


Jens Sethi (German) - On 20th January 1996 I got the second interview. Already days before, he had established a strange eye-contact with me indicating the coming interview. My wife and I went to the interview and he acted very disappointed at seeing me together with my wife. He took me alone into the interview room and said “She is diseased and much older than you. Please separate from her”. I was really shocked and replied “She is attached to me”.
 I asked him to give her some spiritual instruction, which he readily agreed to do, but he had something else on his mind.
 Without asking permission he started kissing me on my lips for some time, and later asked me to open my trousers and ‘materialised’ some oil which he rubbed on the skin above my genitals. I felt very bad about all of this, but accepted, as I fully trusted Sai Baba.
 Then he took my wife into the private interview room alone, and told her “Either you separate from the boy or I throw you out of Puttaparthi!”. He appeared wild and furious (my wife told me afterwards) and she shivered all over. When she reappeared in a very short time, looking red faced and very scared, nobody dared ask her what happened in there.
 He saw me again some days later in darshan and asked whether I had separated or not. I said “Not yet”. He turned away and shouted so all people could hear “Bad, Bad boy!!!” He was so aggressive and seemed to radiate such an aura of evil that I was really shocked. We immediately left and went to north India for some pilgrimage.
 When Jens and his wife returned to try to clear up the matter with Sai baba somehow, his passport was confiscated by a Mr. Reddu of the ashram authority:
 On 30th October, late in the evening, two people whom I know and an unknown person came to our unit and one of them warned me that my life was in danger and I should leave immediately.
 My wife and I left very early next morning, for Delhi . At Dharmmavaram rail station the police were searching for us, but we entered the train at Anantapur. There is a police station near the platform which we had to pass to enter the train, and the very moment I saw that I told my wife to go into the train separately. My wife heard a group of policemen talking about searching for somebody and caught the words ‘passport, Delhi and telegram’. We were in serious danger but fortunately I was dressed like an Indian, and escaped identification.
 So we escaped and reached Delhi , and went immediately to the German Embassy. See posting of the full document with scan of the article in 'Bild', 21st August, 2000 p.3.


Jed Geyerhahn - US citizen. (see brief video clip from the film Seduced with Jed and also Alaya Rahm - 2mbs): I have talked with students at Sathya Sai Baba's school and they have had sexual relationships with Sai Baba. And it's really common knowledge that several students stay with Sai Baba all night on an ongoing basis. And of course nobody talks about what takes place with these students with Sai Baba, but from the students I've talked to (it's) clear that there are sexual relationships taking place. And in fact one student I talked to directly was a person that was staying with Sai Baba. And from the conversation it was clear that it was very difficult for him to come forward with this information, because he'd be rejected by his family and by his culture and by his people, unlike American students who have the support of their culture and society and family. They come forward and talk about the fact that they have been mistreated by Sai Baba.

 A 15-year old boy, Neptune Chapotin, wrote a diary (facsimile of the letter can be seen here)
 1st interview: "Oil," he said. "Open." (He started lifting my shirt; I lifted it up, thinking he wanted to rub it on my navel. Then, with his left hand, [his right was full of oil.] he motioned downwards with his fingers. I understood. I untied my pants. He lifted my penis, put his fingers at the base of it, and started rubbing the oil into me. It didn't hurt, but he was making a motion as if he was pinching me there repeatedly with his fingers. He stopped, and waved his hand again. I guess he made some more oil. He resumed rubbing. With his other hand, he drew me close. He rubbed some more, and drew me closer. I could hear him murmuring some things, so I turned my ear towards him so I could catch what he was saying. He again pulled me tighter towards him this time by the waist, until my crotch was right by the side of his leg, and our chests were almost touching. I had my chin on his right shoulder both arms around him, his hair touching the side of my face, the front of my pants down. It was so bizarre. I could now feel him pulling the base of my penis back and forth. It felt kind of good. He finally let me go, and I pulled my pants up.) (He looked at me and said: ) "Don't tell anyone. Don't tell Mother.
 2nd interview: He took Papa into the private room for a minute or so, then called me. Papa left. As soon as we got inside, he pulled me close, gave me a big hug, and started untying my pants. He dropped them to the ground, then pulled my underwear below my butt. He grabbed my penis, and while hugging me again, started masturbating the base of it. He kept repeating "Purification. Purification." I felt his other fingers grip around my crack and pull me closer, uptight. I held him tight in return. He turned his right cheek to me, I kissed it, with his prompting. He turned his mouth towards me, I gave him my cheek. He turned my head and kissed me on the mouth for a long time. When h stopped, I started to pull up my pants. He made sure my shirt didn't get stuck in the knot, and straightened me out. He kept telling me: "This is good chance; good chance; look, there are so many people outside. They all want to be here. It's your good luck." "Sometimes you are wasting money. Sometimes mother doesn't give. There's no income." (He waved his hand and out popped six 500 rupee bills. He counted them [Rs. 3000]) "For food. Spend it. keep it inside. Inside! (I put it in my wallet.) Don't tell anyone!" even Mother? "Mother you can tell." And father? "not father."


 Keith Ord (British) - His written testimony is about his English friend Michael who had between 10 and 15 interviews with Sai Baba, but was not his usual self and was holding things back, until eventually, wrote Keith...
 Michael said, "that every day he attended darshan, Baba called him for an interview. And that after a while, he just refused to go."
 Keith "Don't you realise that people follow Baba round for ten years without ever being invited for one interview?" His reply turned me to stone : "Because he wanted to have sex with me. Every interview I had with him was the same. All he wants is sex." There was a kind of stunned silence in the room for a long time; I was trying to digest what I had heard, wondering what it could mean...
 Of his own experiences in the ashram, Keith wrote that he talked with several other young men: "One was an English boy named Kestrel Boyle and the other an Australian called Edward --- I can't remember his surname because he was born of Bangladesh parents in Australia and 4 was a rather difficult name. I didn't really know what to tell them, or even if I should tell them, so instead asked them if Baba had ever done strange things to them in their private interviews. Edward replied immediately, and in such matter of fact tones that it surprised me into silence. He said "What, you mean playing with your dick? Oh don't worry about that, he's done that to me loads of times. It doesn't mean anything bad - I actually like it, and think it's good for me.' Kestrel basically said the same kind of thing, so I didn't dare say any more, but I wondered what else Baba had done with them."

 Conclusion: January 1990 - 'Islington Gazette' carried the coroner's report on Michael's death, but didn't find anything suspicious - listing it simply as a suicide



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Part 3 - More smoke and fuel to the fire

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9 Why do so many young foreign boys given much attention almost invariably leave Sathya Sai Baba?
10 The serial abuse of Sai college boys and young men?


Here I summarise some of the indirect and circumstantial evidence which by its nature and extent in general supports the direct allegations on many points of detail. Admittedly, the information collected here does not formally 'prove' Sathya Sai Baba's guilt, being reported allegations (not least since I have never myself been a victim of sexual molestation by Sathya Sai Baba... but then he doesn't seem to have taken a sexual interest in older men). But the reports are so numerous and include accounts by victims, their families and friends plus other reliable persons, that they strongly support the contention that Sathya Sai Baba is a major sexual abuser. In the main, I present information that came to me during the course of my time as a devotee and during my subsequent follow-up of such incidents. For the record, I am willing to swear on oath that what I write here is true to the best of my knowledge, being as accurately stated as I can make it, and that I have investigated and cross-checked all facts to the utmost of my current faculties and facilities

Why do so many young foreign boys given much attention almost invariably leave Sai Baba? Through the years I saw, on numerous occasions, that Sathya Sai Baba selected for very frequent interviews certain young men from 16 to 20 years old from Scandinavia , the USA and Germany who I knew or was acquainted with. They would often be invited on their own without the group they belonged to and would get private interviews each time. All of them received gifts like rings, bangles or watches etc. from Sathya Sai Baba. This was puzzling, but the classic explanation was that Sathya Sai Baba knows the karma of everyone and he fetches these young men because of their merits (or also certain 'demerits') in past lives both to protect them and possibly 'correctively punish' them... all so as to sow the seeds of spirituality in them. However, I found that those who I came to know fairly well were all already spiritually inclined, often very much so. The more surprising it was to note that, one after another, these much 'blessed' young men soon fell away from the Sai movement altogether and were never seen again at the ashrams. Devotees lost touch with them altogether. Who could possibly understand this? The minds of followers are heavily programmed by Sathya Sai Baba teachings to think "we cannot understand everything, probably we cannot really understand anything... and especially where Sathya Sai Baba is involved." The fall-off of followers, especially young men who have been feted by Sathya Sai Baba, was a subject of discussion among many devotees (esp. prior to the public furore), which can also be noted in various accounts by writers of pro-Sai books.

At our various interviews, my wife and I have seen Sathya Sai Baba choose a male youth to sit close to him on nearly every occasion, whom he strokes, claps, slaps and fondles on and off throughout the couple of hours. Being fully signed-up believers in Sathya Sai Baba then, we did not regard these as signs of homosexual behaviour with Sathya Sai Baba. However, a Norwegian journalist - Hilda Wright - who we later met and who has relocated to South Africa, told how her unmarried partner was taken into a private interview without her (in the late 1990s), and that she had seen Sathya Sai Baba grab surreptitiously at his genitals twice as they came out into the main interview room, which fact her partner had confirmed to her. One of the latest accounts of this such crudity by Sai Baba is by one of the young men - Gabriel M. - who accompanied the famous actor, Conny Larsson, to visit Sai Baba before they became fully aware of his fraudulence. His account is also available on-line. The son of Britt-Marie Andén, Jesper Andén, has also spoken out about untoward behaviour in private by Sai Baba "Several of my male friends had been to private interviews and I knew that he had oiled their bellies and penises..." and "what he did was come directly up to me, hug me and put his mouth to my mouth and kissed me. All of the good feeling I had in my heart changed to thoughts like 'what is he doing?'"

One of the several known Scandinavian victims was a very young man from Sweden (nicknamed 'the golden boy' due to the many trinkets 'materialised' for him by Sathya Sai Baba) whose revelations in 2000 caused a serious decline in the following in the Swedish Sai Organisation and were also the occasion of Conny Larsson finally making known to all his own history of long abuse by Sathya Sai Baba. A Sai Organisation meeting of leaders and active devotees was held in Stockholm where the 'golden boy' and another boy told of the repeated and serious molestations they had suffered at the hands of Sai Baba. Among others, the President of the Swedish Sai Organisation and leader of the Sai school in Gothenberg, Britt-Marie Andén, whose son was also molested sexually by Sai Baba, closed down the school and left Sai Baba altogether. Her son, Jesper, made public his account on the Internet some years later. The National Coordinator for Education in Human Values, Magnus Vrethammar, a long-serving and founder devotee in Sweden also formally resigned with his wife - Britt-Marie Andén - who had written two books on Sai Baba in Swedish and was then ready to publish a third.

Another Swedish boy I knew quite well from several visits to the ashram - he was active in the Organisation too - had a dozen interviews in a brief period... and some say he had many more within a few weeks before he left Sathya Sai Baba and the organisation, despite the lavish attention he received, (i.e. fairly evidently precisely because of it!) That boy sat close beside Sathya Sai Baba at interviews (my wife and I also observed this) and was constantly touched and handled in various ways by Sathya Sai Baba as he sat there. Sathya Sai Baba nicknamed him 'the coconut tree' because he was very tall. I also met in Prashanthi in 1992 a third Swedish boy in his late teens with a group mainly from Gothenburg and he was in a very evident state of confusion and withdrawal already after his first private interview with Sathya Sai Baba, which I found most extraordinary then but which I now realise could well have been due to sexual molestation.

In another instance, a young man from who was a very active worker in the Sai Organisation and whom I knew well from Prashanthi and visited me in and told me that Sai Baba kissed him voluptuously on the mouth when alone with him inside the private interview room. I did not believe him! He had also removed the silver ring Sai Baba gave him (with Sathya Sai Baba's own image on), which my wife and I could not understand at all. He did not say why! He had already apparently put Sai Baba behind him, and probably was hoping I would hear him out.. He did not then tell me of oiling of his genitals, for I was too convinced a devotee, but a friend who contacted him years later reported that genital oiling was also involved, but also that he did not wish to make a public statement about it, though he had been the most active seva worker in Denmark prior to that. Another young man from Denmark gave an account of visiting Sai Baba in 2002 to find out if the allegations could be true. He was invited to a private interview and was genitally massaged himself, whereupon he posted his account on the www.exbaba.com exposé website. He later withdrew his account, having expressed to me his anxiety of the reactions he met from his contacts and by other consequences he feared. A tall, dark young man in his early 20s from Germany whom I met at Prashanthi Nilayam around 1990, and whom I saw called to 5 interviews within about 2 weeks and who received a gold(?) ring from Sathya Sai Baba, was never seen or heard of subsequently. I do not publish the names of the above persons since I do not have their permission, which I must say I understand, however regretful it is that they feel unable for one reason or another to stand forth.

I have also heard from three long-standing friends of incidents that support these allegations which they happened to have heard about from the persons involved. These reports, often thought peculiar or even doubtful at the time, became all that much more significant after the main wave of allegations broke, because they fitted the general pattern and added weight to the credibility of the exposé. Another good friend of ours, a Norwegian (Tor Fotland), who visited Sai Baba several times with his Rumanian wife Felicia Fotland, upon hearing about the allegations told that they knew a male Italian devotee who had told him how Sai Baba had handled his genitals.

 I also knew well an American lady, Marge Hendel, who had been a Sai follower for decades, and who lived in Oslo for several years, who told me that some of her US friends had brought their young son to Sathya Sai Baba sometime before the 1980s, but had left permanently when he had taken down the boy's trousers alone in private and massaged his genitals with oil. I had discounted this at the time as being either untrue or, at best, perhaps some kind of spiritual treatment. Only in view of subsequent very credible-sounding accounts, of which there are too many to disregard, do these other incidents appear noteworthy, to say the least. Though these second-hand accounts may be presented by some who are keen to ignore them as 'mere hearsay', I regard them rather as part of the ever-mounting mass of circumstantial evidence coming from all kinds of identified and unrelated persons around the world.

The long-serving US devotee, Al Drucker, who lived at Sai Baba's ashrams for well over a decade, was later forced in 1992 by Sathya Sai Baba to leave them 'for ever' and was banned completely from the Sathya Sai Organisation. According to an US lady who was present at the interview in Sathya Sai Baba's costly residence Trayee Brindavan and related the details to us directly afterwards, the reason for the ban was that Drucker would marry against Sathya Sai Baba's expressed command. Though I saw Drucker visiting Prashanthi years later in 1998 (somewhat difficult to recognise due to a beard) for the presentations of holy sandals (paduka) ceremonies and my wife and V.K. Narasimhan spoke to him, he has signally failed to come out with the truth about why he left Sathya Sai Baba and his many experiences with very disturbed parents of sons sexually abused by Sathya Sai Baba. This information has come to us (which fact I can document) through two trustworthy friends of ours, long-term former National Sai Organisation leaders, who managed to get Drucker to tell them in private the main reason for his disaffection. They have since withdrawn from Sai Baba. I vouch fully for the veracity of my own account here, which I strongly feel has to be made public not least for the sake of helping warn persons at risk from similar attentions by Sathya Sai Baba or student victims he may have led astray into similar tastes as his own.


The serial abuse of Sai college boys and young men?: Among several ex-students who contacted one or another of those of us who have declared our firm conviction that the evidence is overwhelming, is the Tamil ex-Whitefield student Meenakshi Srikanth. He published a long article describing Sai Baba's homosexual abuse under the title Sai Baba: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly he attests that he was told by many students what they had experienced (and what he fortunately did not suffer) saying:

"Many of these students were made gay ('sodomized' would be an unrefined word) by Swami, who himself is a gay. I did not believe it when they told me this. But not long after, I heard the experiences as narrated by the students who had undergone the trauma themselves. ... lets call him Nandan, always had a grim face as he walked into the bungalow. He never attended classes those days in which he got an interview. I have often seen him show marks in his chest and chin and say things like, "innikku kadichtaarudaa!", followed by a flow of choice words of slang. Nandan often used to get covers from Swami in public and sometimes he would be asked to open it. It would contain crisp hundred rupee notes. There is another word for giving money for such acts.
 Nandan was helpless. He could not go home and complain. His family and parents were devotees for 30 years and their very lives have been defined around Baba. Nandan since he knew the world has been knowing Swami and none else as god. He was first initiated into doing this by Swami when he was in school. Swami told him that he (Swami) was the only purusha in the world and the whole world was his wife."'

Another student, who was still under-age when Sai Baba regularly misused him sexually, managed to escape the ashram where his mother still works as a follower to his father in the  USA  . He posted his account on a message board and he was contacted by exposé workers. He did not wish his name known on account of the safety of his mother, but he was contacted for a filmed interview (with concealed identity) by the BBC (no footage of this has so far been shown). However, yet another Sai student posted ( 1/10/01 ) on Sathya Sai Baba Discussion Club under "A Letter I Wrote to Sai Critic", the following:-

... beside being "oiled" under the pretense of curing a different problem with a totally different part of my anatomy, I was saved from further sexploitation my en masse defections from the closest relatives who were Baba's choice inner circle for decades who were all victims of his sodomite behaviour. Needless to say, we were vilified as usual and were labelled as opportunists. I don't expect you to believe this or post it on your site but I would appreciate if you sent this to Mr. Murphet. But he is too invested in this for nearly 40 years and I don't expect him to have an open mind after this long. After all, my own father did not believe what happened to me when it happened. Regards,Taken for a ride for 20 years and called the "chaff"

Another young man, an ex-student of Sai education, whose own mother still believes in Sai Baba and works there contacted exposé workers via a bulletin board. He will not publish his name due to his mother's situation. he had to go to court to get the right to leave the ashram and join his father, who now lives in the US. His name is known to some of us in the exposé and he was checked out by the BBC team which made the documentary 'The Secret Swami', who also confirmed this to me.

As an adult I tried to put the past behind me but realised recently that this never really goes away. the shame and hurt still exist especially because at the time sai baba was some whom I felt very close to. His shudders and disgusts me now to think that when I was a teenager he used to stare at me when I went to darshan line. I thought he was blessing me but now I know it was all because he was sexually interested. I was his next victim.I did not begin to speak out until I realised a few years ago that i am not the only person he has abused. He is a menace to teenage boys who are to afraid and ashamed to speak up. Peer pressure from my family made me shut up at the time, but I am an adult now and I can speak the truth.

His full account shows how utterly powerless students are under what amounts to the homosexual slavery regime of Sathya Sai.

In late 1999, a very reliable and highly intelligent friend of ours, Irene Larsen from Norway, who stayed in Brindavan & PN for long periods and also worked for months in the foreigners' canteen in PN, returned to India in 2000 for a long period during which she questioned people about the 'homosexual rumours'. She met a Hungarian lady who lives near Tiruvannamalai in Ramana Maharshi's ashram, an ex-devotee of Sathya Sai Baba who had lived in Prashanthi Nilayam for four years but left Baba permanently years previously due to her conviction of his sexual molestation of young men and boys. She had herself met several young boys who had experienced it! She also told that there had been much talk about Baba as a molester in Sai circles in Hungary and France in two periods - around 1991 and 1995, when many there had left the Sathya Sai Organisation as a result. Irene Larsen also investigated the case of the young men who had worked in the canteen at Prashanthi Nilayam in 1997 for months alongside her.

One of these, a young Australian man, told her in detail about how all the young men in the foreigners' canteen were told to leave immediately one day. Several of them had been speaking about having sexual relations with Sathya Sai Baba. It is almost certain that it was the 'canteen lady' Veronica who reported them to ashram officials, as she was already known to have informed on devotees to the Sai authorities in other connections. It was also known that some of these young men were more or less openly homosexual. They had been fetched by police within hours and driven to Bangalore and told never to return, the reason given being that there was too much association with ladies in the canteen! (A clever slander to mislead attention away from the dreaded subject for Sathya Sai Baba, namely homosexuality!) One of them came back to Prashanthi Nilayam incognito a year or two later, when Irene Larsen ran into him and learned from him of these events.

Mr. Ratan Lal is one of Baba's long-term close followers, a resident at PN who held lectures there (incidentally, on a self-defeatingly inconsistent amalgam of Sathya Sai Baba and Ramana Maharshi's teachings, which can be seen for what it is in his published books of the same, edited heavily to make them better by none other than Irene Larsen, now very much an ex-devotee of Sathya Sai Baba). Larsen asked him about some prominent and extremely devoted long-term Greek devotees whose son, Socrates, had been at Sathya Sai Baba's college in Puttaparthi. They had suddenly withdrawn him overnight and had ceased to be devotees. Ratan Lal said that this Greek family left "because they had such big egos", a standard Sathya Sai Baba devotee put-down of the disaffected! However, Larsen had previously been informed that the boy had been sexually molested by Sathya Sai Baba!

During my correspondence with the US professional counsellor and ex-devotee, Mrs. Elena Hartgering, she mentioned that an Indian cardiologist who now works in New York informed her that while he was studying in Delhi in the 1960s, Sathya Sai Baba was already well known among his fellow students for his homosexual misuse of boys! Incidentally, Elena Hartgering also mentioned in a mail: "When I was in the sai center an Indian family moved to the US and became members. He is an eye doctor of some sort and his wife stays at home. One evening he told us that sai baba is hated and that is the word he used in both Puttaparthy and Bangalore . He is seen by his own people as a fraud, BUT he is also their cash cow."

An elderly Danish lady devotee, Mrs. Bitten Nelson, was interviewed by the Danish national daily newspaper, BT ( 31/1/2002 ).She had been a close follower of Sathya Sai Baba and for nearly two decades she had been totally concentrated on him, arranged group visits and held talks about him etc. At first she rejected all accusations against Sathya Sai Baba out of hand, but was later given three articles from 'India Today' and then 'The Findings'. So she went to Puttaparthi to check with Indian families with whom she usually stayed whether there could be any substance in the allegations of Sathya Sai Baba's sexual abuse. She found out independently from two separate families she knew well, after much difficulty in each case due to their fears, that Sathya Sai Baba is widely known to be a sexual abuser of boys, but it is not worth their lives to speak freely or tell outsiders of this ... only then did she begin to credit the many accounts of sexual abuse. All this was published in the Danish daily newspaper BT.

An Anglo-Indian called Alfred Brinnand my wife and I know from Sai Baba's ashrams and also from UK where we lived for some time in the same apartment, had a peculiar contact at Kadugodi village near the Whitefield Sai ashram, a youngish man who apparently had vibuthi and amrit issuing from his pictures of Sathya Sai Baba. Alfred reported that this young man was of the opinion that the Mysore 'Thief's Temple' of Halagappa no longer had any genuine vibuthi or amrit for he knew that he manufactured them after having lost Sai's grace! (Sai Baba had indeed given warnings about going to this Mysore temple in discourses). On Thursday, 29 January 1987, Alfred arranged for us to meet this young man, but the moror rickshaw driver could not find the address and the meeting did not take place. However, Alfred told me that this young man said he had often had sex with Sai Baba, and - though I scoffed greatly at the very idea - Alfred evidently credited him as telling the truth! I wrote this off quickly as some kind of delusion... but now I am able to see that I was most likely very much mistaken. Unfortunately I never met the fellow, for the tempo driver lost his way and we never found his rooms.

In 1987, my wife and I stayed a fortnight in UK with a very Sai-devoted and helpful Sri Lankan lady (I withhold her name) whom we knew from Sathya Sai Baba's ashrams. Her nephew, by the first name of Dushanta, lived there too. He had been taken to see Sathya Sai Baba once, and had been given a very long private interview in the inner room. Sathya Sai Baba had given him one of his robes (always a much-coveted gift, treasured by followers as a 'blessing from the Lord Himself'). Dushanta had been offered a place in the PN college by Sathya Sai Baba. In the larger interview room afterwards, Sathya Sai Baba told the group how he had offered this boy (then still a minor) more than he had ever offered to any other boy before (this was to increase the pressure on him through his very devoted relatives, no doubt). However, Dushanta adamantly refused to go near Sathya Sai Baba again and treated the robe (which his aunt worshipped) with contempt... even burned large holes in it with a candle! I could simply not understand his attitude at the time and he would say not a single word in answer to my friendly questions. One must ask why this was so? He had already totally rejected everything to do with Sathya Sai Baba. Other explanations of this rejection could be speculated on, but in view of all the rest of it, my hypothesis seems a very likely one.
The well-known gurur, Muz Murray, of France, signed the International Sai petition on October 11. 2007, commenting. I never was a follower. But Swami Muktananda of Ganeshpuri, warned me over thirty years ago, never to get into a private darshan with Sai Baba, as he had just returned from Puttaparthi adjudicating in a court case regarding Sai Baba's molestation of the son of two of Muktananda's disciples. Also an Arab friend was penetrated by Sai Baba many years later. I contacted him by e-mail and he confirmed his comment, but at this distance in time, he did not have access to any any documentary evidence.


Another central Sai Baba person who certainly knew the facts about Sathya Sai Baba's so-called "playing with boys" was the former ashram engineer, Mr. Kamani, Sathya Sai Baba's very close servitor in the 70s etc., who openly told the Icelandic investigator of Sai Baba's miracles etc. about Sathya Sai Baba's sexual relations with student boys. I now realise that V.K. Narasimhan almost certainly knew this too, but the facts were too sensitive for him to tell me outright and I then regarded Sai Baba as the pure celibate he claims to be. (I have recorded our exchanges on this subject before I began to realise the true state of affairs in my article 'Unnatural events in his bedroom, told by Sai Baba'.

In the infamous 1993 murders episode, two attendants were killed in a knife battle and two seriously injured, while a 14-year-old student who was with Sathya Sai Baba in his 1st floor bedroom escaped unhurt. Why a 14-year old minor, a student at Sai's college, was in Sathya Sai Baba's bedroom so late is a question well worth answering too! Ex-Home Minister S.B. Chavan is reported to have said that Baba "scolded the persons creating the noise, bolting the door from the inside." An official First Information Report (Annexure 144) reports Sai Baba shouting 'Fools, get out'. The question is why Sathya Sai Baba did not intervene.

However, the Indian Express (13-6-1993) reported that a boy in is early teens - Subbappayya - was in Sai Baba's room and opened the door when the assailants knocked saying there was a telegram for Sai Baba. They attempted to attack him, but the dagger only penetrated his shirt and he escaped unharmed. He bolted the door and alerted Baba to the impending danger. Further, why did the ashram authorities hide him away and deny police access to him for giving evidence? Why did they do the same with the two injured Sevadal attendants who had been downstairs with Radhakrishnan, namely, Baba's cook Vishnu Bhatt and the assistant Anil Patley? That the ashram authorities kept them away from any interrogation on various pretexts is not a fact disputed by any source.

Supporting indications of Sathya Sai Baba's long-term misuse of male youths are found throughout the official literature- though will have mostly been included by authors unwitting of what they reveal - even though it is well known that the only books accepted by Sathya Sai Baba have always been by authors who subject themselves to rigorous self-censorship! For example, Prof. Kasturi even describes at some length the 'grace' accorded to a major favorite young boy, the apple of Sathya Sai Baba's eye, who was allowed to come and go freely in Sathya Sai Baba's quarters, to interrupt Sathya Sai Baba in conversation without admonition and so on. (A boy with very similar privileges - whether the same boy or yet another - is described in Howard Levin's book, 'Good Chances'). Kasturi relates how, one day suddenly, Sathya Sai Baba froze out the boy completely and no amount of tears or supplications were of any avail. Prof. N. Kasturi related that the reason was probably something to do with this boy having had some illicit contact with a girl. It is well known that this is anathema to Sathya Sai Baba's misogynistic world-view.

Part 4 - The Jigsaw of Mounting Testimony & Circumstantial Evidence Takes Shape

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11 More Documented claims of sexual molestation
12 Ram Das Awle's alleged 'channeled' explanation to justify perverse sex by Sai Baba
13 Sai Baba a threat to many of his students
 14 Claims that Sai Baba is a hermaphrodite

http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/6/saisex5.html#fur





 Part 5 - Sathya Sai Baba's Claims of Purity and Celibacy that Defy all Accounts

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 15 Defending the indefensible - rationalizing pedophile activities
16 Sathya Sai Baba never celibate - fresh evidence
17 The self-professed 'teacher of mankind' who totally avoids the subject of sexuality?

http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/6/saisex6.htm#prt5

Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, written by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debby_Applegate

The true measure of Brahmananda...

" Everyone uses words without understanding their inner meaning. This is the main cause of his ignorance. Worldly pleasures are transient, whereas Brahmananda is eternal.

The type of joy that man derives out of worldly comforts and conveniences is Maanavananda (human joy).

Hundred times more than Maanavananda is Indrananda:
hundred times more than Indrananda is Devendrananda.
Hundred times more than Devendrananda is Devananda.
Hundred times more than Devananda is Brihaspathiananda
Hundred times more than Brihaspathiananda is Prajapathiananda.
Hundred times more than Prajapathiananda is Brahmananda.

This is the true measure of Brahmananda. Such an expression as Brahmananda is used in common parlance to mean worldly happiness. "Brahmanandam Paramasukhadam...,"only Brahmananda confers supreme comfort. All the comforts relating to body and mind are like passing clouds.

- taken from Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Sports Meet Discourse in 2000.