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Bread makers in Kashgar's Old City, by urbangarden

The most unreasonable of all excuses - to avert all blame from oneself for anything one does - is to claim that one is the Divine Godhead - pure, infallible and entirely benevolent. This is exactly what Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Narayana Raju (later Sathya Sai Baba) is reported by several devotee writers as having said he will die at the age 95 and/or 96 (in some places in India a person who is 95, yet is in-the 96th year,

A friend in Oslo, another ex-devotee, received an unsolicited e-mail from a Sai devotee - one of the several remaining Sai followers in Norway, an Indian immigrant who propagates her information from alleged 'close friends of Swami'. I do not

Sathya Sai Baba claims that the original language of the Vedas was Sanskrit, saying:-"In the Sanskrit language, the first letter of the alphabet is 'A' and the last one is 'Ha.' When you combine A and Ha, it becomes Aha."

Sathya Sai Baba welcomes all important and rich persons, especially Presidents, Prime Ministers and royalty, always giving them full priority over all those who work selflessly for him, however spiritual they may be. For example, the despotic rulers, the super-rich

Sathya Sai Baba makes the phenomenal claim that he is in reality the Almighty form of the Vedas (i.e. "Vedarupa") [Sanathana Sarathi July 1974, p. 170]He writes and speaks much about them, that they are the result of sages' (i.e.

Sai Baba has repeatedly stated in his discourses that he knows everything about everything and that nothing he does is without meaning. This opens for many ways of interpreting anything Sathya Sai Baba is seen to do, or does NOT

Our contacts in the ashrams inform us how apartments in Prashanthi Nilayam - and in Puttaparthi village - have become quite a drug on the market nowadays, not least due to the decline of the Sathya Sai following from abroad

The Dalai Lama is known world-wide for his courage and often illumining and acceptable teachings, but above all for his life, which is truly a message of non-violence and standing for the truth and what is right. His righteous (dharmic)

History of sorts was made today as the Indian Army proudly equipped itself with the first Armoured Regiment of indigenously built Main Battle Tank, Arjun. The development marks the fruition of 35 years of research in self-reliance by dedicated Indian