SAI BABA’S ABSURD IDEAS ABOUT PHYSICAL SCIENCE
from Sathya Sai Baba's DISCOURSE ON GURU PURNIMA, July, 2002.
by Jorge Reyesvera and introduction by Robert Priddy
see also SAI BABA'S MISGUIDED IDEAS ABOUT MAGNETISM http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/Magnet1.htm

The text below also appears in a different edited-down version in Sanathana Sarathi - August 2002.
The following is an excerpt from the verbatim translation of the premsai website's version.
The text is and also found in full – complete with comments - at www.saiguru.net.

Introductory comment: What is more deflating than giving cause to become the unwitting object of laughter, and therefore one almost has to be sorry for this fellow with the secondary-school education from which he gave up, supposedly because he was all-knowing! Though this seems to ridicule SathyA Sai Baba, it really only points out how ridiculously his ‘teaching’ here is… even though devotees applaud it like mad! Sai Baba is certainly not above ridiculing people, both in general and in interviews… so he should be able to take it too! As the writer of the comments above remarked,

“…he used to ridicule devotees frequently. I remember once that one student friend of mine told me how SSB was in a bus and some devotees outside were saying loudly, "Sai Baba, Sai Baba...", and his reply was "Donkeys, donkeys..." But with discourses like this one he also shows how much of a donkey he is. “

His struggles in the following to stick to his chosen subject - atoms and more atoms to impress the punters - by having to keep going and reeling anything off the top of his head, and somehow to introduce and beat to death his favourite hobby-horses with codswallop, is pathetic. If it were not for what else he does and pretends, if it were not for all the lives he ruins and half-ruins (a subject no one in his favour likes to talk about), we would leave this clown to his own sub-intellectual devices in his divinely-decorated dunce's corner. Alas, the time when we could let it pass have gone, unfortunately, but then it is not our fault at all!

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