AUTHORS SAI BABA LOVES
TO READ
(including the 'imperfect' Howard Murphet)
Some authors who praise Sathya Sai Baba reports that he says he reads the books himself. He has expressed that he loves to read certain of his authors. He ‘showers blessing’ on writers who use rose-coloured glasses to see everything having to do with him or his works. Other books about him are less popular with him! Any criticism of him, however constructive or positively intended, is forbidden within his sphere and he can be very angry looking when this occurs. Such writers as Prof. N. Kasturi, V. and Shakuntala Balus, Dr. John Hislop, Howard Murphet, Dr.Samuel Sandweiss, Peggy Mason, Phyllis Krystal, Joy Thomas, and many Indian hagiographers who exaggerate on almost every subject are to his taste.
Virtually all gurus and spiritual masters love and expect paeans of praise and expressions of blind faith, attempts to serve them in the hope of getting spiritual advancement or salvation. Sai Baba idolisers are in a class apart for sychophancy and worsship of him and his supposed utter holiness and 'incredible' miracles. Sai authors who are followers always are consciously involved in suppressing information about all unfortunate events at the ashrams, of which there are many known to all long-term residents. Neither minor not major crimes that take place - nor suicides, disappearances, mortal accidents - are ever described or even mentioned. This is regarded as irrelevant to the divine mission of God Incarnate. Often writers do nothing Baba may remotely dislike out of their anxiety that they will lost his grace or even be pubioshed karmically! They are always told only to see, hear and speak what is good (it is understood this applies with extra force to anything about Sai Baba) as he often sais in his interminable moralising discourses. As a former relative insider of the Sai movement, I know something of the various trials and tribulations of certain authors, and that their the books are mostly noteworthy to me now for what they do not tell or consciously cover up! Any tiny thing that could sully Sai Baba’s image or affect his plans (or his organization) is prejudged automatically as equivalent to 'scandal and rumour mongering' and omitted.
From experience, I am inclined to the opinion that most of them behave thus out of the
The blind faith that Baba has inculcated in those he accepts and sees more than others is the mainspring of this continual self-censorship, but it also arises out of the huge social and political naivety about India common to nearly all foreign devotees. Their motives are not necessary to be untruthful, but their way of interpreting everything leads them into statings many untruths and half-truths. This also makes most of them almost psychologically incapable and uncommunicative about their private doubts and anxieties - which many of them will claim do not worry them. The uncertainty and peaceless worrying about how to understand what to do and what not are clear to observers of human behaviour in the grip of ideology, esoteric beliefs and cultist practises.
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