The standpoint that a person is innocent until
proven guilty is generalization which clouds many issues concerning guilt
and innocence. It is absurd to think that a person cannot be guilty before
being proven so in a court of law. It is really only a formal principle
about whether a person has been convicted or not. Sai Baba's critics are
only too aware that no successful court proceedings have (so far!) been
brought against him for his involvement in sexual abuse, pedophilia and
complicity in murders. This does of course NOT mean that he innocent of
any of these charges! Only devotees who do not want anything aired can
believe such that this clears him of any of the many and weighty allegations
lodged against him.
To take an example which highlights the principle here (without making
other comparisons to Sathya Sai Baba )... Saddam Hussein has not been proven guilty
of anything criminal. But who does not understand that Saddam Hussein
is guilty of murder and worse? The Belgian rapist/murderer went free for
six long years despite millions demonstrating on the streets in Belgium
for the case to be taken up (two very young girls were saved from this
Belgian sex monster's cellar with their lives while others were not and
starved to death there)? He was guilty of what he did even before there
was legal proof! In his case, bringing him to justice when he has powerful
accomplices was the problem. This is yet more the case with Sathya Sai Baba !
Hundreds of known mass murderers have lived and still live around the
world without being brought to justice and proven guilty of anything.
Does this exonerate them, clear them of any actual guilt? Definitely not!
Nor can Sathya Sai Baba be absolved of responsibility before the laws of his land
just because he has escaped justice so far. He may die having failed to
clear his name, but he won't escape the judgement of history...far too
many of his own published words and well-recorded actions - including
many sworn testimonies - will ensure that. The social works done in his
name (by other than him) will not save his reputation in the wider world
any more than it did those of many other proven deceivers and criminals
whose followers did good works in their countries.
When there is compelling evidence of Sathya Sai Baba 's
putative guilt, as now - and highly credible accounts from so many people
around the world - it is wholly legitimate to claim that Sathya Sai Baba is guilty
even before he is brought to justice. To make claims that someone has
perpetrated crimes is a necessary and logical prerequisite to formally
charging, let alone convicting anyone. This is no "lynch mob"
mentality, as has been claimed by ardent Sathya Sai Baba supporters. It's a case
of people rightfully asking for the recourse to justice. The US State
Department is no "lynch mob" but it stated to the BBC in May
2004 that Sai Baba is the individual named in its travel advisory in
Consular Information Sheet, November 23, 2001, where he was not named.
That he was intended was clear from the start, but publishing his name
could have had consequences for US-Indian relations in the absence of
a conviction of Sathya Sai Baba so far. This kind of State Department warning is
never made without very adequate evidence. Likewise, UNESCO did not
act without convincing testimony which they extensively investigated
before withdrawing from an official educational conference in connection
with Sathya Sai Baba , as their recent official pronouncements to the BBC have supported.
According to the Sai spokesman G. Venkataraman on the Sai Radio 'Global
Harmony' website, one of India's UNESCO representatives and the Indian
Foreign Minister managed to get a posting by the UNESCO Media Advisory
deleted from the website after some years. The posting distances UNESCO
from Sai Baba. But the UNESCO statement has NOT been officially withdrawn
in any public announcement and in NO WAY INVALIDATES UNESCO's action
in issuing it originally! Further, UNESCO has assured the BBC that that
they only deleted it a routine for updating and clearing the site. Further
UNESCO stated to the BBC that they do not regret having posted it. The
full documentation of this will be available as soon as possible on
this website.
Another point, it is certainly not in any
way illegal for any injured party to make such allegations against Sathya Sai Baba at their own risk, as young men have bravely done in the public interest.
Their testimonies can always be challenged in court for libel, but no
such challenge has ever been made by Sathya Sai Baba or his supporters. One can
easily understand why! Some devotees claim that what these young men
have done is wrong, even illegal, and have made clear they had preferred
these young men had crept away and kept silent. What kind of justice
would that be for them!
Indian students are by and large not ready to stand forth in public
or raising a case against Sathya Sai Baba for reasons wholly obvious to anyone who
knows how power is exercised in India to the highest and lowest levels
by Sathya Sai Baba and his followers. Foreign devotees who manfully describe how
they were abused, despite the vituperation that Sai people express against
any such defectors, have surely learned enough about that country from
experience and so are not going to submit themselves to the corrupt
and violent police in most places nor to the huge uncertainties of Indian
so-called justice... quite apart from persecution, job loss, estrangement
from their family etc. Several prominent critics of Sai Baba have been
attacked by hit men and some we know in India are in hiding. Such harrowing
details are known to those few persons in whom they know they can safely
confide, and all too often their situations are so extremely sensitive
that they cannot stand forth without harming (or losing) others dear
to them. Naive devotees from abroad like to believe that the law prevails
in India and that the police are not mostly wholly corrupt, brutal and
often in the pocket of politicians and other power brokers. For example,
the Puttaparthi police are most evidently in the power of the Sai authorities,
while at the same time the police chief there is a priviliged devotee.
There are moral laws, which are more fundamental than any system of
law, particularly in power-corrupted India, where countless sectarian
murders are universally known to go unsolved and often virtually uninvestigated.
Supposed 'religious figures' get convicted and imprisoned in Indian
courts for sex offences and murder. Their devotees, however, invariably
insist that their gurus could not possibly be guilty and the trials
must have been unfair, fixed, or due to political repression and so
on. Unfair High Court convictions probably do occur, but hardly in more
than a few instances. This denial syndrome has its own psychological
and social explanation, of course. Sex abuse victims in India do not
receive positive treatment from courts, to put the matter extremely
mildly. Practically the whole Indian society is in a Victorian double-morale
gridlock of taboos and suppression, both as to homosexual molestation
and paedophilia (including child marriage etc.). These abuses can flourish
there where no one can speak out and get a hearing without risking life
and limb, slander and vituperation.
Those relatively few persons who have gained the full confidence of
many of those who describe their being sexually abused by Sathya Sai Baba have investigated
those alleging abuse by Sathya Sai Baba , have viewed, correlated and checked the
massive evidence critically from all conceivable angles through years.
Further, those who have the confidence of sexual assaulted young men
and students (i.e. proclaimed ex-devotees) assure that far from all
the gathered evidence has been made public so far, not least for reasons
of security. In a nation without a corrupted government and judiciary
etc., this is sufficient to demand that authorities take the matter
seriously and see that proper legal investigations are carried out.
Yet Sathya Sai Baba has been so far able to remain silent on it all and hide behind
his cronies and political leaders etc., which should be easy enough
to observe and to understand.
Very few of more than a hundred individuals who bore office in the Sathya
Sai Organisation who have registered that they left it due to disillusionment
- some after several decades - have been able to be active in matters
of exposure. There are many reasons for this. Firstly, it was a massive
step to take after having been deeply - or almost totally - involved
in the Sai movement, and having sacrificed major energies and financial
and other resources to that end. One can only vaguely imagine what this
involves psychologically, mentally and socially until one finds oneself
in such a position oneself. Though I was far too old at age 50 to be
sexually approached by Sathya Sai Baba , my faith in him and what he claims about
himself was abused most thoroughly. He is guilty of defrauding me (and
the world) by lying on many matters, of which I have provided full proof
on this website. One sees there how I have, for example, received wholly
independent expert testimony of a fraudulent 'materialisation' of an
alleged 'green diamond' by Sai Baba and thousands of pounds money I
have donated have largely disappeared into pockets without any receipt
or explanation. It took me years before I was able to reach the point
of realization what this implied, despite all the damning evidence that
had been accumulating around me and forcing itself into my awareness.
A tough examination of the testimony and evidence - including filmed
interviews - is open to everyone on the internet, and the ordinary person
will find it most compelling in demonstrating Sathya Sai Baba 's guilt and cynical
untruthfulness. Claiming omniscience, he once used to say that "Everyone
and everything is Divine Spirit (Atma)". But he has changed his
tune! Now it is 'demons' and 'Judases' vs. the 'divine' (i.e. himself).
Once he distinguished between a person and his or her behaviour... but
no longer! Once every living being has a 'divine spark' within, but
no more… he denies that his critics have any divine spark! So much
for HIS teachings. Major hypocrisy in action!
If 'demons' in human form were to exist (a primitive superstition in
any case), would not those who caused through blackmail and cover-up
(including Sathya Sai Baba , who was present but avoided all questioning by any official
body) the execution in cold blood of four devotees in Sathya Sai Baba 's bedroom
qualify for the title? Or male sex abuse of underage boys, of which Sathya Sai Baba stands very firmly accused?
His true nature stands revealed: he
is a fallible human liar - who says that his critics are acting for
money. He is a conscious deceiver and manipulator. The moral burden
of guilt lies most firmly on Sathya Sai Baba for deceiving everyone for so long
and so thoroughly. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that some of
his most inflamed and low-minded followers call all critics liars or
demons etc. and try to smear us with base and totally undocumented and
unfounded sexual libels, or - as ex-International Chairman of the Sai
Org., Indulal Shah spread around by e-mails- the bare-faced and totally
undocumented lie that critics are acting on behalf of 'vested interests'.
See also the Danish
Sai Baba Expose website.
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