SATHYA SAI BABA'S 'MAGNETIC FEET' TURNED OUT TO BE DUE TO A MAJOR HIP FRACTURE- 2003
Sathya Sai Baba slipped and fell in his bathroom and fractured his hip occurred on June 4th, 2003. This was his second hip fracture, the first having been on 9/8/1988 when he slipped on the soap in his shower! The first interview he gave was for a variety of up to 30 persons selected by V.K. Narasimhan. My wife and I were among them. He gave a full account to us all of how he got his hairline hip fracture (a MOST painful event, whioch none of us could have withstood - he told us us! However plenty of people have withstood hip injuries and worse... including my former mother-in-law and my mother). Sathya Sai Baba is no more able, it is evident, to learn from experience than can the average Indian architect (who design bathrooms which injure thousands and where water from basins is often just flushed onto the floor etc.).
The ashram authorities made various false statements, trying to cover up and minimize the event. Dr. Michael Goldstein, International Chairman of the Sathya Sai Organization and of the Prashanthi Council too, had to act - he put out a brief account as follows: "Our Beloved Bhagawan Baba had a small accident in which he fell and sustained an injury to his hip. Subsequently, he underwent a minor surgical procedure and is responding extremely well." However, Sai Baba shortly afterwards blew the whole thing up into something that would normally take 2 to 3 years of convalescence!Eventually, http://geocities.com/manojap1000/darshan.htm published a translation-cum-summary of what Sathya Sai Baba said in his first statement on the use of a steel rod in complex surgery on his hip:-
| (Posted by manojap: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:08:57) Swami granted interview
to all old students of SSIHL. The following is a narration from one of
the old students: Trayee Brindavan 26-06-03:- "For the past one month, all of you could not have Swami's Darshan. What is the reason? The reason is the ill health of this body. I have neither taken upon Myself the illness of anybody nor has it emerged from this body. Today I am revealing the truth to you." |
| "You are all aware that I suffered a fracture of the hip joint; the bone broke into three pieces and the ball also got separated. The excruciating pain one suffers in such a condition cannot be described in words. It is not possible to move this way or that way. The body suffers pain as if subjected to electric shocks. But I was unaffected by it. I underwent all this suffering in order to demonstrate that one should transcend body consciousness and develop Atmic consciousness. I am not this body." etc. |
He also tells of the hip injury and operation... the most absurd bit: Explain this self-contradicting "miracle" anyone who can: "But I was unaffected by it. I underwent all this suffering"!
Further, how could he even know about this excruciating pain if he did not feel/suffer it? How does his accident demonstrate anything that we cannot see every day in hospitals... people bearing up happily under terrible pain? Sathya Sai Baba continued...
| "The age of this body is 78, due to the incident the hip had broken and bone had become into pieces, because of age it cannot become normal without operation. Gone is gone so removed it, what was happened has happened for our good and this is a good experience for you all too. The bones were removed and steel rods were inserted .Swami said, before entering the operation theatre I told to doctors? This is not my body, do what ever you want to do with it?. After 3 hrs of operation, Swami Came out smiling and everyone around were surprised. Swami told us smiling when you are in pain is Greatness; the pain is only for the body. Swami said? I am divinity in Humanity? If I express my pain I'm like any human." |
He had to maintain silence or people wouild think him like any human? But he has also said (after his first hip injury to interviewees among whom I was) that he is human and that his body is subject to exactly the same conditions of any body. Devotees will be asking (poor dupes) whether all this vagueness and contradiction is another test of their faith (and gullibility!). Or is it plain deception?
The manojap page reported that Sathya Sai Baba said his bones are "as strong as diamonds". However, this would be a massive hindrance to anyone... diamonds are brittle, one sharp blow can split them! Using a hammer on diamonds -as Sathya Sai Baba boasts was done on his bones - would have been fatal if they were so hard! This is wholly typical Sathya Sai exaggeration and self-enhancement. What of the absent muscles... an abnormal condition or what? Is this not some degenerative illness like osteo arthritis? There is something more than fishy about all this...
In his discourses on magnetism he explained his stumbling gait as caused by his divine magnetism, which made the Earth attract him so strongly (with its magnetism?) that his feet got stuck to it and he had difficulty moveing. Well, is bathroom not having been equipped with a Faraday cage to counteract the electro-magnetism of the earth, so can one suppose that the earth's pull was so strong that it succeeded in crushing his hip joint? Such comical ideas are quite logical from his point of view". But this self-proclaimed omnipotent, omniscient Godsbody with his pratfall Sankalpa could not avoid the farcical repeat of the banana skin trick in his private apartment! This is the lighter side of Sathya Sai Baba 's "dirty bathroom" jokes - a favourite phrase of his in interviews?
The saga of the hip join injury and to what it led - a crippled Avatar pretending he could never be ill and was cured faster than anyone by his devotees parayers and sacrifices - and more such babbling rubbish - can be studied at Sathya Sai Baba in Word and Action (http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/2/hip.htm)
Please go to the Public Petition for Official Investigations of Sathya Sai Baba and His Worldwide Organization ( or Spanish version PETICIÓN PÚBLICA PARA INVESTIGACIONES OFICIALES DE SATHYA SAI BABA Y SU ORGANIZACIÓN A NIVEL MUNDIAL)