With his condemnatory Christmas 2000 discourse, Sathya Sai Baba destroyed at a stroke what remains of his previous lifelong claims to never to condemn anyone, to love all and always to adhere to truth. He blackens those who criticise, spread negative news or raise doubts, even when there are valid grounds and openness is justified. He goes to the length of branding dissenters as 'Judases' implying that their actions can never be redeemed, and elsewhere he adds that they must all suffer shame throughout any number of future births. Further, in a later discourse he proclaims that there is not even a spark of divinity in his critics! ["... a hard-hearted person cannot be called a spark of Divinity; he is verily a demon." p. 323, Sanathana Sarathi, November 2002]. This is a total contradiction to his constant previous claims that there is a spark of Divinity in every living being (actually sometimes even in all matter, as I quote: "All beings are sparks of the Eternal Divinity" page 101 from his Discourses in Kodaikanal 1998).

Lying attack by Sathya Sai Baba on his critics: With his condemnatory Christmas 2000 discourse, Sai Baba virtually destroyed at a stroke what remains of his previous lifelong claims to never to condemn anyone, to love all and always to adhere to truth. Baba's actions no longer fit in with all that he says about himself as regards his total purity, human perfection, freedom from all lust etc. They apply doubtless to Divine Consciousness, but evidently not to the body it (sometimes?) inhabits. Baba always says 'I am not the body', which can also be taken as a denial of any connection with what he as 'his body' does. This is the essence of the dual personality hypothesis concerning such psychically powerful figures. At all events, Sai Baba is the name attached to his material form, the embodied human being, as much as it may also apply to any super-conscious, transcendental entity. One may hold that verbal attacks often tell more about the attacker's intentions and aims than about their object. This certainly applied to Sai Baba's dire threats in this case. He has long preached how negative rumours are like boomerangs, but then he sets going the absurdly false rumour that those who accused him did so for money, like Judases!

The sheer mental acrobatics needed to rationalise the many clashing and most awkward facts that have surfaced over the years about Sai Baba's human limitations and faults are done by those indoctrinated and held by a powerful mental and emotional bond to his person and what he claims to be and stand for - as well as to the various other-worldly benefits (and physical and material benefits too) which he claims often to confer only on those who believe in him fully. Not least there is considerable fear of his displeasure and that criticising him in the slightest way might bring down retribution, as he has on occasion stated can follow. He represents himself among other things as the 'divine Shiva', who acts in the role of "destroyer" of delusions, using means which can involve great suffering to the 'spiritual aspirant'. The blind believers and mental contortionists have usually been in continuous training for years. Their circle of contacts has invariably narrowed (qualitatively and in numbers) and they have become more and more isolated from the world of other people, apart from like-minded devotees or new recruits whom they are eager to indoctrinating (not realising fully that this is what they have themselves been misled to do) about Sai Baba's alleged 'divine perfection' and his ultimate supremacy as the all-powerful, loving godhead.

Non-believers or apostates are kept in 'spiritual apartheid' as long as they still try to continue contact with devotees. They are regarded by those who remain ('the grain')as 'chaff' that is blown away when a spiritual test came! I know from experience and I also passed through some considerable part of that training myself until the facts hit me and my conscience and my reasonable doubts became overwhelming. One small example can illustrate the gap between word and deed which are too unpleasant or impossible for most Sai followers to recognise. Some of the more correct ( and moralistic) followers of Sai Baba see it as wrong to comment upon others' bad behaviour, especially when they are absent. They should recall that Baba, who repeats that his life is his message and his acts are all a perfect example, has done no less himself many a time, both to people's faces and behind their backs to others! I have witnessed both these kinds of behaviour in interviews I had. Once he spoke in very strong terms to a public audience against an easily identifiable person - a yogi who once challenged him to walk on water. He attacked with ridicule a bitter critic and rationalist accuser in the 1970s, (easily recognised to observers as the once much publicised Mr. Narasimiha, former Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University). So much for his talk about acting as one preaches!

Not least, Sai Baba made an aggressive attack in ridiculing, during his public discourse well after the event, an identifiable body of journalists who visited the ashram in 1993 to find out about the six killings that took place in the temple and Sai Baba's own quarters. They wrote what little they were able to discover in the face of secrecy and impediments from ashram and Central Trust officials. Having been challenged to answer a number of perfectly reasonable questions on his role in relation to the murders at the temple (mandir) and where he was at the time, why no complaint was lodged with the police from the Prashanti Nilayam organisation etc., Sai Baba later attacked them in scathing terms in a public discourse as publishing "nothing but flights of the imagination" and for being "malicious". He thereby went against his own strict commandment and slandered others - the journalists who were not present to answer for themselves. This back-stabbing without giving any recourse to questioning or providing any explanation amounts is his style of mud-slinging. He has since added number of easily identifiable persons who have written about his molestations of them and published this on the Internet to his "Divine Blacklist". His own words like, "Never speak ill of others" are cheap and empty slogans in his mouth..

The remarkable deviousness of Sai Baba can be seen in his Guru Purnima Discourse of 2002, when he said, "As Sanjay Sahni rightly pointed out, "I and you are one." You are not different from Me. This is not My body, it is yours. So, it is your responsibility to take care of this body. I never think of My body and its well-being. I never make a Sankalpa (Will) that such and such a thing should happen, so far as My body is concerned. There is no selfishness in Me from head to toe. That is why I have got every right to declare that I and you are one."
If his body is ours, is it not at the same time also his? What a conflation of words - and contrived trickery of ideas - this is! Why should we - and not Sai Baba - have responsibility for his body? Doubtless, as is seen by the massive precautions he takes and the security he has, he wants to be protected from anyone who would harm him (his apartments are fortresses designed by himself, and are surrounded himself with gunmen and undercover agents).

"From the feet to the hair on the head, Sathya Sai Baba is doing service without any selfishness. Can't even these people with brains understand this? Why are they doing this propaganda? Even this bad propaganda is for money. All these bad thoughts are for money only. Even these bad thoughts are for money only… … Switzerland, America, Japan, Germany, China, Russia - our children have entered in all directions. Some foreigners are trying to bribe them. They are saying, "See, foolish ones! I will give this much money. I will give so many dollars. I will give this many pounds. You write and give some stories against Sathya Sai Baba." (ibid)

This is nothing short of a direct, bare-faced lie, but one which many of his cowed and dependent devotees hang on to. But the shortage of Sai Baba's own funds due to fall-off in donations was surely one of the main causes of his bending to the wishes of his anxious coterie to hit back hard with dirt at his accusers. He rants on…"These types of publicity are shameless. Truly they are not human beings at all. The ones who put obstacles in the way of all sacred works are demons, not human beings. The determined vow of Sai will never change, even if demons like this may be all over the world. (Swami bangs his fist decisively on the table to emphasize His point. The audience applauds for long.)" (ibid)

A person is judged by both his words and his actions…he who always pretended that he was so even-minded and beyond praise and blame that he never reacted… Now he is saying his critics are "not human beings at all". He has set up himself as the only perfect example for all to follow, but he could not refrain from angry lies and scandal-mongering! His example has since been followed by top Sai-organisation leaders in the USA. and Denmark, who have actually demonstrably known about male sexual interference by Sai Baba for decades, which information they have suppressed. In Denmark, the leaders Thorbjørn Meyer, Steen Piculell, and Peter Pruzan have maligned victims shamelessly and have (intentionally) failed to investigate the mass of current allegations against Sai Baba, which they reject out of hand as unworthy of notice.

To denounce people in public with an angry face, beating the lectern while so doing, and later to say: "There is no trace of anger or hatred in Me and hence everyone loves Me" (Sanathana Sarathi September 2002, page 257f)... well, this is sheer duplicity. Besides, does he really imagine those who have been deeply abused by him love him? Or the 5 billion-plus people who have heard nothing about him? (Date: 10-11-02)

He also falsely claims that ex-devotees were offered bribes to write stories against him. There is not a jot of evidence of this, it is obviously nothing but a lie calculated to try to calm devotees. Bribery is a widely reported method Sai Baba himself uses to silence the victims of his homosexual abuse of them. He did not, however, manage to silence all of them with money, 'jewellry' or 'gold' watches, such as Alaya Rahm
(see also about Alaya Rahm on the BBC documentary 'The Secret Swami' - a summary showcase with transcripts and video clips)