Brian Steel. Research on the Divine Claims of Sathya Sai Baba

Recent Research on the Claims of Sathya Sai Baba

Introduction to This Topic:
Sathya Sai Baba: The Guru Who Claimed to be God on Earth
Basic Myths and Pertinent Questions about the Guru Sathya Sai Baba (Updated)

For Researchers

More Myth-Dissolving Evidence

The truth about this controversial guru involves much more than the widely disseminated sexual allegations. Relevant documentary evidence and discussion is available online and in the extensive body of Sathya Sai Baba literature. Academic interest in the wider picture is slowly awakening.
(For background reference, a composite list of my research publications.)

The following articles (mostly published online between 2001 and 2005) are offered as possible starting points for independent research on Sathya Sai Baba.

Dossiers

Dossier 1: Sathya Sai Baba as Storyteller
Dossier 2: Sathya Sai Baba's Claims of Divinity and Divine Powers

Dossier 3: The Packaging of Sathya Sai Baba's Telugu Discourses

The Packaging of Sathya Sai Baba's Discourses. An Appendix for Researchers and Others

Dossier 4: Discrepancies in the Official Sathya Sai Baba Story: The Early Years

***Research Bibliography
(EXPANDED and UPDATED, December 2007):
An Annotated Working Bibliography for Research on Sathya Sai Baba. Part 1
An Annotated Bibliography for Research on Sathya Sai Baba. Part 2
An Annotated Working Bibliography for Research on Sathya Sai Baba. Part 3

June 2008. ***NEW***:
Recycled Acclamations of Sathya Sai Baba as God and Avatar

Sathya Sai Baba's Questionable Stories and Claims

Evidence of an Internet Activist in Action: Gerald 'Joe' Moreno

Diversionary Tactics by an Internet Demagogue

Fuzzy Dates in the Official Biography of Sathya Sai Baba. A Re-examination. (Extended)

Bill Aitken's Book on Sathya Sai Baba

Research on Sathya Sai Baba. New Factors for Researchers to Consider

Introduction to 3 Bibliographies about Sathya Sai Baba
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What Wikipedia Doesn't Tell Us about Sathya Sai Baba
The Year 2000: Major New Evidence about Sathya Sai Baba from 4 Sources
Cherished SSB myth further discredited by SSSO Evidence
Counter-Evidence to the Sathya Sai Baba Divinity Myth and Related Topics. A Basic Source Guide
Brief Notes on a Recent Visit to India

A New Celebrity Endorsement ...?

Sathya Sai Baba's Latest Story Discrepancy
Promoting Sathya Sai Baba in Today's Spiritual Marketplace
Basic Notes on Sathya Sai Baba's Credibility Problem
Downgrading Divinity (An Update)
Devotees' Expectations and SSB's Lingam Production
Two Messages for Busy Websurfers

An Interesting New Development in the Sathya Sai Organisation: The Prasanthi Council
Sathya Sai Baba's Illnesses, Afflictions, and Injuries - a Significant Pattern?
A Very Revealing Week in the Life (and Demise)of a SSB Devotee Chat Group
Misleading Remarks Accepted as Truth
The Truth Resuscitated: Suppressed Evidence Reappears
Towards a More Realistic Assessment of SSB on the International Scene
The Waning of SSB's Divine Status. A Small Insight
Sequel to a Controversial New York Times Article about Sathya Sai Baba

NOTE: A HUGE CORNUCOPIA of mind-boggling up-to-date revelations and links about SSB are available on the principal website of ex-devotee and ex-SSO official ROBERT PRIDDY.

Earlier evidence about The Guru from Puttaparthi

Sathya Sai Baba's CLAIMS
Sathya Sai Baba: Man of Many Stories
Sathya Sai Baba's Claims of Divinity: Avatar and Triple Avatar

SSB's Claim to be the Reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba's Fluctuating Claims of Divinity

The Immaculate Conception

Clumsy Attempts at Persuasion

More on Sathya Sai Baba's Stories:

The University Chancellor and His Schoolboy Stories

Paranormal References: Wolf Messing and Kirlian (Revised)

More Messing

SSB's Wolf Messing Stories Revisited

Yugadi 2002 References to the World Bank