An Ongoing Investigation into Claims and Realities Surrounding Sathya Sai Baba

Brian Steel   
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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

If you wish to come closer to the truth about this controversial guru, ignore misleading Internet propaganda and check solid evidence available online and in the SSB literature itself.

Part of this evidence is available below.

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

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

Research Bibliography
An Annotated Working Bibliography for Research on Sathya Sai Baba. Part 1
 An Annotated Working Bibliography for Research on Sathya Sai Baba. Part 2
An Annotated Working Bibliography for Research on Sathya Sai Baba. Part 3

Unofficial Addendum to the Wikipedia Article on 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 revelations about SSB is available on the website of ex-devotee and ex-SSO official ROBERT PRIDDY. Click here.

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

The Sathya Sai Organisation (SSO)

The Sathya Sai Organisation (part of Ch. 7)

Downgrading Divinity

  Further National Variants of "Who is SSB?"

The Cult of the Personality

The Elusiveness of International Fame

Arnold Schulman's Baba - an Embarrassment for the SSO?

 Brief Observations on President Kalam's Convocation Day Speech

CLAIMS and Contributions by OTHERS:
Spokespersons, Writers, Devotees

Misleading Evangelism (Updated) (part of Ch. 4)

SSB and the Psychics: A Case of Mistaken Identity? (part of Ch. 4)

The Latest Example of His Master's Voice (part of Ch. 4)

Notes on the Responsibility of Writers of Sathya Sai Baba Books  (part of Ch. 4)

Devotees and Their Contributions to the Purna Avatar Myth Surrounding SSB (part of Ch. 4)

The "Mehdi Moud" Prophecy Revisited (part of Ch. 4)

 Practical Tips on How NOT to Defend SSB from Criticism

Reference and Introductory Materials

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sathya Sai Baba: God or Guru? (Remaining Chapters)

 Copy of Personal Statement from November 2001

Clarification

Preliminary Notes for Devotees and ex-Devotees of Sathya Sai Baba

SSB - Some Realities and Questions

How Can We Tell Them They are Mistaken?

A Brief Update on SSB News

Chapter 2 - The Packaging of SSB's Discourses

Chapter 3 - SSB's Language and its Perception by Devotees

Chapter 5 - Omniscience and Truth

Omnipotence? (part of Ch. 6)

Omniscience, or Ranting?

Some Notes on SSB's Religious Knowledge

SSB and Christianity. Some Observations

Early Stories About SSB. Variations on Themes

Fresh Light on Sathya Sai Baba's Discourses

More Nonsense

The Packaging of SSB's Discourses - an Update

   

Miscellaneous Information

 Sathya Sai Baba and Mata Amritanandamayi: Some Comparative Notes

Exchange of Views with Hari Sampath

Kaleshwar, a Premature Prema Sai, or Just Local Competition?

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