sangom,
The problem with Satya Sai Baba is that he claimed that he was God. At one time this God seemed to vomit a Sivalinga (in video, I mean) and then proclaimed that it weighed some 30 tons (yes, tons!) and hence his stagger after the event.
anyone will stagger,after any gurgitation,except prolly a snake.BHagavan does these to awe masses so that they can be spiritual in life.swami's needs are so frugal,one would be stunned as to with what swami subsists.but the people who want to comment will comment about anybody and everybody,thats world.
I once conversed with a young man who was studying in the College in Puttaparthi. He and the entire family were confirmed devotees of Satya Sai. Still, during the conversation, perhaps due to his immaturity, he blurted out that the students did not at all have any good opinion about Sai Baba. When I tried to find out why it was so, he became cautious and evaded a clear answer.
everyone is entitled to an opinion,there is nothing immature about it,imho.
There was another family which was very devoted to Satya Sai. Eventually, they moved away but were reluctant to tell us the reasons.
a guru will distance himself/herself,once they know,that the sadhaka has reached a certain stage of evolvement,in spiritual quest of moksham.
I therefore feel that even among the devotees of Satya Sai Baba, there are many who would like to get off but are not able to.
maybe you are right and maybe you are wrong.either way ,does it really matter.
Since Baba is now in wheel chair, naturally people started getting doubts about his claim to being God; if he cannot cure himself what will he be able to do for others, type of doubts. Perhaps to mollify such people and keep them within the flock, the Sai unit (I don't get its correct name) in Trivandrum installed an idol of Shirdi Sai Baba in their premises.
just becoz lord krishna is not depicted in puranas in NOT a wheelchair but a pushpaka vimanam,does every avataram has to conform to written scriptures by humanity?does being in a wheelchair,make a avatar less avataric?
I will not agree that there is any national or international conspiracy against our new age Gurus, except themselves and their actions. You will see that Ramana was never attacked by any foreigner even though there were some murmurs in our country regarding his excessive attachment to a cow.
who said anything about mlecchas or foreigners?definitely not only hindus,even islam & christanity are under attack by atheists,commies,agnostics...in every part of the globe...these ungodly and adharmic foreces are evrywhere and must be stamped down...so an avatar like bhagavan sathya sai baba @ puttaparthi ,ap,india who is reincarnation of shirdi sai baba who in turn was reincarnation of dattatreya loed.just becoz these avatrams are not brahminical by birth especially puttaparthi sathya sai baba,this brahmin forum with a minority brahmin,are indulging in slander,of our greatest avatar in the century.
Swami Sivananda was also respected although even his most ardent devotees say that his 'poorvaasramam' was not anything ideal. So, it is only these new-age gurus who are flocking to the west who bring a bad name to the country.
just becoz if one drinks alcoho,eats meat,fornicates legally ie married.does not mean 'ideal' for spiritual life.if one notices,these preachings will be done by folks,who are celibate officially from young age and adorned a 'kaavi vasthram'.in fact rightly written,adi sankara had to do 'koodu vittu koodu payarthu' siddha in order to know sex life as a grihastha.
even though the king had died or on the verge of dying,adi sankara,did need the king's body,to experiance the life of that king.and to day adi sankara is one of the greatest avataram of lord shiva,even though lord shiva ppeared as chandala in front of him,as lord shiva was in two bodies, one and the same time,a siddhic feat.
so sathya sai baba displaying of siddhas,is to inculcate,spiritual life belief,and devotion to god.skeptics are welcome to test him and get convinced or not get convinced,becoz its mahima of sai baba,in the first place,whether one can be a devotee or not.
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