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In he suffered a stroke and four major heart attacks but survived. After he was in failing health and confined to a wheelchair. A year later he suffered a fractured hip after a student on a stool fell on him. Over the years, several people alleged they were victims of sexual abuse during private audiences with Sai Baba. Others from Sweden, Australia and Germany made similar allegations. A case against Sai Baba was reportedly filed in Munich but none was filed in India, which critics say reflects how well-connected he was here and supporters say is evidence that the allegations were baseless.
Officials at the tightly controlled Sai Baba trust have declined to comment over the years even as some supporters mounted a two-pronged counterattack, arguing that the reports, many of which were raised by foreigners, reflect an anti-Hindu bias, and that even things that appear immoral have a purpose and should not be questioned. Also, the myth-making that happens around these people, they grow larger than life. Moody Blues drummer and co-founder Graeme Edge dies at Sylvere Lotringer, intellectual who infused U.
All Sections. Others were seeking financial support or wanted to get rid of ill-gotten black money: the empire, it is alleged, was based on money laundering, using foreign devotees and branches.
In fact, the huge foreign donations to Sai Baba stood in contrast to the comparatively modest number of active foreign devotees and the sometimes quite weak foreign branches, some of them residing in private homes. That is no great surprise, when one considers that Sai Baba did not speak any other language than Telugu and traveled only once in his whole life abroad — to visit his friend Idi Amin in Uganda. That was after I had demonstrated his miracles so often on TV shows that many kids in the streets could imitate them.
That he then spent a part of the great fortunes, swindled out of the gullible, for social development around his ancestral village, is highlighted now to present him as a saint. But, useful and welcome as hospitals, schools and drinking water projects for the poor may always be, this kind of alibi-philanthropy is well-known even to mafia-bosses.
It cannot be weighed against his crimes and the damage he has done to the Indian society. In December , I wrote a letter to the then President Dr. I demanded criminal investigations against Sai Baba. If his social development projects are meant to be indulgence to nullify his crimes, this procedure is unprecedented and unacceptable, I wrote. It is a shame for India that well-founded accusations and numerous reputed witnesses against Sai Baba are ignored without any investigation.
Do saffron clothes make an offender untouchable for the law? The allegations were denied and he was never charged with any offence. The hospital said his body would be available for public viewing on Monday and Tuesday before a funeral ceremony is held. In recent weeks, the hospital has been mobbed by groups of devotees praying for the guru's wellbeing. Satya Sai Baba's hometown has been transformed into a vast complex of hotels, resorts, university buildings, and an enormous ashram thronging with devotees.
He rose to prominence as a youngster after announcing to his family that he was the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba, a 19th Century Indian holy man who had been equally venerated by Hindus and Muslims.
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