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As you see from the
photographs, Sathya Sai Baba manages to dress up India’s top politicians
in his own resplendent ‘uniforms’ and parade them like marionettes
around his ashrams. The ornate gowns are supposed to be some kind of
honour, no doubt, but the
end result is that Sai Baba achieves a visible proof of his power over
these powerful men. It is suprising that they submit to this public
humiliation - as it is in the eyes of foreign observers and almost anyone
else who is not a devotee.
Sathya
Sai has many times called all his followers - and all human beings -
his puppets, marionettes, dolls… actors on a stage where he is the
sole director and so on. Indian Prime Ministers and Presidents let themselves
appear as such too… but in fact - apart from protecting him from the
law - they hardly ever do what he advises them (as he has complained
in private to various devotees, including the IAS officer Mr.
V. Ramnath and Mr. Kaw, the former Air Minister who installed the white
elephant Sai airport using public funds).
Early
on, Sai Baba wrote an absurd and very long ’song’ about the human
puppet, telling his readership “The song will certainly turn your
brain!” The song ends with the declaration “See the Leela grand
of Sathya Sai Nath” (i.e. see the miracles of Lord Sathya Sai). If
you can be bothered, it may be worth a laugh - see http://vahini.org/downloads/sandehanivarini.html#dialogueV
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