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The Sathya
Sai Organisation in Australia is currently holding public meetings in
every State, one by one. A public ‘interfaith meeting’ was held
in Sydney, NSW, on Saturday, April 2, 2005, at the Sydney Super Dome,
a dazzling 12, 000 seat venue familiar to the world as an Olympic Games
venue. The meeting was from 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM, accompanied by an exhibition
on Sai Baba’s humanitarian works from 1.00 PM to 5.00 PM.
In an
organization that claims to put a “ceiling on desires,” was the Super Dome hire
- $15, 000 - a proper use of funds? (And there are three more spending sprees
scheduled!)
For years, Sai Baba has indicated in his speeches that he needs no advertising
because his divine plan is guaranteed success. Yet vast amounts of money
are being spent in promoting him to the public world-wide. After the
signal lack of crowds at the interfaith meeting at Melbourne’s historic
Town Hall on February 20, 2005, Australian head of the SSO Neville Fredericks
messaged to all centres “All devotees are requested to support their
Public Meeting committees in each city as their success will reveal
our conviction in Sai, His teachings and His lifelong works.” (The
capitalisation of ‘his’ reflects the belief of Sai Baba and his
organisation that he is God fully incarnated come to save the entire
world before he leaves it, aged 96)
The organisation
had asked each devotee to bring ten non-devotees but the devotees largely
stayed away and non-devotees were virtually non-existent. Representatives
of other faiths and government Ministers and MP’s were conspicuous
by their absence at the Super Dome, and where were all the mainstream
notables the SSO is so avid to attract to its public events? The original
intent was to include outside speakers but the keynote speakers were
top ‘party bosses’- super diehards rolled on as deus ex machine,
and far from likely to set Sydney alight: Neville Fredericks and Dr
Pal Dhall. The MC was Albert Barelds.
The names of two speakers described
as “aboriginal leaders” were not included in the official programme
notes and yet all other names of speakers and entertainers were noted. When many
others in Australia are going all out to pay the highest honour to her
indigenous people, this was a strange omission, especially since the
organisation seeks to influence a number of indigenous communities.
This venue’s
seating capacity is 12,000! Only 1,200 attended. Many Sai devotees walked
out half way through the programme, leaving approximately 800. An organiser
(Ms. Gavina Cossa) sat down and cried.
In these
carefully stage-managed so-called presentations, the chief aim of the
international Sathya Sai Organisation is to recruit new members, but
without using the word ‘recruit’. Organisers permit no critical
questions or non-supportive comments. Yet claim that it is not a cult.
At the Super Dome, anyone with questions had to address them to Fredericks
or Dhall, and only after the meeting was finished. Was this public relations
débacle yet another of “Swami’s Divine Miracles” manifested through
what he calls his “divine organisation”? Or could it be that the
interfaith movement (which has been widely alerted by Australian former
devotees) and the public generally (alerted by mainstream television
and radio exposures of Sai Baba) sensibly realise the facts and do not
recognise such wholly misguided efforts?
Is it
likely that those affiliated to various religions, or to none, will
take any interest in a guru who claims to be the incarnated God of all
Gods, the Father who sent Jesus, etc. etc.? Is it possible that those
outside Sai Baba’s cult will not be concerned about the worldwide
allegations by many former devotees, citizens in good standing, that
he is a serial homosexual predator and paedophile? Or that he was complicit
in the execution of four of his followers? Or that he has been repeatedly
filmed as a fraudulent magician (including by BBC television); or that
he frequently deceives his followers with unfulfilled prophecies and
shameful promises of miraculous cures?
The exposure
of Sai Baba to mass television audiences sorely challenges the SSO.
The Danish national broadcaster DR’s documentary ‘Seduced by Sai
Baba’ was shown Australia-wide on February 14, 2004 by SBS, and the
SSO threatened to sue SBS then, when unsuccessful, cried out for equal
time:
http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/oz.html
The BBC’s ‘The
Secret Swami’ has screened in many countries, including in Asia and the Middle
East:
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/moviesframe.html
There
is an ongoing and costly damage control effort by the SSO in various
countries to select large, prestigious and plush venues such as La Mirada
Theatre in the Los Angeles/Orange County area, Cooper Union in New York,
Vancouver Playhouse, Melbourne Town Hall, etc. Other propaganda includes
very costly professional audio-visual presentations.
QUOTATIONS
FROM SATHYA SAI BABA’S PUBLIC DISCOURSES
“I do
not need any publicity, nor does any other manifestation of the Lord.
What are you daring to publicise? Me?” Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol
IV, p. 210.
“We
do not need any publicity or advertisment.” Sanathana Sarathi
April 1999, p. 89
“Swami
prefers that additional people come only through observing the virtuous
lives of the Center members, and by word of mouth. Notices and such
might start small, but in time they will get out-of-hand. Even such
small things as notices will be taken as advertising of Swami. Other
Swamis have to advertise and even provide transport, but Sai does no
advertising...”Conversations with BSSB by Dr. J. Hislop, p.
168
“Do
not publish these acts of sympathy; do them spontaneously without fanfare.
That is more precious than demonstrating your service with the help
of headlines and photographs.These reduce the worth of deeds of compassion.”
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol VII, p. 236f
As long
ago as 1979, SB declared: “The success of the task for which I have
come will very soon reverberate throughout the world!”Sathya Sai
Speaks, Vol XIV, p. 278.
“I do
not like collection of funds. But, since some expense has to be incurred,
I have to allow it under very stringent conditions...” Sathya Sai
Speaks, Vol VII,p. 100
“I do
not need grand decorations, huge pandals, arches, flags and such paraphernalia.
I require only a mike to communicate My advice to people. Even a chair
is superfluous! I can talk standing. Spend sparing to the minimum needs;
do not involve yourselves in expensive luxury. I would like you to spend
any extra money that you have for the feeding of the poor or for any
similar beneficial object.”
Sathya Sai Speaks,
Vol VII, p. 100
SSB spoke
of: “... the purpose for which I have allowed you to form these Organisations.
It is not to give some people places of authority and power, or for
ensuring fame and publicity for Me.” Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol
VIII, p. 230.
“It
is deplorable to hear that in some States, even for trivial activities,
funds are being collected.” Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol XIV, p 362
Note:
These quotations sufficiently demonstrate the hypocrisy and total divorce
between SSB’s words and his actions along with his organisation’s
deeds. Members and followers are recruited on the basis of such quotations
and much disinformation and false propaganda.
View photographic
proofs of SB’s many luxuriously appointed apartments, ostentatious
pomp, and money-wasting showpieces etc.
Continue to further parts of this series
Sathya Sai Organisation
Misinformation and False Propaganda
Part Two,
Part Three,
Part Four
See also
the latest comprehensive overview of the SATHYA SAI ORGANISATION'S DECEPTION AND
PROPAGANDA EXPOSED in four parts
The main
- and until recently only spokesman - defending the Sathya Sai Organisation
in public calls himself Gerald ‘Joe’ Moreno. He is employed full-time
in defending the Sathya Sai Organisation and Sai Baba, though he claims
(most deceptively) on every web page that he is not even a devotee of
Sai Baba. He often uses hidden (anonymous) IPs and his identity cannot
be checked by any normal independent means (no CV, no known qualification
or abode). He attacks the many valid criticisms of the Sai Organisations’
demonstrated unaccountability, cult of secrecy and cover-up while he
profusely propagates lies and slanders. He creates bogus e-mail addresses
and names to make false submissions to the Sai Petition, which he also
freely admits on his website.
Moreno’s posting
on his website are endorsed by the “heart-to heart Group” of Radio
Sai (under the authoritarian leadership of Vice-Chancellor of Sri Sathya
Sai Institute of Higher Learning, G. Venkataraman) in e-mails linking
to Moreno’s website! Thus the Vice-Chairman of the International Sathya
Sai Organisation endorses Gerald Moreno’s slanderous and untruthful website!
Moreno is definitely the most prolific anti-exposé spokesman
of the International Sathya Sai Organisation. .Neither the International
nor any national or local Sathya Sai Organisation has ever rejected
Gerald Moreno as their (allegedly) self-appointed spokesman in the Internet,
and so one may conclude that the current endorsement by Venkataraman’s
gang also implies that they accept his role and his untruths, defamations
and cover-up on their behalf,and that they are satisfied with him. Though
Moreno alleges otherwise , he is de facto as official an Internet spokesperson
for defence of the entire International Sai Organisation as there is,
which is abundantly evident from his many web pages and that he has
no other work but is well-funded (unlike myself, being retired and living
entirely on my university pension and savings). For example, he openly
claims to have contacted the Sathya Sai Organisation in U.K. by telephone
(Mr Bhagwani) who has replied to his questions etc. This alone shows
he is working in the interests of the Sai Organisation also with the
full knowledge and endorsement of the UK President of the National Sathya
Sai Organisation and Central Coordinator for UK etc. Further,
he has claimed on a bulletin board personally to know ‘several’
of the five persons who were given brand new expensive cars by Sathya
Sai this year (paid for by donations of devotees!!), one of which five
was none other than Venkataraman!
To
see a complete refutation of Moreno’s obsessive slanderous attacks
by an independent source, Alan Kazlev of Australia, who became aware
of Moreno’s deceits even though he was long favourable towards him
and his attacks, until he began to look at them more thoroughly please
click here. See also about Moreno on each of the following
links:
1,
2,
3, 4,
5,
6,
7,
8
Correction
and additional notes: (July 15th, 2006): Due to information from a colleague
who was contacted by Gerald Moreno, the IP
4.240.213.36 has now been
located on e-mails he has sent (the IP he himself claimed was there
- on a mail to Conny Larsson - [Click here ] , and I have been shown
[click here] that this server is currently located at Angel Fire,
New Mexico. Due to blocking of Moreno unwanted mails via my server,
I have received no e-mails since the first couple years ago - which
I soon trashed, so I could not trace him. Further information provided
me shows that - since he began his defamation campaign against Sai Exposé
writers - he has also variously mailed from the following IPs: IP
4.240.144.145
[Las Cruces, New Mexico [click here] and anonymous (Loopback)
at 127.0.0.1.
It has
also been pointed out to me that Gerald Moreno surfs anonymously (eg.
having visited ExBaba.com pages with cloaked IPs for years),and now
he has begun to visit ExBaba at last using his own IP from Las Cruces
[no doubt as damage limitation and further basis for more denials about
his long struggle for anonymity]. The new IP is a variant on an old
one he used in mails to various people: IP
67.0.212.28 (click here).
I am further informed that Moreno has used the IP
67.0.237.191 [located
by DOTS GeoPinpoint at Farmington, New Mexico] in a previous mail sent
from visvarupa108. He also recently sent a mailform to Exbaba, which
was forwarded to me, with theIP
67.0.236.65 [located by Melissa data
as being at Farmington, New Mexico] but, strangely, also located by
GeoSelect version II at Deming, New Mexico! (click here) All
this makes quite clear that Moreno IS using various different IPs from
various locations, including cloaked IPs to visit exposé websites (all
of which his response time to new postings shows he scours almost daily!).
Gerald
Moreno has refused to give and address, phone number or other means
of checking his identity both before and since it was allegedly posted
by Reinier van der Sandt
on some now extinct website. It is certain that he uses other anonymous
IP’s on the Internet, shown by information from the webmaster of ExBaba.com
that none of the above-listed IPs for Moreno have ever appeared on the
visitor tracking data of that website. Moreno advised Alan Kazlev to
search the Internet for “Gerald Moreno 2540 S. Espina” did not match
any documents. So this address - which Moreno seems to suggest was his
as of 2005 - still cannot be confirmed independently. It now further
appears, since he has moved to another IP area, that he would also have
changed address since then. Therefore Gerald Moreno still hides as best
he can operates anonymously as he can, hiding behind a name which is
still publicly unverifiable by any independent source by which his identity
can be established.
Having
been exposed time and again as a defamer hiding behind the Internet,
Gerald Moreno is apparently trying to gain some credibility, a futile
task in the eyes of any neutral observer who visits his contrived and
slanderous web pages (i.e.if not for some hate-blinded Sai devotees).
The reasons for Moreno’s having tried to hide away for so long, and
continuing to lieas low as he can, may be his fear of legal action,
well knowing he has broken US copyright laws and would also be liable
to conviction for unsupportable slander and defamation in a court of
law. If he wishes to make his true identity available through confirmable
sources without it being posted for all to see, he can - for example
- send the necessary information - full independently verifiable of
his identity - to Alan Kazlev or by Guestbook mailform to van der Sandt.
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