By RobertCPriddy
From one of my Indian sources, a well known Indian who knows the inner working of the sb ashram and had been in the forefront of the sb expose for several years and known personally to me for years, I received this today:
As of 4 pm ( April 23rd)the news coming through is the SB trust, the AP govt administration and members of the SB immediate family have been in an important meeting since 11 AM.to discuss the health status of Sathya Sai , to decide future course of action and matters of the Sai Baba trust etcmore than 20 members are said to have been in the meeting which had adjourned at 2PM for lunch and yet to reconvene. Significantly, Ratnakar was absent in the meeting, and the official reason is he had a knee problem. I am reliably informed that the compromise formula is not working out, and that Ratnakar has been legally advised by his counsel not to attend the meeting and be any party to any resolution passedin view of the fact he can legally exercise his control over the trust at a later date, and should not be party to anything now either in his capacity of the legal heir of sb or as a SB trust member. I am informed that this is delaying any announcement.and a deadlock has been reached. Apparently, Ratnakar wants 2 trusts to be formed, one dealing with the Ashram itself, the samadhi of Sai Baba and all activities there..and another dealing with the sb educational, medical and all other activities. He wants to be exclusively in charge of the Ashram/shrine/samadhi activities, while he is willing to concede the 2nd to other trust members, provided he still remains on the board. The SB trust is not inclined to accept this formula, and are trying for a compromise solution without dividing anything. Hence the deadlock. the SB trust has issued a message that they would address the media meet later today.
One way or another, the living-deathly shell of Sathya Sai Baba has to be resurrected some are confident this will happen most miraculously soon in the flesh (see below here), others are instead trying to ensure that his former (now deeply sullied) reputation will somehow rise again if he is given a major Indian-style send-off, with all his sycophantic politicians, judges, doctors, starts of stage, screen and sport present. Their problem is how to try to preserve some figment of his self-developed and self.trumpeted reputation as an omnipotent, omniscient, Incarnate Godhead and Deity of Deities while having to cut him off from his life support systems and get him into the ground somehow without making the much of Indias elite a yet more major world laughing stock than they already are.
Under the title: Trust wavers on taking final call on Sai Baba the Times of India explained:- The Trust members went into a huddle at the hospital to discuss the next course of action. One of the members proposed that they announce Baba had attained sajeeva samadhi (burial while still alive), said sources. But the proposal was shot down keeping in view the likely complications it could cause. Trust members seem clueless on how to deal with the inevitable, a source told TOI.
Meanwhile the inevitable is being planned for in a big way, and Easter Monday the day celebrated worldwide as that of the (alleged) resurrection of Jesus looks like it may well be chosen for disconnecting Sai Baba from his life support:-
The Times of India Apl. 23 reports:
Among his many foot-worshippers devotees are numbered the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the President of India, Pratibha Patil, who will both attend what promises to be the inevitably pompous and spiritually grotesque burial showpiece. The surrealistic views of leading people in India and a relative handful of minor celebrities from abroad are a wonder to the educated and liberated wider world, as well of course to the billion plus followers of the other mainstream religions which cannot ever accept that Sathya Sai Baba is (or was) a living God and the Father who sent Jesus to earth (as he has claimed outright).
Self-resurrection by this living god? Times of India PUTTAPARTHI:
A sense of surrealism pervades this small town with a population of 25,000. He is god. He will overcome this phase and start giving darshans. Thats my belief, you may not believe this but I do, asserted trust secretary and mover and shaker K Chakravarthi to TOI. He has divine powers to heal himself, he added emphatically. We know hes struggling hard inside the ICU. But he will pull through this traumatic phase. We have hundred per cent belief that its only a matter of time before our `living god resurrects himself, said Hanumantha Rao, a staffer in the IT wing in Prasanthi Nilayam without a trace of doubt in his voice. Though Dr A N Safaya, director, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences (SSSIHMS), said that the medical team is making last-ditch efforts to bring Saibaba to life, his relatives are unfazed. Doctors are doing their job. But Saibaba will come back. I am sure about that, M Shankar Raju, son of Saibabas sister Venkamma, contended. Some of the followers even come out with absurd rationale. Nothing will happen to Baba. Hes enduring the pain of a 106-year-old `muni (sage) in the Himalayas, whos in his last stages. Once the sage is revived, the swami will automatically recover, another staunch disciple and Sai Seva Dal volunteer Venkat Reddy claimed. Analysts said the fact of the matter is that those associated with the spiritual guru in one form or the other are his devotees first. They are unable to forget this and take a rational point of view. Shockingly, even those in power, who are his strong disciples, refuse to acknowledge the gravity of his health. Media is unnecessarily going overboard on his health. Lakhs of Issac Tigrett Burton, a staunch devotee who has donated huge sums for SSSIHMS, has the final say: Hes immortal. I perceive him as a protector of the whole world. Little wonder then that the trust itself released a two-page letter in the late hours of Thursday that Saibabas health would improve and that he would give discourses again.
Through the years there have been many (independently unconfirmed) stories circulating of Sathya Sai Baba recovering from amazing illnesses, heart attacks and so on, and two at least of his resurrecting devotees after they were clinically dead. The main resurrection story (of the US millionaire Walter Cowan) was investigated most thoroughly by psychology Professor Erlendur Haraldsson in the 1970s and he proved from the doctors own statements that it did not take place. Among those who were present throughout the episode who deny Cowan actually died or was brought back was US ex-follower Mark Roche, who figured in the BBC documentary The Secret Swami. As to Sai Babas miraculous recoveries and supposedly taking on illnesses of dear devotees, the rational answer is that he was simulating those illnesses. This was no big problem for him to do as he was an actor since childhood, seems to have had yogic achievements in control of blood pressure, breath, metabolism etc. and above all being worshipped as an inscrutable God, no doctor dared to touch or examine him without his express permission. This he no doubt did at a much-vaunted self-healing in public where he used water to regain control of the paralysed half of his body (an easily-simulated condition). Insight into or controlled observation of any of his miracles have always been kept under careful wraps away from the scrutiny of investigators, scientists or the media. One thing is certain enough, though he is not simulating now and cannot heal himself either, however many absurd claims to the contrary are made.
