SaSaBaBa

Of all that I have ever heard about the Satya Sai Baba (SaSaBaBa) of Puttaparti, this one is the funniest...All the watches that he produces out of Air are "Made in Switzerland"...wow...so that's where he steals them from!!! matter-to-waves-and-back-to-matter...and nobody comes to know!!!

A lot of experiences, my sense of logic, and my own rationale for such things have thankfully turned me into an atheist. I don't deny the existence of a superpower...in fact, I am too ignorant, and so are all of us, of the reality...

But a Homosexual God who molests kids and produces watches of Swiss make by waving his hand in the air...that's too much to digest. ROTFL!!!

Was going through this article by Vir Sangvi on The Hindustan Times - The Truth About Sathya Sai Baba. It's a shame on mankind - the way these Babas are able to lure so many people. The confrontation of SaSaBaBa with PC Sorcar is very interesting. SaSaBaBa produces Sondesh, and Sorcar produces a Roshogulla in return...and SaSaBaBa is furious...

HEHEHEHE...Caught Behind!!!

And do u know, SaSaBaBa can predict the future! Wonder whether he knows that the world is going to end in 2012. Yes, that's true. According to the Mayan Calender. More on that some other time...

When I was in my 4th standard, I used to attend weekend-timepass classes called "Baal Vikaas". It was at one Aunty's house. 2 Didis use to come there and teach Satya Sai Baba's bhajans and slokas. One was Indira Didi, the other was...shaayad Pallavi...I don't remember. It used to be a one hour class on Saturdays at 3.00 PM. I attended it for almost a year. They used to teach some non-SaSaBaBa stuff too...like Saraswati, Ram, Hanuman, Good-Night, Good-Morning, before meals, before shower...slokas for everything. And some bhajans too, mostly non-SaSaBaBa...I used to sing well...

There were some games in the end (I once got a prize for coming first in the memory test)...followed by a story...Pallavi(shaayad) didi was good at story telling...all SaSaBaBa stories...

A nice prasaad was distributed in the end...along with Vibhooti (sacred ash). SaSaBaBa devotees have this weird and blind belief that SaSaBaBa Vibhooti can cure every disease...heal all wounds...if u have stomach pain, just eat some Vibhooti...if u've got any injury, apply this SaSaBaBa Vibhooti there...it'll be cured...

And you hear Sai Ram all the time. No Hi-Hellos...only Sai Ram Sai Ram Sai Ram...wishes, exclamations, gaalis...all Sai Ram.

we were once shown an album which had SaSaBaBa's fotos...all ages...at 14 (approx...memory not so sharp) SaSaBaBa left home and became baba! Very soon he got his patent hairstyle. Not sure who told him he is the reincarnation of Shiva, but he claims to be one.

The theory goes that Shiva had got a curse ( or vardaan?) that he'd be born thrice and do great deeds. The much reverred Shirdi Sai Baba was the first. SaSaBaBa is said to be the second by many. The third cud be me :-) I lost my hair. The chances are grim. A takla Sai Baba!!! May work!

One weekend at Baalvikas, we were asked to write letters addressed to SaSaBaBa. Anything. The Didis were going to Puttaparti to meet SaSaBaBa and to do some community service there. We were assured that those letters would be delivered to SaSaBaBa, and also that SaSaBaBa reads them...and the lucky kids get a reply - they told us. It sounded fishy to me...I did not know about pedophiles at that time...otherwise I cud have warned my fellow kids...may be that was the actual purpose of the BaalVikaas classes...to send good-quality kids to SaSaBaBa...Thank God I never got any offer for his Darshans. I was such a bright kid...there was huge risk...I realize now.

Well I did write him a letter...It was something like this:

Dear SaSaBaBa,

I don't have any faith in you. ("devotion" was the word I wanted to use...but inspite of thinking hard, I was not able to pull this word out of my mental depths so as to use it...strange, a lot of things are there inside our memories which we cannot recall) But people say you are God. Please show me some sign that will make me believe that you are one. I am waiting for your reply. If you are really God, then you can easily show me something...from wherever you are...

Sridhar

I never got any reply. That disappointed me. I quit BaalVikas. Soon most of my friends quit too. Anyway I had no Bhakti and all...we just went there for prasaad...and games...and prizes...I had one more reason...opportunities to sing in front of people...I was once a part of a group-song...sung in a function on the occasion of SaSaBaBa's B'day...we sang Sai Pancharatnam...Still remember a few lines...3 in fact -

Sauhadra varshaabhi raapoor yantam, smrite nola santam bhavantam muda
Dishaambhaasa yantam samaprema yantam tamonaasha yantam dharalambanam
Moham tada krodha kaumari sangham kshane dhwansa yantam cha sai shivam

Don't remember their meanings...the Didis had explained each word to us...Now when I read the lines above...I'm able to make sense of some of these words...they really seem to praise that guy heavily...I feel sorry for having sung all this like an idiot for that jerk...

I used to be such a God-fearing person when I was a kid. For all my decisions, I used to go and look at Gods' fotos and try to see a smile on their faces. If I could see a smile, I took that for an approval of my decision. I had one SaSaBaBa foto too. That was always smiling...always approved my decisions...hehe...I also used to pray a lot. 10 minutes of prayer in front of all major Gods before going to school...asking for a lot of things...full marks in all unit-tests, half yearly exams...and final exams...always a first rank...happiness for mummy, daddy, sister, brother...and asking god 4 times to give me all that...3, I believed, was God's favourite number (like we bajao the ghanti 3 times in temple)...and the 4th time was just an extra, in case God missed one of them...hehehe...and the night before the school results every year, I used to stay awake all night and pray for a first rank...

hehehe...Well, I had a detailed theory on how to pray the right way...but all that, some other time...

In 11th class, most of my hair fell...mera bhagwaan se vishwaas uth gaya...and I turned into an atheist :-)...there was another reason...the deeper I went into Physics and Mathematics, the more the feeling that "God is crap" got strengthened...At least God in the form our religions preach cannot be real...God is something we have not even imagined yet...The creator cannot be an elephant-headed being with 2 wives who lives in the clouds (our satellites cud have got his snap if he had been there!!!)...We are yet to totally grasp the vastness of the universe...and whatever lies beyond...God cannot be so human...There are many other animals on earth...we just happen to be the more intelligent ones at present...imagine, there are more bacteria than us...do they have a god? A bacterium? In the microscopic world in which they live, may be even humans are a rare species...many may not even come accross one in their lifetimes...even our bodies contain so many microbes...what is the universe for them? A life form that has not seen anything beyond our insides has no idea what stars and moon are...can it even see anything? We are so human-centred in our thoughts...why should god take a human-like birth? Was Ram a Dinosaur in a previous birth? coz there were no humans on earth for hundreds of millions of years of the earth's history...the creator is definitely not human...he created so many other animals first...

There are huge depths of oceans still unexplored...somewhere there might be something that governs all our lives...hmmm, Well, sorry for the digression...

We don't know the true meaning of our existence. But that does not mean that we start believing whatever we are told, just for the sake of believing something...just to feel protected...just to rest assured that there is someone who loves the good and punishes the bad...

Let's come out of all this drama. Let's live for eachother...let's love eachother...let's have rules which beautify our lives...the ultimate goal should be human betterment...not blind following of rituals...not blind faith in any baba...look into the skies...there is a lot to make sense of...if we could just open our eyes...