UNRAVELLING THE
ENIGMA
- SHIRDI SAI BABA - IN THE LIGHT OF SUFISM
by Marianne Warren
Sterling Paperbacks - New Delhi Revised edition 2004 - ISBN 81-207-2147-0
Read full account of the book here
Dr. Marianne Warren died in September, 2004, a great loss to the
sphere of independent and original academic research into the life
of the Sufi saint. She taught Hindu Studies at Toronto University
and, together with her husband, ran the Sathya Sai Baba Bookshop
in Toronto for many years. Marianne wrote an up-dated version of her book in which she authoritatively
exposes some of the distortions made about the life and predictions
of Shirdi Sai Baba by the deceitful Sathya Narayena Raju ("Sathya
Sai Baba"), who claims to be Shirdi Sai Baba reincarnated.
Read review by P.D. Shastri at http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99oct24/book.htm#3
Read further comments by Marianne Warren in mails to Robert Priddy
It is also informative to read
on the front page of the Mumbai
Mirror of January 11, 2006 that: Followers
of Sai Baba file case against devotees of Sathya Sai of Puttaparthi
to restrain them from calling him a reincarnation of the Shirdi seer by Manoj R Nair.
Further, comments on this by Indian devotees are found under the article
reproduced at
http://saibabaexposed.blogspot.com/2006/01/sai-baba-devotees-sued-by-sai-baba.html