COMMENTARY BY DENNIS J. HANISCH
 

Sathya Sai Baba claims to be the Lord of All Lords walking this earth. He has promised many times that "things will be better" and that he will have a very significant effect. My purpose here is to give a few examples and indications that evil has actually been on the increase during Sathya Sai Baba's reign. In fact, it is now common to hear people say, "the whole world has gone mad."

How we understand and respond to evil is a question that seems to come to the forefront in these times. I recently learned that Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), America's famous 'sleeping prophet,' treated evil as very real. From his viewpoint there are at least 5 "angles" or "faces" to evil with regard to understanding it and relating it to our lives. He sometimes used the word 'bad' to refer to it.

One of the faces of evil can be called extremism. If an aspect of the Christ Consciousness is the meeting point between extremes--or the middle path (Buddhism taught the middle path)--then one face of evil is the going off to extremes.

Is not our world especially full of extremes and extremists? And are not many denying the validity of any counter-balancing point of view?

I am thinking of the little girl who was recently raped and killed by an adult male in California. We have recently discovered a large number of priests regularly abusing children. A man in South Africa was recently convicted of raping a 9 month old child! Lately here in the USA we hear of many girls being abducted from their homes, raped and murdered.

Recently I saw on www.Schartzreport.net  evidence that the economic situation of masses of people has become more extreme:

"Although 200 million people saw their incomes fall between 1965 and 1980, more than 1 billion people experienced a drop from 1980 to 1993...... In sub-Saharan Africa, twenty nations remain below their per capita incomes of two decades ago while among Latin American and Caribbean countries, eighteen are below their per capita income of ten years ago.

UNUP reported in 1996 that 100 countries were worse off than they were 15 years ago. Three decades ago, the people in well-to-do countries were 30 times better off than those in countries 20% of the world's poorest people live. By 1998, this gap had widened to 82 times (up from 61 times since 1996)........

By the way, one third of the population of the country of Bangladesh has recently been displaced by floods. We know that the weather and climate is becoming extreme. (What is the SSB organization doing for these millions of people? Spiritual sensitive people feel the suffering of others as there own.)

The broken promises of SSB concerning the state of the world and the consciousness of mankind should be a red flag for us all. And maybe it behooves us to first research and review what those promises are. Is not SSB a fraud avatar who has deceived us all? Comments welcomed.

Best wishes,

Dennis J Hanisch