NEWS ABOUT THE SSO CENTRE IN MOSCOW
An annual members meeting took place last Sunday in Moscow Sai centre. One person who attended it posted some news on the forum.
(1) There areabout 100 registered members of Moscow Sai Centre. Many of them have not attended the centre activities for a long time. That is why it is going to be arer-egistration process to define active members. It is expected that about 30% will be real members after all.
(2) Those office bearers who went to see Sugrive Singh to St Petersburg in July despite the official warning lost their offices and Sai teachers and teacher instructors have been banned from teaching.
(3) Ravi Shankar Polisetty (a former doctor in Sai general
hospital
in Puttaparthi who graduated from some medical institute in Belorussia)
who
is living in Moscow now is forbidden to deliver public speeches in
the
Moscow
Sai centre as he is not a member of the Organisation. He has had to stop
his
lectures on the Ramayana despite the fact that he is a very famous devotee.
A
special permission has been requested for him but still there has been
no
reply from
authorities.
(4) Arathi ritual has been completely stopped in
the
centre though it is very popular.
These news induced a lively discussion on the forum. Many people expressed
their dissapointment in the SSO. One person shared his talk with Steen
Piculell last July during all-Russia Satsang in May. Steen's attention
was
drawn to the fact that 4 persons who had been chairpersons in Moscow Sai
Centre since the time of its inception had not attended the centre any longer. Steen answered that
the Russian National coordinator had told him it
was
because of their personal problems. Of course, he could not think so. He
knew the truth.