From
: MUNICH/GERMANY
Source : Jens
Sethi - A letter to David Bailey
Subject : EXPERIENCES OF AN EX-SAI BABA DEVOTEE
Hello
David Bailey,
I
am giving you a thorough account of my traumatic experiences with Sathya Sai
Baba and hope that this will help people understand what he is all about. All
the details are the truth and can be seen as testimony. I could and would
testify to the following in an open court.
I
am thirty-five years old and have been interested in spiritual matters since my
childhood. For a long time I worshipped Jesus and Padre Pio, then after reading
Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi” I turned towards the yogic path.
In
October 1988 I became an ardent follower of Sathya Sai Baba, and came to
Puttaparthi for the first time in September 1989. Since then I visited
Puttaparthi regularly every year and was totally absorbed in the aura of Sai
Baba. I was fully convinced of his avatarhood and became so devoted that I was
thinking and contemplating all the time about him alone.
In 1989 I read “Lord of the Air” by Tal Brooks (a young male USA ex-devotee
who wrote of Sai Baba's sexual abuse of him), but I did not believe, thinking ˇTal
only wants to decry Baba!. I was just ignoring the facts.
Over
the years I had hundreds of darshans but never an interview. In 1993 I became a
little suspicious about Sai Baba’s lifestyle and the activities in the ashram.
Every year I could see costly new buildings and felt an increasing
commercialisation was going on. In 1996 I saw Sai Baba leaving the ashram in an
expensive “Jaguar” and other costly cars like “Mercedes” and “BMW”
of the big class. But I still believed him to be the Kali avatar of the age.
On 17th January 1996 I got my first interview and he was very kind telling me
nice things like ˇI will give you everything! as he touched and stroked my
head. He said ˇI know you’re not sure about your life and future and so on.
Also unhappiness from women. I know, don’t worry. Also you have some bad
thoughts, not good!. Then he said ˇI give you everything according to health,
spirituality and life. Everything. I give you infinite love. You and me will
become one!. I touched his robe and he put his hand on the top of my head saying
ˇI give you separate interview!.
On
20th January 1996 I got the second interview. Already days before, he had
established a strange eye-contact with me indicating the coming interview. My
wife and I went to the interview and he acted very disappointed at seeing me
together with my wife. He took me alone into the interview room and said ˇShe
is diseased and much older than you. Please separate from her!. I was really
shocked and replied ˇShe is attached to me!.
I asked him to give her some spiritual instruction, which he readily agreed to
do, but he had something else on his mind.
Without
asking permission he started kissing me on my lips for some time, and later
asked me to open my trousers and “materialised” some oil which he rubbed on
the skin above my genitals. I felt very bad about all of this, but accepted, as
I fully trusted Sai Baba.
Then he took my wife into the private interview room alone, and told her ˇEither
you separate from the boy or I throw you out of Puttaparthi!!. He appeared wild
and furious (my wife told me afterwards) and she shivered all over. When she
reappeared in a very short time, looking red faced and very scared, nobody dared
ask her what happened in there.
He saw me again some days later in darshan and asked whether I had separated or
not. I said ˇNot yet!. He turned away and shouted so all people could hear ˇBad,
Bad boy!!!! He was so aggressive and seemed to radiate such an aura of evil that
I was really shocked. We immediately left and went to north India for some
pilgrimage.
This
was a turning point, but after a time I decided to go once more to Sai Baba to
clarify the matter. At the end of 1996 I returned to India and got interview on
4th December. In the interview he said ˇWhere are you from?! When I told him I
was from Germany, he responded ˇYou are also a Hitler!!. Shocked, I thought to
myself ˇHe is not very kind is he?!
Nevertheless, in the private room the greedy old man kissed me again direct and
continuously on my lips for about twenty seconds, and gently stroked my back. By
now I was certain that something was very wrong.
On
28th December I was again called for interview and he produced a golden ring
which didn't fit well on my finger in spite of his blowing on it. In the private
chamber he said ˇCome! and again kissed me on the lips for some time as before.
This time I resisted and he gurgled ˇHave no fear!. I said ˇI have no fear!.
Then he said ˇThis is a good opportunity, so many waiting for months and will
not get!. This baffled me. I”m sure people don”t wait for mouth kisses in
Puttaparthi.
Then
his mood totally changed and I did have some fear. He commanded me to remove my
trousers, unzipped my fly and went with his right hand into my underpants.
Sathya Sai Baba the “divine” touched and massaged my genitals unasked. He
expected some erection, but this didn”t happen for I didn”t feel any sexual
excitement, no lust in the presence of a seventy years old man. I was really
disgusted. Then he had the impudence to say ˇIt is very weak, don't waste
energy!. When I looked at him I realised the truth about him and was shocked
indeed. Soon afterwards, without another word, he sent me out of the room.
Back
in Germany I did intense research on the internet and came across an article
from Jed Geyerhahn and was very happy to have found somebody with similar
experiences.
As I still had some luggage in Puttaparthi I returned in November 1999 to
collect it, taking with me two internet pages to discuss with some friends
there. Unfortunately a lady came into possession of the material and took it to
the Puttaparthi police station. Then I went through several interrogations with
the police there.
A
Mr. Reddy repeatedly asked from whom I got the material, and what would be the
password. I told him India is still a democracy and I can carry whatever
material I have with me, but he took no heed of my words. I told him that no
password was needed to enter the net and everyone has free access to the
material there. He sent me to an e-mail shop, accompanied by a policeman who
waited, but the computers connected with Hydrabad are very slow, and therefore I
could not enter the website.
Finally
the inspector, Mr. Reddy, took my passport away and said ˇUnless you give me
the password and name of the person I declare you guilty and will not allow you
to leave Puttaparthi!. He treated me very badly, like a criminal, especially
during the last interrogation and I had several witnesses to this incident. All
of this because I had been in possession of two pages which I had not even
written myself.
He
then walked me, my wife and an American friend into the ashram, and once inside
the gate, he again asked me the stupid question about the password. At the time
I couldn”t understand why he should do so, but today I know he was showing us
to some people or trustees whom we could not see or recognise.
I
had another appointment on 1st November with the police, which was the day I
intended to go to Delhi, but without my passport it would not be possible. On
30th October, late in the evening, two people whom I know and an unknown person
came to our unit and one of them warned me that my life was in danger and I
should leave immediately.
My wife and I left very early next morning, for Delhi. At Dharmmavaram rail
station the police were searching for us, but we entered the train at Anantapur.
There is a police station near the platform which we had to pass to enter the
train, and the very moment I saw that I told my wife to go into the train
separately. My wife heard a group of policemen talking about searching for
somebody and caught the words “passport, Delhi and telegram”. We were in
serious danger but fortunately I was dressed like an Indian, and escaped
identification.
So
we escaped and reached Delhi, and went immediately to the German Embassy. I got
a travel document after telling them of my experience, and the Embassy official
said a protest note would be sent to the Indian Government. He told me such an
act is illegal and they knew of similar cases.
I
want to inform you that at the police station in Puttaparthi the policeman had a
bunch of both foreign and Indian passports in a drawer under a table, and once I
saw them in his hand. This is just an observation, I don”t know to whom they
belonged.
During
this frightening time at Puttaparthi I met an Italian couple we knew there and
tried to tell them what had happened to me in interview with Sai Baba. They just
closed their eyes and the lady shouted ˇBe quiet!! Shut up!! Sai Baba is our
God, and all the bad stories are not true!!! Then they turned away. These same
people had told me many years before that they could never find any peace at the
ashram, and couldn't understand it. But they would not listen to those who know
it better. Nobody can possibly imagine how I felt while all of this was
happening. I suffered a lot.
I
met one ex-soldier from Ruanda who is very tall and handsome. This person has
also been sexually molested by Sai Baba and he told me his story. He is married
and his Japanese wife is a fanatical Sai Baba supporter. They have one child. He
totally depends on her and can see no way to get free from Sai Baba. He has been
given many gifts from Sai Baba like rings, bracelet, gold watch. Sai Baba
touched his testicles and massaged his genitals at least twice. The gifts look
like payment for prostitution, but a prostitute and her customer have a mutual
agreement whereas the male devotees are molested against their will, and they
come for a completely different purpose.
Our
strong faith in Sai Baba has been misused by the same Baba, through his
paedophile behaviour, and this is the most disgraceful thing he could do.
However
there are many other irregularities waiting to be clarified. I also want to let
you know that Baba was willing to leave Puttaparthi on 28th November 1999 for
Bangalore for a heart treatment but he didn”t because of the internet story
about it. This is known to me from the police inspector who blamed me for having
brought the internet pages to Puttaparthi. I have a good friend in Puttaparthi
who is a shop keeper, and he had already told me that in November 1999 Baba had
two heart attacks and went for treatment to Bangalore. He also said that most of
the people who know about it don't believe that Sai Baba will survive the next
two years.
The
Trustees are very concerned and alarmed about the internet.
Further
I want to let you know (in case you do not) that Sathya Sai Baba was not born in
Puttaparthi but in Karnatakka-Nagepalle village near Puttaparthi. Baba”s
mother came from this place and according to tradition she has to deliver the
child where she comes from. I know this from a person who was born in
Puttaparthi and lives there for over forty years. The villager said it is an
open secret, everyone knows it but is fearful to say it. You see, from the very
beginning Baba and his followers were lying.
Please
study the statement Krishna, a friend of Sai Baba”s youth, made to Erlendur
Haraldsson. Never was a devotee so close to Sai Baba for such a long time as
Krishna. He spent twenty-four hours a day with Sai Baba for some time. This was
almost sixty years ago. Eventually Krishna left Sai Baba and went to Hydrabad.
In an interview with Haraldsson, Krishna said that even in those days Sai Baba
was more like a politician or chieftain of a feudal system. Krishna also said ˇWhatever
Baba may have, one thing he has not, and this is compassion!.
I
hope that this nightmare comes to an end and I hope that by the Grace of the
Almighty, all people round the globe may know about the misdeeds of Sai Baba, a
mighty demon who came in the guise of a spurious saint, only interested in
self-glorification, name and fame.
He is a master - of - deception.
Yours
sincerely,
Jens
and Gurprit Sethi