“The Findings”
by David Bailey, formerly close to Sai Baba, tells his story; This is
an extract from his work concerning the self-proclaimed avatar’s sexual
habits
Concerned
mothers, and young men of various ages would ask to speak to me in confidence
about intimate incidents they had had with Swami. They told me about
alleged sexual activity, each story replicating the previous one. Swami
would take these young men and boys into the private interview room
alone with him, then insist
that they take their trousers down and he would massage them, often
masturbating them, and/or insisting on oral sex and sometimes collecting
their semen in his handkerchief.
This left
me speechless! I knew of the book written by Tal Brook in the 70’s
called ‘Lord of the Air’ where he detailed the sexual harassment
he had undergone with Sai Baba, but this book had always been dismissed
by long established devotees as a collection of mischief making lies
told by an angry young man. And yet Faye’s own son had been kissed
repeatedly on his cheeks and the corners of his mouth when alone in
the inner room with Sai Baba, and also sexually touched.
And when
it was obvious to Sai Baba that this behaviour was unwelcome, he began
berating the young man in subsequent interviews with Faye, calling him
‘Mad dog! Hard hearted!’ and so on. At the time this seemed
incongruous; it was only after we began travelling the world that the
inconceivable and incomprehensible began to make itself clear.
When I asked various co-ordinators
about these many disturbing incidents reported to me in our travels,
I was told that Swami was ‘raising
kundalini’. I questioned
this in my mind. If he was capable of doing
anything, why did he have to physically touch the
boys, especially when they were unwilling? And what about when he had
them actively engage in sex to him? It seems that an ongoing, serious
and untenable infringement of basic human rights is being scurrilously
perpetrated, in the name of ‘divinity’.
I didn’t
ever hear any stories about girls having their kundalini raised in this
way.
On my
last visit to Puttaparthi, a male student came and asked me for help,
on behalf of some of his fellow students, because they were desperately
in need of someone to stop Swami sexually abusing them. I was told how
Sai Baba had for years been demanding that these particular boys have
oral sex, and group sex for his pleasure. Their details matched what
I had already been told so many times round the world. I asked him.if
this was an acceptable practice in India, and his look of horror as
he denied it, spoke volumes.
Then he
asked me a question I couldn’t answer.
‘Sir, why do you think ex-students
tried to kill him in 1993...?’ (!!!)
I turned
to several long time devotees on the verandah for explanation of these
nefarious activities, and worried them with questions and suppositions
until in the end they realised that I had found the truth, and then
admitted that these things do happen; and then - agreed with each other
that it was for his pleasure and nothing to do with kundalini raising.
Different
national co-ordinators I spoke to, both in India and after we returned
home, continued for a time, to deny that it happens. But when it became
obvious that I was not going to leave this issue alone, a couple of
them telephoned me to say that yes I was correct and they had known
of this for years. ‘But he is God, and God can do anything he likes.’
(!!!)
Early
in 1999 a young Swedish man returned from a visit to the ashram and
made a full statement to his co-ordinating committee about his sexual
experiences with Swami during six interviews. Within hours of this revelation,
one of the top officials of Sweden’s Sai organisation was on our doorstep,
asking why we had left Sai Baba. He and his wife, both really lovely
people, were absolutely devastated to hear the young man’s story confirmed.
After
saying brokenly ‘I cannot be part of this’ he went outside and sat
on the steps in our front garden and sobbed his heart out. He had been
a devotee for more than twenty years, and his wife had written two books
on Sai Saba and another was already at the point of being printed.
He went
home to resign his position from something he had given years of his
life and his love to, and she cancelled her book and withdrew the others
from the market. Within days there was public confirmation - that these
things I had spoken about through the year to a small number of serious
seekers of truth - were indeed happening to others as well.
Soon
after, the Sai school in Sweden closed.
Due to
this courageous young man’s statement, the unmentionable began being
mentioned, then mentioned increasingly loudly, by increasing numbers
of young men. The Swedish publicity began a flurry of exposures. Swedish
film star Conny Larsson revealed his own experiences, which are included
in this fact file. Our phone ran hot with young men from all over Europe
sharing their pain.
One teenager
rang from France and confided that he had wanted to commit suicide ever
since his own experience of sexual harassment, as he couldn’t live
with the thought that he must be gay. He said he was very relieved to
hear that there were other victims.
You can
access The Findings here:
http://www.npi-news.dk/page152.htm
Xmas Gift
As a Xmas
gift, you will find a picture of the self-proclaimed, all-powerful God
dressed up in sari like a travestite!!!
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