I forget how I came across the intriguing web page where this week’s addict posted photos of some of his notebooks. It’s all part of a campaign to expose the alleged misdeeds of a guru at an ashram in India, which is interesting, but of course it was the variety of nice old notebooks that fascinated me!
ON THE RECORDS I HAVE KEPT OF MY VISITS TO SATHYA SAI BABA ASHRAMS
These notebooks are very extensive and, with very few exceptions, there is an entry for every day of all my nine India visits. Naturally, scans of all of these many hundreds of pages cannot be posted here, so I have chosen to present those pages and excerpts from pages which have a direct bearing on research – and particularly for the exposure of the various deceptions and cover-ups I came to discover. During the time I wrote these notebooks I remained a believer in Sai Baba, and recorded all in the spirit of trying to obtain facts to help exclude my own doubts (and those of others too). Only after 1999 did I begin to realise that I had been deceived by Sai Baba on most fundamental matters. The scanned pages are often rather difficult to read when in ink, also due to ‘bleed through’ from the reverse side of a page.
Read more at MY NOTEBOOKS COVERING NINE VISITS TO PRASHANTHI NILAYAM (from 1984/5 to 1998)
The shot with notebooks opened up is quite impressive. Something about them being all filled-up and the back story . . . I’ve been lurking here for a while, and I figured I should finally leave a comment. This is a great site. It’s freed me to start buying all of those notebooks I denied myself because I felt silly thinking “well these just won’t do” about the many half-used spiral Mead notebooks I already have. Keep up the good work!
What an amazing story. I remember people going to India to sit at the feet of Sai Baba, what a horror story that turned out to be.
But America had its own fake guru horror story when James Ray baked three people to death in his fake sweat lodge. And three years later he’s already out of prison.