In a public discours, February 16, 2007, Sai Baba made a marked departure from many statements in the past in his sermons where he has counseled his millions of followers to ignore critics.
A rare significant departure was in his Christmas day 2000 discourse. This was right at a time of intensive, successive former devotee led bad press in the international media and exposure in the one India publication, India Today, brave enough to resist the enormous suppression in the Indian media of criticism adverse to Sai Baba. He loudly thumped his lectern and vituperated his critics. He said they were "Judases", "demons", "cawing crows", and that his critics were criticising him for money, and that they would never break the karmic cycle of rebirths, etc. The Times of India headlined 'Sai Baba Lashes Out At Critics".
Sai Baba's February 16th remarks have however done still further, and he has said,
"Persons indulging in vituperative publicity impelled by envy, greed or hatred will reap the appropriate consequence. The time has come when proper action has to be taken to dissuade these people from resorting to such false propaganda".
http://www.sathyasai.org/
He has again said that his dissenters are "resorting to such false propaganda for the sake of money".
To the contrary, closely networked former devotees who work to expose Sai Baba and his powerful and influential Sathya Sai Baba Organization cum cult are typically have been typically noted down many decades for their simple living and sacrificial service to the weaker sections of the community. They have also been successful in establishing their credibilty with many leading world media, UNESCO and many civic and religious institutions (of various faiths).
Futher information can be obtained at the blogsite:
http://barrypittard.wordpress.com
which is that of one of the most active international former Sai Baba follower coordinators.
