Tanya's Answer
Thank you for your interesting email and your comments.
I'm pleased you liked the programme.
Attention was paid to the so-called execution of the young men barricaded into Sai Baba's bedroom because we believed that there evidently had been some kind of cover-up helped by police collusion. To this day, it is still not clear who killed who. There are some who really believe that the 4 intruders were actually trying to protect SaiBaba and had vital information against powerful people in the ashram.Others believe that they had were trying to assassinate him. Whateverthe truth of this murky case, one thing is clear that all four had beenextremely close to Sai Baba for years. One was even rumoured to havebeen a long term lover. There was also a lot of forensic evidence to suggest that the intruders had not advanced on the police but rather the reverse and that the bodies has been moved post-mortem. However, nothing can ever be resolved as the 4 'assailants' were all killed. If you're interested, you should get hold of a copy of Mr Premanand'sbook, Murder in the Bedroom, which contains an exhausting amount ofinformation on the case.
Lastly, I stand by the use of the word 'abuse' which I agree is a strongword and should be only used for flagrant violations - which is what Ithink these encounters constitute. I believe that Alaya's desire toplease his parents was but a small part of his passive consent to this sexual abuse. Far more important, I think, is that he was part of acommunity that actively believe Sai Baba to be God. I think that would confuse and overwhelm anyone who was an adherent of that faith, nevermind a vulnerable teenager, when faced with innappropriate sexual behaviour from that 'God'. And it's that misuse of Sai Baba's vaultedposition which I call abuse.
As to your last point, there is no doubt that Sai Baba has done and continues to do good works but while making the programme, I was reminded of what Mahatma Gandhi once said, "One man cannot do right inone department of life while he is occupied in doing wrong in otherdepartment. Life is one indivisible whole."
Thanks once again,
Tanya
I'm pleased you liked the programme.
Attention was paid to the so-called execution of the young men barricaded into Sai Baba's bedroom because we believed that there evidently had been some kind of cover-up helped by police collusion. To this day, it is still not clear who killed who. There are some who really believe that the 4 intruders were actually trying to protect SaiBaba and had vital information against powerful people in the ashram.Others believe that they had were trying to assassinate him. Whateverthe truth of this murky case, one thing is clear that all four had beenextremely close to Sai Baba for years. One was even rumoured to havebeen a long term lover. There was also a lot of forensic evidence to suggest that the intruders had not advanced on the police but rather the reverse and that the bodies has been moved post-mortem. However, nothing can ever be resolved as the 4 'assailants' were all killed. If you're interested, you should get hold of a copy of Mr Premanand'sbook, Murder in the Bedroom, which contains an exhausting amount ofinformation on the case.
Lastly, I stand by the use of the word 'abuse' which I agree is a strongword and should be only used for flagrant violations - which is what Ithink these encounters constitute. I believe that Alaya's desire toplease his parents was but a small part of his passive consent to this sexual abuse. Far more important, I think, is that he was part of acommunity that actively believe Sai Baba to be God. I think that would confuse and overwhelm anyone who was an adherent of that faith, nevermind a vulnerable teenager, when faced with innappropriate sexual behaviour from that 'God'. And it's that misuse of Sai Baba's vaultedposition which I call abuse.
As to your last point, there is no doubt that Sai Baba has done and continues to do good works but while making the programme, I was reminded of what Mahatma Gandhi once said, "One man cannot do right inone department of life while he is occupied in doing wrong in otherdepartment. Life is one indivisible whole."
Thanks once again,
Tanya
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