stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

CHAPTER IX
SCORPION-MAN
(SATYA SAI BABA)
The words of an aristocratic Indian girl I knew in Delhi rang
in my ears, “You foreigners will accept anyone as a guru—
people like Maharishi are export items as common as tea,
but we Indians will have nothing to do with them. [The Maharishi,
however, is also a non-brahmin (Mangalwadi, 1992),
perhaps accounting for a large part of the indigenous reluctance
to accept him and his teachings.] There is only one I
have heard of who the Indians trust, he is Sai Baba” (Brooke,
1999).
Swami Amritananda, companion of Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi
[1879 – 1950], was convinced that Sri Satya Sai Baba
knew yogic science better than anyone else in his experience
(Kasturi, 1971).
Although Sai Baba only attended school to the age of thirteen,
he has complete mastery of the scriptures, of all the
sciences, arts, languages—of all fields of study. As a matter
of fact, he knows everything—including the past, present
and future of all of our lives (Warner, 1990).
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