Sai Baba's Speeches

[skthewimp]

My mother is a major follower of the Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi. So, at times, when she gets an opportunity (my absence is a necessary condition for this), she tunes in to the Sai Global Harmony channel on Worldspace, where among other things, they broadcast speeches of the Sai Baba.

Recently I happened to "intrude" when she was listening to

Comments

[chandrachoodan]

This having a translator interpret each line of speech is commonly used by the gospel spouting pentacoastal church. At least, the ones in Madras. A line from the bible in English (usually by somebody from outside the country) and a local guy in Tamil. And these also sound like a major altercation if you don't know the context.

[chandrachoodan]

Stuff like this comes on some Gult channels in the morning where Paul Dinakaran level fellows speak in English and the translator immediately repeats it in Gult. Sounds totally are, especially if you know both the languages.

--Baada

[skthewimp]

who is Paul Dinakaran? some stephen raj level fellow?

i think the key is that you should either know both languages, or nto know both. or they should be unclear enough that you don't understand the language you know alos...

[skthewimp]

oh ok
i didn't know that this is a common concept. have heard it only in the sai baba's speeches

[januarybitch]

*Ahem* the second richest is supposedly Sabarimala.
The guy positively freaks me out. Its not just the afro, its...something else.

[anonymous]

I'm actually writing this from Puttaparthi - picked up your article when trying to find references to Baba and the Indian polity

Oxymoron view to the blog title.

[nandivarman]

How did you conclude that he cannot speak english????has he informed you inperson or through any means of communication??Making an assumption on the fact that he is a dropout and concluding he cannot speak english is baseless

Re: Oxymoron view to the blog title.

[skthewimp]

(I don't know if I mentioned in the original post that the Baba's followers can't withstand the slightest criticism of his and get extremely aggressive.)

That aside, my reply to your comment would be "K"

Re: Oxymoron view to the blog title.

[nandivarman]

Creating an Awareness and writing the facts,do you call that aggressive????I wouldn't call that aggressive,but will call that an "AWARENESS CAMPAIGN" .Each person has his own perceptions,no human being can have the same perception,if we had people thinking on the same lines,the world would be a fair market with all the good virtues present.Just give a thought by looking at it from the human level???has any man accomplished of what Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba has done to the society???

Again I would like to remind you ,I wasn't aggressive,It connotes a real different meaning in my books.I was just trying to create an Awareness as many people read your views.