Arnold Schulman And The Alleged "Serpentine Lie"
Sanjay Kishore Dadlani:
Middlesex University Student Residing In The UK
Sanjay made the following comments about the "Serpentine Lie" based on information he obtained from Arnold Schulman's book "Baba":
Needless to say, Sanjay did not tell the whole story regarding Schulman's alleged "serpentine lie". Sanjay forgot to turn the page and read what Schulman had to say about Baba' sister and how he obtained information from her. Arnold Schulman said:
Are we to believe Kasturi (who actually spoke Telugu and had close, repeated, long-term and intimate access to Baba's sister) or are we to believe Schulman (who did not have close, repeated, long-term and intimate access to Baba's sister and who relied on translators to translate other translators as to what Baba's sister allegedly said)? I think the answer is perfectly clear.
No one can believe anything Sanjay Dadlani says. Sanjay repeatedly engages in inaccurate paraphrasing and quote-mining in an attempt to build a sand-castle using highly selective and misleading information. Sanjay also has a disturbing propensity to read something, obsess about it and draw wild and neutotic conclusions. An example of this type of behavior is when I used the word "poo" 14 times in my article about Jody Radzik (the Guruphiliac webmaster: Reference). Although Jody Radzik often used the word "poop" and "shit" to make his arguments against Gurus, Sanjay thinks nothing of Jody's usage of explicit words referring to fecal material. However, when I used the word "poo" (a very mild word to refer to fecal material) 14 times (out of a 5,484 word article or a .0025% word percentage), Sanjay irrationally and neurotically concluded that I was a "toilet sex pervet" and had a "fascination for fecal material"! Sanjay is the type of emotionally unstable and mentally questionable individual who tries to take an intellectual stand against Sathya Sai Baba and miserably fails.
Middlesex University Student Residing In The UK
Sanjay made the following comments about the "Serpentine Lie" based on information he obtained from Arnold Schulman's book "Baba":
Just one example of this relates to the tale of a cobra, which allegedly appeared miraculously after Sathyanarayana Raju (Sai Baba's birth name) was born. As Schulman noted: "One of Baba's two sisters, however, who claims to have been present at his birth, says that the cobra was not found under the blanket, but several hours after Baba was born a cobra was seen outside the house, a sight not uncommon in the village." It is curious to see how this significantly differs from several "official" accounts of the cobra event.
The funny thing about this is how N. Kasturi claimed to have collected his material by interviewing various family members and villagers. Kasturi dated this incidence as happening in July 1948, and later reveals that the book was finally published in 1960. Assuming that he included Baba's own sister in his research project, that left a comfortable twelve years for compiling and publishing an authorised biography with the input of Sai Baba and several contemporaries. How fascinating it is to observe a close member of the Baba's family disagreeing with a staple of the Sai mythos, leading one to wonder why Kasturi's little anecdote was allowed to be left in at all? For me, the reason was clear; the propaganda machine thought nothing of overblowing this out of all proportion in order to promote the idea that Sai Baba is an incarnation of Vishnu.
In conclusion, we can carefully consider that there is a huge gulf between facts and interpretations of those facts. If anything tangible is to be gleaned from Schulman's quote, it is that Sai Baba aggressively halted discussion about his past for a clear reason; the stories of all or most of his early escapades are probably untrue.
Needless to say, Sanjay did not tell the whole story regarding Schulman's alleged "serpentine lie". Sanjay forgot to turn the page and read what Schulman had to say about Baba' sister and how he obtained information from her. Arnold Schulman said:
In some cases interpreters were needed to interpret the interpreters, as in the case of the interviews with one of Baba's sisters who spoke only Telugu. At that particular time the available interpreters were a young man who spoke only HIndi and English, but no Telugu, and another young man who spoke Telugu and Hindi but no English. Everything the sister said had to be translated by one of the young men from Telugu into Hindi and then by the other young man from Hindi into English. Not only was this procedure frustratingly time-consuming but after being filtered through two separate and distinct personalities, what the writer was told the sister said might very well have been something quite different from what she actually said.
Are we to believe Kasturi (who actually spoke Telugu and had close, repeated, long-term and intimate access to Baba's sister) or are we to believe Schulman (who did not have close, repeated, long-term and intimate access to Baba's sister and who relied on translators to translate other translators as to what Baba's sister allegedly said)? I think the answer is perfectly clear.
No one can believe anything Sanjay Dadlani says. Sanjay repeatedly engages in inaccurate paraphrasing and quote-mining in an attempt to build a sand-castle using highly selective and misleading information. Sanjay also has a disturbing propensity to read something, obsess about it and draw wild and neutotic conclusions. An example of this type of behavior is when I used the word "poo" 14 times in my article about Jody Radzik (the Guruphiliac webmaster: Reference). Although Jody Radzik often used the word "poop" and "shit" to make his arguments against Gurus, Sanjay thinks nothing of Jody's usage of explicit words referring to fecal material. However, when I used the word "poo" (a very mild word to refer to fecal material) 14 times (out of a 5,484 word article or a .0025% word percentage), Sanjay irrationally and neurotically concluded that I was a "toilet sex pervet" and had a "fascination for fecal material"! Sanjay is the type of emotionally unstable and mentally questionable individual who tries to take an intellectual stand against Sathya Sai Baba and miserably fails.
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