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6/10/98 Changed room from B2 to B4, which Anne-Irene vacated before darsan. Missed darsan again therefore. New room cooler and various advantages. (Comment: However, this North block for Organization donors was daily enveloped for hours in a vomit-ghastly putrid smell of rotting faeces from an open sewage pit nearby which should have been replaced by an ecological system - but the officials stole the money given for the purpose! See the facts about this scam here)
Saw Narasimhan briefly - I wouldn't stay. He was writing the preface for 'From Bapu to Baba' 3rd ed. His eye is very poor - but he may get a lease of new eyesight from glasses designed by an English specialist soon. (Comment: Battling on as editor of Sai's journal at his command, VKN had taken an eye operation on Sai Baba's advice and lost the eye as a result, despite vibuti applied by Baba after the op. See here.)
We saw a bearded Al Drucker when we came from darsan. He seemed not to have been to it. (Comment: Since Alvin Drucker was banned from th ashram by Sai baba personally in 1992 see here, he had not been seen at any Organization conferences either. He attended the 'paduka' (sandal) ceremonies but hid away from everyone the rest of the time. The beard seemed to be a disguise)
Saw Henk and exchanged a greeting. Wrote rest of letter to Ragnhild .... etc...
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7/10/89 At benches by 6.19 Shenai and drum music. Still a few places. We were awoken at 5.30 by Oms and Suprabhatam just outside our window at full force. Then music, chanting, more trumpet and drum music etc. Also a dose of unstoppable feedback from the microphones, despite repeated late night "Testing, testing, one, two"'s
Went with Narasimhan in car, driven by his relative (brother's son-in-law) who organised the entire Rayalaseema Water Project (he had come from the USA). (He had secured a copy of my book from the US too). N. and I had a chat about Sai Books and my book. He has told Devendra that my book would be a runaway success, so no problem with an edition there. The index he feels best in data form. (see on P-K- Suri's misappropriations here)
Suri was removed on a good "pretext" by Swami - a book he published caused Swami's ire ... some Ma who claimed that she embraces Sai as a mother etc. N. said Suri is a rogue who still pretends he is in grace, sitting on the verandah. His wife, however, is a devoted server - as are her parents.
Damodar Rao is in B'lore & very ill. Hans is with him. Srinivas Rajendra is going strong and lecturing.
(Comment:Damodar Rao was an old follower of Sai Baba - a retired circuit judge - who visited the US once and told me his story at great length. He told me that he thought sexual abusers of children "should all be boiled alive in oil"!! A very extremist viewpoint for a judge? But perhaps not in India? This subject came up without reference to Sai Baba, who neither of us suspected (then). Hans was Hans Baerholm, a Danish follower i knew well too, who was living in Rao's house in Bangalore.)
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