Sai Baba's miracles: an overview

Author: Dr. Dale Beyerstein - Web version by Ted Powell

This book has been originally published in paper form in 1994, with the title "Sai Baba's miracles: an overview" (B. Premanand Publisher, Podanur, India, 1994). Successively Ted Powell has edited its transposition on the internet, and below I report the link to the original site. At this point, since this website deals with critical views about Sai Baba, I considered interesting to enclose Dr. Beyerstein's work to this site, without altering the original text.

Paul Holbach

Contents

1. Editor's Introduction
   • The Purpose of This Study
   • Background Information About Sai Baba
   • Claims Made About Sathya Sai Baba
   • Format
   • Acknowledgements
2. Sai Baba: Omniscient and Omnipotent?
   • Omniscience
     1. Sai Baba's Letter To Hislop, 8-9-69
     2. Sai Baba's Letter To Hislop, 15-1-70
     3. V.K. Gokak's Views
     4. More from Gokak
     5. V. Kanu's Claims
     6. Sai Baba's Explanations
     7. Sai Baba Claims Omniscience
   • Omnipotence
     8. Sai Baba's Letter to Hislop, 8-9-69
3. Did Sai Baba Resurrect Someone From The Dead?
   • The Radhakrishna Case
     9. Kanu's Account
     10. Murphet's Account
     11. Dr. Gokak's Endorsement
     12. Mrs. Radhakrishna's Account, As Reported by Dr. Haraldsson
     13. Diary Record Kept by Vijaya Hemchand (Radhakrishna's Daughter)
     14. Hislop's Account
     15. The Rajah of Venkatigiri's Account, as Reported by Haraldsson
   • The Cowan Case
     16. Kanu's Account
     17. Hislop's Account
     18. Dr. S. Sandweiss' Endorsation of Hislop's Account
     19. Premanand's Comment on the Quality of Hislop's Reporting
     20. Letter from Dr. Vaz (Cowan's attending physician) to Premanand, 12-7-88
     21. Letter from Harish Khanna. General Manager, Connemara Hotel, to B. Premanand, 17-8-88
     22. Letter to B. Premanand from Dr B. Krishna Rau, 13-7-88
     23. Letter to B. Premanand from Dr. R.S. Rajagopalan, 24-7-88
     24. Dr. Haraldsson's Hypothesis
     25. Premanand's Response to Haraldsson's Hypothesis
     26. Hislop's Response to David Lane, 17-7-88
4. Does Sai Baba Have Complete Telepathic Knowledge?
   • Introduction
     27. Hislop's Claim For Sai Baba's Telepathic Knowledge
   • British Wit
     28. Sai Baba on Winston Churchill
     29. Churchill's Wit, Represented by Everyone Else
   • Early 20th Century Britain
     30. Sai Baba on Ramsay Macdonald
     31. Biographers of Ramsay Macdonald on the Same Incident
   • Thomas Edison
     32. Sai Baba's Explanation of Edison's Deafness
     33. Edison Biographer M. Josephson's Debunking of this Myth
   • Albert Einstein
     34. Sai Baba on Einstein's Kindness to a Little Girl
     35. Ronald Clark Debunks This Story
     36. Sai Baba on Judgment of Character
   • History of India
     37. Sai Baba on Alexander the Great
     38. Comment by Dr. Anthony Barrett, Professor of Classics, the University of British Columbia
   • The New Testament and the Life of Jesus of Nazareth
     39. Sai Baba's Claims About the Time Of Jesus's Birth
   • The Month and Day of Jesus' Birth
     40. Clement of Alexandria on the Month and Day of Jesus's Birth
     41. J.A.S. Evans, Head, Classics Department, the University of British Columbia, on Sai Baba's Dating Jesus's Birth at 2 B.C.
     42. Paul Mosca, Professor Of Hebrew, UBC, on Sai Baba's Dating of 2 B.C.
     43. Paul Mosca's Comment on Sai Baba' Claim that Jesus's Birthday Was a Sunday
     44. Sai Baba's First Statement About the Meaning of the Star of Bethlehem
     45. Sai Baba's Second Statement About the Meaning of the Star of Bethlehem
   • The Religious Practices of Judea
     46. Sai Baba on Jesus's Attitude Toward Temple Ritual
     47. The Gospels On Jesus's Attitude Toward Temple Rituals
     48. Jesus Endorsing Sacrifice at the Temple
     49. Jesus Endorsing Sacrifice at the End of His Ministry
     50. Paul Mosca's View of Jesus's Position on Sacrifice
     51. Jesus and Money-changers, According to Mark
     52. Sai Baba on Temples (1)
     53. Sai Baba on Temples (2)
     54. Paul Mosca on the Temple of Jerusalem
   • Jesus' Crucifixion
     55. Sai Baba on Judas Iscariot's Name (1)
     56. Sai Baba on Judas Iscariot's Name (2)
     57. Sai Baba's Claim that Jesus was on an Eight-Day Fast Prior to the Crucifixion
     58. Another Version Of Sai Baba's Remark
     59. Uno Langmann's Comments on the Crucifix
     60. William S. Dale's Comments on the Crucifix
   • Indian Classical Music
     61. Mrs. Kamala Sarathy's Description of Sai Baba's Knowledge of Music
     62. Data for Alternate Hypothesis, As Reported by Mrs. Sarathy
   • Physical Sciences
     63. Sai Baba's Knowledge of Geology, and Its Relationship to Chemistry, Physics and Botany
     64. Sai Baba's Comprehension of the Meanings of Scientific Terms
   • Patent Law
     65. Sai Baba on Patent Law
     66. T. Ganesh U. Pai in Conversation With A Sai Baba Devotee Who Is a Lawyer
   • Sanskrit
     67. Lawrence Babb On Sai Baba's Knowledge of Sanskrit
     68. Sai Baba on `Dharma'
     69. Joseph Campbell on `Dharma'
     70. The Origin of `Guru' According to Sai Baba
   • What Accounts for Sai Baba's Mistakes?
     71. H. Murphet Quoting from Dr. Bhagavantam on Sai Baba's Attitude Toward Books
   • Knowledge of Devotees' Lives
     72. Kanu's Claim
     73. Haraldsson's Survey of Devotees
     74. Haraldsson on Sai Baba's Predictions
     75. Premanand's Account of Ramaswamy's Audience With Sai Baba
     76. Transcript of Audiences With Sai Baba, By Devotee Annemarie Marwah
     77. Audience with Phyllis Krystal
5. Materializations
   • Lingams
   • Other Materializations
6. Sundry Miracles
   • Introduction
   • Water Into Gas
   • The Seiko Watch Materialization
   • `Petal Calligraphy'
   • Materialization of a Large Glass Bowl
   • Other Materializations
   • Bilocation
7. Healings and Rescues
   • Healings
   • Rescues
8. Does Sai Baba's Life Fulfil Ancient Prophesies?
   • Did Jesus Foretell Sai Baba's Arrival?
   • Mohammed's Prediction of Sai Baba's Arrival
9. Bibliography

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