"Ever be grateful even for a small help. Do not be ungrateful. Ingratitude is utter cruelty." (ibid p.166-7). One must ask what is wrong with Sathya Sai Baba 's sense of proportion (or control of his tongue)? Grateful as I was for some things in which Sathya Sai Baba once apparently helped me (but which still may have come about in other ways), I cannot but help think that – had I his alleged opportunities and abilities- I would help everyone with the greatest pleasure. What does it cost to do his supposed leelas and miracles? Time, his energy… but what kind of a sacrifice does this really involve? It is sometimes difficult indeed - frankly quite pointless or even evil-minded - to be grateful for much of what happens to people (and yet he promotes everything tht happenns as being in occordance with his - Sathya Sai Baba's -wil!!) Meanwhile, it is quite possible to accept that people show some gratitude to Sathya Sai Baba for things he may have done for them (even if it is only their feeling and we have no proof of it) and at the same time require accountability from him for other things we have discovered about him which are definitively NOT a help to anyone, but only ham to the inflicted. To remain grateful everlastingly for some uncertain favours does not remove the right to question the same person about his deceits and involvement in other harmful actions like executions in his own apartments.

Again, "See how much help Swami is giving to the poor and needy. It is all for their welfare. But some people are not at all realising the value and are not grateful for it."(ibid p.166). How can one who boasts that he owns nothing, give anything? It was given via Sathya Sai Baba by many well-meaning, good people,and not by him as such. But he has to boast and rub it in again and again. Why? Instead, he berates foreigners for giving indiscriminately, as follows (in original discourse, edited out of Sanathana)."Today all the foreigners are distributing money, distributing money, distributing money, and they are making the country of Bharath very low." This is yet another preposterous sweeping false statement about India by Sathya Sai Baba ! In the original discourse he also waffles on about someone who became the US President, but without naming him, Lincoln is evidently intended. But what he says about Lincoln's politics towards the black population demonstrates very basic ignorance of the facts.

Further, I have not seen anywhere in his thousands of discourses - or any books about him - that Sathya Sai Baba has expressed his gratitude to anyone for the help he personally receives! As usual, Sathya Sai Baba claims "I do not accept anything from anyone" (p. 168). How can he really not receive ANYTHING, just like everyone else alive does? Does he grow and harvest his own produce (‘ragi’ grain and watermelons, coconuts, rice and wheat for chapattis etc.)? Does he make his own robes? (Or is the Emperor without clothes?). Does he make his own furniture, build his own rooms, decorate his own showy thrones or does he receive the hundred and one things necessary even to his subsistence from the labour of others? He remarks too, while telling how he totally ignored for three days a would-be donor to him of car replacements (i.e. shining example of divine ingratitude?), that "I already have a sufficient number of cars" (p. 168). So HE does HAVE some! How many does one man need? If everyone in the world followed his divine example with up to 5 cars per person, the atmosphere would soon kill us! Moreover, I have never heard of him saying 'thank you' to anyone for any favours received, and many he certainly does accept! Sathya Sai Baba has to pretend he wants nothing, as follows: "Take My cars if you need them! I don’t like to travel in very big cars. However, they have sent them from foreign countries. After they send it, it is not possible to do anything else with them." How transparently deceitful can one talk ... he could donate them all to hospitals or whatever, and get one small one for himself!