THE LITERAL TRANSLATIONS ONCE POSTED BY THE 'PREMSAI' GROUP OF SAI BABA TRANSLATORS HAVE BEEN DISOWNED BY THE KEY TRANSLATOR
AS HAVING BEEN FALSIFIED BY THE GROUP.
THAT PERSON - THE FORMER US DEVOTEE EILEEN WEED ('DIVYA') MADE FULLY CORRECT LITERAL TRANSLATIONS, BUT - BECAUSE THE GROUP INSISTED ON EDITING THE WORST
BLUNDERS BY SAI BABA - SHE FINALLY LOST FAITH IN HIM. MANY OF HER HER ORIGINAL TEXTS HAVE BEEN PRESERVED AND MANY ARE POSTED HERE ALONGSIDE THE ALTERED TESTS
(Background: On a site called 'premsai', students and others made complete, allegedly accurate translations of discourses given by Sathya Sai Baba between 2000 and 2003. The 'premsai' translations (removed from the Internet because the Sai authorities demanded it, were then saved and posted here in 2003). They were from Telugu to English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish. There were constant and serious discrepancies between these documents and other versions of his discourses as edited, sanitised and published in the official Sanathana Sarathi journal. However, some of the original words of Sai Baba were so damaging that even these allegedly 'literal' translations were altered.
The original 'PREMSAI' website - long since deleted - was at http://www.internety.com/premsai.htm (see example of their webpage) The process of translation was as follows:-
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