Open letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis about false claims made by Madhusudan Rao Naidu wrt Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
To
Hon'ble Chief Minster of Maharashatra, Shri Devendra Fadnavis
chiefminister@maharashtra.gov.in
[Also as blog and Facebook post links in message on https://cmo.maharashtra.gov.in/contactus ]
Namaskar Saheb, Dear sir,
I am a grateful son of Mumbai and surrounding regions (Mumbai Metropolitan Region), and Maharashtra and so I am writing this Open Letter to you as a matter of duty to Mumbai Metropolitan Region and Maharashtra. It is in Mumbai Metropolitan Region that I was born, educated, earned a living as software development professional, fulfilled my family obligations and saved money for early retirement. I lived there for most of the first forty years of my life before I moved to Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh in October 2002 as a retired-from-commercial-work spiritual aspirant. I have lived in Puttaparthi now for over 15 years.
Puttaparthi, as you may know sir, is the abode of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
In November of 2017, you sir along with Shri Sachin Tendulkar were the honoured guests for a Bhoomi Puja event of a free service hospital in Navi Mumbai by Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Center group. Here is the youtube video of that event: Bhoomi Pooja of Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Center for Child Heart Care - Live from Mumbai, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqp1bcldwU, dated 26th Nov. 2017.
At that event, you, sir, shared the stage with a Madhusudan Rao Naidu and even made a reference to him during your speech.
What you perhaps may not know, sir, is that the claims made by Madhusudan Rao Naidu with respect to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba are false. Madhusudan claims to be a so called chosen communicator of a so called subtle body of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, which, for all practical purposes at least, is visible only to Madhusudan and communicates only with Madhusudan. These claims of his have been examined in depth and compared with teachings, instructions and discourses of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, by some of us Sathya Sai devotees including me. Such examination has led us to the conclusion that Madhusudan's claim is false, and that Madhusudan is diluting and distorting the legacy and memories of our beloved and revered Gurudev Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
Very unfortunately, two top cricket stars of Mumbai and India, Mr. Sunil Gavaskar and Mr. Sachin Tendulkar, both of whom have had many interactions with physical form Sathya Sai, seem to believe Madhusudan's claims. However, their expertise is in cricket and not in Sathya Sai teachings and instructions, and not in spirituality in general. Therefore, after the physical body passing away of Sathya Sai in April 2011, they have fallen prey to Madhusudan and a Mr. B.N. Narasimhamurthy and have been led astray by them.
I earnestly request you, sir, not to fall prey to the false claims of Madhusudan Rao Naidu and Mr. B.N. Narasimhamurthy with respect to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. In particular, please do not accept Madhusudan's claim that he is speaking the words of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Madhusudan is speaking either his own words OR is communicating the words of some unholy spirit that is masquerading as Sathya Sai Baba.
Now I should mention that I have no objection to the social service activities done by Mr. C. Srinivas' hospitals including this hospital in Navi Mumbai whose Bhumi Puja event you, sir, had attended and which is expected to be opened in November this year. I have publicly written about my appreciation for their social service work done free of charge for the poor of the country. There is a problem of these activities being used to promote the false claim of Madhusudan Naidu. But I don't want to be too rigid on this matter and so am not complaining much about that aspect.
I think it is natural that Maharashtra government should extend its support for such free service done in the state of Maharashtra. So I have no issue whatsoever on that front.
But you, sir, as Chief Minister of Maharashtra should NOT get trapped by false claim of Madhusudan Naidu with respect to (wrt) Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. That, I think, would be a great tragedy for the state of Maharashtra as you are its leader.
In my considered view, my beloved and revered Gurudev Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, was far more than a charitable organization founder. He primarily was a spiritual teacher who taught that Manav Seva is Madhav Seva. He showed how service to society can be done in a spiritual environment so that not only service is rendered to those in need, but one evolves spiritually.
One of the key spiritual and human values taught by Sathya Sai was Sathya! In fact, it is part of his very name! Our beloved nation too has the motto Satyameva Jayate (Truth alone prevails). Madhusudan Rao Naidu and his primary promoter and endorser, Mr. B.N. Narasimhamurthy have moved away from Sathya and are indulging in Asathya when they claim that Madhusudan is speaking the words of Sathya Sai.
I felt it my duty as a concerned and grateful son of Maharashtra to warn you, sir, about this matter wrt Madhusudan Rao Naidu and Mr. B.N. Narasimhamurthy.
[Some Marathi words (please excuse any mistakes as I am out of touch with Marathi):] Maharashtra hi santanchi bhoomi aahe. Hi bhoomi Jnaneshwar Maharaj, Namdev Maharaj, Eknath Maharaj ani Tukaram Maharajanchi bhoomi aahe. Shirdi Sai Baba Maharajanchi bhoomi aahe. Ya bhoomith ek veda manus Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Babancha nakkal kartoy. Ya vedyaacha naav aahe Madhusudan Rao Naidu. Tyaa vedyaala konihi ya vishyat madat karna he khup motha anyaaya ani Asathya-Adharma karma aahe.
Santanchi bhoomi Maharashtraath ek ne ek divas Madhusudan Rao Naiducha vedapanacha khulasa honaar. Mhanun Maharashtrache Mukhyamantri Madhusudan Rao Naiducha Sathya Sai Babancha nakkal karnyavar vishwas karna, mala vattha ki uchit nahi aahe.
[English translation of above:] Maharashtra (state in which Mumbai lies) is the land of saints. This is the land of Saint Jnaneswar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnyaneshwar), Saint Namdev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdev), Saint Eknath (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eknath) and Saint Tukaram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tukaram). It is the land of Shirdi Sai Baba. In this land, one madman is mimicking Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. This madman's name is Madhusudan Rao Naidu. Aiding this madman in this matter is great injustice and Asathya-Adharma (untruthful and unethical) work.
In the land of saints that Maharashtra is, one day or the other, Madhusudan Rao Naidu's madness will get exposed. Therefore I think that the chief minister of Maharashtra having belief in the mimicry of Madhusudan Rao Naidu (mimicking Sathya Sai Baba) is not appropriate/wise.
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Perhaps, Hon'ble CM Fadnavis sir, in future, you may condider supporting their hospital work but without making any reference to Madhusudan Rao Naidu or paying any importance to speeches of Madhusudan Rao Naidu.
If you, sir, have any queries of me, you (or your staff) may please feel free to mail me or even call me on the phone. I would be glad to provide you truthful information that will help you see through the false claims of Madhusudan Rao Naidu.
Thanks & Regards
Ravi S. Iyer
Social media writer on spirituality, religion and miscellaneous topics
Retired international software consultant
Address:
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Telephone Numbers:
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Spiritual/Religious Websites/Blogs
* About Sri Sathya Sai Baba and more: ravisiyer.blogspot.com
* God & science conversation and a little more: iami1.wordpress.com/god-and-science-toc
Software Websites/Blogs
* Indian CS & IT Academic Reform Activism: eklavyasai.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html
* Course material related to computer programming (software lab.) courses: raviiyerteaches.wordpress.com
Misc. Topics Blogs
* ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/
* ravisiyer.wordpress.com/category/misc/
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Hon'ble Chief Minster of Maharashatra, Shri Devendra Fadnavis
chiefminister@maharashtra.gov.in
[Also as blog and Facebook post links in message on https://cmo.maharashtra.gov.in/contactus ]
Namaskar Saheb, Dear sir,
I am a grateful son of Mumbai and surrounding regions (Mumbai Metropolitan Region), and Maharashtra and so I am writing this Open Letter to you as a matter of duty to Mumbai Metropolitan Region and Maharashtra. It is in Mumbai Metropolitan Region that I was born, educated, earned a living as software development professional, fulfilled my family obligations and saved money for early retirement. I lived there for most of the first forty years of my life before I moved to Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh in October 2002 as a retired-from-commercial-work spiritual aspirant. I have lived in Puttaparthi now for over 15 years.
Puttaparthi, as you may know sir, is the abode of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
In November of 2017, you sir along with Shri Sachin Tendulkar were the honoured guests for a Bhoomi Puja event of a free service hospital in Navi Mumbai by Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Center group. Here is the youtube video of that event: Bhoomi Pooja of Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Center for Child Heart Care - Live from Mumbai, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqp1bcldwU, dated 26th Nov. 2017.
At that event, you, sir, shared the stage with a Madhusudan Rao Naidu and even made a reference to him during your speech.
What you perhaps may not know, sir, is that the claims made by Madhusudan Rao Naidu with respect to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba are false. Madhusudan claims to be a so called chosen communicator of a so called subtle body of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, which, for all practical purposes at least, is visible only to Madhusudan and communicates only with Madhusudan. These claims of his have been examined in depth and compared with teachings, instructions and discourses of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, by some of us Sathya Sai devotees including me. Such examination has led us to the conclusion that Madhusudan's claim is false, and that Madhusudan is diluting and distorting the legacy and memories of our beloved and revered Gurudev Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
Very unfortunately, two top cricket stars of Mumbai and India, Mr. Sunil Gavaskar and Mr. Sachin Tendulkar, both of whom have had many interactions with physical form Sathya Sai, seem to believe Madhusudan's claims. However, their expertise is in cricket and not in Sathya Sai teachings and instructions, and not in spirituality in general. Therefore, after the physical body passing away of Sathya Sai in April 2011, they have fallen prey to Madhusudan and a Mr. B.N. Narasimhamurthy and have been led astray by them.
I earnestly request you, sir, not to fall prey to the false claims of Madhusudan Rao Naidu and Mr. B.N. Narasimhamurthy with respect to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. In particular, please do not accept Madhusudan's claim that he is speaking the words of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Madhusudan is speaking either his own words OR is communicating the words of some unholy spirit that is masquerading as Sathya Sai Baba.
Now I should mention that I have no objection to the social service activities done by Mr. C. Srinivas' hospitals including this hospital in Navi Mumbai whose Bhumi Puja event you, sir, had attended and which is expected to be opened in November this year. I have publicly written about my appreciation for their social service work done free of charge for the poor of the country. There is a problem of these activities being used to promote the false claim of Madhusudan Naidu. But I don't want to be too rigid on this matter and so am not complaining much about that aspect.
I think it is natural that Maharashtra government should extend its support for such free service done in the state of Maharashtra. So I have no issue whatsoever on that front.
But you, sir, as Chief Minister of Maharashtra should NOT get trapped by false claim of Madhusudan Naidu with respect to (wrt) Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. That, I think, would be a great tragedy for the state of Maharashtra as you are its leader.
In my considered view, my beloved and revered Gurudev Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, was far more than a charitable organization founder. He primarily was a spiritual teacher who taught that Manav Seva is Madhav Seva. He showed how service to society can be done in a spiritual environment so that not only service is rendered to those in need, but one evolves spiritually.
One of the key spiritual and human values taught by Sathya Sai was Sathya! In fact, it is part of his very name! Our beloved nation too has the motto Satyameva Jayate (Truth alone prevails). Madhusudan Rao Naidu and his primary promoter and endorser, Mr. B.N. Narasimhamurthy have moved away from Sathya and are indulging in Asathya when they claim that Madhusudan is speaking the words of Sathya Sai.
I felt it my duty as a concerned and grateful son of Maharashtra to warn you, sir, about this matter wrt Madhusudan Rao Naidu and Mr. B.N. Narasimhamurthy.
[Some Marathi words (please excuse any mistakes as I am out of touch with Marathi):] Maharashtra hi santanchi bhoomi aahe. Hi bhoomi Jnaneshwar Maharaj, Namdev Maharaj, Eknath Maharaj ani Tukaram Maharajanchi bhoomi aahe. Shirdi Sai Baba Maharajanchi bhoomi aahe. Ya bhoomith ek veda manus Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Babancha nakkal kartoy. Ya vedyaacha naav aahe Madhusudan Rao Naidu. Tyaa vedyaala konihi ya vishyat madat karna he khup motha anyaaya ani Asathya-Adharma karma aahe.
Santanchi bhoomi Maharashtraath ek ne ek divas Madhusudan Rao Naiducha vedapanacha khulasa honaar. Mhanun Maharashtrache Mukhyamantri Madhusudan Rao Naiducha Sathya Sai Babancha nakkal karnyavar vishwas karna, mala vattha ki uchit nahi aahe.
[English translation of above:] Maharashtra (state in which Mumbai lies) is the land of saints. This is the land of Saint Jnaneswar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnyaneshwar), Saint Namdev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdev), Saint Eknath (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eknath) and Saint Tukaram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tukaram). It is the land of Shirdi Sai Baba. In this land, one madman is mimicking Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. This madman's name is Madhusudan Rao Naidu. Aiding this madman in this matter is great injustice and Asathya-Adharma (untruthful and unethical) work.
In the land of saints that Maharashtra is, one day or the other, Madhusudan Rao Naidu's madness will get exposed. Therefore I think that the chief minister of Maharashtra having belief in the mimicry of Madhusudan Rao Naidu (mimicking Sathya Sai Baba) is not appropriate/wise.
--- end English translation ---
Perhaps, Hon'ble CM Fadnavis sir, in future, you may condider supporting their hospital work but without making any reference to Madhusudan Rao Naidu or paying any importance to speeches of Madhusudan Rao Naidu.
If you, sir, have any queries of me, you (or your staff) may please feel free to mail me or even call me on the phone. I would be glad to provide you truthful information that will help you see through the false claims of Madhusudan Rao Naidu.
Thanks & Regards
Ravi S. Iyer
Social media writer on spirituality, religion and miscellaneous topics
Retired international software consultant
Address:
--snip--
Telephone Numbers:
--snip--
Spiritual/Religious Websites/Blogs
* About Sri Sathya Sai Baba and more: ravisiyer.blogspot.com
* God & science conversation and a little more: iami1.wordpress.com/god-and-science-toc
Software Websites/Blogs
* Indian CS & IT Academic Reform Activism: eklavyasai.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html
* Course material related to computer programming (software lab.) courses: raviiyerteaches.wordpress.com
Misc. Topics Blogs
* ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/
* ravisiyer.wordpress.com/category/misc/
e-mail: ravi@raviiyer.org
Twitter: twitter.com/RaviSaiIyer
Google+: google.com/+RaviSIyerSai
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