All the best to Muddenahalli group for birthday celebrations; Please don't accept Madhu's instructions as Sathya Sai Baba's instructions

There are many Sai devotees in the world who feel that Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba speaks to them. Rita Bruce of USA & Australia seems to be one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx5yb7fHbUY, I saw the first ten minutes or so of this around one hour video). She & her husband also have a website, http://www.love-in-human-nature.org/about.htm. She is the author of the books, Vision of Sai I and II.

Yaani Drucker of USA is another. Here's her website, http://www.notguiltybyyaani.com/.

I do not know whether these persons claim to act as communicators or mediums of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, thereby providing interviews and discourses in the name of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. I presume that they do NOT make such claims.

They might surely say that they are inspired by Sai and that they feel Sai within and even may say that they get instructions from Sai for their work. All that does NOT DIRECTLY CONTRADICT the teachings and instructions that Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba gave us in his physical form. So that's perfectly fine. Sai devotees and others (including me) can benefit from any inspired by Sai work that such persons share with the Sai fraternity and the world.

Now Sri Madhusudhan Rao Naidu (MN) also seems to have some strong spiritual inspiration. That part is great! Blessed are those who are CALLED to do such work. Spiritual leadership work is a DIVINE CALLING. One cannot be an inspiring spiritual leader by making a career choice like one chooses a worldly occupation (engineer, doctor, accountant etc.). So MN seems to me to be an inspired spiritual leader in his own right.

If MN had stopped at social service work & public speaking in his own name claiming inspiration from Sri Sathya Sai Baba (and even claiming that he receives Swami instructions for his public speaking and social service work) then it would have been fine. He could have formed his own trust/spiritual orgn., gathered donations and done a lot of service to society activities.

But by claiming to be able to see some so called subtle body of Swami for long periods of time, which others cannot see, and then giving interviews with that so called subtle body and even discourses of that so called subtle body, Sri Madhusudhan Naidu has got into actions that have been DIRECTLY CRITICIZED by Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba when he was in physical form, on so many occasions and in public discourses. [Bhagavan's public criticism was about others who claimed to be intermediaries between Bhagavan and his devotee. Clearly, by the above acts MN is acting as an intermediary (using the word communicator does not change the fact that he is acting as an intermediary) and so is doing actions which have been DIRECTLY CRITICIZED by Bhagavan.]

From reliable sources, I know of two cases, one where Sri Madhusudan Naidu gave instructions to a Sai devotee about which job to take and another where he chided a son for staying far away from his parents. Now if MN gave these instructions as his own instructions (even if he claimed that those instructions are inspired by Sai within), I think it would have been an ethical act. Over the ages, spiritual leaders claim to be inspired by Divinity in some form or formless spirit (e.g Holy Spirit in Christianity). So if MN had behaved in this fashion it would have been within the spiritual traditions over the ages and across various religions of the world.

But MN says that these are instructions from subtle body of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba which only he can see (but the devotee cannot)! This is where it gets into SERIOUS ABUSE of HOLY NAME of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba territory. Some innocent Sathya Sai devotees REALLY BELIEVE that these instructions are from some INVISIBLE-TO-THEM subtle body of Bhagavan. For those of us who have had decent level of experience of the physical form of Bhagavan, we place HUGE IMPORTANCE to instructions of Bhagavan. They are DIVINE ADVISE (many view it as DIVINE COMMAND) to be followed even if we do not understand the reasons.

So now those innocent Sathya Sai devotees who fall into the TRAP of believing that Sri Madhusudhan Rao Naidu is giving instructions of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, may treat those instructions as DIVINE ADVISE/DIVINE COMMAND! THAT IS THE POWER (CONTROL) THAT Sri Madhusudhan Rao Naidu is acquiring over those innocent Sai devotees who have got trapped into his so called communicator FALSE BELIEF. Can readers imagine how much damage can be caused to the lives of such innocent Sai devotees who have got trapped by this FALSE BELIEF? That is why I am making such a big fuss of this matter and recommending that a PIL be filed to stop Madhusudhan Rao Naidu from using HOLY NAME of Kali Yuga Avatar, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba for the above mentioned activities.

As far as I know, Ms. Rita Bruce and Ms. Yaani Drucker, and many others like them, do not do any of the above matters that I mentioned with regard to Sri Madhusudhan Rao Naidu. So I have no issues with what Ms. Rita Bruce or Ms. Yaani Drucker or others like them do and, I presume, that their spiritual leadership role may be helping many.

I suggest that Sri Madhusudhan Rao Naidu learn from other Sai spiritual leaders like Ms. Rita Bruce and Ms. Yaani Drucker and STOP this darshan, interviews and discourses of INVISIBLE so called subtle body.

I am given to understand that a lot of people from around the world are going to gather in Muddenahalli for Bhagavan's birthday celebrations. Wonderful! I wish them all the best. However, I do hope and pray that they do not consider any instructions given by Sri Madhusudhan Rao Naidu as instructions from Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. NO, they are NOT instructions of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Instead they are instructions from spiritual leader Sri Madhusudhan Rao Naidu who also may have some mind and memory reading powers which he uses to reveal private matters between devotees and physical form Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.