My view of how Prasanthi Nilayam system got severely and negatively impacted by Guru Drohi Narasimhamurthy
I would like to add my view of how Prasanthi Nilayam system got severely and negatively impacted by Guru Drohi Narasimhamurthy.
I am a former free service Sai university Prasanthi Nilayam campus faculty (designations of Honorary Staff, Honorary Faculty and Visiting Faculty) serving from Jan. 2003 to Mar. 2012 when I quit in disgust as traitor vice-chancellor Shashidhara Prasad had helped Guru Drohi (betrayer of Guru) Narasimhamurthy to HIJACK and effectively control the Sai university as the dream-instruction successor of Sathya Sai. These are my views mainly about that traumatic, chaotic and confusing period from after Mahasamadhi in end April 2011 to around mid 2012 at which time there was a raging power struggle in Prasanthi Nilayam system. I have also added some information about later periods. Note that I was part of the university then and so got a lot of information from university associated persons about what was going on then.
1. Narasimhamurthy used his status as long-time warden of Sai university and his reputation of celibacy and not having any significant financial corruption taint, at that time in 2011, to effectively proclaim himself as a dream-instruction successor of Sathya Sai starting from July 2011.
2. In the months following Swami Mahasamadhi in April 2011, many sections of the Indian media, especially some Indian language TV media channels, had spread vicious rumours about Prasanthi Nilayam which severely dented the fair name of Prasanthi Nilayam. There was talk of government taking over Prasanthi Nilayam!
3. The ****biggest**** traitor of Sai university was NOT Narasimhamurthy as Narasimhamurthy had stepped out of his warden of Sai university Brindavan campus position. Narasimhamurthy is the biggest traitor of the Sathya Sai movement and a traitor of Sai university too but not the biggest traitor of the Sai university, IMHO. The ****biggest**** traitor of the Sai university was then vice-chancellor Shashidhara Prasad. He lost confidence in the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust which was effectively paying all the salaries of paid staff of Sai university and meeting its other expenses, and turned against the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust (SSSCT). Note that Shashidhara Prasad was offering honorary services (no salary, I believe) with his room in PN ashram and vehicle expenses (as he would frequently visit Mysore) being provided by SSSCT, I believe.
The ethical thing for Shashidhara Prasad to have done was to have quit his vice-chancellor position if he had lost confidence in the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust. He could have joined Narasimhamurthy openly then itself (around July 2011). Then I would not have labelled him as a traitor and as the ****biggest**** traitor of Sai university. I would have respected him for such an ethical resignation irrespective of whether his loss of confidence then in SSSCT was justified or not.
But he did NOT do that. Instead he sat in the very powerful chair of vice-chancellor of Sai university and started taking instructions from Narasimhamurthy viewing Narasimhamurthy as successor to Sathya Sai!!! Shashidhara Prasad even tried to convert some young faculty of Sai university to viewing Narasimhamurthy in this fashion. One such young faculty told me himself in, if I recall correctly, the second half of 2011, that Shashidhara Prasad was trying to convince him to view Narasimhamurthy as Moses (of the Old Testament of Christian and Jewish faith) who will now lead the Sathya Sai movement!
Shashidhara Prasad used traitor-collaborators in the Sai university to target Prof Anilkumar Kamaraju who had the guts to oppose Narasimhamurthy's dream-instruction successor claims by counselling foreign devotees and donors to NOT accept Narasimhamurthy's claims. Under some university discipline pretext, the traitor Shashidhara Prasad and traitor-collaborators in the Sai university, successfully harassed and then eventually forced out Anilkumar sir from Sai university sometime in mid-2012. Nobody in Sai university had the guts to support Anilkumar sir as if they had done so, they themselves would have been thrown out of Sai university. This was the ****utterly pathetic**** state of affairs in Sai university in that crucial power struggle period of July 2011 to mid 2012. That power struggle battle was completely won by the Guru Drohi Narasimhamurthy and the traitor vice-chancellor Shashidhara Prasad. Sai university had come under effective control of these two traitors.
SSSCT was a ***mute and helpless*** witness to this HIJACK of the Sai university. Why did SSSCT not dismiss the traitor vice-chancellor (VC) Shashidhara Prasad in 2011 itself as he rebelled against SSSCT and supported Narasimhamurthy's dream-instruction successor claim? That is what deeply troubled many of us then. [As far as I know, till now, SSSCT has NOT publicly said one word against the traitor vice-chancellor Shashidhara Prasad, while they have publicly condemned Narasimhamurthy.]
Perhaps SSSCT was going through intense trauma then with the Andhra Pradesh government and Indian media breathing down their necks. The seniormost (Bhishma Pitamaha) functionary of Sathya Sai movement - Shri Indulal Shah - who was a trustee of SSSCT himself, supported Narasimhamurthy! So there was division within SSSCT itself on Narasimhamurthy!
I was also told that Shashidhara Prasad had threatened SSSCT that if SSSCT removes him from VC position then he would go to the media and attack SSSCT through the media. Perhaps SSSCT which was already reeling under a really horrific Indian media assault on Prasanthi Nilayam, did not want to add fuel to the media fire against them then. They perhaps decided to ride out this period hoping that Bhagavan would enlighten Shashidhara Prasad and that he would come out of the bad spell that Narasimhamurthy had cast on him.
After having heard and seen enough I decided to terminate my association with Sai university in March 2012 with the termination process taking up to end May 2012 as I tried to deliver a kick in the pants to the Sai university traitors and traitor-collaborators, by cornering them on a big mistake they had done about my designation. My final letter to Sai university traitors and traitor-collaborators advised them to follow the path of Sathya & Dharma. It did not bring any change in them, as far as I can see, but I had done whatever I could to tell them to mend their Asathya-Adharma ways.
Traitor VC Shashidhara Prasad stayed on as VC of Sai university till Nov. 2014.
4. Sai university coming under the control of Narasimhamurthy and Shashidhara Prasad was ****vital**** in the powerful Sai university and school alumni network coming under Narasimhamurthy's sway. Without the Sai educational system alumni network Muddenahalli group would have been a minor NGO. But, very very unfortunately, the Sai university and school alumni network lent huge support to Muddenahalli group. Many paid alumni-staff in Prasanthi Nilayam system itself who were being paid by Prasanthi Nilayam system supported Narasimhamurthy and perhaps viewed him as the Moses saviour of Sathya Sai movement! What an extraordinarily weird situation it was then!
5. From around July 2011 till mid 2014, Narasimhamurthy and Muddenahalli group were completely dominating SSSCT even in Prasanthi Nilayam system. As far as I can recall, SSSCT did not publicly say even one word against Narasimhamurthy in this period.
6. It was after Madhusudan Rao Naidu in May 2014 got publicly promoted as so called communicator of so called subtle body of Sathya Sai in Muddenahalli (FALSE CLAIM) that SSSCT slowly started to react. I think the first public condemnation of Narasimhamurthy by SSSCT was by the Late V. Srinivasan, Trustee SSSCT and All India President of Sathya Sai Orgn, in a speech in Kulwant Hall sometime around Nov. 2014.
7. It took till mid 2016 for Prasanthi Nilayam system to reassert its control over its paid and honorary staff as 5 teachers from PN Sai Higher Secondary School and 1 faculty from Sai university Prasanthi Nilayam campus were thrown out of the school and university respectively, for having visited Muddenahalli group and expressed support for them.
8. Today in Aug. 2018, I think SSSCT is fully in control of paid and honorary staff working in SSSCT systems including Sai university. The impression I get is that now any staff who associates with Muddenahalli group is thrown out as soon as that information is known to PN top administrators. That is a very satisfactory state of affairs for people like me who had to go through the trauma of the Guru Drohi Narasimhamurthy and traitor VC Shashidhara Prasad HIJACKING Sai university with the support of some traitor-collaborators of Sai university, and with SSSCT then being a helpless witness to this HIJACK.
Hope my above points contribute to the understanding of readers about this crucial history of immediate post-Mahasamadhi Sathya Sai movement.
I am a former free service Sai university Prasanthi Nilayam campus faculty (designations of Honorary Staff, Honorary Faculty and Visiting Faculty) serving from Jan. 2003 to Mar. 2012 when I quit in disgust as traitor vice-chancellor Shashidhara Prasad had helped Guru Drohi (betrayer of Guru) Narasimhamurthy to HIJACK and effectively control the Sai university as the dream-instruction successor of Sathya Sai. These are my views mainly about that traumatic, chaotic and confusing period from after Mahasamadhi in end April 2011 to around mid 2012 at which time there was a raging power struggle in Prasanthi Nilayam system. I have also added some information about later periods. Note that I was part of the university then and so got a lot of information from university associated persons about what was going on then.
1. Narasimhamurthy used his status as long-time warden of Sai university and his reputation of celibacy and not having any significant financial corruption taint, at that time in 2011, to effectively proclaim himself as a dream-instruction successor of Sathya Sai starting from July 2011.
2. In the months following Swami Mahasamadhi in April 2011, many sections of the Indian media, especially some Indian language TV media channels, had spread vicious rumours about Prasanthi Nilayam which severely dented the fair name of Prasanthi Nilayam. There was talk of government taking over Prasanthi Nilayam!
3. The ****biggest**** traitor of Sai university was NOT Narasimhamurthy as Narasimhamurthy had stepped out of his warden of Sai university Brindavan campus position. Narasimhamurthy is the biggest traitor of the Sathya Sai movement and a traitor of Sai university too but not the biggest traitor of the Sai university, IMHO. The ****biggest**** traitor of the Sai university was then vice-chancellor Shashidhara Prasad. He lost confidence in the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust which was effectively paying all the salaries of paid staff of Sai university and meeting its other expenses, and turned against the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust (SSSCT). Note that Shashidhara Prasad was offering honorary services (no salary, I believe) with his room in PN ashram and vehicle expenses (as he would frequently visit Mysore) being provided by SSSCT, I believe.
The ethical thing for Shashidhara Prasad to have done was to have quit his vice-chancellor position if he had lost confidence in the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust. He could have joined Narasimhamurthy openly then itself (around July 2011). Then I would not have labelled him as a traitor and as the ****biggest**** traitor of Sai university. I would have respected him for such an ethical resignation irrespective of whether his loss of confidence then in SSSCT was justified or not.
But he did NOT do that. Instead he sat in the very powerful chair of vice-chancellor of Sai university and started taking instructions from Narasimhamurthy viewing Narasimhamurthy as successor to Sathya Sai!!! Shashidhara Prasad even tried to convert some young faculty of Sai university to viewing Narasimhamurthy in this fashion. One such young faculty told me himself in, if I recall correctly, the second half of 2011, that Shashidhara Prasad was trying to convince him to view Narasimhamurthy as Moses (of the Old Testament of Christian and Jewish faith) who will now lead the Sathya Sai movement!
Shashidhara Prasad used traitor-collaborators in the Sai university to target Prof Anilkumar Kamaraju who had the guts to oppose Narasimhamurthy's dream-instruction successor claims by counselling foreign devotees and donors to NOT accept Narasimhamurthy's claims. Under some university discipline pretext, the traitor Shashidhara Prasad and traitor-collaborators in the Sai university, successfully harassed and then eventually forced out Anilkumar sir from Sai university sometime in mid-2012. Nobody in Sai university had the guts to support Anilkumar sir as if they had done so, they themselves would have been thrown out of Sai university. This was the ****utterly pathetic**** state of affairs in Sai university in that crucial power struggle period of July 2011 to mid 2012. That power struggle battle was completely won by the Guru Drohi Narasimhamurthy and the traitor vice-chancellor Shashidhara Prasad. Sai university had come under effective control of these two traitors.
SSSCT was a ***mute and helpless*** witness to this HIJACK of the Sai university. Why did SSSCT not dismiss the traitor vice-chancellor (VC) Shashidhara Prasad in 2011 itself as he rebelled against SSSCT and supported Narasimhamurthy's dream-instruction successor claim? That is what deeply troubled many of us then. [As far as I know, till now, SSSCT has NOT publicly said one word against the traitor vice-chancellor Shashidhara Prasad, while they have publicly condemned Narasimhamurthy.]
Perhaps SSSCT was going through intense trauma then with the Andhra Pradesh government and Indian media breathing down their necks. The seniormost (Bhishma Pitamaha) functionary of Sathya Sai movement - Shri Indulal Shah - who was a trustee of SSSCT himself, supported Narasimhamurthy! So there was division within SSSCT itself on Narasimhamurthy!
I was also told that Shashidhara Prasad had threatened SSSCT that if SSSCT removes him from VC position then he would go to the media and attack SSSCT through the media. Perhaps SSSCT which was already reeling under a really horrific Indian media assault on Prasanthi Nilayam, did not want to add fuel to the media fire against them then. They perhaps decided to ride out this period hoping that Bhagavan would enlighten Shashidhara Prasad and that he would come out of the bad spell that Narasimhamurthy had cast on him.
After having heard and seen enough I decided to terminate my association with Sai university in March 2012 with the termination process taking up to end May 2012 as I tried to deliver a kick in the pants to the Sai university traitors and traitor-collaborators, by cornering them on a big mistake they had done about my designation. My final letter to Sai university traitors and traitor-collaborators advised them to follow the path of Sathya & Dharma. It did not bring any change in them, as far as I can see, but I had done whatever I could to tell them to mend their Asathya-Adharma ways.
Traitor VC Shashidhara Prasad stayed on as VC of Sai university till Nov. 2014.
4. Sai university coming under the control of Narasimhamurthy and Shashidhara Prasad was ****vital**** in the powerful Sai university and school alumni network coming under Narasimhamurthy's sway. Without the Sai educational system alumni network Muddenahalli group would have been a minor NGO. But, very very unfortunately, the Sai university and school alumni network lent huge support to Muddenahalli group. Many paid alumni-staff in Prasanthi Nilayam system itself who were being paid by Prasanthi Nilayam system supported Narasimhamurthy and perhaps viewed him as the Moses saviour of Sathya Sai movement! What an extraordinarily weird situation it was then!
5. From around July 2011 till mid 2014, Narasimhamurthy and Muddenahalli group were completely dominating SSSCT even in Prasanthi Nilayam system. As far as I can recall, SSSCT did not publicly say even one word against Narasimhamurthy in this period.
6. It was after Madhusudan Rao Naidu in May 2014 got publicly promoted as so called communicator of so called subtle body of Sathya Sai in Muddenahalli (FALSE CLAIM) that SSSCT slowly started to react. I think the first public condemnation of Narasimhamurthy by SSSCT was by the Late V. Srinivasan, Trustee SSSCT and All India President of Sathya Sai Orgn, in a speech in Kulwant Hall sometime around Nov. 2014.
7. It took till mid 2016 for Prasanthi Nilayam system to reassert its control over its paid and honorary staff as 5 teachers from PN Sai Higher Secondary School and 1 faculty from Sai university Prasanthi Nilayam campus were thrown out of the school and university respectively, for having visited Muddenahalli group and expressed support for them.
8. Today in Aug. 2018, I think SSSCT is fully in control of paid and honorary staff working in SSSCT systems including Sai university. The impression I get is that now any staff who associates with Muddenahalli group is thrown out as soon as that information is known to PN top administrators. That is a very satisfactory state of affairs for people like me who had to go through the trauma of the Guru Drohi Narasimhamurthy and traitor VC Shashidhara Prasad HIJACKING Sai university with the support of some traitor-collaborators of Sai university, and with SSSCT then being a helpless witness to this HIJACK.
Hope my above points contribute to the understanding of readers about this crucial history of immediate post-Mahasamadhi Sathya Sai movement.
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Retired international software consultant
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