I missed it! I think I thought he deserved it, because he was the Lord of the Universe. But the money is a small matter. How come I didn't notice that he wasn't the Lord of the Universe??I am reassured a little by those articles in the New Scientist about fundamentalists. The scientists couldn't find any real difference between the fundamentalists and everyone else, and concluded that anyone could become a fundamentalist if they fell in with the right group. The cult thing is just a group-think thing. Go off on your own (as I did) and the effect of the cult diminishes gradually. Remember the importance of satsang (the company of truth)? You become like the company you keep, therefore it was important to keep the company of premies. If only it had been the truth!
I was blind to the money, despite being around him at times, and me without two pennies to rub together. But I was blind to a lot more too...
So, Sai Baba's materializations! I know nothing about him, except I saw a documentary about him, and he produced a load of ash from a pot - more ash than would fit in the pot! A miracle! How I laughed! Of all the things you might produce by miraculous powers, surely ash must rank amongst the most useless!
