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Swami's advice regarding intermediaries

Sathya Sai Baba spoke in detail about the claims of those who profess divine mediumship of any form. In Conversations with Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba by Dr John Hislop, a devotee asked about being an intermediary for Swami:

A Visitor: I look at Swami's photograph on my desk at home in my country. And I receive Swami's instructions. He ordered me to come to India for this Conference.

Sai: You think of Sai and get some feeling.

Visitor: I look at Swami's photograph and send Him questions and problems from other people, and I receive His orders and instructions for those people. Is that all right?

Sai: No. It is not all right. For yourself you may ask. But you should not think of placing yourself between a devotee and Sai. That is a wrong idea.

CWBSSSB, pp.81-82 or http://media.radiosai.org/journals/Vol_04/01APR06/conversation.htm
In the early days of His Mission, Swami warned us:

Some others are swept off their feet by hysterical demonstrations by certain weak minded individuals who are described as My speaking through them or acting through them! Take it from Me, I am not given to such absurdities! I do not use others as My media; I have no need to. I do not swing from side to side and prattle! Why, even those who torture their bodies and suffer the pains of asceticism for years until ant hills overwhelm them and they become as stiff as tree-stumps find it difficult to realise the Lord. How then can these idlers, who eat their fill and wander about as slaves of their senses, earn that status so cheaply? Their gestures, words, and actions are hollow and vain; those who burn incense before them and revere them are turning away from Me and running after falsehood.

How can the Full ever dally with the paltry and wear the habiliment of the trifling? When God has come assuming form, take it from Me, it will not fill inferior vessels or embellish tawdry stuff or enter impure bodies. So do not extol these falsities and ruin those unfortunates. Deal with them severely, and they will be cured. Those who have seen the brilliance of the diamond will not be misled by glass trinkets. The Lord is like the diamond, call it by any name. But a trinket cannot be turned into a diamond, however loud the praise and however adamant the claim.

SSS 2.31: March 4, 1962, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume02/sss02-31.pdf

Then, there are some who proclaim that I am "coming upon someone" and speaking through them! They pretend to be My mouthpieces and communicate to others My advice and My suggestions, as if I have 'authorised' them or as if I am Myself telling so through them. Now hear this. I never speak through another; I never possess another or use another as a vehicle of expression. I come direct, I come straight, I come as I am, to confer peace and joy.

SSS 5.18: March 27, 1965, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume05/sss05-18.pdf
Howard Murphet also recalls a warning sent out in Sanathana Sarathi in the 1960s about this kind of claim:

…a notice appeared in the ashram magazine, under the direction of Baba. The notice said: "Some persons misuse the name of Baba, and announce that Baba is in communication with them, giving them messages, answering questions and granting interviews, their object being to earn money or fame." The notice goes on to say that such phenomena have to be explained either as the manifestation of spirits or as sheer fakes by cranks or crooks: "It is the duty of devotees to stop all such trickery by wise counsel and firm denial."

Sai Baba Man of Miracles, pp147-148: http://www.saicenter.us/books/Sathya_Sai_Books1/Sai%20Baba%20Man%20of%20Miracles.pdf
In 2002, Swami further warned us:

There are some people who are doing business in the Name of Sai. They are cheating others, pretending to be devotees of Sai. I do not approve of such behaviour. They are not devotees at all. They are going to different parts of the country and also abroad to make money in the name of Sai. It is a big crime. I do not ask for even a single paisa from others. I never approve of such business. Whoever it may be, if somebody approaches you with such a crass motive, tell him to get out at once. Do not allow business to enter the field of spirituality.

Swami never solicits donations from anybody, nor does He have agents for propagating His Message. I do not have any association whatsoever with these deceitful persons.

SSS 35.11: 22 July, 2002, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume35/sss35-11.pdf

SUMMARY 1. Madhusudan Naidu claims that Sathya Sai Baba is now in a subtle or light body, referred to as Sukshma Baba, which communicates through him alone and is visible only to him and a few select supporters. 2. Sathya Sai Baba told us that the subtle body, which is composed primarily of mind, disintegrates upon death and that the "I" or True Self, which is Swami, has no such bondage. 3. Madhusudan's supporters claim Madhusudan Naidu is not a medium but a 'communicator' because Madhusudan Naidu claims that he sees and hears Sathya Sai Baba in a 'subtle body' and communicates to devotees what Swami is saying and doing. This is a classic description of a mental medium. 4. Sathya Sai Baba repeatedly warned us, "I do not need media; nor do I need substitutes or subsidiaries or representatives" (SSS 10.35) and "You should not think of placing yourself between a devotee and Sai. That is a wrong idea" (CWBSSSB, pp.81-82). 5. Sri Sathya Sai Baba emphatically stated, "Now hear this. I never speak through another; I never possess another or use another as a vehicle of expression. I come direct, I come straight, I come as I am, to confer peace and joy" (SSS 5:18). "Some persons misuse the name of Baba, and announce that Baba is in communication with them, giving them messages, answering questions and granting interviews". (Man of Miracles pp 147-148). 6. Mr B Narasimhamurthy claims Sri Sathya Sai Baba has given him messages in his dreams for himself and for devotees all over the world. 7. Sri Sathya Sai Baba says that when He appears in a dream it is to communicate something to the individual. (Sathyam Sivam Sundaram- Pt 4 Page 100). 8. Mr B Narasimhamurthy wrote that he once declined to take a message from a devotee to Baba because Swami does not like any intermediaries between Him and His devotee. Mr Narasimhamurthy now leads a group who claim that Sri Sathya Sai Baba is communicating via a former student. 9 Sri Sathya Sai Baba warned that it is a wrong idea to put yourself between Swami and His devotees. (CWBSSSB, pp.81-82). He said "I do not use others as My media; I have no need to". (SSS 2.31). QUESTIONS 1. Why would Sathya Sai Baba, the Avatar of Truth, change His mind after His Mahasamadhi and start speaking through an intermediary, thus making His previous words false? 2. What motivation would Madhusudan Naidu have for claiming that Swami is speaking through him?