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Imitation is human

Madhusudan Naidu is an accomplished actor

Fellow students and staff report that Madhusudan Naidu, as a college student, was known as an accomplished actor and his speciality was imitating Swami's behaviour and voice.
Madhusudan started his talk on October 20 2015 with a poem, as Sri Sathya Sai Baba used to do:

I am not a man. I am not an angel. I am not a Demi-God. I am not a Brahmana, Kshatriya or Vaishnavite. I am not a Brahmachari. I am not a Grihastha or a hermit. I am truly a teacher of Eternal Truth, an embodiment of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

This is not an original poem like the ones Sri Sathya Sai Baba used to sing spontaneously at the start of His discourses. In fact, this is simply a quote Madhusudan has repeated from a discourse that Sri Sathya Sai Baba gave on 6 March 1970:

I AM neither man nor God nor an aerial spirit; I am neither a Brahmin, nor a Kshathriya, nor a Vaishya, nor a Suudhra; I cannot be described as Brahmachaari or a house-holder, or a recluse or a monk; describe me as a Teacher of Truth, as Sathyam (Truth), Shivam (Goodness) and Sundharam (Beauty).

SSS 10.7: March 6, 1970, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume10/sss10-07.pdf
This form of imitation is not a new phenomenon. There have always been those who attempt to imitate Avatars. This also happened when Shirdi Sai Baba was alive:

When the Almighty Sri Sai Baba was in flesh and blood, there were other Sai Babas. One Sai Baba was in Kopargaon, called as Kopargaon Sai Baba; One Sai Baba was in Bandra called as Bandra Sai Baba; One Sai Baba in Nagpur called as Nagpur Sai Baba. They were all telling to the devotees that they were Sri Sai Baba and thereby making their own ends to meet.

Ambrosia in Shirdi, p.174, http://forum.spiritualindia.org/your-experience-with-sai-baba/ambrosia-in-shirdi-part-1-baba%27s-leelas-before1918/90/
Sathya Sai Baba spoke about the kind of person who imitates His voice, dress or behaviour:

In this Kali Yuga, also such imitations are cropping up just as Paundraka shaped himself into a Vasudeva (Krishna). We have today even Sathya Sai Babas… they study photographs and hold their hands up very nearly like I do and make themselves ridiculous by frantic attempts to imitate Me. They forget that imitation is only human; but, Creation is Divine.

Those who attempt to become Sathya Sai Babas by this ludicrous process of imitation only destroy whatever faith some people have placed in the Divine. They are poisonous pests which injure the peace and harmony of society. They collect around themselves insects of like nature. For only birds of the same feather can flock together. These 'pretenders' fall into ruin themselves and bring ruin on the society where they operate, as the proverbial horde of monkeys that ruin themselves and bring ruin on the forest which they inhabit.

SSS 12.2: January 14, 1973, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume12/sss12-02.pdf

Now, there are bhaktas by the million! They are increasing daily in number. And you might have noticed, Sai Babas too have become very large in number! Also, people claiming association with Me, claiming that I have blessed them more plentifully than others, and authorised them to go about the bhaktas and gain importance or funds or donations! Real devotees will never announce such absurd claims or listen to such claims made by others.

SSS 12.33: April 1, 1974, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume12/sss12-33.pdf

If somebody says Sai Baba's powers have been given to him, then we run to him. Sai Baba's powers are such that they are not given to anybody else. Nobody has the ability to take powers from Sai Baba, nor the ability to give them to someone else. Sai Baba's powers are not given like that, and you should not be led away by such statements. Each one's power is within him; it is not possible to give such power to another person. In this manner, by allowing a weak mind to get control over us, if we begin running from place to place, where are we going to get strength of mind, and control our own mind? We must be able to follow one thought, one path. One does not have to search for spiritual power, going around the world and spending a lot of money.

SSS 13.6: March 28, 1975, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume13/sss13-06.pdf

In Penukonda, another person started claiming miraculous powers, saying that he was a devotee of Sai Baba. Several others started imitating My dress and manners, started going about trying to collect a following at different places. Merely assuming My name and manners, one cannot have a following indefinitely. People realised the truth very soon.

SSS 36.20: November 23, 2003, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume36/sss36-20.pdf
Madhusudan's supporters have also now released two volumes of speeches by him, under the name 'Sri Sathya Sai Uvacha'. This Sanskrit title simply means 'Sri Sathya Sai Speaks', in imitation of the published volumes of Swami's discourses which are titled ‘Sathya Sai Speaks’.
Mr B Narasimhamurthy also says that he is going to write his own biography of Swami, called 'Sathyam Shivam Sundaram Anandam'. This is also in imitation of Swami's official biography which is titled 'Sathya Sivam Sundaram':

I am going to write a comprehensive Biography of Swami covering His life from birth to the end of His physical sojourn. That book which is in the womb of time will be called ‘Sathyam Shivam Sundaram Anandam’.

Mr B Narasimhamurthy quoted on https://lovein.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/saianandam/
What did Swami say about this kind of imitation?

We should realise that “Imitation is human while creation is divine.” Merely imitating what you see in the world around you is purely human and there is no divine aspect in it at all.

SSIB 1974 pt1.14: http://www.sssbpt.info/summershowers/ss1974/ss1974part1-14.pdf