Dear Devotees,

My good friends - or some of them - in the Sai movement have expressed the opinion that the present time is really the dividing of the ways, "the sifting of the chaff from the grain", or what the Bible might call the dividing of the sheep from the goats. Whichever the way we see it this is a difficult time for some people, especially for those followers of Sai Baba who are fairly new.

Many of you will have read some of my books, so you know perhaps that I am probably the first from the Western world to come to Sathya Sai Baba.I came as a Western sceptic and stayed with Him, or near Him, for some six years, trying to solve the problem of His identity and why He is here in the world.

I returned to the West, but I have been back many times, pulled by the strong magnet that the Avatar is.