RESIDENT FROM MUNICH RAN
AWAY FROM INDIA -
GURU ALL OF A SUDDEN WANTS SEX
By Wolfgang Ranft
MUNICH - Jens Sethi was young, naive, full of religious expectations. In 1988
this resident from Munich who worked that time in a printing office travelled to
India the land of the Hindu Gurus. The 24-year-old man was looking for new
spiritual fulfillment.
He found, what he was looking for. Sethi succumbed to the fascination of a Guru
who was already 62-years old that time: Sathya Sai Baba.
"I was totally fascinated by the Aura of Sai Baba", he says today.
"I surrendered in a way that I was mainly concentrating on him."
Every year he travelled together with his wife for four or six weeks to the
Ashram of Sai Baba. During the festival time more than 20 000 devotees gather
there.
The fascination remained for Sethi just an external moment as he never could
approach the Guru during the first years.
This happened only in October 1996 when Sethi finally decided to go to India
where he settled down in Puttaparthi close to the Ashram. During the daily
pilgrim-meeting he was called for an interview by the Guru, the utmost a
pilgrim can expect within the Ashram.
Sethi enjoyed his good luck. He, one of those rare devotees, who has been
personally selected by the Guru.
But the conversation took a different course than he expected. Sethi appeared
together with his wife. The Guru was outraged and has sent the woman away.
Alone in the room the old man started to kiss the man from Munich, stroke him
and went into the trousers.
Shocked but still full of faith and naivety Sethi accepted two other meetings
some month later. Again the Guru kissed him and finally touched his genitals.
Only then the young man ran away back to Germany. It took him three years to
overcome the crisis and to separate himself mentally from his spiritual guide.
During that time he did investigations in the internet and came to know about
other young men from UK, Sweden, USA who underwent a fate of similar
experiences.
Only this summer he did the final step to escape from the spell under the Guru:
He brought a charge against Sathya Sai Baba at the public prosecutorīs office
in Munich - because of sexual molestation.