The major facts in the BBC documentary 'The Secret Swami' cannot be seriously refuted:-

1) Devotee Tigrett condoned sexual abuse – even murder – by his guru  
In The Times (of London) Andrew Billen wrote: “One of the richest supporters of the Indian guru Sai Baba - no less than Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe - told his interviewer that he was perfectly willing to believe that Baba was simultaneously a) quite likely a paedophile and b) God incarnate.” (See transcript and/or video clip)

2) Fake materializations
No one can deny that Sathya Sai Baba claimed that he had collapsed when supposedly ‘regurgitating’ a golden egg-shaped lingam because it weighed three tons, because this statement was filmed with the immediate direct translation! This alone should be enough to condemn him as a major charlatan, quite apart from the fact that the lingam is unseen not to emerge from his mouth but from a towel he was holding! (See video clip)

Andrew Billen of The Times also wrote: “Producing necklaces and rings from thin air may seem small beer to us, but then we have watched Derren Brown. And there is no doubting Baba's miraculous ability to raise money to pump fresh water to remote villages in Andhra Pradesh and to build a new, free hospital designed by one of Prince Charles's favourite architects, Keith Critchlow (worryingly, given his proximity to the Crown).”

3) Sexual abuses by Sathya Sai Baba alleged: Tom Adair in The Scotsman wrote: “The programme gathered American former devotees who claimed that Sai Baba had abused them, had exposed himself to them, indulged in oral sex and then sworn them to secrecy. This sexual degradation had shaken their faith. These victims included a father and a son who were alleged to have been abused over many years. It was implied that many Indian boys had also been taken advantage of but were too scared to make public statements.”

Karl French of the Financial Times wrote: “Sai Baba is allegedly given to subjecting some of his young male acolytes to a "ritual healing process" in which he rubs oil into their genitals. Those seeking a definition of denial should tune in to hear Tigrett insist that his devotion to his guru would be undiminished even it were proved beyond question that these accusations are well founded.”

Terry Ramsey in The Evening Standard U.K. wrote: “Let Alaya, a young American man who is one of Sai Baba's former followers, explain about a private meeting he had with the guru while a boy: "He took me aside and put oil on his hands and told me to drop my pants and rubbed my genitalia with the oil. Then he pulled me close and started kissing me hard on the mouth."

And this is just one of the milder allegations of abuse. Sai Baba, it seems, has been doing this sort of thing for years, but no one ever dared question him.”

4) Murders in Sai Baba’s bedroom: Claire Fogg wrote in ‘Time Out’ (UK) "As for Tigrett, some of his candid responses disarm, while others chill to the core. When asked whether he'd still admire Baba even if the charges of paedophilia were proven beyond doubt, he laughs before calmly explaining, `He could go out and murder someone tomorrow - it's not going to stop my evolution…Absolutely, I believe there is truth to the rumours.'`

VPB Nair, former Home Secretary, Andhra Pradesh, at the time of the murders  (see transcript/video clip)