Now I am not a devotee of Sai Baba any longer after many years. I
read some things you wrote about prostitution in Puttaparthi and
want to respond with some more accurate information to that here.
You may have it on your blog if you like.

I suffer from chronic circulation and muscular problems. In 1998 I
was at Prashanthi Nilayam when a top leader in the Northern Europe
Sai Baba Organisation recommended to me a clinic not far beyond the
Gokulam in Puttaparthi on a side road. He said I should try
ayurvedic oil treatment for my health problems, as he had taken
a 'kaya kalpa' course there. I met the boss of this clinic, who is
well-known as a permanent veranda man, Dr Samba Siva Rao! He made
some diagnosis which I thought rather superficial medically and
advised a course of hot oil treatment with 108 herbs. The clinic is
called 'Nadakuduru Sai Ayurveda Hospitals Private Limited. I have
the bill which came to Rs 40.per treatment. I must say I thought
that really quite cheap - but after the first treatment I stopped
going. It was done by a very young Puttaparthi man who could speak
only a few words of English, who I could not explain anything to.
It was too painful lying on a hard table with many and medical
advice I then got was that powerful massaging of the limbs all
AGAINST the blood flow is medically dangerous for those with
vascular problems according top Western medicine!

My wife had come with me, and she was shown to a room nearby to
wait. After the oil treatment I had a steam bath in a kind of box,
and when this was over I had only my underpants. I was given a kind
of dressing gown and I was sent into a room for some finishing
touch. But the room was also occupied by five or six young women
sitting on the floor in colourful saris and having much adornment. I
wondered what this was about, was quite puzzled, and the young man
who massaged me said - 'just relax, no problem '- and lit incenses
and waved it about around my head etc. (you probably know the
ritual). The young ladies sat there saying nothing, looking at me. I
did not speak to them, but wondered why I had to be in just this
room. It seemed against the whole style of the ashram with
separation of men and women, especially as I was not properly
clothed. Well, I must have been VERY naive... because it is only
recently that I have realised the OBVIOUS! They were female
prostitutes hoping to be hooked! I was left there and had to sit
there for at least 10 minutes before the young masseur came back and
I was able to go and get my own clothes back!

Surely, that is part of the business this Dr Samba Siva. Rao runs!!
That is how he makes it pay well, I'll bet! I connected it to
something that I recall the same person who recommended it had told
me [I won't drag his name in, poor man, he is confused enough
anyhow]. He said the kaya kalpa treatment had revitalised him and
surprisingly increased his sexual power a lot! This was a problem as
his wife would no longer have sex with him. Now I see that he may
have been using the prostitutes at that clinic!

I can add that Dr. Samba Siva Rao was a friendly man, but full of
himself and had some ideas about Swami which I though quite crazy
even then. He said, for example, that he knew for certain that
whenever Swami looked into anyone's eyes, he changed their entire
future. Well, Sai Baba looked me in the eye, and I in his, many a
time, and I now do not at all believe he is avatar! Add to it that I
feel sure he must have done sexual abuses because so many who have
been favorites have written so much and I think they could not
bother if it had not happened.