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Sathya
Sai Baba has several times jumped the gun and heralded in “The Golden
Age” of mankind (if you wish, see here, here and here). He supposes
himself to be the precursor of such an age, and – as often documented
- it will begin by his reforming India completely first, then the rest
of the world.Sai Baba has told people on occasion that a great shift
in human consciousness will come – he did so before the millennium
(but nothing happened, not even the millennium bug – thereafter Twin
Towers and the war on terror began). |
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Rumours
circulated by Sathya Sai Baba at regular intervals of big changes coming
(sometimes disastrous ones!) keep devotees in suspense and/or hope
for the future. They seem incapable of looking back across all the failed
predictions and direct lies Sai Baba has perpetrated over the decades.
For example, the New Zealand devotees, Poppy and Arthur Hillcoat, visited
Cherepovets (Russia) last May. Poppy said she saw Rita and Robert Bruce
just before leaving for Russia, and - as reported on the Russian Forum
(screen capture above) - was told by them (LITERAL TRANSLATION):
“Yes, exactly they are. At the
conference Rita and Robert conducted a one-day workshop of
‘parenting school’ and a workshop on
‘family and marriage’.
I do not remember exact titles. And it was Rita Bruce whom Swami told
about practically instant transformation of people’s consciousness
after his 80th anniversary.”
The long-term Sai devotee and author Rita Bruce (who, incidentally, received the famous
‘Hislop letters’ when they were sent to US Sai-VIPs) continues to
mislead people around the world by repeating truly absurd claims made
to her by Sai Baba in the privacy of the interview room.
Sathya
Sai Baba has the stick by the wrong end
It is
most likely true, as Herbert Marcuse has said, that “A prerequisite
of social transformation is the emergence of a new consciousness”
But this did not happen after the 80th Birthday (of course) and can only be a gradual
process along with diverse social changes, proper economic planning
to lift people from poverty, sickness, ignorance and not least also
superstitious beliefs and spiritual guru-dependencies. It will surely
require very much increased national and also personal ‘green awareness’
and action on the very pressing issues of ecology, over-exploitation
of natural resources, pollution of the earth, air and water and climate
change (global warming).
Too few
people in the world care enough yet. The backwardness of most of India
makes the process there very slow too. Campaigners like Maneka Gandhi,
Vandana Shiva, Arundati Roy still remain far too peripheral to Indian
policy-making. Sathya Sai Baba’s contribution to raising awareness
of ecological issues is minimal and mostly ill-informed – claiming
that the inner workings of Divinity are where it all happens - as already
noted on this blogsite.
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