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WAS SWAMI (Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

 85 OR 96 YEARS?

(Posted by SBOI-Group member Satish Naik) 


 

As the discussion heats up about Swami's age and if He left His physical body 10 years before time, here is an important clarification taken from sathyasai.org
 
Here is a discussion of Swami's age when He left HIs body.
In His discourse of 9 September 1960 (Chapter 31 of Sathya Sai Speaks volume 1), Swami said,
"I will be in this mortal human form for 59 years more and I shall certainly achieve the purpose of this avatar; do not doubt it. I will take My own time to carry out My Plan so far as you are concerned. I cannot hurry because you are hurrying.
 
Devotees sit beside the body of Indian spiritual guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba at an ashram at Puttaparti in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh April 25, 2011. Sai Baba, revered by millions of followers as a living god, died on Sunday in a hospital in southern India. He was 86. Sai Baba, who was admitted to hospital in his hometown of Puttaparti a month ago, died of multiple organ failure, media said.


I may sometimes wait until I can achieve ten things at one stroke; just as an engine is not used to haul one coach, but awaits until sufficient haulage in proportion to its capacity is ready. But My Word will never fail; it must happen as I will
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That would mean that Swami would give up His body at the age of 93 or 94, since He was born on 23 November 1926.
But He gave up His physical form on 24 April 2011 (Easter Day) at 7:40AM, at the age of 84. What is the explanation for this seeming discrepancy? Here is one possible explanation.
Swami may have been talking in lunar years, not solar years �see the incident below, related by Ghandikota Aryama. Here is a quick calculation, using information found on the internet. Swami lived 30,833 days. Lunar months average 27.21 days, and there are 12 lunar months in a lunar year. Thus, Swami lived about 1133 lunar months, or 94.4 lunar years So in that sense He was 94 when He left His body.

This incident, which took place in 1986, gives a precedent for Swami usng lunar years.
Ghandikota Aryama's grandfather was the late B. Sri Ghandikota Subrahmanya Sastry, a famous Sanskrit pandit and devotee of Swami, to whom the Sai Gayatri was revealed. When the grandfather gained merger with Swami in 1986, at the age of 93, Swami came to their flat in Prasanthi Nilayam and stated that the grandfather was a maharishi and had reached the age of 100 years (even though he was 93).
Later, Aryama asked his father, B. Sri Ghandikota Subba Rao, about the discrepancy. B. Sri Ghandikota Subba Rao said that Swami uses the traditional Indian Lunar years, based on lunar months not adjusted for the solar years, in determining a person's lifespan. 12 lunar months make 1 lunar year. 100 such lunar years equaled 93 years for Aryama's grandfather. sathyasai.org

(Posted by SBOI-Group member Satish Naik) 

 

 

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

"His glory is evident in the smallest flower and the most distant star..."-
"His glory is evident in the smallest flower and the most distant star..."-
 
April 24 2011: 
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
 
ISSUED ON APRIL 24, 2011 AT 10:09 A.M.
The following is the bulletin released by the Director, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram:

"Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is no more with us physically. He left his earthly body on April 24, 2011 at 7.40 a.m. due to cardio-respiratory failure. Bhagwan 's body will lie in State at Sai Kulwant Hall for two days -- Monday and Tuesday. Arrangements will be made for darshan after 6 p.m. today at Sai Kulwant Hall. We appeal to all not to rush to the hospital but to remain calm and have darshan in an orderly manner".

Dr. A. N. Safaya
Director, SSSIHMS-PG.

 

"God, that is to say our Dear Lord Sai, has made us convey to you what we earnestly prayed we would never have to do. But God's will always prevails. If He has decided to bring the curatain down on this incarnation, so it has to be. However, He cannot go away from our Hearts, where He has to be forever. "

 
 
 

 

 
 

 
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