Here is but one source for
this prophecy, which is known backwards by large numbers of Sathya
Sai Baba devotees.
“Bhagavan told the group of his students, that
His mission can be compared with an aeroplane that is going to take
off. Up to 70th birthday his mission would be like an aeroplane
going along the take-off track and gaining speed. These days the
aeroplane is rushing and speeding up and will take off at the 75th
birthday.” (Sai Reflections: The UK Sai Organisation. Quarterly
Magazine: February, 1997, p.15.)
Former devotee writers such
as Dennis Hanisch (USA), Serguei Badaev (Russia), Robert Priddy
(Norway) and Brian Steel (Australia) have exposed the fractured
logic of many SSB's utterances, among them his unfulfilled
prophecies. Given the ever-worsening situation in India, do his
prophecies about India, much less the rest of the world, even begin
to square up?
From 'Confronting Empire' by
Arundhati Roy. January 28, 2003
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=2919
India — the world’s biggest democracy — is currently at the
forefront of the corporate globalisation project. Its "market" of
one billion people is being prized open by the WTO. Corporatization
and Privatization are being welcomed by the Government and the
Indian elite.
While the project of corporate globalization rips through
people’s lives in India, massive privatization, and labor "reforms"
are pushing people off their land and out of their jobs. Hundreds of
impoverished farmers are committing suicide by consuming pesticide.
Reports of starvation deaths are coming in from all over the
country.
The two arms of the Indian Government have evolved the perfect
pincer action. While one arm is busy selling India off in chunks,
the other, to divert attention, is orchestrating a howling, baying
chorus of Hindu nationalism and religious fascism. It is conducting
nuclear tests, rewriting history books, burning churches, and
demolishing mosques. Censorship, surveillance, the suspension of
civil liberties and human rights, the definition of who is an Indian
citizen and who is not, particularly with regard to religious
minorities, is becoming common practice now.
... many of us have dark moments of hopelessness and despair. We
know that under the spreading canopy of the War Against Terrorism,
the men in suits are hard at work.
Last March, in the state of Gujarat, two thousand Muslims were
butchered in a State-sponsored pogrom. Muslim women were specially
targeted. They were stripped, and gang-raped, before being burned
alive. Arsonists burned and looted shops, homes, textiles mills, and
mosques.
More than a hundred and fifty thousand Muslims have been driven
from their homes. The economic base of the Muslim community has been
devastated.
While Gujarat burned, the Indian Prime Minister was on MTV
promoting his new poems. In January this year, the Government that
orchestrated the killing was voted back into office with a
comfortable majority. Nobody has been punished for the genocide.
Narendra Modi, architect of the pogrom, proud member of the RSS, has
embarked on his second term as the Chief Minister of Gujarat. If he
were Saddam Hussein, of course each atrocity would have been on CNN.
But since he’s not — and since the Indian "market" is open to global
investors — the massacre is not even an embarrassing inconvenience.