Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

misled into error and loss. The time will soon come when this huge
building or even vaster ones will be too small for the gatherings of
those who are called to this place. The sky itself will have to be the roof
of the auditorium of the future; I will have to forego the car and even
the aeroplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing
around them will be too huge; I will have to move across the sky;
yes, that too will happen, believe me.
You will witness this Puttaparthi becoming a holy place. No one can
stop this development or delay it. I will not give you up, nor can any one
of you give me up. Even if you lose faith, you will repent and come to
this refuge very soon, clamouring for admission. I shall be in this body
for 58 years more; I have assured you of this already. Your lives are
intertwined with my earthly career. Act always in accordance with that
great privilege. 21.10.61, (16-101)
The experience of that bond will come to you unawares. Your duty is
to await the moment. Believe and be blessed. (...)
When this Divine power decided to leave the previous body in 1918,
Kaka Saheb Dikshit was told that in eight years time this will take birth
again. Abdul Baba was also informed that in seven years this will appear
in Madras State. Three months after death the soul was going out
(mahasamadhi), appearing before a house at Kirkee, the declaration
was made in answer to a query that the body had passed away, "The
body has gone, but I will appear again." It was said six months after
the mahasamadhi, when there was an appearance at Dwarakamayi
with familiar tin can. Word was sent to Das Ganu and Mhalaspati. The
statement made to Kaka Saheb was that the manifestation will take
place after eight years, not "as an eight-year-old body." It was recorded
so, because Kaka Saheb relied on his memory and wrote it down
only much later. The figure seven came true; for this body incarnated
in 1926 after spending nine months in the womb. So even the statement
of eight years made to Kaka Saheb is true.
Your faith in what you have seen and are seeing is not steady yet: you
allow your ears to listen to all and sundry and they tempt you to deny
the evidence of your eyes. What a pitiable state this is! 23.10.61, (16-
111)
I find you reading and appreciating the love of the Rishis and the gopis
and the monkeys of past ages; but you ignore your present responsibility.
For example, examine, each one of you, how far you have put
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