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With all due respect to the late Sathya Sai Baba, who was a controversial guru beloved by many before he died this spring, this recent interview with him shows an exceptional ignorance about the cycles (and lack of them) that are tied into the 2012 phenomenon. (For more details about 2012 please see this article.)
In this interview Sai Baba is quoted:
Well, in one way there are several prophecies that signal this date like a term or important conclusion in the history of humanity, but the most significant is the end of the Mayan calendar, which prophecy has been interpreted in different ways. The most negative ones think that during this year the world will end, but it will not be like that, it is known that during that year a new era will start, the Age of Aquarius.
This has to do with the rotation of the whole solar system (solar cycle) that goes passing through the different eras each one of them lasts 5125 years. The era in which we now are, called the Age of Pisces, started on the year 3113 B.C. and ends on 2012.
This is all kinds of incorrect. The Great Ages last approximately 2160 years each (with Great Wheel of Ages taking approximately 25,920 years to complete. We do now know exactly when the Aquarian Age begins but none of the theories use 2012 as the transition point.
The 5125 year cycle is the Mayan Long Count cycle, but that cycle is completely unrelated to the transition into the Age of Aquarius after 2160 years in the Piscean Age.
I report this not to be critical, but to continue to try to clear up so much of the confusion and illusion (Neptune in Pisces anyone?) over the whole 2012 phenomenon. I personally believe that we are in the transition from the Piscean to the Aquarian Age – if you figure a 5% orb of influence for the Great Ages just as we use for planetary transits, that gives us a buffer zone of 108 years as we move into the Aquarian Age. So I feel that we are beginning to experience the mutation and personal changes to help facilitate that evolution, especially in the children that are coming into the world now.
Still, maybe it’s just my Sun/Saturn conjunction but I feel it’s important to try to separate fact from fiction where 2012 is concerned.
posted August 20, 2011 at 11:01 pm
Well, Sai Baba NEVER spoke in terms of Age of Aquarius and Age of Pieces. Either you have got the quote wrong or your have misquoted him on purpose. I do not know which, but in either case this has put doubts about your site in my mind*… due to lack of diligence or intentional malice.
*Sorry… that’s the way it is when you try throwing criticism around without verifying your sources.
posted August 21, 2011 at 9:32 am
Sorry Gopal, I was quoting an interview found on the site which I linked in this article. Did you follow the link? The citation at the end of the interview says ” (*) “Year 2012 according to Sai Baba”,2010. Extract from a conversation between a reporter and the Social and Spiritual Reformer of India, Sathya Sai Baba.” I found the same interview here: http://twincities.indymedia.org/2011/apr/what-happening-2012-interview-sai-baba and had no reason to doubt its veracity.
posted January 1, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Hi. I also agree sai baba never really talked much about astrology. I am a muslim and never appreciated Him until I started having some very strange experiences over the past 7 years or so. He was definately a divine being but you will only understand if you ever experienced him directly, like the 500 million devotees world wide. He was beyond religion, astrology etc etc. Hard to explain but we will never see anyone quite like Him again.
posted October 29, 2012 at 6:17 am
i bumped into this write up on Sai Baba’s interview with some reporter and was surprised to find Baba talking about Aquarius Age. i tried to follow both the links to this ‘interview’ but both of them are unavailable.
its very unlikely that Baba said what the reporter claims.