Prophecies about The Advent Bhagwan Sri Satya Sai Baba Om Sri Sai Ram LORD KRISHNA made a most emphatic declaration at Kurukshetra (in the epic, Mahabharatha), while he was preaching Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna, asserting, “Whenever Dharma is overpowered by Adharma, I will reincarnate from age to age”. BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA confirms the above and openly declares and says, “I am the same LORD KRISHNA, come down in this human body, as Lord of Puttaparthi”. Bhagavan Baba further confirms by saying: “There was no one to know, who I am, Until I created the world, At My pleasure, with one word, Immediately mountains rose up, Oceans, seas, lands and watershades, Sun, Moon and desert sands, Sprang out of nowhere, To prove My Existence. Then came all forms of beings, Men, Beasts and Birds, Speaking, hearing, flying, All powers were bestowed upon them, Under my orders. The first place was granted, To mankind. And my knowledge was placed, In man’s mind”. The author, here; Would like to apprise the readers that as per the above declaration, the Avatars come, once in a Yuga. They are known as descending Avatars. The present Poorna Avatar has come after 5000 years, in Kali Yuga. The descending Avatars take the human form, out of their own Will (Sankalpa), for protecting Dharma and in response to the yearning of their devotees. The descending Avatars even choose their own parents and the place of birth in advance as per their own Will. They have a Divine symbol, like Chakra or Shank etc., on their body or feet. They are not born like mortals. They enter the body through Pravesh, taking birth as per their own Will. Their embryo is encased in pure white milk of holiness and not like ordinary mortals enveloped in watery environment. Some extraordinary things take place as the time of their birth which are not ordinary phenomena but Divine occurrences that substantiate the advent of an Avatar. They are born with supernatural powers, innate to them and not acquired by them by any Siddhis during their life time. They have full control over all the five elements of which the entire Universe is composed of. They are the Masters of the entire cosmos. Whatever they Will takes place instantly. Though they take a human body, they are not restricted by the physical body but are instead the Masters of the body and can leave the body (extra-corporeal activities) any time at their Will or Command. Again, there are ascending Avatars also. But they are born through copulation. They have taken the present body, due to their Karmic effect. And they have ascended and elevated themselves to Brahma Gyanis, due to their constant austerities and “Tapas” done during their life time, and partly due to merits acquired in their many past lives. They die a normal and natural death. They acquire some Siddhis, due to their Tapas and Sadhana, which grant them certain powers, over the five elements and the Universe. “Now again, amongst the descending Avatars, there are POORNA AVATARS. Poorna Avatars are the Masters of the sixteen Kalas. The fifteen Kalas are : The five Karma Indriyas or working organs which have to do with talking, taking, walking, rejecting (exertion) and eating. The five Gyan Indriyas or sense organs: hearing, touch, sight, taste, smell, and Panch Mahabhootas or the five elements: earth, water, fire, air, space. The 16th Kala: the all – knowing Paramatma (the Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent aspect)”. (These are Swami’s words, quoted in ‘Conversation With Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’ by J.S.Hislop). So far there have been only two POORNA AVATARS, LORD KRISHNA, some 5000 years ago, and now BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA, endowed with all the 16 Kalas. PROPHESIES (a) Sri Maha Vishnu’s tenth incarnation is that of Kalki. He will be born towards the end of the Kali age, the age replete with all kind of vice and godlessness. Dharma will limp only on one foot. Even that will gradually vanish. At this time Sri Maha Vishnu will incarnate in the world as Kalki Deva, assuming black complexion. The wicked will perish and Dharma will regain its supremacy ushering in a new age. (Predicted by Sri Pandrimalai Swamigal : taken from the book Dasavatara, by Shri S. Ramakrishna, Bharathi Vidya Bhavan). (b) Dr. E.V.Sastri, a prominent member of the Indian Astro Occult Research Association, New Delhi, during the course of his research, found out ‘Nandi Grantham’ available in Tamil Nadu, which had all the indications about Sathya Sai Baba’s horoscope written by a famous erudite Pundit, some five hundred years ago. It was written on a piece of palm leaf of the size 36 centimeters long and 2 ½ cms broad. It reads : ‘The person to whom this horoscope relates and whose name is Sathyanarayana Raju will renounce the world in his boyhood, will start schools and hospitals, will publish books for the upliftment of the World, will spend every day of his whole lifetime for the establishment of Dharma, which is his ideal and objective’. It is further mentioned that, “He will be an Avatar amongst the Avatars”. (Taken from the book ‘The Grace of Sai’ by R.Lowenberg). (c) The advent of this Avatar Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba was uniquely prophesied not only in some ancient books of Indian origin but also in books of other lands and religions. It is found that Baba’s horoscope has been extolled in the Indian palmyra “Nadi” scrolls of hundreds of years antiquity, containing prophesies by celebrated sages like Agastha, Brahma, Bhrigu, Buddha, Shuka and Shukra. Since there is said to be remarkable accord amongst the different Nadis interpreted by different and independent readers, we can confidently ascribe genuineness and credibility to those Nadi predictions. The following are the highlights of the prophesies contained in the Nadi scrolls as mentioned in Sai literature by various authors: He will be a great incarnation of the Godhead Vishnu, Shirdi Sai and several other Gods and Goddesses