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All Avatars go through the same stages

Sri Sathya Sai Baba never said that He would need to leave His physical body early and assume a subtle body to complete His mission. However, Swami did speak frequently about the stages of His life and said that every Avatar goes through these same stages:

The first sixteen years of this Life have been, as I have often told you, the period when divine child sport predominated, and the next sixteen is being spent mostly in miracles in order to give joy to this generation. Joy and contentment are short-lived sensations; you have to catch that mood and make it a permanent possession: bliss (ananda). After the thirty-second year, you will see Me active more and more in the task of spiritual instruction—teaching erring humanity and in directing the world along the path of truth, righteousness, peace and love.

SSS 1.1: October 18, 1953, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume01/sss01-01.pdf

The course of an Avatar goes invariably through the same stages. It is the same for every Avatar at all times. The first 16 years are characterised by constant leelas; then leelas and teaching up to age 45. From age 45 to 60, the emphasis is almost wholly on teaching. At age 60, there is a very big change… After age 60, Sai will directly give added strength to the minds of those persons who are actively working with Him. Now is starting a time of change. It is just as when a strong wind comes up and blows away the husks, leaving only the sound kernels. In these times, many devotees will fall away from Sai, leaving only those devotees whose faith is sound and solid.

CWBSSSB, pp. 191-192, http://media.radiosai.org/journals/Vol_04/01MAY06/conversation.htm

SUMMARY 1. Madhusudan Naidu claims that Sri Sathya Sai Baba was forced to leave His body without completing His mission because it gradually became weaker and was decayed and useless. 2. Sri Sathya Sai Baba announced that He would live until age 96 and said "Every step in the career of the Avatar is predetermined". (SSS 03.4). "This Body has come through Divine Sankalpa (the Lord's Resolve), to come. That resolve is intended to uphold Sathya. Bhagavath-sankalpa (God's resolve) is always Sathya-Sankalpa (resolve that comes true)." (SSS 10.39). 3. Sri Sathya Sai Baba said in 2003 that before He left His body He would prepare everyone for it and that it would be a very long preparation. Over the next eight years He gradually withdrew from His body. 4. Madhusudan Naidu claimed that Sathya Sai Baba only completed 20% of His Mission and needed to assume a subtle body in order to complete the remaining 80%. Madhusudan and His followers say that there is a lot of work to be done to complete this 80% quickly. 5. Sathya Sai Baba said that nothing could impede His Mission (SSS 3.15), that all Avatars leave their bodies only after completing their mission (SSS 42.04) and that His Mission was already complete. (Sai Inspires 2006). Swami also said that his work would be slow, steady and permanent, not rushed to be completed in the last few years of His Mission. 6. Sri Sathya Sai Baba also said that every Avatar goes invariably through the same stages in their lives, (CWBSSSB, pp. 191-192), none of which involved coming back in a subtle body. There is no record of Rama, Krishna or any of the other Avatars being forced to complete their mission by coming back in a subtle body and using someone as an intermediary. QUESTIONS 1. Why does Madhusudan Naidu claim that Swami was forced to leave His body early when Swami Himself said that His resolve always comes true and that He would live until age 96? 2. Sri Sathya Sai Baba said that He is the cosmic play director and that His resolve always comes true. Why then would He design an exit for Himself that falsifies His promise to live to age 96? 3. Sri Sathya Sai Baba said that every Avatar goes invariably through the same stages. Why then did He not include a stage where He would leave the body early and come back in a subtle body? 4. Madhusudan says that Swami only completed 20% of His Mission and needed to come back in a subtle body in order to complete the remaining 80%. Since Sri Sathya Sai Baba has said that all Avatars, including Himself, leave their human bodies only after completing their mission and that His mission was already complete, why would He need to come back in a ‘subtle body’ as per Madhusudan's claim? 6. When Sri Sathya Sai Baba said that everything occurs according to His Will, why are Madhusudan Naidu and his followers saying that they have to work with all urgency to complete his mission quickly? 7. What effect would this message of needing help with a high volume of urgent work have on a member of the audience if they are time poor but financially rich? Or financially poor but with spare time? 8. If Madhusudan Naidu is really in communication with Swami, why do his claims differ so much from what Swami taught about His Mission and its completion?

Sathya Sai Baba's physical form

Different perspectives on Swami's physical form

On 19 June 2014, Madhusudan Naidu claimed that Sukshma Baba described Sathya Sai Baba's 85 year old body as old, decrepit and slow and said that He needed to get a new body:

My 85 year body had become a very old car. Does anybody want to drive in a 85 year old car? Tyres are gone, accelerator is not functioning and brakes have failed. I got bored of that old car which was not moving fast enough. I had to get a new car which would move faster.

Sri Sathya Sai Uvacha, Vol. 1, p.11
Whereas, Sathya Sai Baba gave us a divine perspective on His physical body:

All avatars are ever youthful. This body of mine is seventy-seven years old. I don't know any weakness, and I can walk quickly... Usually, old people have wrinkles on their faces, and they suffer from deafness and cataract. I don't have any signs of old age. There is not a single wrinkle on my face. My eyes shine like bulbs and my ears are like loudspeakers. People go for a cataract operation in their old age. My eyes are in perfect condition. I can see anything that is at a distance. Nobody knows My power and strength. But I use them according to the need and the situation. I use my senses discreetly with discrimination… I have full control over my senses. These are all the signs of My Divinity. You will know My divine signs slowly and steadily in course of time. Though I have a human body, I am free from human attachment. Though the body is human, I am entirely divine. The body has to perish one day or the other.

Though Rama and Krishna were born with human bodies, people entertained the wrong notion that they died in an ordinary way. Rama and Krishna did not shed the body in the human way. Rama stepped into river Sarayu and vanished. He had earlier sent Sita away. Similarly, Krishna went to Dwaraka. Uddhava saw Krishna sitting under a tree, and then Krishna immediately vanished. It was not a body to be killed by a hunter. You must earn the capacity to understand Divinity.

Embodiments of Love! Since I eat like you, play with you and sing with you, you are deluded into the belief that I am a human being like you. It is sheer ignorance to think of Me in that way. Lady devotees think that there is something wrong with My legs when I walk slowly. I do not have any trouble with My legs, I am happy, and there is nothing wrong with My health.

SSIB 2002: May 17, 2002, http://www.sathyasai.org/discour/2002/d020517.html
Again in 2007 He said:

Even now some people consider this body (referring to Himself) as an ordinary man. If that were to be so, how could all these superhuman tasks be achieved? No, no; it is a mistake to think so. ‘This’ body may appear to be a mere physical entity to you. It is the fault of your own vision; not Mine. There is something wrong in your perception. It is a mistake of your vision, not Mine. Hence, correct your vision, develop right perception.

SSS 40.22: December 26, 2007, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume40/sss40-22.pdf
After curing Himself of paralysis brought on by a stroke and four heart attacks which He had taken over from a devotee, He said:

This is not Swami’s illness; this is an illness which Swami has taken on, in order to save someone. Swami has no illness, nor will He get ill at any time.

The suffering that you saw was too much for this particular devotee and so, I had to save him, by Myself going through it. This is My Leela: My nature. It is part of the task for which I have Come: Sishyarakshana (protection of disciples).

SSS 3.15: July 6, 1963, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume03/sss03-15.pdf
Similarly, in 1970, after curing Himself from a fatal bout of appendicitis that He had taken over from a devotee, Swami said:

The devotee could not have borne that agonising pain; I have come with this body in order to save these other bodies from pain and suffering. This body will ever be free from illness and pain; disease can never affect it. That is the real truth.

SSS 10:37: December 12, 1970, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume10/sss10-37.pdf

The other day a very serious illness came upon this body, in Goa. When they came to know about this, many devoted to Me were plunged in anxiety! Illness can never affect this body; it cannot approach it. If it comes sometime, that is but a passing phase. It belongs to someone and it comes to Me and goes, just as it came! When it comes, this body 'appears' to be ill! But, I have no contact with it, no affliction! …

…When this body is 'suffering,' it is the nature, the duty of devotees to suffer in unison; but, I must also follow My duty! To take upon Myself the sufferings of those who have surrendered to Me is My duty! I do My duty, and you may do yours. But, when you look at the Truth squarely in the face, you will know that I have no 'suffering' and you too have no reason to suffer! The entire thing is the play of Love! It has been taken over by Me on account of Love and so, I have no pain or suffering. You suffer on account of Love. It is Love, Love, right through; there is no reason for sorrow or pain or suffering!

SSS 10.39: December 25, 1970, http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume10/sss10-39.pdf