Baba knows the present

I am of the opinion that Baba is never, ever teaching us history. He is always instead giving a lesson. To Baba the past is a frozen lake and is without meaning, as if it never existed. For him all that exists is the eternal present.

Now of the future, there is no way to know. The same may be so. Baba gave very conflicting accounts of dates in the future.

If anyone ever has the time, they could make a long list of Baba giving two or more contradictory accounts or dates for some event in the past or future.

But what Baba seems to be prescient on is the present. I'll give an example.

On March 15, 1941 Baba said several things about the ongoing war (WWII), and in the midst he said, "Russia holds the key."

At that very moment, far away in Germany, the Nazis were preparing the plans for Operation Barbarossa, the largest military operation in history. Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of Russia, which was the 'turning point' of the war.

I do believe that Baba knows the past, present, and future, exactly as he said he did. But I think he views the past, especially, as a fiction. This was the same view as Plato, who chose to communicate through myths and allegories -- often set in the past -- in order to convey his ideas.

With Baba I think every or most stories about the past are meant to convey some permanent immutable truth, and that the stories are in that sense allegories.