Three-quarters of the world

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." – Fight Club

In 1954 Baba said in his Final Declaration these things among others:

• A strange disease would attack his body.
• 3/4 of the world would be destroyed.
• He would be stabbed in the back.

Later he clarified that the statement about 3/4 of the world and his being stabbed in the back were said 'in his language alone.' However, he said the remark about the strange disease was said in our language.

Now 15 years later Baba's body was physically attacked by a strange (still undiagnosed) disease, his last illness. Clearly Baba's prediction was entirely true then. This did occur, and in our language, which clearly is physical language.

But now we come to the stabbing in the back and the 3/4. Well Baba did not get stabbed in the back, at least in any physical sense, and the world did not get destroyed, at least not physically. But that is entirely predictable. After all, he said these were said only in his language. Baba even went on to say:

that which is said in 'my own language' is impossible for you to understand, however much you all may try

Now no Baba lover continues to claim that Baba is going to be physically stabbed in the back. Clearly it was a metaphor of some kind.

But MANY DO continue to hold earnestly to the belief that his statement about 3/4 of the world being destroyed was "meant physically." They literally say that. I don't understand the logic.

How can people deny Baba's words this strongly, while saying they are Baba followers? How can they disagree with Baba about his own words, and feel so certain they are right?

The reason is that the population elimination idea is a common New Age meme, espoused by people like Edgar Cayce, and heavily pushed in the 1960s. So it MAKES SENSE to them (coming from that culture) that Baba meant this in a physical sense. For some reason, pointing out what Baba himself said about these words, i.e. that they are indecipherable to us, does not dissuade many. Clearly there are ideological commitments that are stronger than commitments to Baba for some Baba followers.

"Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature," Georgia Guidestones. A New Age meme.

But let's consider this taking Baba literally in this statement. What are some of the problems with the belief that Baba (in spite of his Clarification) was talking about population destruction.

1. The same logic is not applied to the stabbing in the back, showing some intellectual dishonesty.
2. 3/4 of all the people that were alive in the world in 1954 are now dead. And in a few decades all of them will. Hence if it is deaths, this happens cyclically anyway, making the comment pointless.
3. The population today is about twice what it was in 1954. So 3/4 of what?
4. Baba said 'world' and not population.
5. Baba said that in paradoxical spiritual parlance, "death means life." (God Speaks, p. 288) Physical death in Baba's teaching is not actual destruction as the soul is immortal, and the physical world was never really created, but only its appearance.
6. If people died 50 years ago, they'd be back today. And if they died tomorrow they'd be back in 50 years. And everyone alive 200 years ago is back today. So where is the destruction?

Many Baba followers are so uncomfortable with living without imagining 3/4 of people dying, that they have now begun to emphasize a mast who said it to some mandali. Masts say crazy things. Baba did not teach his followers to go to masts for fortune telling. No one quotes any other masts. It's just this quote that makes the rounds.

According to Baba physical death is not a spiritually significant event. It is just part of the natural cycle of sleeps between the real birth and the real death. Hence were Baba to say that 3/4 of the population were going to die physically, he definitely would not say this was in his language alone and not ours.

The last irony is that 100% of the population at any one time have physically died and returned about every 150 years. Hence had Baba said that, he would have been making a truism about life. Like saying 50% of people have below average IQ.

I think that the true motive behind the 3/4 of humans dying passion is sanskaras of intolerance and hatred for those that one does not like. This is a very ancient habit. The ancient Essenes used to seclude themselves in the settlement at Qumran, a plateau in the Judean Desert along the Dead Sea, and write of the doom coming to unrighteous people. Meanwhile they are gone and we all continue on.

I think that Baba followers just want people to die. This is a very common religious sentiment. It is also New Age. To me such death wishing is disgraceful. And it is not supported by Baba's own words considered carefully.

What Baba meant about 3/4 is no more understood today than the stabbing in the back. Baba said only the passing of events will make these words clear in hindsight. So unless you believe that 3/4 of people have died, then you can't be right.

Now the comedy of it is that 3/4 of the people alive when Baba said this have actually already died. And on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.