Sai Baba contradictory death predictions documented

Some have questioned whether the generally accepted age that Sai Baba predicted for his life span was 96 years. This is partly the entire issue of Sathya Sai Baba’s true age and conflicting predictions of his own death is a tremendous embarrassment to the Sathya Sai Central Trust and Sai Organisation. It has been shown definitively that he did predict a much longer life span for himself; namely, in 1960 when he said he would have to live in his body for 59 more years (which would make him 92 or maximum 93 at death). He actually only reached the age of 84 years (23/11/1926-24/4/2011). That he celebrated his 85th birthday in 2010 is due to the Indian way of stating a person’s age as ‘entering his 85th year’ – which means 84 years since birth in the normal usage. (To add to the confusion – to the further embarrassment of the Sai authorities – his school records indicate that he was born 4-10-29 and not three years earlier! Later wilful falsification of the date is suspected for numerous reasons)

I knew that I had read a discourse in which Sai Baba stated he would live until 96 years of age, but could not trawl enough of them to find that quotation. However, thanks to a search by sceptic Ganapati Rao Pudipeddi, that source has been located:-

The 96 year prediction is, of course, a contradiction of his predictions made in 1960 (and again in 1961):-

Were these two contradictory statements not enough, consider this report by the investigator Erlendur Haraldsson
from his book ‘Miracles are My Visiting Cards’ (aka ‘Modern Miracles’):-

YET ANOTHER CONTRADICTORY PREDICTION! SAI BABA WAS TRYING TO COVER MANY OPTIONS - BUT HE FAILED ENTIRELY AS HE ONLY REACHED 84 YEARS OF AG

THIS AGAIN SHOWS THE FALSE PREDICTION AND INORDINATE BOASTING ABOUT HIMSELF. AND HOW THE MIGHTY HAS FALLEN!
How long did Sathya Sai Baba actually live? Sai Baba on his death – with reports of his words to Ratan Lala etc. Sathya Sai Baba reckoned in calendar (solar) years, not ‘lunar years’ Sathya Sai Baba’s (un)Birthday (not born on 23 November 1926)