11/25/2006

Visions And Dreams From Baba

VISIONS AND DREAMS


WHY A RELATIONSHIP ENDED

Poster was in interview room as Baba
gave another devotee an explanation
for an ended relationship. Baba said
to her "The storm waters shifted in
Montana and Alan didn't want to touch
you anymore".

It reminded poster of standing
at a North South continental divide
.. watching raindrops falling by her left
foot flow down toward the Mississippi
while those on her right poured toward
the St Lawrence and N. Atlantic

VISION OF WORK

Vision of a desk as a pink box..
pink because the man loved his
paperwork, a box because it
was a cage. A Spanish music
composer and teacher was involved.

DREAM

Baba asks a Western devotee if
she has made a copy of the key
to the Chinese meditation room.
He tells her to give it to Him.
As He walks up the steps she
remembers that she still has the
original. She had made a copy
because she didn't get to the room
until 7:30, a half hour after the
meditation began.

11/04/2006

tea made of the seeds of red clover

A vision that poster was sipping tea made of the seeds of red clover

Is The Heart Ready For Visitors

IS THE HEART READY FOR VISITORS

Baba gave poster a dream..
2 media people came to her home

Her home was not comfortably clean..
she had little food to feed them

the message to her she interpreted
as

1. treat like God anyone who comes
to your home
2. have food stored that it may
be prepared
3. have a clean and comfortable
and welcoming home
4. be prepared to drop everything
and minister to God in the temple
of the persons coming to you.

******

NO MIXED MESSAGES: JUST ONE MESSAGE

If a home is very inviting and has
an open portal.. people naturally
feel they are welcome in it..
it is mixed signals to make a
home inviting and then to call
the police because someone has
entered without permission

9/19/2006

Visions And Dreams From Baba

VISIONS * DREAMS * METAPHORS* PARABLES * SYNCHRONICITY * VOICES HEARD IN THIRD EAR * SYMBOLS * MIRACLES
********************************


One of many reasons people keep dream and vision journals
is that as time passes and events occur, they realize that they
were given precognition messages..new meanings unfold.. the pages of a book are reminders of buried memories.

The alarm clock is a dream killer..Those who want to receive messages in dreams can go to sleep on a day when tyrannical time does not interfere. As they slip into sleep they can
summon God's visions and keep pen, paper and small lamp by the bed.

. AIRBORN TUXEDO
. CHURCH CLOCK TOWER AT SIX THIRTY
. CLINTON AND OIL PAINTING
. BLUE LIGHT WITH BLACK RIVERS
. EAGLE AND BOAT
. ELEPHANT AND SCORPION
. ELEVATOR TO LIVING ROOM
. ARCH APPEARS IN WALL
. FOUR YOLK EGG BECOMES BIRD
. GRAND CANYON RAINBOW
. KING'S HOMERUN
. ROSE BUSH AT HITLER'S GRAVE
. RUNNING ON WATER
. SEASHORE, EASEL, AND TOMATOES
. SNAKE BECOMES TRUNK
. TREE PLANTING HARMS DOG



EAGLE AND BOAT

An eagle soaring above the sea
swoops down suddenly, alights
on a boat deck, and voluntarily enters
a cage.

(a great soul volunteers to take
human birth again)

GRAND CANYON RAINBOW

The Grand Canyon in the morning.. a rainbow arching
over the awesome void with its
2 bases touching the rock on
either side of the canyon, ts very emptiness drawing the light.

CLINTON AND OIL PAINTING

William Clinton strides into a room and over to a dark oil painting of
the crucifixion. With confidence and ability he paints a pastel abstract
Easter over it as he holds a palate of rainbow hues.

A CHURCH CLOCK TOWER AT SIX THIRTY

A church clock tower with lighted clock faces on all four sides glows
in the rain at 6:30.. as drops fall from the hands

(When minute second and hour hand are at 6 or 666, thirsty flowers
below receive the most direct rainfall. All numbers are holy)

SEASHORE, EASEL, AND TOMATOES

Poster's teacher is with her at seashore. She sees he has an easel
and is drawing for her a red tomato, green tomato and redgreen tomato.
He names the different enzymes in each one, and tells her she needs
most the red-green enzymes.

FOUR YOLK EGG BECOMES BIRD

Shortly after a dream in which 4 women in a satsang
were resolving to pray together as 1.. and to pray also for egomelt,
poster had a vision of a 4 yolk egg becoming a bird.

(postermade eggs for the last time, after breaking them into a skillet, seeing it full of blood, beaks and claws)

TREE PLANTING HARMS DOG

Poster is planting a baby evergreen tree..and to her horror the tree turns into a dog and the planting becomes a suffocation
(Interpretation: well motivated actions can through ignorance be harmful... ask the Source.. ones favorite indweller form of God before doing something)


SNAKE BECOMES TRUNK

a vision of a poisonous snake turning into a greeting trunk of a loving Ganesha elephant**

THE GRACE OF A HOMERUN

A married man walks to first base
where he flirts with the married
first baseman. Suddenly
Martin Luther King is batting
lefthanded in the batter's box (9 on a clock)
and hits a homerun
to 12 on the clock. The first base runner
is brought home,
3 additional bases and the end of
a disastrous flirtation the gift of the hero.

AIRBORN TUXEDO

A man in a tux is airborn, and his coattails are fluttering in the wind
(the irrelevance of form in a world of spirit? the ability of all to fly?)

THOUGHTS AND TRUCKS

a vision of crystallized thought as huge steel cabinets above the street blocking trucks (rigid opinions block communication)

BLUE LIGHT WITH BLACK RIVERS

a dream of a false Caucasian teacher touching his students.. transmitting blue light with rivers of black in it (polluted energy) (we are limited by our gurus' limitations)

FOUR SWANS..

pick up in their beaks the 4 corners
of a light fabric and fly with it .. and cover
either a sleeping or dead large animal with it
(a liberated soul..has advanced... souls erase his past)


EYE OF NEEDLE

In the Sharon wall which is opposed by billions
.. suddenly appears.. a hole big enough for a cow
to go through..
it reminds poster of the scriptural saying that
it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter heaven..
.. it was explained to her that needles were arches
into walled cities.. camels had to stoop to enter them

RUNNING ON WATER

A woman dreamt she was running on the water..
she came to a boat in which her companions were
.. she teased them and splashed them because
they could not run on water.. her arrogance caused
her immediately to sink


SHARKS IN INDOOR POOL

Poster given a dream of the CIA as a monastery..
in which sharks were kept in a pool in the basement.. a pool into which
expendables were thrown. Every once in a while the monks had a taste
for shark meat and would kill
a shark.

(there are Anglican spooks, Catholic spooks, Likud spooks,
Chinese spooks,
... who spy for their
bosses.. capitalist crooks)

TWO PETER ROC FIVE GOLD FISH

Poster heard the sentence
"2 Peter rock.. 5 gold fish". Like all koans given her by Baba
this one has seemingly infinite meanings.

The sentence reminded of the
miracle of the loaves and fishes

Since compassionate people
do not suffocate or strangle
or rip out the gills of fishes
to devour them..

we will substitute the word
'love' for fishes.. the miracle
of the loaves and of love.

Jesus materialized fish for
others.. the Greek word 'opsarion'
which describes it is 'pickled fish'
not freshly suffocated fish.

There is a whole spectrum of belief
about Jesus related to fish.
Christian vegetarians do not eat fish.
Some believe that Jesus was a total
vegetarian. Some believe he ate fishes.
Some believe he materialized them for others
but did not himself eat fishes.

Perhaps the most controversial position
has been stated by the father of the John Wilkes Booth
who killed Lincoln. That man said
'no fish no crucifixion'
meaning that he thought Jesus encouraged
fishing and therefore was crucified.

Astrologically pisces and virgo (the fish and the wheatbearing
virgin) (the fish of love and the virgin of the loaves)
are the axis of being (pisces) and doing (virgo)..
of the heart and the mind

http://www.christianveg.com
http://www.all-creatures.org
http://www.nofishing.net
http://www.jesusveg.com
http://groups.msn.com/christianveg
http://groups.msn.com/catholicveg

MASTER'S CONSCIOUSNESS

The mind's thoughts are clouds
gray or white in hue
The master's consciousness
is a sky of blazing blue.

SPOOL

a vision of a small thread spool
with perhaps 45% of the wood
on one side of it removed

a. smuggling of computer chips?
b. use as tool
c. other

(before one can be liberated the mind
must be melted.. it is a machine made of desire)


REVELATION AND INVENTION

Many 'inventions' are revelation..
Einstein said in his autobiography angels gave him
the relativity theory in a dream

Schumann said he was not a composer but a secretary..
who wrote the music he heard in his ears after having
had a series of painful explosions

the inventor of the sewing machine said he was given
a vision of warriors carrying spears which had holes in the tips

Sai Baba has said GOD will give anyone an answer provided
it is an immediate fork in the road, the questioner is surrendered
to the answer, and the question involves oneself, not
another.

MIRACLES

2 hours after i participated in a McDonald's outlet boycott
in Manhattan I was attacked by a man with a hunting knife
and handcuffs.. (as I had left the picket, RO said to me
"I sense you are in great danger and I will meditate for your
safety".. ).. by GOD's grace i was able to get away


CAR ROOF

dreamt of a car.. whose roof had become a coffin lid
.. awoke to the news of the deaths of people in an Iraqi car..
........any time people die in a car from alcohol or traffic accidents
it became a coffin

BEETHOVEN

Beethoven dreamt about his 4th symphony that music instruments
fought .. some refusing to play it

EINSTEIN

Einstein in his autobiography said
angels gave him the theory of
relativity in a dream

SCHUMANN

Schumann said he had a series of
painful explosions in his ears.. after
which he began to hear divine music..
he was not a composer, he said..
but a scribe.

HITLER'S GRAVE ROSE BUSH

Jan F, a Jewish Hindu, had a dream of 3 nuns watering a rose bush at Hitler's grave

a. rose bushes have rights no matter where they are planted
b. the body of a man who harmed many is becoming the petals of a rose
c. some in the Vatican did not help enough to stop the Nazisetc.


ELEPHANT AND CAVE

From Swami Rama's book "Living With the Himalayan Masters"..an incident in which an elephant in greeting reached her trunk into a cave.. she was killed by a scorpion's bite..and her size blocked for a while the mouth of the cave

(metaphorically, the scorpion or
inability to forgive has harmed
the spiritual evolution of the
aspirant)


THE AURA OF MOTHER EARTH

a vision of an aqua blue light aura around a speck
of dirt.. the aura of the little fragment of mother earth

GOVINDA'S CHARIOT

Oscar Wilde said a horse was dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle. OhiO is a perfect orb at both ends
and spiritually high in the middle, like the carriage of
Krishna

Kali-fornia
Wy Oming
Allah bama
Ark ansas
Kali Radha
Mary Land
Michi Ganesh

$20
dream that A gives B $20.
.. 20 is a number of partnership

Destabilization Attempt

When the CIA airdropped counterfeit
currency onto the Indira Gandhi
ruled India, they were not able
to destabilize the economy. It
was stimulated. Baba turned what
they meant for harm into good.

The link connects to 66 of Baba's books online.
36 volumes of Sathya Sai Speaks, 14 Summer Showers
books, and 16 of the Vahini series.

9/14/2006

Karmic Cause of Unhealed Blindness

A Sai friend prayed several years for an octogenarian who was blind, that
God would restore her sight. Baba's follower was given a vision of 2 dinosaur eggs, which she took to mean the woman's eyes. (Restoring her sight would cause her to accumulate negative karma because she would abuse it.)

8/04/2006

3 Intersections

The standard astrological double axis intersection has aries fire emerging
from piscean water on the eastern horizon, libra air emerging from virgo earth on the western, capricorn earth emerging from sagittarian fire on the north, and cancer water emerging from gemini air on the south.

KS, a Sai devotee had 2 different visions..
in the first she was descending from the higher planes
with a golden pyramid (her love of knowledge) on 1 side
and a blue dome (the waters of love) on the other.
At the bottom were grey buildings (the city in which
she lived and worked.)

In the second, air was north, earth was south, fire was
east and water was west. (the waters of love in
the 7th house.. the house of marriage)

7/27/2006

Melting The Red Rectangle

Baba showed this poster a red rectangle in the direction
of her car. She went out to look at it and saw that it
was directly across the street from a driveway and she
moved it. Thank You Swami

7/12/2006

Padnamaskar of Isananda

a vision of the legs and paws of Isananda, a faithful grey
cat who left her body and went to Swami.
Isananda means 'joy of Jesus'.

Perhaps Baba is saying if we truly have advaitin vision
we can take padnamaskar of a cat, or as Ananda Mayee Ma
did, of a cockroach.

6/25/2006

Baba Links

http://www.sathyasai.org
http://www.eaisai.com/baba
http://www.vahini.org/downloads
http://www.sssbpt.info/html/sss.html 35 volumes of
Sathya Sai Speaks, all Vahinis, all Summer Showers
online
http://www.saibabalinks.org
SAI RADIO http://www.radiosai.org

SAI BABA BOOKS ONLINE AND FREE


Online: Kasturi's biography of Swami SATHYAM SIVAM SUNDARAM http://laluni.helloyou.ws/askbaba/sathyams...aram/index.html http://www.sathyasai.org/
http://www.askbaba.net
http://www.askbaba.net Geetha Vahini, Prema Vahini,
Dhyana Vahini, Upanishad Vahini, etc.
http://www.vahini.org
http://www.eaisai.com/baba
http://www.sssbpt.info/html/showers.html
http://www.askbaba.net/premavahini/prema00.html
http://janaki.virtualave.net/Vahini.htm
Bhagavatha Vahini
http://www.vahini.org/downloads/bhagavathavahini.html
http://www.saibaba.org/saisatc.html
Sai Satcharitra is online
http://www.vahini.org/sss/index.html Sathyam Sivam Sundaram
Professor Kasturi's 4 volume biography of Swami
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Canyon/8397/tigrett.html Isaac Tigrett founder
of Hard Rock Cafes which chain he sold
http://jcandbaba.blogspot.com/ an online book poem to Baba
http://www.freewebs.com/sathwicfood/role_of_love_in_meditation_sai_baba.html
http://www.eaisai.com/baba these 2 links have many of Baba's speeches
http://www.hinduism.co.za/drama-.htm Kalidasa play Shakantula
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Canyon/8397/tigrett.html
Dr Zeba Bashiruddin book online: Sai Baba and the Muslim Mind
http://www.vinnica.ua/~sss/sb_mm.htm
http://groups.msn.com/saibabalinks... huge list of online Baba books

GENERAL LINKS



http://www.askbaba.net
http://www.saibooks.org
http://groups.msn.com/saibabalinks
http://www.geocities.com/saienterprises/anil/anil-title.htm
http://www.sathyasaitoronto.org
http://www.balavikas.org/bhajans.htm
http://www.kingdomofsai.org
http://www.saibaba.org/arathi.html
http://www.postpoems.com/members/saibaba
http://www.groups.msn.com/saibabaleelas
http://www.egroups.com/messages/saibabaleelas
http://www.saibabalinks.org
http://www.postpoems.com/members/saibaba
http://puttaparthi.info/parthi/asp/discour...p?date=02062003
http://www.sairam.ar.cx/
http://www.sathyasai.org/discour/sathyasai...asaispeaks.html
http://saibaba.tk
http://www.egroups.com/links/saibabaleelas

http://www.saibabalinks.org
http://www.saionline.org/mp3/mp3.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~edyl/saibaba.html

ONLINE BHAJANS

http://www.sathyasai.org/audio/audio.htm
http://www.osssbi.org/Bhajans/bhajan.htm#Mâdhavâ Gopâlâ
http://www.saibabalinks.org/bhajansonline.htm

BHAJAN TEXT

www.sathyasaicentrestrathfield.com/bhajanindex_m.htm

LEELAS

http://www.cosmicharmony.com



http://sathyasaibabaj

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Canyon/8397/tigrett.html


http://jcandbaba.blogspot.com/ an online book poem to
Baba

http://www.freewebs.com/sathwicfood/role_of_love_in_meditation_sai_baba.html


http://laluni.helloyou.ws/askbaba/discourses/d1972/d19720500-18.html


http://www.infolanka.com
has a webpage on Baba

http://www.osaibaba.com/mandir.htm


http://www.connieshaw.com Colorado devotee

http://www.saibabaforbeginners.com/aircraft.html

Baba's Corpse

BABA'S CORPSE

A dream that Baba's corpse is lying alone on my single
bed. It is there for several days. I wonder if it will
ever begin to decompose... I should have known better...
when suddenly Baba quickens His body and I cry in
delight "You're alive! You're alive!". Then He disappears.

6/20/2006

India and China

Baba has said that if it had not been for Sankara
India would have become another China.
He said on Nov 23, 1962 that He had turned around
the Chinese army, that India has no need of military
protection for she is protected by Divinity because
of her dharma.


Please give a critique of this article if you feel like it.


COMPARING INDIA TO CHINA IN 19 AREAS

WEALTH
India still has traces of the rape of the country by 150
years of British imperialist rule and theft. There
are pockets of poverty.
China has had hundreds of millions move to the city, with
consequent urban poverty.

FOOD
Indian temples feed those who come. India has once again
achieved grain selfsufficiency which it had before the British invasion. The British raj caused India to be enkindled by
English and England to be enkindled by ahimsa or nonviolence.
England now has more animal rights activists than any other
country than India. India has a slender
population. There are pockets of hunger.
China has a tradition of giving priority to feeding people but loses
higher yields in supporting animal agriculture.

INDUSTRY
India has given a priority to computers. China has more
factory workers.

LANGUAGE
Indians speak Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, English, Gujarati, Marathi,
and many other dialects. Tamil and Telugu are 90% Sanskrit.
Sanskrit has been described by William Jones as 'more perfect
than Latin, more copious than Greek, and more exquisitely
refined than either.'
The predominant language in China is mandarin Chinese.

ANIMAL RIGHTS
India has more vegetarians, perhaps 300 million, than any
other country on earth.
The Chinese population excludes few animals or their parts
from consumption. However vegetarian diet is growing in
China. Bear farms, cat and dog flesh served in restaurants,
cat and dog hair made into fur are some international animal
rights concerns.

CHILD LABOR

India needs more protection for children from child labor.
China as well.

POPULATION

Once India and China were equal in population. After
a brief period of violent sterilization caused by Indira Gandhi's son Sanjay, India has without force achieved more
population control than China has with forced first, second
and third trimester abortions.

ABOLITION

India is one of over 108 countries with no death penalty.
The Chinese government performs more executions than any other.
Some estimate this number is 15,000 a year.

HISTORY AND MILITARY

India's Hindus like Christians, Buddhists, Jews have had
violent encounters with Muslims. India has essentially been
more nonviolent politically than many other countries.
The Chinese government has invaded Tibet, is threatening
the annexation of Taiwan, has many times invaded Vietnam
in the last 1000 years, and invaded India in 1962, still
holding on to some of the illegally seized land NE of Kashmir.
China is currently putting great amounts of money into
its army, tanks, and weapons systems. Sai Baba, guru of
over 100 million, has said India needs no military protection
for it has divine protection.

China has employed psychics native to other countries as
part of its international 5th column.

GOVERNMENT

India is a parliamentary democracy. Some question whether or
not Arjun Singh, who recently announced he is a Christian,
has been an agent of British capitalism.
China is a dictatorship.

RELIGION

India is predominantly Hindu, but tolerates Muslim, Buddhist,
Christian, Sikh, Jain and other religions. Hindu antagonism
to Christian missionaries has historical roots, with
British invaders arriving with Christian missionaries
and slaughterhouse products.
The Chinese government is officially atheist and has
had violent oppression of Falun Gong, Christian and
other missionaries. In Tibet and elsewhere, the Chinese
government has murdered Buddhists, some of whom have escaped
to India.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

India has more freedom of speech than the US since its
media is less controlled by corporate war profiteers.
The Chinese government has internet censorship.

ETHICS

Corruption in business exists in India as in many places.
China's marketing has been called unethical.
China Japan Switzerland have been lending money to
those raining violence on Iraq and Afghanistan, like gloved
men paying others to do their violence.

WOMEN'S ISSUES

India has had a woman PM, Indira Gandhi. Like all countries,
India and China have much remaining work in this area.

EDUCATION

Educational chauvinism aside, India has the highest number
of PhD's in percentage and actual numbers in the world.
China also has a high number.

One can judge neither country by its expatriates.
Srila Prabhupad said "shake India and the materialists
fall to the U.S.".ENVIRONMENT

The ahimsa or universal nonviolence in India has included
besides people, mammals, birds, fishes, reptiles, also
insects and plants. Nevertheless India needs trillions more
fruit and nut trees and other plants to bring back rain
to desert areas.

China's environmental quality is considered one of the
world's worst. As in the US, factories have been allowed
to pollute.

TRANSPORTATION

India has perhaps the best preserved train system in the world.
China, like Japan and France, has advanced and rapid trains.

MINE SAFETY

India does not have as many mines as China.
China and the US have high numbers of mine fatalities.

RACISM

Both India and China have pockets of xenophobia.

6/18/2006

Visions and Dreams From Baba

VISIONS AND DREAMS FROM BABA

MERCURY KNOCKED OUT OF FRIEZE

BABA: once said to writer: "mercury: this star is the seed of
love" (mercury rules communication)

dreamer sees man who lives across the street
knocking a statue of winged Mercury out of a frieze
.. he doesn't want it.. next the helmet rolls off of Mercury..
dreamer picks it up and takes it with his permission

a. communication or Mercury: the last of the remaining
Roman gods to conquer
b. Mercury like Pinocchio is about to come to life..
first he must be knocked out of his frieze (freeze)
c. Mercury: a symbol for communication

Toxic mercury has been put in dental fillings, vaccines
and is concentrated to lethal levels in virtually
all the world's fishes.

By abstaining from fish eating
Knocking mercury out of the frieze
prevents brain cell freeze


FALSE FLAMES

Baba once said to a devotee: She is right about her conspiracy theories
but one must see agents as God and speak to them of God. (All are divine.)

Baba gave this writer a dream of a time perhaps during the French Revolution.
An English agent escapes back to Britain and is able
to find refuge in a rockhewn church which stands in a rising flood which is lapping
at its front stone steps.

Then He whispered "false flame", to make the writer ponder that oxymoron, false flame,
for no flame can be false. Within all burns the light of God. All are working
out their own destinies.


SANTIAGO

Writer had a vision of someone whispering "Santiago" into the ear of
another, in the manner of a guru transmitting a mantra. Sant Iago is Saint John.
It is also a city in Chile. Besides Baba's underlining the sanctity of a friend
of the woman's named John, Baba was teasing her about her habit of going to sleep
to audio book mysteries, the last 2 of which mentioned Santiago. He was saying "You are what you hear".

BILL CLINTON, ARTIST

Clinton strides into the room.. with a palate
and over a dark oil very detailed painting of the crucifixion.. paints
in large pastel swaths, a canvas of Easter...

(in his own life.. or lives of Baba devotees impacted by agents,.
the crucifixion is finished)
(Recently Mr Clinton has gone around the country asking Americans to avoid
his example in eating meat... meat which gave him a heart attack.)
(the content of the art is more important than its antiquity status)

CHARLOTTESVILLE EAGLE

Poster met a Ramakrishna follower
named Durga.. after several weeks
Durga mentioned that she thought
she had been Jefferson in a previous
life...the reddish hair and strong features
were the same.. poster suspended
judgment on her belief. One day
they drove to Monticello, Jefferson's
home, from Washington. In the
grass strip between the 2 sides of
the highway, suddenly an eagle
appeared, standing at attention
on 1 leg.

TEN TV CAMERAS

A dream that 5 tv cameras above and 5 tv cameras
below her focused on an embryo filled with
2 fully grown horses. The sac broke and they
galloped away.. one to become part of a 4 horse
chariot.. the other to cavort with wild stallions.
This took place in a Western sandy plain
canyon with high granite walls on both sides.
The word "Mathura" or "Matura" was heard, one
a village of Krishna, the other Latin for maturation.



STORM RELEASES PETAL SHOWER

RJJ had a vision of being present
in groves of cherry and apple
trees when a great storm
showered her with their petals.

(one of many interpretations:
marriage is one outcome of a crisis..
in some ceremonies, brides are
showered with petals)





RED SHOES

Vision: George Bush handing out
red shoes to many

a.
(his regime causes many to wear
the red shoes of hyperactivity
to defeat him)
b. his plutocracy... turns many red
(a term used for socialists
and communists)

BLACK CAT ON SAINT'S SHOULDER

a black cat on the shoulder of
a saint
(God accepts all.. no matter
what others project onto them)

RADIANT HEAD

gold radiant head of L
who has sacrificed much

RESISTANCE

One woman dreamt
after leaving an unhappy relationship
that he came to her asking
her to adopt a 14 year old in
his church group
(resistance to any connection
with his evolving self)

Another woman dreamt she
was still attached by an umbilical
cord to a man she planned to
leave
(he was growing.. but still
dependent upon her)



BETHESDA POOL

Dream that a Jewish friend had a Bethesda healing pool in her living
room... but feared someone would drown.. and covered it with a metal grid
(someone afraid of her own spiritual healing power... afraid of not acting responsibly)

(in the US Bethesda is now a center
for animal torture and for the
funding of animal torture...
Bethesda Naval Hosp. and NIH
are there.. but there are animal
rights groups in Bethesda as well)

REMINDER

Prayer is beyond time.. can go
back in time... one can visualize
loved ones in their most painful
moments... and visualize the
favorite form of GOD with them

RAKING LEAVES

A man rakes leaves from centenarian
oaks in his past neighborhood..
(removing the karma of old mistakes)
He hands a grape sucker to someone and
says 'welcome home'.

GLASS HOUSE

Someone lives in a glass house..
but need not fear stones
because the glass is very thick
and bullet proof

SLOPING BEDROOM

A woman lives in a second story
bedroom
which slopes down from
the doorway to a lowlying
window... she fears that
children in tricycles or
playing with each other
could crash through

2 RUSSIAN COFFEE CUPS



Dream: Two Russian coffeecups (glasses
which fit inside meta cupholders with
handles) are given to poster by
a friend of a nonagenarian who
served her husband for over 40
years after his colostomy and who
also taught school and in the
evening taught peace and socialist studies. The person who
brings the gift is another woman..
who threw off her husband after
his infidelity and his low idea of
the status of women.
She also brought prasad from
a yogi who meditated in a cave
most of the time and went a year
without food.

(Prasad: food offered to God)

SEVERED DAFFODIL


Dream: a Catholic mother of 6
who voted for Bush thinking he
was a profetus candidate... handed
poster back a cut daffodil... it had
an ant inside it and a moth on top
of it

(in real life, poster is not involved
with severed flowers... but this
dream in some way relates to
the belief of some in the 'prolife'
movement that it is better to work
to save millions of fetuses than
to prevent war which causes deaths
to millions of adults and children)
(she handed back the cut flower..
a symbol to her of a severed fetus)

MAKING THE STAGE SMALLER

Poster is a theatre director in dream
and is confronted with a cavernous
stage... to make it appear smaller,
cozier, more human scale...
she puts 3 saffron panels
in the stage in semi hexagonal
positioning... to make them
look like the walls of a living room

(saffron in Hindu and Buddhist
religions sometimes signifies
celibacy or the burning away of
desire)

DONALD SUTHERLAND POLITICAL HERO

Dream: an older person is
in a college class... Donald Sutherland
is the teacher and is ready to
give a class on American political
heroes... at present he is sitting
behind the rectangular classroom
in a little circular alcove which is
behind only l/2 of the room.
The person goes back to ask for
his autograph and then his birthday
which in the dream but not reality
is July 11, 1962.
He writes them on the 4th page
of the book she offers. Then she
asks for the time of birth... and he
asks why.. she tells him she is
an astrologer.... then she leaves
not wanting to stay for the class.

GREEN PEAS PICKED UP WITH HAIRBRUSH
Green Peas Picked Up With Hairbrush

Vision: shelled green peas being
picked up with the individual brushes
of a hairbrush

(any object can be functional in other ways)

REINSTALLATION
An old Catholic cathedral
filled with altar statues is
emptied of them to have a reinstallation
.. either to a new deity statue
or to a place of zen emptiness

JAR OF ANGRY WASPS
a jar full of angry wasps is released
into freedom
(in context... angry thoughts
no longer confined)

(Creator, let none cage your creatures)

TIME TO RELEASE THE BUTTERFLY


vision: a caterpillar protected
is now a butterfly... in summer..
but caregiver has still not released him/her

WOMEN IN TRUNK



A car with 7 fundamentalists in it
returns from Sunday morning church...
2 men in the front seat
2 men in the back seat
and 3 women seated facing
the trees they pass...
are in the hoodless trunk
which has 3 small seats in it


a. the slavery of women in
fundamentalist churches

b. the trunk is symbolic of
karma carried around... the most
egregious male
chauvinists are creating future lives
as enslaved women.. the 4th
would not earn rebirth in human form
until imprisoned for a while in
a voiceless mammal's form




3 CAMERAS



a dream that she was
at the front right of a stage
and a Chinese man asked her
to take a picture of him and his
wife... she dropped the camera
and he came with a 2nd one.. a more
expensive and precise one..
in addition there was a third hidden on
stage.. the picture was taken

(if she does not get busy with her sadhana
and must be reborn perhaps the parents of her next life?)


IMPOSSIBLE BRIDGE BY SEA

A dream of an impossibility..
on the left the bridge was
a charming boardwalk by the
shore and shallows, and 2 table rocks, plateaus
on top,
were washed at their bases by
the sea...
on the right.. the sea was under
100 ft under the bridge.. and dreamer
expressed fear of octopi and other
creatures of the sea, illustrating octopi
fear
by dovetailing the fingers of her
2 hands..

(interpretation: she likes to play
on the shores of God.. but does

not want total immersion)

an earlier dream on this theme:
she walked to the edge of a pier
but did not swim because she
was carrying computer discs

ELEVATORS

A man had put the name of his beloved
on elevators in his building






FEEDLOT FULL OF FIGHTERS

Vision: Looking down on a feedlot
with many pens... old fighter humans
crammed in like chickens in a factory
farm... they are all musclebound yet
flabby, overweight and angry
... it seemed to the poster
they were cancer cells
waiting only for
the fighting round starting bell

(forgiveness, anger release,
and nonviolent food can eliminate
cancer)


RED PAINTING

The father in law of a man
whose wife divorced him because
of his womanizing
in a dream painted the walls
of his room saffron and then
red.. not a professional job...
paint drips etc.
Was it the remaining cursing unforgiveness
of a parent for someone who had
wronged his child..

or just the opposite.. the red mars
energy of
empowering which comes after
forgiveness

GORGE OF PIPE ORGANS

Walking through a gorge with
very high walls on both sides,
walls made of a million millenial
redwoods, growing as close together
as the flutes of massive pipe organs.

6/17/2006

Sai Baba On Avoiding Fish Meat and Dairy

Sai Baba has said that eating fishes causes unclean thoughts.
He has said "God is in every creature. How can you cause such pain?"


FISH CAN'T SCREAM, FISH TOXINS, FISH STORIES

Because the NY Times
and BBC in January of 2006, and Harvard and the Wall St. Journal recently have
promoted the consumption of fish flesh, and because fish oil
has been promoted in 'health food' stores and on Amazon etc., this article is
a response.

Dick Gregory: Eating fish liver oil is like eating the filter out of a car.


I
MERCURY AND OTHER TOXIC METALS HARM BRAIN

While articles in corporate media tout fish as brain food, the high mercury levels in fish cause memory and mental function loss.
"Symptoms of amnesic shellfish poisoning include possible permanent short-term memory loss." * The cultures eating the most fish (Inuit) have the lowest life expectancy of
any group surviving to adulthood, while the Japanese who eat high amounts of fish have as their number 1 cause of death fish correlated stomach cancer. Toxins in fish include selenium, chromium, lead, arsenic, pcb's, pbb's, pvc's, cadmium,
radioactive strontium, fire retardant,
and every other nonbiodegradable toxin which is 100 to 1000 times more concentrated in the flesh of fish than in the water. (Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring dealt with among other things the massive loss of bird and fish
life from DDT. Fish is the antibrain food. Fruitarian and vegetarian
geniuses DaVinci, Einstein, Ramanujan, Mary Shelley and
others avoided fish and meat. Linus Pauling, only person to win a Nobel Prize both for peace and his discovery of 6
elements, has written that an orthmolecule is a fruit
molecule. They are the most similar to the neural
transmitters in the brain. There is no vitamin C (speeds flow
of nerve signals across synapses) in fish or animal flesh
or in animal products.) The EPA issued 3500 warnings against fish consumption in one year alone. Arsenic poisoning (arsenic from the oceans is concentrated in the
flesh of fishes) creates lesions and warts on the hands.
II
PROSTATE UTERINE AND BREAST CANCER FROM FISH

The female hormones correlated to skyrocketing rates of
prostate, uterine and breast cancer in the US come from
injections or 'medications' given to cows, sheep pigs
chickens etc. The urine from these factory farmed animals
is dumped into the waterways causing fish to have
cancerous growths. If they are eaten by humans before
they die they can cause cancer in human beings, just as
a chicken can transmit leukemia (though the multi trillion
dollar chicken industry calls leukemia leukosis when they
don't manage to hide chicken cancer altogether.)

III
STOMACH CANCER

One national cancer association reports that fish consumption is
related to stomach cancer.. Those countries with the highest fish
consumption having the highest rates. Included are Korea, Japan,
Chile,
Norway and others. Those countries with the highest
meat consumption (Canada, Australia, the US, Chile,
Argentina, etc.) have the highest intestinal cancer rates.

IV
FOOD POISONING

Fish flesh is from a rotting cadaver and therefore can cause food poisoning (ptomaine, brucellosis,
toxoplasmosis, salmonella,
ecoli). Anaphylactic shock frequently causes death to those who
eat shellfish. It is universally known that dead fish stink (as
do all cadavers). Choking on fish bones has been common throughout the
centuries. Urticaria or hives is one less lethal but allergic reaction
to fish consumption.

The Texas Dept. of Health stated in one year that 245 people had been victims
of
illness from oysters in Galveston Bay. The bacterium is Vibrio
parahaemolyticus. 208 people have had oyster illness in the Northwest.

U.S. News and World Report Nov 24, 1997: One of the strains
causing
food poisoning in shellfish is Vibria Vulnificus.


V
INTESTINAL PROBLEMS

There is no natural bulk in fish. It is naturally constipating.
VI
KIDNEY PROBLEMS

The ketosis from high animal protein diets leads not only
to bleeding ulcers but to kidney shutdown and blocked urethras.
VII
PISCEAN SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALITIS OR MAD FISH DISEASE

In addition is the emerging truth of piscean spongiform encephalopathy or Mad Fish Disease as both
factory farmed and ocean fish are eating the parts of other animals.
VIII
HEART DISEASE AND ARTHRITIS
The uric acid in fish is trioxypurine, more powerful than caffein, and is correlated to arthritis as it crystallizes in needle formation around the joints. It also
adds to the incidence of heart disease and stroke, stimulating the
heart unnaturally.

VIII B ADDICTION
The uric acid or trioxypurine like caffein or dioxypurine
is addictive, and since there are more oxypurines than in
coffee, it is more addictive.

"If you miss fish or meat, take out a veggieburger and whiz
on it."

IX
WORMS.
Owen Parrett, MD wrote that even Rocky Mountain trout from the most
unpolluted streams
have worms while

X HEPATITIS
The coprophagous (human and other waste eating) habits
of shellfish
are the number 2 (yes) cause of hepatitis.

XI
MOST DANGEROUS OCCUPATION

Commercial fishing causes more fatalities annually than
any other occupation, through sudden storm drownings,
through problems with pulleys, ropes, nets, sails,
through spiking and other injuries from fishes gasping
for their breath and fighting for their lives. Noncommercial
fishermen have died when lightning turned their metal poles
into lightning rods.

XII
CHOKING

Choking on meat or fish is the 6th cause of accidental death in the
US. So common has it been to choke on fish bones that the Catholic
Church has a feastday dedicated to St. Blaize in which throats
are blessed. Fraternity house pranks in the cruel blood sport
of goldfish swallowing have resulted in deaths to humans
as well as the fish.

XIII
ALLERGIES TO IODINE

A radio network caller, Oct 27, 97: "My mother never got to see the same military MD twice, so it was years before medical detectives realized that her
Saturday headaches were caused by her Friday fisheating with an
allergy
to iodine.
XIV
FISH DISEASES

NPR November 6, 1997: Dr. James Porter of the Univ. of Athens at
Georgia was studying the many new fishes diseases such as black band and white pox. He reported that increased shipping, increased pollution,
and overfishing (an oxymoron since all fishing is overfishing) are factors for the rise.

XV DEPRESSION


The BBC in an article promoting fish consumption
wrote " Depression - Linked to low intakes of fish - high in omega-3
fatty acids which are essential for good brain health".
In reality, fish like birds and mammals secrete adrenalin
or epinephrine when terrorized, fighting for their lives,
fleeing the hook or the gun. Adrenalin is a longchained
protein enzyme, only some of whose links are destroyed by
cooking. Eating the biochemical agony of the fish or animal
causes depression to humans eating the fish cadavers and can stimulate
violence.





XVI
OXYMORONS: FRESH FISH AND OVERFISHING

With asbestos in Lake Michigan, pcb's in the livers of polar bears
in Alaska, oyster contamination in the Gulf from the runoff of
the Mississippi, lipophilic insecticides in Lake Erie, pfiesteria
in the Atlantic seaboard ..arsenic, chromium and mercury, pcb's,
insecticides, fish killing old oil and every other toxin in the
oceans,
shellfish in the NE
eating unprocessed human waste, where is there fresh fish?
The UN FAO, Prince Philip, and government and private
coalitions around the world are working to reduce fishing
so as not to wipe out certain species.


XVII
MARINE MAMMAL MURDER

Seals and whales are killed by Canadians Norwegians and Japanese
because they
compete for fish. Penguin babies can die because there
are no longer enough fish for them to eat.

Dolphins, turtles and other sea creatures are
caught in the nets.

Whales are caught in lobster lines.

Manatee and all forenamed creatures are caught in boat propellers.

Those who promote fisheating incur the karma not only of the
suffocated fish (problems of breath) but the karma of the seals,
whales,
dolphins, turtles, octopi and all other sea beings killed by the
fishing industry or individuals.

A Hindu ashram not in accord with the Bhagavad Gita's
dietary nonviolence
was inundated by the perhaps military machine generated tsunami.

XVIII
COMMERCIAL CORRUPTION

There are trillions of gallons of fish oil slop on trawler and
processing floors.

Harvard whose corporate funded studies were a factor in Stanley
Prusiner's (prion discoverer) leaving for California is also promoting
the glut of fish on the market.

States like Maryland which subsidize fishing promotion
are violating the first amendment rights of Buddhists, Hindus,
vegetarians, vegans, Seventh Day Adventists, Jains, and
many other religions which teach not killing.
The sale of fish brings 54 million to the state of Maryland, whose
governor prevailed on 3 chains in the Washington area to
begin again to sell Chesapeake fish despite the pfiesteria disease
caused by untold trillions of gallons of pig factory farm
sewage being dumped into the Atlantic.
One factor of many in the disease of the fish might be the Calvert
Cliffs nuclear power plant, which raises the temperature of the water
in the area.

XIX
FISHES' SENTIENCE

Dr Donald Broom, science adviser to the British government, has said that the pain
system in fish is the same as for mammals and humans.

Any child who sees a fish flopping on the deck, or struggling for life on a hook,
or impaled in the eye by a flyfisher knows that fishes fill pain.

What's worse than a snakeoil salesman? A pawn of fishmongers.


XX VEGAN CAT FOOD

A vanguard of holistic veterinarians, and James A Peden,
author of VEGETARIAN CATS AND DOGS, which is in its third printing, are
working to help petowners transition their cats to nonharmful foods, ones
which do not cause urethra blockages, feline leukemia, kidney dysfunction or
food poisoning. Andrew Knight DVM has written of a litany
of toxins in commercial pet food.


ANTI FISHING ORGANIZATION WEBSITES INCLUDE ALL VEGETARIAN
AND VEGAN WEBSITES
http://www.fishinghurts.com
http://www.pisces.demon.co.uk/
http://www.vegancats.com
http://www.jewishveg.com/schwartz/fish.html
https://secureusa.greenpeace.org/mercury/?from=gotmercury
(hair tested for mercury residues)



FREE AND ONLINE ARTICLES BY VEGAN MD'S

http://www.pcrm.org 5% of this 7000 member group are vegan MD's
http://www.drgreger.org/ http://www.veganmd.org
http://www.geocities.com/athens/agora/7732/meat.html Owen Parrett, MD
http://www.vegsource.com/harris/cancer_vegdiet.htm Harris
http://www.goveganradio.com Dr Jerry Vlasak LA Surgeon and AR
http://www.drday.com
http://www.vegsource.com/klaper/ vegan lectures on impotence and
animal fat
http://www.christianveg.com articles by Stephen Kaufman, MD
http://news.adventist.org/data/2001/06/099...6/index.html.en
Adventists longest lived community in US.. Ellen White said to be vegan
Mervyn Hardinge, MD (left Harvard as did Stanley Prusiner)
(Harvard is invested in slaughterhouses and its research
is pawn to its investments)
Hardinge wrote Non Flesh Dietaries, his study of fruitarians, vegans,
vegetarians and animal eaters for the Journal of the ADA (a dairy
dominated lobby)
Stanley Prusiner, PhD discoverer of prions or Mad Cow and
other spongiform encephalopathies
Joan Ullyot MD of San Francisco sports medicine
Linus Pauling, PhD Winner of 2 Nobel Prizes.. one in biochemistry
and one for peace... said fruitarian diet is the diet which
generated neural transmitters of human beings
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/ (an animal abuse institution..
Dr Pauling would not animals harmed in research)
Milton Mills, MD sued dairy industry over lactose intolerance
Physician Exposes:
http://www.envirolink.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1264


FISH STORIES
a. A man took his daughters fishing in Tampico Bay in Mexico.. and was spiked by a large catfish which severed a hand artery. He was able
to get medical attention for the profuse bleeding.
b. Janet Barkas, editor of Grove Press, went fishing and caught
a hook in the fish' eye. That was her last day fishing.
c. PW, at the Soldier and Sailors' Home in Washington, caught the
same fish out of the pond virtually every day for 10 years.. each time
pulling the hook from the throat.. sometimes with flesh attached. PW
died of throat cancer. A Calcutta guru who told his followers
it was permissible to eat fish died of throat cancer. (The child of a well=known presidential
candidate went to a hospital to be treated for his flyfishing hook
which was imbedded in his nose.)
d.. One fisherman reports that after seeing the fishes gasp for air
in the bottom of his boat.. as they slowly suffocate.. he will never
fish again.
e.. Syndee Brinkman: I went snorkeling and saw how gently the fish
welcomed us into their world.. and how violently we welcomed
them into ours.. I never ate an animal or fish again.
f. EB was a fisherman all his life and lived into his mid nineties.
He stopped fishing after he dreamt one night that he was tiny and a
fish was very large. The fish had him on a hook.


BOOK BY VEGETARIAN MD'S

Diet and Nutrition; Rudolf Ballantine, MD.
Diseases Of Food Animals Owen Parrett MD
Foods That Cause You to Lose Weight: The Negative Calorie Effect more books like this
by Barnard, Neal MD (Dr Barnard has written over a dozen books)
EyeCare Sourcebook by Jay Lavine MD http://www.drlavine.org
(some of his articles are free on the internet)
http://hometown.aol.com/sauromalus/jewishveg.htm Jay Lavine MD


Physicians
http://www.pcrm.org
http://www.geocities.com/athens/agora/7732/meat.html Owen Parrett
MD author of Diseases Of Food Animals on why he does not eat meat
http://www.goveganradio.com Dr Jerry Vlasak LA Surgeon and AR
http://www.drday.com
http://www.drgreger.org/ http://www.veganmd.org
http://www.vegsource.com/klaper/ vegan lectures on impotence and
animal fat
http://news.adventist.org/data/2001/06/099...6/index.html.en
Adventists longest lived community in US.. Ellen White said to be vegan

http://www.ivu.org/news/evu/news971/costs2.html

Please purchase books printed on nontree paper or 100% recycled
paper (e.g. rice, cotton)




------
both Oregon State and the
Seventh Day Adventist Hospitals
are inflicting pain on animals.
Dr Pauling would not want
his Nobel winning work contaminated
by animal torture.

http://www.fishinghurts.com



MARINE TOXINS

*
(Generally, the CDC has been the tool of multinational
pharmaceutical drug pushers and has stifled information
about the toxic effects of meat, fish, and animal products.
However paragraphs from a CDC article from the cdc.gov webpage are
informative.)


The most common diseases caused by marine toxins in United States in order of incidence are scombrotoxic fish poisoning, ciguatera poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning and amnesic shellfish poisoning.

Scombrotoxic fish poisoning also known as scombroid or histamine fish poisoning, is caused by bacterial spoilage of certain finfish such as tuna, mackerel, bonito, and, rarely, other fish. As bacteria break down fish proteins, byproducts such as histamine and other substances that block histamine breakdown build up in fish. Eating spoiled fish that have high levels of these histamines can cause in human disease. Symptoms begin within 2 minutes to 2 hours after eating the fish. The most common symptoms are rash, diarrhea, flushing, sweating, headache, and vomiting. Burning or swelling of the mouth, abdominal pain, or a metallic taste may also occur. The majority of patients have mild symptoms that resolve within a few hours. Treatment is generally unnecessary, but antihistamines or epinephrine may be needed in certain instances. Symptoms may be more severe in patients taking certain medications that slow the breakdown of histamine by their liver, such as isoniazide and doxycycline.

Ciguatera poisoning or ciguatera is caused by eating contaminated tropical reef fish. Ciguatoxins that cause ciguatera poisoning are actually produced by microscopic sea plants called dinoflagellates. These toxins become progressively concentrated as they move up the food chain from small fish to large fish that eat them, and reach particularly high concentrations in large predatory tropical reef fish. Barracuda are commonly associated with ciguatoxin poisoning, but eating grouper, sea bass, snapper, mullet, and a number of other fish that live in oceans between latitude has caused the disease. These fish are typically caught by sport fishermen on reefs in Hawaii, Guam and other South Pacific islands, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Ciguatoxin usually causes symptoms within a few minutes to 30 hours after eating contaminated fish, and occasionally it may take up to 6 hours. Common nonspecific symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, excessive sweating, headache, and muscle aches. The sensation of burning or "pins-and-needles," weakness, itching, and dizziness can occur. Patients may experience reversal of temperature sensation in their mouth (hot surfaces feeling cold and cold, hot), unusual taste sensations, nightmares, or hallucinations. Ciguatera poisoning is rarely fatal. Symptoms usually clear in 1 to 4 weeks.

Paralytic shellfish poisoning is caused by a different dinoflagellate with a different toxin, than that causing ciguatera poisoning. These dinoflagellates have a red-brown color, and can grow to such numbers that they cause red streaks to appear in the ocean called "red tides." This toxin is known to concentrate within certain shellfish that typically live in the colder coastal waters of the Pacific states and New England, though the syndrome has been reported in Central America. Shellfish that have caused this disease include mussels, cockles, clams, scallops, oysters, crabs, and lobsters. Symptoms begin anywhere from 15 minutes to 10 hours after eating the contaminated shellfish, although usually within 2 hours. Symptoms are generally mild, and begin with numbness or tingling of the face, arms, and legs. This is followed by headache, dizziness, nausea, and muscular incoordination. Patients sometimes describe a floating sensation. In cases of severe poisoning, muscle paralysis and respiratory failure occur, and in these cases death may occur in 2 to 25 hours.

Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning is caused by a third type of dinoflagellate with another toxin that occasionally accumulates in oysters, clams, and mussels from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast of the southern states. Symptoms begin 1 to 3 hours after eating the contaminated shellfish and include numbness, tingling in the mouth, arms and legs, incoordination, and gastrointestinal upset. As in ciguatera poisoning, some patients report temperature reversal. Death is rare. Recovery normally occurs in 2 to 3 days.

Amnesic shellfish poisoning is a rare syndrome caused by a toxin made by a microscopic, red-brown, salt-water plant, or diatom called Nitzchia pungens. The toxin produced by these diatoms is concentrated in shellfish such as mussels and causes disease when the contaminated shellfish are eaten. Patients first experience gastrointestinal distress within 24 hours after eating the contaminated shellfish. Other reported symptoms have included dizziness, headache, disorientation, and permanent short-term memory loss. In severe poisoning, seizures, focal weakness or paralysis, and death may occur.



Are there long-term consequences to these diseases?

Ciguatera poisoning has resulted in some neurologic problems persisting for weeks, and in rare cases, even years. Symptoms have sometimes returned after eating contaminated fish a second time. Amnesic shellfish poisoning has resulted in long-term problems with short-term amemory. Long-term consequences have not been associated with paralytic shellfish poisoning, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, and scombrotoxic fish poisoning.


http://www.worldanimalnet.org

(The British Pisces groups which works to end fishing
was listed as a recommended link, and is not responsible
for any of the writing herein.)


© Animal Rights Coalition 9

6/05/2006

Sending Love To Those Who Act Violently

Baba told a woman on a hijacked plane to send love to the hijackers.
People on the plane were unharmed.
He told a devotee at the ashram to send love to a young girl who was abusing
her younger brother.
He told a member of a Seattle satsang that as a group they should send love
to vivisectors and legislators. He said that lawmakers will make laws to abolish
vivisection.

6/03/2006

Your Wish Is Granted

Baba is Asritakalpalateeka, the wish fulfilling tree.

Yogananda: Divine Mother always gives me what I want.

Jesus: Whatsoever you ask the Father in My name it
shall be granted.

Baba: I give you what you want so that you will want what I
have to give.

Mother Earth is supremely patient, but she too can do
time collapsing miracles.

5/27/2006

Samara In Straw, Acorn in Quarter Roll Plasticcm

As writer picked up trash dropped by passersby in the street, she saw
a tiny samara (maple tree seed) stuck in the end of a straw. The next day
she saw an acorn stuck in the plastic wrap of a $10 roll of quarters.
(Baba's subtle synchroncities were telling her a desire to be more comfortable
financially could cause rebirth.)

5/26/2006

A vision of a pig farmer whose 2 young boys were trampled by the frightened animals..

A vision of a pig farmer whose 2 young boys were trampled by the frightened animals..

a. the past life of an animal rights activist
b. greed affecting spiritual growth (dreaming of children is sometimes interpreted
as the evolving spirit of the parent)
c. Baba implanting the suggestion that children's accidents and fatalities
on farms be investigated

*
dreamer sees man who lives across the street
knocking a statue of winged Mercury out of a frieze
.. he doesn't want it.. next the helmet rolls off of Mercury..
dreamer picks it up and takes it with his permission

a. communication or Mercury: the last of the remaining
Roman gods to conquer
b. Mercury like Pinocchio is about to come to life..
first he must be knocked out of his frieze (freeze)
*
The Mercury dream came after one in which a garden full of Roman god statuary
was filling gradually with water
(love of love beginning to conquer love of power)

5/25/2006

Rare Pink Flower

Years ago Baba materialized an orange rose for the writer at the Gokulam in Bangalore
.. as Gokulam attendants were present.

Today He materialized not a cut but a living rare pink flower in her back yard..
one she had never before seen on a bush she had never before seen.

5/18/2006

Hanuman Raisins

In the suburb of Phoenix near Durban S Africa is a statue of Hanuman which
Baba causes to materialize golden raisins and honey. A S African newspaper
did a story on this. Phoenix represents resurrection out of the ashes (vibhuti).
This takes place in the home of Lorraine Govender.

Planetary Synchronicity

Within seconds after telling RN that she hated Saturn, Baba caused writer to
see a mantra to Saturn and other planets.

Om Bhaumaya Namah
Om Budhaya Namah
Om Guruve Namah
Om Shukraya Namah
Om Shanischaraya Namah

(Bhaumaya Mars Budhaya Mercury Guruve Jupiter Shukraya Venus Shanischaraya Saturn)

Baba Vision: Clinton the Artist

BILL CLINTON, ARTIST

Clinton strides into the room.. with a palate
and over a dark oil very detailed painting of the crucifixion.. paints
in large pastel swaths, a canvas of Easter...

(in his own life.. or lives of Baba devotees impacted by agents,.
the crucifixion is finished)
(Recently Mr Clinton has gone around the country asking Americans to avoid
his example in eating meat... meat which gave him a heart attack.)
(the content of the art is more important than its antiquity status)

COMING:

The purple butterfly
more Baba quotes
more Baba visions and dreams
Baba threads

WCAU Of Philadelphia

WCAU


The 3 year boycott of Burger King (1980 to 1983) was resolved by the
company's accession to withdrawal of veal in 1983. G Cave, H
Schofield, T Zagar and A Hershaft had the first four groups involved
in the boycott of Burger King. The writer was asked to do media for the
small coalition. One day the writer was typing press releases for Philadelphia tv
and radio stations.. and came to WCAU.. which is on City Line
Ave. When she went to type 'city' she found her fingers typing
'cave'. She took that as a message to call Dr. George Cave
of State College, an animal rights activist. During the call he told
her he had just finished an interview with WCAU on
Pennsylvania's decompression chamber, a painful method of
killing 'surplus' pound animals. A short time later, she wanted to
listen to the Larry King Show on Mutual Radio. For some reason
she could not get it that night on WTOP in Washington, but it
came in clearly on WCAU, a distance away in Philadelphia.
The guest that night was Ray Cave of Time Magazine. Again,
there was another Cave Philadelphia connection, when
William Cave of Philadelphia's American Antivivisection Society
was a guest on the radio. Later S Grafio took her to see Bawa
Muhaiyyadeen, a Moslem mystic and vegetarian, whose aura was so bright it filled the room with white light, whose love was so strong that babies
crawled to him from their mothers. She realized in unwinding this koan
that Baba was telling her (city typed into cave) that the city is a convex infliction
upon the land.. that the cave is a concave recess.. that at times inaction says the Gita is better than action.. Sometimes the path of the Tao the path of water is better than the path of fire.

(CAU in ancient Roman script would look like CAV)
(CAU has the sound of COW)

* Baba also gave her a physical reminder of this. She had sent out
2300 press releases which yielded no media... later on, when she had
not done any media, the phone began ringing off the hook.

Robert Schuller: Anyone can count the seeds in an apple. Only God
can count the apples in a seed.

*Burger King is now owned by a Texas capital consortium
which includes Goldman Sachs.
It is the only major fast food chain which has a veggie
burger option but it is still advertising the concept of
animal flesh to billions.



Shortly before she was asked to do media for the
boycott, Baba gave her a dream in which Baba was
traveling in the US on a Greyhound. The busride began
on 4th St. in DC. When it arrived in Pennsylvania, there
was absolutely nothing in the restaurant she could offer
Baba to eat.

Greyhound was instrumental at that time in ending
the boycott of Burger King which had at that time
a cooperative relationship with the bus company.

Now Greyhound has changed owners. It is owned
by Laidlaw of Canada. It is hoped that Laidlaw
can end quickly the clubbing of Canadian seals.

ASKING FOR GUIDANCE

Baba had told His devotees if they had a question to which
they did not know the answer He would reply if a. it
was about an individual's own sadhana b. if the devotee
were surrendered to the answer, and if c. it entailed an
immediate fork in the road.

There are many who immediately know in their hearts what
course of action to take, but there are times when one
is not sure.

Baba said to take 4 symbols of equal size (e.g. 4 pieces of
paper) and write on one 'yes', a second 'no', and the 3rd
and 4th 'wait'. Then pray and select one at random.

When the writer was asked by a small coalition of 4 groups
to do media for the Burger King Boycott, she asked Baba
by this method and got 'yes'.

Several months went by. Dr Rao of Lawrence Kansas told a friend to tell her that boycotts were
not ahimsan (nonviolent) because they called down corporate
wrath. This was a wise criticism, and she asked Baba again,
and again got a yes to go forth.

More time passed. Bob Pinkus, editor of Vegetarian Living
who had convinced both the writer and Connie Salamone to
become vegan, said that boycotts increased corporate sales
because they operated on the principle "don't think of
a white elephant", which increases thoughts of white elephants.
She asked again for a third time and got another yes.

The river of life flowed on. Next Lou Ann Yonish, coordinator
of Vegetarian Action whose group was targeting restaurants
which served veal, said this was the wrong target. Another
casting of the chits (symbols) in prayer.. and another 'yes'.
This time it was Lou Ann on the other end of the phone
who made the selection.

Alice Herrington, president of Friends of Animals, felt
there was no ethical distinction between baby and adult animals
and that it was a form of age chauvinism to concentrate on
veal.

Dudley Giehl, founder of Animal Liberation and Michael
Rothschild also participated in the chits.
Altogether 6 times, Baba or the querant's form of God
was asked, and 6 times a yes was given. The odds of this
happening randomly are 1 in 4096.

All of the criticisms of the boycott were valid. Yet God
is omniscient, and like someone on a hill who can look down
on an intersection and see traffic patterns those in the
cars cannot, God gave guarding and guidance.

Baba Vision: Lithium

LITHIUM

A friend was experiencing much anxiety..and his family had repeatedly committed him.. poster was opposing the use of psychiatric medications for him..but had no power with the pharmaceutically dominated hospital staff.. then had a vision of a priest holding a communion wafer.. and breaking off a tiny sliver.. .. she heard the world 'lithium' Catholics believe that any sliver of the communion host is Christ.. as much as thewhole disc. Poster felt she was being told to advise friend to take a small fraction of what was prescribed..)***(Lithium.. from Greek lithos.. can turn the kidneys into stone)

Vision: Tree Planting

TREE PLANTING

Poster is planting a baby evergreen tree..and to her horror the tree turns into a dog and the planting becomes a suffocation

(Interpretation: well motivated actions can through ignorance be harmful... ask the Source.. ones favoriteindweller form of God before doing something)

FLASHLIGHT AND STORM

While it rains
a flashlight's beam
slightly downward streams
across a stormsired
little waterfall's steps..
an intersection of horizontal light
with downfalling water

(the falling water cannot trap
the light)
(the thought occurred that
the flashlight holder was looking
for an animal in a flash flood)
(in actuality, the storm's ions
reconnected someone to her life
current)

PLAYGROUND NOT MUSEUM

a sculptor hugs his mother
on a playground as he decides
to follow her suggestion to
put his sculpture in a playground
rather than a museum

Vision: Four Yolk Egg

FOUR YOLK EGG

Shortly after a dream in which 4 women in a satsang
were resolving to pray together as 1.. and to pray also for egomelt,
poster had a vision of a 4 yolk egg becoming a bird.

(she had in 1970 made eggs for the last time, breaking them into a skillet, seeing it full of blood, beaks and claws)

Baba Vision: Grand Canyon Rainbow

GRAND CANYON

The Grand Canyon
in the morning.. a rainbow arching
over the awesome
void

(the Canyon as the emptiness or lack of desire which attracts
the rainbow)

Baba's Vision: Eagle Alighting

VISION OF AN EAGLE

An eagle soaring above the sea
swoops down suddenly, alights
on a boat deck, and enters
a cage.

(a great soul volunteers to take
human birth again)

Crown Chakra Healing

CROWN CHAKRA HEALING

Dr Gadia of the UK has been given great healing power by Baba.. partly
because of Dr Gadia's greathearted empathy. (20,000 people in the UK
are licensed to heal with their hands. Gifts of spiritual healing are common
to spiritual people of all paths.) He met Ohio devotees at the Cleveland
airport, where he directed all to make a pyramid of hands on the crown
chakra of a sick child. RN who was present said the current was very
powerful.

Grape Juice Message

As written earlier, Baba warned Mr. Patel and the Indian community
that they had 3 years to leave before Idi Amin's massacres would begin.

In South Africa, a devotee with an intense prayer life and a constant presence
from Swami, found decades ago a message in grape juice, written by Baba, who can be several places at once. It was a direction that she must leave S. Africa before violence
occurred.

Baba has written messages using jasmine flower script, vibhuti script,
grape juice script. He has written messages in spider webs. He can use any matter
as media.

Omniscient Guru

Baba guided a devotee to call a friend who
had been widowed 9 months.
When the call was made she was in
tears... for the first time she was
dealing with release of her husband's
clothes.

Two Snakes

LM, a Sai devotee, had a vision of 2 snakes, one fat and lazy, the other very thin
and wiry. She knew this was the ida and pingala, 2 nerve systems in the body.
They were out of balance.

Padnamaskar With Socks On

One devotee had been involved in adharma. Baba came to that devotee
in a dream... when the dreamer started to take padnamaskar (touching the feet of the
guru) he saw that Baba had socks on. This was Baba's subtle way. He compared
socks on His feet to clouds which block the sun.

11/07/2005

British and Canadian Coins

British and Canadian Coins

A Sai devotee dreamt there were Canadian and British coins materializing
on her skin... after Baba had said to her "In Canada they call you a Pani"
(or did He say "In Kannada they call you apani")

Loving Abusers

SENDING LOVE TO THOSE MOST IN NEED OF IT

Baba told a woman author .. was it Joy Thomas or Phyllis ? ... when her plane was hijacked that she should send
love to the hijackers.
*
At the ashram another devotee, Gopal, was confronted by a young girl who was abusing her baby brother..
angry that her parents had told her to babysit him. The meaner she was the more the baby screamed.
Baba gave guidance to Gopal to send love to the abusing girl first... she needed it more and
the situation would have been more polarized had she seen her brother bathed in attention.

10/08/2005

Transition

SAI BABA AT DEATHBED
http://www.psychics.co.uk

I am sending a story about my husband's earthly death. Frank Meszaros had prostate cancer and a tumor on his spine paralyzed him from the nipples down. He was hospitalized for a few months and grew to be uncomfortable with the medical profession because so many mistakes were made in the hospital by nurses and doctors. When he was released from the hospital, he and I had to adjust to a new world of creating mobility for him. We changed our eating habits to a macrobiotic diet and continued to offer prayer to Sai Baba. A new alter was made in the dinning room where Frank's hospital bed was placed. The alter was filled with pictures of Baba, a hawk feather given to Frank by a Mayan Priest, and pictures that related to his Catholic up bringing.

Frank's heavenly journey when he died October 30, 1998, reminded me or a scene from Forrest Gump. When Forrest visited his mother, she informed him that she would soon return to God's home. It was so simply stated without fear or tears. Frank went through such a natural, peaceful process that I was so privileged to share. Part of creation's plan allowed for the natural process of dying. As the autumn leaves gently released themselves from the trees of their life to become recycled in an ever changing process, it seemed symbolic of Frank's mind and spirit releasing the earth body.

I was unaware of his fate or nearing death when he first told me of his nightly visits with ‘Baba’ (Sai Baba). He gave me simple messages from Baba. Baba says: ‘Tell the truth; Love everyone at first (judgment) then you will know to love them always; Just be yourself always and not worry; Love (Sai-Love) men and women in the same way — no competition; Life is living and not going from expectation to expectation; Baba says that he is inside of you always — you don't have to go any where to find him; Just be — no need for egotism; Everyone is connected — part of One.’ As Frank spoke these simple words, his eyes seemed focused above and his body language expressed a greater knowing beyond the words and this life time. One night Frank prayed to Baba and asked him if he could be a girl in his next life. I was surprised at this request and asked Frank about it. He had no answer; he only wondered why the whole world has not learned ‘real love.’

When Frank entered a stage of seeing ‘imaginary people,’ they were very real to him. I told him that he was much more perceptive than I and he needed to guide me as to where to walk so I would not hurt the other people. He obliged. It almost seemed appropriate as all soul’s eve approached that he could be on two planes — the earth and the ethereal. I e-mailed a friend, ‘Last night he slept with one eye open. One looking in and one looking out. He is so peaceful on his new journey.’ His travels on another consciousness was normal according to the Hospice helpers and they explained that he may talk to them and see many people he once knew who passed before him.


In another e-mail, I write, “He speaks of death, now. Sometimes slightly scared because he will miss me but he adds, ‘You can always think of me.’” It seemed that he was more concerned for me. Wednesday morning, Carol Gallardo and I laughed and joked as we proof read the newsletter to take it to the printer. He said, ‘I always loved hearing you two laugh.’ That was the last complete sentence I heard him speak. Frank, who loved to elaborate, had taken on such simple word usage.

As Frank’s mind and soul were on a new journey his body slowly began the natural process of closing down. Each system slowed then stopped until the final last big inhalation and the heart then stopped. The body has its own orderly way of closing down. Hospital care confuses the body by intravenous feeding when the digestive system is closing or giving oxygen to a respiratory system that needs only shallow slow breaths. The natural closing of the body is truly a beautiful process. I saw only a great peacefulness in Frank. I took a wet washcloth and let drops of water fall on to his tongue and lips. I suspect that this deed was for my comfort and not for his. I learned the death process is natural and not to be feared. I have no idea what I perceived before. All that I can conger up is one minute you’re alive and the next you’re not because I was unaware that it was a process.

It also appeared that Frank was having out of body experiences. More than once, I heard foot steps in the kitchen and went to check on the sounds origin. Then I checked with Frank and he told me that he was ‘just walking.’

The morning that he passed, Tony Gallardo found a lost medal of St. Christopher in his shoe apparently at the time Frank passed to his new life and concluded that Frank had died.For his last earthly night, he was circled by friends. Bobbi Holliday lead a peaceful ceremony for his new journey.

Friday morning Frank, my life partner, died. Many friends soon arrived at my door. I was encouraged to relax and take a bath as they worked as if they were of one mind to clean my home and make food. As I bathed and meditated I saw a dance of oneness taking place as people joined and shared in a task without a task master which created a gentle, serene atmosphere. The unity of all was without ego; a connection to the oneness; and a beautiful sharing. It seemed as Frank’s words from Baba were alive.

The mystery of the ring began to evolve. I heard friends say to one another, ‘Is this your ring?’ With the reply, ‘No, it was just there.’ I had no idea about the ring until I went to use the phone and saw the black cameo ring given to Frank by his father sitting next to the phone. It appeared to just appear. I hadn’t seen the ring in over a year except for a brief dream moment the night before yet it laid so openly next to the phone which I had used
consistently. Could it be another happening from Frank’s out of body experiences?


Melva Oseka who had once been a Num, came to the home as she learned of Franks’s journey and told me that she thought she saw Jesus in heavenly colors approached her during her dreams that night but as Jesus neared she saw that it was Frank who came to give her a hug. She thought that this was a sign that Frank would walk again after nearly a year of paralysis. She had no idea that Frank had come to visit her farewell. The last words she had heard from Frank a week earlier were, ‘I love you’ as the phone clicked to hang up.

When the house was refreshed and purified, Mary Jo Rhodes led a Sufi blessing and each said ‘Thanks’ to Frank for being a friend. The group left and then returned about five PM. Friends shared in telling stories and eating and then Jil Grignon led a simple, powerful ceremony with a visualization that a golden guardian angel would now sit on our shoulders.

Thank you for your sharing, Sai-Love, Marge

10/02/2005

Swadharma

Poster was bringing in plants for the fall.. and noticed that 3 Baba pictures had come down during the process... she asked Baba why this had happened and opened at
random in the Gita to a passage on Krishna telling Arjuna to fight

She had been receiving pressure from family and friends to get paid work
rather than continuing her ahimsa work... Baba was telling her to listen
to her swadharma.. and not the projections of others...

He also told her to file with her local police department
the license number of a stalker

9/01/2005

Emuculum

One morning as poster awoke, Baba said to her 'emuculum'. She did not know
what this meant... with a meagre study of Latin she thought it might mean
'home of the emu'. That day a letter arrived from Australia, home of the emu,
from Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation, who said he gave consent to
be listed in the Burger King Boycott. (Burger King withdrew veal and added
a veggie burger {not sure if it is vegan} and so the coalition went on to
McDonald's.)

8/27/2005

Frank Baranowski

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saibabalist/message/19
http://www.island.lk/2003/11/23/featur02.html



The Aura of Sri Sathya Sai Baba


by Dr. Gamini Karunanayake
M.B.B.S. (Cey.) D.I.H. R.C.P. (Lond). R.C.S. (Eng).

Many people believe that all great saints and religious leaders have a large aura or halo around their bodies.

Pictures and drawings of Lord Buddha, Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohamed and Sai Baba clearly highlight this halo or aura.

Most people believed that this so called aura as depicted in the drawings was a myth and that the haloes were highlighted in order to enlighten the people about the greatness of these saints.

Is this halo or aura a reality or Myth ?

It is known that certain people especially those who are developed spiritually are able to see these auras.

In recent times it has been scientifically established that the halo around people is a reality.

An ultra sensitive camera called the ‘Kirilian camera’ originally produced in 1939 in Russia and subsequently re - invented in 1969 by an American called " Kendell Johnson" is able to photograph the haloes around people.

Professor Frank Baranowski; an American scientist attached to the University of Arizona has specialized in Bio - magnetic field radiation photography. He has photographed and interpreted the auras of many people with the ultra sensitive Kirilian camera. He possesses Kirilian photographs showing the energy rays and colours emanating from different people. It has been found that every one of us has an aura surrounding our bodies which extends to about 6 inches from our bodies. In people who are highly developed spiritually like saints and yogis. This aura extends to about 2 feet from their bodies. The colour of the aura varies from white to pink and blue.

The white in the aura indicates energy and the pink and blue indicate that the person is extending love and compassion towards others.

Professor Baranowski explains there are five different shades of auras denoting aesthetic, spiritual, intellectual, physical and moral aspects. These can all be scientifically explained. Professor Baranowski who had studied the auras of the great saints and yogis of India had heard about Sri Sathya Sai Baba. He went to White field in India and studied the aura around Sai Baba with the help of the Kirilian camera.

He was left breathless by the aura and colours emanating from the body of Sai Baba. Large thick bands of white, pink and blue flowed out from Baba’s body. The most amazing thing was that there were thick bands of gold and silver in the aura which he had never seen in any other human being.

These rays of love and energy emanating from Baba were enveloping the massive crowd at Darshan who had come to see him.

These people were absorbing the rays of energy and love given out by Baba. His aura extended to envelope the area in one mass or cloud of pink. It was all energy in the form of love that flowed from him.

It is said that people who go to see "Sai Baba" come back with renewed energy. It is like charging ones battery.

What about the size of the aura?

It was earlier stated that saints and spiritually developed people have an aura extending up to two feet from their bodies. It is also said that Lord Buddha had an aura which enveloped an entire city.

The aura extending from Baghavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba was so huge that its margin could not be defined. The aura extended beyond the horizon.

Professor Baranowski has concluded that Baba is not a human being and that he is a divine personality.

"Sai Baba" in his own words say that we are all God. He knows that he is God, whereas we do not know that we are God, although we have the potential to be God.

Italian Language Post on Frank Baranowski

Amore che cammina su due gambe
http://www.saibabalinks.org
Amore che cammina su due gambe
Testimonianza di un esperto dell'aura


«L'amore и Dio. Dio и amore». (Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

Il professor Frank Baranowski, americano, si и specializzato nella ricerca sulle aure, e lavora nell'universitа dell'Arizona. E' un esperto nel campo biomagnetico e nella fotografia delle radiazioni. Ha fotografato e interpretato le aure di innumerevoli uomini e donne con l'ultrasensitiva camera Kirlian.

Egli ha esaminato le auree di innumerevoli uomini di santa vita e di yogi, in India e altrove. La camera Kirlian и cosм sensibile da registrare l'aura che si estende dal corpo umano al di lа di esso, generalmente non visibile a occhio nudo. Questa camera, che ha preso il nome del suo inventore, venne realizzata in Russia nel 1939, ma tenuta segreta. Nel 1969 un americano, Kendell Johnson, la inventт una seconda volta e oggi la camera Kirlian viene usata in piщ di quaranta paesi. E' molto simile a un apparecchio per raggi X senza una lente, e registra fedelmente i campi e i colori di un'aura.

Il professor Baranowski spiega che alcuni posseggono la capacitа di vedere le aure con i loro occhi, e li addestra a valersi in modo esatto di questo dono. E' in contatto con esperti di scienze fisiche e con ipnotizzatori in relazione a vari studi da lui condotti sulla reincarnazione. Possiede fotografie Kirlian che mostrano i raggi energetici e i colori che emanano dall'uomo. E attraverso tali studi e altri simili sono oggi interpretati fenomeni come la guarigione per fede.

Il professor Baranowski ha letto molti libri su Sri Sathya Sai Baba, fra cui Sai Baba, the Holy Man and the Psychiatrist (Sai Baba, il santo e lo psichiatra) di Samuel Sandweiss. Si и chiesto se una tale personalitа esistesse realmente e se tutto quello che era stato scritto su di lui fosse vero. Poichй stava scrivendo un libro sulla reincarnazione, in base a casi studiati e ad altri fenomeni, si interessт all'affermazione di Sri Sathya Sai Baba di essre la reincarnazione di Shirdi Sai Baba. E non esitт a scrivere a Sri Sathya Sai Baba per chiedergli una prefazione al suo libro. Non conoscendolo personalmente, gli offrм una percentuale sui diritti d'autore. La sua lettera non ebbe risposta.

Il professor Baranowski dice che, nel corso dell'esame clinico di 16.000 persone, ha trovato che quasi il 90% di esse potevano ricordare, sotto ipnosi, esperienze antiche di 300 anni. Durante l'ipnosi esse regredivano in personalitа che avevano nomi diversi e parlavano altre lingue, come il francese del secolo XVII. Tutto questo, a suo giudizio, sembrava avere molta importanza per il problema del Karma e della reincarnazione.

Nel Natale del 1977 il professor Baranowski fu ospite in una casa in cui si cantavano bhajan. Non abituato a questa forma di celebrazione, egli si ritirт nella sua stanza al piano di sopra. Era lм, tranquillamente, al buio, quando fu colpito dall'improvviso accendersi di una candela sul tavolo. La fiamma illuminava una vicina immagine di Sri Sathya Sai Baba.

Non riusciva a capire chi avesse potuto accendere la candela, perchй era solo nella stanza. Non si era udito alcun rumore e nessuno era entrato. Come pteva essere apparsa improvvisamente una fiamma all'estremo della candela? Guardт l'immagine ed essa provocт in lui molte emozioni. Sembrava penetrarlo e fargli cenno. Pe run uomo di scienza tutto ciт era assolutamente inesplicabile.

Il pensiero di Sri Sathya Sai Baba rimase in lui molto dopo l'esperienza della candela. Egli decise di recarsi in India e di visitare Whitefield. La prima volta che vi andт, vide Sri Sathya Sai Baba apparire al balcone, e rimase senza fiato per l'aura e i colori che emanavano da lui. Larghe e spesse strisce bianche e rosse fluivano da lui: bianche, il colore dell'energia, e rosse, il colore dell'amore. E piщ ancora lo stupivano strisce d'oro e d'argento. Non aveva mai visto queste strisce sebbene sapesse che, in teoria, esistevano. Per la prima volta stava osservando una persona con un'aura d'oro brillante, che si muoveva e risplendeva come raggi di sole sull'acqua. Non riusciva a trarre respiro.

Osservт Sri Sathya Sai Baba nel parco di Brindavan per quasi una settimana. «Tanta energia e tanto amore fluivano da lui. Il rosso abbracciava la gente, andava e veniva. L'aura si diffondeva avvolgendo la zona come una massa o nube rossa. Era tutta energia in forma di amore che fluiva da lui. Molta di questa energia viene usata dalla gente: essa emana semplicemente da lui sugli uomini, ed essi la assorbono», disse con enfasi il professor Baranowski.

Ognuno ha un'aura. A volte essa ha un colore dominante. Ma una tale coloritura rossa in strisce larghe e spesse и qualche cosa di assolutamente straordinario. Una persona puт avere questo tipo di aura solo se ama in modo totale, emanando ed esprimendo amore, parlando e vivendo amore.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba ha anche larghe strisce di aura blu, oltre il bianco. Questo и almeno il doppio di quanto appare in una persona comune. E tutte sono circondate di rosso. Sono colori buoni e combinazioni eccellenti. Il professor Baranowski spiega che vi sono cinque differenti sfumature di aura (in sanscrito teja) denotanti gli aspetti estetico, spirituale, intellettuale, fisico e morale. Questi possono essere spiegati scientificamente. Ma l'aura che circonda Sri Sathya Sai Baba va oltre ogni spiegazione.

Il professor Baranowski mi disse che l'aura di Sri Sathya Sai Baba и al suo massimo quando vengono cantati i bhajan. Allora il rosso abbraccia tutta la gente che canta nella stanza e si estende oltre di essa.

«Non posso trovare una spiegazione scientifica per questo fenomeno unico», mi disse. «L'amore che egli genera ci avvolge e penetra in noi. La sua energia и assorbita da moltissimi... sembra infinita come il suo amore. Altrimenti nessun essere comune potrebbe sopravvivere a tanta attivitа, dopo che tanti gli hanno portato via tanta forza».

Il professor Baranowski lo vide parlare con una ragazzina in una fila di folla che aspettava di vederlo. Ella era invalida, in una carrozzella. «L'aura di Sai Baba divenne immensa mentre egli la toccava con delicatezza, e il suo amore (prema) fluм nella fanciulla».

Nel guardare entro gli occhi di Sri Sathya Sai Baba, il professore ebbe un'esperienza indimenticabile. Perchй, egli dice, «Gli occhi di Sai Baba risplendevano anche nell'interno, con il fulgore di un diamante. Ho visto molti occhi bruni, ma nessuno che potesse rifulgere come quelli nell'intimo, e tuttavia essi rifulgevano. Egli и amore. Egli и esattamente quello che dice di essere: una incarnazione di amore».

Sri Sathya Sai Baba creт un anello d'oro, con nove gemme, per il professor Baranowski quando egli meno se lo aspettava. Ed egli rimase sbigottito. «Il fatto avvenne a pochi pollici dai miei occhi, che sono scientificamente addestrati. E' incredibile come, usando energia, egli possa donare dell'oro».

«Io non sono cresciuto con credenze indщ. Sono cattolico, educato nella fede cristiana. E appartengo alla comunitа scientifica. Nel mio paese и difficile accettare qualcuno come Dio, perchй non и scientifico. Quando dico di avere visto il volto della divinitа i cui occhi erano luminosi, metto in giuoco la mia reputazione scientifica e i miei colleghi possono pensare che sia uscito di senno. Ma non vi bado. Perchй, secondo il mio giudizio e la mia esperienza, Sai Baba и, quanto all'aura, esattamente quello che dice di essere e che vorrebbe che tutti noi fossimo. E' puro e semplice amore: un amore che cammina su due gambe. E un tale amore privo di ogni egoismo non и altro che divinitа».

Tratto dal libro "Sai Baba. La divinitа vivente" di Shakuntala Balu
Shakuntala Balu, Sai Baba. La divinitа vivente. Milano, Armenia Editore, 1987, pp. 49-52

8/19/2005

Anna Marg

Bob S joked as he traveled around India after having Baba's darshan..
sampling the delights of Indian cooking from the snowcapped Himalayas to
the warm seas in the south, from Bombay where hundreds of thousands gather to
send a Ganesha murti into the sea...to the west where Yogananda grew..
that his was the path of food.

Italian Actress

A kind disciplined and beautiful Italian actress went to see Baba. He greeted her, using the name
of the new role she had just gotten in a German movie, a name she had told no one.

Two Sets Of Glasses

The writer used to be the subject of ridicule for wearing 2 sets of
drugstore glasses ... to magnify enough to see print.

Now she wears no glasses, by Baba's grace. May Baba now heal all eyes, all spirits.

8/18/2005

Pastel Water Colors... Intense Inks

http://jeannettecaruth.blogspot.com/

Jeannette Caruth, a mystic poet and artist, has penned a book poem to Swami.

Quotes

http://www.vahini.org/downloads
http://www.sathyasai.org
http://www.eaisai.com/baba
http://www.saibabalinks.org
http://saibabasquotes.blogspot.com/

No one but a self realized master can know all the Avatar says.. unless He wills it.

8/14/2005

Thoughts On Nonjudging

THOUGHTS ON NONJUDGING



Sai Baba: God looks on sin as a mother looks upon her
baby's first halting attempts to walk

Jillelamudi Mother: The Mother sees no fault in any of her
children

Starseed Transmissions: You do not have enough data
to assign value to any action

Bible: Thou shalt not judge

Sri Yukteswar: The vanished lives of all are filled with many
shames. Therefore do not judge.

Ekagraha: Even to say "I forgive you" is an attack because
it is the perception of another's imperfection

Uri Geller is a Follower of Baba

Uri Geller is a devotee of Baba
http://www.uri-geller.com/baba.htm
http://www.uri-geller.com/baba8.htm
There is an online book he has written about Baba


With Baba in the Hills



Come to me with empty hands. I shall fill them with gifts and grace.

SATYA SAI BABA



One winter in Madras Sai Baba invited my wife and myself to spend the following June with him at his summer retreat at Whitefield, near Bangalore. We were filled with joy at the prospect, but we had learned by then that it is far wiser to have no firm expectations about Baba's future movements. There is such a colossal demand for his presence and time, and it seems that he goes wherever he is most needed; or in other words he does whatever is most relevant to the advancement of his mission. At least that is the interpretation we put on Baba's movements, but the fact is that they follow some law beyond our comprehension. So we told each other that we might, if lucky, be with him for a day or two at Whitefield. As for spending a whole month in his presence well, it was all right to hope, but presumptuous to expect.

Still in that state of mind, we arrived in Bangalore at the beginning of June and stayed the night with a fellow member of the Theosophical Society. He drove us in his car the next morning to Whitefield, which is on rising ground about twelve miles outside the city. On the way he explained that Whitefield had come into being as a British community, but that now there were very few Europeans left. It was, we found, a widely spread-out place, with most of the houses large and in broad, pleasant gardens. Eventually, set in a high brick wall, we found a gate with the name "Brindavanam" above it and a khaki-clad Gurkha on guard. We knew from the name that this was Baba's residence.

Just inside the gate was a cottage from which came a benign, snowy-haired man who proved to be Mr. M. S. Dixit. He installed us in a room of his cottage, which I supposed had been the lodge in former days, and gave us the good news that Sai Baba was in residence. We could see no signs of another house, and I wondered where Baba actually lived.

However, a little later in the morning Mr. Dixit led us across the tree-studded grounds, through wandering tribes of monkeys and up a flight of steps to a higher terrace. Here was a park-like garden of shrubs and covered walks and a good-sized house where we found Sai Baba surrounded by a party of resident guests, with many day visitors from Bangalore.

"Swami", as his devotees mostly address him, welcomed us like a mother who is happy that her children have come home. He offered us the choice of moving into the big house with him, in which case we would have to separate, Iris sleeping dormitory-style with the Women on one side of the house and I in the men's dormitory on the other. Or we could lodge where we were with Mr. Dixit, but have our meals and spend as much time as we wished in the big house. We chose the latter.

That morning we watched a "thread ceremony" in the central hall of Baba's residence. The boy receiving the sacred thread was the son of Mr. Jawa, owner of the Joy Ice-cream factories. The parents, grandmother and other family members, all of whom are Baba devotees, were present for the ceremony and the hall was crammed with spectators. Under Sai Baba's supervision, pundit priests from Prasanti Nilayam carried out the ritual. At the right moment Baba stepped into the centre of the scene, waved his hand in the now well-known manner, and from that occult niche in space which he sometimes calls "the Sai Stores" produced the necessary thread to place around the boy's neck.

After the ceremony came a feast on the broad verandah. We sat cross-legged on the floor in two long rows, eating Indian dishes from plantain-leaf plates while a servant kept the monkeys at bay with a pole. Swami walked around making sure that all his guests were happy. On this festive occasion men and women ate together, but normally at Brindavanam they use the dining room at separate times, Baba eating with the men and sometimes visiting the ladies to talk to them during their meals.

Sai Baba has found that it certainly would not pay him to advertise. Even without the benefits of publicity, crowds tend to impede his movements. So my wife and I felt honoured when he confided to us quietly that he was taking a small party to spend a couple of weeks with him at Horsley Hills, some ninety miles north of Bangalore, and we were overjoyed to learn that we were to be included in the party. All accommodation arrangements had been made by one of his devotees, Mr. T. A. Ramanatha Reddy, the Superintending Engineer of Roads and Buildings in the large area which included Horsley Hills. We should be ready to move, Swami said, in a couple of days' time. We understood that this was confidential information.

As we had expected to be away from headquarters at Adyar for the whole summer in various types of climate, we had a good deal of luggage with us. So we began to plan what to take and what to leave stored at Brindavanam. It was good, we thought, that Swami had given us plenty of warning. If anyone else at Brindavanam knew about the pending move, they said nothing - and we said nothing to anyone.

We prided ourselves on having learned to keep a secret, but we still had an important lesson to learn. Like Yama, the god of death, Baba may sometimes give you a warning but you can never know the exact time when his beckoning finger will be seen. Next morning we were awakened from our slumbers about 6 o'clock by a stern voice saying: "What, aren't you ready? Swami is leaving in five minutes' time."

It was a terrible situation; our things were scattered everywhere. We had neither showered nor dressed nor had a cup of tea, let alone packed. And Baba was waiting to take us away for two weeks. How long would he wait? Would he go without us? We staggered around blindly trying to think and throw things into suitcases.

The stern voice of the devotee at the window agreed to give us a quarter of an hour. But even that still presented an impossibility. When we came out in about half an hour with our cases and valises, we were told that Swami had left. Our hearts sank, but it was not as bad as it seemed; he had gone on ahead in one car, but left another for us. In it we found a few other lucky devotees bound for the hill station, including Mr. Ramanatha Reddy who was to guide us there.

In a forest a few miles along the route we were happy to see Baba's white car waiting beside the road, his red-robed figure and a small group of men standing beside it in the morning sunshine. He teased us a little about taking so long, looked startled at the amount of our luggage, then led the whole party in among the fragrant trees for a picnic breakfast.

After that there was a reshuffle of passengers and I had the privilege of my first journey with the great man himself. Raja Reddy, perhaps Baba's closest disciple at the time, was driving the car, two teenage boys sat in the back with Baba, while Ramanatha Reddy and I were in front with the driver. We rolled on through empty barren country and an occasional village or town with people teeming like ants over sugar. Slate-coloured rocky hills began to outline against the sky. The last town we passed through was Madanapalle, the birthplace of J. Krishnamurti. Just before we climbed the steep Horsley Hills we passed a road sign to Rishi Valley where the well-known school run by Krishnamurti's followers is located.

Right on the crest of the hills, some 4,800 feet above sea level, we came to the white Circuit House, our destination. It is not very large but has the comforts of a first-class hotel, being intended primarily as a guest-house for government ministers and important official visitors. Our host, Mr. Ramanatha Reddy, had been able to secure it for what was to his mind the V.I.P. of all V.I.P.s; Satya Sai Baba, plus whatever party the latter cared to bring along.

Besides the host and myself there were four males in the group: Dr. Sitaramiah, Mr. V. Raja Reddy and two teenagers; and there were half-a-dozen women, including three Indian princesses. Being the only married couple in the party, Iris and I were given a suite to ourselves. This was only two doors from Baba's suite, and opened onto a broad balcony from which there was a wonderful view of the country far below.

The plains were a smoky dun-and-green carpet, with isolated hills like children's blocks scattered carelessly over it, and the scores of water "tanks" shone like broken pieces of mirror fallen on the giant carpet. We were living up in the sky - in more ways than one. Here, we thought, we could at last have Baba to ourselves, just a small group of us. At last the ubiquitous crowds were left behind. We could live on intimate terms with this superhuman being from morning till night. We could see what his life was like and enjoy his wonders to the full.

No matter how early we arose in the crisp mornings we found that Baba was already up, usually sitting writing by his open door; he attends to his large correspondence himself, besides writing regular articles for his ashram magazine, Sanatana Sarati ("The Timeless Charioteer").

Sometime during the morning, after breakfast with us, he would gather all of us into a room for a spiritual discourse. This would often take the form of narratives from the Ramayana, the Mahabbarata, or the Srimad Bhagavata. Interpreting the stories, Baba would reveal in sharp relief the profound wisdom of Bhakti Yoga.

After a walk in the gardens, followed by lunch and a siesta, would come afternoon tea in the lounge. The first difficulty here was to persuade the Indian women to sit on chairs, for they thought it incorrect to be on the same level as their Swami. Indeed some to the very end insisted on sitting at his feet on the carpet, leaving empty chairs. But when Baba had managed to get the majority onto seats, albeit stiffly and ill-at-ease, he would usually launch into some comic theme, making us all laugh. Nevertheless, this always had practical hints and implications on the ethics of right living.

In the late afternoons or evenings the party frequently went for a drive, followed perhaps by a walk, weather permitting. Otherwise there might be another enlightening discourse by Baba. On one occasion we all visited an Indian village, far off the busy highways and beautifully, unbelievably silent. Here at the home of some Baba devotees we were entertained to dinner, while the whole village crowded around in the courtyard to see and be blessed by the avatar.

But within the first few days another element began to disturb the even tenor of our Horsley Hills idyll. Even in this remote spot the crowds began to gather. Somehow the word had spread that Sai Baba was in the area and people came from far and near, by car, by bus or on foot. Before breakfast the first few would appear, and then throughout the whole day a crowd would be standing in the grounds looking up at the balcony, waiting for the blessings of a look and a sign from Sai Baba.

And he never disappointed them. Often he would go out onto the balcony, look on them with loving compassion and raise his hand in a characteristic gesture of upliftment and benediction. Sometimes he would go down and walk among the visitors, talking with them and producing vibhuti or something else to help those who were sick or in trouble. If a crowd of poor people had come a long way on foot, he would give them all money so that they could go home by bus. Every evening he would bring all who were there into the large foyer and front corridor of Circuit House, and lead them and us in beautiful bhajan songs for half an hour or more.

Interspersing all these daily activities were the miracles of physical phenomena, several each day. Here are some of the more outstanding ones.



One afternoon soon after our arrival we all went for a drive and, leaving the cars, strolled about on a rocky knoll of the hills. Baba several times picked up a piece of broken rock, played with it awhile, and then threw it away. Finally, just as we were returning, he kept a piece about the size of a man's closed fist and carried it back to Circuit House.

Arriving there, he took us into one of the suites and sat on the carpet while we sat in a semi-circle around him. He began to talk conversationally on everyday topics, occasionally throwing the piece of rock a couple of feet in the air and letting it fall on the floor. Presently he tossed it over to me, asking:

"Can you eat that?"

I examined the rock closely. It was hard granite, streaky and rather lightish in colour. I admitted its inedibility and bowled it back to him - he was not more than two yards away from me.

He took the stone and, still chatting casually, threw it in the air again, while a dozen pairs of eyes watched expectantly. I felt that something strange was going to happen and never let the stone out of my sight. Now as it lay on the carpet I could see a slight change in its appearance. Although of exactly the same size and shape, and still streaky, it was a little lighter in colour than before.

Swami rolled it back to me across the carpet. "Can you eat it now?" he asked. To my amazement and joy it was no longer rock but sugar candy. Baba broke it into pieces, giving us each a portion to eat. It was sweet and delicious as candy should be. Is this an illusion, I wondered, are we all hypnotised? So I put a piece in my pocket. I still have it and it's still sugar candy.

I thought of the popular song about 'The Big Rock Candy Mountains' and jokingly said to him, "I wish you would turn the whole mountain into candy or chocolate." Baba seemed to take this seriously or maybe as a kind of challenge. Anyway he replied solemnly that it would not be right to interfere too much with Nature's housekeeping.

Then it occurred to me that my joke was rather superficial. If willpower, or whatever power it is, can transmute a small piece of igneous rock into an entirely different substance, why not a large piece? And why not into any substance? Gold, for instance? So how very important it is that a man who understands and can employ the occult laws of Nature, must be above Nature: must be beyond normal human desires for such things as power and material gain. Otherwise what might happen?

Writing on this them in the last quarter of the nineteenth century when a good deal of "physical phenomena" came before the public eye, A.P. Sinnett said1: "It is enough to say that these powers are such as cannot but be dangerous to society generally, and provocative of all manner of crimes which would utterly defy detection, if possessed by persons capable of regarding them as anything else but a profoundly sacred trust." He goes on to say that such powers in the hands of people willing to use them for merely selfish and unscrupulous ends are productive of disaster - as it is said to have been for the Atlanteans.

Today in our world men of exoteric science have learned the secret and hold the power of disintegrating matter into atomic energy, and this stands as a constant threat to the very existence of humanity on this earth. They have also learned to transmute base metal to gold though the process is too expensive to be economically and socially disruptive. A safeguarding law of occultism is that spiritual and moral advancement should keep pace with the growth of the intellect and the acquisition of the knowledge of Nature's deeper secrets. When this law is broken a dangerous situation must inevitably arise.



One sparkling morning I was walking with Swami and the two teenage youths in the gardens of Circuit House. Baba was wearing an ochre-coloured robe which fell like a smooth cylinder from shoulders to ground. As Iris had ironed some, of his robes a couple of days earlier, I knew for certain that they contained neither pockets nor places where anything could be concealed. His sleeves were straight and loose, without cuffs. He carried nothing in his hands.

One of the young men was returning to Bombay next day and wanted to take photos of Swami, so the latter posed for several pictures. Occasionally, as we strolled and talked, he paused to pick a berry or a bud from one of the shrubs. This he would examine with the concentration and thoughtfulness of a botanist: then after a while he would throw it away as if it were not quite suitable to some purpose he had in mind. Finally he picked a small bud from a bush, examined it, seemed satisfied and handed it to me, saying: "Keep that."

Soon afterwards we went back up the steps to the front entrance. Baba did not go to his own suite but walked straight into ours. He sat on an armchair while the young men, my wife and I gathered around him on the carpet.

Swami asked for the bud that he had given me. I handed it to him, and he held it in his fingers for a while, discussing it.

"What flower is it?" he asked.

We confessed our ignorance. He suggested that it might be a button rose and we agreed.

Then looking at me he asked: "What do you want it to become?"

I was at a loss to know what to say, so I replied: "Anything you like, Swami."



He held it in the palm of his right hand, closed his fist, and blew into it. Then he asked me to stretch out my hand. I gasped, and my wife gave a squeal of delight as from the theurgic hand that held the flower bud there fell into my open palm a glittering diamond of brilliant cut. In size it matched the bud, which had completely vanished.

Baba graciously presented me with this beautiful and amazing product of transmutation magic. I still have it.



We were on the floor around Baba expecting a morning discourse, perhaps one of those wonderful stories from Indian mythology which lead the mind to the deeper truths of life. However, before talking, he showed us a green leaf and wrote on it with his fingernail. Then he handed the leaf to me, but I could make nothing of the writing, which he said was a mantram in Sanskrit.

Next he asked for a book, and one of the ladies who occupied the suite passed him her Telegu grammar. Placing the leaf between the pages, he shut the book and tapped its cover several times. Now he opened it and took out the leaf. The writing was still on it, but instead of being green and fresh as it had been a moment before it was brown and so dry that it easily crumbled into dust.

Baba tossed the book on the carpet nearby and, after talking for a while, left the room. Well, I thought, on the face of it this miracle would not stand up to the sceptic; the brown leaf could have been somehow "planted" in the book earlier. So I picked up the volume and searched its pages for the missing green leaf, but could find nothing. Why am I doubting, I asked myself, when I have seen him do so many things equally incredible and inexplicable? Sai Baba had somehow blasted this leaf, as another One who stood above Nature had blasted a tree two thousand years ago. It was as if, for the leaf, many months of summer had been telescoped into that one magical moment when Baba tapped the book.



On the subtle planes of being, interpenetrating our physical plane of existence, there may well be classes of entities for whom our physical space would be actually non-existent: our "here" and "there" would be all one to them. The ancient wisdom teaches that there are such beings. It also teaches that a physical object can be disintegrated into a subtler substance, or "energy-system", which can be moved by some agency at near light speed, and reintegrated to form the original object. This is the general principle behind the phenomenon known as an apport; that is, so far as it is understood.

At Horsley Hills Sai Baba produced a particularly striking example of such telekinesis. One evening a party of us were sitting on the carpet in his suite; Ramanatha Reddy, the doctor, the young men, Iris and myself were there. Swami asked me the year of my birth, and when I told him, he said that he would get for me from America a coin minted there in that same year.

He began to circle his down-turned hand in the air in front of us, making perhaps half a dozen small circles, saying the while: "It's coming now . . . . coming . . . . here it is!"

Then he closed his hand and held it before me, smiling as if enjoying my eager expectancy. When the coin dropped from his hand to mine, I noted first that it was heavy and golden. On closer examination I found, to my delight, that it was a genuine milled American ten-dollar coin, with the year of my birth stamped beneath a profile head of the Statue of Liberty.

"Born the same year as you," Swami smiled.

What would the sceptics say about this, I wondered. Would they suggest that Baba carried around with him a stock of coins so that he would have one to match my year of birth. Such old American coins, now long out of circulation, would not be easy for him to obtain in India through normal channels.

I have no doubt whatever that this was one of Baba's many genuine apports. While he circled his hand before us, some agency under his will had dematerialised this gold coin at some place somewhere, carried it at space-annihilating velocity, and re-materialised it in Sai Baba's hand.

From where did it come? Who knows? Baba would never say; perhaps from some old hoard, hidden, lost, forgotten long ago, and now belonging to no one alive.



Although I had come to know through first-hand experience that Sai Baba was certainly not an impostor and that his miracles were genuine, I could not help thinking that the use of sand as a medium for production was something which gave fuel to the sceptic. Admittedly several of his followers had told me that in fact everything he had produced from sand he had also produced at other times without it - that is, from the air.

Even so, an objective psychical researcher, hearing the stories of the sand wonders, is bound to raise the queries: are the objects previously "planted" in the sand? Or does Baba by some lightning sleight-of-hand slip them in just before he digs them out? In fact, for anyone who had neither seen the miracles for themselves nor felt the spiritually elevating presence of Sai Baba, I suspected that "sand productions" must leave a bigger question mark in the mind than "other productions".

But this was because such events had not hitherto been fully and thoroughly reported to me by a careful observer. At a later period I had my own close observations of the sand miracles confirmed by several of India's leading scientists - but that is jumping ahead of the story.

The first point I want to make clear about my Horsley Hills experience of Baba's "sand productions" is that on the journey from Circuit House to the place of the miracles I sat in the front of the car with Sai Baba and Raja Reddy, who was driving. Baba carried nothing in his hands, and he was wearing his usual robe; none of the objects later produced could have been concealed on his person.

A few miles from Circuit House the car, and several other vehicles following it, stopped by the roadside. We all got out and went to a patch of sand some fifty yards away which had been seen from the road on an earlier journey.

Baba asked the young men in the party to make him a sand platform, so they scraped and pushed the sand with their hands to build a flat stage about, a foot high and four feet square. Baba sat cross-legged in the middle of this and the party clustered in a semi-circle around him. I was in the front row of the spectators, right at the edge of the sand platform. The thought, passed through my mind that if any object had previously been buried here, near where Baba was sittting, he would have to dig down more than a foot through the newly-piled sand to reach it.

He began as usual with a spiritual discourse which, apparently, always has the effect of harmonising and purifying the psychic atmosphere around. Maybe this is a necessary preparation for the miracles. Then with his forefinger he made a drawing on the surface of the sand just in front of him, and asked me what it was. From where I sat it looked rather like a human figure, and I told him so.

Laughing, and with the expression of a happy child playing on a beach, he scooped up the sand to form a little mound above the drawing, about six inches high. Still with an air of happy expectation he put his fingers lightly into the top of the mound, perhaps an inch down, and drew out, head first, a silvery shining figure, like the drawing he had made. It was a statue of the god Vishnu, about four inches in height. He held it up for everyone to see, then put it to one side, smoothed out the mound before him to make a flat surface again, and began once more to discuss spiritual topics.

Soon he made another drawing in the sand on the same spot as before. Again he scooped sand over it, making a mound - a wider flat-topped one this time. Again with a happy chuckle he felt with his finger-tips into the top of the mound and scraped a little sand away; less than an inch down was a photograph. He pulled it out, shook the yellow grains away, and held it up for us to see. It was a glossy black-and-white print, about ten inches by eight.

He passed it around for some of us to look at closely, and later I examined it at leasure back at our quarters. It was a photograph of the Hindu gods and avatars, standing in two rows to form a forward-pointing arrowhead, with Lord Krishna in the foreground at the tip. Heads of Satya Sai Baba and Shirdi Baba could be seen as small inserts on the body of Krishna. This print, I felt, was not produced in any earthly studio. Baba later gave it to Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Ramanatha Reddy, our hosts. It stood with the unearthed statue of Vishnu for some days on a side table in the dining room at Circuit House.

Other objects produced from the sand in the same manner went to various people in the audience. There were, for example, a jappamala (rosary) for Mr. Niak, the Collector of Kolar District, and a pendant which was given to a revenue officer.

But there was one supreme production from that sand patch of which we all had a share. Baba did his outline sketch, which I could see from where I sat was a little container of some kind. Then, in the usual way, he scraped the top sand with his open hands to make a tiny hill above the drawing. Pausing a moment with a delighted smile, he felt into the crown of the hill and took out a silver-coloured container. This was of circular shape with a neck and a screw-top. At a guess its spherical bowl would be perhaps two and a half inches in diameter.

Sai Baba unscrewed the lid and a wonderful perfume pervaded the air. Putting the container to one side, he went through the same process again of drawing and mound-building. This time the product was a golden spoon like a small teaspoon. With this he stirred the contents of the bowl and, standing up, began to give some to each of his spectators.

Like the others I opened my mouth while he poured a spoonful onto my tongue. The word that came into my mind was "ambrosial"; it seemed nothing less than the food of the gods; it suggested a mixture of the essences of the most heavenly fruits, the divine archetypes of the loveliest fruits of earth. The taste is quite indescribable; it has to be experienced.

The devotees call this glorious nectar amrita, which has much the same meaning as ambrosia - the food of the immortals. Several devotees, including some westerners like Nirmalananda and Gabriela, had told me about seeing it produced on rare occasions from the sand, and all tried in vain to describe its exquisite taste and aroma. Others, including Dr. Sitaramiah, had witnessed Baba produce amrita by squeezing his own hand, and in other ways. But no one at this time had seen manifestation of amrita for about three years, and I was very grateful that Baba had given my wife and myself this personal experience of a thrilling, deeply-moving miracle. It was witnessed on this occasion at Horsley Hills by about forty-five men and more than a dozen women. Baba went around giving some to all, except to the women who were staying at Circuit House. There was enough amrita for everyone to have a spoonful each and the bowl was still not empty.

Baba handed it to me to carry back to our quarters. I felt very honoured and held it carefully in my hand as we drove up the sharp bends to the crest of the hill. Sand still clung to the designs carved on the silvery metal, which, I way told was the sacred alloy panchaloha. On the balcony of Circuit House I handed the container back to Baba and he straight away walked around giving some to each of the ladies who had not yet tasted the "food of the gods".

I sometimes wondered afterwards what had happened to the little bowl but about a year later a Bombay devotee told me he had visited Baba at Horsley Hills a day or two after the event and been presented with the panchaloha container. It still held some amrita which he and his family enjoyed, and the miracle bowl now occupies a place of honour in his home.

So here are the answers to the two points raised by my inner psychical researcher. First, the objects could not have been previously hidden in the sand patch ready for Baba to take out because they came from the top of a mound, made before our eyes, on the top of a foot-thick sand stage, also built while we watched. Secondly, even if Baba could have carried the objects to the sand patch that night without my seeing them, an utter impossibility, he could not by the most expert legerdemain have slipped such articles as a glittering idol, a large photograph, a bulky jappamala and a shining bowl of nectar into the sand under our noses without our being aware of the fact. If he could, he is superior to the most expert conjuror and should be making fame and fortune on the stage as an entertainer.

Quite apart from the miraculous production of such objects there is the strange mystery of the amrita itself - its ambrosial out-of-this-world quality, its power (shown on various occasions) to increase in quantity to meet the needs of whatever numbers happen to be present. What, I wondered, was its actual significance? I determined to ask Sai Baba about this at the first opportunity.

Notes

1Esoteric Buddhism, by A.P. Sinnett (now out of print)