Sathya Sai Baba

Visions And Dreams From Baba

2006-11-25T06:00:00.000-08:00

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.

tea made of the seeds of red clover

2006-11-04T19:46:00.000-08:00

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

Is The Heart Ready For Visitors

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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

Visions And Dreams From Baba

2006-09-19T11:48:00.000-07:00

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

2006-09-19T09:04:00.000-07:00

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.

Karmic Cause of Unhealed Blindness

2006-09-14T13:32:00.000-07:00

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.)

3 Intersections

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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)

Melting The Red Rectangle

2006-07-27T08:44:00.000-07:00

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

Padnamaskar of Isananda

2006-07-12T15:08:00.000-07:00

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.

Baba Links

2006-06-25T10:26:00.000-07:00

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#MÃ¢dhavÃ¢ GopÃ¢lÃ¢
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

2006-06-25T04:59:00.000-07:00

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.

India and China

2006-06-20T09:09:00.000-07:00

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.

Visions and Dreams From Baba

2006-06-18T07:05:00.000-07:00

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.

Sai Baba On Avoiding Fish Meat and Dairy

2006-06-17T08:30:00.000-07:00

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

Sending Love To Those Who Act Violently

2006-06-05T04:57:00.000-07:00

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.

Your Wish Is Granted

2006-06-03T08:17:00.000-07:00

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.

Samara In Straw, Acorn in Quarter Roll Plasticcm

2006-05-27T10:53:00.000-07:00

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.)

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

2006-05-26T08:33:00.000-07:00

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)

Rare Pink Flower

2006-05-25T08:25:00.000-07:00

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.

Hanuman Raisins

2006-05-18T19:02:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T18:55:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T09:46:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T09:29:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T09:16:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T09:03:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T09:02:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T09:01:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T09:00:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T07:09:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T06:46:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T06:41:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T06:37:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-18T05:24:00.000-07:00

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.

British and Canadian Coins

2005-11-07T15:20:00.000-08:00

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

2005-11-07T15:17:00.000-08:00

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.

Transition

2005-10-08T13:02:00.000-07:00

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

Swadharma

2005-10-02T10:44:00.000-07:00

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

Emuculum

2005-09-01T12:51:00.000-07:00

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.)

Frank Baranowski

2005-08-27T11:42:00.000-07:00

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

2005-08-27T11:32:00.000-07:00

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

Anna Marg

2005-08-19T12:32:00.000-07:00

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

2005-08-19T11:32:00.000-07:00

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

2005-08-19T06:45:00.000-07:00

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.

Pastel Water Colors... Intense Inks

2005-08-18T10:45:00.000-07:00

http://jeannettecaruth.blogspot.com/

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

Quotes

2005-08-18T10:43:00.000-07:00

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.

Thoughts On Nonjudging

2005-08-14T13:38:00.000-07:00

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

2005-08-14T13:12:00.000-07:00

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)

I And My Father Are One

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Swami gave the writer a dream in which she was standing half way down
a Christian church in Charlottesville in an aisle. He walked down the aisle from
the back of the church, took hold of her hand, said to her "I and my Father
are One" (repeating Jesus' statement). Then He walked on to the altar.
There were many meanings in this dream koan .. one of which was she should see
no separation between Jesus and the Avatar... a second became apparent to her
when she found the beautiful book by Al Drucker about Baba. It is called
"I And My Father Are One" and is available online at http://www.atmapress.com

In purity has fallen into the Sanskrit character Om.... the snow of Mt. Kailash

2005-08-13T13:44:00.000-07:00

OM IN THE SNOW

In purity has fallen into the Sanskrit character Om.... the snow of Mt. Kailash.

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Breaking Addiction's Chains

2005-08-13T12:50:00.000-07:00

My friend and I prayed to Swami for her loved ones and mine...
in one case I prayed for the breaking of nicotine chains
.... and found out that my friend had shortly after the prayer
gone to an acupuncturist and had not had a desire for
a cigarette in the 24 hours since

In another case, Baba instantaneously removed the strongly
marketed desire for nicotine.

In a third case, He took away the desire slowly.

Held Up By Water

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BABA'S THREE QUESTIONS...
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An old merchant from Kuppam arrived late one evening by car with his
family. As soon as Baba saw him, He asked, "How deep is the well?" I
thought the inquiry was about a well he was digging in his field, but
his son told me a very thrilling story.

V.R was suffering from acute stomach pain for over ten days and the
doctor in attendance left him one dark January night about 10PM.
Every one went to bed and all was quiet. An hour later, it was
noticed that V.R was not in his bed! Minutes passed, he did not
return. A feeble voice was heard from the distance, "Amma! Amma!".
The sons ran helter skelter and discovered that the voice emanated
from the well! It was 50 yards away from the house, 10 feet across ,
with water 25 feet deep, an irrigation well , with a wall all around,
slabs criss - crossing the depth, with a pumping set worked by an
electrically operated engine. The old man had fallen into it!

It was pitch dark, but, with the help of a torch it was found that
the old man was most miraculously standing erect close to the wall
with no apparent foothold, more than half his body immersed in the
water. He was praying aloud to Sathya Sai, his only succour.
Shuddering and shivering, one of the sons got down the well and tied
a rope round the waist of the old man; others went about frantically
calling for help, but they could collect only two timid individuals.
Then, as luck would have it, or rather as Baba willed, the Sub-
inspector of Police (whoever could have expected him of all people to
pass that way?) butted in to find out the reason for their commotion.
He helped in the rescue, by letting down a sofa for the old man and
slowly lifting him up.

The doctor, who was called in, was stunned because there was not a
single scratch or cut on the body; the patient was perfectly normal
and unconcerned and was reciting Baba's Name. He looked as if he had
just returned from a bath in the Chithravathi! How could he have
stood erect, clinging to the side of the well, with 25feet of water
beneath him? That was the wonder, the wonder of all who could not
grasp that the escape was Providential, nay, Sathyasaidential, to be
more exact.

A family came from Nellore and stood facing the portico of the
Prasanthi Nilayam. Baba appeared before long and He asked
them, "Where is the dog that took your son up the Hill?" I thought
the question referred to some pet dog which was faithful and
intelligent and I asked them whether my surmise was correct. No; it
was not. It seems his son left the house one night with out notice, a
week previously. Since he was not in the best of health, either
physically or mentally, the parents were naturally very worried; they
telegraphed to Baba; they searched all likely and unlikely places. In
the morning, someone came and gave them a clue…. he might have gone
to Tirupathi. So, they hastened to that place and drove up the Hill
and arrived at the Temple, to discover the boy there! He had climbed
the steps in spite of his ill health, because, as he said a lovely
little dog had inspired him and guided his steps. Its seems that dog
appeared suddenly from nowhere just after the first few steps; it
would climb seven or eight steps and sit looking affectionately
towards the boy, encouraging him to do likewise, urging him on, and
intimating to him that it was all so easy. Without knowing how, the
boy had followed the dog, talking to it and inspired by it, never
doubting its intentions or its authenticity as guide. A few yards
from the Gopuram of Sri Venkatachalapathi Temple, the dog melted
away. That was the story the son related to the astounded parents on
the Hill and at Puttaparthi to me, when I asked him about the dog,
that was mentioned by Baba, as soon as they came.

An officer who had to tour uninhabited tracts and jungles for at
least a few months every year as part of his official duties came to
Puttaparthi; he was looking up the verandah on the first floor of the
Nilayam, to get a glimpse of Baba. Presently, Baba appeared and
recognising him, asked, "Did you get the lorry I sent?" I thought the
man was a businessman who had dispatched a lorry to Puttaparthi and
was expecting it back. But the man had a different story to tell!

He said that the question revealed to him that the arrival of a
lorry, along a god forsaken jungle road to pick him up from his sick
bed and convey him to the nearest doctor, 40 miles away, was the act
of Baba and the saving of his life by that doctor's timely
ministration was a Satyasaidential act of mercy. It seems he had
developed a septic wound while in camp and that he had fallen into
delirium on account of the fever. It was raining terribly and thunder
roared overhead. He prayed to all the Gods he knew, including Baba,
but, found no ray of hope, for he was on the very center of no man's
land. Then, suddenly, he heard the noise of a passing lorry. Yes. The
driver had lost his way and was nosing his way about the jungle
tracks. His servants ran after it shouted desperately, and caught it,
by the side of a deep nullah, where it had perforce to stop. That
lorry saved his life.

And, now, he knew that Baba had sent it!

(ARTICLE WRITTEN BY LATE PROF.KASTURI, SANATHANA SARATHI APRIL 1961
ISSUE)

Four Stories Of The Divinity Of Matter

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Ekagraha: "Do not ask the insane ego what is the reality of what
you see as a rock. See the rock as God... and it will
glow... it will answer your questions.. it will heal you.."

RUBY LINGAM FROM THE AMARNATH CAVE

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Ruby Lingam, from the Amarnath Cave
He repeats what Shirdi Sai Baba said so often: “I give them what they want, so they will want what I have to give!” ...

A couple of years ago Baba gave me a special gift, in a highly unusual way; I think you’ll agree the story lends weight to my assertion of Baba’s divinity. A man named Rouf (pronounced “Roof”), who owns one of the shops near Baba's ashram, saw me on the street one day and told me he'd had a “Baba dream” about me, and that he had something to give me. I was a bit put off, but several weeks later finally paid him a visit, and as we sipped sweet tea in his shop, he told me his story:

"Last summer I went on a pilgrimage to some holy places up North. Hardwar, Rishikesh, Kashmir, and then the Amarnath Cave, in Himalayas. It's closed eight months a year from snow, no way to get in. And in this cave, you've heard of it? There's this naturally formed Lingam, a huge one, made of ice. [A Lingam is an elliptical symbol of the Supreme Being, used in the worship of Lord Shiva.] Shiva and Parvati actually lived in this cave - it's one of the holiest shrines in India. So I'm sitting outside this cave - and suddenly these two white birds... What are they called? Doves. Two doves flew out of the cave. And as they flew over my head, one of them dropped something in my lap. And in that moment, I heard, 'This is for Ram Das.'"

"Wait,” I said incredulously. “You heard that inside, from God? Or from the bird?"

"Yes, yes," he replied, with the affirmative Indian head wobble. "The bird."

Rouf reached down and unwrapped a small package, and then held up the precious object: a radiant red Lingam. "Ruby!" he said. "A ruby Lingam."

"A Prema Lingam!” I replied, awed at the beautiful cosmic egg God had given. (Prema means ‘Divine Love’.)

"Yes." Rouf held it up to the light and smiled. "But the problem was," he continued, "I didn't know who is this Ram Das. I had forgot your name. So I prayed for two weeks, every day, "Baba, who is this Lingam for? Who is this Ram Das?" Finally, one night Baba came in my dream. He showed me you, and said, 'This is Ram Das. Give it to him.'"

Rouf handed me the Lingam, which fit beautifully in the palm of my hand. I was speechless - what a bizarre story! Like something out of Tolkein, except the "Lord of the Rings" who had sent this was the supreme Lord of Love, incarnate in human form! What an amazing leela - what a gift!

I held the sacred object to my chest for a while, drawing in its energy, and then said, "You know, Rouf, there's another interesting aspect to this. In the book I'm working on, there's a ladder of concepts you can climb to reach the Truth. Once you climb it, you then step off the ladder onto the Roof - the Supreme Reality, where no mind exists, where no concepts can ever reach. So in my book, the word 'Roof' is equated with the Supreme Being. And this gift has come to me from the 'Rouf'!”

God bless Rouf for passing the Lingam on to me, without the slightest hint of request for payment of any kind. May he ever live up to his high name!

Clearly, Sai Baba stops at nothing to express His love for His devotees... Is it not obvious, He is an incarnation of God?

His True Mission

In understanding Baba's miracles, it's important to remember His own words on the subject: He says that in comparison with His true mission, His miracles are “like a mosquito on an elephant’s back.” He repeats what Shirdi Sai Baba said so often: “I give them what they want, so they will want what I have to give!” He says He has come not to manifest rings or bless us with promotions and healings - the purpose for His incarnation is to usher in a new age of Divine Peace on Earth, and establish divine qualities in our hearts:

“This Sai has come in order to achieve the supreme task of uniting the entire mankind as one family through the bond of brotherhood, of affirming and illumining the Atmic Reality of each being in order to reveal the Divine, which is the basis on which the entire Cosmos rests. This Sai has come to instruct all to recognize the common Divine Heritage that binds man to man, so that man can rid himself of the animal and rise into the Divine, which is his goal. This Sai has come to show that Love - Prema - is the easiest way to reach the Divine.”

Baba’s Own Words

And what does Baba Himself say?

“The totality of Divine Energy has come unto humanity as Sathya Sai. This is a human form in which every Divine Entity, every Divine Principle, that is to say all the names and forms ascribed by man to God are manifest.” He says He is the Father who sent Jesus - but then adds that we are also God, but have forgotten.
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LIVING STONES

The Divinity Of Rocks
God in a rock
If God can be in a rock... then why not in man?

A noted geologist who heads the Geology Department of a major University was witness to one of Baba's materializations. Baba picked up a rough piece of granite to ask the scientist what it contained. The geologist mentioned some minerals. Baba insisted, "I don't mean those, but something deeper." He continued, "Well molecules, atoms, electrons, protons..." Baba wasn't satisfied, "No, no, no, go deeper still." The geologist professed his ignorance.

The Baba took the rock, blew on it, and gave it back to the geologist. The geologist was flabbergasted, for the rock had been transformed into a statue of Krishna playing the divine flute. Baba admonished him, "You see, beyond your atoms and all, God was in the rock, God is sweetness and joy. Break off Krishna's foot and taste it".

The geologist found no difficulty in breaking the statue and tasting the foot. It was candy with a sweetness all its own. No wonder Howard Murphet one of Baba's biographers, has said, "Science gives but the first word; the last word is known only to the great spiritual scientists like Sai Baba."

If Baba can transform rock into God... and we have the geologist's word for it - then why not the human being already charged with the divine afflatus or divinely imparted knowledge?

Apart from his own prodigious spiritual image which encompasses millions of devotees, Baba uses the 3000 and more Sai spiritual educational, and social service institutions throughout the world to spread His message with the objective of transforming the common people into a race of enlightened Godmen and Godwowen.

From: Spiritual Impressions, Puttaparthi, Mar-Apr. 1997, pag. 52
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WEEPING SARIS

Weeping Saris: The Consciousness Of Matter
Baba speaking about tears in cloth:

I asked that about a hundred saris be brought, so that I could select some for distribution to the women workers at Anantapur who are helping build the Sathya Sai College there! I selected 96 and asked them to return 4 to the shop. I kept the 4 aside and the 96 were placed in my room. Later when I passed the table on which the four discarded saris were kept (Hislop was standing by the side of that table) it was noticed that the cardboard box which contained the four saris was dripping tears! The saris were weeping that they could not get appreciation from me and were declared unfit. Yes! They had shed tears. You may ask whether this is ever possible. I answer, there is nothing in this world which has no heart, which is incapable of feeling joy and grief! Only you must have the eye to see, the ear to listen, the heart to respond!

Lord Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion: Kill not. Cause no pain.
Oath of Hippocrates: (Hippocratic oath taken by all physicians): First do no harm.
From a science journal: The fact that metal has memory is indicated by its tendency even after perfectly reflattened.. to bend in the direction it was previously bent.
From the movie "The Education of Little Tree" with Australian actor James Cromwell: One should be able to feel the earth through his moccasins. (This is not an endorsement of leather.. but an affirmation of Native American sensitivity to all living beings.)
Sai Baba of Shirdi: Never harm a snake or a scorpion. He will only harm you if ordered to do so by God. If so ordered there is nothing you can do about it. (Nevertheless Swami protect us all from attacks by snakes and scorpions.) -Sai Baba-

DEVOTED CAR

Professor N Kasturi, who had once repeatedly ridiculed Baba in the pages of the Indian version of the British
Punch magazine, and who was a management employee of All India Radio, became a follower
... his heart made aware of Baba's unfathomable kindness.

Once he was following Baba in a car caravan... one after another, parts began to fall off Kasturi's car.
When they arrived in the village, he took it to a mechanic who said "It is physically impossible for this car
to have arrived." Later he said to Baba "Did you do this miracle... because we are good devotees? Baba replied
jokingly: "Not you.. but the car... the car is a great devotee!"

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Temple Resurrections
Temple Resurrections

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Dynamos of Grace

Baba visited the foremost Saivite Shrine of India, Varanasi and the foremost Vaishnava shrine, Badrinath in 1961 in order to infuse spiritual power in those dynamos of Grace. At Varanasi, He created a unique jewel to be placed on the idol of Visweswara declaring that it has the mystic might to charge that symbol of the Lord with Divine potency. At Badrinath, He drew from under the present Narayana image, a Nethra-linga which was brought from Mount Kailasa, and ceremonially installed there, by no less a person than Sankaracharya about twelve hundred years ago! This Nethralinga when it emerged at the call of Baba, created a chapter in history; a Linga as the basis of the celebrated Vaishnava shrine was a welcome reminder of the basic harmony of Saivites and Vaishnavites.

Tradition has it that the present Narayana idol at Badrinath was thrown by alien hands into the Alakananda River and that after long and strenuous asceticism, Sankaracharya was rewarded with the revelation that it was sunk in the Narada Kund of that river. Sankaracharya recovered it and installed it at its present site.

Therefore, when Baba announced that the Nethralinga was the original nucleus which had to be "energised" by Him with suitable rites and ceremonial ablutions with the sacred waters of Gangotri, golden Bilva leaves and Thumme flowers, which Baba miraculously procured all this on the spot, even the Trustees of the Badrinath temple were pleasantly surprised!

Baba spoke of the Linga as being one of the Five Lingas which Sankaracharya brought from Kailasa and installed in India, and so, the wonder grew; earnestness to know more of this divine mission of Sankara was aroused in many. Those who know Him accepted the accuracy of this exalted origin of the Linga which they were privileged to see for some precious minutes on that never-to-be-forgotten day.Thursday, Aug 11, 2005 - 10:30am (PDT) Edit | Delete | 0 Comments
Ekagraha, Amrita Fountain
Ekagraha

Thoughts Of Ekagraha, a pen name for a devotee of Baba

"Even to say 'I forgive you' is an attack
for to think there is something to forgive
is to have the perception
that all is not perfection."

"Do not ask the insane ego what is the reality of what
you see as a rock. See the rock as God... and it will
glow... it will answer your questions.. it will heal you.."

"A first ray soul will feel like a fish out of water at
a second ray ashram."

"One technique in Buddhist monasteries is that the neophyte
fasts for a week.. and begins to hallucinate... then he
is reminded that nothing he is hallucinating is real."

"You are sleeping on the lap of God dreaming that you are
in hell. All you need do is awaken."

"If you say that God is the Doer and you are not,
you create a schism of God and notGod."

"One puts a plank on the ground and walks across it.
Another hesitates to walk across the same plank set
between 2 skyscrapers. What is the difference? Fear."

"Activists sometimes project their turbulence onto others."

"You belong to Baba: the planets have no hold over you."

"You are one with God. Therefore you are the Doer, the Dreamer.

Before some are able to act with Godpower on the physical plane, they
act on the astral."

"Do not be like those who use the equation E =MC squared
without understanding it."

"When one feels bad about himself
he reverses his magnet and repels people.
The opposite is also true."

"Repression only causes re-emergence later. Witness thoughts
as passing clouds. Detach rather than repress."

"Her motto was 'boycott everything'."

"Forced ahimsa (nonviolence) is violence."

"As long as you see suffering, you give it power."

"God has given you the power to make sin real. (or to melt away sin)

"Baba teaches not only that we we are not our bodies, feelings or
minds, but that we should go beyond identification even with
our souls to realization of our Godhood."

"Masters come not to preach but to awaken."

"I am the way means seeing Christ in all. Do not create a schism by
seeing the nonChrist."

"Do not stone Christ with literal truth."

It is said that the mind is the slayer of the real.

(Ekagraha is Sanskrit for 1 pointedness) (eka: one graha force)

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AMRITA FOUNTAIN

I'm a medical doctor of about 20 years experience in this field. Now
I'm in private practice. I'm born in year 1955. The background: I
came to know about Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, India about 3
years ago, and ever since it I got stuck to Him as it was beyond my
explanation his miracles.

The incident: Now I don't write about second experiences. I write
first hand experiences, that's what I've myself observed. I pray Sai
Baba. One day I noticed liquid coming out the picture of Sai Baba
from outside the glass. It was pouring out from the site of his
blessing palm, but only little in quantity. It dripped down slowly.
My wife is also medical doctor. I've 2 daughters, one 7 years, one 9
years. There's no foul play. The question is: How can this liquid
issue forth from the picture of Sai Baba, from the glass outside? In
fact the neighbouring Lord Ganesha picture was 'sweating' similar
amrith also from all over the glass. How do you explain this? This's
the question. Since you expound the unexplainable, please explain
this phenomena.

Dr Madhini Bhanu Theja,theja@mail.tm.net.my

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Master of Nature
Master of Nature
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Master of Nature

It was on a cloudy June evening that Baba was addressing an open air
meeting at Mercara. The sky was overcast and gloomy rumblings of
approaching rain could be heard, not far away. In fact, the rain
poured on the hills on the horizon, stepped nearer and nearer, and
came as far as Mahadevpet, half a mile away. Baba spoke quietly and
calmly, holding the audience spell-bound, for over an hour and a
half; at the end, He said, " Now, you can go home, for in about ten
minutes you will get the rain that ought to have drenched you by
now. " And, wonder of wonders, the rains came, as announced, ten
minutes later, to the very second !

The Chitravathi River at Puttaparthi is subject to sudden floods, for
it rises in the Nandi Hills and heavy rains in that region in Mysore
State will bring down the waters many feet deep all along the miles.
The Prasanthi Nilayam was built on an eminence away from the village
to avoid these periodical floods which in some years invade the old
Mandir, entering the prayer Shed, the kitchens and all the
surrounding area. On many such occasions , Baba has stood on the edge
of the water and said, "Ganga ! It is enough, go back." and the
waters have not risen more. Some years ago, during Navarathri, when
the (Narayana Seva) feeding of the Poor was on, it rained all round
the Nilayam, but not a drop fell in the precincts where people were
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Texas Physician
Texas Physician
Dr. (Mrs.) Meenakshi Chintapalli
3722, Hunters Point, San Antonio
Texas - 78230, USA
mkchintapalli@yahoo.com
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Dr. (Mrs.) Meenakshi Chintapalli is a practising Physician in Texas, USA. Her husband Dr. Kedarnath is a practising Radiologist there. Both of them and their two daughters happen to be devotees of Bhagavan. They visit Prasanthi Nilayam very frequently for Darshan of Bhagavan. Dr. Meenakshi records a couple of instances of her experience of the Divinity of Bhagavan, in her own words.

Swami had given me many reveries, many dreams and many personal experiences in medical seva and personal life as well. Many a time I had very rough waters that shook my boat in the deep sea of life with tidal waves. If not for these experiences, I would have lost my health and mind both. Although the sea has tidal waves and rough water shocks, the anchor is the dearest and most lovable and loving Bhagawan who is the very breath of my life.

My husband Dr. Kedarnath had to have 4 bad discs removed as an emergency surgery on March 15, 1995. He underwent surgery for over 5 hours. We never knew, on the day of the surgery, if he would ever walk properly!

Swami sent Vibhuti packets, many of them, 2 days after Shivaraatri. Those packets finally reached us in the USA 21 days after surgery.

I had a dream in the same period. My husband and I entered a dark cave. Suddenly I saw a flood of light, which made my eyes flicker, as the light could not let me open my eyes. I still persevered in opening and peering into that intense light, that made me look at Swami in the Ananta Padma Nabha position and lot of vibhuti was falling. I made a comment to my husband 'why is Vibhuti on Vishnu?'

My husband said I was imagining things, as he could not see anything in that light. I held my hand and a heap of vibhuti filled my hands and became a 'Vibhuti Pandu'. It was so heavy that I passed it on to my husband. Next, a feminine hand, very fair and wearing a bracelet with Lotus flowers stretched in front of me, filled with kumkum. I held my hand and it was filled with kumkum. I gave that also to my husband.

Then lots of nectar, honey, food, rice all filled up my hands and they were so heavy and soaked that I did not know what to do. The dream ended.

After this dream, Swami's vibhuti for my husband reached us. The whole dream is so vivid and I can see the scenes in my eyes today. Was it a dream or a memory of this Atma?

Our family, our two daughters, my husband and I, planned a visit for India on the 29th of December 2002. My husband had started with back pain on the 26th. It got worse on the 30th when we reached Frankfurt. We had plans to visit Agra, Jaipur, etc after reaching New Delhi. Though we could visit Agra, we cancelled our visit to other places and went straight to Hyderabad to my parents' house, in view of the continuing problem of my husband.

We celebrated the New Year at Hyderabad with the extended family. My husband had a cup of coffee in the morning on January 1. By 6:30 a.m., he could not get up from the sofa where he was seated, owing to severe back pain. He developed numbness and weakness of his right leg. It was a neuro-surgical emergency.

Through a friend we went and saw a neurologist and had my husband admitted to the Hospital. I sent my heartbroken children to be with Swami than worry over their dad's health in Hyderabad. I brought my husband home on the 6th evening, and took off to Prasanthi Nilayam entrusting my husband to a relative to take care of him. At that time, he was in the wheel chair even to go the bathroom. He was very weak. He wanted to go back to the USA some how. He cancelled his engagements in India. I had pleaded for his permission to go and see Swami and lay the problem at his feet. I had no courage to go through the surgery again, nor did he!

I missed the morning Darshan on the 7th. Swami came straight to me in the afternoon of that Golden Day, the 7th of January 2003. He chided me for sending kids alone. He asked me if my husband was still in Hyderabad (Swami knows everything). He asked me what our plans were. I explained that I wanted to stay for Vaikuntha Ekaadasi, Pongal and then go to Bombay for the meetings. The ill health and misfortune had changed the plans. I reiterated to Swami that I was there to seek Bhagavan's guidance as to my husband's health, and see if we could avoid surgery.

Swami stood there for 15-20 minutes listening to me devotee. He created vibhuti for both the children, seated with me, who had tears pouring down their cheeks, and reassured them not to worry about their father, and that he was taking care.

On the 8th of January Swami came to me and asked me how we were doing and what our plans were, still testing my devotion and surrender. I explained again that my husband was planning to leave for the USA via Bombay on the 9th evening, after we went back to Hyderabad on the 9th morning. Swami said 'manchidi' (good).

I was in a shock!! I was hoping that Swami would tell me not to worry, that surgery was not needed, or to bring him here, or something like that. I was disheartened, dejected. I was close to losing my mind. I did not know what to say, but I pulled my courage and asked Swami, 'Swami, is that all? So, we should go back to the USA via Bombay, Swami?' Then Swami made a comment, 'If not from Bombay, do you go to the USA from Prasanthi Nilayam?' Some people laughed, and I felt that I had asked a stupid question, when the Divinity was standing there and talking to his devotee. I kept quiet and felt very depressed and disappointed. Swami moved on.

All of a sudden, a few minutes later, a thought crossed my mind that Swami was asking me if I would like to leave for the USA from Prasanthi Nilayam? I checked that with a very ardent devotee of Swami, seated near me. She also felt the same. I ran to the room, with sobs that were loud and uncontrollable, and penned very few lines on a small sticky note. I wrote 'Swami, you are the Doctor of Doctors. We are nobody in front of your creation. If so, why do you not decide for me about my fate? Why cannot you tell me what to do? Why will you not take my life into your fold? I am scared and I am depressed!! Please take care of our lives - Anyatha Sharanam Naasti, Tvameva Sharanam Mama!'

I returned with the note, and requested to be seated alongside the carpet, as Swami exited on the female doctors' side after the Bhajan.

If Swami wills, nobody resists! Swami saw me intensely, as I could not hide anything from Bhagavan. He looked at me as though that I should not have cried that much as I have Him as my very life-breath protecting me (Nenu neeku vundagaa, nuvvu anta edavaala?). As Swami looked at me, I waved the note in my hand. He tried to ignore it, but accepted it looking into my eyes. I felt relieved.

During the evening Darshan, Swami came to me and stood for about 20 minutes, and planned for getting my husband to Prasanthi Nilayam by the 9th morning. Bhagawan said, 'If you can make arrangements to get him here, I will send the car and take care of him. Don't worry, he will not need surgery and he will walk before he goes'.

Swami took care of all the arrangements for my husband's arrival. He personally instructed every person in the Ashram how to take care of him. He made personal arrangements for his special seating for Darshan. He made arrangements for us to stay at that time in the Shanti Bhavan. The food arrangements were so made that my husband could dine in the room. I should keep him company, and both of us were served in the room. He sent his car and Mr. Anil Kumar to pick my husband from the Railway Station, and He gave His car for our use till the day we left.

He pulled my husband out of the wheel chair on the 10th morning by rubbing his back. He personally went and blessed him on the 11th in spite of the busy Sports-meet day. He materialized capsules for his back pain, and also gave him a bracelet and a vibhuti container filled with healing vibhuti.

Every single day, Swami came and talked to both of us, cheered us and gave vibhuti many times. He talked to our daughters on the 12th, when they were leaving, materialized vibhuti for them and blessed them to come again, and study well. He gave us interviews on the 10th, the 15th and the 18th, when He talked to us only on spirituality.

We were able to leave Prasanthi Nilayam on the 19th with Swami's grace and blessings. True to Bhagavan's word, my husband was made to walk on his own before we left.

In one of the interviews, I requested Swami to use this body (me) in His mission. I asked, 'how can I, even in any lifetime, show gratitude for the love that Swami is showering on us?' He looked at me lovingly and said 'Amma! I want you both to be happy and I do not expect anything'.

I said to Swami, in another context, 'Swami Prema, Premanu Premato Preminchinapudu, Atmalu anusandhaana magunu' (When love loves the lovable or the beloved for the sake of love, souls commune). Swami said 'yes, I always say For Love, With Love, In Love, To Love'.

Well, my husband had MRI on the 2nd of January in INDIA, on the 17th of February in the USA. The Orthopedic surgeon wanted to do a minor, limited version of discectomy as it had herniated, and was very close to causing accord compression. My husband and I said no, as Swami advised against surgery. This surgeon had seen the miraculous recovery of my husband in 1995, and has known about Baba. He said that he would observe over the next 3 weeks. My husband recovered much more. We did another MRI on 09-09-2003. Lo and behold, there was no evidence of any disc anywhere. My husband has since been able to sit on the floor and carry on his duties as usual, as a result of the Divine intervention.

-- Dr. (Mrs) Meenakshi Chintapalli

(As sent through email to info@vedamu.org on 20.09.2004.)

Temple Resurrections

2005-08-11T10:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/pages/bhagawan/miracles/Grace.htm

Dynamos of Grace

Baba visited the foremost Saivite Shrine of India, Varanasi and the foremost Vaishnava shrine, Badrinath in 1961 in order to infuse spiritual power in those dynamos of Grace. At Varanasi, He created a unique jewel to be placed on the idol of Visweswara declaring that it has the mystic might to charge that symbol of the Lord with Divine potency. At Badrinath, He drew from under the present Narayana image, a Nethra-linga which was brought from Mount Kailasa, and ceremonially installed there, by no less a person than Sankaracharya about twelve hundred years ago! This Nethralinga when it emerged at the call of Baba, created a chapter in history; a Linga as the basis of the celebrated Vaishnava shrine was a welcome reminder of the basic harmony of Saivites and Vaishnavites.
Tradition has it that the present Narayana idol at Badrinath was thrown by alien hands into the Alakananda River and that after long and strenuous asceticism, Sankaracharya was rewarded with the revelation that it was sunk in the Narada Kund of that river. Sankaracharya recovered it and installed it at its present site.
Therefore, when Baba announced that the Nethralinga was the original nucleus which had to be "energised" by Him with suitable rites and ceremonial ablutions with the sacred waters of Gangotri, golden Bilva leaves and Thumme flowers, which Baba miraculously procured all this on the spot, even the Trustees of the Badrinath temple were pleasantly surprised!
Baba spoke of the Linga as being one of the Five Lingas which Sankaracharya brought from Kailasa and installed in India, and so, the wonder grew; earnestness to know more of this divine mission of Sankara was aroused in many. Those who know Him accepted the accuracy of this exalted origin of the Linga which they were privileged to see for some precious minutes on that never-to-be-forgotten day.

Ekagraha

2005-08-10T13:33:00.000-07:00

Thoughts Of Ekagraha, a pen name for a devotee of Baba

"Even to say 'I forgive you' is an attack
for to think there is something to forgive
is to have the perception
that all is not perfection."

"Do not ask the insane ego what is the reality of what
you see as a rock. See the rock as God... and it will
glow... it will answer your questions.. it will heal you.."

"A first ray soul will feel like a fish out of water at
a second ray ashram."

"One technique in Buddhist monasteries is that the neophyte
fasts for a week.. and begins to hallucinate... then he
is reminded that nothing he is hallucinating is real."

"You are sleeping on the lap of God dreaming that you are
in hell. All you need do is awaken."

"If you say that God is the Doer and you are not,
you create a schism of God and notGod."

"One puts a plank on the ground and walks across it.
Another hesitates to walk across the same plank set
between 2 skyscrapers. What is the difference? Fear."

"Activists sometimes project their turbulence onto others."

"You belong to Baba: the planets have no hold over you."

"You are one with God. Therefore you are the Doer, the Dreamer.

Before some are able to act with Godpower on the physical plane, they act on the astral."

"Do not be like those who use the equation E =MC squared
without understanding it."

"When one feels bad about himself
he reverses his magnet and repels people.
The opposite is also true."

"Repression only causes re-emergence later. Witness thoughts
as passing clouds. Detach rather than repress."

"Her motto was 'boycott everything'."

"Forced ahimsa (nonviolence) is violence."

"As long as you see suffering, you give it power."

"God has given you the power to make sin real. (or to melt away sin)

"Baba teaches not only that we we are not our bodies, feelings or minds, but that we should go beyond identification even with
our souls to realization of our Godhood."

"Masters come not to preach but to awaken."

"I am the way means seeing Christ in all. Do not create a schism by seeing the nonChrist."

"Do not stone Christ with literal truth."

It is said that the mind is the slayer of the real.

(Ekagraha is Sanskrit for 1 pointedness) (eka: one graha force)

Master of Nature

2005-08-05T11:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/page...cles/Nature.htm
http://www.saibabalinks.org

Master of Nature

It was on a cloudy June evening that Baba was addressing an open air
meeting at Mercara. The sky was overcast and gloomy rumblings of
approaching rain could be heard, not far away. In fact, the rain
poured on the hills on the horizon, stepped nearer and nearer, and
came as far as Mahadevpet, half a mile away. Baba spoke quietly and
calmly, holding the audience spell-bound, for over an hour and a
half; at the end, He said, " Now, you can go home, for in about ten
minutes you will get the rain that ought to have drenched you by
now. " And, wonder of wonders, the rains came, as announced, ten
minutes later, to the very second !

The Chitravathi River at Puttaparthi is subject to sudden floods, for
it rises in the Nandi Hills and heavy rains in that region in Mysore
State will bring down the waters many feet deep all along the miles.
The Prasanthi Nilayam was built on an eminence away from the village
to avoid these periodical floods which in some years invade the old
Mandir, entering the prayer Shed, the kitchens and all the
surrounding area. On many such occasions , Baba has stood on the edge
of the water and said, "Ganga ! It is enough, go back." and the
waters have not risen more. Some years ago, during Navarathri, when
the (Narayana Seva) feeding of the Poor was on, it rained all round
the Nilayam, but not a drop fell in the precincts where people were
being fed.

Texas Physician and Amrita Physician

2005-08-05T09:57:00.000-07:00

Dr. (Mrs.) Meenakshi Chintapalli
3722, Hunters Point, San Antonio
Texas - 78230, USA
mkchintapalli@yahoo.com
http://www.vedamu.org
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Dr. (Mrs.) Meenakshi Chintapalli is a practising Physician in Texas, USA. Her husband Dr. Kedarnath is a practising Radiologist there. Both of them and their two daughters happen to be devotees of Bhagavan. They visit Prasanthi Nilayam very frequently for Darshan of Bhagavan. Dr. Meenakshi records a couple of instances of her experience of the Divinity of Bhagavan, in her own words.

Swami had given me many reveries, many dreams and many personal experiences in medical seva and personal life as well. Many a time I had very rough waters that shook my boat in the deep sea of life with tidal waves. If not for these experiences, I would have lost my health and mind both. Although the sea has tidal waves and rough water shocks, the anchor is the dearest and most lovable and loving Bhagawan who is the very breath of my life.

My husband Dr. Kedarnath had to have 4 bad discs removed as an emergency surgery on March 15, 1995. He underwent surgery for over 5 hours. We never knew, on the day of the surgery, if he would ever walk properly!

Swami sent Vibhuti packets, many of them, 2 days after Shivaraatri. Those packets finally reached us in the USA 21 days after surgery.

I had a dream in the same period. My husband and I entered a dark cave. Suddenly I saw a flood of light, which made my eyes flicker, as the light could not let me open my eyes. I still persevered in opening and peering into that intense light, that made me look at Swami in the Ananta Padma Nabha position and lot of vibhuti was falling. I made a comment to my husband 'why is Vibhuti on Vishnu?'

My husband said I was imagining things, as he could not see anything in that light. I held my hand and a heap of vibhuti filled my hands and became a 'Vibhuti Pandu'. It was so heavy that I passed it on to my husband. Next, a feminine hand, very fair and wearing a bracelet with Lotus flowers stretched in front of me, filled with kumkum. I held my hand and it was filled with kumkum. I gave that also to my husband.

Then lots of nectar, honey, food, rice all filled up my hands and they were so heavy and soaked that I did not know what to do. The dream ended.

After this dream, Swami's vibhuti for my husband reached us. The whole dream is so vivid and I can see the scenes in my eyes today. Was it a dream or a memory of this Atma?

Our family, our two daughters, my husband and I, planned a visit for India on the 29th of December 2002. My husband had started with back pain on the 26th. It got worse on the 30th when we reached Frankfurt. We had plans to visit Agra, Jaipur, etc after reaching New Delhi. Though we could visit Agra, we cancelled our visit to other places and went straight to Hyderabad to my parents' house, in view of the continuing problem of my husband.

We celebrated the New Year at Hyderabad with the extended family. My husband had a cup of coffee in the morning on January 1. By 6:30 a.m., he could not get up from the sofa where he was seated, owing to severe back pain. He developed numbness and weakness of his right leg. It was a neuro-surgical emergency.

Through a friend we went and saw a neurologist and had my husband admitted to the Hospital. I sent my heartbroken children to be with Swami than worry over their dad's health in Hyderabad. I brought my husband home on the 6th evening, and took off to Prasanthi Nilayam entrusting my husband to a relative to take care of him. At that time, he was in the wheel chair even to go the bathroom. He was very weak. He wanted to go back to the USA some how. He cancelled his engagements in India. I had pleaded for his permission to go and see Swami and lay the problem at his feet. I had no courage to go through the surgery again, nor did he!

I missed the morning Darshan on the 7th. Swami came straight to me in the afternoon of that Golden Day, the 7th of January 2003. He chided me for sending kids alone. He asked me if my husband was still in Hyderabad (Swami knows everything). He asked me what our plans were. I explained that I wanted to stay for Vaikuntha Ekaadasi, Pongal and then go to Bombay for the meetings. The ill health and misfortune had changed the plans. I reiterated to Swami that I was there to seek Bhagavan's guidance as to my husband's health, and see if we could avoid surgery.

Swami stood there for 15-20 minutes listening to me devotee. He created vibhuti for both the children, seated with me, who had tears pouring down their cheeks, and reassured them not to worry about their father, and that he was taking care.

On the 8th of January Swami came to me and asked me how we were doing and what our plans were, still testing my devotion and surrender. I explained again that my husband was planning to leave for the USA via Bombay on the 9th evening, after we went back to Hyderabad on the 9th morning. Swami said 'manchidi' (good).

I was in a shock!! I was hoping that Swami would tell me not to worry, that surgery was not needed, or to bring him here, or something like that. I was disheartened, dejected. I was close to losing my mind. I did not know what to say, but I pulled my courage and asked Swami, 'Swami, is that all? So, we should go back to the USA via Bombay, Swami?' Then Swami made a comment, 'If not from Bombay, do you go to the USA from Prasanthi Nilayam?' Some people laughed, and I felt that I had asked a stupid question, when the Divinity was standing there and talking to his devotee. I kept quiet and felt very depressed and disappointed. Swami moved on.

All of a sudden, a few minutes later, a thought crossed my mind that Swami was asking me if I would like to leave for the USA from Prasanthi Nilayam? I checked that with a very ardent devotee of Swami, seated near me. She also felt the same. I ran to the room, with sobs that were loud and uncontrollable, and penned very few lines on a small sticky note. I wrote 'Swami, you are the Doctor of Doctors. We are nobody in front of your creation. If so, why do you not decide for me about my fate? Why cannot you tell me what to do? Why will you not take my life into your fold? I am scared and I am depressed!! Please take care of our lives - Anyatha Sharanam Naasti, Tvameva Sharanam Mama!'

I returned with the note, and requested to be seated alongside the carpet, as Swami exited on the female doctors' side after the Bhajan.

If Swami wills, nobody resists! Swami saw me intensely, as I could not hide anything from Bhagavan. He looked at me as though that I should not have cried that much as I have Him as my very life-breath protecting me (Nenu neeku vundagaa, nuvvu anta edavaala?). As Swami looked at me, I waved the note in my hand. He tried to ignore it, but accepted it looking into my eyes. I felt relieved.

During the evening Darshan, Swami came to me and stood for about 20 minutes, and planned for getting my husband to Prasanthi Nilayam by the 9th morning. Bhagawan said, 'If you can make arrangements to get him here, I will send the car and take care of him. Don't worry, he will not need surgery and he will walk before he goes'.

Swami took care of all the arrangements for my husband's arrival. He personally instructed every person in the Ashram how to take care of him. He made personal arrangements for his special seating for Darshan. He made arrangements for us to stay at that time in the Shanti Bhavan. The food arrangements were so made that my husband could dine in the room. I should keep him company, and both of us were served in the room. He sent his car and Mr. Anil Kumar to pick my husband from the Railway Station, and He gave His car for our use till the day we left.

He pulled my husband out of the wheel chair on the 10th morning by rubbing his back. He personally went and blessed him on the 11th in spite of the busy Sports-meet day. He materialized capsules for his back pain, and also gave him a bracelet and a vibhuti container filled with healing vibhuti.

Every single day, Swami came and talked to both of us, cheered us and gave vibhuti many times. He talked to our daughters on the 12th, when they were leaving, materialized vibhuti for them and blessed them to come again, and study well. He gave us interviews on the 10th, the 15th and the 18th, when He talked to us only on spirituality.

We were able to leave Prasanthi Nilayam on the 19th with Swami's grace and blessings. True to Bhagavan's word, my husband was made to walk on his own before we left.

In one of the interviews, I requested Swami to use this body (me) in His mission. I asked, 'how can I, even in any lifetime, show gratitude for the love that Swami is showering on us?' He looked at me lovingly and said 'Amma! I want you both to be happy and I do not expect anything'.

I said to Swami, in another context, 'Swami Prema, Premanu Premato Preminchinapudu, Atmalu anusandhaana magunu' (When love loves the lovable or the beloved for the sake of love, souls commune). Swami said 'yes, I always say For Love, With Love, In Love, To Love'.

Well, my husband had MRI on the 2nd of January in INDIA, on the 17th of February in the USA. The Orthopedic surgeon wanted to do a minor, limited version of discectomy as it had herniated, and was very close to causing accord compression. My husband and I said no, as Swami advised against surgery. This surgeon had seen the miraculous recovery of my husband in 1995, and has known about Baba. He said that he would observe over the next 3 weeks. My husband recovered much more. We did another MRI on 09-09-2003. Lo and behold, there was no evidence of any disc anywhere. My husband has since been able to sit on the floor and carry on his duties as usual, as a result of the Divine intervention.

-- Dr. (Mrs) Meenakshi Chintapalli

(As sent through email to info@vedamu.org on 20.09.2004.)

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AMRITA FOUNTAIN

I'm a medical doctor of about 20 years experience in this field. Now I'm in private practice. I'm born in year 1955. The background: I came to know about Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, India about 3 years ago, and ever since it I got stuck to Him as it was beyond my explanation his miracles.

The incident: Now I don't write about second experiences. I write first hand experiences, that's what I've myself observed. I pray Sai Baba. One day I noticed liquid coming out the picture of Sai Baba from outside the glass. It was pouring out from the site of his blessing palm, but only little in quantity. It dripped down slowly. My wife is also medical doctor. I've 2 daughters, one 7 years, one 9 years. There's no foul play. The question is: How can this liquid issue forth from the picture of Sai Baba, from the glass outside? In fact the neighbouring Lord Ganesha picture was 'sweating' similar amrith also from all over the glass. How do you explain this? This's the question. Since you expound the unexplainable, please explain this phenomena.

Dr Madhini Bhanu Theja,theja@mail.tm.net.my

Spanish Businessman

2005-08-04T12:26:00.000-07:00

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Mr. Niresh Daryanani
P.O. Box No. 887
Santa Cruz De Tenerife
Canary Islands, 38001,
Spain
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Mr. Niresh Daryanani (45), a businessman from Spain, narrates a few of his experiences of the Divinity of Bhagavan in his own words.

'OM SAI RAM
I first heard of Sri Sathya Sai Baba when I was about 12 years old. During that time, Swami came to Bombay. My uncle's wife went and had His Darshan. Then Swami materialized a small silver Ganesh idol and gave it to her. She was very excited, told us all about it and showed us the idol.

At an early age, I was initiated into Kriya Yoga. Having my own Guru, I did not evince much interest in Swami. My elder brother, Mr. Ashok had been a devotee of Swami for quite some time. About 16 or 17 years back, when we were in Venezuela, three or four Trinidadian ladies came to meet my brother. They brought some photographs, which they had taken during the Birthday Celebrations of Swami. When my brother saw them, he called me to see the photographs. In one of the photographs, Swami was seen as Lord Sri Ramachandra (head only) while the rest of His body including the robe was of Swami. In the second one, the head was that of Lord Sri Krishna while the body including the robe was that of Swami. In the third, the head was that of Lord Siva. In those days, technology was not developed to such an extent so as to manipulate the photographs. When I saw them, I began to think seriously of Swami.

It so happened that all people from my wife's side have been devotees of Swami. For sometime there was some reluctance on my part to visit Prasanthi Nilayam. Being in Kriya Yoga, I used to think that, when God is within me, why I should go to Prasanthi Nilayam to visit a living Guru. What could that Guru have to offer me, which I could not realize through self-realization as taught in Yoga.

Gradually, Bhagavan, out of His boundless love, began to draw me nearer. In 1988, I went to Brindavan to have Darshan of Swami, but by that time the Bhajan was over and Swami retired into Trayi.

In 1999, when we were in Spain, a lady customer of mine, about 63 years of age, broke down and wept as her brother was seriously ill and might not last beyond 3 to 6 months. That was in August.

She started, by asking me, 'you are from India, and can you not help me?'

When I asked her how I could help her, she told me that her unmarried elder brother, almost 69 years old, was very ill; and he needed help. I was not aware of the type of his illness.

Initially I told her I was sorry and was unaware of any help from India

On her persistence, I recollected about Dear Swami, and told her, 'yes, I know of a saint who lives in India who may be able to help'.

I agreed to send her 2-3 small booklets of Swami's sayings in Spanish, which I sent her in the next few days. She informed me that her brother wasn't a believer and would not read, to which I told her that even if she read the booklets it would be helpful. She agreed

One month and a half later, in September 1999, on my next visit, she told me weeping that she was losing her brother who deteriorated further, and might not last more than a month or so.

'Please take this,' I told her as I handed her a packet of Swami's vibhuti, 'you can put a little on his forehead, a little in his mouth and apply some on the affected part of his body. It is absolutely harmless. Kindly repeat Om Sai Ram which is the way you can connect to Dear Swami, and then, in Spanish, tell Him your problem and pray for His help'.

Her brother was one of the 30-member group of patients suffering from terminal cancer. He had to undergo dialysis once in 15 days for which he needed to travel by air to a specialized hospital away from their town. This had been going on for about 2 years. In each session he was being given between 9-12 bags of fresh blood during an entire day, allowing the removal of the impure blood in his body

I could go to visit their store again only in February 2000. The lady was not there but her daughter was there. I started the business discussion straight away so as to save their time as well as mine.

'Don't you want to know how my uncle is?' she asked me.

I clean forgot about him and was about to ask, 'why? What is the matter with him?' Then I recollected.

'His was the only case in the entire group which showed improvement. The malignant patch was shrinking in his case. Doctors were surprised. What was it that made the difference? Was it any change in diet, or use of other systems of healing or exercise? They wanted to know.

'He needs to come for dialysis only for 8 times more, that means, for only 4 months more, after which the successive follow-up could be done in your own town', they said.

Her mother did not disclose to the Doctors that her brother had been receiving Swami's vibhuti lest they should mistake it for some occult practice.

On one of my successive visits to her store almost a year after Swamis Vibhuti had been given, she took me aside and told me

'In his group, there were 30 terminal patients being treated every fortnight; and 29 did not make it. He is the lone survivor. The improvement has been striking and sustained since I started using the vibhuti you gave me. But I lost my nephew who was one of the 30 in this group. I didn't have the courage to disclose to my own family what I was doing for my brother so as not to be ridiculed. Now I lost my nephew of 45 years of age. This is something that I will have to live with till my last day.'

I thanked Swami for the miraculous cure He had effected for a non-curable ailment. That was the first time I had given vibhuti to anyone.

xxxx
One day one of my customers, a middle-aged lady named Angela, told me that her son had contracted a peculiar eye problem. He was hardly 3 years old. Unless he was operated upon, his eyeball, which had a crack, might fall out which would be irreversible. She was skeptical about the diagnosis and consulted two other experts who, too, confirmed the need for surgery indicating exactly the same diagnosis to the affected eye.

The date for surgery was fixed on a Wednesday while she met me on the preceding Friday. My elder brother, also a staunch Baba devotee, was present. Suddenly, words came out of my mouth, which, I was aware, I did not utter: 'I think it's time we talk to her about Baba'. We told her about Bhagavan.

'I am a non-believer', she told us frankly, 'but I think I wouldn't lose anything if I try the vibhuti you are talking about'.

We returned to our place the next day and drove back the 75 km route to her place and handed over Swami's vibhuti. Later, we received a call from her on Wednesday (the day on which the surgery was scheduled) afternoon.

'How is your son?' I asked, 'hope the operation was successful'

'No operation', she told me in a jubilant voice, 'the surgeon came to me from the operation theatre in his sterilized clothes of the operation theatre and asked 'who is Angela?'

'It's me', I answered, and demanded, 'what have you done to my son?'

'Why did you bring him to me?' he asked me, 'there is nothing wrong with his eyes'.

When she insisted that his eye had a problem and, to confirm this, showed him the medical reports of the other specialists she had visited. He was dumbfounded. He claimed that as he had been instructed to perform this delicate surgery to cure the ailment (non-existent), he had even invited other eye specialists in the hospital to explain the diagnosis in reports and the patient's actual condition.

On Angela's insistence that he should go and check both eyes once again, he went in and returned saying, 'now both his eyes are normal except that, in one, there is a light cataract'. He said, obviously puzzled and perplexed, 'he is under anesthesia. You can take him home soon after he regains consciousnesses'. It is, indeed, incredible how Swami cured of the boy's eye problem sans surgery.

xxxxxx
Usually December is a busy month for us, as sales during the festival season would soar high. But I had to leave for Bombay to attend on my father-in-law who had a heart attack and a spinal problem from which he was recovering. So, my wife and I came down to Bombay leaving the burden of the business to my elder brother. My father's house is about a km and a half from that of my father-in-law.

Though my father-in-law recovered from his cardiac problem, progress from his back injury was much slower. He had been advised bed rest as Doctors felt surgery was of little use and relatively risky at his advanced age.

On December 24, 1999, I took my children on a sightseeing drive on the Christmas Eve. While we were at Hotel Taj, each of my young children aged 5 and 9 complained to me of earache and the elder of stomachache, too, all in the first few minutes of our at least two hour program to visit all the main well lit-up sights of Bombay for the millennium celebrations.

They both complained to me. 'Papa, can we go home, please can we go home', they said.

'Ok, if you are both feeling unwell, better we all go back', I said reluctantly, knowing that they would never again get to see the city so well lit as for the millennium celebrations

Ten minutes in the taxi on our return, both children miraculously got better, and their pains vanished. It was too late to turn back, and we all continued towards home. Surprisingly, the moment we turned back, my children's uneasiness disappeared.

At about 12 midnight that night, the maidservant of my father knocked frantically on my door, and wanted me to rush to my father's house. He was on the toilet seat in the lavatory and was not getting up. My father normally used to live in Bombay with his eldest son and his family, and they had all left the same night a few hours ago for the U.S. and he was all alone at home with the servants.

Immediately, I called one of my Doctor-friends who was in a Christmas party, and got my father to the Hospital where he was treated for heart attack. He could get medical attention immediately and survived.

God knows what would have happened had I been in Spain. On the pretext of my father-in-law's illness, Swami brought me to India. Because of his fall and continued bed rest, I had to extend my stay. As my children complained of uneasiness, I had to cut short my Christmas-eve sight seeing of Bombay. They became all right the moment I turned our taxi homeward as if their illness was a pretext posed by Bhagavan to bring me home just to be handy when my father had a heart attack. Thus, Swami made sure that I would be available near my father when he had the heart attack so that I could rush him to the Hospital in time. Above all, Swami wanted to demonstrate to me how He would fix it all when, finally, He meant to extend my father's life.'

The main lesson that I have learnt this day is that when Swami tells us ¨leave it all to me', it is so true. He takes care of it all. We must only trust in him.'

- Mr. Niresh Daryanani.

(As narrated to Mr. B. Parvatala Rao at Prasanthi Nilayam on 13.08.2004 and confirmed on email on 03.09.2004.)

Lithuanian Meditater

2005-08-04T12:06:00.000-07:00

Mrs. Lolita,
W/o Darius Zukas,
Video & Graphic Designer,
Prasanthi Digital Studio,
Prasanthi Nilayam.
E-mail: lolita_darius@hotmail.com hotmail
http://www.vedamu.org/forum/ExperienceoftheDivinityofBhagavan/MrsLolita.asp
http://www.saibabalinks.org
Mrs. Lolita, a longstanding devotee of Bhagavan from Lithuania, narrates some of her experiences in her own words.

'I have been in the habit of doing meditation for several years now. I am used to having a vision filled with bluish radiance during meditation, which I have always assumed to be the formless Divinity.

During the year 1996, a video show was organized in our office in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. About 20 persons attended the show. Normally, I prefer to sit in the rear seats, but on that day I felt as if some energy was pushing me to the front. So, I went and sat in front of the T.V.

They showed a film in which Sri Sathya Sai Baba was performing vibhuti abhishekam to Shirdi Sai Baba's idol, and some white dust was all over the body of Sri Sathya Sai Baba. I was unaware of a substance called vibhuti till then and took it as some dust. On that day I was in a black dress. When I saw the film, I felt that I was not watching a show but seeing Swami Himself in person. I found the bluish radiance, which I was observing during meditation, around swami's head. Then I noticed some dust falling on me. It was seen clearly on the black dress I wore. I dusted it off. But soon it was there again. I found that the white dust was emanating from the tip of my fingers.

I asked the video show to be stopped as I thought that some dust was falling from the roof on my fingers and dress. But on examination, it was not so. I dusted off my dress well and sat to watch the show that was resumed. From the time I noticed the dust falling, there was a fine fragrance, which I assumed to be some new type of scent applied by one of those who came to watch the show. Many persons who attended the show noticed the fragrance as well as the white dusty coat on my dress. We could not understand what it was.

During the show, I had a feeling that something amazing was happening to me, and I decided that I should go and see this holy man once. After a few weeks, some people wanted to go to Puttaparthi in India to see Sri Sathya Sai Baba. 'Why don't you join us', they asked me. 'I have pressing business work', I said, 'It is impossible for me to leave now'. Then I heard an inner voice telling me, 'you will come to me in May'.

In May 1996, I went to Puttaparthi as told by the inner voice. We were seven persons in our group. That time Darius was not in the group. Soon after our landing in New Delhi, India, we were afraid to drink water, and to eat spicy food. Some of us had developed stomachache, too. We did not know how to reach Puttaparthi. As advised by some local people we got into a train for Bangalore as Swami was then stated to be at Brindavan, Bangalore. We could get only 3 berths reserved though we needed seven. It so happened, owing to Swami's grace, that four persons who had berths reserved did not turn up. Therefore, we all had berths and could comfortably travel.

In the train we found some persons who were also going to Brindavan. They were doing Bhajan and invited us to join. But at that time, we did not know what a Bhajan was. Yet we went and joined them. As they were doing Bhajan, I sat there with closed eyes trying to appreciate the music. I then saw the bluish radiance, which I have been used to finding during meditation. Soon after the Bhajan, my colleagues who were suffering from stomachache were miraculously relieved of the pain and discomfort.

We were at Brindavan for two weeks having daily Darshan of Swami. Then Swami left for Puttaparthi. We, too, moved to Puttaparthi. We were given accommodation in a dormitory. I felt that my life was not being managed well. I wanted to tell Swami how He should rearrange the ashram at Prasanthi Nilayam (including the facilities for devotees / pilgrims). But then I felt as if Swami had said that He knows better.

When I was in the dormitory, one night I had a feeling that Swami was standing by my side. I wanted to take the opportunity to tell Him how to improve things. When I began, I felt that I was being pushed back gently by Swami as if Swami was hinting that my advice was not needed. And I fell backwards from my sitting posture due to the gentle push of Swami. Swami disappeared and I fell asleep.

We were in Puttaparthi for two weeks. Swami called us for a group interview. We were 20 persons in all, in our group. At the outset, Swami materialized vibhuti and gave to all ladies present. Then he spoke to gents for a few minutes in English. In our group we had people speaking different languages. At the end Swami said, 'enough! You can come tomorrow'. We all assumed that when Swami said tomorrow, He meant the very next day. We did not know that he had meant a 'future day'.

That day I recognized the dust, that had fallen on my black dress while I was watching a video show long back in my office, on Swami performing vibhuti abhishekam to Shirdi Sai idol. It was not dust but vibhuti. I saw the same bluish radiance, which I have been used to seeing during meditation, around Swami.

At the interview another thing happened. Swami said, 'those who are leaving may go into the other room'. At that time, there was a rule with the Russian Airlines by which we had travelled that one should get his / her ticket confirmed one week before the date of journey. As Swami said that those who were leaving should go to the other room, all of us understood that we could get our reservations confirmed.

Next day, some persons in my group asked me to keep a letter, reminding Swami about meeting Him again as observed by Him at the interview. I sat in Darshan lines with a letter requesting for interview. Swami came to me during the Darshan and took the letter. He then stood for a couple of minutes looking at me. When He was looking at me, I felt that he was not just looking at me but was looking into my future.

All people in my group took Padanamaskars, but I could not touch His feet however much I tried. Earlier I was thinking, 'Swami! I may be having some karmic debt, kindly erase it'. In fact, my ego made me think that my karmic debt was not much. But when I could not bring my hands closer to Swami's feet, I realized that I should not consider my karmic debt that small. Thus Swami made me realize my folly and taught me a lesson.

When I returned to Vilnius, I found my position on spiritual plane receive a boost after my visit to Puttaparthi though my financial position as well as the situation on the personal front had begun to enter troubled waters.

My friends and colleagues started heaping ridicule upon me. They used to crack jokes at my expense for coming under the spell of an Indian God-man. I thought that Swami was reorganizing my life totally on a different mode. It was not easy, of course, at the beginning to adjust to the new situation. But, by Swami's grace, I could manage to remain afloat.

At the end of June 1998, I came again to Puttaparthi with a group of 20 persons, which included Darius. We knew each other earlier but came much closer only during that trip. It was my second visit to Puttaparthi. We then stayed up to August. One day when I sat in the Darshan lines Swami passed in front of me. Just at that time I noticed vibhuti emanating from my finger tips as happened earlier in 1996 when I was watching a video show at my office.

A few days later, during Darshan, I gave a letter to Swami seeking Swami's approval for my marriage with Darius. Swami took the letter and blessed. After that we returned happily to Vilnius and got married on January 8, 1999.

When I was carrying, I had a peculiar experience of talking with the fetus. In the fourth month, the movement of the fetus stopped and I felt concerned that something was wrong as I had abortion earlier. In a bid to save the pregnancy, I went to a Doctor who, after doing all tests including scanning, came to the conclusion that there was no heartbeat and no movement of the fetus and decided that it was hardly alive. The Doctor advised me to undergo surgery for medical termination of pregnancy without any loss of time. We decided to come back the next day for surgery and returned home totally crestfallen. We both wept and prayed to Bhagavan the whole night.

Next day when we went back to the Hospital, there was another Doctor on duty who insisted on conducting all tests again before performing the surgery. After all the tests were done, the Doctor told us, 'everything is normal. The child inside is quite ok. Why do they send you to undergo surgery?' The Doctor also said, 'may be the equipment might have been faulty earlier and given a wrong reading'.

But I knew that there was no movement of the fetus earlier. It was quite clear to us that Bhagavan intervened effectively in our favour and granted life to the dead fetus.

We, therefore, came to Brindavan in April 1999 and sat in Darshan lines with a letter of thanks. Bhagavan came along and took the letter away! One day before our leaving for our country, Bhagavan called us for interview on April 18. That was when He turned the cheap quality of ring on my husband's finger into a Navaratna ring and taunted me, 'jealous?'

After our return, I delivered a female child on July 1, 2000 whom we named 'Atile'. In April 2001, we came to Brindavan with our newborn. Swami took the letter of thanks from me and gave Padanamaskar.

We came again for Shivaratri in February 2002. Swami took a letter of request from my son, Marijus for admission into Swami's School at Puttaparthi. It was totally his decision, which he had pursued with single-minded devotion. Swami called us for an interview on March 6, 2004 when we requested Swami for admission of Marijus at Puttaparthi. 'You must get Indian Government's permission to study. I will help', Swami said. Later we understood that what Swami had said was to get student visa. We then applied for student visa and got it in record time due to Swami's grace.

Thus, due to Swami's personal blessing, Marijus could get admission, which was his life's ambition. He hopes to join there on June 1, 2004.

We propose to settle down at Puttaparthi. Swami has told my husband who joined for seva at Prasanthi Digital Studio to continue to work there. We realize that we can find no better place than Puttaparthi where one can live in peace and happiness.'

-- Mrs. Lolita

(As narrated to Mr. B.Parvatala Rao at Brindavan, Bangalore on 21.05.2004)

Documentary Filmmaker From Australia And Intestinal Cancer

2005-08-04T11:38:00.000-07:00

Documentary Filmmaker From Australia

http://www.vedamu.org/forum/Experie.../MrPeterRae.asp

Mr. Peter Rae,
G 105, Balaji Apartments,
Fourth West Cross, Gopuram Road,
Puttaparthi - 515134
Mr. Peter Rae (65), a documentary filmmaker from Australia, has been
a devotee of Bhagavan for the past 30 years. A frequent visitor to
Puttaparthi, he has been blessed with many mystic experiences of
which he relates a few in his own words.

'During 1998, I underwent full medical checkup, which revealed that I
was suffering from bowel cancer. I was admitted in a Hospital in
Melbourne where Doctors conducted surgery. Though I had just returned
from Puttaparthi, I did not call on Swami for help. After the surgery
was over, I was placed in observation. Soon I was shifted back to my
Hospital-bed where I awoke and realized that the operation was over.

The next thing I noticed was that Bhagavan Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
was standing at my bedside. At that time, I was not dreaming, but was
wide-awake. I slowly lifted my hands in reverence. Swami, smiling at
me, bent over very close to me. Thus He gave me the opportunity to
put my arms around Him. I could feel the soothing soft touch of His
hair on my face. A soft sweet fragrance enveloped me. As His ear was
near my mouth, I whispered: 'Swami! Please! You hug me! This is a
serious business!'

Baba put His arms around me. Instantaneously I was filled with bliss.
Tears rolled down from my eyes. Then He vanished. My arms, which till
then were hugging Swami, were holding air (empty space). He had gone!
Ever since, I have felt like a thirty year old young man. Cancer has
not bothered me again.

Once I was conducting the shooting of a film in Nepal. I was put up
in a friend's house and, as a parting gift before returning to
Puttaparthi, my friend gave me a small empty vibhuti container. That
night I kept the gift in front of Baba's Photograph.

Next morning, while packing away my things, I was very much surprised
to find my new 'empty' vibhuti container overflowing with vibhuti.

Once Swami called me for an interview along with some others at
Puttaparthi. We all went and sat in the interview room. Swami came
and said, 'any questions?' There was a few minutes silence. Then,
suddenly, we began to hear the squeaks of several types of birds in
the room. We were all surprised and began to look in all directions,
but could not find any bird in the room. Swami smilingly said: 'Not
only you, but several other beings like birds will always be making
requests and representations to Swami. You have now just heard a few
of them.'

-- Peter Rae

(As narrated to Mr. B.Parvatala Rao on March 30, 2004 at Prasanthi
Nilayam)

South African Newspaper Story

2005-08-04T11:08:00.000-07:00

http://www.thepost.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=154&fArticleId=375687

Story in South Africa's Post
March 17, 2004

By Prinella Pillay

In what is being described as a divine blessing, a staunch Sai Baba-devoted Isipingo family is experiencing what they say are miracles in their home - with the formation of ashes and kungum around their prayer place and walls, and the appearance of candy and honey dripping freely from the eyes of a Sai Baba statue.

Widowed Rani Naicker, 50, a factory worker of Egret Crescent, Lotus Park, who shares a rented home with her three children, factory workers Sagren, 21, and Kumaran, 24, unemployed Nicole, 25, and her (Nicole's) three-year-old daughter Shenay, said they were blessed a day after the kavady festival in February, when Sagren noticed ashes forming on the top of a poster which featured Sai Baba's head.

Since then, the family claims, there has been an overflow of ashes, kungum, turmeric powder, sugar candy and pink sweets, including the continuous dripping of sweet honey from a statue. These have mysteriously materialised.

Ashes have also formed on several pictures of Sai Baba, Shridi Baba, Mother Mary and on the frame of a picture of Naicker's late husband, Manny Naicker.

Naicker, a Sai Baba devotee for 30 years, and her family have been living in a single bedroom and kitchen for about 25 years.

They have no running water and rely on neighbours and on an electricity coupon, for their needs. But their hardships have not stopped Naicker from holding a daily service in her home and attending sathsangs at the local Lotus Park Dharma Mandhir.

"I feel Baba's touch and his blessings help me progress in life. He takes away my problems. I am a plain and simple person but Baba has blessed me. When I first saw what was happening, I fell on my knees and prayed, and thanked Baba for entering my home."

Naicker, who was formerly with the Malagazi Sai Centre and is now with the Mandhir, said she got closer to Baba after her husband (then 38) suffered a stroke and died about 17 years ago.

Feeling deserted and disconnected, Naicker said she received a "message" from Baba telling her that she would not be alone "when I am here for you".

"I never expected that Baba would visit me. As a mother I am alone with my children, but Baba is our guardian and protector and he is now showing us his presence." With the dream of one day travelling to Sai Baba's ashram in Prashanti Nalayam, India, an emotional Naicker said she would continue serving Sai Baba.

South African Sai Organisation president Dr Reggie Reddy said the "miracles" were for the people of the house and their particular spiritual relationship with Sai Baba.

"It is a personal and unique occurrence for their particular spiritual evolution. It is for the family to realise the omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience of Sai Baba."
Reddy added that these manifestations "were to realise the comforter more than the comforts - and the comforter is the Purna Avtaar of the age of Kaliyuga, which is Sai Baba himself".

Invisible Baba

2005-08-03T17:22:00.000-07:00

http://home20.inet.tele.dk/saibabaofindia/unseen.html
"Time and space dare not bind me"

Baba had returned from Venkatagiri two days previously.

An old lady staying in the Nilayam had gone to her native village
which lay astride the road that Baba had to pass through, when He
goes up to the place or comes down from it. She had plans to halt his
car on His return drive and to offer Him hospitality in her own home.
But when she learnt that Baba had reached Prasanthi Nilayam, she had
hurried back.

While Baba was conversing from verandah on the first floor with a
small bunch of visitors ( among whom I had smuggled myself) standing
on the ground, she stood at a short distance from us and complained
aloud, "Swami! How did your car come through our village without
being noticed? Our men were watching at both ends night and day. No
car was seen."

Even as Baba was chuckling in amusement at her plight, we heard the
chuckle behind us, for Baba was right behind us. "You see, I have
come from there to here; when I can do this, can I not skip your
village unseen, car and all? Time and space dare not bind me" He
said. We stood aghast at this Revelation. I sensed tug in my heart. I
fell at His feet. His face was dazzlingly divine…"

Ocean Garland

2005-08-03T17:15:00.000-07:00

When a devotee told Baba, "I heard that your Kerala tour was most pleasant and wonderful. I am sad that I was not destined to join," Baba replied, "Have the confidence and hope that when next such an opportunity arises, you may be able to join. Meanwhile, listen to the account given by those who joined, and be happy."

A word about that adjective, 'wonderful': The devotee was referring to a very dramatic, indeed astounding miracle that happened at Kanyakumari. In the evening when the sky had turned into a carnival of pink and purple, and the clouds had decorated themselves with golden fringes, Baba proceeded to the seashore and with His Bhakthas around Him, played with the waves of the seas that mingle there. Each succeeding wave seemed to be more eager than the previous one to touch His lotus Feet, and to offer Him its own special homage. Suddenly, as if aware of the yearning of the seas, Baba stood facing the waters and said to those beside Him, 'See! The Ocean is welcoming Me, with a Garland.'

At the very moment one could discern a stately wave a few yards away, advancing majestically towards the shore and, soon it swept Baba's Feet and receded. Imagine the wonder and amazement of every one when they found, round Baba's Feet a bewitching pearl garland, swaying and swinging with every surge of the waters around Them! One hundred and eight translucent pearls each a priceless gem, strung on a thread of gold! O, how charming Baba looked! The Avathar of the Lord receiving the homage of Varuna again!

Only the Avatar and masters have the power to bring pearls from the sea
not untimely ripped from oysters.

Source: Prof. N. Kasturi, Sathyam Sivam Sundaram, The Life Story of Sathya Sai Baba

Online source: http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/askbaba/sathyamsivamsundaram/s1013.html

Crown Jewel Teleportation

2005-08-03T17:10:00.000-07:00

Most know that many of the crown jewels of the UK were taken from India
during the 150 years of British occupation of Bharat. Baba was surrounded by
a group of devotees one day out in the air, and asked them if they would like
to see the crown jewels. He teleported them out of the Tower of London,
passed them around, and then teleported them back.

Wood Apples And A Mirror Of The Moon

2005-08-03T17:08:00.000-07:00

http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/page...cles/Mirror.htm

WOOD APPLES AND A MIRROR OF THE MOON

Early on the morning of Dec. 8, 1973, Swami departed Prasanthi
Nilayam for Brindavan. After an hour or so of driving, he directed
the three accompanying cars to turn off the road to a clearing in an
uninhabited area of the forest. Everyone got out. Baba was in a
delightful mood, moving about among the party and cracking jokes with
the men.

Beside the picnic area was a wood-apple tree with a few large wood-
apples in view in the upper branches. The men tried to knock some of
these to the ground by throwing stones, but without success. One
small wood-apple, about two inches in diameter, did fall to the
ground, and Baba picked it up.

Holding the small wood-apple between thumb and forefinger against the
morning sun, Baba said, "Here is the moon." Then he closed the small
object in his hand for a moment, and when his hand opened, the wood-
apple had disappeared, and in its place there was a most
extraordinary object.

The object was a translucent disk (of stone?) thin at the edges
thicker at the centre. It reflected light in a brilliant way, and
throughout its body there was a puzzling variety of modifications.
There were dark areas of uneven shape and size; there were short and
longer veins of luminous mineral-like materials of all shades of
colour; there were specks and dots of colour that reflected brightly
in the sunlight. The total effect of the disk was one of great beauty.

Everyone gazed at the object with intense interest and wonderment.
Holding the disk to the sun, Baba said that it was the moon in
miniature, comprised of the moon's matter; that it was a mirror of
the moon." Nobody understood what he meant, and we started to ask
questions. At length, we understood that the two sided disk was an
accurate miniature in stone and minerals of the two sides of the moon.

It was as if one were to photograph the moon as it is seen from
Earth, and then to journey to the opposite side of the moon and
photograph that side. Each side photographed would appear on a
photographic plate as a circular disk. Thus, one side of the
translucent disk created by Baba mirrored one side of the moon, and
the other side of the translucent disk mirrored the opposite side of
the moon. The darker, unevenly shaped areas on the disk were the very
large features of the moon's surface; the brightly reflecting specks
and dots were individual mountains and smaller mountain ranges; the
shorter and longer veins of brilliant varicoloured minerals were
additional features of the moon's landscape.

Indeed, the visual modifications to be seen in the disk were so
complex that we did not readily understand them. Baba said that the
mineralized appearance of the luminous features of the disk were in
fact moon minerals, that they could be seen in the disk because it
was thin and therefore translucent, and that the same mineralization
was in the moon itself. The miniature moon was exact and fully
accurate, and were there to be a photographic enlargement, scientists
would at once recognize all the landscape features with which they
were familiar.

At this point, food taken from the cars was ready, and the ladies of
the party served a delicious breakfast. I had the moon-disk in my
hand, so I put it in the pocket of my jacket and kept it there. After
breakfast, with a smile, Baba held out his hand, and I reached in my
pocket and returned the moon-disk to him. He again held the disk up
to the sun, and all along the edge of the disk there was the rich
golden light. Baba said, "See there is the sunrise!."

After every one admired the golden light, Swami again closed his
hand, the moon-disk was gone, and in its place was the original small
wood-apple.

ExMarine From Oklahoma Hands Him Book

2005-08-03T16:59:00.000-07:00

http://www.sai.memories.dsl.pipex.com/memories/1988.htm

EX MARINE FROM OKLAHOMA HANDS HIM BOOK
A Miracle from Sai Baba
In the summer of 1988, I was at home in the mountains enjoying a beautiful day, listening to the birds singing in the lush, green trees, when I had a sudden, sharp pain under my left jaw. Alarmed, I put my hand on my jaw and felt a rather large swelling. For years I had been experiencing some minor discomfort whenever I ate or drank anything acidic. But this time, the pain and swelling was intense and did not subside.

My wife, Marilyn, suggested that we immediately seek the advice of a doctor who specialised in eye, nose and throat problems. Meanwhile, the swelling and pain increased.

Fortunately, the doctor agreed to see us immediately. In thirty minutes, we were in the office of Raj Shintanni (not his real name), a distinguished looking gentleman from Bombay, India. After a brief examination, he informed us that I must go to the hospital immediately for x-rays and intravenous antibiotics. By the time the x-rays were taken, the swelling under my jaw was the size of a cut-in-two tennis ball and the simple act of swallowing was getting more and more difficult.

The doctor frowned as he read the x-rays. He explained that I had a stone about the size of a small almond enmeshed in my salivary gland, and it was a wonder it took this long to become inflamed and infected. He transferred me to the Intensive Care Unit, as surgery could not be done until the infection was cleared.

I asked him it if it were possible for the stone to pass through the salivary duct. He chuckled gently and said, "Mr Petersen, that is a physical impossibility. It would be like trying to force a sixteen-foot-high truck through a three-foot tunnel, utterly impossible." I then inquired if it would be possible to excise the stone from the gland. The good doctor shook his head to indicate, "no". Then he said, "you see this place on the x-ray, it clearly shows that the stone is enmeshed in the gland. They are as one. Any attempt at cutting it out would cause irreparable damage. The only safe way is to remove the whole gland. Fortunately, you have another one and will be able to live a normal life."

I was connected to several tubes, one dripping a liquid antibiotic into my veins and another which delivered a nutritional liquid, since I could not swallow. Some time during the night, I noticed the doctor sitting beside me. I knew it was late, and I could not imagine why he was still there.

The next morning, the pain had subsided, and the swelling was reduced. My wife told me that the doctor had stayed late because he thought he might have to perform a tracheotomy, if the swelling didn't recede. The swelling had come very close to closing the larynx and it might have become life-threatening.

After the third day, I was well enough to go home provided I took oral antibiotics, so that the infection would be completely gone and the doctor could schedule surgery.

Two days later, in the early evening, the problem recurred. Because I was unable to swallow the huge pills the doctor had given me, the infection grew worse. I was depressed and afraid.

A friend, Ben, a recovering alcoholic and ex-marine from Oklahoma, stopped by to inquire about my health. He stayed awhile and talked about my ordeal, before he left, he pulled out a soft cover book from his jacket and said, "I came across this book the other day and thought you might be interested." Although I was not in the mood to read, I thanked him for his kind thought. The title of the book was 'Avatar' by Howard Murphet. Oh, another book about some Indian holy man, I thought, just what I need.

I had read the writings of Yogananda and appreciated his wisdom, but he was of another time and had left his body. Although I had seen holy men from India in this country, the cynic in me wondered, why all the Rolls Royces? Why all the Hollywood stars, and rock and roll idols? Money seemed to be connected to their visits. I rationalised that the gurus are not responsible for the deeds of their followers but, on the other hand, "BY THEIR FRUITS, YOU SHALL KNOW THEM." I was confused. Years ago, I had attended some meetings at the home of a spiritual teacher named Hilda Charlton in N.Y.City, and heard her speak of Sai Baba.

She had spent quite a long time at his ashram in India. She talked about his ability to manifest solid objects out of thin air. That sounded interesting but I had not seen this with my own eyes, so I remained a cynic, wanting to believe; but I was not ready to.

I felt tired and weak and decided to go to bed, hoping that I would not have a crisis during the night. Praying that the swelling and pain would not worsen, I took the new book upstairs with me. Once in bed, too weary to read, I opened the book at random to a full page photograph of a dark, Afro-haired man with incredible eyes. The eyes that gazed from that page seemed to be alive. I stared at them, drawn into them, I could not take my eyes off the picture. To my surprise, I heard myself say, "Sai Baba, I don't need this stone in my neck. Please take it away from me." I then fell into a deep sleep.

I awoke the next morning to the constant cawing of crows. I sat up in bed and rejoiced to discover all the pain had disappeared. My happiness plunged when I felt an object tucked between my cheek and gum. "Don't tell me, on top of everything else, a crown came off one of my upper molars!"

Warily, I explored that area with my thumb and index finger. I pulled out a small rock, almond sized, and wrinkled. It almost looked like a small brain. I put my hand on my jaw and realized, not only was I free of pain, but the swelling was completely gone. Was it possible that the stone in my hand was the stone that was supposed to be entangled in my salivary gland and - not removable? If this was true, how was it possible that I had no pain whatsoever and there was no blood on my bed sheets?

I had experienced a miracle! I called Marilyn to make sure I was not dreaming. The book on my bed table, turned onto its back, displayed a picture of Sai Baba with one of his hands turned down, blessing a devotee with holy ash that flowed freely from his hand. Immediately, I realised the source of my miracle.

My wife, in amazement, examined my throat and jaw and confirmed that all the swelling had disappeared. She suggested that we take the stone and go immediately to the surgeon to get his opinion, and cancel the date for the surgery.

The doctor wore a slight frown as he looked at the stone and then he examined my throat.

"Yes," he said, "that is the stone and your gland is perfectly normal." He looked incredulous. I know I must have appeared a bit demented as I gleefully told him about my miracle. But when I mentioned Sai Baba, he walked away from me and muttered, "I don't want to hear such things."

I was caught off guard. I thought the doctor coming from Bombay would be impressed and share my wonder. What I didn't realise was this miracle negated all of his long and expensive studies and practice of western medicine. The operation was cancelled.

As Marilyn and I walked away, he cautioned, "Don't worry, that is a chronic condition, it will come back again."

That was ten years ago, the stone never returned. I never worried and Sai Baba continues to bless me. That was the beginning of a new journey. I wanted to find out more about Sai Baba and why I was blessed with this miracle.

The next day my wife related the story to a friend, who immediately began to cry. It turned out she was a devotee and her tears were of joy. She gave my wife photos of Baba and the address of a place in CA. where I could buy books etc. There was a special cassette that appealed to me and I sent away for it and some books. In ten days, the books arrived with a note informing me that the tape was no longer available.

Several days later my wife was looking through my record collection. Something she rarely does. She pulled out a wrapped, unopened 12 inch L.P. On the album cover was a picture of Baba and the songs were the very ones I had sent for. Marilyn shrieked in disbelief.She had never seen this album before, neither had I.

Of course, it was possible that years ago one of us had bought it but we had no memory of doing so. That was highly unlikely, as before my illness, neither of us were interested in Sai Baba.

It was later explained by a devotee that Baba has a delicious sense of humour and that this was an example of 'a leela' (God's play.)

As the year rolls by, I keep finding new 'leelas' in this story, and there is no doubt that I find more as time goes by.

- Robert Peterson. N.Y.
Sathya Sai Newsletter
U.S.A.

reproduced at http://www.saibabalinks.org

Former President Of Sri Lanka

2005-08-03T16:50:00.000-07:00

Excerpt from "BABA IS GOD"
His Excellency J.R.Jayewardene Former President – Sri Lanka.
*
As President of Sri Lanka, I had invited Baba on several occasions to
visit Sri Lanka as a guest of Government and People. Though He was
keen to visit us, He did not find an opportunity of doing so.
However, in April this year, 1990, I visited Bangalore and had two
audiences with Him on Thursday and 19th April and Saturday the 21st
April. He spoke quite freely to me and to many others from Sri Lanka
who meets Him with me.

His advice was always based on the teachings of the religious
teachers, namely the Hindu Avatars, Buddha, Jesus Christ and Prophet
Mohammed.
He answered our questions dealing with public matters as well as
private ones quite freely and in the contest of the same noble
principles He always advocated. We were all deeply impressed by His
presence and advice.
I remember several extra-ordinary healings narrated to me directly by
persons who experienced them, of whose friends had experienced them.

I will mention one of them, which I heard directly from a reputed and
highly qualified surgeon. A patient who needed surgical treatment to
remove a portion of his intestines, which were subject to cancer, had
seen him. He did not have the operation performed. He had gone away.

Ten years later, the same person whom the Doctor did not recognize,
had consulted him again. This time he needed an immediate operation
for a prostrate problem.

When they were preparing for an immediate operation, the patient
asked him, "Dr; do you know who I am? " When the Doctor
replied "No! "He introduced himself as the patient who had seen him
about 10 years ago for the operation mentioned above.

The Doctor was surprised that he was alive today without having the
earlier operation.. The patient said, Dr, soon after I left you I
paid my respects personally to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. His
miraculous cure helped me to live without an operation. Baba further
advised me that 10 years from that date, you would need an operation
for a prostrate problem and then to see the same Doctor and not to
delay the operation. That is why I immediately consented to being
operated by you.

This doctor, who is not a Hindu and not a devotee, narrated this
story to me when he heard that I had visited His Holiness in
Bangalore.

I accept Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba as a Purna Avatar. His presence
in this world enables Him to advise with His words of wisdom and love
those who live in it.

Swami Says - The nature of divine can be understood only when the
divine in human form teaches as man to man, the nature of this love.

Jai Sai Ram

Ram Chugani
Kobe, Japan

http://www.saibabalinks.org miracles file

Passing Into Joy

2005-08-03T16:41:00.000-07:00

The friend said that only last week the former vice chancellor of Sai Baba’s college was giving a talk to their Sai Baba group in Connecticut and he had related this story.

The vice chancellor said that recently he was sitting on Sai Baba’s veranda in the ashram in Puttaparthi next to a very important Indian politician. Sai Baba came by and called the politician by name and asked him to come into his private interview room. The man went inside and came out ten minutes later sobbing. Then the sobbing turned into deep uncontrolled crying. Sai Baba came by and said to the man “What’s wrong?”. Then Sai Baba waved his hand and made some vibhuti (sacred ash) and gave it to the man who took it and ate it. A short time afterwards when the man had regained his composure he turned to the vice chancellor and said “Because you have witnessed all of this, I will explain it to you.”

The politician explained that his wife had been very sick and she had told him that she wanted to go to see Sai Baba for one last look, for the very last time. However the politician had been very busy and while he was away his wife died. All this had happened ten days previously and the man was now coming to see Sai Baba after cremating his wife. When Sai Baba came into the interview room, the man said, Sai Baba had scolded him and had reminded him what a wonderful wife he had had, of how she took care of his every need, cooked his food, looked after the house, even to laying out his clothes etc. But when she had made her one last request to be taken to see Sai Baba, he had been too busy. Sai Baba then said “I went to her and I comforted her, and now she is with me. Here I will let you see her now.” At that moment the man’s wife emerged from inside Sai Baba and stood as a live being in front of him, no longer appearing thin and sickly. She smiled and took his hand and said “Do not be sad, do not grieve for me, I am happy, happy.” Then the man’s wife merged again inside Sai Baba.

ramalacentre.com

Plane Hijacking

2005-08-03T15:50:00.000-07:00

An experience of Dr. Michael Goldstein
currently the president of US Sathya Sai Organization.

"Dr. Goldstein is a very old devotee of Bhagawan and keeps going to Parthi very frequently. Once, after a long stay at Parthi he went to Swami and said "Swami tommorrow I am going back to USA." Swami looked at him and walked away. The puzzled doctor was embarassed and sat back. This treatment he had never got before. He was expecting an interview or some guidance from Bhagawan before leaving Parthi. Well, the day passed peacefully for many but certainly not for Dr. Goldstein. He was pondering over his misfortune and went through a sleepless night. The next morning he went and sat in the front rows of visitors in Darshan lines. Swami came near to him, stood right in front of Dr. Goldstein and stared at him. The confused doctor could not utter a single word and mustered all his senses to pronounce his eagerness to go back. Swami mischievously smiled and said "This would be your last darshan. " This triggered shock waves in the old devotee who immediately fell at Sai's feet and pleaded "No I want many more darshans. I want to go and keep coming I can not bare your separation." The passionate Lord gave away. He smiled and patted the doc and said "Manchidi Kshemanga vellira (Good go and come safely) I am always with you." Saying that He walked away. The doctor boarded the flight ruminating on Bhagawan's last words with him. During the course of his journey he was awakened into reality when he heard the announcement that the plane was hijacked and moving to Pakistan for fueling. This announcement sent tremors in the passengers and suddenly the plane went into panic. Some people started crying. Some people started shouting at the hijackers. Some started reciting the Gita and what not. Everyone was deeply disturbed. Meanwhile, a hijacker came forward and started collecting the passports from all the passengers as they wanted to segregate Jews from the rest. They came to the doc and collected his Jewish passport.

During the course of time the plane landed in a PAK airport after an initial refusal by the PAK air trafic authorities. The authorities did not want to get a hijacked Indian plane into their airport for the fear of adverse propaganda from the media and its effect on its diplomatic relations with India. Well, within the plane the scenario was different. The hijackers listed their demands and threatened to kill the passengers one after the other if their demands were not met. On one side PAK authorities started negotiating with the hijackers and the other side they wanted to attack the flight to rescue the passengers. The black commandos surrounded the flight and started climbing the flight. Sensing trouble outside, the hijackers opened firing in point blank range. The doc is hefty and well built. Apart from this credential he was also in the first row to be an easy target. But after a series of gunfiring he saw some outside light peeping through the opened door. One of the black commandos managed to reach the door and opened it. Dr. Goldstein took this opportunity to jump through the door only to realize that the floor or tarmac was about 20 to 25 feet below. Now he could not go back as he was already around half way through the air. The doc landed with a thud and ran to safety. After the formalities were over he collected his passport and boarded the return flight.

He went straight came back to Parthi. Swami greeted him in the varanda itsef "EMI bangaru vachhesava" (you returned so soon my son)".

Source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saisruthi/message/21

Today The Chickens Will Rise

2005-08-02T08:00:00.000-07:00

The writer's foot became infected in India. (Many countries' water systems
are unsafe to other countries because the organisms are different.) It
was not responding to antibiotics. She went to the hospital in the ashram at
Puttapathi where Dr Vijayalakshmi (mentioned so often in the Arnold Schulman book)
told her it might have to be amputated. The writer had had immune problems
since college days after eating a rare hamburger....She contracted mono never
having had a sexual relationship. Mononucleosis, often called the 'kissing disease' would more accurately be called one of many meat diseases. That day she touched Swami's feet
and the infection disappeared. Swami had told her in a dream the previous
night "today the chickens will rise". She had not become a vegetarian until
her mid 20's. Perhaps Baba was referring to a previous life in which her family
had been involved in a chicken farm. Perhaps one meaning of His koan was that
all will rise, including flightless chickens.

* The meat industry attempts to disguise the animal origins of diseases. Thus cow pox
or kine pox has been renamed smallpox. Mad Sheep Disease has been renamed Scrapie.
Swine or pig flu has been termed legionnaire's disease etc.

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

Trinity Of Love

2005-08-01T17:22:00.000-07:00

Baba Hari Das, a mouni, i.e. a saint who has taken a vow of silence,
has written "Love is more powerful than lover for Love is not bound by form."

Advaita, or nonduality, is the philosophy that there is only one Doer, and that is
God.

Meher Baba has written that Lover, Beloved, and Love become an inseparable trinity.

The Path

2005-08-01T17:16:00.000-07:00

As Swami Kriyananda, Donald Walters wrote THE PATH, a beautiful story
of his life with Paramahansa Yogananda.

When Walters went to India, Baba told him to abandon the ochre robe of sannyas, that
it was not his path.

Walters wrote "My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation
into matter was mere signature."

...

Foes of God Have Fewer Lives

2005-08-01T16:11:00.000-07:00

Baba has said the enemies of the Avatar have 3 more lives while friends have 7 more lives because His foes' anger makes them concentrate
always on the Lord

Ammachi

2005-08-01T13:59:00.000-07:00

In the early 80's Ammachi came to the home of F and G Wynn in Arlington.
There were only 30 in attendance. Ammachi has hugged 12 million people, built
250,000 homes, fed millions, lifted the hearts of all who come to her subtly
or overtly. She knelt in front of the altar of Sai Baba. At another time she
said "He is the sun. I am the moon."

Two Become One

2005-08-01T12:57:00.000-07:00

When E & D who were living in Colorado Springs went to see Baba in 1994,
they were called in for an interview. However because of her angle of vision,
E did not see her husband wave to her. D went in for an interview. While Baba spoke to Faye Bailey and her 2 sons in a private interview, D rushed out to find his
wife, that she not miss the interview, taking a chance that he might miss his.
When she came in and they went in for a private interview, she asked Baba to
bless her husband. A marriage in which each thinks first of the other is
truly an inspiration to others.

Swami Hari Harananda

2005-08-01T12:53:00.000-07:00

Baba, Sadguru or eternal guru, often sends His devotees to upagurus, gurus along the way. Many have gone to kriya yoga teachers, Neem Karori Baba, Ammachi, Jillelamudi Mother, teachers of all paths.

Baba guided the writer to go for kriya yoga intitiation to Swami Hari Harananda,
the disciple of Sri Yukteswar and godbrother of Yogananda.

Swami Hari Harananda had a chart on the wall... showing the earth, air, fire
and water chakras ... she was looking at the chart thinking 'there I am
in the base chakra' .. he immediately came over and whispered to her
"From your earth chakra many blessings will flow."

He also verified that she had been a disciple of Yogananda in her last life
and a resident of California.

Ash Necklace

2005-07-30T07:28:00.000-07:00

One Baba follower picked up a longsleeved black dress she saved for
formal occasions.. and saw on it a necklace of vibhuti beads... ash
held onto the fabric by Baba's power. A friend took a photo of it.

Handed A Ticket At The Airport

2005-07-28T08:50:00.000-07:00

Baba one year had 2.3 million devotees
at His birthday celebration and gave darshan
from a helicopter. He has advised devotees
through meditation that it is better to worship
Him in ones home in ones heart altar.

No one can come to Puttaparthi unless Baba wills
it. No one can stay away if He calls.
One devotee who wanted very much to go had no
money.. and was at an airport one day.. when
a stranger came up and said "Baba told me to
give you this." It was a ticket to India.
Another person who has tried to go found an
airline strike the day he attempted to leave
for India, and since, other obstacles.

Anyone whose desire to go is great and whose
love is strong will attract the grace of the guru.

ahimsanet@yahoo.com
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Animal Rights In The UK

2005-07-28T08:47:00.000-07:00

Before her death after many many decades of animal rights
work in the UK, Peggy Mason, wife of R D Laing, wrote
a book about Baba, who was her guru, as well as about her work. It is called
Sathya Sai Baba, The Embodiment Of Love.

Same Energy

2005-07-28T08:21:00.000-07:00

Baba told E to have the same purity with men and women... not to put out sexual energy to the opposite gender.

Autobiography Of A Yogi

2005-07-25T13:18:00.000-07:00

Baba indicated to the writer that she had been in her last life a follower
of Yogananda living in California. In this life, she bought Yogananda's Autobiography
Of A Yogi... but it sat on her shelf for 11 years. Yogananda in it advises
to repeat the name of a guru 3 times. If one says Lahiri Mahasaya and Babaji
together, Sai Baba is the link between the names of these 2 kriya yogis.
http://www.crystalclarity.com/yogananda

Yogananda said to the writer in meditation:

The star of India is within you.

He wrote: Kashmir is montcrowned, lake-garlanded, and flowershod.

African Translations

2005-07-25T11:50:00.000-07:00

Baba spoke to a delegation of Africans. Over 30 dialects were
spoken in the group. Each person heard Baba in his or her
own language, without UN translaters.

Virginia Bhajans

2005-07-21T13:27:00.000-07:00

Hitchhiking can be very dangerous, exposing the hitchhiker to
violence, theft, etc. One person, though, not wanting to be late for Arlington
Virginia bhajans, was confidently hitchhiking, and was picked up by a kind carful.
When he said he was on his way to bhajans, the man in the back said "I just
left Bangalore 3 days ago, and Baba told me He would constantly remind me of
His presence in the US."

Orange Squash

2005-07-21T13:09:00.000-07:00

Dudley Giehl, an animal rights activist, came to Maryland for a visit. With his
irrepressible iconoclastic humor, mimicry, and chameleon actor talent, his response to a description of many Baba miracles was "Baba give me orange.. Baba give me orange". In those days there was a fruit market on New Hampshire
Ave. In the back was an area where bruised and other fruit was discarded.
D went into the back and picked up a huge squash, not shelved because it was so
large. Coming home he cut it into 6 bowls, and still half was left. Orange was everywhere. Then he said
to Dudley "Next time you ask Baba for something, please be more specific."

Is anything more prolific than the fruit of the Edenic Garden.. 450,000 lbs. an
acre or more?

Vertical Rainbow

2005-07-21T12:59:00.000-07:00

Joel of Los Angeles sarcastically referred to Him as the ‘character’.

Joel started for Puttaparthi cracking a joke among friends. “This character is said to materialise all sort of things. By this he is attempting to cover the lands from India to America, like a rainbow sweeping from one end of the horizon to the other! I shall expose him by asking them to create a rainbow”.

Before having a darshan of Baba, Joel was sitting on a hillock along with his wife Diana and another lady Pamela who had accompanied them. When Joel chanced to look over the shoulder of his wife eyes were transfixed.

In a few seconds he changed to trembling. He was sweating profusely. Tears pierced through his eyes. “Did I speak so slightingly of so great a power?”

What happened? Beyond the shoulder of Diana, up in the skies there had formed the spectrum of a rainbow. In no time it raced up the sky, hit the zenith and bent down opposite.

There was brilliant sunshine then, not a cloud in the sky. The firmament was fresh as though swept clean. If there be a rainbow in this, won’t there be a shock and a shake-up?

Joel’s amazed reaction turned the other two also to see the rainbow. For a time, they stood astounded. Being of the fair sex they broke into sobbing.

Dissolved in devotion to Baba they came to Prasanthi Nilayam and sat for darshan. The Legend of Love, without an inkling of the wondrous in Him came out of the Mandir (temple). The warmth of love to remove the ‘shivering’ of Joel was glowing in Swami’s eyes. A smile sneaked along the betel-red lips.

“Well, Character! How did you like the rainbow?” He asked.

From Ra Ganapati's exquisite book BABA SATHYA SAI

Samuel Sandweiss, San Diego Psychiatrist

2005-07-21T12:53:00.000-07:00

The book, SAI BABA, THE HOLY MAN AND THE PSYCHIATRIST, by Sam Sandweiss has had an extremely wide
circulation. Some believe the title is compelling.. others that the laser beam
intensity of Swami's Shiva gaze on the cover is magnetizing. Sandweiss as traveled
to many Sai centers giving talks .. his holiness is apparent.

Birthday Publishing

Kicking Sand

2005-07-21T12:50:00.000-07:00

One woman devotee knelt down in darshan line in front of Swami and He kicked sand
in her face. This woman had many masochistic fantasies, one of which Baba fulfilled.

The Avatar is Asritakalpalateeka, the wishfulfilling tree.

Lifesaver

2005-07-21T12:45:00.000-07:00

A vedic astrologer who like gifted Hindu astrologers can predict the day of death
was called in by Baba. Baba asked him what day it was. He suddenly realized
that his death day had passed. Baba indicated that He had prolonged his life.
He told the man to move to the ashram, and handed him a packet which contained
all the documents he needed.

Another man protested that his life line was short. Baba slapped his hand
and in so doing doubled his life line.

For the story of Isaac Tigrett:
http://tigrett9.blogspot.com

Holding The Avatar's Hands

2005-07-21T12:41:00.000-07:00

One man was holding Baba's hands in greeting. He wanted to touch Baba's feet.
Baba said no. The man said "why Baba may I not touch Your feet if I am holding
Your hands" and Baba telepathically let him know that the people he was with
were not ready for the boon of padnamasakar.

Summer Showers 1978: The tamasic receive darshan. The rajasic .. interviews.
The satthvic.. padnamasakar.

*tamasic.. the dull guna satthvic .. the good guna rajasic.. the aggressive guna

A River Of Supply.. or Money Miracles

2005-07-20T13:46:00.000-07:00

The writer covered the Democrat and Republican conventions in 1988 for the
animal rights movement, though she was short on funds. On her return trip with her sister's credit card she traveled, sleeping in the car and bathing in motel and hotel pools. She had left California traveling east with 25 cents cash. She came to a Stop n Shop in Kansas and upon going in saw that the clerk was denying a man in his 30's the right to buy beer, though he was not the driver, because he did not have
ID. Disliking force, she bought it for him with the credit card. Unsolicited, he
handed her $7. A few miles down the road was a toll booth, the only one she encountered on Rt 70 between California and Ohio. God gave her cash right before
she needed it. (Nevertheless like a broken record she usually hounds Him for more.)

Another time she was in Sandusky, Ohio, without resources to get home.. when
suddenly there was $20 floating in Lake Erie.

A third time, with no money for rent, she opened the door of her Maryland home
and saw Nimbo there from Melsatosa, a fruitarian temple, who told her he had $2000
left, and that God had told him to give her some of it. He handed her 9 one hundred
dollar bills.

Her family has been a constant Ganga of supply.

God Calling: The branch need ask no support of the vine.
Baba: The baby does not ask her mother for milk.

SAIANANDA'S FIVE DOLLAR BILL

Saiananda had once said that Baba does not materialize money. Some time elapsed
and he gave away his last $5... and then realized he had no money to buy his
dog Sathya some food. He was in a drug store when he felt money materializing
on his arm.. it was a $5 bill yellow with age. Later Mark B had called him
and said that Baba was causing coins to drop from the ceiling.

Pilot's Life Saved

2005-07-20T13:37:00.000-07:00

Charles Penn has a spiritual pen as well as a passion for piloting planes.
In FINDlNG GOD.. MY JOURNEY TO BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA, he describes how
Baba saved his life.

Guha Ashram Akshaya Patra

2005-07-20T13:34:00.000-07:00

As Droupadi had an akshayapatra, a vessel which filled with food every day for all she wanted to feed.. but would empty for the day after she ate, so there is a Guha ashram of Baba's very advanced disciples in the Himalayas where there is such a vessel.. which fills daily with the desired food of each.. these yogis are so proficient that all of them have passed the test of being impervious to freezing snow.

Chits

2005-07-20T13:23:00.000-07:00

The replacement apostle after the death of Judas was chosen by lots.

Baba called the heads of the Saint Louis, Santa Clara and one other center in
1 day.. and told them if they had a question He would always answer, provided
a. they were surrendered to the answer b. it was something which required
an immediate decision c. it was each's own sadhana, and not another's. He said
they should take 4 symbols (pieces of paper, etc.) and make 1 of them YES, another
NO, and the 3rd and 4th WAIT.

One woman thought her significant other was lying to her about his fidelity.
She asked Baba if he'd been faithful, and got a no. She told him this.
9 more times, she got a no. On the 10th time, he told her about his affair.
They subsequently parted. The odds on a random basis of getting 10 no's in
a row out of 4 choices are 1 in 1,048,576 (4, 16, 64, 256, 1024, 4096, 16384,
65536, 262144, 1048576)

*sadhana: path toward God

9 No's

2005-07-20T13:20:00.000-07:00

The writer resolved to surrender coffee .. and decided to ask Baba before each
cup for permission. Over 3 days, she got 9 no's in a row (she was asking on a yes
or no basis.. or a 1 in 512 chances to get 9 of the same answer in a row.
She obeyed for 3 days.. and after that stopped asking. Please pray that her addiction
and all addictions to harmful substances and behaviors be broken.

Dharma

2005-07-20T13:17:00.000-07:00

One of Baba's universal family had resolved to leave her home situation for what
she thought was greener fields. As she got up to leave, the picture of Baba
in an absolutely still room catapulted off the table. As she examined it, a bolt
of lightning which manifested as cracked glass emanated from Swami's third eye.

Humor

2005-07-20T13:16:00.000-07:00

Baba often jokes with His followers. To one devotee whose dharma had been slipping
He came in a dream. When the follower went for padnamasakar (touching the feet of
the Guru) Baba had socks on.

Darshan Line

2005-07-20T13:06:00.000-07:00

Sometimes twice a day, sometimes more, when Baba is at an ashram
(Puttaparthi, Bangalore, Ooty or other) He walks by the seated crowds at dawn and dusk, accepting letters, materializing vibhuti or other objects, calling people in for interviews. In the evening, thousands of birds chatter in the trees as they too come for darshan. The saris of the women are a rainbow of infinite shades.

One woman handed Baba a letter and was heartbroken when He immediately
threw it back at her.. but later she realized that he had materialized
a reply to her letter on the paper she had handed Him.

A man held up a book his father D in Connecticut had written about Baba, hoping
Swami would touch it. But as Baba went further away, the man became
downcast. Suddenly like the Red Sea parting, all those between
Baba and this man parted. Baba came quickly toward him and touched
the book.. it became so hot the man could not hold it. Later
the shakti was also transmitted to the man's mother.

Another man who had often criticized Baba but had come along with his partner
for the trip... said about his first sight of Baba's light: "an ocean of joy swept
over me".

Darshan line is for those of great discipline.

Ganges Cataract Of Words

2005-07-20T12:54:00.000-07:00

Baba asked a Nobel
Prize candidate in science, to translate for him..
Bhagavantam said Baba's cascade of speech
was so forceful and fast.. that only 1/3
of it could be translated into English.

Telugu is 90% Sanskrit.

The fact that the man was asked to translate
was a great privilege.. Baba is omniscient and has often supplied an English, Italian, or other
word that Dr Kasturi or other translators could not provide.

Mirrored Fibonacci

2005-07-20T12:31:00.000-07:00

mirrored Fibonacci:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1,1 The Fibonacci sequence occurs often in nature.

11:23 Baba's birthday

The Saffron Rose

2005-07-20T11:27:00.000-07:00

The writer disobeyed the ashram rules.. and followed her heart as she followed Baba to the Gokulam in Bangalore. As He got out of the car she knelt in front of Him.
He asked me "Where are you from?" She answered
'from your heart'.. He threw her an orange rose which He materialized.. and as she walked back to Bangalore the sky was an orange rose
full of petals of fire..then Dr. Bopaya came up to her with a stack
of books.. which out of his huge heart he was simply giving to her. There
are hundreds of holy cards at the ashram.. visible in one of the books was a holy card with an orange rose on it which said
' be silent like the rose which communicates
only through fragrance'.. The mind is a boat on a pathless sea.. opinions divide while Spirit unites..

Baba used to remind the writer about silence.. she would be gazing at His picture and see a ring of light around His throat.. many other
ways He has told her in kindness
(dreams visions meditation) to be silent
.. Baba does not fawn over His followers. He
is often a stern taskmaster.. and those
closest to Him are sometimes disciplined the most
for their infractions of His messages..
Sometimes 2000 or 200,000 people at the ashram have
had dreams the same previous night.. each
with a unique message for his own path..
yet there is no force.. we only harm ourselves
when we do not follow the light.

Baba Underlining Attachments

2005-07-20T11:23:00.000-07:00

There is a master artist living near Kent Ohio.. whom writer has met..
she has done many portraits of Baba in black and gold paint.. they are magnificent..
Her sister dreamt that Baba came in a convertible to give her a ride.. she wanted to put on her earrings first.. and when she came out He was gone.. Becky J of Mass dreamt that Baba came and she was worried about her children..
He vanished.. Writer dreamt that He did not
wait while she went for a pen to write what
He said down.. He underlines that our attachments
block us from closer association from Him..
Bette Midler says " From a distance" (God
is watching from a distance).. He is also
watching from inside..