RETURN FROM THE DEAD
Sai Baba
and the man who returned from the dead
Quoted from
Reincarnation by Roy Stemman (ISBN 0-7499-1787-3) Available
for sale via my Amazon
Bookshop
link.
 One
of the most astonishing accounts of the interlife was given
by an elderly American, Walter Cowan, who was a devotee
of Sathya Sai Baba, the Indian guru whom many regard as
God incarnate. The story was related by Dr John Hislop,
a professor and corporate executive who witnessed the event,
and was published in Dr Samuel Sandweiss's Sai Baba ...
The Holy Man and the Psychiatrist. Walter Cowan died
suddenly on Christmas Day 1971 from a heart attack and his
body was taken by ambulance to hospital where he was certified
dead.
His wife, Elsie, had prayed to Sai Baba
for help, ending her prayer, 'Let God's Will Be Done'. Later
that day, when she and a friend, Mrs Ratan Lal, went to
the hospital they learned that Sai Baba had also visited
Walter Cowan. And when they entered his room instead of
a corpse they found him alive. Dr Hislop was able to confirm
that the American was dead on arrival at hospital and that
the doctor who examined him had stuffed his ears and nose
with cotton, then covered his body with a sheet.
While all this was going on, Walter
Cowan found himself:
very calm, in a state of
wonderful bliss; and the Lord, Sai Baba, was by my side.
Even though my body lay on the bed, dead, my mind kept
working throughout the entire period of time until Baba
brought me back. There was no anxiety or fear but a tremendous
sense of well-being, for I had lost all fear of death.
Then Baba took me to a very large hail where there were
hundreds of people milling around. This was the hall where
the records of all my previous lives were kept. Baba and
I stood before the Court of Justice. The person in charge
knew Baba very well, and he asked for the records of all
my lives. He was very kind, and I had the feeling that
whatever was decided would be the best for my soul.
Walter Cowan then described armloads
of scrolls in many languages being produced and Sai Baba
interpreting them. Some concerned countries which had not
existed for thousands of years:
When they reached the time
of King David, the reading of my lives became more exciting.
I could hardly believe how great I apparently was in each
life that followed. As the reading of my lives continued,
it seemed that what really counted were my motives and
character, as I had stood for outstanding peaceful, spiritual,
and political activity ...
After about two hours, they finished reading the scrolls,
and the Lord, Sai Baba, said that I had not completed
the work that I was born to do and asked the judge that
I be turned over to him to complete my mission of spreading
the truth. He requested that my soul be returned to my
body under his grace. The judge said, 'So be it.'
The case was dismissed and
I left with Baba to return to my body. I hesitated to
leave this wonderful bliss. I looked at my body and thought
it would be like stepping into a cesspool to return to
it, but I knew that it was best to complete my mission
so that I could eventually merge with the Lord, Sai Baba.
So I stepped back into my body ... and that very instant
it started all over again - trying to get my breath, being
as sick as you could be and still be alive. I opened my
eyes and looked at my wife and said, 'You sure look beautiful
in pink ...'
.
Extract
from Reincarnation Quest by Roy Stemman (ISBN 0-
7499 - 1787 -3) Available from Amazon.
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