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I ate my hot fudge sundae at the famous Hard Rock Cafe in
London I noticed that amongst the rock memorabilia of the
Beatles, Hendrix and Rolling Stones stood a life size photograph
of a rather odd looking figure. But this fuzzy headed character
dressed in bright orange/red is no rock star. He is Sri Sathya
Sai Baba the guru of the blue chip multinational restaurant
group and responsible for their corporate slogan 'Love All.
Serve All.' Isaac Tigrett, the restaurant chain's founder,
believes that Sai Baba saved his life when his Porsche careered
at 90 mph over a 300 ft drop. "Sai Baba appeared beside
me in the car and put his arm around me.
The car was totally destroyed but I got out without a bruise."
When Tigrett sold his share of the company for £16 million
he gave all his money to Sai Baba's cause. The proceeds of
the sale helped build a free hospital in India.
On his deathbed Pope John XXIII is said to have had a vision
of a man that would usher in a new Golden Age such as mankind
has never known. He described him as a small, barefooted man
with brown skin who will wear a distinctive red robe. Similarly,
the great 16th century seer Nostradamus and American prophet
Edgar Cayce predicted that a holy man from the east would
challenge the major religions of the world as a prelude to
a Golden Age.
Ten years ago few people would have heard of the remote tiny
village of Puttaparthi set in India's southern state of Andhra
Pradesh. Now the attention of millions is focused on this
stone and thatched village because of Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
Sai
Baba
Born on 23rd November 1926 Sri Sathya Sai Baba demonstrated
remarkable materialisation phenomena from an early age. At
the age of thirteen, after a two month period of illness and
unconsciousness, he announced to the startled villagers that
he was an avatar- a teacher sent directly from God. This,
he said, was his second incarnation, the previous being as
Sai Baba of Shirdi a Muslim fakir who had died in 1918, and
there would be a third to come as Prema Baba. Over these three
lives he intends to bring the religions of the world together
as one brotherhood with universal love as their foundation
stone.
Most people actively engaged in psychic work or study have
heard of Sai Baba. He's not what you'd expect a great man
to look like. He is a small, baby faced man with a distinctive
mop of black fuzzy hair similar to the style popularised by
guitarist Jimmi Hendrix. And just like the deathbed vision
of Pope John XX111 he is barefooted and wears a orange/red
robe. Yet many world leaders rank amongst his followers including
the one time president and prime minister of India S D Sharma
and P V Narasimha Rao as well as the ex-prime ministers of
Italy and Norway. The Duchess of York (Fergie) has been to
see him and rumour has it that Prince Charles requested an
audience but was refused. In India Sai Baba is headline news
and his influence is rapidly spreading to the West.
 Never
before has anyone displayed such remarkable PK powers. The
reports coming out of India are mind boggling. Sai Baba has
raised the dead, multiplied food as Christ did at the Last
Supper, materialises jewellery out of the air and turned water
into petrol when his car ran out of fuel. There are tales
of him materialising sweets directly into people's mouths,
appearing in two places at once and making a photograph of
the face of Christ appear on film. Most of his manifestations
have been demonstrated in front of highly respected professional
people and are particularly well documented by Dr John Hislop
and Howard Murphet.
There are of course sceptics who argue that Sai Baba's miracles
are nothing but cleaver conjuring tricks. The fact that
he has levitated in front of hundreds of people or can materialise
jewellery from thin air can be explained by simple trickery
and sleight of hand. But when you read the thousands of
testimonials or meet intelligent people whose lives have
been completely transformed after an encounter with Sai
Baba you soon realise that to trick people on this scale
would be impossible. For example Sai Baba will often ask
people "What do you want" and many people will
ask him to materialise very obscure things: fruits out of
season, a perpetual motion watch, a map of the world in
the future, some wood from the original cross and specific
medicines. To keep all this up the sleeves of his robe would
be an impossibility.
Sai
Baba Stories
Amongst the 'Sai Stories' told by devotees are some very
strange stories. For example: Knowing that every Rolex watch
has its exclusive serial number, an Australian visitor asked
the swami to materialise one for him. Sai Baba obliged with
a wave of his hand. On his return the serial number enabled
the Australian to identify where the watch had been purchased.
He asked the proprietor if he remembered who bought it.
The owner remembered the occasion well. He could hardly
forget the unusual orange clad Indian gentleman with strange
fuzzy hair.
The shop owner was a meticulous man who kept accurate sales
records that gave not only the day of purchase but the time
as well. Together they checked the records. It corresponded
exactly with the time and day that Sai Baba had materialised
the Rolex. Sai Baba had been in two places at the same time!
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SAI BABA
Another intriguing story, although accounts differ, concerns
an Australian who visited Sai Baba in the hope that he could
cure his wife of terminal cancer. Sai Baba spoke to him
saying "You shouldn't be here. Your wife needs you.
She will be well." He then tapped the Australian three
times on the forehead. The man vanished in front of a crowd
of people and reappeared besides his wife's hospital bed
in Australia. Baffled by what happened he checked his passport.
It was stamped correctly with that day's date yet only moments
ago he was in India. His wife recovered.
The
Impossible
All over the world there are people who have had similar
impossible experiences many of whom I've met or have written
to me at my columns. Sai Baba's most frequent materialisation
is of a healing ash called vibhuti. Hindus consider this to
be very holy and on a par with the holy sacrament of Christianity.
In the Daily Telegraph of March 6th 1992 a reporter witnessed
vibhuti ash forming on photos of Sai Baba and objects in the
room at the home of Mr G Patel in Wealdstone, Harrow London.
In honour of Sai Baba's 70th Birthday, Mr Patel carved a life-size
wooden statue of his guru. As soon as the task was complete
vibhuti ash began to form on the statue's hands, gown and
feet. Mr Patel took a photograph of this but when the film
was developed it was not the statue in the picture but a photograph
of the real Sri Sathya Sai Baba!
Remarkable as these stories about Sai Baba are, they are
unlikely to convince traditional scientists until he is tested
by researchers under laboratory conditions. Sai Baba considers
that this is unnecessary. "Miracles are my visiting cards"
he says and on another occasion "My greatest miracle
is Love" His spiritual teachings and the character transformation
it triggers are far more important than the tantalising PK
phenomena he displays: "For what purpose were you born?
Man has been sent into the world to realise the truth that
he is not man, but God. The wave dances with the wind, basks
in the sun, frisks in the rain, imagining it is playing on
the breast of the sea; it does not know that it is the sea
itself. Until it realises the truth, it will be tossed up
and down; when it knows it, it can lie calm and collected,
at peace with itself."
If we embrace the spiritual principle of unconditional love
says Sai Baba, we too can become a godlike being and will
manifest the same incredible PK phenomena. This, he suggests,
is the next evolutionary step of mankind.
The
full story of how Craig & Jane went to India to visit
Sai Baba is told in The Psychic Casebook:
The
Psychic Casebook
The
Psychic Casebook
which can be ordered via this website."
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