Continuing
the stories about the Indian Avatar Sathya Sai Baba whose
materialisation miracles have been covered in your column
I witnessed some of these myself. But in my opinion Sai
Baba's greatest miracle is his ability to cause transformation
in our hearts and to awaken our natural divinity.
I went to India this
year to see Sai Baba with a group of followers. On 20th
January I saw him materialise a gold and diamond watch
for a young devotee. He then took another devotee's steel
ring from his finger and blew on it. We saw it change
into a diamond ring. Baba recently also materialised a
small Bible containing facts about Jesus. Tears of joy
flooded my eyes to see such wonders.
Later I witnessed another
marvel. I saw a statue of Sai Baba- as his first incarnation
as Shirdi baba - drink milk from a little pot which was
offered by the Hindu priest. In India this is called the
abhishekam ceremony and your readers may remember how
this hit the headlines sometime ago when statues, even
brass statues, from all over the world started drinking
milk. These miracles are interpreted as proof that the
formless God can also take form.
The statue of Baba that
I saw drinking milk was five feet high and made of solid
marble. There was no hollow for the mouth. As it drank
the milk I could hear it slurp. It drank half a pot every
day.
Bhupendra
Desai- Edgbaston, Birmingham.
(Article Copyright
of Craig Hamilton-Parker)
