REAL UFO STORY
COSMIC CONTRADICTIONS
Craig's Question: I was pleased
when a devotee in Italy contacted me to point out a few
mistakes I'd made in my essay at the beginning of this page.
Inevitably perhaps, we started a correspondence by email.
As 'Bon Giovanni' had clearly had personal experience of
Sai Baba's miracles I asked him to clear up a problem I
had: Reading the many books about Swami, I'd noticed that
Sai Baba had contradicted himself. For example to one devotee
he said that spiritual healing was good and to another that
it was bad. He has also been asked if there is life on other
planets and if there are really UFOs. Again he appears to
offer us a contradiction.
Here's a small part of the explanation offered by Don Giovanni:
Bon Giovanni's reply:
Swami had taken a group of students and two elders out
to a forest reserve, wild animals you know, and all had
sat down for tiffen, seated in a horseshoe around Baba at
the centre of the group. A student keen on such things then
asked Swami why he had told differing accounts to people
about UFO's, since he really wanted to know if they were
or were not real. Swami looked at the young man and started
to answer, but at that moment in the field behind him, in
broad daylight, a UFO appeared and just hovered there in
the sky above the group. Not even looking back behind him,
Baba calmly said `UFO's are just imagination', and the craft
vanished.
Since that is important for you, as you say, then perhaps
as you find`contradictions' in what Swami says, I suggest
you examine very, very, very carefully why it bothers you,
and see what happens."Could be." I truly no longer
harbour such thoughts, and so cannot answer you. You see,
Swami does extraordinary things. Sometimes he does such
miracles that the mind simply caves in, and at other times
he does such clumsy sleight of hand tricks you think that
he must think you are a fool if he expects you to fall for
it. Why does he do that? Why does he contradict himself?
Why is he so damnably undefinable? My hunch is that he does
whatever is appropriate to further the insight of the individual
present before him, no matter if that somehow makes the
person think `of' him as a fraud or a god. He really does
not care what one thinks of him, you see. At least that
is my experience. Just when I think I have Swami pegged,
he does something outside my comprehension. When doubt overwhelms
me, I later discover why I have learned just as much from
that process as when wisdom overwhelms me. |
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doubt you are wondering what I mean about palming objects.
It is Swami is seated in private with four or five of us,
and opens his empty right hand, palm up. He says, `see it
is coming' and in a few seconds, just ABOVE his palm, a
golden ring appears in midair, then falls into his hand.
He passes it around. The metal is warm to the touch. Swami
tells a story about how changing the heart of man into gold
is not his job, but ours, and it takes effort, heat. At
that moment a student enters to deliver a message. Swami
then very clumsily palms the very ring he had just materialised
and we all see him palming it, but he then waves his hand
as if creating an object, and no surprise "produces"
the gold ring, which he gives the student. I could almost
feel the student's thoughts "but but but you palmed
that!" .We all knew the student had not seen it appear
in mid-air, and I for one thought surely the boy was now
filled with doubts about Swami. `Why he just palms things!
"Why does he do such things? FIND OUT! Sorry to be
so Zen, but that is my experience: one must find out for
oneself.After you have seen him and come to know him directly,
perhaps your questions about contradictions will be satisfied.
Until then, All best wishes. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7284
(Article Copyright of Craig Hamilton-Parker) |
