Thought for the Day - 21st May 2006

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Source: Radio Sai web site

You should cultivate an attitude of inseparable attachment to the Lord, who is your very self. If He is a flower, you should feel that you are the bee that sucks nectar from it; if He be a tree, feel that you are creeper that clings to it; if He be a cliff, then feel that you are a cascade running over it; if He be the sky, be a tiny star that twinkles in it; above all, be conscious of the truth that you and He are bound by Supreme Love. If you feel this intensely, the journey will be quick and the goal can be won easily.

 

- Baba

Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam today

21st May 2006

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In 2003 Sai Baba explained the reson for his obvious difficult and slow walking - i.e. the magnetic pull of the earth

 

 

Sai critics were/are scoffing at this explanation - they are, but they are not doing proper and exhaustive investigation.......( as so often )

 

 

Here a few similar well documented cases:

 

 

 

High Voltage Humans

 

 

Rare, and unexplainable, are those strange people who seem to be charged

 

with high voltage electricity. Medical science doesn't know what to make

 

of them, so it does the next best thing . . . it proceeds to forget them.

 

 

 

For instance

 

 

 

Dr. Ashcraft doubted the stories he had been hearing about the young girl's

 

charge of high voltage electricity, so he reached out and took her by the

 

hand. A few moments later, when he opened his eyes, the doubting doctor

 

found himself on bis back, surrounded by a group of worried friends. Jennie

 

Moran had done it again.

 

 

 

She lived near Sedalia, Missouri, in 1895, a frail, nervous girl then in her

 

middle teens. The phenomenon which attracted so much attention to her was

 

not noticeably present until she was about fourteen years old. Then, for

 

no apparent reason, Jennie suddenly behaved like a powerful storage battery..

 

Sparks flew from her finger tips when she reached for the pump handle,

 

and the voltage was so high that the spark was painful to her.

 

The sparks were doubly painful to anyone who chanced to touch her under

 

conditions which enabled the electricity to leap through their bodies.

 

 

 

Needless to say, Jennie had few close friends. She re­garded the

 

phenomenon as a curse, principally because the family cat was one

 

of her favorite pets and the cat avoided her like the plague after it had

 

received a few shocks.

 

Jennie's strange electrical endowment faded by the time she reached

 

maturity, and she became another normal young woman, much to her

 

delight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medical and newspaper records tell of another human storage battery

 

-in the person of Caroline Clare, of Bondon, Ontario. In 1877, when she

 

was seventeen years old, Caro­line was a strapping 130-pounder who

 

lived with her parents and six brothers and sisters. She became ill, lost

 

her appetite and began to waste away. Doctors could find no­thing

 

seriously wrong with her, but she continued to dwindle until her

 

weight dropped to slightly less than ninety pounds.

 

Then she underwent a mental change as drastic and as baffling as the

 

physical change had been, for Caroline began suffering from

 

seizures-or convulsions-as some of the doc­tors described them.

 

While in this state, body rigid, eyes fixed and staring, she would mumble

 

at great length of far away places and scenes which she had never

 

visited. It made no sense to those who knew her, for this simple child

 

had hardly been outside her native town.

 

For a year and a half Caroline remained in this con­dition before she

 

took a turn for the better, but it was not an unmixed blessing, for when

 

her physical and mental health returned to normal, she discovered that

 

she had acquired an unwanted propensity for shocking people who

 

merely touched her. Oddly enough, she not only emitted considerable

 

voltage, but she seerned to be magnetized as well, for when she

 

picked up any metal article susceptible to magnetic attraction, she

 

could not let go of it; someone had to forcibly pull the article from her

 

open hand.

 

As in the case of Jennie Morgan, the curse of the annoy­ing electrical

 

charge left Caroline when she reached ma­turity, simply fading

 

gradually, to return no more. Her case was studied by physicians

 

and a report made to the Ontario Medical Association in the summer

 

of 1879.

 

 

 

 

 

In 1890 sixteen-year-old Louis Hamburger came to the Maryland

 

College of Pharmacy, where his unusual ability to act as a human

 

magnet soon attracted the attention of the faculty. Those gentlemen

 

felt the need for more highly trained investigators, so they invited

 

various medical and electrical experts to view this rernarkable young

 

man. Their report indicated that they were quite baflied by Louis

 

Hamburger's ability to make heavy iron or steel objects dangle from

 

his fingertips as though from a powerful mag­net. Metal rods half an

 

inch in diameter and a foot long were no problem at all; and, when

 

iron filings were placed in a glass beaker, Louis could lift the

 

beaker with the tips of three fingers pressed against the glass.

 

When one of the finger tips was pulled away it caused an audible click.

 

The electrical phenornenon which jinxed Jennie Moran and Caroline

 

Clare and Louis Hamburger was similar in a general way to that

 

which plagued

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frank McKinstry of Joplin, Missouri, around 1889. Similar to the

 

extent that, like the others, the phenomenon was not subject to his

 

will and the voltage was at its peak in the morning after he had had

 

a good night's rest; fading gradually as the day wore on.

 

 

 

On cold days, especially, when most people are subject

 

to accumulations of static electricity, McKinstry had the unfortunate

 

faculty of becoming so heavily charged that walking became a task,

 

as though he were treading on fly paper. ( He had even to ask passer-bys

 

to help him get his feet off the pavement )

 

 

 

He, too, was investigated and forgotten, for in all these cases science

 

admittedly found only the evidence ... but not the answers.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:

 

Frank Edwards " Stranger than science"

 

Viktor Farkas " Jenseits des Vorstellbarem "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

best regards

 

Hans, Vienna