In this fascinating incident, The Late Shri.Howard Murphet demonstrates
how Baba transcends time and matter:
One evening a party of us were sitting on the carpet in his suite;
Ramanatha Reddy, the doctor, the young men, Iris (Mr. Murphet's wife) and
myself were there.
Swami asked me the year of my birth, and when I told him, He said that He
would get for me from America a coin minted there in that same year.
He began to circle his down-turned hand in the air in front of us, making
perhaps half a dozen small circles, saying, "It's coming now... coming... here
it is!"
Then He closed His hand and held it before me, smiling as if enjoying my
eager expectancy. When the coin dropped from His hand to mine, I noted first
that it was heavy and golden.
On closer examination I found, to my delight, that it was a genuine
milled American ten-dollar coin, with the year of my birth stamped beneath a
profile head of the Statue of Liberty.
"Born the same year as you," Swami smiled. What would the sceptics say
about this, I wondered.
Would they suggest that Baba carried around with him a stock of coins so
that He would have one to match my year of birth. Such old American coins, now
long out of circulation, would not be easy for Him to obtain in India through
normal channels. I have no doubt whatever that this was one of Baba's many
genuine apports.
While He circled his hand before us, some agency under his will had
dematerialised this gold coin at some place somewhere, carried it at
space-annihilating velocity, and re-materialised it in Sai Baba's hand.
From where did it come? Who knows? Baba would never say; perhaps from
some old hoard, hidden, lost, forgotten long ago, and now belonging to no one
alive.
Reference:
Sai Baba: Man of Miracles by Mr. Howard Murphet. Page: 84 (Paperback
Edition, 1972). Published by Macmillan India Ltd.
Om Sai Ram
