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.