| My father told me an interesting tale. He told me that | | | | him to take me there and I went and met the man. He |
| when he was a young man a chela (man with super | | | | was an old man and had only one eye functional. He |
| powers) came to the village. My father looked after | | | | gave me a cup of tea and than rattled of some |
| the man and while going he confided to him a mantra. | | | | information about me and my son who was away at |
| He directed him to recite this mantra every night in a | | | | Indore. He also told me the number of windows in my |
| pond immersed up to his waist in water. He also told | | | | house. It was uncanny for he forecast the exact |
| him that at the end of the 40th day my father would | | | | number of windows in my bungalow. |
| be blessed with super powers. The mantra which he | | | | Suitably impressed I returned the next day with my |
| gave him was the one that would bring a goddess to | | | | wife who had accompanied me on this trip. The baba |
| him. | | | | told me that I was on my way out of the state of |
| My father accordingly recited the mantra in a small | | | | Meghalaya and very soon I would go deep south. He |
| pond ( Called a Tobba in the local language) every | | | | also told me that I would settle near the sea after I |
| night. He would wade into the pond till the water came | | | | retired. |
| up to his waist and than he would recite the mantra.My | | | | I never believed the man but within two months I was |
| father tells me that something unique happened on the | | | | out of Shillong-detailed for the staff course at |
| 40th night. Just as he had started his prayers the entire | | | | Wellington. Subsequently in 1991 while as a member of |
| pond was engulphed with flames. This just lasted for a | | | | the air staff team I again landed in Khumbhigram. I had |
| few seconds and the flames were replaced by | | | | a desire to meet the baba again, but on reaching the |
| alligators who lounged towards my father. At that time | | | | spot I was told the baba was no more having died |
| my father lost his nerve and fled. He never tried this | | | | some time back. |
| again and nor did he ever tell me about the mantra, | | | | Many years have elapsed and I am settled at Mumbai |
| though I asked him many times. | | | | near the sea.I wonder how the baba could have made |
| I listened to this story with a pinch of salt wondering | | | | so uncanny a forecast. |
| what to make of it. Does the supernatural exist? can a | | | | I do feel we have a long way to go to understand |
| man have super natural powers? Years passed and I | | | | psychic phenomena. Also the ESP powers are |
| joined the Air force. Then when I was posted at | | | | something real and merit greater study. The Hindu |
| Shillong I went down to the eastern Indian base of | | | | scriptures had learnt the power of unraveling the ESP |
| Khumbhigram which is 40 km from Silchar for an | | | | powers by prayer and mantra. This is something that |
| inspection. | | | | needs greater study. The power to divine things and |
| I was met by a friend of mine who during a | | | | make forecasts is definitely a power that can be |
| conversation told me that a few kilometers away lived | | | | developed. How you do it is the point. May be at some |
| a holy man who had supernatural powers. I requested | | | | distant point in time this mystery will also be solved. |