Elanor wrote on Feb 17th, 2011 at 6:37am:Hello everyone!
After years of lurking and rarely posting, my Afterlife Knowledge Guidebook has arrived in my mail. I'm a bit scared, so wish me luck everyone...
Since we're on the topic of Sai Baba, I would like to recount an experience I had about fourteen years ago. I was in my school library, reading an article in a large encyclopedia-like book about Sai Baba.
All of a sudden, a strong pungent smell of sandalwood hit me in the face. I say "hit", because it seemed to suddenly manifest in front of my nose and fill my head with its scent. I was completely taken by surprise and looked around my friends reading and studying, to see if anyone noticed anything. Nobody seemed to.
So I went back to the book to see if it would happen a second time. It did!
When I was a child in primary school, I had a friend whose mum/stepmum (can't recall) believed in Sai Baba. She said that when it was her mum/stepmum's birthday, her home would be filled with the fragrance of sandalwood.
Is he a fraud? How do I account for this experience?
Elanor x
I don't know what is true or not in your case, but here are a couple of alternative possibilities that you may not have thought of.
Many well known Gurus like Sai Baba, had while they were alive, and even when they die, many loyal and ardent followers.
Think collective thought form, and the power of group intention and focus.
Imagine yourself standing amongst many people worshiping the same guy, and expecting a "miracle" manifestation from him. With so much group focus and intent, so much Faith, then such a material "miracle" manifestation may very well happen, but be less due to the actual Guru's "power", but more to the collective power of such group focus, faith, and intent.
Similar to in some ways of how sometimes when Yeshua healed some people, he stated, "your faith has made you whole." Except that in his case, he was really acting as a channel of Divine consciousness and didn't have all that group back up to help him out. (contrary to popular Church promoted belief, during his public ministry, there wasn't huge crowds that followed him around for the most part). But as he said, their own faith and belief played an important part in their healing.
So when someone tunes into Sai Baba, they may so may
be tuning in to the collective thought forms built up around him. Another possibility is this: From experience and guidance, i've learned that there are both unfriendly nonphysical consciousnesses and at least one unfriendly E.T. group that tries to mess with people on spiritual paths and try to mislead them in various ways.
One such way is leading them to the belief in a mostly false teacher (i say mostly because i believe that even most rather erring would be teachers have their moments of clarity, wisdom, or help to others--rarely is someone or some being completely negative in nature). Both nonphysical former humans and especially that E.T. group can create such experiences for humans.
Such manifestations are in no way proof of Divine attunement.
However, if an individual human comes to have and demonstrate at times a complete mastery over physical matter and so called "laws", like walking on water, complete and instantaneous healings, etc. etc. without a lot of group back up, then chances are, there is probably something to that person, especially if these correlate with constant loving actions and vibe from the person. And the greatest depth and purity of PUL attunement and channeling is often seen in self sacrifice for the benefit of others/the Whole.
Such individuals and beings, will radiate an incredibly pure, vibrant, White Light, though at times it may be more towards the Golden shade (often when interacting with humans who cannot take such a powerful and pure radiation.) This is another way to know whether or not a teacher is the realest deal & fully attuned to Souce and PUL.
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