15. Who and how Prema Sai Baba was found
Two Himalayan saints, Mata Bijaya Devi (born 1970) and Mata Tomba Devi (born 1969), live in the state of Manipur in northern India. Manipur is a beautiful region in the foothills of the Himalayas. In a serene place on the mountainside, there is a small ashram, which is a place of power revered by the locals.
Mata Bijaya Devi and Mata Tomba Devi have been devotees of Sathya Sai Baba for many years. The locals revere them as saints and come to them for spiritual guidance and blessings. Since birth, these two women have shown spiritual powers and supernatural abilities. Already in 2012, Mata Bijaya Devi predicted that Prema Sai Baba had already incarnated and would soon begin his worldwide activities.
Sometimes the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba enters Mata Bijaya Devi and she begins to broadcast spiritual messages and perform all kinds of miracles. Such unusual experiences occur almost every day. This is a unique opportunity for the devotees to speak with Sathya Sai Baba, who at times like this is on the subtle plane within Mata Bijaya Devi.
Such experiences are very ambiguous. Imagine that the subtle body of God inhabits someone. How can this be understood? One of the important questions in this situation is, how many subtle bodies does God have?
At first glance, this is a very strange question, but it is extremely important. Sometimes some people experience such mystical experiences and begin to claim they are special because the subtle body of God is inside them. This is understandable, since God Himself moved into them.
God is the source and essence of the soul of every person. This means it is impossible to say that God has indwelled someone, since God is always inside every person. Considering this difficult situation, some prefer to interpret this as the awakening of the subtle body of God within.
In order not to get confused, let’s conditionally assume that the subtle body of God is infused into the contactee. The question again arises, how many subtle bodies does God have? The question is very strange, because no one can know this. We can assume that God has several billion thin ones, or maybe an infinite number of them, who knows?
Understanding that God has essentially an infinite number of subtle bodies, we can assume God can use many forms for his manifestation. There is no exclusivity in the fact that the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba enters someone for a short time to perform this or that spiritual task.
Once, I and about a hundred other devotees had a unique experience where two holy women, Mata Bijaya Devi from the Himalayas and Jaya Lakshmi Amma from Bangalore, were present at Prema Sai Baba’s house at the same time.
With these two saints, there are frequent mystical experiences of the manifestation of the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba in them. Imagine Jaya Lakshmi Amma standing right in front of the house and Mata Bijaya Devi in the living room. On this day, it happened.
Both saints arrived at Prema Sai Baba’s house on the same day, right after his birthday in 2018, when Prema Sai was six years old. Jaya Lakshmi Amma stood right in front of the house, and the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba inside Jaya Lakshmi Amma answered the questions of the devotees.
At the same time, Mata Bijaya Devi was standing in the center of the living room, and another subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba was talking about how to chant God. Sathya Sai Baba had entered both of them at the same time.
It was a truly amazing experience for everyone present showing that God can simultaneously enter any number of contactees in a subtle body, if there is a spiritual need for it. When such experiences of the manifestation of the subtle body of God occur, the contactee himself or herself does not remember anything.
In other words, when the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba enters Mata Bijaya Devi or Jaya Lakshmi Amma, for a while, they do not remember anything about what happened.
During such experiences, the personal consciousness of a person is turned off, completely giving place to the universal consciousness of Sai. After the subtle body leaves the contactee, the people around tell Mata Bijaya Devi and Jaya Lakshmi Amma about what happened and what the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba said and did.
Let’s go back to the story of how the boy Prema Sai Baba was discovered. All information about the place and time of the birth of the divine boy was received through Mata Bijaya Devi, which constantly included the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba.
At the very beginning of 2015, through Mata Bijaya Devi, information was received from Sathya Sai Baba that a group of five men from Manipur had to urgently leave for the south of India, in the state of Karnataka, in order to find the divine boy.
Sathya Sai Baba, being in the subtle body of Mata Bijaya Devi, indicated the names of five men who were supposed to go from the Himalayan mountains (Manipur state) to the very south. The task of this group was to find and finally identify the right child.
One of the sources of information was naturally the great book we have already spoken about, Sri Sathya Sai Anandadai. This book indicated the place and time of Prema Sai Baba’s birth. The group members learned about the materials of this book a little later and so it took about two and a half months to complete the search.
To begin with, five young people had to find out which of the locals belonged to a certain «gotra» (clan). It was possible to find fourteen local families that belonged to the required clan. Thus, the circle of searches gradually narrowed.
Also, Sathya Sai Baba, in the subtle body, said it was necessary to sing a special bhajan (chant) dedicated to the god, Krishna, for the child and to also say the secret mantra of the god, Shiva.
Sathya Sai Baba, through Mata Bijaya Devi, said that when five young people sing the special Krishna bhajan for the child and repeat the Shiva mantra several times, the child will react in a special way. And so, it happened.
Five devotees from Manipur carefully checked the reaction of each applicant to the chanted bhajana and the recited mantra, but only one child responded as predicted.
On the feet of the divine boy, the mystical signs of the god, Vishnu, were also found, these were the image of a shell (Shanka) and a sacred disk (Chakra). On one foot there was an image of a shell, and on the other, a disk. These symbols appeared for several days, just long enough to identify the child.
When an Avatar is born, such signs miraculously appear on the feet so that others can be sure of the divinity of the child. Despite the fact that all three Sai Avatars are considered the incarnation of the god, Shiva, and goddess, Shakti, the signs of the god, Vishnu, still appeared on the feet as is the ancient Vedic tradition. After the discovery of the boy, these signs also miraculously disappeared.
Five devotees from the state of Manipur examined several children on April 11, 2015. However, the boy Prema Sai Baba was not among them. On that day, Teja Mani, Prema Sai Baba’s mother, took her son to the nearby ancient Bewur, where her parents live.
The next day, the child was brought back to the village of Doddamallur, and only then could he be identified. The boy Prema Sai Baba was the last one to be checked.
It happened on April 12, 2015. At that time, the boy was two and a half years old. After that, in May of the same year, the holy family came for the first time to the Himalayas to the state of Manipur.
It was then that Mata Bijaya Devi and Mata Tomba Devi first saw the boy already in their ashram. They didn’t physically travel with the five students to south India; instead, they directed the searches by phone.
Interestingly, the boy Prema Sai Baba was discovered on April 12th. This date is the International Cosmonautics Day. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the Vostok spacecraft made a historical flight around the planet Earth for the first time in the history of human civilization.
An important mystical detail of the flight of the Russian cosmonaut was that this journey lasted 108 minutes, which is a sacred number for the Vedic tradition. Truly, everything in this world is not accidental. Everything is interconnected.