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Apparently not, I was told, physicists now being more open to the
possibilities of anything being true, having watched every law they'd
learned as students gradually reduced to something true, if at all,
only within a certain range of phenomena.
But what of the auras?
'The Sai Baba aura . . .' He seemed lost for words. 'It was . . . well,
quite extraordinary. Nothing like any other ever photograph. Even
a psychic I am using said she never before seen such an aura.'
This psychic had been so impressed that she stayed on with Baba.
Dr. Otis's photographs, he told me, showed a massive egg of pure
gold light extending several feet all around Baba's physical form,
sometimes shooting out to surround devotees. During
materialisations it was full of white flashes and explosions of violet
light. Furthermore, one picture taken during a darshan when Baba
had stood still for longer than usual, writing in the air and twirling
another finger as if churning worlds, showed an aura that spread out
in vast rays beyond the entire temple compound, with a particularly
bright and broad beam apparently shooting from his head directly
upward and a great distance further than the film could show.
'Like this beam vass maybe coming down as vell as up out of him,'
said Otis. 'It vass like these old paintings off derr transvigured Christ,
or angels appearing in derr heavence.'
I told him I too had finally been forced to admit that Sathya Sai
was possibly who he said he was.
'Like being around Christ himself,' Otis replied. 'Quite
extraordinary. Such purity. So simple the message. Just love, yes?
No nonsense, no one asking for money. Just derr message, this love.
I must get back there wiss funding. This opportunity is so rare.'
Siva Bala Yogi's aura, on the other hand, had been chaotic, he
reported, bursting with a rather harmful and even violent energy
that could damage those around him. He had achieved remarkable
powers through yogic disciplines, Otis theorised, but they were not
directed, not properly understood, and they probably interfered with
any further progress in his own development. Otis had met a
number of other yogis in the same situation: their austerities
eventually unleashing massive forces, but forces that they could not
harness, forces also in danger of turning dark.
