Met a person who was able to predict future by some "Siddhi" technique.

He was my father's old colleague. He was able to see objects through solid wall. He used to predict future as a hobby. Once during a prediction session I asked him to tell me about my next promotion. Before telling me the answer he laughed very loudly and said, " I was waiting for this question". The very next moment he became very serious and with strange angry face told me, " Forget your promotion. You are going to get your transfer orders within 24 hours". His voice was so commanding and firm as if he was issuing the orders by himself. Again he started laughing. I thought he was joking. His next few sentences were more puzzling. "I don't know any astrology or palmistry etc. but can connect my line with the centre of power", he told with a childish smile. To my surprise, I received the transfer orders the very next day. I returned home immediately and informed my parents that I will have to surrender my Govt. accommodation and have to join my new place of posting within a week. We all were very upset to know this news. But my mind remained more occupied to know the mystery of his forecasting procedure. I told to my father, " Let us go to your friend. I think he can suggest some remedy if he is really having some spiritual power".

We went to his residence and as we were going to ask his wife if he is available. We heard him calling," Come upstairs. I am waiting for you". He was sitting alone in the open in full moon light and said while kept looking at the moon, " My wife was going to tell you that I am not at home. She don't like my visitors as it disturbs her routine".

My father replied," We are sorry to disturb you. We won't take your much time but we are here to inform you that your prediction regarding his transfer came true.

He was enjoying hearing it and turned to me with a childish smile.

He said to me," Now you know that it was not a jock".

I told him," But we are too much disturbed as we will have to maintain two accommodation….".

My father interrupted, " We will be thrown from our house. I am retired and can't maintain another accommodation to support my rest of the family. You know that I have to look after my other unemployed and unmarried children".

He said angrily," It is not so easy to revert as the arrow has already left for the target".

My father said," But that arrow is going to hit me too. I have come to you as I have a firm faith on your knowledge. Please do something to help us. My son is ignorant of your powers".

He started looking at the moon as we were waiting for his reaction.

After a few minutes of silence he said to my father," He thought I was joking. Had he requested me at that moment this would not have happened".

He told to my father," OK, you make a simple representation from your side and submit that personally to the person who has signed his transfer orders. Take your wife too along with you."

He turned to me and said smiling," 20 years stay is granted. I think it is enough for you".

I said," Certainly".

My father did what he suggested and the transfer orders got cancelled immediately. After 20 years I got another transfer but the mystery man was no more alive. I opted for voluntary retirement.

During the past years I kept meeting him occasionally and tried to know his mysterious power. He narrated me his many interesting experiences. He told me that he has attained a power of "siddhi" for his voice. With this power whatever he will speak will come true. I asked him how he could do that. He replied," I got it from my Guru. He gave me a mantra that I chanted for 40 days. The chanting was to be done exact number of times during 40 nights".

He continued," During the 40th night after I completed the ritual, I felt relaxed and was feeling sleepy. I told to myself that sleep is disturbing me. If I can live without sleep it will be wonderful. The next moment I was not feeling sleepy. I felt receiving a message that from now I will not be required to sleep. Strangely, for several years I never felt the need to sleep".

I said, " But how is it possible?  No one can survive without sleep".

He said," I am surviving by external energy. You can see me totally dried up as a skeleton. If you cut my arm with a blade there won't be any bleeding".

Once he told me that he knows how to go out of his body. He had interacted with many souls enjoying out of body experience. He also told me that his first out of body experience was by chance during his meditation practice. He too was stunned to find himself floating around his body. During that period he saw a strange world of souls. He was being looked as alien in a strange kingdom. When he was completely lost in enjoying the strange world and was moving away from his body, some soul warned him not to go too far and not to remain too long under this condition. When he told the soul that he never intended to come here and do not know how to go back, that soul held his arm and pushed him towards his body and warned to be careful in future. The next moment he found himself in his body.

When I asked him, " Do you believe in Ghosts". He replied," Yes, there are different types of them. I had a very bad experience when I tried to be friendly with a better type. They need you more than you actually need them. When he tried to capture them he himself became hostage to them. It was very difficult to get rid of them. Only the power of "siddhi" saved me from their clutches. In fact my imprisonment to them prompted me to acquire this higher power." I was getting a little frightened and asked him," How can they harm you". He replied," They are most naughty, mischievous and fearless. Once they find some friendly human they will always like him to be engaged with them".

I again asked him," But they can hold any body as a hostage, even a person like me." He replied," No, till you surrender to them they won't over power you. More over there are many, some from your family ancestors, and they are always there to protect you.

Some Muslim scholar also narrated me same type of experience. He told me that he used to keep these friendly ghosts busy with some useless job during his sleeping time or when he wanted privacy. He used to ask them to go on climbing the stairs up and down till his further orders. He told me that he could show me his captured ghosts through the reflection of water under special conditions. But I refused to go for it.

This "siddhi" man also told me about our late Prime Minster Mr. Morarji Desai. He said, " You know this urine crazy man Morarji Desai? Yes I am talking about our ex prime minister. We both used to go to the same place of worship to learn new things. He learnt the art of breaking up his body momentarily in fine particles and can reunite them again. He has made himself accident proof. He desired to have more powers and longer life. But he has wasted his time as ultimately he is going to loose both".

I was never ready to believe most of their experiences without proper scientific evidence, but I never rejected it like other scientists since I was not having any scientific grounds to go against it. It can be a conditioning of brain. If we can train our brain not to feel certain realities like pain, hunger etc. we can train it to believe certain unreality too. The brain appears to have no brain, as it doesn't have the power to distinguish between a reality and unreality. It does not know the art of independent thinking.

I had met the "siddhi" man in the year 1972 when I was 27 years of age and he was about 60 years old. A very thin and pale person as if there was no blood in his body. We used to talk for hours while standing, but he never felt tired. Once when I could not stand any longer I guessed that he might too be feeling tired and asked him if he would like to go to the nearby coffeehouse. His every reply used to be unexpected. He replied, " No I never get tired".

I had interaction with several persons who are expert in the art of prediction. But many of their predictions came untrue. Their predictions used to be based on the planetary positions. But the person I am talking about, who claimed to be in possession of some strange power "Siddhi", was beyond my comprehension. The very first time when I was going to see him, he appeared beforehand in my dream. It was a little different dream. In the dream I was aware of my exact posture of sleeping. I saw him standing near my bed exactly in front my face. He was leaning on my head and watching my face very attentively. I woke up immediately as his face was a little frightening. I just opened my eyes to see if there was any person. No, it was a dream. The same day in the evening, when I came back from my office, I found the same person sitting in my room. I got stunned to recognize him. My father introduced me by saying," He is my same son that I was talking about". I just shot back," Who is this person? I saw him the previous night in my dream". My father replied," He is my old friend. He is a religious person." I turned to the strange man and inquired from him," How can I see you in my dream when we have never met before". He did not reply but posed momentarily exactly the way he was looking at me in my dream. Then he turned to my father to continue their discussion.

Something known as "Khumari".

 

I was very lucky to have some very real experience of some thing called "Khumari". I will not like to go in details of the complete history of events to remain confined to the real objective of this paper, but will certainly feel pleasure to express my strange experience. It was in one morning when I was about to leave for office. I occasionally pray before leaving for office. But on that day as I was getting late, I tried to shorten my prayer. In the process I forgot the wording of my prayer. I just stood silently for few seconds. Within those few seconds I felt the flow of some fluid just above the centre of my eyes. I thought it to be some fluttering of nerve as is generally felt in other parts of the body. Within minutes I started feeling as if I have taken two large pegs of whisky. I started feeling a condition of no worry, no thinking and just pleasantness and a strange feeling of satisfaction. I was feeling like a heavily drunken condition as well as a state of complete alertness. Every thing around me appeared to be moving as per my wishes. I was feeling fully protected with no pending wishes. In fact I am not finding proper words to explain that mysterious condition. During this period I was walking to my office. When I crossed a very busy road, I crossed it without caring about the fast traffic and went straight as if the path will get cleared for me. Every thing appeared to be moving as per my liking. In the office I was enjoying my work which otherwise used to be very boring.

During this stage one of my best friends came to me and started gossiping just to pass time. He could see the strange glow of my eyes. At that time nobody was special to me and I felt him disturbing my unusual pleasant sleep. I just felt that I have told him to shut up and go away. He was stunned, as he never expected this type of dialogue from me. He starred at me angrily and went away saying, " I hope you are not drunken". I remained in this stage for about three hours and when I came out from this mysterious condition I went straight to my friend for apology. He told me that from the moment I told him to shut up, he is having a severe headache and is not in a mood to talk to any one. On inquiring this mystery from some senior persons I was told that I went through a stage called "Khumari". This stage can come when you are doing absolutely nothing. Even the imaginative thinking is cut off. During your absolute relaxation, some extraordinary force easily influences you. Some of your brain segments are made to operate under such a condition only. Later I tried to attain this condition willingly but could not succeed.