On May 5, 1991, Sathya Sai Baba materialized a
golden egg that has several names and is rich with symbolism. Baba
said that the Hiranyagarbha Lingham (Golden heart lingham) "contains
the entire universe in a microscopic form. It is a manifestation of
the Trinity: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva (God as Creator, Sustainer and
Destroyer). It is also the Atmic consciousness (Holy Spirit)--like a
thread running through a pearl necklace. It is also the spiritual
heart." In the Spiritual Heritage Museum in Puttaparthi there is a
quote by Baba referring to the lingham (lingham in general) as the
Cosmic Seed of Creation."
After Sai Baba had manifested it, he said that it is
a great blessing for anyone to receive this photo and that it should
be kept in every home. His energy will work miracles through it. This
is the first time that anyone has ever heard Baba say this about a
photo.
Dr. M. Doraisingham, whom I had never met, who sent
the photo to me from England, sent the following story in a four and a
half page letter. Baba had just materialized the Golden Lingham while
standing on the auditorium stage at the Trayee Brindavan Summer Course
assembly. Baba asked Professor Sampath to hold the Iingham awhile so
that he could watch the student cultural program. Professor Sampath is
Vice Chancellor of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning,
Puttaparthi, South India; he was thrilled beyond words. During the
hour that Professor Sampath kept the Iingham he became warm and said
that he was in a" state of divine ecstasy."
After the conclusion of the cultural program, Swami
played a little joke on Professor Sampath. He touched the professor's
pocket as if to brush oft some dust. Later, as they were riding in the
car together, Baba asked Professor Sampath for the Golden Lingham. In
his excitement to return the lingham, Professor Sampath searched
everywhere his shirt pocket, trouser pockets, the car seat. But he
could not find it. Finally, Baba gave a joyful laugh and said that He
had sent the Golden Lingham back where it had come from.
Dr. Doraisingham goes on to say "Swami says that He
created the Universe at His own will and pleasure with the word AUM.
Here again He proves this fact by creation of this microcosmic
universe, with the wave of His hands in a few seconds, by His supreme
will. This is the incredible power of our supreme Lord Sai, whose
glory we cannot fathom. But we are able to have a small glimpse of it
by the example of this event--the Grand Miracle. All glory to our
beloved Lord Sai who is our dearest divine Mother and Father."
Dr. Doraisingham also said that on June 7, 1991,
while walking to darshan to see Baba, he came upon a dead child beside
the roadside, held by his mother. The doctor had just been given the
Golden Lingham photo and held it against the child, who had just
fallen out of an overcrowded van onto the road and been killed. He
chanted "Om Sai Ram" many times while praying to Baba and massaged the
boy's chest and abdomen. The dead child was restored to life with the
energy of Sai moving through the photo and the next day, in an
interview with a friend of Dr. Doraisingham, Baba confirmed the entire
incident. Baba impressed the doctor to stop, to heal the child using
the photo, and later said to professor Anil Kumar "The child was dead
at that point in time."
In January of 1994 when this author (Connie Shaw)
gave a talk in Houston, Texas, USA, on the lingham photo, several
people were healed on the spot simply by touching it to the afflicted
area. For example, a few people who had experienced headaches that
very moment were relieved of pain. One man was in pain from kidney
stones; he placed the photo against his lower back in the kidney area
and the sharp, stabbing pains vanished.
When Sai called our family to India in January of
1995, we had the good fortune to meet with Dr. John Davis, formerly of
Boulder, Colorado and Seattle, Washington. In the social interactions
we had, John told of Baba's instructions in His January interview with
John. Among many notable happenings Sai told John to repeat Rama,
Rama, Rama nine times while rubbing John's mercury lingham in a
circular fashion over the Sai lingham photo "which would produce
individually-suited types (colors and textures) of vibhuti ash for
each client/patient who came to John to be healed. Baba also stood on
John's hands for over fifteen minutes and said "Now you have healing
hands." Dr. Davis has recently been designated as the head of the
Alternative Medicine Wing of the new Super-specialty Hospital in
Puttaparthi, South India. He is also starting an alternative medicine
school there.
John Davis, a rolfer and chiropractor, executed a
profound healing on me at the hospital during that same trip to India.
His rolfing, however, is only for the most courageous clients as it is
temporarily excruciating (emotionally and physically), yet the pain
lasts only a few moments and great waves of energy can engulf the body
to tone the overall system and outlook. Beside the patient examining
bed there is an over-sized wall photo (perhaps six feet by six feet)
of Baba holding the golden lingham (which represents the vastness that
each human being, each "embodiment of Love" truly is).
Each person who receives this background article
will derive his own creative ways to use it for Loving help and
service. Aside from placing it on one's altar or shelf, you might wish
to keep a copy in your wallet, your car, your office desk, and in your
briefcase or luggage. To give a framed copy to friends and loved ones
with the background information is perhaps one of the most auspicious
and thoughtful gifts one can give. You can take copy to an instant
photo shop and have fifty or a hundred made very reasonably for
distribution to Sai Center members, the ill, the elderly, the lonely,
or the depressed.
What an enjoyable service - to transfer the Johnny
Appleseed idea (tree planting across America) to one of being a
spreader of the Cosmic Seed of creation.
From: Connie Shaw's Book: "Mary's Miracles and
Prophecies" (pg 270)
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