B. PREMANAND
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Producing Vibhuti on Satya Sai Baba’s Photographs ‘miraculously’!
B Premanand Satya Sai Baba’s paternal uncle (father’s younger brother, Chinna Venkappa Raju) was a magician and it was he who taught him magic tricks. The first trick which Satya Sai Baba performed at his school was to take out pencils, rubber, sweets etc., from an empty bag and surprise his class-fellows and teachers. Then…
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Swayambhu: Making Idols Appear by themselves from Earth!
B Premanand Experiment: 55 Effect: Producing Ganga water from hands or beard. Props: Cloth or sponge dipped in water. Method: Hide the cloth or sponge where you sit. Show your hands empty and palm the sponge or cloth. Press the hands together, or with the beard, and the water in the sponge or cloth is squeezed…
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Christian Miracles: How Christianity Came To India
B Premanand About one thousand nine hundred and odd years ago, when St. Thomas visited Kerala, he saw Kerala Brahmins (Namboodiri Brahmins) performing shraadha ceremony. He enquired as to what they were doing throwing water upwards. They replied that they were sending water to the Pithrus, the dead ancestors. St. Thomas smiled and said that…
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Eating Glass & Drinking Nitric Acid: Hata Yogi’s Other Tricks!
B Premanand (Note: Some of the items described in this series should be performed only under proper expert guidance. One should never try them on one’s own) Experiment No. 49 Effect: A thread is put in one nostril and taken out through the other. Props: 12″ twine thread. Method: There is a connection between the…
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Walking on Water
B Premanand In the history of miracles Jesus Christ is said to have walked on water without any props. In 1968 Hata Yogi L.S. Rao, with the connivance of Blitz Weekly, set out to fool a gullible public. Week after week articles published by R.K. Karanjia, told of the supernatural powers of this Hata Yogi.…
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Live Burial in a Pit under Samadhi
B Premanand Pilot Saba of Delhi is an expert in live burial. In 1988 he was to perform an underground samadhi for 7 days at Nagpur in a pit of 10′ x 10′ x 10′. He was challenged as to why he needs such a big pit if after samadhi all his body functions came…
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Levitation
B Premanand The Godman of this century is Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who has exploited thousands of his disciples by offering to teach them levitation. In 1978 he held the first levitation demonstration of his students at New Delhi. The Supreme Court judge Y.R. Krishna Iyer had written an article that he had himself witnessed levitation…
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Yogic Siddhis – Stopping Pulse and Heart Beat
Godmen claim that when they are in samadhi all their bodily functions also stop like the pulse, heart-beat etc. The yogi asks the doctor to check his pulse. Then he goes into ‘samadhi’ and the doctor is surprised to find there is no pulse. Experiment – 42 Effect: Stopping the pulse. Props: Two lemons or…
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Patanjali Yoga Sutras and the Siddhis (Super Natural Powers)
B Premanand Patanjali Yoga Sutras explain the method of awakening the sexual energy – Kundalini Shakti – from Muladhara Chakra through Sushumna Nadi and the six chakras: Swadhisthana Chakra, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddha, Ajna to the ultimate Sahasrara Chakra, where the union between soul and super soul (atma and paramatma or Shiva and Shakti) takes place…
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Miracles in Islam: Kamarali Darvesh Dargah of Shivapuri
B Premanand Islam is one of the few religions which state that no human being can perform miracles . But for a religion to survive, miracles are a must. If we visit some of the mosques and darghas we will find that many miracles are believed to occur there. Though the Prophet Muhammad destroyed almost…
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Weeping Idols and Icons: from Virgin Mary to Chamundeshwari
B Premanand Experiment: 37 Effect: The Virgin Mary sheds real tears, and even the sweat on her body tastes saltish. In 1988 all over the world, icons and statues of the Virgin Mary started weeping. The tears tasted saltish and were believed to be real tears. This happened in Kerala also. Props: Hollow statue of…
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Miracle of Multiplying Food: Jesus Christ to Satya Sai Baba
B Premanand Jesus Christ is said to have multiplied 5 loaves of bread to 5000 and 7 into 7000. In Mahabharatha, Droupadi, wife of the five brothers, Pandavas, is said to have multiplied two grains of cooked rice to feed hundreds. Satya Sai Baba is also said to have multiplied food to feed his devotees.…
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Miracles in Religion
B Premanand No religion would be accepted by people unless the gods of these religions are shown to have supernatural powers. Their faith in god is not because they love god, but because they have been made to believe that god is ail-powerful. Though it is argued that faith in god turns people from materialism…
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Sleeping On a Bed of Nails
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Standing on Two Swords without the Feet Getting Cut
B Premanand (Warning: Some of the tricks detailed in this series “Science Versus Miracles” should be performed only under the guidance of experts/professional magicians) Experiment: 30 Effect: Standing on two swords without the feet getting cut. Props: Two swords of the same size, one stool and some fruits or vegetables. Method: The sharpness of the…
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Piercing Tongue or Cheek with Needle or Trident
B Premanand Experiment: 28 Effect: No pain or blood when the tongue or cheek is pierced with a sharp needle or trident. Props: One very sharp needle or trident, tincture of iodine, cotton. Method: An activist of Periyar Dravida Kazhagam, Coimbatore at the 8th FIRA National Conference in Nagpur a) Pull the tongue out and,…
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Pulling a Chariot with Hooks in the Back
B Premanand In one of the recent Kumbh melas, a naked Naga Baba walked in the procession with a hook on his penis skin dangling a 35 kg stone. This came on the National Television and most of the newspapers and journals published the photograph. When interviewed, he attributed his feat to yogic power and…
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Science versus Miracles: Performing “Miracles” with Fire!
B Premanand Burning camphor on the hand and waving it in front of the idol, without apparent injury In 1977, a film artist of Kerala published an article challenging us to burn camphor on the hand and wave it before the idol in the temple. He said that his godman, Swami Satyananda Saraswathi, the International…
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Premanand Memorial Lecture
The 3rd Premanand Memorial Lecture organized by Science Trust, Kozhikode, Kerala will be held on January 22, 2012 at Nalanda Auditorium, Kozhikode. We give below the programme schedule mailed to us by Sajit C, an office bearer of the Trust. The 5th Anniversary of Science Trust & the 3rdPremanand Memorial Lecture On Sunday, the 22nd January 2012 …
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Fire Walking
B Premanand Walking on Red Hot Coals Does Not Prove Anyone’s Chastity Experiment – 17 Effect: Walking on red hot coals without the feet getting burnt Props: A pit one foot broad (minimum), eight feet long and three inches deep. At least 100 kg firewood, well dried and hard, kerosene, matches, metal leveler, two planks…
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Preface to “Science versus Miracles”
Pushpa M Bhargava The following is the Preface written by Dr PM Bhargava to the book “Science versus Miracles” of Premanand. We reproduce it as part of our effort to upload the entire book online in html format. We have already uploaded a few chapters of the book. The remaining chapters will be uploaded in…
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The Early Miracles
B Premanand The early miracles were performed by shamans acting as oracles. Through incantations they brought the spirit of god on themselves, swaying and dancing, and making fearful sounds to prove to their followers that punishment meted out by the clan leader of the rulers could not harm them. Among self-inflicted punishments were ship lashes,…
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Evolution of God-Ideas
B Premanand Agni – God of Fire If we go through the history of the gods and religions organized around them, we find that the human mind created these gods and religions by propagating miracles and the belief in fate. The ruling classes and the priestly classes made gullible people believe in miracles and fate…
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Illusion of Touch (Tactile Illusion)
B Premanand Our sense of touch comprises of five mechanisms registering pain, heat, cold and pressure, as well as physical contact with object at the most basic level. The innermost working of the complex network of nerves that communicates signal to the brain from all part of the body’s surface and the way in which…