Producing Vibhuti on Satya Sai Baba’s Photographs ‘miraculously’!

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 since he did not have the idea of
acting as an avatar of god, he explained these tricks as done by nature gods
like other magicians. The fact that one needs a bag to produce things is
because it is a trick bag. He also collected double value for these materials
from his class-mates.

Experiment – 58

Effect: Creating things out of an empty bag.

Props:  Trick-bag and the objects
you want to produce.

Method: Hide the objects you want to produce in the second part of
the bag and close it. Then show the bag to the audience by pulling out the
inside to prove that it is empty. Then chant incantations, while pulling the
centre partition to the other side and start producing things.

Experiment – 59

Effect:  Throwing flowers on the ground which forms
into letters “Sai Baba”.

The second trick which Satya Sai
Baba demonstrated was to throw a basket of Jasmine flowers on the floor which
formed into the Telugu letters “Sai Baba” to prove that he was the
incarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba. The humour of this is that while Shirdi Sai
Saba knew only Marathi and Hindi, Satya Sai Baba knows only Telugu. So he could
manifest only Telugu words.

Props: Colourless adhesive, a
brush, Jasmine flowers and a fan. 

Method: Prior to the show, draw the words on
the floor or carpet with the adhesive. Put on the fan and throw Jasmine flowers
on that part. The Jasmine will stick to the adhesive and form the words. The
other flowers get blown aside by the fan.

Experiment – 60

Effect: Creating necklace from no where. (Satya Sai Baba moves his
empty hands in a circle and produces necklaces.)

Props: Necklace.

Method: Keep the necklace under the armpit inside the sleeves. Show
the hand empty, move the hands in a circle two or three times, just hold the
fingers towards the palm and release the necklace from the arm-pit. It will
fall into your palm and thus enable you to produce it.

Experiment – 61

Effect:  Producing lockets,
talismans, medals, rings etc.

Props: Lockets, talismans, medals, rings etc., which you can palm.

Method: Palm them before hand, wave your hand in circles and
produce them as you produce vibhuti.

Experiment – 62

Effect: Producing Akshata
(coloured rice). [Satya Sai Baba waves his hands in circles and sprinkles the
rice on the head of the devotee]

Props: Coloured rice and thumb tip; paraffin wax.

Method: Place the thumb tip with rice on your thumb, circle your
hands two or three times, release the thumb tip to your palm and sprinkle the
rice on the head of the volunteer.

Another Method: Melt paraffin wax and soak the rice in it and take
out and dry. Make a ball of this rice and because of wax coating it will stick
together.

Palm it and after circling the
hand two or three times bring the ball to your fingers and crush it and
sprinkle it on the head of the volunteer.

Experiment – 63

Effect: Flower petals transformed into lockets, toffee etc.

Props: Flower petals, lockets, toffee etc.

Method: Cover the materials to be produced with flower petals. As
if throwing the flower petals, also throw the materials hidden among the flower
petals.

Experiment – 64

Effect: Nectar, honey, oil, etc., flowing from the photographs of
Satya Sai Baba in the homes of his devotees.

Props: A bottle with one of the liquids, a framed photograph, a mantap, tube connection from the bottle
to the frame with a tap.

Method: The bottle with honey, nectar or oil etc., is hidden in the
frame or mantap with a tube at the
back of the framed photo leading to the front of the glass. When the tap is
opened, honey, nectar, oil etc., flows down the glass.

To expose this miracle, watch
carefully to see how much honey is forming and falling into the plate kept
below the photograph and find out if it is just some honey etc., poured on the
glass. If honey is flowing down from the photograph, remove the photograph
from its place and you can find the source of the flow.

Experiment – 65

Effect: Holy Ash forming on the photographs of Satya Sai Baba in
the home of his devotees. Vibhuti is
seen formed on framed photographs.

Props: Perfumed vibhuti,
framed photograph, Kanji water (rice water) fresh water and a plate.

Method: Make a dough of vibhuti
in Kanji water (starch water from rice porridge – Congee) and spray it on the
glass of the photo. Allow it to dry. Once it is dried repeat this once again,
spraying the vibhuti on the
first coat. Allow it to dry.

When a fan is working, the ash on
the photographs sprayed with water flies in the air which makes people believe
that ash is forming on the photo and falling down. Also keep some dry vibhuti below to make people believe
that it is the ash that is forming and falling.

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To examine whether vibhuti is
really forming on the glass of the framed photograph, remove the portion of the
ash which has already formed on the photograph and you will see that it does
not form again on the scraped portion.

Experiment – 66

Effect: Producing larger objects from sand.

Satya Sai Baba has created an
18″ gold Krislma idol and a Bhagavad Gita book from sand. He goes near the
river bank, selects a place, and sits there with his devotees in a circle around
him. He makes a heap of sand, puts his hand inside the sand and brings out
objects which are impossible to palm.

Props: The object which you want to produce.

Method: Hide an object in the sand well in advance and mark the
place. Walk about as if you are searching for a place to sit and in the end
select the marked spot. Make a small mound of sand and insert your hand in it
and take out the hidden object as if you have created it

Experiment – 67

Effect: Holy ash from an empty wooden vessel.

On Shivarathri day Satya Sai Baba
takes a wooden vessel containing vibhuti and empties it on the head of the Shirdi
Sai Baba statue. After showing it empty, he puts his hand through the neck of
the vessel and out flows vibhuti for several minutes. He first uses his right
hand, then the left hand, and again the right hand.

Props: A vessel with a big belly and a neck through which the hand
can pass easily. Vibhuti, water and a
bottle which can also pass through the neck. A robe with double sleeves and
some thread or rubber bands

Method:  Mix the vibhuti in water into a dough and fill
it in the vessel. Press it with the bottle so that the dough adheres to the sides
of the vessel and the centre portion is empty. Allow it to dry. Fill the centre
portion with dry vibhuti and tie them
with a thread or rubber band so that it does not fall out.

Show the vessel with vibhuti. Turn it over and let the vibhuti fall on the idol or statue. Show
it empty. Now hold the vessel with mouth up, put your right arm into the vessel,
at the same time releasing the vibhuti
from the sleeve into the vessel. Turn the vessel slowly and allow the vibhuti to fall out through your hand.
When the flow stops, remove your arm and show the vessel is empty. Now hold the
top up and put your left hand in, releasing the vibhuti hidden in the left sleeve. Then turn the vessel over and
let the vibhuti slowly fall through
your left hand until it is empty. Now remove your left hand, insert your right
hand and slowly scrape the vibhuti
placed on the sides of the vessel. Thus you can create more vibhuti than the vessel appears to hold .

Since it is very easy to expose
this trick, Satya Sai Baba stopped producing vibhuti from a vessel in 1978.