Levitating Rock

[Guest guest]

A good friend of mine currently teaching TM in India had the following

experience recently. Though you all might enjoy it:

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As we were driving back to Bombay from the PII course I realized that we

were quite near a holy site I had read about years ago. A short turn off

the highway and we found ourselves at the mausoleum of Kamar Ali Darvesh ,

a sufi saint who lived 500 years ago in the out-of-the-way town of Shivapur.

At the site of his resting-place is a stone weighing over 150 pounds.

According to the story I read, when exactly eleven men put their fingers

under the stone and say in unison, "Kamar Ali Darveeeeeeeesh", the rock

floats up and stays up in the air as long as his name is drawn out, then

dropping back to earth. Of course, I had to find out for my self if this

story was true.

 

Walking up to the shrine holding the body of the saint both Steve and I

noticed the familiar sensation of sanctity that emanates from the presence

of a realized soul. Then we wandered into the surrounding yard and spied

the rock. After a few minutes about a dozen schoolboys arrived with the

same intention of proving the miracle story right or wrong. Because they

were a bit unruly and not so serious we made several attempts that failed.

Each time something was not exact: we had too many men, or we did not use

the correct fingers, or the saint's name was not spoken properly. Finally

we got it right and, lo, the stone moved! Gracefully and swiftly it rose

up and, at the conclusion of calling out the saint's name, it dropped back

down.

 

This would have been a great enough experience but something even more

significant occurred. Just as I stepped back from the stone I realized it

was I who had been "touched" - that is, the saint had sent his divine

energy through me. The feeling of sacred communion sustained for an hour or

two afterwards, and that night I slept in the loving caress of holiness.

This was real.