Om Sai Ram - The Divine Crucifix

March 27, 2010

The Above Crucifix was materialized in the Spring of 1973, on Mahashivarathri, the night of Shiva. Up until 1973, Swami had materialized a Lingam during Mahashivarathri each year. The night before the usual materialization of the lingham in 1973, Swami told Jack Hislop that this year the lingham would be manifested with only a few devotees present.

Early the next morning, Swami and the late Dr.Hislop and a few devotees got in their cars and drove many hours until they reached the Bandipur Forest in the Indian state of Mysore, perhaps a ten hour drive. Hislop was hoping for a repeat performance of a miracle that occured with Swami in the Bandipur Forest previously. On that prior occasion, Swami stood at the edge of the forest and called the elephants to him. An entire herd of elephants came thundering toward Swami, Most of the devotees ran for safety, but Swami calmly stood his ground. The elephants stopped running and one of them slowly approached Swami, knelt on the ground in front of him, and then turned around and walked back into the forest along with the herd.

But in 1973, such was not the case. Swami instructed the driver where to stop the car, and after doing so, walked down the slope of a river until they reached the sandy river bed. As they passed a bush, Sai Baba broke off two twigs and placed them together. "What is this, Hislop?" Swami asked.

"Well, Swami, it's a cross," Hislop replied.

Swami then closed his hand around the two twigs and blew into his fist several times. When he opened his hand, the twigs were no longer present, but instead the crucifix you see in this photograph was. Hislop and the other devotees were stunned by the miraculous crucifix, so small, yet so beautiful and full of detail.

Swami related to Hislop that he had blown several times into his fist in order to create a crucifix out of the original wood on which Jesus was crucified. Baba said, "All of the original wood had returned to the elements, so I had to blow on the twigs several times in order to retrieve the original wood."

Thus, the crucifix you see is made of the 2,000 year old wood that was part of the original crucifix. Hislop, in examining the crucifix more closely, noticed a hole at the top of the cross and asked Baba about it. Swami replied to the effect that the crucifix was not stuck into the ground, but rather was hung on a post. Swami indicated to Hislop that Jesus, as he appears in this small metal sculpture, is the way he actually appeared after his physical death on the cross.

Several weeks later, Jack Hislop and his wife, Victoria, were back in their home overlooking the ocean in Mexico near Ensenada. A friend of theirs, Walter, had visited them, seen the crucifix and asked if he could photograph it, which he did. Walter and his wife returned a few weeks later, and spread out the photographs alongside the crucifix. At exactly 5 p.m. there was a loud crash of thunder and lightning. A great wind blew through the house and rattled the windows and doors, blowing the curtains around. This was a mystery, as the sky had been completely clear. Even a San Diego newspaper noted the unusual event the following day.

Victoria Hislop immediately commented, "What just happened is described in the Bible. At exactly 5 p.m., Jesus died, and a great wind, a violent storm suddenly descended."

Victoria was able to find the Bible passage depicting this event. The Hislops felt they had just witnessed a recapitulation of the actual crucifixion and physical death of Jesus. A couple of years later, Swami confirmed to Hislop that his experience and interpretation of the storm surrounding the crucifix was correct.

Why was the crucifix materialized on Mahashivarathri, the night and morning dedicated to the worship of Shiva, and the dissolution of one's ego and negative qualities? Why the materialization of the Shiva Lingham and crucifix on the same day? There are no readily available answers to these questions and only our Divine Lord knows the answers

the face of Jesus is only an eighth of an inch long on the actual materialized crucifix. At this size, one begins to see more detail, and what is striking are the bumps all over his body.

Dr. John Hislop asked Swami about the bumps and Bhagawan said that Jesus was beaten over every inch of his body. Because of the severe beating, blood clotted underneath the skin, creating the numerous bumps seen here at the time of his physical death.

The Divine Crucifix from our Divine Master.

Om Sai Ram

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