Sathya Sai Baba said and did.
Let's go back to the story of how the boy Prema Sai Baba was discovered. All information about the place and time of the birth of the divine boy was received through Mata Bijaya Devi, which constantly included the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba.
At the very beginning of 2015, through Mata Bijaya Devi, information was received from Sathya Sai Baba that a group of five men from Manipur had to urgently leave for the south of India, in the state of Karnataka, in order to find the divine boy.
Sathya Sai Baba, being in the subtle body of Mata Bijaya Devi, indicated the names of five men who were supposed to go from the Himalayan mountains (Manipur state) to the very south. The task of this group was to find and finally identify the right child.
One of the sources of information was naturally the great book we have already spoken about, Sri Sathya Sai Anandadai. This book indicated the place and time of Prema Sai Baba's birth. The group members learned about the materials of this book a little later and so it took about two and a half months to complete the search.
To begin with, five young people had to find out which of the locals belonged to a certain "gotra" (clan). It was possible to find fourteen local families that belonged to the required clan. Thus, the circle of searches gradually narrowed.
Also, Sathya Sai Baba, in the subtle body, said it was necessary to sing a special bhajan (chant) dedicated to the god, Krishna, for the child and to also say the secret mantra of the god, Shiva.
Sathya Sai Baba, through Mata Bijaya Devi, said that when five young people sing the special Krishna bhajan for the child and repeat the Shiva mantra several times, the child will react in a special way. And so, it happened.
Five devotees from Manipur carefully checked the reaction of each applicant to the chanted bhajana and the recited mantra, but only one child responded as predicted.
On the feet of the divine boy, the mystical signs of the god, Vishnu, were also found, these were the image of a shell (Shanka) and a sacred disk (Chakra). On one foot there was an image of a shell, and on the other, a disk. These symbols appeared for several days, just long enough to identify the child.
When an Avatar is born, such signs miraculously appear on the feet so that others can be sure of the divinity of the child. Despite the fact that all three Sai Avatars are considered the incarnation of the god, Shiva, and goddess, Shakti, the signs of the god, Vishnu, still appeared on the feet as is the ancient Vedic tradition. After the discovery of the boy, these signs also miraculously disappeared.
Five devotees from the state of Manipur examined several children on April 11, 2015. However, the boy Prema Sai Baba was not among them. On that day, Teja Mani, Prema Sai Baba's mother, took her son to the nearby ancient Bewur, where her parents live.
The next day, the child was brought back to the village of Doddamallur, and only then could he be identified. The boy Prema Sai Baba was the last one to be checked.
It happened on April 12, 2015. At that time, the boy was two and a half years old. After that, in May of the same year, the holy family came for the first time to the Himalayas to the state of Manipur.
It was then that Mata Bijaya Devi and Mata Tomba Devi first saw the boy already in their ashram. They didn't physically travel with the five students to south India; instead, they directed the searches by phone.
Interestingly, the boy Prema Sai Baba was discovered on April 12th. This date is the International Cosmonautics Day. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the Vostok spacecraft made a historical flight around the planet Earth for the first time in the history of human civilization.
An important mystical detail of the flight of the Russian cosmonaut was that this journey lasted 108 minutes, which is a sacred number for the Vedic tradition. Truly, everything in this world is not accidental. Everything is interconnected.
16. Wonderful games of Little Krishna
After my first visit to Prema Sai Baba, I began to frequently visit the holy family's house. At that time, I lived for a long time in the city of Mysore, in the ashram of Ganapati Satchidananda Swamiji. It was an hour and a half drive to the village of Doddamallur, and I could go there quite regularly, usually once a week.
When Prema Sai Baba was four years old, my wife and I began to stay for a long time at the house of Ramanna, who in the 1980s was the personal driver of Sathya Sai Baba. Ramanna has lived in the village of Doddamallur since 2010 calmly awaiting the next incarnation of Sai, knowing very well that Prema Sai Baba would incarnate there. As soon as Prema Sai Baba was discovered by a group from Manipur State in 2015, the happy Ramanna was among the first to start visiting the divine boy regularly.
Ramanna's house consisted of two floors. He lived on the first floor, and my wife and I settled on the second. It was very convenient as Prema Sai Baba's house was ten minutes away and we could communicate with him daily. This is how we lived in Doddamallur during the period when Prema Sai was four to six years old (2016–2018).
It is hard to imagine how the holy family lived when Prema Sai was discovered in 2015. Their house was right behind the ancient temple of Aprameya Swami, as Sathya Sai Baba had predicted. The house was extremely small and poor. There was one room where the parents, two children and a grandmother could
