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| Swami Vivekananda |
I once heard of a man who, if any one went to him
with questions in his mind, would answer them immediately; and I was also
informed that he foretold events. I was curious and went to see him with a few
friends. We each had something in our minds to ask, and, to avoid mistakes, we
wrote down our questions and put them in our pockets. As soon as the man saw
one of us, he repeated our questions and gave the answers to them. Then he
wrote something on paper, which he folded up, asked me to sign on the back, and
said, "Don't look at it; put it in your pocket and keep it there till I
ask for it again." And so on to each one of us. He next told us about some
events that would happen to us in the future. Then he said, "Now, think of
a word or a sentence, from any language you like." I thought of a long
sentence from Sanskrit, a language of which he was entirely ignorant.
"Now, take out the paper from your pocket," he said. The Sanskrit
sentence was written there! He had written it an hour before with the remark,
"In confirmation of what I have written, this man will think of this
sentence." It was correct. Another of us who had been given a similar
paper which he had signed and placed in his pocket, was also asked to think of
a sentence. He thought of a sentence in Arabic, which it was still less
possible for the man to know; it was some passage from the Koran. And my friend
found this written down on the paper.
Another of us was a physician. He thought of a
sentence from a German medical book. It was written on his paper.
Several days later I went to this man again,
thinking possibly I had been deluded somehow before. I took other friends, and
on this occasion also he came out wonderfully triumphant.
SOURCE: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda;
Volume-2 [The Powers of the Mind]
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