Beginning in 2015, the first devotees began to come to Prema Sai Baba's house to receive his blessings. In fact, it was from this moment that Prema Sai Baba's open public activity began. Many people learned about him and felt his divinity and power.
There was nothing of this kind in the biography of Sathya Sai Baba. He was an ordinary child for those around him until his proclamation at the age of thirteen. The situation with Prema Sai Baba is different. In fact, his open mission began already at the age of two and a half years, from April 12, 2015.
In 2019, Prema Sai Baba's enormous energy forces were revealed, and this happened in three stages: June 28th, July 4th, July 16th. In 2019, the boy Prema Sai turned seven years old.
So, what happened on these three dates, the end of June and July 2019? First of all, you can describe "it" as a significant increase in energy strength. June 28, 2019, is the birthday of Prema Sai Baba, who is celebrated in his home village, Doddamallur.
In the period from 2016 to 2019, several hundred people usually gathered for the celebration. The 2019 birthday celebration was special because it was marked by a significant change on the vibrational level, although outwardly the celebration program was the same as in the previous few years.
On July 4, 2019, Prema Sai Baba's initiation into the Gayatri mantra took place in the city of Bangalore. This important ritual was performed by Jaya Lakshmi Amma along with several Brahmins. The event was also attended by several hundred people.
Now it is difficult for us to realize the full importance of this event. Gayatri mantra is the most famous mantra of the Vedic tradition, in which all the spiritual power and philosophical significance of the Vedic sacred texts are located.
Receiving initiation into the Gayatri mantra is the most important moment in the life of a Hindu child as this is the second birth from the Spirit. After this ritual, a person is called "twice-born". Initiation into the Gayatri Mantra is a ritual of spiritual coming of age. As a rule, the initiation ceremony takes place between the ages of seven and sixteen. Traditionally, such initiations are given to boys from the Brahmin caste of Hindu clerics.
We also see the doctrine of the “second birth” from the Spirit in Christianity. Jesus Christ spoke about the second birth from the Spirit, which occurs as a result of the ritual of baptism.
Many question the need for an Avatar to receive such an initiation. Why initiate God if he is the source of all knowledge and all traditions? Historically, we know that in ancient times the Rama Avatar also received initiation into the Gayatri mantra from the Himalayan sages.
Krishna also received training from his gurus as described in the Bhagavatam. Thus, we already have historical examples that even an Avatar should receive initiation into spiritual practices. Thus, divine teachers set an example that teacher-student continuity is the basis for the transfer of knowledge and practices on the path of spiritual self-development.
We also have the example of Jesus Christ, who received initiation, baptism, from his teacher, John the Baptist. This is an example of how the Avatar (Messiah) gives an example to other people about the importance of the sacral initiation ceremony.
The difficulty of this situation lies in the fact that Prema Sai Baba was born in the Gouda caste, the caste of farmers. The question arises as to how the initiation ceremony took place?
The biological parents of the boy are Mahesh Kumar (father) and Teja Mani (mother). During his initiation, the divine boy received spiritual parents, Jaya Lakshmi Amma and her husband. Thus, Prema Sai Baba passed from the Gouda caste to the Brahmin caste.
During this initiation, there was a descent of a colossal divine current. Interestingly, after the completion of the ritual, when the boy Prema Sai Baba stopped sitting on the throne, many of those present stopped treating him as special.
This is the essence of human perception — that if someone sits on the throne, he is given respect. One has only to step down from the throne and the importance and solemnity of the moment are immediately lost on the majority.
It was interesting for me to observe this situation. As the boy sat on the throne, everyone present bowed before him with reverence. As soon as he left the stage and started walking freely and informally among those present, most of the participants in the ritual immediately ceased to treat him with respect.
I describe these details so you can imagine this event as realistically as possible, of course it is also important to reflect on how you behave in such situations. During the ritual of initiation into the Gayatri mantra, Prema Sai Baba was completely transformed. It was a great spiritual experience. On that day, it seemed that something important happened affecting the being of the entire cosmos.
July 16, 2019 — Guru Purnima festival, the festival of "all gurus". This celebration also took place in the city of Bangalore, which was attended by many people.
Prema Sai Baba attended this event, again. I felt this festival completed some great process of transition to the new state of being. What began on June 28th reached its climax on July 4th and was completed on July 16th.
I was fortunate to witness these amazing events directly. I think these three dates in 2019 are historical events in the development of Prema Sai Baba's worldwide spiritual mission.
47. Proclamation on the subtle plane
Starting from the end of 2022, a new phase of Prema Sai Baba's mission began. In December, we went on an important trip to the Himalayan state of Manipur to visit the very people who found him in 2015.
At the end of November, the parents of the divine boy told me and my wife, Svetlana, there would be a small vacation at the end of December. Naturally, my wife immediately had the idea to go with Prema Sai Baba on vacation to some interesting place. I sat next to Prema Sai Baba and watched the conversation carefully.
From the very beginning it was clear the divine boy had some kind of secret plan, but at first, he pretended to be thinking about a trip to perhaps Thailand, Malaysia or Singapore. Finally, unexpectedly, he announced he wanted to go to Manipur, to the ashram of Mata Bijay Devi and Mata Tomba Devi.
We stayed in this unique place for about a week. This was Prema Sai Baba's second historic visit to Manipur. The first was in May 2015, immediately after the child was identified as Prema Sai Baba.
The location of the ashram is a great place of power. It is a mountainside on top of which there is an ancient temple. Since the ashram is very poor, there are only a few buildings there, one of which is a small house for Prema Sai Baba, and next to it another small house where my wife and I settled.
In the center of the ashram is a large shed with a clay floor — this is a temple where daily activities take place. When you are in this temple, it becomes clear the true temple is not physical gold and marble, but the Spirit of God.
Mata Bijaya Devi and Mata Tomba Devi are the spiritual guides of the ashram. About twenty people permanently live in the ashram, and about a hundred more people live not far from the ashram and regularly take part in spiritual programs of traditional Vedic rituals of worship on Sathya Sai Baba.
A couple of weeks before the trip, I had several mystical dreams in which Sathya Sai Baba visited me and informed me that during the trip to Manipur, the divine boy could "proclaim" himself.
At the same time, a couple of weeks before our visit, the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba entered Mata Bijaya Devi several times and informed the residents of the ashram that when the boy Prema Sai Baba arrived, something very important would happen.
While at the ashram, on one particular afternoon, bhajans (traditional Vedic chanting of the gods) began as usual. The program began at one in the afternoon, and around four in the afternoon a unique event began to take place.