The prediction shows that in the beginning, the village in which Prema Sai is born would be very small and poor, but in time it would become a large and prosperous city.
Sathya Sai Baba took Namagiri Amma and her daughter, Kannamma, to the village of Doddamallur. During this unique journey, Sathya Sai Baba was accompanied by several followers from the city of Mysore.
In this small village there is an ancient temple of the god, Vishnu, who is called Aprameya Swami. In this temple there is a famous altar with a statue of the boy, Krishna, which pilgrims come from all over India to worship.
Sathya Sai Baba said that Prema Sai Baba would be born into a poor family in this village and also indicated the house where he would be born. In the original text of the
12. Additional predictions about Prema Sai Baba
Sathya Sai Baba predicted he would live to be 96 years old. However, he left his body at the age of 84. Is there a contradiction in this? How could God be wrong? Obviously, there is no contradiction in this. Only Sathya Sai Baba himself can decide when he should be born and when he should leave this world.
Several years before the end of his life, Sathya Sai Baba repeatedly said: "My mission is accomplished." Nobody wanted to take these words seriously. He left this world on the night of Easter 2011. This was unique because on April 24, 2011, all Christian churches celebrated Easter on the same night.
According to the complex Christian calendar, different Christian communities usually celebrate Easter on different days. In the year when Sathya Sai Baba left the body, Easter coincided on the same day for all Christians. This was a great message of unity and love.
Sathya Sai Baba has said many times that he will be reincarnated as Prema Sai Baba in eight years. At the same time, in some cases, he said he would be born in a year. I have accurate information that Sathya Sai Baba told Shri Kasturi and Subba Rao that he will incarnate in a year.
Many devotees of Sathya Sai Baba are well aware of who Sri Kasturi and Subba Rao are. For those who do not know, I can only say these are two unique people who have lived in the ashram for many years and played an important role in the development of the mission of Sathya Sai Baba.
On the pages of this book, I unfortunately do not have the opportunity to tell in detail the biographies of these great people, each of whom is worthy of a separate detailed narrative.
Sathya Sai Baba openly said in his next life he would be born near the city of Mandya in the state of Karnataka, southern India. However, Sathya Sai Baba told Sri Kasturi and Subba Rao many more details, in particular, that he would be born in the village of Doddamallur, where the famous ancient temple of Aprameya Swami is located.
I did not know Sri Kasturi personally as he passed away a few years before I first came to Puttaparthi. However, I knew Subba Rao very well, with whom I have been in close contact for several years. I often went to Subba Rao's room where he lived at the ashram. We talked about Sathya Sai Baba and his spiritual mission. Many Russian groups also visited Subba Rao and received spiritual guidance from him.
Let's sum up the predictions about the birth of Prema Sai Baba. About the time of his next incarnation, Sathya Sai Baba told various people that he could be born in eight years or one year.
About the place of his next birth, Sathya Sai Baba predicted that he would be born near the city of Mandya, Karnataka, but for some he indicated more specifically, the village of Doddamallur.
In fact, all the devotees of the older generation were well aware of all these predictions. In 2016, I met Ramanna, who was Sathya Sai Baba's personal driver in the mid-1980s.
Sathya Sai Baba blessed him to buy a house in the village of Doddamallur back in 2010, a year before he left his body in 2011. Ramanna bought a house in the village of Doddamallur because Sathya Sai Baba revealed to him the secret that his next birth would be in this village.
I was fortunate enough to visit Ramanna's house many times and listen to his reminiscences of Sathya Sai Baba. Sathya Sai Baba passed away on April 24, 2011. Prema Sai Baba was born on June 28, 2012, just over a year later. He was born exactly in the place that Sathya Sai Baba indicated to his closest devotees.
13. Miracles a year before meeting Prema Sai Baba
I first met Prema Sai Baba on March 3, 2016, a few days before the Shivaratri festival. However, my history of interaction with him began a year before in 2015 when Sathya Sai Baba repeatedly appeared to me and my wife, Svetlana, in our dreams, showing us the village and the street where Prema Sai Baba was born. We were even shown the divine boy’s parents.
In another dream, Prema Sai Baba visited my wife and said that he had already been born and was waiting for us. My wife, Svetlana, clearly remembered all the details of that amazing dream including small house and Prema Sai Baba's father, whose name is Mahesh.
To my wife’s surprise, a few months later she went to the very same place seen in her dream, and also saw the very man who is the father of Prema Sai Baba.
I teach meditation practices in the tradition of Kriya Yoga, and I regularly conduct master classes in different cities and countries. In 2015, I held a seminar in India, next to the ashram of Sathya Sai Baba.
At this time, I learned that a number of my students also had mystical dreams where Sathya Sai Baba had also appeared to them. In the dreams, Sathya Sai Baba said he had already been born and was waiting for our arrival to his home.
People saw in their dreams a divine child and his parents, much like the dream my wife and I had. During the mystical dreams, Sathya Sai Baba asked some of my students: “What will you give Prema Sai? He is a child and waiting for gifts!” What an amazing sense of humor.
When Sathya Sai Baba passed away in the spring of 2011, my wife Svetlana prayed to God for the opportunity to meet Prema Sai Baba as soon as possible, and if possible, as soon as he was born. Svetlana wanted to see his divine play as a little Krishna. These prayers were heard.
In July 2015 we arrived at Sathya Sai Baba's ashram where I was leading a two-week Kriya Yoga meditation workshop. That time I came with a group of students who were studying meditation and mantra practice with me.
Once I was meditating in front of the tomb of our beloved Sathya Sai Baba. Suddenly, I had a mystical experience and saw the golden astral body of the boy Krishna hovering in the air right above the tomb; it was a mystical vision of the subtle body of Krishna. I knew right away it was Prema Sai Baba. Telepathically he told me he had already been born and was waiting for me in his house.
Usually, I do not trust such visions because they can be a game of the mind. In this case, it was a very vivid image, and I realized that this was a real message from God. Immediately, I spoke to all members of our group about this mystical experience.
We left the ashram and got into auto rickshaws (tuk-tuk). I asked the driver if he knew about the birth of Prema Sai Baba. The driver confidently replied that he knew that Prema Sai Baba was born and named the village, Doddamallur. I was surprised by this information. It was strange to hear such a response from a rickshaw driver.
A few minutes later, I arrived at a jewelry store owned by an old friend of mine. He was originally from Bangalore but lived in Puttaparthi for many years. I decided to ask him if he knew about the birth of Prema Sai Baba.
The jeweler said he knew that Prema Sai Baba had already been born in the village of Doddamallur in the state of Karnataka. I was very surprised to hear this message. It seemed that everyone except me already knew about this unique event.
I returned to the hotel where I was staying with the group. I asked the hotel manager about the birth of Prema Sai Baba. In response to my question, the manager said that Prema Sai Baba had already been born and lives in the village of Doddamallur in the neighboring state of Karnataka. These events surprised me. Within an hour, three people told me important and valuable information, completely coincidentally.
The next day, I decided to ask these people again for more details about Prema Sai Baba. I wanted to talk to the people who had shared this valuable information with me. Naturally, I couldn't find the auto rickshaw driver.
When I asked the owner of the jewelry store and the manager of the hotel, they both said they didn't tell me anything and didn’t remember our conversation. They said they did not know anything about the birth of Prema Sai Baba. How could this be?
It then became clear to me this was a great miracle. God told me about his birth through three people, while they themselves did not consciously have this information. Truly, God can speak to a person through any intermediary, even if this intermediary does not even know what is happening.
My only problem was that I didn't know where the village of Doddamallur was located, although I was generally told the village was somewhere in the neighboring state of Karnataka. My Hindu friends from Puttaparthi said the village was not far from the city of Mandya. All members of my group witnessed these amazing events.
By the will of fate we did not go in search of Prema Sai in the year of 2015 because immediately after the seminar in Puttaparthi, we went to the Himalayas. Our first meeting took place a few months later, at the beginning of the next year, in 2016.
14. First meeting with the divine boy
At the very beginning of 2016, I again came with a group to the ashram of Sathya Sai Baba. As usual, I conducted a seminar on Kriya yoga meditation. One part of the program was held in Puttaparthi, and the second part in the city of Mysore, at the foot of the sacred mountain, Chamundi. Every day there was a rich program of meditation practices and lectures on the theory of yoga.
Half a year before the Indian seminar, some of the seminar participants had already experienced unique mystical encounters in dreams, according to which it was clear that Prema Sai Baba had already incarnated. In their mystical dreams, several of my students saw Sathya Sai Baba, who predicted they would soon meet Prema Sai Baba.
On this trip with me there were more than twenty people. Together, we decided to seek out the divine boy, although we knew it would not be an easy task. To meet Prema Sai Baba in person seemed unrealistic, and even the idea of the possibility of such a meeting felt outrageous.
Nevertheless, we took a private bus from Puttaparthi to Mysore city, where I planned to conduct the second part of the seminar. An Indian friend of mine from Puttaparthi, whose name is Sainath, drew on a piece of paper a rough map of the location of the village of Doddamallur, according to which we were supposed to find the home of the divine boy.
The village of Doddamallur is located between the cities of Bangalore and Mysore. I knew the boy Prema Sai Baba would most likely be found in this village. The map drawn by my friend from Puttaparthi indicated that Prema Sai Baba's place of residence was near the city of Mandya. We set off on the road, but in the process of searching, we soon realized the map was inaccurately drawn.
The village of Doddamallur was located in another part of the state of Karnataka, and the site of the proposed home of Prema Sai Baba was marked near the city of Mandya. To begin with, we arrived on our bus in the city of Mandya and stopped next to a large Christian church in the middle of the city. At some point, the thought flashed through my mind that if we could not find Prema Sai Baba, then we would do our meditation practice inside that beautiful church.
Our bus driver was trying to figure out exactly where Prema Sai Baba's supposed home was according to the map provided to us. Local residents and auto rickshaw drivers in the city of Mandya shrugged their shoulders, explaining that the layout of the area was completely wrong.
Realizing we were confused, we decided to ask the police about Prema Sai Baba, but the officers did not know anything about any divine boy in the city of Mandya and its environs. As a result of our inquiries, we found out exactly where the village of Doddamallur was located. The decision was made to immediately search there. This was our last lead.
Just then, the situation began to get more complicated. The bus was only paid for from Puttaparthi to Mysore, and we had already traveled many additional kilometers. As evening was fast approaching, the driver rightfully complained he did not want to wind another hundred or two hundred kilometers extra on the clock.
All the members of the group felt we should not stop the search and that we must continue into the night until we found the divine boy. We decided to negotiate an additional payment with the driver, and thankfully, he agreed to continue our search.
Subsequently, each of the group members, about twenty in total, admitted that while all of this was unfolding, they were practicing the Gayatri mantra silently in their own minds. This was another sign the group effort was producing a good result.
Finally, we arrived at Doddamallur. As soon as the bus entered the village, amrita (the nectar of immortality) began to materialize abundantly in the mouth and throat of my wife Svetlana. At that moment, no one but me and my wife knew about this miracle. The bus driver stopped right in front of the ancient temple of Aprameya Swami, declaring he would not drive any further.
We instantly learned from the villagers where Prema Sai Baba's house was. He was first found and identified as Prema Sai Baba by a group of yogis from the north Indian Himalayan state of Manipur. This happened on April 12, 2015, that is, less than a year before our arrival.
Since the boy Prema Sai Baba was discovered a year before our appearance, the locals easily indicated to the house where he lived. At the time, the boy was three and a half years old.
The first meeting was very intense. We all felt love in our hearts and experienced divine states. One woman called her husband on a mobile phone, who at that moment was in Moscow. This woman's name is Irina, and her husband's name is Maxim.
As soon as Irina made this call, Maxim immediately said he was just practicing meditation and Sathya Sai Baba appeared to him in a mystical vision a few minutes before the phone call and said our group had met with Prema Sai Baba.
It was surprising because at that moment Irina was sitting next to the Prema Sai boy. The first meeting lasted a couple of hours, and then we happily continued our journey to the city of Mysore, where my meditation workshop continued.
A week later I came to the divine boy alone. I sat with his family right on the floor and enjoyed Indian tea with milk. The Prema Sai boy came and sat on the floor next to me. After that, he placed his lotus feet on my lap. I experienced a divine state of bliss and harmony. He kept his feet on my lap for several minutes. I was happy and joy shone in my spiritual heart.
15. Who and how Prema Sai Baba was found
Two Himalayan saints, Mata Bijaya Devi (born 1970) and Mata Tomba Devi (born 1969), live in the state of Manipur in northern India. Manipur is a beautiful region in the foothills of the Himalayas. In a serene place on the mountainside, there is a small ashram, which is a place of power revered by the locals.
Mata Bijaya Devi and Mata Tomba Devi have been devotees of Sathya Sai Baba for many years. The locals revere them as saints and come to them for spiritual guidance and blessings. Since birth, these two women have shown spiritual powers and supernatural abilities. Already in 2012, Mata Bijaya Devi predicted that Prema Sai Baba had already incarnated and would soon begin his worldwide activities.
Sometimes the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba enters Mata Bijaya Devi and she begins to broadcast spiritual messages and perform all kinds of miracles. Such unusual experiences occur almost every day. This is a unique opportunity for the devotees to speak with Sathya Sai Baba, who at times like this is on the subtle plane within Mata Bijaya Devi.
Such experiences are very ambiguous. Imagine that the subtle body of God inhabits someone. How can this be understood? One of the important questions in this situation is, how many subtle bodies does God have?
At first glance, this is a very strange question, but it is extremely important. Sometimes some people experience such mystical experiences and begin to claim they are special because the subtle body of God is inside them. This is understandable, since God Himself moved into them.
God is the source and essence of the soul of every person. This means it is impossible to say that God has indwelled someone, since God is always inside every person. Considering this difficult situation, some prefer to interpret this as the awakening of the subtle body of God within.
In order not to get confused, let's conditionally assume that the subtle body of God is infused into the contactee. The question again arises, how many subtle bodies does God have? The question is very strange, because no one can know this. We can assume that God has several billion thin ones, or maybe an infinite number of them, who knows?
Understanding that God has essentially an infinite number of subtle bodies, we can assume God can use many forms for his manifestation. There is no exclusivity in the fact that the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba enters someone for a short time to perform this or that spiritual task.
Once, I and about a hundred other devotees had a unique experience where two holy women, Mata Bijaya Devi from the Himalayas and Jaya Lakshmi Amma from Bangalore, were present at Prema Sai Baba's house at the same time.
With these two saints, there are frequent mystical experiences of the manifestation of the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba in them. Imagine Jaya Lakshmi Amma standing right in front of the house and Mata Bijaya Devi in the living room. On this day, it happened.
Both saints arrived at Prema Sai Baba's house on the same day, right after his birthday in 2018, when Prema Sai was six years old. Jaya Lakshmi Amma stood right in front of the house, and the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba inside Jaya Lakshmi Amma answered the questions of the devotees.
At the same time, Mata Bijaya Devi was standing in the center of the living room, and another subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba was talking about how to chant God. Sathya Sai Baba had entered both of them at the same time.
It was a truly amazing experience for everyone present showing that God can simultaneously enter any number of contactees in a subtle body, if there is a spiritual need for it. When such experiences of the manifestation of the subtle body of God occur, the contactee himself or herself does not remember anything.
In other words, when the subtle body of Sathya Sai Baba enters Mata Bijaya Devi or Jaya Lakshmi Amma, for a while, they do not remember anything about what happened.
During such experiences, the personal consciousness of a person is turned off, completely giving place to the universal consciousness of Sai. After the subtle body leaves the contactee, the people around tell Mata Bijaya Devi and Jaya Lakshmi Amma about what happened and what the subtle body of 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,
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 barely fit. When Prema Sai Baba was six years old, devotees from Bangalore built a spacious and comfortable new home for the holy family on the outskirts of the village next to the jungle. After that, Prema Sai’s parents invited my wife and me to move to the new house, where we were given a separate room.
One of the first miracles I experienced in association with the divine boy was connected with the practice of the Gayatri mantra. For many years I have been practicing this amazing ancient mantra, repeating it several thousand times a day. Even during the lifetime of Sathya Sai Baba, many miracles happened to me as a result of the practice of the Gayatri Mantra. I talk about this in detail in my books.
When I started visiting Prema Sai Baba regularly, I decided to chant the Gayatri Mantra as much as possible in his divine presence. Sitting on the floor in his house, I practiced the mantra, and the divine child, who was six at the time, played nearby.
Suddenly, Prema Sai Baba looked at me and gestured that I should stop chanting the Gayatri Mantra. In simple English words, he explained that he knew I was practicing the Gayatri mantra and asked me to stop it for today.
I was surprised that the divine boy knew that in my mind I was repeating the Gayatri mantra. That day I stopped practicing this mantra. Naturally, the next day I continued my practice. I realized that it was a great blessing. Lord Sai constantly knows what and how we practice.
17. Miracles in the ancient city of Mysore
I have made many videos of Prema Sai Baba and posted them on various platforms on the internet. Gradually, devotees from different countries began to come to Doddamallur to see the Prema Sai Baba. Sometimes people came for only a couple of hours, and sometimes they stayed in the village for several weeks in order to get to know Prema Sai Baba better.