B Premanand
If one sows one wheat seed, maybe
one can reap 500 wheat grains. But once food is cooked it cannot multiply.
Jesus Christ is said to have
multiplied 5 loaves of bread to 5000 and 7 into 7000. In Mahabharatha,
Droupadi, wife of the five brothers, Pandavas, is said to have multiplied two
grains of cooked rice to feed hundreds. Satya Sai Baba is also said to have
multiplied food to feed his devotees.
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| Multiplying the Bread and Fish - Painting by Giovanni Lanfranco |
Earlier in 1940's to prove that
cooked food can really multiply, people kept bread slices or chappathi in a wet
cloth. It was opened after a week or month and was seen to have multiplied.
Believers were flabbergasted by the miracle. But it was only the growth of
fungus on the bread or chappathi by keeping it in wet cloth. There was nothing
supernatural.
Experiment: 36
Effect: Popcorn, biscuit or toffee put into a container increase to
many more.
Props: A long metal container and a short container with a rim
projecting a little out and a long tight lid. Popcorn, or biscuits or toffees.
Method: Tightly pack the
long container with popcorn and insert the short container. Show the container
and the lid. Reverse them at the same time, the mouth of the container to your
side and the mouth of the lid to face the audience. Put one popcorn into the
container, close it with the long lid, move your hands remove the lid, and pour
out the popcorn from the container.
If you want to multiply food in
large quantities the food (or bread) has to be stored under the stage or under
a table with a hole big enough to pass up the bread. Over this a table cloth is
put with a hole fixed with a cloth which could be removed from the bottom. Over
this hole is placed a vessel with a false bottom. Then put one bread in the
empty vessel, and thereafter take as much bread as you have stored underneath,
passed up to you by a boy hidden under the stage or under the table.
Jesus Christ transformed five
loaves into 5000 on a sand mound.
A similar "miracle" was
telecast on National TV in the serial "Rajni". Priya Tendulkar, the
heroine, exposes a godman who produces from an empty vessel whatever fruits the
devotees ask for. All the fruits were stored under the stage. The vessel was
shown empty and kept on a particular place on the stage which had a hole. A
person hidden below went on passing the fruit up through the false bottom when
the audience named it. Priya went under the stage, tied up the youth, and
started passing the wrong fruit so that the godman was exposed.
Satya Sai Baba is said to have
produced various fruits from a tamarind tree in the dimness after sunset. Any
fruit his followers asked for were produced. Without storing the fruits
beforehand no one can produce different fruits from a tamarind tree. This trick
was performed by him in the early years of his life when there was not such a
host of devotees in his ashram. He has stopped performing this trick now, along
with the feat of multiplying food.
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