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RAMU, THE PSYCHIC
Mental telepathy is a parapsychological phenomenon that occurs when a person is able to communicate with another person through extrasensory or psychic abilities. In telepathic communication, it is assumed that the emotional and mental attitude of both the sender and the receiver of messages is crucial for a successful communication. In this story, Guruji relates how he was asked to participate in a telepathic experiment involving Swami Krishnananda, a famous psychic of India, and Ramu, a disciple of the Swami. The story is essentially a record of the results. Guruji then comments upon the meaning of the experience for the development of your own psychic ability and its relation to final liberation.
In 1953, I was visiting Bhilwara, a city in India,
when a famous psychic, Swami Krishnananda came to see me. Although many hundreds of my disciples were also there to see me, the Swami and I took the time to meet in a special room of the place where I stayed, since he wanted to perform an experiment in psychic communication. In the room where we met, there were 13 householders, 20 monks, some of whom came with the Swami, as well as myself, the Swami and his disciple, Ramu.
Ramu himself was a short young Indian who had
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