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How the lady became heavy in the feet?
The miracle I am going to describe here has never happened—not yet. But you can have a whiff of it right away.
I was conducting a workshop on explaining the scientific basis of miracles sponsored by the National Council for Science & Technology Communication, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, somewhere in Uttar Pradesh, India. A lady participant, who had attended one of my earlier programs, was deeply disappointed, because I was demonstrating almost the same tricks that she had seen earlier. So, just to please her I decided to demonstrate a scientific experiment I knew, camouflaged as a miracle.
So, next day I called her to my seat and told her that I had worshipped the Gods in the Himalayas for 750 years and acquired immense powers. So, she need not be afraid if something untoward happens during the next demonstration. I then asked her to stand perpendicular to the wall behind me, with her right shoulder touching the wall, and to swing her left foot to show that she is comfortably positioned. I then readjusted her slightly, and warned her not to move her right shoulder from the wall otherwise it would break into pieces, making her invalid for life. I then blew an incantation on her left leg (Shooo!) and asked her to now lift the left leg upward.
She tried and tried but in vain: her leg this time would not budge. I then asked another lady, somewhat more stout, to help her lift her left leg, without in any way shifting the position of her leg. This lady sat down besides her, grasped her left leg just above the ankle, using both her hands, and then both of them together used their combined strength to lift the leg—but to no avail!
In India, people often avoid directly referring to a lady as being pregnant; instead they refer to her as ‘having gone heavy in the feet.’ I referred to this well-known saying and there was laughter all around in the room. Of course, the lady was also enjoying the predicament she was in.
I told her not to worry. After all, when would my spiritual powers, acquired during my 750 years of sojourn in the Himalayas, be put to test.
Even the tiniest amount of my power would be enough to lift her leg, I boasted. So, while she was trying to lift her leg I just pressed my right palm on her left shoulder. Suddenly her leg flew upward. Immediately, I removed my palm from her shoulder, cutting off, so to say, the flow of my power. And suddenly, down went her leg to the floor with a thud. I repeated this experiment a number of times to convince the audience that a miracle was taking place.
I ended this exercise by asking her to bring forth her right arm diagonally towards me so that I could grab her imaginary extended arm by my own similarly extended hand, and pulled her out of her predicament! In India, you can’t hold the hand of a married woman just like that, you see! And in no time she was out of the trap.
Now, how do we explain this strange miracle?
This was a game played out using the universal, autonomous force called Gravitation. It is gravitation that holds the universe together and provides stability to all living and non-living things on planet Earth. It works by repeatedly creating and softly dissipating centers of gravity along a body, enabling it to move around as required.
For example, it enables you to stand erect by creating a center of gravity passing through the middle of your body. This center of gravity originates right from the core of the earth, and is extremely powerful but easily manipulated. If you want to sit down all you have to do is to bend a little, to break the center of gravity, and sit down with a new center of gravity in place. Can you sit down without bending forward? Of course not. Or, can you get up from a chair without bending forward? Try and see. If you observe closely you would find that this forming, breaking, and reforming of centers of gravity goes on endlessly while walking, running, climbing, lying, etc without your even realizing as to what is going on.
So, when the lady was asked to stand perpendicular to the wall, she instinctively stood comfortably. Now, in order to shift the center of gravity to suit my purpose, I repositioned her slightly—so that the center of gravity shifted to pass through her left leg and the shoulder. And since she was warned not to shift her right shoulder on the wall, she was virtually trapped, and went through all that I wanted her to suffer.
At the end of the experiment, when she was asked to extend her hand diagonally, this was merely a ploy to make her twist her body, break the troublesome center of gravity, and get out of the trap.
So, as you can see, a person who is knowledgeable enough can easily convert a natural phenomenon into a supernatural one. And there are instances galore.
-- Badiuddin Khan
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