Gyani Baile & Dolly Baile

they both are supposed to be one and the same. Sathya Sai Baba says
that in his previous life he was Shirdi Sai Baba. But why do you ask?”
Dolly said “Well, recently I had some interesting experiences”, at this
point her friend said, “Wait, say no more. Let me first get my husband
on the phone, because few days back I had a dream on these lines
which I had told him. After my husband tells you about my dream
then you tell me about your experiences”. At that time her husband
told us that M had a dream where she saw Sathya Sai Baba and in the
dream Baba told her that He was going to Dolly’s house. Seeing Baba
in dream was not a common occurrence for M, so this dream was
special to her and therefore she had talked about it in full detail with
her husband.
At this point Dolly shared those unexplainable incidents with
them. They did not seem as puzzled with those incidents as we were.
They said that many of Sathya Sai Baba’s devotees report such
miraculous experiences, in fact there are quite a few books written by
people describing their personal experiences. They said that they own
many books and video tapes where people have described a variety of
their experiences. One of the video tapes they mentioned was from a
recent retreat in Chicago where this American fellow (owner of Hard
Rock café chain) had shared his personal experiences of Baba. Our
friends said if interested we could borrow the books and video tapes
from them. Dolly showed interest and couple of weeks later during
their next visit to our home they brought along 4-5 books, couple of
video tapes and few pictures of Sathya Sai Baba and Shirdi Sai Baba.
By this time Dolly had a couple more of those ‘unexplainable
incidents’ and she had all the more interest in finding out who were
these two Babas.
She watched the video tapes given by M and found them
interesting. Then she began reading the books which contained other
people’s experiences. She found these books interesting too, but after
reading a few books she lost further interest. Upon M’s inquiry about
how Dolly was enjoying the books and video tapes, Dolly replied that
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