SMS frenzy about man on the moon
Faith and rationale were at odds as a series of SMSes did the rounds on Tuesday night asking people to look at the moon, claiming that Shirdi Sai Baba’s face was visible to the naked eye.
Holistic healer and life coach Vidisha Singh, based in Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh, received a call from her brother Aniket in Delhi asking her to look at the moon. She shares, “Even though I am a believer, I do like to verify facts before trusting blindly. My husband Himanshu said he saw Baba’s face at one glance, but it took me several minutes to figure it out. I believe I did see Baba, and there can be no explanation for this. I tried to take the moon’s picture on my cellphone, but it wasn’t clear.”
She adds, “A similar incident happened in 2007, when Sai Baba’s face was visible on the moon in Vadodara and a temple in Delhi had a distinct shadow of his silhouette on its wall. The more judgmental one becomes, the less one experiences such things,”
Aniket Singh, CAT aspirant, says, “My friend called up at night saying Sai Baba’s face can be seen on the moon. When I went outside, at first it was indistinct, but some time later, I could see his face.”
However, Seetesh Pande, Ph.D in astro-physics, has a scientific explanation for this incident. According to him, “Moon’s image cannot change. Its face is constant towards earth. Sometimes the presence of clouds can give an impression of a distinct figure on the moon, but reports of Sai Baba’s face on moon don’t seem real.”
Aura reader Rabia Kochar received from her cousin in Kanpur a picture that did the rounds claiming it was a photograph of Sai Baba’s image on the moon. She says, “Looking at the picture, it does seem believable. His aura is 100 per cent powerful. I don’t think it was a Photoshop trick.”
Arvind Paranjpye, director, Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai, concludes by saying, “A human mind can see faces, figures in scattered images. When someone tells you about a particular image, your mind sees it. That’s not unusual but it’s certainly not a paranormal activity.”
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