LEVITATING - STONES

INCREDIBLE 'LEVITATING - STONES' IN A DARGAH NEAR PUNE

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I had a posting in Pune (Maharashtra) during 1990-93, occupying there an enormous 100 year old residential bungalow in which Sir Shah Nawaz Khan Bhutto,CIE,OBE,KIH , father of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had once lived.

Though holder of a Master's degree in Physics -my Ph.D. was in Commerce- and I was very science-minded, I always had a curiosity about the supernatural. Someone told me about the mystery of the levitating stones in a dargah close to Pune, soon after I had settled down there.

So, one day, with my family I drove from Pune to the village called Khed Shivapur, 16 miles south of Pune, bang on the Pune-Satara road, in which the dargah is located. The dargah is named after the Pir called Kamarali Darvesh, buried there about 700 years back. He was a highly spiritual person, and there is an annual Urs every May when both Muslims and Hindus congregate.

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It is a 700 year-old beautifully built dargah with white makrana marble, and has black marble inlay of Koranic texts running all around it at a height. Women are not supposed to enter within the Kamarali Darvesh dargah as the Pir was a bachelor, but this is observed often in the breach. There is a permanently lit lamp inside the mausoleum. Within the compound and outside the dargah-edifice proper, in the open space in-between, lie two almost round stones which are fairly huge and heavy. To me they looked like stones chiselled by man out of some strong or heavy rocks.Unfortunately, clear facts are not available, and they could well have been naturally occurring stones also.

The bigger stone is perhaps 18 inches in diameter and is said to weigh roughly 140 lbs. The smaller stone is perhaps around 14 inches in diameter and is said to weigh about 100 lbs. ( It's so sad that these simple physical properties have not been recorded and kept ). No single person can lift any of the stones from the ground with all the ten fingers, heavy indeed as they are.

How do the stones 'levitate'? The word 'levitate' is perhaps a misnomer because they do not go up from the ground by themselves. Then, what is the miracle about the stones? My younger son of about 10 years and I were keen participants in the mystery-act. Any eleven males (including boys) could stand around the big stone lying on the ground. Each person has to simply bend down and 'gently' touch the stone with just one index finger. The touching has to be in the bottom half, not the top portion of the stone. After the eleven people thus touch the stone, all of them have to utter, in unison and loudly, the expression, "Kamarali Darvesh". My experience was incredible. The stone rises up to eight feet before falling to the ground. While the stone was rising, your index finger feels very light and there is no pressure on it. It was as if some spiritual force through the eleven of us was guiding the stone to rise up. Why does it fall after going up eight feet or so? It is because our finger can no longer touch it above that height. This miracle, it is said, does not work with women, as the Kamarali baba was a bachelor.

With the smaller heavy stone, you require nine males only to repeat this experiment. The stones move anti-gravity-wise and a physics man like me was simply aghast at this miracle. Thereafter, I have gone to the dargah many many times with my visiting guests and friends to show the miracle to them, every time participating in it.

Many persons from different parts of India and some foreigners too could be spotted every time you go to the dargah. It is seldom that you run out of eleven males, and when this happens a few muslim villagers hanging around there, immediately come to your help. The stones do not discriminate against religion for they would go up whether the person touching them is Hindu, Muslim or Christian. They seem to discriminate against women only!