‘Once, in 2005 or 2007, a small group including me, were travelling with Gurudev in Kenya. We had flown to show him the wild animals in the jungle. He was in a car ahead of us. Driving at a slow pace behind him, what we saw was quite mesmerizing. A pack of lions surrounded his car and were walking around it. Just like your pet dogs and cats welcome you when you come home, the lions were walking around his car as if they were his pets. They hardly came near us; they were with him, surrounding him and walking with his car. It was quite a sight. Even the wild animals took to him like he was their master and friend.’

“Soon after the jungle tour,” she continues, talking with her bright eyes, “Gurudev said that we will meditate in the wild. It was evening, and we went to this watch tower, where we would see the hippos come out of the river. We sat on the deck of the tower and he said that we will meditate now. He didn’t guide us. We closed our eyes, and from silence we went into deep meditation. After what must’ve been 30 minutes, we opened our eyes and he asked us what we experienced. It was bizarre, but people shared that they saw faces of people with masks, and they asked him what it meant. He said that they were ancestral souls of Africa who were waiting for us for a long time to be redeemed, and that now they’re free. We were all spellbound. That night we cooked for him and returned to Nairobi where a wonderful conference was to take place. They were 2000 people, and that was the first time I saw him heal anybody. He called the people on stage, people with any sort of pain. He placed his hand where the pain was and it disappeared. There was this particular woman, who had come over to the stage. She was on crutches and had a difficult time walking with it. She was in pain. It was a tumor on her back that kept her from walking. He placed his hand where the tumor was and after a moment told her to leave the crutches and walk. She said she can’t walk without the crutches, ‘You can,’ he said. She left her crutches and walked to her place. She was in tears, and so were the thousands who saw this unimaginable phenomenon. I have never seen him do this before,” she sighs in amazement.

Beatriz had no questions of how this was possible. She knew it was. There is a scientific explanation to it. Anyone who has reached a higher state of consciousness, like Gurudev, would be able to put the necessary atoms in the body, muscles and nerves to restructure it. It is quantum physics. “Well this is my intellectual explanation,” she says, “and my non intellectual explanation is, that it is a miracle. That’s one thing out of the many I’ve learnt from him, that life itself is a miracle.