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`Pagal baba' comes out of samadhi

Allahabad: Shyamanand Saraswati, alias `pagal baba', from Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday came out of his samadhi in an underground and fully sealed chamber after nine days here.

He entered the samadhi in nine feet deep and six feet by seven feet ditch on Makar Sankranti on January 15 leaving a note behind that if he died nobody should be responsible for this. The ditch was covered by a wooden plank on which three feet of soil was dumped.

Baba, who originally belonged to the Joona Akhara, carried with him a canvas bag, a chillum and an album of photographs of earlier eight samadhis by him.

Ditch uncovered

As the ditch was uncovered, he was pulled out and covered by a blanket as devotees raised slogans.

Police and para-military jawans had been guarding the place round-the-clock.

Earlier, a Japanese woman disciple of Pilot Baba had come out of a three-day samadhi here. -- PTI

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