The morning call., 1893-06-19
FROM THE GRAVE.
A Weird Tale of EsOteriC
Hindooism.
BURIED ALIVE FOR MONTHS.
A Barrister From Calcutta Tells All
About the Wonderful Powers OF
the rIahatmahS.

Another man from India registered at
the Palace Hotel yesterday. He did not
engage whole suite of apartments for him.
self, nor did his numerous retenue of ser
wants and followers occupy an entire wing
OF the hosiery.
All of which is quite extraordinary in
visitor from India and altogether out of
the usual order of things.
There are more peculiarities about this
man from India. He doesn't wear a red
smoking-cap on the street nor cook his
meals in his rooms. He doesn't wear a
Turkish rug over his shoulders nor smoke
fabulous cigaretts worth % cents apiece,
zone of which he politely offered to the
reporter"
On the contrary, he smokes two-fora-
quarter cigars, which he carries in an or
binary leather case in his side pocket. he
wears the same kind of clothes that al or
dinary Caucasian tourist would wear He
has no servants. being full grown and ca
pable Of putting on his own clothes.
When the mood strikes him or the hour
arrives he walks into the cafe with the
other guests of the hGuse'and goes through
the menu much as you or l would If we
were staying at the Palace Hotel. He
y
signs himself very Simpy-M. Z. Mailik.
Yet he is n simon pure native OF india,
as you would know by MS Swarthy and
sun-burned hue. Two other things are pc
culiar about this man from India. One of
them is having studied law and being a
practicing barrister before the English bar
at Calcutta.
The other popularity is the story he told
a CALL reporter last evening about the
burial of a Mahatmah Tor three months,
and his resurrection and revivitcation at
the end of that time
You will probably not believe this story
unless you already believe in Mahatmahs
aud such things, but your unbelef matters
little TO this Indian gentleman, who re iates
it quite as a matter of fact and altogether
susceptible of prOOf-to his own intelli-
gence, at least.
1t all happened in the reign of Raniit
Sing. who was The last Independent ruler
OF Punjab, and it took place in the royal
presence and in the royal palace and
grounds. The palace and grounds are
still there to prove it. Even the place
where the grave was has not disappeared.
The Mahatmah was one Of those persons
who, as Mr.. Mallik puts it, had gained a
complete spiritual aScendency over his
material being. He wlled that his body
should not feel the cold, and though
others were shiveriDg in great coats he
was comfortable though naked. Hunger
he knew bot and thirst he had conquered.
He wiled to be we'll and he was never
sick.
Well. one day he went to the Ranjit's
palace to prove his inability 10 control lis
baser nature and body. There were many
present to witness the test In the pres
ence of the all ne lay himself out in cof-
fin, rolled the pupils of his eyes back into
bis head and curled his tongue up under
his palate.
Presently he became as one dead. His
pulse ceased to beat and his limbs grew
stiff. \ ct the color of his skin remained
the same and the animal heat was retained.
All his functions and organs rested from
their hourly and daily tasks. He was
rigid ana fixed. but not cold.
In an hour or two after he had assumed
this condition the casket in which he re-
posed was hermetically sealed snd lowered
into the grave, which had been dug in the
courtyard of the royal palace.
Tons of earth we're piled upon him and
plants and flowers set out in the fresh soil.
A guard of soldiers watched the grave of
the Mahatmah night and day.
In time the plants grew and the flowers
blosSomed. Soon the grave was covered
with luxurlent growth. Time passed.
The three months came to an end. Once
more all those who had witnessed the in
terrment of the Mahatmah gathered in the
same room at the royal palace.
The earth was uncovered from the grave
and the hermetcally sealed casket brought
into the room. No stencil of decomposition
greeted the nostrils when the coffin was
opened. Instead the body was rigid and
warm as the day it was buried.
Trained attendants rubbed the limbs of
the seeming corpse. while Others breathed
into the nostrls. Then movement of the
eyes WAS noticed, kind of twitching, and
the pulse began to beat perceptibly
Slowly, very slowly, came the signs Of
returning life, but they did come, says Mr.
Mallik, and within an hour or so from the
time of his interment the Mahatmah was
eating square meal.
These things have occurred in India"
said Mr. MallIk, and there's no denying
them, for the proof is abundant
"Do the Mahatmahs still exist? Ger
tainiy. Always. A Mahatmah is one
who has reunited with the divine whole.
Once reunited there is no separation
again, unless voluntary one, taken up to
perform some service for mankind.
"Yes. L have known and seen a Mahat-
mah."
Mr.. Mallik will only remain a day or
two in this city. He is on his way around
the world. He will visit the Worlds Fair
and then travel eastward again. lie
came to see the western world, he SAYS,
but he has travelled eastward to find it.
He went riding yesterday afternoon. He
likes the park, but cur streets are badly
paved, he thinks.