RELIC MYSTERY.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10377, 7 April 1927, Page 5

RELIC MYSTERY.

TRAVELS WITHOUT HUMAN AID

SO OWNER BELIEVES

That a relic of Buddha has travelled 5000 miles from England back to Ceylon without tangible assistance is the belief of its owner, a young Ceylonese in London.

Mr. G. A. Be Zoyza, of Failing, IV., whose home is in Colombo, Ceylon, brought the relic, with another relic of one of Buddha’s disciples, over to England five years ago. “These relics I always kept in a tiny gold casket, which in turn was enclosed in an ivory casket, and a handkerchief was wrapped round both of them,” he said. . "“As an additional precaution, I tied a cord around the handkerchief with a peculiar knot, so that I could tell if it hat} been opened. “The relic of Buddha, I need hardly say, was of inestimable value to Buddhists, and I naturally took every precaution against its loss. “Well, the laist time I saw the relic in question was in October, last year/ when I showed it to someone.

Several of may friends were there, and they are all prepared to swear that the relic was "returned safely to the casket, and the whole wrapped in the handkerchief and tied round. “Then in April last, on entering my room one day, I felt that the atmosphere had changed in some subtle way. REAPPEARS IN CEYLON, “There seemed to be an emptiness in the air, and this puzzled me, but I could not fathom it. “The casket remained undisturbed until May, when I took them to a meeting in Holburn to display them. “On untying the knot and opening the caskets I discovered, to my amazement that the relic of Buddha, which was always placed underneath the other, had vanished (says the London Daily Mirror). “Naturally, ■ this worried me exceedingly, but all the same I could not help feeliing that the relic had in some way gone back to Ceylon, its home.

“This conviction grew and grew, until at last I wrote to my people at Colombo to ask them if - they had seen anything of it. “They replied that they had not, but that it had been found it my nieve’s house at Pasvala, twentyseven miles from Colombo. “How it came there I cannot sav, hut I have often heard of similar cases without having any actual experience of one myself.” “My mother used to tell me of relies that returned ;to their homes by no human agency, but I should like to hear if anybody has, had a similar experience or if the event lias a physical' significance.”