Is it possible to read thought of another person without any kind of verbal communication and body language?

Here is the claim made by Richard Alpert ex Harvard Professor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Dass:

Richard Alpert ex-professor from Harvard visits Neem Karoli baba (a kind of saint) in India. Alpert's mother had died 6 month ago due to spleen.

A day before, meeting baba, Alpert goes outside under night sky and thinks of his mother.

The next day Alpert meets baba and baba tells him that his mother died 6 month ago due to spleen and he was thinking about her under sky the night before. There are two witnesses. Bhagwandas and a translator https://youtu.be/pjGmn-iR08k?t=272