WHAT IS A MIRACLE?🔗

It was a damp & cloudy day when Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda Swamigal decided that a trip to the Bidadi Ashram was a necessity. So off we drove unaware of what sparred the trip & totally unprepared for what we were about to witness.

As we got down and walked along, there was such a loud commotion, one could not ignore it. A cow while grazing had accidentally got trapped in a slushy area, which once must have been a lakebed. The loose wet soil was making matters worse for the cow & it was unable to move.

A crowd of no less than forty villagers had gathered around the cow. They tied ropes around & tried in every possible manner to rescue this pregnant cow. The cow was unable to lift her totally exhausted body from the mud.

Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda Swamigal stopped at a distance of twenty feet from this scene. He instructed the people to stop the pushing & pulling. Just looked at the cow right into her eyes, clapped his hands & then signaled her to come out. He called for two men to help the cow as she tries to come out onto firm land. Having said this he simply turned & walked towards the ashram not waiting to see the result. We both stood rooted there unable to follow Swamiji, curious to see what would happen.

The cow got up & out of the slush with the help of those two men. It was really no struggle. She moved on to the bank with such ease. By this time Swamiji had walked a fair distance so we hurried to him with questions pouring out of every pore. His unambiguous answer was " I did not perform any miracle, I just connected to the cow's intelligence which had gone totally haywire by all these people who had brainwashed it into thinking that it would not be able to come out on its own. The moment the cow realized her capacity to save herself, she came out of the slush purely by her own effort".

This is what Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda Swamigal is here for, " To guide us out of troubled waters".