There are no Miracles in Life🔗

A parable of Ramakrishna goes thus:

Once there were two brothers. One decided to become a sadhu and the other went into business. After 15 long years the younger brother who became a sadhu came back to the village. His elder brother who had stayed back in the village to become a businessman received him well. They started discussing what they had both achieved in the span of 15 years.

The elder brother told the younger about how well he has done materially and asked the sadhu how he had fared. The younger one stood up without a word and walked to the river near by. He started walking on the waters of the river and reached the opposite side effortlessly. The elder brother took a boat and joined him on the opposite bank. Crowed the younger brother, 'This is what I achieved in these years.' The elder brother responded, 'In all these years what you learnt was what I spent two rupees (5 cents) for. What a waste!'

Understand that miracles are foolishness. There are no miracles. They just happen in a different plane. People ask me again and again to materialize objects. Mind you doing it becomes a habit for some. People then come only for the magic show, not for transformation. When people asked me to materialize an object, I only had to clap my hands and produce an idol of Goddess Lakshmi, Goddess of Wealth in Hindu mythology. I told the group that it was only a trick. I can not create anything. I can only teleport it. I only moved the idol from my room to my hand. It is similar to waves moving between cell phones and how it transports voice. I converted the matter of the idol into energy, teleported it, and reconverted energy into matter.

Be very clear…there are no Miracles in Life!

At one time or another we all experience the phenomenon of precognition. We feel that some one is about to call us, and sure enough that person calls.

We are watching TV and suddenly we feel that the character we're watching is about to say something, and sure enough she obliges. We are about to sit down for dinner, the door bell chimes, and we know who is at the door; sure enough, it's the old school mate one hasn't seen in years.

I find that in my discourses often over 50% of the audience responds positively when I ask if they had experienced a similar phenomenon at any point in their life. When this happens, most of the time we brush it off saying that it is a coincidence. When to some this happens repetitively we attach the tag of a 'gifted' person, similar to those who see auras and sense the vibrational energy of people and places.

When the magnitude of the experience is far greater we no longer term it a coincidence. Some one predicts disasters accurately time and again, and forecasts deaths. Others heal people given up as lost cases by doctors. Some produce substances out of thin air. We then call them miracles.

What we see as coincidences or miracles, depending on the degree of the unexpectedness of the incident, are those where we do not see the causal linkage between these incidents and what we understand to be scientific laws. Anything that is not supported by what is termed as ‘science’ is either barbaric or a miracle.

I repeat…there are no miracles in life.

It is just that we do not yet understand the laws that govern the occurrence of such incidents which seem to defy ‘scientific’ laws. Once we understand that this universe supports laws that go beyond the ‘scientific’ laws that have been so far discovered by humans, we start understanding the cause and effect linkages behind many of these inexplicable happenings and start appreciating the mysteries of our Universe.

Astrophysicists now talk about a parallel universe. They have discovered that each time a star system dies as a black hole another start system is born in a big bang somewhere else in the universe. Every action produces a reaction.

The Chaos Theory now says that action and reaction do not need to be proportionate. There is no linearity in nature. A butterfly fluttering its wings in China causes a tornado in Mexico! This is science, not imagination.

Matter and energy were totally different entities until Einstein established their linkage. Even after Einstein, it was either matter or energy, never both in the same time and space. It is only recently that the principle of ‘singularity’ that allows matter and energy to exist simultaneously in a common time and space framework has been understood. ‘Singularity’ is the common universal platform, the Collective Consciousness that we call Brahman.

Making contact with Brahman is not impossible, once you know how. With thoughts crowding our mind, all that we normally do is to flit from one zone to another, from regrets to speculations, with no time to ground ourselves in the present. However, once we allow ourselves to settle in the here and now, in the present, thoughts gradually disappear. When thoughts disappear there is an expansion of our ability to expand in time and space, which allows us to traverse the past, present and future simultaneously.

Once we are in the present miracles become common place, and we understand that they can no longer be called miracles but are a natural flow of the universe.

Imagine a scene where all cell phones except two are destroyed. The two owners will surely become Gods in the eyes of those who do not know how a cellphone works or what a cellphone is. When we do not understand the cause we call it a miracle. I had a disciple, a magician, who used to produce vibhuti, sacred ash, from my feet. To people who cannot understand or make causal linkages this will seem to be a miracle.

Personal transformation is the ultimate miracle that we can get from a Master…but mind you this will happen in a state of heightened awareness, where you are conscious of the changes happening to you and your mind!

If alchemy comprises removing, adding and processing from base metal to get gold the ultimate alchemy is personal transformation…from the state of lust to the state of divine love, where you understand that you are a part of the whole existence…this whole universe…that you are God. To attain the ultimate alchemy you may adopt any of the paths before you. In Tantra, which actually only means technique, there are two practices. The first is Dakshinachara which is just meditation; the other is Vamachara which relates to use of sex, meat, liquor etc. to realize divine power.

Human beings, as I mentioned earlier are gifted with the ability of choice as they are by their very nature intelligence. Nature has infused intelligence and choice in us...therefore the task of choosing the path to the ultimate goal is left to us.

I pray to the divine to bless you all with the intelligence to choose the appropriate path and attain Nithya Ananda...Eternal Bliss!