Miracles from the point of view of realised and unrealised souls

[dattaswami]

Miracles from the point of view of realised and unrealised souls

 

If you are ignorant and not a completely realized soul about the God, the divine help comes to you through unimaginable way so that you will recognize God without any doubt. If the help from God comes to you in an imaginable way, you will not recognize the divine help and God in that incident. Suppose you are getting the monthly salary after doing the job in a month. You will think that the salary is the fruit of your work which is a natural way of getting the fruit. But suppose you have not done work in a month and some body not known to you comes suddenly and donates the exact amount of the salary to you and goes away.

 

Then you will recognize God’s help through that unknown person. Therefore, for ignorant people difficulties are necessary to recognize God, because only difficulties can accommodate the unimaginable events as proof for God, since they do not treat the imaginable events as works of God.

 

Hence, Jesus told “Blessed are those who believe Me without proof”. Here proof means a miracle which is the unimaginable event. Therefore, proof always needs troubles for you. When you want proof from God, He will wait till you get problems according to your cycle of deeds. For the sake of giving proof, God will not create troubles. When the difficulties come, then He will help you through unimaginable way so that you will recognize God and get yourself uplifted. Therefore, the miracles which are unimaginable are needed for ignorant people only who are almost atheists. But certain rigid atheists treat even this unimaginable incident as imaginable only. Such atheist thinks that the person who gave that amount must have been mad and the exact amount of salary is just a co-incidence.

 

Duryodhana(A demon) treated the cosmic vision given by the Lord as an illusion of the eye through magic. For such rigid atheists, God will not perform any miracle or may perform once and leave them forever since the realization will never come in their case. Therefore, the aim of the miracles is only to help the spiritual path and not solving your petty problems faced by you according to the cycle of your deeds. God will certainly do miracles if He has a hope about you that the miracles will help you in the spiritual path. Often the devotees pray God to do miracles for the sake of spiritual path but in their hearts the aim is to solve their problems only. They forget that God is omniscient and knows the heart of their hearts and therefore in such cases, He keeps silent. The hope about the progress of your spiritual path through miracle should come in God’s mind by itself and not by your request.

 

If you are already a realized soul, the divine help comes through imaginable ways like help through human beings because the recognition of God is not necessary for you. The ultimate aim of the miracle is only to help you to recognize the existence of God and once you have recognized the existence of God, miracles are useless. Hence miracles are limited to the very basic level only. If you are a realized soul, you have already recognized God and have firm faith in Him. For you every thing and every work in this world is only the work of God. For you every monthly salary is given by God only through your employer. You will not think that your work is responsible for getting the monthly salary. You know that even the work done by you is also due to the power of God only. Therefore, in your case even the natural event is the work of God and is His miracle only. You thank God whenever you receive the monthly salary. For you, this world which is a composite of natural and logical phenomenae is also simultaneously a composite of super natural works of God, which are called as miracles.

 

All the nature which appears as imaginable becomes unimaginable if you go deeply into it with the help of science. In this context the Lord said that on realization of the deeper phase of nature by scientific analysis, one has to accept that even the imaginable nature (Prakruti) is the unimaginable power or work (Maya) of God in the deeper structure. For such a realized soul, separate miracles are not necessary since he finds the entire cosmos as the greatest miracle of the God. The endless space with infinite galaxies of stars and planets itself is a biggest miracle of God, standing as a direct proof for the super power of God. This is the aim of showing the infinite cosmic vision of God to Arjuna. Therefore, if you just look into the sky and realize the infinite energetic stars and space, you have obtained the cosmic vision of the Lord!

There is no need of a separate cosmic vision because the same miracle is just before your eyes and God is giving this cosmic vision to every one in every minute, which is a proof of His existence. The second Brahma Sutra says that the existence of God is inferred from the infinite cosmos and its unimaginable nature in the deeper structure. Shankara specifically referred to the unimaginable nature of cosmos in the deeper phase in His commentary on this sutra. Therefore, a realized soul will not ask for cosmic vision from the Lord. Arjuna representing the ignorant soul only asked for the cosmic vision. Therefore, the Lord asked Arjuna to recognize the nature (Prakruti) itself as the super power (Maya) of God by analyzing deeply.

 

If you see just a leaf and observe it deeply with the knowledge of Botany, you will be shocked with the miraculous work of God which reveals its unimaginable design, unimaginable co-ordination of functions of various cells etc. Through such unimaginable structure of the leaf you are first recognizing the unimaginable super power (Maya) of God. Immediately you will accept the possessor of the super power (Mayi) who is the Lord as said in the subsequent line of the same verse (Mayinamtu Maheshwaram….). Therefore, the deep analysis of the nature which is Science is exposing the miracle of God to every body in this world and there is no need of a separate miracle. Therefore, Science is the best religion exposing the existence of God to every ordinary human being on this earth including atheist.

 

Therefore, I have given a place for Science in the symbol of Universal Spirituality. A scientist does not require a separate miracle to recognize the existence of God like a realized soul since the deeper analysis of this nature reveals the unimaginable power of God and there by His existence. A scientist who does not believe the existence of God is not a scientist at all. Thus, an ordinary ignorant devotee is helped by God through unimaginable ways. The exceptionally excellent devotee finds God’s help even through the natural ways. He thinks that even the natural respiration is by the grace and power of God only.

 

 

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

 

Anil Antony

 

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Universal Spirituality for World Peace

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