Miracles happen to you only because you
need them – and not because you prayed harder or that you deserve them over
someone else!
In continuation of my post yesterday on
Shirdi Sai Baba, some readers pinged me wanting to know more about the miracles
he is known to have created and continues to create in the lives of his
followers. Well, the miracles Baba created in his lifetime are well documented and
I don’t wish to enlist them here one more time. However, let me share my
personal perspective on miracles here.
First, let’s get a better understanding of
what is a miracle. The truth is that you are a miracle. I am a miracle. This
moment, and your ability to read this post, is a miracle – you are educated, you
have a laptop or a PC or a mobile device, have internet connectivity and, above
all, have vision (eyesight), which is why you are able to read this post! Isn’t
that a miracle? There are millions who don’t have any such luck! You and I are
miracles – because, think about it, else, we may well have been created as the
swine that gives the flu than be created as the human being that receives the
flu! But we are all so obsessed with the rat race that we run,
earning-a-living, that we don’t consider any of these as miracles. We simply
take everything that we have for granted and keep pining for what we don’t
have!
Deepak Chopra, in his beautiful book, ‘Why is God
Laughing?’, says that miracles happen when mind-body-soul are in
alignment. He says there are three levels of mind-body-soul alignment and hence
three types of miracles are possible. At the most basic level of mind-body-soul
alignment, he says we can BUY whatever we want to. And that is a miracle.
Believe me, the ability to BUY something with money is a miracle. I have, through
the years of my family’s financial strife, and the several spells of
pennilessness we have been through, known what it means when you can’t afford
to BUY even groceries for everyday survival. At the second level of
mind-body-soul alignment, says Chopra, when you WISH for something, it often
happens. For instance, if on a hot summer afternoon, you wished for a cold
lemonade or beer and a friend passing by decides to drop in with some cans for
you. This may have happened, in our own ways, at least once in our lives.
Chopra says that whenever this must have happened, our mind-body-soul may well
have been in alignment. If that alignment can be consistent, at that level,
more of what you WISH happens to you or comes to you! At the third, and perhaps
highest, level of mind-body-soul alignment, says Chopra, you can actually
CREATE whatever you think of or visualize. This means you can CREATE an object
or an event or a situation. And this is what the Himalayan Masters (please read
Swami Rama’s ‘Living
with the Himalayan Masters’ for a better understanding) or Shirdi
Sai Baba or Swami Sathya Sai Baba were capable of. In the name of rationality,
the less spiritually evolved folks, dismiss this ability to CREATE miracles as “cheap
magic”. Fine, so be it. To each one, their own. To me, Chopra’s reasoning is both
powerful and true.
So, how does one attract miracles into one’s
Life? Is it by praying to someone like Baba or to a Higher Energy? Or is it by
following rituals or tantric practices? Actually, if you can just let go of
this view that you need to do something about your Life, your mind-body-soul
will reach a basic level of alignment for you to be able to attract miracles
into your Life. Again, let me reiterate that the most profound miracle of them
all is the fact that you are human and are alive. But if you want more “apparent”
miracles to happen to you, please let go!
You will then attract the right people, the right opportunities and the right
energies. Which means you will get the job you want, the companion you have
been longing for, the wealth and assets you wanted and everything that you once
thought was beyond your reach. So, the password for attracting miracles into
your Life is “Let Go!”.
This is where Shirdi Sai Baba, or any of
the world’s greatest teachers, comes in. He teaches Faith and Patience; and in
championing Sab Ka Maalik Ek (There’s
only one Creator for all of us; one Higher Energy!), he invokes in us the
spirit to let go! “Let Go!” means to simply stop wanting to
control your Life. It means to live with the awareness that this lifetime, from
your birth till your death, is nothing but a series of pre-ordained
experiences. Unless you go through all the experiences, your lifetime will not
be complete. Letting go, therefore, means to let Life take over and you simply (learn
to) accept whatever comes your way. This is how your mind-body-soul get aligned
in a special, natural, sub-conscious manner. Then you will notice how things
happen to you. You will realize that the miracles in your Life
are coming to you, happening to you, not because you have prayed harder or that
you deserve them over someone else – they are there simply because you need
them and because you have “Let Go!”
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