18 Nov 2017
[The word God is actually confined to the absolute unimaginable God only and the unimaginable events called as miracles are the only basis to identify the existence of unimaginable God. In the absence of the miracles in this world, take it to be sure that God will disappear totally in this world because unimaginable events or miracles alone give the perception-authority for the existence of the absolute unimaginable God. Another reason is that no devotee will take care of the existence of God, who is not useful at all to get benefits and to avoid losses. Even the so called theists are not interested in the existence of God, if the miraculous powers of God are not exhibited. Almost all the theists desire benefits without doing good deeds and removal of difficulties (which are punishments of sins already done) in the name of ‘boons’ from God. The atheists desire the proof of miraculous powers to accept the existence of unimaginable God. But, the atheists have prefixed bias and deny the existence of God even if the genuine miracle is observed. Thus, for both theists and atheists, miracles are not serving the purpose for which the miracles are exhibited, which is the proof for existence of unimaginable God. Miracles are becoming useless for atheists due to their closed minds by rigidity in opposing the existence of God. Miracles are useless for theists also since they are exploiting the miraculous power for selfish benefits only and in fact miracles are not necessary for a theist, who has already believed the existence of God. Truly speaking, miracles are required only for a scientist, who is very sincere for a proof regarding the existence of unimaginable God since he is always immersed in the analysis of imaginable domain only. Such a scientist with open mind to welcome the truth is really deserving and eligible for the exhibition of miracle. The scientist is neither atheist with closed mind, nor a theist with selfish mind to exploit the miraculous power.]
[The proof for the miracle is perception, which is the only scientific authority. The scientist does not believe the authority called as ‘word’ (Shabdapramaanam), which means that somebody on perception gives the information, which is recorded in the book and the book is to be believed. You have not seen the city-London. But, somebody, who has seen London-city with his eyes, came and is telling you about that city, you believe in its existence without seeing it with your eyes. Even then, you may argue that if one takes the pains to take up long journey to that city, one can see that city with eyes. Regarding the miracle written in a book, such a provision is not there and there is a possibility of such miracle, which might have been written as creative poetry or imagination. In order to answer this scientific question, in every human generation, God is coming as human incarnation to exhibit the miracles. Jesus performed several miracles and when He was asked about the reason for His coming to this world, He replied, “I’ve come to fulfill what is written in the scripture (book)”. To give the authority of perception to the unimaginable miraculous power by which unimaginable God is established, which (miraculous power) is already mentioned in the scripture in the form of a miracle, God comes down in human form to fulfill the requirement of repeated perception-authority.]
[When a new miracle is exhibited, the same logic of the existence of unimaginable power exhibited in the old miracle performed in the previous generation gets established. When the unimaginable power is proved, all the miracles based on such unimaginable power are naturally proved because even though the details of a miracle may differ from one to other, but, the background logic of existence of unimaginable power remains the same. You are not bothered about the external details of the miracle, but, you are bothered about the existence of unimaginable power in the miracle. If the same power is proved in the new miracle with new details, the basic purpose is served. For example: It is written in the scripture that Krishna materialized saris and gave to Draupadi. Here, the point is about the unimaginable materialization of the cloth. The same incident with the same characters need not be regenerated. But, on seeing Shri Satya Sai Baba materializing a cloth (falling down from space) by which Krishna was covered, the unimaginable materialization of cloth is proved (in fact, a devotee was singing the scene of Krishna entering the court as a messenger and read a poem describing the cloth that covered the body of Krishna. Immediately, Baba arose from His chair and moved His hands by which the cloth covering the body of Krishna was materialized. Baba presented that cloth to the devotee as a gift to be worshipped permanently). Hence, the miracle need not be regenerated as it is, but, the same concept of the old unseen miracle is regenerated through this new miracle.]
[In fact, several devotees are experiencing the miraculous power of unimaginable God in their lives even though they are worshipping God in invisible form or formless or forms of statues and photos. The human incarnation performing the miracles is mainly for the sake of scientists, who have open mind in search of truth based on perception. The unimaginable God is experienced by 99% of devotees and 99% of humanity is devotees only. Thus, very large majority of the humanity is given the practical experience of unimaginable God in the miraculous incidents that happen now and then in their lives. Hence, the general famous saying is that God is to be known through practical experience (not mere theory from books), which is said as, “Anubhavaikavedyam Brahma”. Out of all the miracles experienced by a devotee, some may be interpreted as probable coincidences. Even if you filter such doubtful miracles, a very few genuine miraculous incidents will be certainly leftover on the filter paper in spite of forcing all probabilities. Even the top class scientist will accept such genuine miracles due to his open mind in the search of truth. Of course, a devotee inspired by the genuine miracles may treat every natural incident happening by probability also as a miracle. You need not laugh at him because all the normal works in the nature are also happening by the will of God only and such a devotee is finding God everywhere in the creation doing every natural action. But, there should be a limit to extend the will of God in every work of the creation and treat a sin also happening by the will of God. Even in the sins, the basic power of the action is only from God but not His will that directs the action to the fruit.]
[In fact, every action in this creation is invariably taking place by God’s power only, which is both imaginable or natural (Prakruti) and unimaginable or supernatural (Maaya). In order to maintain His specific identity, God separated the imaginable power and made the soul as its owner by putting a curtain of ignorance for this specific purpose between Him and the soul. He has kept the unimaginable power along with Him only for the sake of isolation in order to direct the soul in the path of justice by exhibiting unimaginable power. It is just like a father dividing his property as two halves, one for him and one for his issue. Such a division is done for inducing responsibility and proper discipline in the mind of the issue. When the issue reaches the goal in the path of justice, the father gives his share of property also to the issue. This is exactly said by Patanjali in his Yogasutra in the chapter on miracles (Vibhuti Adhyaaya). He says that a person speaking truth is bestowed with a miraculous power by which, whatever he says becomes true. The chief minister retains a specific portfolio with him, but, has full power to interfere with the portfolio of any other minister. By this, we can say that the total administration or functioning of all portfolios is due to the power of the chief minister only. He represents the entire cabinet in the minds of the people during the time of election. By this, we must know that everything is happening by the power of the father or chief minister only. But, due to the freedom given by the father and by the chief minister, the issues or cabinet ministers do some wrong things for which the chief minister should not be blamed due to absence of such basic intention in him. When an enquiry is conducted, the cabinet minister is punished and not the chief minister. In fact, the chief minister only punishes the cabinet minister! By this, we can conclude that every action imaginable or unimaginable is due to the power of God only. But, due to the freedom given to the souls, you cannot extend the will of God into every action and say that God shall be punished for the sin done by the soul! Due to the given freedom by God, the soul has independence in its will to do any action (Svabhaavastu pravartate – Gita).]
[The development of science based on the will of God has given several advantages like using computer in the propagation of spiritual knowledge without leaving house and audio-video recording technique by which the miracles of Shri Satya Sai Baba were recorded on the spot and are preserved for the proof of perception in future required by the science even in the absence of a new human incarnation. Even if a new human incarnation is present, people limited to a specific region can only have the benefit of perception. The recorded cassettes can move all over the world avoiding the above said inconvenience. Of course, atheists will say that the recording was done as in the case of a miracle shot in the shooting of a cinema in which the miracle is exhibited through magic. Nobody can change the atheist except saluting to his rigid ignorance! The miracles of Baba were shot by devotees on the spot without pre-arrangements as done in cinema-shooting! In the magic, a hidden object is expressed by trick to make it appear as if it is genuine creation! The magic needs pre-arrangement and hence can be done in a specific place and specific time only. The genuine miracles were done by Baba anywhere at any time. Even several scientists have keenly observed these miracles by staying very close to Baba and concluded that these are genuine. According to atheists, not only a common man, but also, a scientist is fool!]
[The three components of the imaginable creation are matter, energy and awareness. When Krishna showed the cosmic vision, all these three components were exhibited. In that vision, materialized worlds representing matter, highly intensive radiation representing energy and various living beings existing in the worlds representing awareness are seen. This vision is very important miracle not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively being the source of very important knowledge, which is the creation of the universe from God. The above three components created indicate that God created energy, matter and awareness and this means that God is the creator of the entire universe. Some think that this universe is in hidden state (Avyaktam) and God made this to be expressed. This means that God has exposed an already hidden item like a magician and in this way the greatness of God is proved very little. The word Brahman means the greatest (Bruhi vruddhau), which exposes its climax-greatness. The greatness of God in the climax is in the view of souls and not in the view of God. A great man is felt as great by others and not by himself! The greatness of God in climax can be expressed only when we say that this existing creation is created by God from its non-existence only. The present existence and the past non-existence are in the view of souls only. The Veda says that this world was non-existent before its generation and this existing world is created from non-existence only (Asadvaaidamagra aasit tatovai sadajaayata). Of course, nothing can be produced from its non-existence and hence ‘Asatkaaryavaada’ is not acceptable. But, this is true in the worldly logic. This is not true in the case of unimaginable God, who is beyond the worldly logic. It is true that Shankara told that this creation existed before its generation (Satkaaryavaada). But, He told that the effect (creation) existed as cause (God) only as told by the Veda (Sadevasomya). You must note carefully that creation didn’t exist before its generation whereas the cause of the creation (God) only existed. The conclusion is that God only existed in the beginning, who created this creation as real in the view of souls. Both the absolute plane and relative plane are taken as references by Shankara. Ramanuja and Madhva took only relative plane in which the starting point is mediated God (unimaginable God + medium) in which mediated God and creation similar to medium co-exist. Hence, the cosmic vision means creation of universe from nowhere in absolute reality and creation of universe from already created source-medium called as subtle energy or space (Mula Prakruti) in relative plane. Hence, in the relative plane, God is only intellectual cause and not the material cause. Therefore, there is no contradiction among three Divine preachers.]
[If we analyze the miracles performed by various human incarnations of God, we can find the creation of matter, energy and awareness from nowhere supporting the theory of creation of any item of the universe from its non-existence only. Some people interpret that the creation of article is done in such a way so that the same article disappeared from somewhere in the universe. It means that when Baba created an article, it appeared here since it disappeared from some shop due to law of conservation of matter and energy according to which if some matter or energy is generated in some place, an equivalent amount of matter or energy must disappear in some other place. According to these people, God is neither designer-cause (Nimitta) nor the material-cause (Upaadaana) of the world. The power of the God is very much limited by such invisible transfer of an item from one place to the other. Some others say that a small part of cosmic energy is condensed into matter and the design of the matter is only done by Baba (God). This means that God is only intellectual cause and not the material cause. Since the miracles done by human incarnations are after the creation of this universe, both have equal probability. In any probable possibility, the unimaginable nature exists qualitatively, which is not possible for any other human being. No human being can transfer an item from a shop through invisible way and this much transfer is also unimaginable. Therefore, you can reduce the unimaginable nature quantitatively due to jealousy, but, you can’t eliminate the unimaginable nature qualitatively. Even if you reduce the power of the miracle quantitatively to the least extent (through invisible transfer of item), you are unable to do the same and give imaginable theory for even the least quantitative miracle of invisible transfer. Hence, you can never reduce the qualitative unimaginable nature of any miracle to zero in spite of your quantitative reduction of the miracle to any extent due to jealousy.]
[When the cosmic vision is exhibited by God, Arjuna, seeing the cosmic vision also exists in the cosmic vision! Similarly, when Krishna showed the entire universe in His mouth, Yashoda, seeing this vision also exists in the cosmos shown in the mouth! To view such unimaginable vision exhibited in unimaginable way, the eyes of the spectator need the miraculous power given by the grace of God (Divyam dadaami te chakshuh – Gita). This shows that space is also unreal before the real God. One reality can do such miracle only with the other unreality. One reality can’t do such a miracle with the other equal reality. Hence, space is also unreal since energy is unreal. Space being subtle energy is a part of the creation only. Space is not nothing since nothing can appear or disappear. Einstein says that space is geometrical and relative and disappears, when the matter disappears. Relativity with reference to other relativity must be absolute nothing in the relative plane. Creation is relative with reference to God since it is nothing in the absolute plane. Time is relative with reference to matter in the relative plane itself, which can be treated as nothing (in the relative plane). But, space is thus relative with reference to relative matter as per Einstein. Space is a part of the creation being subtle energy and thus can be treated as a component (space is the first component) equal to matter in existence. In this view, space is as relative as the matter (with reference to God) and hence, need not be taken as relative with reference to matter. This means that space can exist even if the entire matter disappears, in which case, you can imagine vacuum (space) without any matter in the step just before the final dissolution of creation (in which finally the space disappears). In any case, space is relative with reference to God and not with reference to matter. The sequence of creation says that space was created in the beginning from which matter was created (Aakaashaat vaayuh). Then, the radiant energy (Agni) was created from which other elements evolved and finally awareness appeared (Annaat purushah). In this sequence, there was a preliminary stage in which space alone existed without matter since matter was created from space. This means that matter is relative with reference to space and not vice-versa. But, Einstein says that space is relative with reference to matter. His point can be interpreted in this way:- When matter disappears, there is no need of space and hence, space disappears on the disappearance of matter. Such disappearance of space with matter is not invariable and spontaneous process, but for the will of God. The space has only three inherent coordinates of volume (length, width and height). Time is not the inherent fourth coordinate of space. Time is relative with reference to the matter. When matter disappears, time also disappears and space can exist with its three coordinates. Time is taken as the fourth coordinate, which is superimposed on the three coordinates of space to develop a four dimensional space-time model to define anything in the world. The performer of this miracle with space must be beyond space and hence must be unimaginable. Such a miracle with space was performed by Shri Satya Sai Baba also, when He took a devotee into a small room in which the devotee found the entire Shirdi village with infinite space (horizon)! Time is also relative and depends on matter in existence. When matter disappears, time also disappears. Hence, the entire model of the creation is four dimensional space and time (three dimensions of space along with the fourth time-coordinate). When God Vishnu asked sage Narada to take a dip in a lake, sage Narada underwent a long span of lifetime in which he got married and generated several issues! These miracles prove that this creation of space-time model is unreal with reference to God in the absolute plane. This can’t be realized by the soul, which is a part of four dimensional space-time model creation. In relative plane, soul and rest world exist in which the absolute unimaginable God can’t be referred except the same God in mediated condition.]
[The creation of matter in the form of various articles is a major miracle of Shri Satya Sai Baba. The visions involving the appearance of several types of radiations were also given by Him. Multiplication of food prepared for one person to feed several people was done by Shri Narasimha Saraswati, which is also the miracle of creation of matter. He appeared at the same time in eight villages to receive the food and this shows the creation of awareness (living human beings) and that He is beyond space and time. The Gita says that a miracle is always associated with the creation of awareness (Sattvam), creation of material or matter (Shrimat) and creation of energy as radiation (Urjita). This is the meaning of the statement given in the Gita (Yadyat vibhutimat sattavam, Shrimadurjitameva vaa). The miracles performed by God through various human incarnations are infinite in number (Naantosti mama…) and always continue in each generation as the basic perception-authority for the sake of sincere scientists.]
[The miracles experienced by any devotee shall be propagated in the humanity to divert the souls towards God from the atheistic nature. Miracles attract even a layman, who is always anxious of benefits and avoiding difficulties. Though this is basically wrong, it is inevitable in the beginning stage. God also gives the miraculous chocolates in the beginning to attract the child towards LKG class. We neither say that chocolates are wrong in the beginning nor say that the LKG class is to be abolished since you have crossed it. We only say that after crossing the beginning stage (attraction to miracles to avoid due difficulties and to get undue benefits), you should be promoted to the next higher class. But, you are sitting in the same LKG class throughout your life. The life is uncertain and may stop at any moment. The human rebirth is also very rare and can be treated as almost impossible. Hence, it is better if you cross the LKG class as early as possible. But, the most pitiable tragedy is that you are sitting in the LKG class only throughout your life and always aspiring for chocolates only.]
[The devotee experiencing a miracle propagates it in the humanity not only for the benefit of beginners, but also to express his excited love towards the personality of God. The Veda mentions such excited appreciation of the miracle as, “Such is the miraculous power of God!” (Etaavaanasya mahimaa). Jesus also tells that a devotee should become an advertising witness for the miracle of God. Actually, other devotees, who are not favoured by the miracle become jealous of not only the performer of the miracle, but also become jealous of the devotee, who got benefit of the miracle. Such jealousy may take extreme form like even killing the performer of miracles as in the case of Jesus. To avoid such tragedy, Prophet Mohammed denied not only the concept of human incarnation, but also expressed the miracles of human incarnation as mere magic. The background of jealousy is very important and hence, no human incarnation says that it performed the miracle. It says only that the unimaginable God performed the miracle through It. In fact, the miracle is always performed by the unimaginable God only and not by the human being component. But, in such case, the Nivrutti-devotees feel with dissatisfaction that they are not seeing the unimaginable God in human form. In fact, God merges with the human being component perfectly to become the human being so that the rare Nivrutti-devotee gets full satisfaction. But, in view of the side reaction of jealousy, the human being component always attaches the miracle to God only and not to Itself. Demons always claim that the miracles are performed by themselves only due to ego. A true devotee is always happy to advertise the miracle of God whether he is benefitted or other devotees are benefitted.]
[The attraction for miracles should be avoided at least after some spiritual journey. When God notes your attraction to miracles for your selfishness, He becomes unhappy just like a father becoming unhappy towards his issue, which is always in search of the details of his bank accounts. This makes the devotee to lose the value and to become very cheap in the eyes of God. God performs any number of miracles for a devotee, who is serving Him without any idea of the miraculous power of God. The father makes the issue as his nominee of all his properties with full happiness if the issue has real practical love towards him without the eye on his properties even in the dream. The response towards such practical love without aspiration for any fruit in return is immediate and to any extent. The deity of justice also, who doesn’t like the miracles to interfere with the normal administration of deeds and fruits, becomes very happy in appreciating such real love of the devotee to God. Hence, every devotee shall try to develop such real practical love to God without aspiring for any fruit in return like the parents loving their issues.]
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