22 Mar 2023
[Shri Abhiram asked:- Is it the correct impression to think that an incarnation exhibits miracles continuously attracting people from all sides apart from preaching the spiritual knowledge?]
Swami replied:- The correct impression on the true incarnation is preaching true spiritual knowledge that leads the soul towards the goal of pleasing God with true love, performing miracles not for its name and fame but to help devotees in getting their problems solved through miraculous powers about whom positive hope exists in the mind of God for proper development in the spiritual path. A true incarnation is not interested in its personal name and fame because God got bored by the name and fame (sweet dishes) in the upper worlds and came down for getting negligence and opposition (hot dishes). Hence, the true incarnation always tries to hide itself from name and fame and due to this reason, it never exhibits miracles. Only a false incarnation, which is a demon after attaining some miraculous powers from God through rigid penance, exhibits some miracles continuously for getting personal name and fame about which it is craving since it never enjoyed good name and fame previously. A true incarnation performs miracles secretly to help the devotees for their spiritual progress and this is the only context for the performance of miracles. Otherwise, miracles are very harmful to the true spiritual path. In true spiritual path, detachment from worldly bonds is to be attained as the attachment to God increases gradually.
The miracles solve the worldly problems and give worldly happiness by which the attachment to the worldly bonds increases more and more. If one worldly problem is solved, 99 worldly problems appear so that the devotee is more vigorously searching for miraculous powers only and not for true devotion to God because the previous miracle increased his/her attraction towards worldly bonds and not towards God. God is pleased only by the proof of true love, which is karma yoga (sacrifice of service and fruit of work) without aspiration for any fruit in return. Miracle is quite opposite to this concept because it is based on the fruit in return, which is getting worldly happiness by solving the worldly problem. The path to God is based on issue devotion or fan devotion in which aspiration for any fruit in return does not exist. Solving worldly problems through the miraculous power of God is either by prostitution devotion (getting practical benefit by showing theoretical devotion through prayers and songs) or by business devotion (getting practical benefit by showing some practical devotion). Hence, miracles divert the devotee from the true path to a false path. A true incarnation is doing more miracles always secretly to help the real devotees whereas a false incarnation is doing few miracles only always to increase its publicity and to divert the real devotee from the true path to false paths. Glittering gold is always not true gold.
The true incarnation is always anxious to lead the true devotee to the true God through true path and does not bother about anything from devotees because it itself is the ultimate donor for all true devotees. The true incarnation always speaks the harsh truth because it does not have any aspiration from any devotee at any time being omnipotent and does not care to please any devotee except to do real and permanent welfare to the true devotee. A false incarnation tries to please the devotee by twisting the true knowledge. Recognition of the true incarnation of God is the most important first step in the spiritual path.
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