In what way does the real Human Incarnation exhibit His miraculous powers?

Swami replied: Miracles attract atheists because they only believe in perception. The unimaginable miracles give the proof of the existence of their Source, which is the unimaginable God. Even though the unimaginable God is not perceived, He is, at least, inferred from the perceived miracles. Theists too are greatly attracted to miracles. The attraction of theists to miracles is not due to their quest for knowing the existence of the unimaginable God, but due to their desire for solving their problems. The inherent quality of any human being is only to work for the sake of utility. Human beings never think about life after death and about their future rebirth in this world. The scope of their thinking is limited only to the present life. They keep seeking solutions for their every little problem in this present life. Hence, the motive of every soul is to use God’s miraculous powers to solve the problems of the present life. The actual correct path is to avoid creating worldly problems in life, in the first place, by avoiding sinful deeds. But this path is very inconvenient because committing sins is the inherent way of life of every human being. Souls commit sins and yet they want to escape the punishments which are the fruits of the sins. Not only do they want the fruits of their sins to disappear, but they also want the fruits of the meritorious deeds that they never did, to appear. God is against such injustice of cancelling the punishments for sins done and granting the fruits of good deeds that were never done. So, the theists have developed methods to pester God to the climax through their prayers and worship, which they call the climax of devotion. The sole purpose of their so-called devotion is using the miraculous powers of God to fulfill their unjust desires. Hence, the primary motive of devotees is detecting the presence of miraculous powers.

God does use His miraculous power to satisfy the demands of devotees who pester Him through repeated prayers for underserved favors. But in doing so, He always maintains justice. The present suffering of the devotee is the fruit of the devotee’s bad deed. When God removes it, He only postpones it to the future. He does not cancel it. The postponed punishment grows in quantity as it accumulates interest. In place of the present suffering, God prepones and brings to the present, the fruit of a good deed which was to be enjoyed by that soul in the future. It means that a new good fruit is not created out of nowhere. It is merely brought to the present from the person’s own future life cycle. Also, the preponed good fruit diminishes in value like a prematurely withdrawn bank deposit. Since these details are hidden, the devotee feels that, with his pestering devotion, he has succeeded in using God’s miraculous powers for his benefit. He feels that his punishments have been miraculously cancelled and in their place, he has received the fruits of good deeds that were never done by him. He is clearly mistaken. There has been no cancellation of the punishment or the creation of a good fruit. Of course, the postponement of the present punishment and the preponement of a future good fruit to bring it to the present time, is also a miracle. But it is a justified miracle, since justice is not violated.

When God thus rearranges the fruits of the deeds of devotees in response to their prayers, devotees feel encouraged. They get into the habit of praying to God and pestering Him to remove their every suffering which was caused by their own sins. They pray to fill their present lives with undeserved good fruits. What they do not realize is that they are inviting a huge amount of misery in the future. The postponement of their present suffering to the future and the premature withdrawal of future good fruits leaves their future life cycles filled with continuous misery. Hence, wise devotees do not aspire for any miracles from God. They realize that such miracles are very harmful to them in long run. God too tries His level best to hide His miraculous powers, even when He performs miracles. He makes it appear as if the miracles were simply natural occurances and He hides His divinity. Usually, only demons show off their miraculous powers and project themselves as God. The Human Incarnation of God might also show some miracles to help devotees develop the initial attraction to Him, but this is usually done only in the initial stage. All this is a very complicated program, which can only be managed by the omniscient and omnipotent God.

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