“What is a Miracle?”

What is a Miracle? What ever happens in the Universe has a reason had a cause, has a reason, nothing happens by accident. If something happens in one side of the Universe something else happens somewhere else. If there is a big bang in one place there is a black hole some where else in the Universe.

When you do not understand the cause and effect relationship you call it a miracle. If it is obvious you call it an incident. When the relationship is too deep for you to understand, for your logic to penetrate you call it a miracle. There is no such thing as a miracle. Everything happens only with a cause.

Einstein is a super scientist. Just because of Einstein that scientists started respecting mystics. Otherwise scientists had a prejudiced idea of all things spiritual. They felt that what they knew of the universe was correct. Einstein says: There are only two ways of living; either as if everything is a miracle, including all with relationships of cause and effect; or live as though all is a miracle.

I am trying to make you understand that nothing is a miracle; then I want you to understand everything is a miracle. How does a seed change mud into a lotus? How does a piece of bread become your blood? Your knowing how does not change anything, it is still a miracle.

You see kids; they take nothing for granted; they see everything as new; today's sunrise is today's sunrise for them , not yesterday's.

An enlightened Master had stomach trouble, and his doctor told him to take the same diet every day. He had no problem. But the disciple cooking for him got fed up. Master said: I don't eat the same food. How can I do that? How can I eat the same food every day? I eat different food every day. We label things, we take them for granted.

Like the master, for a gild every thing is new every time it looks at it. A child never waits for your answer, they are not bothered about your answer, they keep asking new questions. Either we try to shut them up or try to make them intellectuals. By questioning they explain to you that they are growing. They don't want you to answer. They don't take things for granted; they don't take people for granted; they don't take situations for granted. When they look at things they do not verbalize. When you at a rose you start associating it with your memories, you don't see the real rose in front of you. By verbalizing you miss reality. Only children see reality.

Freud says: all your thinking is association. If you see a dog in the street, you start thinking about all the dogs you have seen from childhood. Then you remember your childhood, you remember a teacher when you were a child. There is no logical connection. When you start verbalizing you miss reality. Every day sun rises; every day sun sets; every day something new happens. To you it's one more Friday, one more Saturday , one more Sunday. What do you know? The moment you label it as Friday, you think you know everything about that day. You just take it for granted. Because you take people for granted you don't enjoy your relationships. You judge people first and collect arguments to support your judgment. You can never step into the same river twice, because by that time the river has moved. People also move, they change, they are not the same as who you met before. By the time you meet them again your husband or wife has changed; something is added to them; either intelligence or foolishness. But you don't agree. You hold on to the same mental set up.

Sushruta wrote 5000 years ago. He talks about open heart surgeries and transplants. A great enlightened Master. Every six months your liver replaces itself completely. Not even one part is same. Once in 21 days your intestine replaces itself. Modern day physiologists agree. Every cell is replaced continuously.

Sushruta says: your mental structure plays a major role when these changes take place. A disciple asks him: why do we carry diseases over a number of years? Why does the new liver carry the same disease? Sushruta replies: You don't believe you have changed. You carry the same mental frame. That mental frame retains the disease. You don't let go that frame, you don't let go that disease. You don't let go your samskara. Samsakara is the powerful mental root, that drags you to travel the same path. Like Pavlov's dog who came running and salivated even when no food was served but the bell was rung. Whenever you remember that past situation or person you react the same was, you move in the same rut. In the morning you worry about office, by evening you worry about you wife and children , unconsciously. The mood remains low even if you do not realize why. You do not live based on intelligence, you live based on information. Ability to respond spontaneously is responsibility. Responsibility is not name and fame or status. Only those who have spontaneity can survive in this world. You may have had education, money yet you may not be successful. Intelligence is not based on information that yu have or receive. That's only intellect, Intelligence is about how you can let go, be spontaneous, be without prejudice. It is not the totality of your experiences, it is the lessons learnt from experiences; difference between anubhava, experience and anubhuti intelligence, which are the lessons from anubhava. You do not need to touch many different types of fire, from a match stick to a blazing fire, to know that fire burns; even one will do. You need the lesson of just one experience. But we trust only experience, not intelligence. Our entire education system is based on evaluation of information, not intelligence; only intellect and verbalization, not visualization. When you try to move on information you lose the ability to be intelligent. If you are logically logical you will understand that logic itself is not logical. Life is not logical.

Day by day you underestimate yourself, because you underestimate others. Past is always a golden past. There was never a golden past. Hinduism says there was a Satya yuga; Christianity says there was an age of Adam and Eve; all these are only ideas; ideas you escape from the present. They also give hope for the future; The gods will come down to redeem you. They give you these ideas about the past and present to escape. You do not want to live in the present, that's why you wish always to escape to the past and future. These ideas about yourself that you do not let go, which is your ego, which are not true, all these false experiences, which are not real, you miss reality. When you kiss reality you feel nothing is a miracle. You take everything for granted.

There are so many miracles happening to you every day. You remember some one, he appears; you remember some one's name, she calls you. You remember an event at a party, that event happens. We call these coincidences. There is nothing called coincidence. They are the miracles. When you do not take everything for granted everything is a miracle. That you are alive is a miracle. Thousands of miracles keep happening within you.

If some one complains that he can not change, I say change is your nature, I am surprised that you are holding on to the same character. Let go and you will change. Your body is changing. Your mind is changing. You are becoming more mature. You just have to let go, relax, allow yourself to change. Existence will change you. Life will change you. Trust yourself and relax. When they don't listen and insist I give them advice to confuse them. If you let it, your heart will transform you. The air you inhale and exhale will potentially change you. If your body, which is so gross and matter can change, don't you think your mind which is subtle and energy can not change. If you trust your intelligence you will be transformed immediately. You will be enlightened when you drop your mental setup, like dropping a fire pot. But you can not believe so easily. You say give me a technique. It's so difficult. The word difficulty is the greatest difficulty. When you know fire burns drop the fire. Where is the difficulty? Be a little more intelligent. Drop what hurts. When you understand that the mental setup causes you trouble drop it. You will then transform your being.

You ask, how will I survive if I drop? The seed always wonders what will I do if I break? Unless it breaks the plan can not grow. Trust and open, trust and break, you will grow. If you make mistakes its worth making mistakes. Perfectionism is madness. The more you are far from perfect the more God has grace for you. Search for perfection is search for madness. Graveyard is the perfectly secure place. But it's not the place to live; it is only for the dead. A ship is secure in the harbor, but it has to move out to function.

As you move from ego to spontaneity you will undergo pain, transition, that's your penance, your tapas; that's the price you pay for a better life. Everything will be a miracle. When you take life for granted, boredom and depression result. You seek to acquire not to enjoy. You can increase the height of your bed not the depth of your sleep.

Meditations is the key to spontaneity. Living moment to moment, in the present, without worrying about past and present is meditation. It's a quality to be added to your life, not a quantity to be added to your life.

A zen master is sentenced to death by his king. He is unconcerned. Disciples ask are you not bothered you are going to die tomorrow. He says , how can I worry about a day later, even the next moment is a new miracle for me.

When you live in the present all your fantasies drop, all your fears drop. If result is exciting you call it a miracle; if you do not like the result you call it a coincidence if it's average you call it an incident.

When your ego is rooted in one place it does not get rejuvenated. If some one is always worrying he is centered in his navel chakra; if he begs attention he is rooted in his heart. These centers do not rejuvenate. It is important you get derooted so that you can grow. Meditation practices are needed to remove these roots and blockages so that you can let go and grow.

Do not keep track of what you have undergone. It's better to let go and grow without worrying about what happens. Enlightenment is not a step by step growth, it is a quantum phenomenon.

Awakening the kundalini can be done by many methods, but handling the kundalini is like handling a snake. It is dangerous. It is better to work on awakening your intelligence.