Start seeing the real miracles!
Instead of celebrating, we are all the time searching for more, searching for miracles. We are all the time looking for miracles to occur and feel that they are not happening.
Miracles are never done; they simply happen continuously around you! It is your recognition that makes them miracles! Use gratitude to tune yourself with Existence and you will see the miracles that are happening! Gratitude will tune you to the miracles. Either you enjoy them or you miss
If you tune yourself with the flow of Existence, you will find that every moment, you are being watched over and given what you need for that moment. them. It is your choice!
When you miss them, you will remain discontented. It is like this: the door is open but you are knocking continuously on it! I am telling you that all that you need is already there and you only have to receive it, but you are not ready to believe this. You don't see the miracles that are already happening around you and instead go in search of them.
Understand that turning water into wine is not a miracle. Turning man into God is the real miracle. PC Sarkar, the famous magician will do the former. It takes deep understanding to do the latter.
A small story, which Ramakrishna Paramahamsa used to tell often:
Two brothers lived together.
The older brother decided to pursue business while the younger one went on to become a sannyasi.
After a few years, they met each other again.
They asked each other what they had achieved in the previous few years.
The older brother listed all the material things that he had achieved in the outer world. He explained about his business and how much wealth he had accumulated. He then asked the younger brother what he had achieved. The younger one simply took him to a river, crossed it seamlessly on foot and proudly declared, 'This is what I have achieved.' The older brother hired a boat and ferried to the other side of the river and said, 'What? What takes two pence to achieve, you have achieved in so many years!'
People think that if they can do miracles in the outer world, they have become spiritual and powerful. No! Understand: Spirituality is not a game of miracles in the outer world. It is a game in the inner world, to change your personality to individuality, which is the greatest miracle! Changing personality to individuality is the greatest miracle.
People time and again beg me to do miracles. I tell them that these so-called miracles are not a scale to measure my state. But they don't want to listen. Even if, just to demonstrate simple techniques like materializing etc., I do one or two things, people will start coming to me to watch these miracles, for the magic show; not for transformation! That is my worry.
One day, upon persistent begging from a few devotees, I teleported a Lakshmi idol and gave it to them. I explained to them that it was not a miracle. Just because you don't know the cause and effect relationship of what you see, you think it is a miracle.
What actually happens in teleporting is, just like the sound waves from your voice over the telephone get converted to electrical signals and transmitted over a medium and then get re-converted back to sound waves at the other end, I just convert matter into energy, move it across air and reconvert it back into matter, that's all. There is no miracle in this.
So stop searching for miracles. Live with a feeling of gratitude and love for Existence and automatically, you will see the real miracles happening to you. Your transformation is the greatest miracle that can happen through a Master! And remember, you don't need miracles from a Master; you only need intelligence.
Changing personality to individuality is the greatest miracle.
When your intelligence grows, you will handle your day–to–day activities effortlessly and you will be in peace. For example,
if you are a manager, you have many duties: you hire people, supervise their performance, fix their salaries etc. Are you able to do all these things without getting stressed? With intelligence, you will be able to handle them without getting stressed. You will be in peace. What you need is intelligence, not power. Remember that.
When you understand and experience that Existence is taking care, you will transform and move on to becoming an individual liberated from all these kinds of delusions. We always place our faith in people, astrologers, fortune-tellers, planets and stars and what not; never on Existence that is the very life source of the universe.
In Bharat, there is a thrilling tradition wherein people ask about their future to a parrot!
On the pavements on the road, there will be a parrot in a cage with its owner beside it.
The people who go by will stop and pay the owner some money and faithfully ask for their future.
The owner will open up the cage and command the parrot to step out and pick a paper from a row of stacked papers.
The parrot will come out of the cage, pick out a paper with its beak, and hold it out to the owner.
The owner will read out what's written on it. That is the prediction of the person's future!
A man with 6 senses asks a parrot with 4 senses to predict his future! How is it possible? Just leave all these foolish things and start falling in tune; catch the central chord that is gratitude, and move in tune with Existence.