Mission of Saints and Miracles

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Om Sai Ram

Mission of Saints and Miracles

'Miracle' is a Divine Act or a supernatural occurrence. Generally, a miracle

is whatever the miracle witness says it is. Usually, it's an event that the

witness believes could not have occurred through human effort and is beyond

probabilities that natural forces would have caused it. The assumption, then,

is that the event must have resulted from Divine intervention. Miracles happen

at the desire of great saints. Here is an extract from " Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi

" authored by M.W.Pradhan is reproduced for the benefit of readers. Yashwant

Janardhan Galvankar (9th Oct 1945) in his Preface to the book mentioned

thus.... " Some Vedantis think that all miracles are brought about by the use

of Sidhdhis and the Sidhdhis being obstacles on the path of Self knowledge they

express disappropriation regarding such Siddhis and to some extent are even

afraid of them."

It is no doubt true that Siddhis are obstacles on the spiritual path, but

we must distinguish between different kinds of Siddhis. The Sidhdhis acquired

by the practice of Hatha Yoga by Chang Dev are quite different from the Atma

Siddhis of Sri Dnyana Deva. The miracles happened at the desire of Sri Sai Baba

were the Siddhis of the later sort. By such divine powers, many persons were

first attracted to Sai Baba to secure only temporal gains but ultimately He

made His devotees aspire to secure spiritual happiness and attainment of Self

Realization, which is the Real Mission of Saints. Sri Sai Baba fulfilled this

mission to the entire satisfaction of many devotees who came to Him. Say

Victory to the Immortal Saint Of Shirdi..!!

(Contributed by Sai Eshwari)

Source:

Sai Vichaar

Mar 25, 2004 Volume 6, Issue 45 (In its sixth year of publication)

http://www.saibaba.org/newsletter6-45.html