Do you believe in miracles?

My experience with miracles is minimal, and whenever I’ve seen one, it’s usually a flimsy sleight-of-hand trick that any magician can do.

I’d be open to coming across the real ones, but it hasn’t happened yet; needless to say, my belief in them is nonexistent.

To me, the highest miracle of all is the Sansar itself, considering that everything arose from nothingness.

All other miracles fall short of the realization of this biggest miracle of all – the shunya state.

Believing in other miracles and praying for them, as Abhijit said, is getting distracted from sadhana itself and is harmful for a spiritual sadhak.

Mt Kailash was another such place, where many visitors were already primed to “ look “ for such miracles because of their conditioned belief that it was a sacred place.

To a fellow co-traveler, the image on a rock face looked like an image of ancient Rishis “guarding” Kailash, when I had a tough time agreeing with him.

So, many times, such conditioning also plays a role in “seeing” such miracles.

Making only one mountain so sacred dishonors the ubiquity and omnipresent totality of consciousness; this way, we only contradict them.

Spirituality aims to realize the true nature and merge with the homogeneous, infinite existence that lies within all of us.

The majestic and beautiful mountain scenery around Kailash, if it breaks your Ego and invokes your inner journey, it has done its job.

Getting stuck in the scenery itself will only stall your inner progress.

It is not much different from believing God to be present only in a finite statue and disregarding the infinite nature of Godliness itself.

All “miracles” have one purpose – to prove that there is God.

The question is why?

Why do we need miracles to prove the existence of God ( Godliness )?

God (Godliness) is a self-supported, standalone, self-effulgent entity, open to realization for all sadhaks.

But we don’t know God.

And that’s why we need miracles.

Miracles are perceived and believed in by the mind; it’s all a mind game.

The more Bhakti margi you are, the more conditioned you are by others, the more likely you will see “miracles”.

But miracles don’t prove anything; we only comfort ourselves and others that He exists.

But self-realization is another story.

Self-realization happens in the absence of the mind, only in the presence of pure consciousness, within you.

Shankara calls this Aparokshaanubuti—realization with your own eyes ( inner eye—the eye of awareness ), not others’ eyes; a direct perception without necessity for any proof.

So, as Shailesh said, miracles are locked within this Sansar and perceived by the senses only, but Godliness is transcendental—free from the mind ( and senses ).

Believing in miracles is only a belief.

Don’t BELIEVE, KNOW.

Knowledge is like running with your own legs; beliefs are like walking on borrowed crutches.