20 Jul 2025
[By Shri Ramakanth]
Paadanamaskaaram Swami 🙏
I experienced a tiny and adorable miracle blessed by You to me in the evening of 23rd June, 2025. After coming home from the office, I was casually speaking over the phone with my colleague and co-devotee Ms. Saatvika. At that time, I was standing in my balcony and our spiritual discussion got diverted towards the greatness of Your devotees. I was venting to her in this way “There are many great devotees, who have excellent devotion towards Swami and I am just an unworthy sinner among them. So, there is no chance that Swami would even turn His eyes towards my direction”. Sathvika humbly replied, “I am also of a low spiritual level. But, it is Swami, who is giving unreasonable attention to me so that I don’t feel depressed looking at my defects and feel encouraged to put efforts in my spiritual path”. Then, I told her “I am even lower than the lowest devotee of Swami. I am nothing more than an insect. I can immediately prove to you that Swami doesn’t care about a lowest devotee like me”. Saying this, I looked up at the sky and casually said “Hi! Swami” by waving my hand looking at the sky. Then, I told her “Look! There is no response from Swami. I told you that He doesn’t care about a lowest devotee like me!”. We both laughed at this treating it lightly and closed the conversation. Of course, even a child knows that no response will come when you wave your hand at the vacant space. My intention was just to express in a humorous way that God has no reason to notice an insignificant soul like me and that’s when something completely unexpected happened. I was still standing in my balcony after the phone call.
Just a few seconds later, I saw a stranger walking on the ground. He suddenly looked up at me straight into my eyes and with a pleasant smile, He raised His hand and waved at me. I also waved my hand at Him thinking that He might be someone I know. But, as He came closer, I realised that I have never seen Him before and I don't even know Him. That's when I realised that it is none other than Swami, who responded to me since I was wrongly thinking that He doesn’t look at petty soul like me. I was extremely excited and astonished at the same time. I know that we should never test God. I know that His Holiness Shri Datta Swami is the contemporary human incarnation of God. I know that nobody can preach the true and complete spiritual knowledge like Him. Frankly speaking, I didn't expect anything to happen when I waved my hand at the sky. I was only trying to win my stupid argument that God doesn’t care about petty soul like me. I never thought that if I think that God won't respond, God will respond since He is always in reverse gear to us. With infinite kindness, God even responded to the stupid desire of a stupid soul like me.
Swami, I felt that this was a short and sweet divine moment given by You to me to make me very happy. This may be a very small miracle done by You, but, through this miracle, I have learnt a lot of practical lessons that are preached by You in Your spiritual knowledge. I am mentioning them as below: -
Lesson-1: - God is constantly watching us, which means that we must never commit any sin because the omnipotent God punishes us in unimaginable ways even if we escape from worldly authorities like police and court.
Lesson-2: - Although there is no trace of difference between Nirguna Brahma (unimaginable God) and Saguna Brahma (mediated God), only the mediated God as human incarnation is relevant to us. I was looking at the sky and talking to Him. But, He responded through a human form since I am a human being.
Lesson-3: - In every generation, God comes down in human form only as the contemporary human incarnation for the sake of human beings so that we can interact with God.
Lesson-4: - One shall never play with God because whether you touch the fire playfully or seriously, fire is fire only and it will burn us in both cases.
Lesson-5: - Although Swami was not present with me in person physically, He responded to me because He is omniscient. God is omniscient without being omnipresent, which means that God is not present in every item of this creation, but, knows about everything in His creation because His omnipresence is due to His omnipotence.
Lesson-6: - I should always love and serve God without any kind of aspiration from Him in return including His attention to me and His acknowledgement to my presence.
Lesson-7: - I should never do such foolish things, which just adds extra workload to You.
Lesson-8: - I am not capable of realising these lessons for myself. Since Swami performed this adorable miracle, Swami only took the burden of helping me in realising the inner meanings of His miracle.
Thanks a lot for this divine experience, Swami 🙏
At Your divine lotus feet,
Your servant,
S Ramakanth.
Swami’s response: -
Very good. Your conclusions are very good. One small correction is that you have not increased My workload, you have given Me a variety of entertainment.
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