In What Way Does the Real Human Incarnation Exhibit His Miraculous Powers?

(This question is part of a mahā satsaṅga or a great spiritual discussion between Swami and several devotees who had come from various places, seeking the clarification of their doubts.)

Swami replied:- Miracles attract atheists because they are always based on perception. The unimaginable miracles give the proof of their source. Even though the unimaginable God is not perceived, at least, He is inferred through the perceived miracles. Theists are also attracted to miracles not for the sake of quest for recognizing the existence of unimaginable God, but, due to hope for solutions of their problems. The basic inherent quality of any human being is to do any work for utility only. The human being never thinks about the life after death and about the rebirth in this world. The boundary of this limited scope of any human being is only the present life and solutions for every problem in this present running life only. Hence, use of miraculous powers of God to solve the problems of present life is the only motive of every soul. The actual correct path is to avoid the problems in the beginning itself by avoiding sins. This path becomes very much inconvenient because doing the sins is the inherent way of life of every human being. Sins are done, but, the soul wants to escape their fruits. The fruits of sins done must disappear and the fruits of merits not done must appear. Since God is against to do such unjust works (cancelling the punishments of sins done and granting good fruits of merits not done) pestering God is developed to climax in the name of climax devotion. For doing so, miraculous powers are needed without which the devotion is useless and hence, detection of miraculous powers is the only primary motive of the devotees.

The miraculous power is also controlled by His will to protect the justice. In this balance, the punishments are postponed to future with accumulation of interest. The merit-fruits to be enjoyed in future are withdrawn as premature deposits with decreased values. Since both these steps are hidden, the pestering devotee feels that he succeeded in getting the punishments cancelled and in getting the good fruits of merits not done by him through his pestering devotion. Doing the above two steps (postponement of punishments and premature withdrawal of good fruits) is also a miracle, but, doing in this way is to justify the miracle. Due to this, all the future life cycles are filled with continuous misery only. Hence, wise devotees do not aspire for the miracles, which are very harmful to them in future. God also tries to the level best to hide His miraculous powers even while doing miracles. God interprets them as natural actions and hides Himself. Only demons exhibit miraculous powers to project themselves as God. For God also, in initial stage, exhibition of miraculous powers is necessary for initial attraction of devotees. All this is a very complicated program, which can be handled by the omniscient and omnipotent God only.

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