04 Aug 2025
Preaching Truth about Divine Miracles
My wife and I, with a lot of unhappiness, asked Swami one night, "Swami! You are showing miracles to everyone, except us. You Yourself praise us in front of everyone that we are doing a lot of service of Lord Datta (Datta Seva)! Why do You look down on us like this? Why don't You show us any miracle?" Swami said with a smile, "Everything will happen according to the plan written by Kālabhairava. You will be liberated by having My darshan due to remembering Me at your last moment. But after that moment, there is no opportunity to say whether the darshan has taken place or not. Therefore, doubt may arise. I will convince Kālabhairava. I will give that Datta darshan right this moment," said Swami.
We said to him, "No, Swami! We have complete faith in You. The darshan of the last moment will result in salvation. We cannot lose salvation by attaining such darshan now." Then Swami said, "Shankaracharya entered even though the doors were bolted from inside. Seeing this, neither Mandana Mishra, who was performing Śrāddha, nor Vyasa and Jaimini, who had come as Bhoktas, respected Shankara. Miracles are not great (Brahma Vidyā) to them. Even demons and black magicians show the miracles. They were highly impressed by Shankara's 21-day discussion on spiritual knowledge. Mandana Mishra became a disciple after falling at His feet. Therefore, before the gems of spiritual knowledge, miracles are like pebbles. I have always given you gems of spiritual knowledge. I have made you to propagate this knowledge. Know that this is your level. If you were not happy with the heaps of gems that I have given you but instead asked for pebbles, think of how low level you would be falling to. How high was your status as Vishnu Datta and a disciple of Shri Narasimha Saraswati! Know that I have given this birth to you for the purpose of propagating devotion and spiritual knowledge." The few illusions that we have got are destroyed by listening to this flow of nectar that came from the mouth of Swami. Isn't Swami the Guru of Gurus who dispelled Shankaracharya's illusion of caste in Kāshi? Realizing our duty, we have been extensively propagating spiritual knowledge and devotion from then onwards. We are blessed.
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