Life is the True Miracle

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Once, I clapped my hand and produced an idol. The people in the room thought it was a miracle. I explained to the group that it was not a miracle, but merely a sleight of hand. I had merely teleported the idol by moving it from my room to my hand. Does a cell phone seem like a miracle to us? No, it is just a tool. Teleportation is another tool, just like our cell phones.

Sound waves move between cell phones enabling us to talk to each other. When I teleported the object from the room, I simply converted the idol into energy, teleported it, and reconverted the energy back into matter. That's all. When we don't know the cause and effect relationship, we call these actions miracles. Some people equate gaining these 'miraculous' powers to being in an elevated spiritual state. Nothing can be further from the truth than this. If we understand this, we will begin to appreciate the real miracles of our universe.

These 'powers' are merely distractions on the spiritual path. They are no measure of the spiritual state one is in. Every spiritual aspirant should have a single lofty goal to experience the collective consciousness and merge into it. A small parable narrated by Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, an enlightened Master, explains the foolishness of chasing these so-called miracles.

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