Ram and Sham are celebrating their 5th birthday. They are identical twins. Their parents, Geeta and Rakesh have organised a special party for their two little adorable sons. Rakesh is rich merchant living in luxury at a farm house located at the out skirts of the famous town of Chandigarh. Geeta comes from a background of armed forces.
The back lawns are beautifully decorated with balloons, flowers and twirling colorful ribbons. Kids from the neighborhood have been invited.
A two tier gigantic cake can be seen in the dining area of the lawns. But something special awaits them all. It is the magic show that is going to surprise them.
Mukherjee, the magician appears on the stage suddenly by magic. The excited boys and girls quickly scramble for the best seats in the front and the adults too gather around for the spectacle of the evening.
He starts off with a riddle. How much is two plus two? All the kids reply in unison – FOUR. Are you sure, the magician admonitions.
Of course, reply the kids. But he says no you are all wrong. It is FIVE. Then he starts to produce four different color handkerchiefs from his bare hands: red, green, blue and yellow. Mukherjee puts all these four colorful handkerchiefs in his hat. He places the hat upside down on a table beside him and gets his magic wand. Abracadabra! Abracadabra! And he produces one single handkerchief, the fifth one, with all four colors, from the hat. Next he magically makes a white pigeon fly away from that colorful piece of cloth. Everyone is surprised with Mukherjee’s magical tricks.
What is a magic? It is an illusion. It is the slight of the hand. The items are so well concealed that they seem to appear from thin air. But for a five year old it is absolutely astonishing and no less than a miracle.
So, don’t you agree with, Miracles are Magical or Magical Miracles??
Now what is a Miracle? When nature performs magic, it is a miracle for us. Miracles happen to attract us to cosmic energy: The parting of the sea for the followers of Jesus Christ to cross over; the revelations of the future events to Nostradamus four hundred years ago.
The untimely blossoming of the trees and showering of sandal wood flowers, at the hour of Buddha’s death, purely out of reverence for the departed soul, on its LAST journey!
Everything happens within the Buddhist universal law of CAUSE and EFFECT. This means, Karma, one’s doing as a Cause would bear fruit, the corresponding effect, eventually; no matter how long it may take, sometimes many lifetimes. But we, well frogs are not aware of all the laws and subtleties of nature.
Our man Isaac Newton confirms the above universal law with his own law of motion. “An object will tend to remain at rest or continue to be in uniform motion in a straight line, unless acted upon by an external force.”
This is also known as the law of inertia. On a calm day the water on the ocean shore is as still as a mirror. While on a windy day the scene is totally different. Giant waves of water keep coming towards the shore and continue till the wind, the external force behind the waves, dies down.
Sadly, this law relates to matter only, and fails miserably, when we deal with the complex subject, of human bodies and powerful, intangible mind, which has capacity to change material things.
The mere mention of a lemon produces copious amounts of saliva in our mouths, instantly and automatically.
The presence of a beautiful woman can and does bring about, lots of changes, in a man. From red ears, blushing with pink cheeks, a faster heart beat and partial erection are possible, in a just few seconds.
The appearance of celebrities, like Beatles and Bieber can trigger, ten thousand girls, to go into fits of, squealing, howling, and crying with joy, for hours together. Wet dreams are no less than a miracle. The object of our affection, and chase, again, another wonderful woman, in our night dreams, is purely imaginary, but the ejaculation takes place, actually and physically. The invisible mind is working overtime, even when we are asleep.
Newton’s second law deals with conservation of energy. “It states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed”. This means that matter evaporates or sublimates into energy and energy manifests into matter, magically. This is an interchangeable phenomenon.
Solar heat can be trapped and converted into electricity, through solar panels. The same electricity can then be used to generate heat by running a blower. Clouds manifest into snow and rain. Snow changes back into water when the climate becomes warmer. Finally water again changes into clouds when the weather becomes even hotter. This way matter becomes extinct for us and energy from nowhere manifests into matter magically, like snowflakes from the sky and the cycle continues.
Same laws govern our births and deaths too. We never become extinct, after our departure, nor is our birth real. The soul does not enter the body or leave it, at death. We merely gain consciousness, at birth and lose it, at death. Simply change of form. If existence is real, there should be no extinction at all. Hence it is illusionary.
There is only IMPERMANCE. Life lasts, for a very short period of 90 years and then changes its form and moves on. 90 years is very short, time span, compared to the life of our planet, of 90,000 billion years.
There is no ETERNALISM and no ANNHILATION. Hence the concept, of a higher God and we as his children is illogical. Definitely, this concept was invented by a crafty human mind.
Religion was an invention of that time. It was the need of the hour. Religion is the opium, for the masses. Our man Albert Einstein too said, “I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in Personal God who concerns himself with the fate of the doings of mankind”.
Therefore have compassion, towards all beings. Do not cling to anything and bring about misery upon yourself.
Are you confused already? We have not even discussed the phenomenon of Miracles are Magical!!
Rohit Khanna is the author of the book "Tome Of Healing-- Magic Of The Mind & Miracle Of The Body". This article has been taken from his book.