Monday, 10th November 2014
Faith –Price of
Miracle
A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jar from its hiding place.
She purred the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. The total had
to be exactly perfect . Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and
twisting on the cap, she made her way to Rexall’s drug store.
She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attentions, but
he was too busy . with here feet she made some noise. Nothing happened . she
cleared her throat with the sound she could muster. No good. Finally she took a
quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did well.
“What do you want?” , the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice.
“Well, I want to talk to you about my brother”, she answered back in the
same annoyed toner. “He is really really sick… and I want to buy a miracle.
“I beg your pardon?” said the pharmacist.
“His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and
my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now . So how much does a miracle
costs?”
“We don’t sell miracles here. Little girl. I am sorry but I cannot help
you”, the pharmacist said, softening a little.
“Listen , I have the money to pay for it, if it is not enough, I will
get the rest. Just tell me how much it costs”
The pharmacist’s brother was a well –dressed man. He stopped down and
asked the little girl .”What kind of a miracle does your brother need?
I don’t know , she replied with her eyes welling up. “ I just know he is
really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy cannot pay for
it- so I want to use my money ….”
How much do you have? Asked the man from Chicago.
“One dollar and eleven cents” she answered barely audible “And it Is all
the money I have , but I can get some more if I need to”
“Well , what a coincidence” smiled the man. “A dollar and eleven cents.
The exact price of a miracle for little brothers!
He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her
hand and said. “Take me to where you live, I want to see your brother and meet
your parents. Let us see if I have the miracle you need.
That well dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong , a surgeon, specialising
in Neuro surgery. The operation was completed free of charge and it was not
long for Andrew was back home again and doing well.
Mom and dad were happily talking about the chain of events that had led
them to this place. “That surgery . her mom whispered. “was a real miracle I
wonder how much it would have cost! The little girl smiled . She knew exactly how much a miracle cost…One dollar
and eleven cents…plus the undaunted faith of little child.
Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta
All this become high lightened towards the end of the Gita when Sri
Krishna says
“Till now I told you the profound truths of science of religion. Now I
tell you the profoundest truth; and it is this having achieved all the strength
of manliness, now rise to the higher and final level of godliness, full
saintliness, by surrendering the ego and all its powers and propensities to Me
who am your own infinite Self. Don’t leave anything out to claim as exclusively
your own.
When the separate “I” goes away completely, everything becomes God and nothing
else remains. That is self-surrender, resignation to God, which is the same as
the Grace of the Divine. The grace descends fully at that stage from the
Blessed Lord into the heart of the seeker. As I said t the beginning this is
the last word of religion. Complete surrender, when the devotee fully
experiences being bathed in render, when the devotee fully experiences being
bated in the Divine Grace, and looking back at one’s past life, the devotee
finds that ti was that very Grace that was operating all the time at the
earlier stages of purusakara also.
The experience of Divine Grace gives a new type of strength to man ,
namely, the strength to digest all experiences and to become the stronger
through that digestion, morally and spiritually. As digested food increases
physical strength, digested knowledge and information increases mental and
intellectual strength, and lack of such digestion, increases the toxic elements
of the body and mind leading to physical and mental disease, so also digested
experiences-success or failure, happiness or unhappiness, gain or loss-increase
the character strength in men and women, and lack of such spiritual digestion
distorts his or her character and the inter human situation. Such spiritual
digestion is the product of man’s contact with the Divine within himself or
herself. In one of its many beautiful verses, the Srimad Bhagavatam reveals
this sweet character =fruit of Divine Grace, Conveying the words of Lord Visnu
to a devotee
‘if birth , actions, *youthful) age, physical beauty, knowledge, power,
etc do not cause arrogance in any one, (know that) that is the sign of My Grace
, Courtesy Divine Grace
IF HE EXIST
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