MIRACLES DO HAPPEN PART 1

HI ALL.............AFTER A LONG GAP. MY LAPTOP HAS BEEN TO THE SERVICE CENTER AND STAYED THERE FOR A LONG TIME. I FIND IT AWFUL TO WRITE ON SMALL SCREENS.EVEN ON MY IPAD. SO I JUST GOT OUT OF THE MOOD FOR MUSINGS.AND ONCE YOU GET LAZY YOU TEND TO POSTPONE THINGS.ANYWAY THAT HAPPENS WITH ME OFTEN.AND THAT IS A VERY BAD HABIT,I KNOW.SO I FINALLY GOT MYSELF DOWN TO WRITE AGAIN.AND I AM WRITING TODAY ABOUT SOME MIRACLES THAT HAPPENED IN MY LIFE.

SRI SHIRDI SAIBABA

SOME MIRACLES, SMALL ONES HAPPEN EVERY DAY.I LOVE TO HEAR GHULAM ALI SINGING

“HAR ZARRA CHAMAKTA HAI, ANWARE ILAHI SE.

 HAR SAANS E KEHTI HAI,HUM HAI THO KHUDA BHI HAI.”

MEANING EACH PARTICLE IN MY BODY SHINES WITH GOD’S BLESSINGS.EACH BREATH OF MINE SAYS THAT IF I AM ALIVE IT MEANS GOD IS THERE.

GHULAM ALI

FOR MANY A LONG PERIOD OF TIME I WAS AVOIDING FACE BOOK. I FIND IT EASIER NOW TO POST MY MUSINGS ON BLOGGER AND THEN TO FACEBOOK SO MORE PEOPLE CAN READ THEM.WELL THERE IS NO CASTE OR RELIGION FOR MUSIC AND DEVOTION. I NEVER LET RELIGION COME BETWEEN MY TASTES AND CHOICES. BUT DUE TO  CERTAIN BLACK AND DIRTY INCIDENTS CAUSED BY PEOPLE OF A PARTICULAR RELIGION  RATHER TERRORIST GROUPS BELONGING TO A PARTICULAR RELIGION, PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THESE INCIDENTS AND PUBLIC IN GENERAL HAVE A DISLIKE RATHER HATRED TOWARDS PEOPLE OF THAT PARTICULAR RELIGION.

ANY PERSON IS FREE TO LIKE HIS RELIGION BUT THE PERSON MUST NOT BECOME PERVERTED AND KILL UNNECESSARILY IN THE NAME OF HIS RELIGION. BUT  THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THESE TERRORIST ACTS KILL MOSTLY INNOCENT PUBLIC. LIKE THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE BOMBING.LIKE THE MUMBAI BOMBING.SO MANY PEOPLE DIED UNNECESSARILY.SO MANY CHILDREN BECAME ORPHANS.

THAT IS WRONG AND THAT MAKES PEOPLE HATE PEOPLE BELONGING TO THAT RELIGION. THE DISLIKE OR HATRED SHOULD NOT BE GENERALISED. THE PERSONS COMMITTING THESE TERRORIST ACTS SHOULD BE PUNISHED.BUT WHY SHOULD THE INNOCENT PEOPLE SUFFER.

WHEN INDIAN PRIME MINISTER INDIRA GANDHI WAS ASSASSINATED BY PUNJABI SIKH MEN, THERE WAS TERROR UNLEASHED BY MISCREANTS AGAINST PUNJABI SIKHS.INNOCENT AND HARD WORKING PUNJABI SIKHS.

THE SIKHS  ARE  LOVELY PEOPLE.THEY ARE SO TRUE TO THEIR RELIGION AND CULTURE AND ROOTS REGARDLESS OF THEIR PLACE OF LIVING. THOUGH THERE ARE LOTS OF PUNJABI SARDAR JOKES CIRCULATING ,YOU WILL NEVER FIND A PUNJABI BEGGAR ON THE STREETS.AND THEY SERVE FOOD OR LANGAR TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THEIR GURUDWARAS (SIKH TEMPLES) DAILY.

AMRITSAR GOLDEN TEMPLE

A SMALL SWEET SIKH BOY

LIKE GHULAM ALI.RECENTLY THERE WERE PROTESTS IN INDIA WHEN HE CAME TO INDIA TO RENDER CONCERTS.THIS  STATE OF MATTERS IS ALL WRONG.WHEN WILL WE REALISE THAT GENERALISING EVERYTHING IS WRONG?

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THERE ARE GOOD PERSONS AND BAD.ANY ATROCIOUS INCIDENT MUST BE PINNED TO THE PERSONS RESPONSIBLE AND NOT GENERALISED. IF CERTAIN PEOPLE BELONGING TO CERTAIN CASTE OR RELIGION COMMIT ATROCITIES IN THE NAME OF CASTE OR RELIGION  THEY MUST BE DEFINITELY BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.BUT THE PARTICULAR CASTE OR RELIGION MUST NOT SUFFER.THIS IS ALL MEANINGLESS.

GHULAM ALI IS A GREAT GHAZAL (AN INDIAN GENRE OF MUSIC) SINGER.HIS VOICE IS AWESOME. AND THE LYRICS OF HIS GHAZALS ARE FILLED WITH MEANINGS LENDING A MUSICAL TREAT TO THE LISTENERS.HE IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE GHAZAL SINGERS.SO WHAT IF HE BELONGS TO  A PARTICULAR CASTE AND RELIGION.THAT DOES NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO HIS MELODIOUS VOICE WHICH SCORES OF INDIANS ARE FOND OF.

BUT THIS WAS ONLY OUT OF THE WAY.I WANT TO EMPHASIZE ON THE MEANING OF THAT PARTICULAR STANZA . SO EVERY BREATH IS REALLY A MIRACLE.EVERY HEART BEAT IS A MIRACLE. THEY ARE VERY BIG MIRACLES IN DAILY LIFE.HUMAN BODY IS REALLY A MIRACLE .TILL THE HEART BEAT AND BREATH IS THERE THE HUMAN LIFE IS IMPORTANT.WHEN THEY ARE GONE THE MIRACLE CEASES TO EXIST AND IT IS ONLY A BODY WITH NO LIFE.

I ANSWERED ONE QUESTION FROM YAHOO ANSWERS.THE LADY HAD ASKED “WHAT IS A MIRACLE?”AND I HAD REPLIED “WAKING UP IN THE MORNING IS A MIRACLE FOR ME WHAT WITH MULTIPLE STENTS IN MY HEART, DIABETES AND BREATHING PROBLEMS.” THE LADY  WENT “AWWW MY DEAR” AND I COULD FEEL THE AMOUNT OF FEELING IN THAT UNKNOWN SOUL.THE WORDS WERE SO POWERFUL.

SO IN EVERYDAY LIFE LIVING ITSELF IS A MIRACLE.WHEN I THINK OF THE MIGHTY OCEAN WITH MILLIONS OF LIVING CREATURES IN IT, WHEN I THINK OF THE TALL ICY COLD MOUNTAINS AND WATERFALLS LIKE THE NIAGARA AND HUNDREDS OF BEAUTIFUL WATERFALLS AND RIVERS IN INDIA,  THE BEAUTIFUL BIRDS AND THE BLUE SKIES ,WHEN I THINK OF EARTH WITH BILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AND BIRDS IN IT,WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE UNIVERSE,THE GALAXIES AND BLACK HOLES AND SO MANY THINGS WE STILL DO NOT KNOW ABOUT I FEEL VERY PUNY AND THE SIZE OF A PORTION OF AN ATOM.WHEN I STAND BY THE OCEAN I FEEL TINY.WHEN I LOOK AT THE TALL PEAKS I FEEL TINY.

BUT THE INFRA STRUCTURE IN FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND IS MAGNIFICENT.WE WENT TO THE HIGHEST POINTS OF FRENCH ALPS AND HIGHEST POINT OF EUROPE "JUNGFRAU" .AND TRAVELLED ALL THE WAY UP BY TRAIN,LIFTS AND CABLE CARS. THE SITES WERE AWESOME. THE FEELING OF FEELING TINY SORT OF LESSENED AND I FELT ONE WITH NATURE AND VERY PEACEFUL.

NEVERTHELESS WHEN I LOOK AT THE TALL PEAKS I FEEL TINY.WHEN I LOOK AT THE SKY AT NIGHT I FEEL TINY.WHO HAS CREATED ALL THESE.SURELY THERE MUST BE A SUPERIOR MOST POWER AND WE CAN FONDLY CALL HIM GOD.WHETHER YOU CALL HIM BY DIFFERENT NAMES IT DOES NOT MATTER. WE ARE A QUADRILLION PART OF AN ATOM IN THE UNIVERSE.BUT THE POWER LOOKS FONDLY ON ALL CREATURES  IT HAS CREATED.AND WHEN WE NEED HELP WE GET IT.

ONCE SOMEONE  SAID”PRAYER IS THE ONLY CORDLESS CONNECTION WHICH HAS EXISTED SINCE INFINITY, WHICH NEEDS NO HARMFUL RAYS OR ELECTRICITY.”AND ABSOLUTELY FREE.SO TRUE.

THERE IS THIS HOLLYWOOD MOVIE I SAW AND LIKED VERY MUCH."MIRACLES IN HEAVEN".THE MOVIE WAS ABOUT A YOUNG GIRL WITH AN INCURABLE CONDITION OF THE INTESTINES.HOW FAITH AND PERSEVERENCE  BY THE MOTHER AND ULTIMATELY A MIRACLE SAVED AND COMPLETELY CURED THE LITTLE GIRL.THERE WERE SO MANY MIRACLES HAPPENING IN THE MOVIE,UNKNOWN PEOPLE HELPING THE MOTHER,THE GIRL AND HER FAMILY.SO GOD IS WITH US ALL THE TIME IN ALL FORMS HELPING US ONLY FAITH AND ABSOLUTE SURRENDER IS NEEDED.BY THE WAY THIS WAS FILMED FROM A REAL LIFE STORY.

SO I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THE MIRACLE THAT IS  SRI SHIRDI SAI BABA.  HE  

WAS A GREAT SAINT GOD WHO LIVED IN SHIRDI LONG TIME BACK.HE PERFORMED AND IS STILL PERFORMING MIRACLES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.I WORSHIP HIM DAILY AND CHANT "OM SAI RAM "THROUGHOUT THE DAY. GLORY TO MY GOD SAIRAM.

SHIRDI SAIBABA TEMPLE OR SAMADHI MANDIR   (TEMPLE ERECTED ON BURIAL SITE)AS WE CALL IT DRAWS MILLIONS OF DEVOTEES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.THEY FLOCK THERE AND STAND IN QUEUES TO GET HIS DARSHAN.THEY WAIT IN THE QUEUE  THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT TO SEE THE MORNING POOJA/WORSHIP AND HEAR THE KANKAD AARTHI (MORNING DEVOTIONAL SONG)SUPPOSED TO WAKE UP BABA FROM SLEEP.

I HAVE BEEN TO SHIRDI TWICE.AND WHEN I SEE THE HUGE STATUE OF BABA I INEVITABLY CRY.LAST TIME MY BROTHER ASKED ME"WHY ARE YOU CRYING?".I REPLIED "I DO NOT KNOW.THERE IS SO MUCH VIBRATION HERE THAT I CANNOT HELP MYSELF CRYING."

THAT IS BECAUSE I THINK AND MEDITATE ON BABA THROUGHOUT THE DAY. AND THE FIRST TIME I WENT TO SHIRDI I HAD NUMEROUS EXPERIENCES AND MIRACLES.
WELL I DO NOT WANT TO BLOG TOO LONG.I DONOT WANT TO BORE PEOPLE.I WILL CONTINUE WITH MY EXPERIENCES IN SHIRDI IN THE NEXT BLOG.

THE FACE BOOK VIGILANTES BLOCKED MY FORWARDS  ABOUT BABA WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY SENT BY SHIRDI SAIBABA ORGANISATION.THAT POST HAS THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS.BUT THEY BLOCKED MY FORWARDS .I WROTE TO THEM ABOUT THE GREAT SAINT GOD SAIBABA OF INDIA AND TOLD THEM THAT IT WAS ONLY A FORWARD AND DEFINITELY NOT AN INAPPROPRIATE ONE. THEY FINALLY AGREED.THE POSTS ONLY TELLS US ABOUT THE TEACHINGS OF SAIBABA.AND ALL ABOUT BABA FROM HIS BIOGRAPHY"SRI SAI CHARITRA"

THAT IS THE REASON I GAVE AN ELABORATE INTRODUCTION ABOUT RELIGION.NO ONE KNOWS WHETHER BABA WAS A HINDU OR A MUSLIM.BUT HE WAS DEAR TO PEOPLE OF ALL RELIGIONS.EVEN CHRISTIANS. BABA WAS A GREAT SAINT GOD AND WAS FREE FROM ANY BONDS AND RELIGIONS.WE WILL TALK ABOUT THE MIRACLE THAT WAS SAIBABA IN MY NEXT BLOG.TO BE CONTINUED......................