This is prakash and the below is more of a lesson than a miracle that I experienced.
I went out with family and we are 5 people together. In the country I live, they wont allow an extra passenger in the taxi.Most of the taxis will be 4 seater(excluding driver).I went out with family for a small outing and we all were very very tired by the end of the day.So while returning home, we thought we will go in cab instead of taking public transport.As I was the youngest and unmarried, I said I will take the public transport and asked the other 4 people to go in cab.I was very tired and then I had to travel for about 1.5 hrs changing 2 trains and then 2 buses.
A small thought came to my mind, that "People say baba will be with the persons who continuously think about him.So, now am tired, why cant a taxi which has the capacity of more than 4 come to pick us up." I just got the thought and I felt cheap thinking why I have to relate every thing to god and just kept the thought aside.As there was a big line for the cab, my brother stood in the line and was waiting for the cab.Many cabs are coming and each person in the line were taking one.
All the people infront of my brother got the cab and now my brother stood at the starting of the line and what ever cab will be coming next, my brother and other 3 people will be taking that cab along with him and the plan is that, then I have to start my journey in public transport. Cabs having seating capacity of more than 4(excluding driver) will be rare.There will be 1 car like that for 200 to 300 normal cars and even if some thing comes up, it has to come at the exact time when its my brothers turn to take the taxi and the queue for the taxi was very long when my brother stood in the taxi line. So, we were waiting for the next taxi to come as its our turn to hire it, and I was shocked to see a limousine coming and stopped infront of us.It was a 7 seater and I also went with everyone.
Many devotees wait for a miracle to happen and when it happens, they take it as a co-incidence.
Its the faith of the devotee which makes him/her to differentiate between a co-incidence and a miracle.
But, the whole idea of me travelling in public transport and other persons thinking to go by cab is that we thought it will be expensive to pay for 2 cab.But in the end, for the limousine cab, I ended up paying more than what I would be paying for 2 normal cabs.The miracle what I thought it to be, was not helpful to me. I got what I want but at the end of the day, I was not happy with the result even thought I got what I asked for.
While thinking on this, I felt its a sweet lesson that I should keep in my mind and also have to share with other people.
The lessons I learnt from this is
1) Baba(God) is always with us, and he will be listening and seeing what ever you do, where ever you are.
2) We really dont know what we really want.We think if we get what we want, all our problems will be solved.But, there will be other n number of things which will come in to existence and wash away all the happiness. Its becasue of this, people say we have to self surrender to god.Once we self surrender to god, there wont be any difference between you and god and so there wont occur a situation where you will be asking god for some thing and you will be taken care of in the way you should be taken care of.
All I want to say is that, the scope that we see is very small. We just know our problems but we don't know the solution to our problems.Its good to pray to god to keep us happy but we don't have to tell to god what we need to keep us happy. we have to do what ever we can, and leave the result to god.
-Prakash
Om sai sri sai jaya jaya sai
Om sai sri sai jaya jaya sai
Om sai sri sai jaya jaya sai