40. Miracles Distinguished

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

40. MIRACLES DISTINGUISHED

            68. Persons endowed with some slight powers of spirituality, who are in no sense adepts of any order, and who are not aware of the responsibilities of adeptship, make a wanton who of their powers and abuse them for the purpose of performing jugglery. These exhibitions serve the object of arousing an interest in religious and spiritual matters in sceptics, but they should not be confounded with the powers true incarnations and prophets etc. manifested. These manifestations were in the first place very rate; and then they were mainly made with the object of corroborating the existence of the internal regions described by the prophets, and for the purpose of spiritual elevation, the eventual aim being that access should be gained to those regions by internal devotion. Such miracles were, however, only intended for persons endowed with some spirituality, that is to say, for persons who were more or less fit for devotion and access to the higher planes.