Miracles in Daily Life

TG LIYER





People become enlightened in three main ways: through suffering, outcome and purpose.Sudama's life is an example of enlightenment through suffering. Living in poverty , he could enjoy bliss remembering the Lord. When he returned from Dwarka, seeing the prosperity showered on him, he lamented, “Oh Lord! You think that you can imprison me with this material prosperity , but you forget that you are imprisoned in my heart till eternity .“Enlightenment through outcome arises out of setting goals and ambitions. We're all taught to mask our true feelings.We are afraid of the unknown, our feelings, our intuitions, because the outcome is unknowable. When we hold back our genuine feelings, we become frustrated and lose confidence in ourselves. But when we follow our intuition and the outcome is right, we get that special experience called enlightenment. The intuition comes from the unconscious mind.
The third way of enlightenment is through purpose.Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi lived deliberately to achieve something noble and lofty . In the later years of his presidency , Lincoln had ceased to blame anger and had developed a brilliant, philosophical sense of humour. Gandhi experimented with nonviolence and in his later years did penance and self-purification by going on fast for a cause.
Miracle is not materialising something from nowhere; it is living a fulfilled life everyday .The Dhammapada says that it is everyone's duty to get free of hate, disease and restlessness.