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Hindustan Times
August 18, 2003

A garland of miracles 
Swami Chaitanya Keerti
 
A friend once asked me about my beliefs. I said that I do not believe in anything except miracles. Every moment millions of miracles are happening all around — I wonder why we cannot see them. I exist - and it is a miracle. You exist and that is a miracle. We all exist, which is also a miracle. Life is a garland of miracles.
One moment life appears in various colours, shapes and sizes, and appears to be very solid, as if it is something permanent. Next moment it disappears or evaporates as if it never existed. Isn't this a miracle? And the same life appears again out of nowhere in all its freshness. Our minds may become stuck and attached with only certain forms of life as we tend to seek safety and security in our relationships. And when those certain forms to which we cling, disappear, we start feeling miserable. Our minds want to believe that those relationships were permanent. But life has no obligations to function according to our expectations.
Meditation gives us eyes to see this reality with clarity. We should start rejoicing in life as it comes and goes. There is a life and there is a death every moment. Moment to moment life moves into death and the death into life. It is an ongoing inter-play of life and death. This is the only miracle worth calling a miracle, all other miracles pale into insignificance. This is Prabhu-Leela, god's playfulness, which is always exciting, and never boring. But isn't it a miracle that we often feel bored?
In his discourse, "Ah, This", Osho says: You have made life boring — some achievement! Life is such a dance of ecstasy and you have reduced it to boredom. You have done a miracle! What else do you want to do? You can't do anything bigger than this. Life and boring? You must have a tremendous capacity to ignore life.
He explains: "Life is not boring, but mind is boring. And we create such a mind, such a strong mind, like a China Wall around ourselves, that it does not allow life to enter into us. It disconnects us from life. We become isolated, encapsulated, windowless. Living behind a prison wall you don't see the morning sun, you don't see birds on the wing, you don't see the sky in the night full of stars. And you start thinking that life is boring. Your conclusion is wrong."

A really meditative person embraces life each moment with such freshness that he does not feel any boredom. Miracles greet him all the time as he is receptive to them.