Miracles and Visions Are Tricks and Traps!

Bodhi was telling me about a chapter in Thakur’s biography, “Living With My Himalayan Master”. A five-year-old girl had once met his Guru Thakur with her parents. Ever since she would see him in dreams and visions. In front of the blackboard in the classroom she would suddenly stand spellbound until the teacher held her and made her sit. She wouldn’t come out of her bathroom for a very long time. She would say that Thakur keeps appearing before her in his smiling friendly form, and the room would be filled with light. Her parents were so worried that they took her to Thakur once again. Seeing her, Thakur laughed and said, “OK, I will no longer go to oldie.” Thakur used to affectionately call her as Buri (meaning ‘oldie’). Since that day, all her dreams and visions have stopped.

I told Bodhi, “I have been hearing about visions and miracles happening around me since I was a child. But surprisingly enough, no matter how many times I wished I too might do with a vision or two, it has not once happened to me. And yet, at each step I have felt Thakur’s miraculous presence and my life today is a most miraculous wonder of Thakur’s Grace. Why is it so? 

“Those who get those miracles do not get this miracle. You get this miracle as you do not get those miracles.” 

Bodhi always says “Experiencing miracles and visions have nothing to do with spiritual greatness. In many cases, it is only a distraction, and the feeding of ego. Miracles create dependence, obstruct the path to know the truth. Visions create the illusion that he/she is greatly evolved. There is no ego greater and more destructive than spiritual ego.” “Agartala Maa used to say, “Visions, visions, visions! What good will they do? First try to know thyself. All are tricks and traps, meaningless, useless!”

Debdutta (Didi)