SACRED HISTORY for May 6^th

In a passionate, serious, and humorous conversation with a group of His devotees in His early years of Teaching, Avatar Adi Da explored the conventional idea of miracles—why human beings feel they need to see a miracle in order to be convinced of and respond to the Greater Reality, and why miracles, in and of themselves, are never sufficient to cause a human being to devotionally surrender his or her life to the Divine.

His Divine Presence Parama-Sapta-Na Adi Da says:

You haven’t received enough Revelation yet? Do you need to see a really big, miraculous vision or something? What is it you need? What would be really impressive? Perhaps I should be present just in a body of light that looks substantial but which you can put your hand right through, so that no matter where I go, everybody will always be saying, “Hey, look, my hand goes right through it!”  People swatting at My Body no matter where I go, just to test it out and go, “Wow!” What do you need? What miracle would you like to see performed? It would have to satisfy you, you see. It would have to prove something to you. What do you need? If I were standing here in My twenty-five-foot flaming fire-body, you would be falling on your knees, you know what I mean? You wouldn’t have any problem about surrendering. You would surrender yourself completely if you were confronting such a vision directly.

What do you have to see? What will you worship? What is the Revelation that makes you surrender spontaneously? You can imagine some manifestation or other of a Spiritual nature that would oblige you to surrender spontaneously. Other phenomena of experience allow you still to maintain some quality of ego-possession, a lack of surrender. So, what do you have to see in order to surrender?

Is surrender the result of something that makes you comfortable? Can anything create surrender, or does everything delay it—everything, including wonders and miracles? Each of these is just another distraction, an experience in itself. You might work yourself up to a little release in the face of it, but that confrontation cannot create the release. What you need is a big miracle—if only so that you will realize that miracles are not sufficient, and that you are going to have to surrender in the face of things just as they are. That kind of surrender cannot be caused, but perhaps you need to see the big miracle to find that out. You think true surrender is caused by some dramatic confrontation—a “miracle”. You hold on to this popular idea of salvation—that you would be a perfect saint if only you had the perfect vision.

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