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performed with the aid of the powers developed in Yoga. We now-a-days ridicule the idea of miracles altogether, because we see none; but there is nothing to shy at except our own ignorance. Man's ignorance makes the supernatural ; in reality, all is natural. When the causes of an effect are hidden and unknown, the world considers it a miracle ; when they are known, it is regarded as a natural occurrence. Why should we decry miracles at all ? What is impossible under the sun ? Look around you, are not all things, the faculty of understanding which enables you to acquire a knowledge of and mastery over nature, nay your very life, miracles ? A century back we would have regarded wireless telegraphy as a great miracle, but we do not look upon it in that light now. There is a story about a couple who were, for certain reasons, forced to live among people quite innocent of the art of reading and writing. One of them happened to be in his field away from his home, and while engaged in some work required a certain tool from his house, There was nobody about who could be trusted to remember the name of the tool, or to describe it to his wife. So he took a small splinter of wood, scribbled a message on it with a piece of charcoal, and asked a man to deliver it to his wife. Consider the astonishment of the man when, on showing the splinter with the scribbling on it, he was handed the very tool which was needed. He was so much astonished that he wore the wonderful chip round his neck by attaching it to a thread! Our sense of wonder and incredulity for the miracles of saints seems to be of the same sort ; for just as communication by writing was regarded by the people in the story
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