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Speaker 1: Light on law and miracle. The love of the wonderful

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is an element in human nature, which, like passions and desires,

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requires to be curved, directed, and finally transmuted. Otherwise superstition

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and the obscuration of reason and insight cannot be avoided.

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The idea of a miracle must be transcended before the orderly, eternal,

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and beneficent nature of the law can be perceived. Then

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peace and certainty, which knowledge bestows, can be enjoyed. Just

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as a child, when its eyes are open to the

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phenomena of this world, becomes involved in wonder and revels

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in tales of giants and fairies, so when a man

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first opens his mental eyes to spiritual things, does he

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become involved in stories of marvels and miracles. As a

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child at last becomes a man and leaves behind the

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crudities of child, understanding more accurately the relative nature of

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the phenomena around him. So, with a fuller spiritual development

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and greater familiarity with the inner realities, a man at

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last leaves behind the era of childish wonderment. He comes

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into touch with the law of things and governs his

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life by principles that are fixed and invariable. Law is

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universal and eternal, and although vast areas of knowledge are

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waiting to be revealed, cause and effect will ever prevail

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every new discovery, Every truth revealed will serve to bring

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one nearer to the realization of the beauty, stability, and

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supremacy of the Law. And very gladdening it is to

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know that the law is inviolable and eternal throughout every

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department of nature. For then we know that the same

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operations of the universe are ever the same, and can

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therefore be discovered, understood, obeyed. This is a ground of certainty,

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and therefore of great hope and joy. The idea of

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miracle is a denial of law and the substitution of

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an arbitrary and capricious power. It is true that around

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the lives of the great teachers of humanity, stories of

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miracles have grown, but they have emanated from the undeveloped

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minds of the people, not from the teachers themselves. Laotza

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expounded the supreme law or reason, which emits no miracle.

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Yet his religion has to day become so corrupted with

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the introduction of the marvelous as to be little better

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than a mass of superstition, even Buddhism, whose founder declared

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that seeing the law of Karma, cause and effect governs

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all things. The disciple who aims at performing miracles does

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not understand the doctrine, and that the desire to perform

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miracles arises either from cavetuousness or vanity has surrounded in

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its corrupted form, the life of its great master with

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a number of miracles. Even during the lifetime of Rama Krishna,

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the Hindu teacher who died in eighteen eighty six and

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who is regarded by his disciples as an incarnation of deity.

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To this age, all sorts of miracles were attributed to

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him by the people and are now associated with his name.

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Yet according to Max Muller, these miracles are without any

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foundation of evidence or fact, and Rama Krishna himself ridiculed

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and repudiated miracle. As men become more enlightened, miracles in

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wonder working will be expunged from all religion, and the

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orderly beauty of law and the ethical grandeur of obedience

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to the law will become revealed and known. No man

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who desires to perform miracles or astral or psychological wonders,

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who is curious to see invisible or supernatural things. Who

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is ambitious to become a master ord and adept can

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attain a clear perception of truth and the living of

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the highest life. Childish wonderment about things must be supplanted

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by knowledge of things, and vanity is a complete barrier

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to the entrance of the true path, which demands of

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the disciple lowliness of heart and humility. He is on

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the true path who is cultivating kindness, forbearance and a

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loving heart. The marks of a true master are not

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miracles in wonder working, but infinite patience, boundless compassion, spotless purity,

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and a heart at peace withal