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MIRACLES OF SIVANANDA

Sri Swami Sivananda

Founder of

The Divine Life Society

SERVE, LOVE, GIVE,

PURIFY, MEDITATE,

REALIZE

So Says

Sri Swami Sivananda

A DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY PUBLICATION

Third Edition: 1992

(2,000 Copies)

World Wide Web (WWW) Edition: 2000

WWW site: http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/

This WWW reprint is for free distribution

Published By

THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY

P.O. SHIVANANDANAGAR—249 192

Distt. Tehri-Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh,

Himalayas, India.

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE

Miracles are not miracles for the Yogi. They are natural and almost inevitable in the plane of

consciousness in which he lives. Therefore, he is not even aware of his own psychic and spiritual

powers, any more than we feel that being able to walk, talk or see is a wonderful power.

Yet, the layman who experiences the miraculous powers of a sage or Yogi is so highly

inspired by them that his faith in the Yogi grows, with it his devotion to the Lord and love of divine

life. Spontaneously he expresses his amazement and wonderment—mixed with thankfulness for

the benefits derived—at the great powers of the Yogi.

In the miracles of Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj recorded in this volume, the reader will not

fail to notice that they have invariably brought about an inner spiritual transformation in the

devotees concerned. This is the greatest miracle of Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. The devotee’s

disease is cured or life saved; the devotee’s faith is at once increased; and at the very same moment,

there is an inner transformation, a purification of the heart, an intensification of aspiration to realise

God. Sri Swami Sivanandaji’s is a miracle that does not help the devotee merely to tide over a

difficulty, but also to make rapid spiritual progress, enjoy deeper meditation and live in tune with

the Infinite. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj does not encourage jugglery; but his miracles have

always taken the form of an inner spiritual transformation in those who are the beneficiaries.

The present publication is intended to bring home to the public this vital factor in the life of a

saint.

—THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY.

YOU CAN

Do all the good you can

In all the ways you can

In all the places you can

At all the times you can

To all the people you can

As long as ever you can.—Swami Sivananda.

iii

THE MYSTERY ABOUT MIRACLES

(H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj)

Miracles are based on the principle of the concentration of the mind.

The mind has immense powers. It derives its power from the Atman or the Supreme Soul.

The mind is a collection of thoughts. The mind’s energy is dissipated by worry, evil

thoughts, cares, anxieties and lack of Brahmacharya.

If you can control the immense amount of power which the mind possesses, through

concentration and sublime thoughts, you will acquire Siddhis or the power to do supernatural

actions.

The eight major Siddhis are greatest miracles performed by the Raja Yogins. There are

various minor Siddhis also.

Siddhis come during the practice of concentration. They are by-products of concentration.

You will have to shun them ruthlessly. If you fall a victim to these Siddhis, you cannot reach the

goal.

The Siddhis performed by Raja Yogins are true. They cannot change the molecules of an

object. They can draw their supply from the cosmic source, ether and create any kind of object

through their Yogic power.

A Jnani performs miracles through the power of Satsankalpa (pure willing). A Raja Yogi

does miracles through Samyama (Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi combined).

By doing Samyama on the sun, the Yogi gets the knowledge of the fourteen worlds.

By doing Samyama on the moon, he gets the knowledge of the regions of stars.

By doing Samyama on the Pole Star, comes the knowledge of the movements of the stars.

By doing Samyama on the strength of elephants and others, he gets strength equal to those

beings.

By doing Samyama on the form of the body and checking the power of comprehension, he is

able to make the body disappear or dematerialise.

By doing Samyama on the appearance, etc., of others, the Yogi gets a knowledge of their

mind.

By doing Samyama on the Moment, he gets discrimination.

By doing Samyama on the relation of the ear and ether, the Yogi gets the powers of

clairaudience.

By practising Samyama on the relation between ether and the body, the Yogi attains

extreme lightness of the body and the ability to travel through space.

By Samyama on the three modifications of the mind, comes the knowledge of the past and

future.

Samyama on Samskaras gives him knowledge of births.

Samyama on the senses gives mastery over them.

By practising Samyama on the distinctive relation between Sattva and Purusha, he gets the

powers of omnipotence and omniscience.

Samyama on the inner light gives him the knowledge of the subtle, the obscured and the

remote. Samyama on one’s own Self gives the Yogi clairaudience, higher touch, clairvoyance,

higher taste and higher smell through intuition. By intuition he gets all knowledge.

Real Yogins perform miracles to convince their disciples of the existence of transcendental

things and God. They will not perform miracles on the platform.

Queen Chudalai performed miracles to open the eyes of her husband Sikhidhvaja. She stood

above the ground. She moved in the sky. Sri Sankara performed many astounding miracles. He

drank molten lead and passed into the body of a king (Parakaya Pravesa). Sri Sadasiva Brahman

was a great Yogi. He performed many real miracles. He was seen in different places at the same

time. He was buried underneath the ground on the bank of Kaveri river for some months. His hands

were cut and he brought again the full hands.

Akalkot Swami turned bone into gold. Another Swami passed urine over a stone and it

turned into gold. Ramalinga Swami turned water into oil. Jnanadev made a wall move. Changdev

rode on a tiger, using a cobra for a whip. Such miracles are performed through the power of the

Yogi’s Satsankalpa. He is one with the Cosmic Will which creates, sustains and dissolves this

universe, just as the single Sankalpa of the Supreme Being...“I am One, may I become many”...at

once materialised into this vast universe.

Some are born Siddhas. Sri Dattatreya was a born Siddha. He created a woman and a bottle

of wine by his Yogic power to get away from the disturbing crowd.

Some exhibit small miracles with the help of some disembodied spirit. These are nothing.

These have nothing to do with spirituality. Drinking nitric acid, swallowing nails, chewing snakes

and glass pieces, walking over fire are not the real Siddhis of spiritual Yogins. They have nothing to

do with Yoga. They are performed by charlatans to collect money. Even educated people are

deceived by looking at these performances. Beware of cheap miracle-mongers. Do not be duped.

Miracles have been caused by prayer. God has always granted the fervent prayers of faithful

devotees. The greatest miracle is faith.

Mantras have great power. Sound can be converted into light and form. Certain mystic

formulae have tremendous power. When a man has been stung by a scorpion, the Mantravadi

recites a Mantra, and the man is relieved of the pain! Is this not a miracle? This is the power of the

Mantra. That power has been further augmented by the spiritual power of the great Yogis who have

chanted the Mantra and attained Siddhi in it. The faith of the Sadhaka who takes to that Mantra now

acts as a key to release its divine force.

To convert water into wine is not difficult. But it is difficult to transform worldly-minded

people into divine beings and put them in the path of Yoga. This is the greatest miracle.

Miracles there have been for ages and will continue to be till the end of the world.

Miracles are astounding only for the layman. For Yogins, these are simple things. They are

not extraordinary. For those who know the principles and the laws of Yoga, who have controlled

nature, they are common occurrences.

EXPERIENCES OF SADHAKAS

Miracles are God’s answers to the devotee’s sincere prayer. Miracles are a saint’s timely

reassurance to help the sincere Sadhaka, escape a pitfall and circumvent an obstacle. They are the

subtle emanations of the saint’s soul-force which are borne on the wings of the saint’s love of all

beings and love of service, that reach the destination in time to save, uplift and to guide.

The helping hand is hidden from our view but nothing is beyond the saint’s comprehensive

vision. To his all-seeing eye there is no secret; in the realm of his infinite power there is no miracle.

He performs miracles in precisely the same manner as we lift our limbs.

Countless have been the instances when disciples and devotees of H.H. Sri Swami

Sivanandaji Maharaj far and near have received great help from him in mysterious ways to ward off

physical ills, mental disturbances, intellectual confusions and spiritual setbacks. Many have

already been published and a few more and representative selection from the devout letters of

spiritual aspirants from various places are given here, and they are surely an inspiring reading if

only they convince us of powers higher than human and rekindle in our hearts an aspiration and a

hope that would spur us on to greater and ever-increasing endeavour to reach the goal of human life.

The divine touch of sages healing incurable diseases and at times even bestowing back dead

are actually facts in the spiritual realm. These miracles baffle reason, no doubt; but, more often than

not the miracle implies not merely the nullifying of known law but rather the evoking and bringing

into play of a higher law of which the uninformed observer is quite unaware. Hence the latter’s

wonder and astonishment at the occurrence. When the cause is hidden from your ken and in the

absence of the connecting sequence the effect alone is beheld, you feel it as something supernatural.

Clergymen, Doctors and Some Scientists Agree that

THE AGE OF MIRACLES

HAS NOT PASSED

1. Dr. John Brobeck, Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania’s

Medical School:

Scientists who are Christians do not consider the miracles described in the Bible as

impossible, and such scientists now accept that the blind were made to see and the lame to walk.

2. Dr. W.J. McNally, President of the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society, and a

Roman Catholic:

Miracles are very real things. A miracle is something done by God and can be brought about

at any time. Jesus performed miracles while on earth, and Catholics believe that miracles can

happen again whenever God wants to intervene.

3. Dr. J. Cyril Flanagan, Montreal Dentist and Prominent Church of England lay

reader:

Miracles are caused by a power scientists know nothing about.

4. A Psychiatrist:

There is no final answer to Plato’s dictum that mind comes first and matter latter, which is

the idea behind miracles.

5. Prof. T.G. Henderson, Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at McGill:

The sceptic tradition established by English-speaking philosophers, such as Hume, had

almost worn itself out. The human seems to be more receptive today of these events which do not

conform to the general law. It is possible to interpret individual events even if seemingly outside the

general law of nature.

6. Dean James S. Thomson, of the Faculty of Divinity at McGill:

All experienced ministers, most doctors, would agree that miracles have never ceased.

Scientists have abandoned the view of the universe as a closed mechanical system operated by what

are called the laws of nature, but we must still believe in an orderly world, although not to the

exclusion of spiritual agencies which are the direct action of God.

7. Rev. Norman Lawson, Minister of St. James Union Church:

vii

I believe in a world of law and order, in which the effect always followed the cause. But,

miracles usually happen in times of great faith, and faith releases powers that cannot operate unless

it (faith) is present. In time when scepticism is rife faith does not operate on the same scale.

8. Rev. Roland Bodger, Rector of St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church:

Miracles in themselves are not very significant spiritually.

viii

CONTENTS

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE ......................................iii

YOUCAN............................................iii

THE MYSTERY ABOUT MIRACLES .............................iv

EXPERIENCES OF SADHAKAS ................................vi

THE AGE OF MIRACLES ...................................vii

BOOK ONE

Sivananda—the Real Siddha....................................1

Miracle-Maker ...........................................1

Concerning Miraculous Occurrences ...............................2

Swami Sivananda’s Miracles ...................................5

Master Of Miracles ........................................7

Greatest Miracles Of Sivananda ..................................8

Miracles Of The Maharshi.....................................9

Siva Rescues Devotees From The Jaws Of Death ........................16

Swami Sivananda—the Miracle-Worker.............................18

Miracles Of Guru-Bhagavan ...................................20

Miracles Of My Master......................................22

Preceptor Of Miraculous Powers.................................23

Sivananda’s Darshan .......................................25

Miraculous Healing Grace ....................................25

Miraculous Experiences Of Swami Sivananda’s Grace .....................26

Blessings That Spelt Success...................................28

Darshan Of Sivananda With Hridayananda ...........................28

Gurudev’s Grace .........................................29

As I Saw My Master .......................................30

Siva Appears In Geneva .....................................31

How Sivananda Appeared Before Me ..............................31

Guru As Omnipresent God ....................................32

Siva Appears In A Vision ....................................33

An Entrancing Vision ......................................35

Life-Transforming Miracles Of Swamiji.............................35

Gurudev’s Generosity ......................................36

A Dream .............................................37

Darshan Of Sri Gurudev .....................................37

The Gentle Healer ........................................40

How My Life Was Changed ...................................40

Gurudev’s Call ..........................................41

Telepathic Forces Of Swami Sivananda .............................42

BOOK TWO

Disciples’ Experiences ......................................42

SIVANANDA—THE REAL SIDDHA

(Sri Swami Sadananda)

It is usual for Swami Sivananda to tell us and also write in his books that a real spiritual

aspirant ought not to hanker after Siddhis or supernatural powers, because when they are desired,

further spiritual progress will be arrested. He has seen some instances in which people who were

making good progress were caught by the temptation to acquire these powers and from then they

had a serious fall. Nobody can dispute the correctness of Swamiji’s opinion in this matter. But a

doubt comes to me from time to time. Numerous are the letters received at the Ashram from people

in different places mentioning many miracles performed by Swamiji. It cannot be that all who write

such letters are uttering falsehoods or are under any hallucination. It is likely that there is a small

percentage of self-deceiving persons. But judging from the nature of the events reported to have

happened—reported with many details and meticulous care in the narration—I have to come to the

conclusion that Swamiji is exercising supernatural powers or Siddhis. If so, will he have a fall? I can

safely assert that he cannot fall—because he has risen above the states of rising and falling. Since he

has reached the stage in which he can identify himself with the Supreme—call it Atman or

Satchidananda or Isvara, as you like—where is the question of rising and falling? When the ego is

negated, how can there be any kind of danger?

Of one thing we can be certain. The real Siddha who does not want or care for Siddhis, but

who manifests Siddhis for unselfish reasons and as a result of communion with the Lord or the

Brahman, is an entirely different person from the little man who has psychic powers to do things

which are extraordinary or who has control of spirits. The power over spirits (good or bad) is

entirely different from spiritual power. And no real Siddha goes about calling himself a Bhagavan

or parading his powers. It cannot be said that the Siddha does not know that he performs miracles

but they are not miracles to him—they are just ordinary things for him because he lives in the plane

beyond the reach of the common man. I have to conclude that Swami Sivananda is one such. But he

does not reveal himself as such to all and sundry.

MIRACLE-MAKER

(Sri Swami Shivapremananda)

Is Sivananda a miracle-maker? Yes and no! Time and again he has declared that a true Yogi

or Sannyasi should never openly display his spiritual powers. For all his spiritual achievements go

in vain if they are exhibited in the market of inquisitive onlookers. But Truth can seldom remain

hidden for long. Numerous episodes of amazing faith and devotion pour forth from all parts of the

world, testifying the unique, hidden spiritual spark of Swami Sivananda. And he becomes mute

when curious visitors and correspondents press and badger him to tell them the secret of what is

called his “Miracles”. On rare occasions he would smile charmingly and say politely: “It is all

God’s Grace!” Yes! disciples of Swami Sivananda are intensely aware of his miracles though he

has never openly displayed them.

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