Life and its Small Miracles.

The Lord says, among all species, to be born as a human is the rarest and the most gifted births. It is only a human who can identify himself with God and understand the essence of life. It is said that a human birth is the highest ranked in the order of evolution and is just a step away from recognizing his true nature. The purpose of human existence is to realize his true nature and yearn to merge with the Divine and attain eternal bliss. God fills a life with experiences that are good, some bad, some disturbing and some totally unnerving. These experiences shape up individual's thinking

God provides man with a life filled with small but sweet experiences that act on the human, developing him into a more complete and helps him lead a more fulfilling life. Take the example of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our nation, India, whose life was molded by the happenings around him. In his youth he was influenced by the western culture, their polish and their lifestyle. But later, he was influenced by the realities of life in India and he began to lead a life of an average Indian. Examples are galore when one looks at the way situations have molded the human beings. Hitler would not have been a name to reckon with if he had not gone through the hazards in his childhood. Abraham Lincoln would have been an ordinary American, had he not been influenced by the happenings. One can go on quoting examples from the past and the present about people who otherwise lead normal life rise to become heroes, leaving their mark in history and in the hearts of people across the globe.

Getting influenced by the happenings around one is like a double edged sword. One can get mis-led if one gets wrongly influenced by the situations. What brings man down to abyssal depths of sin is the influence of the dark and the polluted forces of nature. Man gets easily carried away by the ever inviting hand of sin, veiled in the garb of a saint. Everything looks all good and rosy for him in the beginning and he falls for it. But as time rolls by, he realizes that what seemed to him as a bed of roses, is actually a coffin of thorns.

Man has to understand that though getting influenced by the situations around him, but use his discretionary powers vested upon him by God to differentiate between the positive and the negative. Life offers man both the good and the bad. It all depends on him as to how he utilizes it and makes the best use of the circumstances. One can use a knife for killing some one or use the same for operating and saving a life. Man is bestowed with the unique attribute of discrimination. One has to use it wisely and ensure the development and evolution of all around him.

When one talks of small miracles in life, these are the ones that we often forget to remember and cherish. These are moments that pass us by without us giving a thought about it. How many of us remember the smile on the face of a poor man when we gave him a packet of food to eat? How many of us remember that tears of gratitude of an old woman, who barely had anything to cover her shivering body, in the middle of the night, when we gave her a blanket to face the chill nights?

Let this space here be a window to let go some of those small miracles that has enriched our lives....that has made us into better human beings....