Miracles of Hindu, Parsi, Jain and Buddhist Saints

By London Swaminathan

This is a book on miracles performed by various saints of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian religions. This is not a comprehensive book; I have written about them in past 11 years in my blog whenever I read about them. There are more in my blogs. Explanation of Miracles by Paramahamsa Yogananda is interesting and informative. Puranic women are also included in this book. Sri Kripananda Variyar was answering the questions of readers in Kumudam weekly. I have translated a few of them into English.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
• Release date: Oct 15, 2022
• ISBN: 6580553509141

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Contents

FOREWORD

1. Miracles do Happen!

2. MIRACLES DONE BY HINDU WOMEN

3. Elephant Miracles

4. Famous Yogi Explains Miracles- Part 1

5. Famous Yogi Explains Miracles- Part 2

6. On Alexander and Naked Hindu Saints: Vivekananda & Yogananda

7. Socrates’ Meeting with a Hindu Saint

8. Miracles in the Life of Kerala King Kulasekara!

9. Subrahmanya Siva’s Personal Experience with Miracle Men

10. The Great Transformation of Purandharadas

11. Miracles of Sadhasiva Brahmendra

12. Hindu Saint’s ‘Upadesa’ to a Muslim devotee

13. CHRISTIAN MIRACLE ANECDOTES

14. Miracles in the life of Krupananda Variar

15. WALKING ON THE WATER: INDIAN MIRACLES!

16. MORE MIRACLES ABOUT WALKING ON THE WATER

17. Sex Change: Science agrees with Saint Sambandhar

18. A Tamil Muslim Miracle!

19. Parsi Miracle in the Court of Akbar

20. FIVE MIRACLES IN ZOROASTER’S LIFE!!

21. FIVE MIRACLES OF ZOROASTER – PART 2

22. ALEXANDER ‘PURANA’ AND ZARATHUSHTRA MIRACLE

23. Miracles in Mahavamsa!

24. Miracles of Asvins in the Vedas

25. Miracles of Sri Seshadri Swamikal

26. Bengali Mystic Sri Anandamayee Ma- Part 1

27. BENGALI MYSTIC SHRI ANANDAMAYEE MA- PART 2

28. Aladdin’s Magic Lamp and Tamil Saints

FOREWORD

This is a book on miracles performed by various saints of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian religions. This is not a comprehensive book; I have written about them in past 11 years in my blog whenever I read about them. There are more in my blogs. Explanation of Miracles by Paramahamsa Yogananda is interesting and informative. Puranic women are also included in this book. Sri Kripananda Variyar was answering the questions of readers in Kumudam weekly. I have translated a few of them into English.

India had at least one Swamiji or a saint or a Baba in every district over thousands of years. There were great Siddhas as well. Listing all the miracles in a single volume is an impossible talk. If someone can collect as many as possible and translate them into different languages it would inspire a lot of people. I was fortunate enough to see some great people who did miracles in the past 60 years.  I would give details of more miracles done by Swamiji Krishna of Ayakkudi (near Tenkasi) and others in the next part. For some people even having ‘darshan’ (view or seeing) of great people itself does miracles. Paul Brunton has written about such things in his book ‘Search in Secret India’ after meeting Kanchi Paramacharya and Ramana Maharishi. If we take saint by saint like Adi Shankara, Thyagaraja, Chaitanya and others, we would need one book for each saint. I welcome your comments on the issue of miracles.

London Swaminathan

September 2022

1. Miracles do Happen!

List of Hindu Miracles

Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh has translated into English a poem by  Tamil saint Thayumanavar, who lived in southern India two hundred years ago. This gives an idea of the miracles done by Hindu saints, particularly Siddhars.

You can control a mad elephant

You can shut the mouth of bear or tiger

You can ride a lion

You can play with the cobra

You can make a living by alchemy

You can wander through the world incognito

You can make vassals of the gods

You can be ever youthful

You can walk on water

You can live in fire

You can achieve all Siddhis at home

But to control the mind is rare and difficult.

(*Tamil original is given at the end)

Controlling mind is harder than doing miracles. When a person starts doing severe penance he gets lots of temptations from the angels. (Kanchi Paramacharya says in one of his lectures that the angels hover around you and beg you to use them). Anyone who falls a prey to such temptation is trapped with women or gold or some strange desires such as building a new temple or starting a new movement or creating a Utopia. Those who ignore and go beyond that temptation will reach God. But there are some saints, who come back from that stage to awaken the mankind. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa said that knowing that there is a big ocean of ever bliss, they rush back to the world to announce: Please Believe me, Please come with me, Please Join me to merge with the Nithya Ananda=Bliss forever.

Some examples for each category:

You can control a mad elephant

Appar did it. Uthayanan did it. Kanchi Pramacharya did it when the Mutt elephant was in ruts.

When a raging mad bull came running through a narrow lane, everyone else ran helter-skelter. Swami Vivekananda stood still and it went back the way it came.

You can shut the mouth of bear or tiger

Ramana Maharishi did it. He lived with tigers. Sastha/Ayappan did it.

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahamsa Yogananda gives details about a Tiger Swami.

You can ride a lion

Goddess Durga did it. King Bharata (India is named after him) did it.

You can play with the cobra

All the Hindu Gods have cobra on their bodies. Hindu saints tamed cobras. They meditated in forest and anthills formed over them over the years. Cobras use ant hills as their home. A cobra entered saint Ramana’s ashram and went back when he stared at it.

You can make a living by alchemy

Adi Shankara brought rain of gold coins.

Vidyaranya got bars of gold established Hindu Empire through Harihara and Bukka.

Appar and Sambandhar got gold coins from nowhere.

You can wander through the world incognito

Krishna multiplied himself hundreds time to be with all the Gopikas at the same time. Narada travels to three different worlds incognito and suddenly appear before devotees.

You can be ever youthful

Markandeya was ever 16 years old (Is that why we call sweet sixteen?)

You can walk on water

Padma padacharya ( Lotus Footed) did it when Adi Shankara called him.

When he rushed to serve his Guru he walked on the river and lotus flowers came out to hold his feet.

You can live in fire

Adi Shankara did drink boiling iron to teach his disciples a lesson, who were blindly imitating everything he did.

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List of Eight Types of Miracles (Ashta Ma Sddhis)

Hindus are the only race in the world to categorise the miracles and gave examples for every kind of miracle in the mythologies or in the life of hundreds of saints. Though we hear about miracles done by other religious leaders, Hindus divided them into eight crystal clear types. They took this branch of science more seriously than others.

Siddhar is one who attained Siddhi i.e. special psychic and supernatural powers, which has been defined to be eight fold in the science of yoga.

1.Anima :power of becoming the size of an atom and entering into smaalest life.

2.Mahima : power of becoming mighty and co-extensive with the universe.

3.Laghima : capacity to be light, though big in size

4.Garima : capacity to be heavy though