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The Law of Miracles

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Brief overview

Miracles are lawful: a master who knows creation as light escapes Maya's polarity and matter's weight.

  1. Maya rules by polarity, never by a single forceEvery law of physics and chemistry carries inherent opposites — flow and ebb, pleasure and pain, birth and death.
  2. Science confirms the rishis rather than refuting themNewton, Einstein, Eddington and the electron microscope are each read as restatements of the Vedic word Maya.
  3. Infinite mass is the Einsteinian condition for miraclesA master identified with the universal structure, not a narrow body, is powerless to exhibit weight.
Executive Summary AI
  • The chapter opens with Tolstoy's tale, summarized by Nicholas Rurich, of three hermits whose naive prayer "We are three. Thou art three. Have mercy on us." lets them run over the waves after the bishop who tried to correct them.
  • Asking how such feats occur, the narrator argues that modern science keeps confirming the rishis' word Maya: Newton's law of motion, electricity's repulsion and attraction, and the atom's positive and negative poles all show that no single force can exist, only equal and opposite pairs.
  • Einstein is read as the rishis' heir — light velocity at 186,000 miles per second is the one constant, time and space are relative, mass and energy are equivalent, and only a body of infinite mass could equal light's speed, which is precisely the condition a master fulfils.
  • Physics is quoted to the same end: Eddington's "the stuff of the world is mind stuff", the 1937 electron microscope demonstration of tungsten's nine atoms before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Davison and Germer's 1927 discovery of the electron's dual particle-wave personality.
  • Personal visions close the argument — a 1915 vision of dying as a battleship captain, a newsreel of the World War I battlefields answered by a voice calling creation a play of chiaroscuro, and a final experience in which the narrator's own body became weightless light until he prayed the beam away.
Key Quote
“We are three. Thou art three. Have mercy on us.”
— Narrator
Key Quote
“Dear ones, he replied humbly, continue to live with your old prayer.”
— Narrator
Key Quote
“The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper.”
— Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Transcript

0:00 CHAPTER XXX.
0:22 THE LAW OF MIRACLES
0:23 The great novelist Leo Tolstoy wrote a delightful story,
0:28 The Three Hermits. His friend, Nicholas Rurich, has summarized the tale as follows.
0:35 On an island there lived three old hermits. They were so simple that the only prayer they used was,
0:41 We are three. Thou art three. Have mercy on us. Great miracles were manifested
0:48 during this naive prayer. The local bishop came to hear about the three hermits and their
0:54 inadmissible prayer, and decided to visit them in order to teach them the canonical invocations.
1:01 He arrived on the island, told the hermits that their heavenly petition was undignified,
1:06 and taught them many of the customary prayers. The bishop then left on abode. He saw, following
1:12 the ship, a radiant light. As it approached, he discerned the three hermits, who were holding
1:18 hands and running upon the waves in an effort to overtake the vessel. We have forgotten the
1:23 prayers you taught us, they cried as they reached the bishop, and
1:27 have hastened to ask you to repeat them.
1:30 The awed bishop shook his head.
1:32 Dear ones, he replied humbly, continue to live with your old prayer.
1:38 How did the three saints walk on the water?
1:41 How did Christ resurrect his crucified body?
1:44 How did Lahiri Mahasaya and Sri Yukteswar
1:48 perform their miracles? Modern science has as yet no answer, though with the advent of the
1:54 atomic bomb and the oneness of radar, the scope of the world-mind has been abruptly enlarged.
2:00 The word impossible is becoming less prominent in the scientific vocabulary the ancient vedic scriptures declare under a false or unreal veil that cosmic illusion is maya
2:31 every great scientific discovery of modern times has served as a confirmation of this simple pronouncement of the rishis newton's law of motion is the law of maya. To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction.
2:47 The mutual action of any two bodies
2:48 are always equal and oppositely directed,
2:52 action and reaction thus exactly equal.
2:55 To have a single force is impossible.
2:58 There must be and always is
3:01 a pair of forces equal and opposite.
3:04 Fundamental natural activities all betray their
3:07 maic origin. Electricity, for example, is a phenomenon of repulsion and attraction.
3:14 Its electrons and protons are electrical opposites. Another example, the atom or final
3:20 particle of matter is, like the earth itself, a magnet with positive and negative poles.
3:26 The entire phenomenal world is under the inexorable sway of polarity. No law of physics,
3:32 chemistry, or any other science is ever found free from inherent opposite or contrasted principles.
3:39 Physical science then cannot formulate laws outside of Maya, the very texture and structure of
3:46 creation.
3:47 Nature herself is Maya.
3:49 Natural science must perforce deal with her ineluctable quiddity.
3:53 In her own domain, she is eternal and inexhaustible.

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