I look at horoscope readers for instance and think of the influence huge planetary bodies can have on our lives. If a mobile phone with a microscopic chip made by humans can pick up a signal in the middle of nowhere, why can’t a ring on your finger pick up a cosmic ray to change some coordinate of your life? I cannot even reject that. The chip is a hundred times smaller than a ring or our brain, and it catches a signal! Are our antennas up? Can we catch a signal?
So because one does not understand, in a sense one is compelled to believe.

Is this divine force also a guiding or protective one?
I am actually willing to take a gamble that my belief has a hearing. You cannot correlate two plus two together in a realm where there is no arithmetic. You seek rational answers where there is perceived rationality. When you have stepped off the precipice, into the undefined, you can’t always postulate a correlation.

But I believe there is a higher force. I believe that prayer occasionally does have a response. I used to go to a guru until he died and I personally witnessed miracles. Those miracles are not in the realm of conventional logic. I can give you dozens upon dozens of examples, his ability to heal for instance. People about to die, and he would heal them. It is about releasing the conventional anchors of your life. Belief is that leap into the dark. And it requires training to allow your mind to do that. Because the mind always confines you to the realm where two plus two must equal four. Once you take that leap, you begin to see that things happen which have no rational explanation in the world we live in. I have seen it with some other saints. In the case of Guruji, his ability to heal has so many living witnesses, with many who are still alive thanks to him. And it certainly reinforced my own inclination to believe that there are forces beyond.
If you can dip into that force and access it, you are in touch with another cosmic force --- though you could go through an entire lifetime without witnessing it. So if you are open to it and witness to some of its more mundane expressions like these miracles, there is no way you can deny it.

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