Man is constantly in search of miracles. He looks for the new fad, the wonder drug, the alternative system that can satisfy his need for an instant solution to his suffering and ills. He goes from pillar to post: changing doctors and masters, in search of the ultimate power that could rescue him from the siege of anxiety and fear, disease and death. But the only certainty he seems to find is the uncertainty of life, the only predictability is the unpredictability of death. He lifts his hands to the blue azure and prostrates himself upon the green earth to grant this one boon, a life free of torments and ills, suffering and disease.

Time passes, systems change, the doctors who had discovered the wonder drug themselves die. The promises of miracles fade and fail.

And so it shall be till we turn inward and seek the miracle within us: our soul, the supreme Alchemist who has built the system of worlds, yet chooses to dwell inside our hearts, the subtlest of subtle, that little seed of divinity. This is the real doer of miracles or the door to them. This is the secret upholder of immortality. It is towards this that all our suffering secretly and painfully leads. For its discovery and enjoyment, the earth was made. The earth still struggles to deliver this flame-child from the night of Ignorance that is Death.

"A Magician's formulas have made Matter's laws
And while they last, all things by them are bound;
But the Spirit's consent is needed for each act
And freedom walks in the same pace with Law.
All here can change if the Magician choose.
If human will could be made one with God's,
If human thought could echo the thoughts of God,
Man might be all-knowing and omnipotent;
But now he walks in Nature's doubtful ray.
Yet can the mind of man receive God's light,
The force of man can be driven by God's force,
Then is he a miracle doing miracles.
For only so can he be Nature's king."*

(Dr. Alok Pandey has been working in the field of psychiatry with a spiritual approach for more than 15 years. He has developed a working concept of integral health and integral psychology which he is using in his life and practice. He is one of the founders of SAIIIHR).

* Sri Aurobindo; Savitri, Bk. VI Canto 2. Pondicherry; Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1970, pp. 457-8.