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uman mind is always having some thoughts of Hpast, present or future. Some have creative

thoughts, some have religious thoughts, some have

social thoughts and some have superstitious

thoughts. Some are rationalists whereas there are

many who believe in miracles. Superstition is

creation of mind, because there is nothing like magic

or miracles but everything is result of scientific

reasons. It is only when we do not understand or

know the scientific reason; we believe that there is

miracle or magic. Many a time, it is art also by the

performers of miracles or magic. This equally applies

to blind faith in religions. Due to blind faith many

people fear of unforeseen incidents which creates

superstitious mind and it becomes difficult for such

people to come out of such fear. It is said that there is

no medicine for SUPERSTITION. Mostly ladies are

victims of such fear. The pity is that many educated

people do not understand the scientific reasons

behind anything magical or miraculous and have

blind faith in such activities.

It is said that “there is nothing like fear, it is only

to be understood.” To pray God is of course an act of

faith. It may be any God, Jain, Hindu, Islamic,

Christian or Gurudwara. One has to understand

that there is very thin line of dividing meaning

between faith and blind faith. The prayer is subject of

belief in God. It comes from within one's soul. It has

continuous flow. There is nothing to fear even if no

prayer is performed. Prayer is just for the calmness

of mind. Many people go to Shirdi, Tirupatti, or to

Darshan yatras at various places. These Darshan

yatras are not blind faith, but is for calmness of mind

to satisfy one's inner conscious. Unfortunately now

these places have also become places for enjoyment

during vacations and due to that all types of activities

like drinking alcohol & gambling etc. are being

carried out there. This is not new for so called

developed countries nor for city people.

We know that many of our community people

visit native place for Darshan of Kuldevies etc. So far

it is okay till it relates to Darshan as there is faith in

our Kuldevis. But unfortunately we find the people

exhibiting blind faith in performing poojas &

Darshan in Bhuvas and other Sadhus who play tricks

with such devotees and take undue advantage of their

weakness or fear. They extract money by hook or

crook and make them fools. These type of activities

are rally speaking show our civilized community's

backwardness and blind faith which shows how

much superstitious our people are? One would

question whether it is Darshan or show business or

fear ? Only the answer can be given by such people's

inner soul.

It is said “If mind is clean you have Ganges water

in your pot.”(Mann changa to kathrotme ganga) So it

is due to blind faith if some one directs you to have

Darshan at some fixed time or on fixed day. Faith

never wants evidences for performance of poojas.

Faith needs confidence in oneself. If fear enters in

faith it invites blind faith which is nothing but mental

weakness. Mostly people who have less financial

sources or suffering from lasting sicknesses or suffer

from family disturbances are mainly becoming

superstitious. But really speaking such activities

spoil more the position. It is positive self efforts

which if supports faith, then the positive result is

sure. The activities carried with blind faith normally

create mental sickness.

The science has proved that there is nothing like

miracles. Fear or blind faith are instruments in the

hands of crook people to extract money from people

of weak mind or of straight forward nature by playing

tricks with them and keeping them in blank mind.

Incidents of doubling of money or ornaments by

tricks are common and many ladies or greedy people

are the victims of such looters.

The intention of this write up is mainly to make

educated people understand the science behind every

such incident where the people understand it as

miracle. It is possible that one may not have scientific

solution on the spot, but one thing is sure that

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everything is scientific and should try to find out

the solution at later stage. We, the educated people

should not be believer of wrong doings to make

people fool but should educate our nearest and

dearest not to be greedy and fearful of anything but

weigh the situation to come out with positive solution.

It is seen that since a few years many educated people

have become blind followers of activities like VANSA(

dhoon) in PEDIES of our devi-devtas or Jyotises,

Bhoovas Daklias and Bavas , Vastushtris and so on.

The community should come out of these fearful

situations of beliefs in miracles and magic. This is

equally true for Rashi Milap in the matters related to

engagements.

Reki, Vastushashtra, fangsoi etc. are all related

activities carried on by professionals in this line.

They put attractive ads for their business in

performance of miracles which is nothing but

robbery of different kind. They try to brainwash the

weak minded peaple who become the victims of such

professional magicians. Rashi Bhavishyas in

newspapers is nothing but to fill the pages of papers.

It is fact that mind's weakness is nothing but

one's unfaith in God. Gunvant Shah a welknown

writer of Gujarati has said that “To pray idol without

bringing in stoniness of idol is Darshan.”

Unfortunately, our educational institutions do

not teach “not to fear and not to have blind faith” and

in fact, they should impart lessons of courage.

Lastly, “INGENUITY PLUS COURAGE PLUS

WORK EQUALS MIRACLES" said by Olympic gold

medalist Bob Richards. So do not be superstitious

and do not believe in miracles just use your

intelligence and work hard with courage.

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