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14. Faith and Power of Mantra
Faith is something miraculous, endowed with indescribable power. One bereft of deep faith finds that even his god in the form of idol is only a statue of stone. If he has blessed faith, the idol of stone endows him with vision of god, and the devotee is enabled to experience blessedness and sublimation.
Here do we narrate a true incident that directly lays down how the power of faith and the incomparable power of the Namaskara join hands and create unique miracles. We will know the hero of the story as Jinadasa; he wants his real name to remain anonymous. He has no ambition of fame. He is a man who is happy to live in the care of anonymity.
Jinadas had acquired the Mahamantra Namaskara as a heritage; he did not have much of an understanding of the deep secrets of the Mantra. How could he therefore water his faith with knowledge from the very depths of his heart! Still, he was certainly awaken to sprinkle waterdrops to common faith. He could therefore take care, in all sincerity, regularly to chant the Mantra as a vow. In the moments of Japa, very often such waves of feelings arose from his heart and he wished in all sincerity to have an inkling of the powers of the Mantra. He waited for hours, days, months to see that this his feeling gets transformed into a possibility of realistic experience. But this did not come in his life for long.
But in life some unique moments come when man expects something and exactly the reverse happens; accidents are transformed into blessings and vice versa. One most unusual moment came in his life.
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