Beckman once went out for a picnic with his family. His car was parked in a slope. His four-year-old son was playing close to the car. All of a sudden, the car started moving and his son was practically about to be caught under the wheel. Seeing this, Beckman grabbed the bumper of the heavy car and tried to lift it to save his son.
Beckman lifted the car
miraculously high enough to save his son from the tragedy of being crushed
under the wheel.
In this context let me
quote the story related by, Swami Chinmayananda in his book Life and
Meditation.
“Now think: suddenly
you hear that your house is on fire. You rush therein and find that the entire
house is in flames, and the fire brigade is standing helpless. At that time you
find your wife walking out of the fire with a child in hand. When you make
enquiries, you hear spellbound the thrilling news that the child was sleeping
upstairs in a room. In the panic, everybody ran helter-skelter, and then the
mother remembered the child. The fire man, in spite of his forty years of
experience, said, “Maa, no human being can go therein. The whole thing is
ablaze. “The mother immediately forgets everything and in a hysterical ecstasy
she runs into the fire. Everybody is expecting that she would come out like a
‘Pakora’. Instead, they find that not even her saree has been burnt. She rushes
to the room, takes the child and comes out. After this incident, tell her to go
near the fire, and she is afraid, her efficiency has gone. But, under the
inspiration of that great love for her child, she could do miracles. If that is
the potentiality of the human mind, can’t she live twenty-four hours of the day
as a heroine? She cannot, because she has not got that inspiring goal. So an
ordinary man may be a coward, but when he is inspired by a great ideal, you
will find that, out of himself he pulls out miraculously a new stream of energy
and vitality.”
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