EPILOGUE  

One more! It is preserved in the archives that Tippu, the Sultan of erstwhile Mysore state sending special messengers to the venerable Peethadhipathi of Sringeri on tour to hasten home and conduct special yagna called sahasra Chandi puja to avert the danger of extinction of population by famine and pestilence. He spent lakhs to meeting the expenses incurred on it and feeding 1000 brahmins for 40 days. His infinite faith in Hinduism not only helped him to tide over the calamity but made him the darling kung of Hindus. Has not the exemplary life of celebrated Kabir exemplify this? Examples are legions that fill volumes, if accounted for.

These occurrences are gleaned from the lives of many commoners, so they have not been honoured with space in the histories. If mythologies and temple sthalapuranas are tapped at for the narration of miracles. I am afraid that the oceans of ink would go dry even before the completion of preliminary chapter of that greatest bulkiest treatise called Miracles of Gods. Each temple has in store thousands and thousands of miracles that effected miraculous changes in the lives of its believers, who regularly visit both to redeem the vows taken or to take during the crises of their lives. The deities, if truth is admitted, are thriving on miracles - greater their number, higher the influx of devotees. Visit a temple and mingle with the sevarthis for a while, then you will be over-whelmed by the accounts of supernatural powers that moulded and guided their lives.

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