Why Miracles Happen

Miracles are those phenomena that defy logical reasoning, the events or incidents not explicable by natural or scientific laws. But that they do happen is a fact of life. One definition of a miracle is that those events which seems impossible but happen anyway. Usually they are those incidents that work out to the benefit of human beings or even animals and the probability of their happening is low, rather nil. In other words the miracles cannot be explained by the known laws of nature. In scriptures and religious texts one may find many such incidents that may qualify being called a miracle. For the believers these incidents are divine interventions which prove that God is active, caring and responsive. Philosophers have also acknowledged miracles as those events that are inexplicable. However, they suggest that miracles are also a part of the natural law which human mind cannot understand. But these discussions are matters of academic interest. The fact is that miracles happen and defy the logical reasoning. Whether transgression of law of nature or following a law that is beyond the comprehension of human mind, these miracles have one interesting feature. They usually happen when the protagonist intensely desires for them to happen. In puranas or religious text these have been found to happen when someone in desperation invokes the divine power to intervene. A glaring incident was that of Draupadi being put to embarrassment by Dusashana in Mahabharata. Duryodhana asks his brother Dushashna to dishonor Draupadi by disrobing her. Draupadi requests, appeal to reason and begs to pandavas and all the so called reasonable men of the kauravas like Bhisma and Dronacharya. But they all express their helplessness. It is then that she invokes Lord Krishna who intervenes by creating an unending roll of sarees which finally tires Dushashna to give up. Another incident from the Vishnupurana is of the intervention of Lord Vishnu’s intervention to save the elephant king Gajendra from the jaws of the crocodile Makar and is popularly called Gajendra moksha.
All these incidents are examples of divine intervention to solve problems of living beings, human or animals. Since these are given in religious texts many may be skeptical of veracity of these claims.
However, in our lives such incidents happen which apparently seen improbable yet take place. If one looks