The miracle of Ganesha's milk

The special thing about the unprecedented incident that took place on September 21, 1995 was that even curious non-believers rubbed themselves against believers and even fanatics who stood in long lines outside the temples. Many of them have returned with a sense of awe and respect - a firm belief that, after all, there could be something called God up there!

It happened the same way in homes and temples
People who come home from work would turn on their televisions to learn about the miracle and try it at home. What was happening in the temples was also true at home. Soon every Hindu temple and family around the world tried to feed Ganesha, spoon by spoon. And Ganesha picked them up, drop by drop.

How it all started
To give you an idea, the Hinduism Today magazine published by the United States reported: “It all started on September 21, when an otherwise normal man in New Delhi dreamed that Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed god of wisdom, craved a little 'of milk. upon awakening, he rushed into the darkness before dawn to the nearest temple, where a skeptical priest allowed him to offer a spoonful of milk to the small stone image. in modern Hindu history. "

Scientists had no convincing explanations
Scientists quickly attributed the disappearance of millions of spoons of milk under the inanimate trunk of Ganesha to natural scientific phenomena such as surface tension or physical laws such as capillary action, adhesion or cohesion. But they could not explain why such a thing had never happened before and why it stopped abruptly within 24 hours. Soon they realized that in reality it was something beyond the realm of science as they knew it. It was in fact the paranormal phenomenon of the past millennium, the "best documented paranormal phenomenon of modern times" and "unprecedented in modern Hindu history", as people now call it.

A Mammoth Revival of Faith
Various such small episodes have been reported from different corners of the world at different times (November 2003, Botswana; August 2006, Bareilly and so on), but it has never been such a widespread phenomenon that occurred on that auspicious day of the 1995. Hinduism Today Magazine wrote: “This 'milk miracle' can go down in history as the most important event shared by Hindu this century, if not in the last millennium. It provoked an instant religious awakening among nearly a billion people. No other religion has ever done this before! It is as if every Hindu who had "ten pounds of devotion" suddenly had twenty. "The scientist and broadcaster Gyan Rajhans recount on his blog the incident of the" Milk Miracle "as" the most important event regarding the worship of the idol in the 20th century ... "

The media confirmed the "miracle"
The secular Indian press and state broadcast media were confused if such a thing deserved a place in their press release. But soon they themselves were convinced that it was indeed true and therefore noteworthy from every point of view. “Never before in history has a simultaneous miracle occurred on such a global scale. TV stations (including CNN and the BBC), radio and newspapers (including the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian and the Daily Express) have avidly covered this unique phenomenon, and even skeptical journalists have held their spoons full of milk on the statues of the gods - and they have seen the disappearance of milk, "wrote Philip Mikas on his website milkmiracle.com specially dedicated to the mundane accident.

The Manchester Guardian noted that "media coverage was extensive and although scientists and" experts "created" capillary absorption "and" mass hysteria "theories, the overwhelming evidence and conclusions were that an unexplained miracle had occurred. ... As the media and scientists continued to struggle to find an explanation for these events, many believe that they are a sign of the birth of a great teacher. "

How the news spread
The ease and speed with which news spread in a not so connected world was nothing short of a miracle in itself. It was a long time before the people of the small Indian city became aware of the Internet or email, years before cell phones and FM radios became popular and a decade before social media was invented. It was "viral marketing" at best that wasn't based on Google, Facebook or Twitter. After all Ganesha - the lord of success and obstacle removal was behind it!