the Miracle at Shravasti.

Click on the images to enlargeThe account:"The actual miracles took place the following morning. The first of these is known as the yamakapratiharya, or "pair illusion" where the Buddha rose into the air and issued flames from his shoulder and water from his feet. The second miracle is known as mahapratiharya," or Great Illusion" where, the Buddha divided himself into multiple bodies, thereby creating an illusion in which every person present had his or her own Buddha to converse with..."

Sahasra is the state of enlightenment, a state where divinity shines forth as a golden halo of fiery flames around the head and water begins to flow from the feet and the enlightened being appears to multiply such that they are present in numerous parts, eachoriginal place of birth and thus got to see from close quarters the comparatively cooler, more peaceful and beautiful ‘Nature’ rendered thus by the flora and fauna, and primarily by the absence of humans, the believably biggest destructive agent of ‘Nature’ thanks to ‘Kali’ the destructive force within the earth as well as its reflections or images or ‘imprefect animal forms’ that evolved over four stages to the sustaining force provided by ‘Parvati or Durga who rides the Tiger’, which refers to the emergence of Himalayas from the seabed in the North of Jambudweep that pushed all seawater to the South (in the ever changing ‘India’) as also the detachment of Moon from the original planet earth-moon…and cryptically communicated with the story of Sage Agastya and the marriage