Comments on: The Hindu Milk Miracle

By: angel

angel — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:44:00 +0000

When I first read this story, I immediately believed it, based on my gut reaction and happy feeling in my heart. Reading the skeptics’ opinions made me feel angry and tense. As I am not desperately trying to believe one way or the other, I will be going with my visceral responses on this one and say, yes, it happened and it was awesome!

By: ente

ente — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:21:00 +0000

I just like to confirm the situation described by my predecessor writer. I’ve been in Nairobi/Kenya back that time. By coincidence I found myself at a privately hosted Ganesha statue made of bronze and placed on a shallow steel tray. I was not even sure what I would have to expect because of the language. When I fed it, it looked as if the milk not even reached the statue but disappeared right of the spoon. There was nothing like hysteria. The tray was moved and lifted up – no hidden catch tank or whatever. But litres of milk no more. I was very puzzled. Why would somebody make his private trick show for my companion (a bantu) and me (a german) and a bunch of indians? Not until several hours later I learned about this phenomena happening all over the world. Very disturbing for a scientifically oriented person like me! None of the explanations do really fit. We have different materials, different sizes, indoors-outdoors, different climate zones, and no masonic-like group of people could do the trick (except beeing in fact demigods). The idea of Ganesha (the Remover of Obstacles) taking oblations from mother earth (symbolized by the cow) sounds more reasonable than all those pseudo-scientific gossip. So what is this all about???
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Maybe another coincidence:
Mofat, you have been with me that time, are you around?

By: unblinkered

unblinkered — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:49:00 +0000

I am a rationalist by nature, have a scientific education (BSc and MSc) and am not one to believe in things through blind faith. I’ve been brought up in a far from religious Hindu family in the UK. When the 1995 “miracle” was first reported on BBC news, my grandma decided to try and feed milk to her 3″ bronze statue of Ganesh (which had been in the home for many years). To her amazement the statue started to soak up the milk and continued to do so for the following 5 days, drinking far in excess of the volume of the statue, being fed by different members of the family and family friends, many of who were not religious. The statue was sat on a small steel tray. By the end of the 5 days there was a small pool of milk in the tray, where there had been some spillage, no more than 30 ml in total, compared to the pints and pints of milk the statue had drunk. After the 5th day, the statue stopped drinking and didn’t do so again, even though several attempts were made to feed it in the following weeks. I have no idea why or how this happened. The capillary action explanation does not explain how any bronze object can soak up a liquid far in excess of its volume, or why the drinking stopped all of sudden without any dramatic changes in temperature or environment (it was a comfortable room temperature throughout). It also doesn’t explain why the same event was reported all over the world at the same time or why statues made of very different materials were exhibiting the same behaviour. BTW I was not part of any mass hysteria, I was surrounded by several initially sceptical but equally dumbfounded family members!

By: Siva

Siva — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:16:00 +0000

I remember in Malaysia, we does the same.. 100 and more people was lining up to feed Ganesha in a house. The Ganesha was small, but the milk that we offered to him is Alot.. I duno where does the milk gone?

By: Kishor

Kishor — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:08:35 +0000

You may all scoff with all the ‘capilliary effect’ tehories abounding about this event, but how does anyone explain this action when it was also occurring on ‘brass’ figures, and through glass!!! People are quick to blame and slow to understand when ‘real’ miracles do occur. Maybe because it’s a ‘Hindu’ miracle – some may feel it can’t be real…

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:40:07 +0000

Did anyone else notice that the quote on the “Hindu Milk miracle” page is from St. Bernadette? Kind of odd, considering how she is a Catholic saint… Just saying.

By: Ira

Ira — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:54:30 +0000

You know, I feel the same way about this as I do about people claiming to see the face of Jesus (Euro-Jesus, that is) on a cinnamon roll, or Mary in a sidewalk stain. So what? What is it supposed to prove? The Lord hath dominion over the pastries of the earth? The Blessed Virgin is seated by the Father interceding for the Department of Transportation? Ganesha just baked some killer cookies?

If stuff like this is the best miracles we can get, no wonder so many people are disappointed in God.

By: Ira

Ira — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:53:23 +0000

If stuff like this is the best miracles we can get, no wonder so many people are disappointed in God.

By: septer

septer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:54:45 +0000

I too remember going to the temple and even trying this on the idols at home. None of us really believed it, yet with everyone claiming that they saw it happen with their own eyes, one was left with a sense of doubt – maybe it does happen with some statues and not with others etc.

By: n00b

n00b — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:26:12 +0000

It’s not common to feed statues using spoons. The common thing is to fill up a glass and then slowly pour the milk out on the statues head. So using a spoon was not what anyone tries to do.