In India, the aromatic
substance of the pure whitest form is the holy ash that Lord SHIVA applies
on his forehead. 
From time
immemorial the people in India apply this on their forehead for their
attached concentration with Lord SHIVA, their personal god. That is why our
scriptures add this ash-manifesting occurrence in the list of miracles.
Several types of manifestations are auto manifestations that happen due to
the conscious concentration, and the conscious feeling of the religious
person gives knowledge about the miracles. For the religious persons, it is
only through concentration practices towards God that they can feel the
experience of the miracles. To them, strong faith in God is the starting
point and the first milestone.
The miracles happen in the
body of the religious person and you are seeing that in the picture. The
wonder of this manifestation is that the manifesting ash is occurring not
only in the body of the person but also in the photo of the person wherever
they are. This action of the miracle occurrence indicates universal
conscious principle both in the universe and in the body of the person.
These are elemental natural atomization and it eliminates the decaying
principle and changes the dust of the five natural elements into ash. Even
according to science, the ash represents the last existing mass of the
universe. In this ash there is no atom at all. So the ash-manifesting
occurrence is our Almighty’s glorious action in the universe.
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