Siddhartha didn't speak on the topics of God or miracles. That doesn't mean he didn't believe in the realm beyond. All he meant was that these topics deviate our focus from our immediate concern. Siddhartha, the Buddha maintained that our concern should be to overcome pain and suffering.
I was intrigued that much before European Renaissance or the Scientific movement of the 17th and 18th century, a man born in the Indian sub-continent, in the Nepal terrain spoke like a true scientist. He did not believe in unevidenced truth. He wanted to find the cause of human disease, old age, disabilities and death. He eventually discovered the truth based on causal connection that he referred to as dependent origination. He arrived at the four noble truth that explains suffering, cause of suffering, the exact nature of the cause and the way to get over suffering.
These ideas seem mundane only because we have read these things over and over again. But when we try to think of the times when Siddhartha offered these ideas, we are left amazed. Siddhartha lived nearly 2500 years ago, when no organized religion was born. At the time he was fighting against the superstitions in the Hindu religion. He was speaking against the evils of animal sacrifice and the inherent orthodoxy in the Hindu religion.
What actually inspired me to write this book almost ten years ago could be explained through a series of events that kind of overwhelmed me with the thoughts of Siddhartha, while I was only peripherally aware with the Philosophy of Buddhism.
These events might appear fantastic or even miraculous but having found no answer to those events I nearly forgot them. But something compelling happened that literally forced me a blank register and a pen to write with. Those days, I could not type fast on keyboards and preferred to write in longhand, that is, on paper with a pen.