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Suffering is the root and results are flowers
iv) So I would like to conclude that we need to progess on the path laid down by our Master by overcoming the sufferings and miseries and understand that they are the root which give flowers as results. The contribution of point A & B meditation in this regard is immense to progress on the path as they help in quicker and firmer maturisation of consciousness at at each level.
13. Sri M. Radhakrishna Murthy
th In His message at Madurai, on the eve of His 78
Birthday celebrations Pujya Babuji Maharaj exhorts all his associates to strive hard to convert sufferings into flowers.
By drawing an analogy of a plant, Babuji compares the importance of sufferings in life with the root of a plant. A tiny seed sprouts a root first which is the Primary organ for drawing nourishment from the sub- stratum for its very survival and the root also bears the burden of anchoring the plant in its subsequent phase of development, firmly to the base. The capacity of a plant for adaptation to varied conditions of environment is enormous as it survives in a Sandy desert, marshy mire, fresh water pond, salty ocean or the deep crevices of a hard rock not to speak of a fertile soil in cultivation. With equal ease, we can site the adaptability of animals observed in their struggle for existence, with the given limitations and also opportunities provided by nature. Both plants and animals are in lower rungs in evolution. A human being in marked contrast to them ( which are programmed and driven by instincts ) possess a most sophisticated organ, the mind, which makes him as the crown of creation and ultimate is evolution. It is but natural, that having shared the first mind of God, he is
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