Page 448 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
placed in a furnace and subjected to intense heat so that the dross or wastage rises to the surface where it can skimmed off and discarded. We have to undergo stresses which drive us almost, but not quite breaking point, so that our spirituality may be tested and our faults be eradicated. We come to learn things and we learn much more quickly and more permanently by hardship than by kindness.
This world is in such a man-made mess that man’s mind cannot solve the problems. We have to admit. We must all listen to a higher authority than man and so find our way out of this mess. I firmly believe that only Revered Babuji Maharaj and His Natural Path can only lead us on the right path. Nothing can transcend right. Nothing can be more loving than that we should experience the consequences of ignorance and error, and so become perfected through suffering. In this Divine love, which never alters, never errs, never passes over a single day, we have a sure rock of redemption (salvation) for that which could shift and change could afford no foothold. Only in the unchangeable, the eternally true, is there permanent peace and safety. Resorting to this Divine principle, abandoning all evil and clinging to good, we come to a knowledge and realization of that basis of certainty on which we can firmly stand through life’s changes.
We have to understand that with death constantly threatening each of us, the only reasonable business of man is to spend the years, months, days, hours and minutes allotted him – in unity and love. We have begun to understand that sickness and calamities far from dividing men, should on the contrary give opportunity for loving union with one another. This we have been witnessing during calamities, National or International.
448